Esoteric Lesson

GA 266c/1914-04-25/p034 ·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.

This is the reason why consciousness does not awaken in the spiritual world. As soon as the ego is back in the physical body, it awakens to the things that present themselves to the senses. If human beings did not have this burning longing in the spiritual world, they would immediately become conscious in the spiritual world. And then he would see a world around him full of life, but completely different from the physical world. He would then perceive a world of spiritual beings and forces. And he would see that all these beings and forces direct their forces toward a single center, and as this center, the human being would recognize his own physical and etheric bodies.

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