Esoteric Lesson

GA 266c/1914-04-25/p020 ·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.

The last esoteric lesson dealt with the efforts we must make in order to advance esoterically, and ended with the threefold meditation material. Today we want to discuss more esoteric facts and deal with a topic that we are all familiar with: sleep. Why are we not conscious during sleep? Because the astral forces do not allow us to be, because they are so strong that they numb us; for astral forces express themselves in what completely fills us during sleep, namely the burning desire to be in our body, and it is this desire that obscures our consciousness.

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