Esoteric Lesson

GA 266c/1914-04-25/p039 ·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.

Human beings recognize how these entities work in what is recognized as the temple of humanity given by the Godhead to the human ego, and they recognize that the human ego continually destroys this temple by allowing itself to be seduced by Ahriman and Lucifer. However, it becomes clear to the clairvoyant person that what we consider to be the physical body, what we can feel and touch, is not the temple of which we speak, but rather they recognize this temple as the spiritual organization that stands behind the physical body. And it is on this spiritual organization that these beings work.

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