Esoteric Lesson

GA 266c/1914-04-25/p025 ·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.

But we are also in the spiritual world when we are awake during the day, but we do not know it because we do not see the miracle of our body, the world of spiritual beings who fill space with their weaving and being. Why do we not see this spiritual world around us when we are awake during the day? Because Ahriman places the painting of the sensory world in front of it. He is a great artist, for this world is beautiful, great, and magnificent, but it is not the true world. We do not see Ahriman himself in the physical world; we see him only in the spiritual world. Here we see only his work, his deeds.

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