Esoteric Lesson

GA 266c/1914-04-25/p035 ·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.

If the human being were to go further, if he could make observations outside his body in the spiritual world, if he could then observe his own I or even another I, he would see how the human I is also the goal of the work of spiritual beings. And he would recognize these beings as messengers and servants of the spirits of form and, in part, of the spirits of movement. And they would know that these beings working on the human ego are themselves in a process of progress, of their own development, and that by nurturing the human ego, they are also developing themselves. Behind every human being, the clairvoyant would see a host of such beings caring for the human ego. And if the clairvoyant were to look at the physical body and the etheric body, he would again see hosts of elemental beings, whom he would recognize as servants of the spirits of movement and wisdom and the spirits of form.

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