Esoteric Lesson
GA 266c/1914-04-25/p036
·1914-04-25
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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.
And the human being would recognize with reverence and devotion: All these elemental beings are working on the temple of the physical and etheric bodies while the human being is outside his body temple. And awakening means nothing other than displacing these beings from their field of work and taking their place again with his egoistic earthly ego.
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