Esoteric Lesson

GA 266c/1914-04-25/p033 ·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.

In this mood, let us consider today the sleep of human beings from a certain point of view. We know that while a person sleeps, their astral body and their I leave the physical body and the etheric body. But the I knows nothing of this; it remains unconscious. The consciousness of the I and the astral body is only awake on the physical plane. Why is this? Because as soon as the I and the astral body are outside, they have a burning longing to be reunited with the physical body and the etheric body.

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