Esoteric Lesson

GA 266c/1914-04-25/p023 ·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.

Who are you, O human being, that legions of spirits work on your physical and etheric bodies? Messengers and servants, some of the spirits of movement and some of the spirits of form, swarm around our heads; they are the guardians and nurturers of our ego. In our brain, the elemental beings work that enable human beings to think. Yet another group of elemental spirits works on the organs that enable us to understand language, mind you, not to speak. It is the elemental beings who, as spiritual entities, stand behind the sounds, behind the individual vowels and consonants. Thus, these twelve groups of servants of the hierarchies work out the forms in which the I can dwell.

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