Esoteric Lesson

GA 266c/1914-04-25/p016 ·1914-04-25 · English LowLow alignmentMost translators re-paragraphed Steiner substantially. The locus identifies the same chapter or section, but paragraph-N to paragraph-N mapping is loose. For exact-quotation precision, compare with the German.
Record: mixed sources. This volume draws on more than one kind of record (transcripts, notes, documents). Check the volume's own front matter before weighing a single passage. Evidence: «Gedächtnisaufzeichnungen von Teilnehmern und Meditationstexte nach Niederschriften Rudolf Steiners» (Participants' records written from memory, and meditation texts from Rudolf Steiner's own manuscripts). Rudolf Steiner Verlag Gesamtverzeichnis 2022, volume subtitle. The translation is the maintainer's, not a published one.

Let us now ask ourselves: How is it that we do not see these elemental beings at work? Because the moment we wake up from sleep, the guardian of the threshold hides the spiritual worlds from us. Waking up means nothing other than chasing these elemental beings away from their field of work. And as soon as we are in our daytime consciousness, Ahriman ensures that the spiritual world is covered up from us. He paints the picture of the sensory world, and as we surrender ourselves to it, the great deceiver, Maya, the souls and beings who are working on the spiritual organization of human beings become invisible to our gaze.

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