XX. On the Sattva State
GA 90a/1904-03-11/p011
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Record: listeners' notes. Written from listeners' notes, summaries, or memory rather than a shorthand transcript. The wording is the note-taker's as much as Steiner's: weigh a single striking phrase here far more cautiously than the same phrase in a stenographic volume, and do not rest an argument on one word. Evidence: «Frühe Vortragsreihen und Einzelvorträge für Mitglieder in Berlin 1903–1904 nach ausführlichen und z.T. fragmentarischen Mitschriften.» (Early lecture series and single lectures for members in Berlin 1903-1904, from detailed and in part fragmentary listeners' transcripts.). The publisher's description of the volume, as mirrored on AnthroWiki (GA 90a); the description calls them "Hörermitschriften", and the served text carries the note-taker's gap marker "[Lücke in der Mitschrift]". The translation is the maintainer's, not a published one.
All the theosophical teachings that we know were essentially from the lower teachings. Karma and reincarnation were Brahman teachings. It is not surprising that this Brahman teaching, which goes back many millennia before the birth of Christ, has something peculiar about it. And what is it that is peculiar about the Brahman teaching? Imagine you learn Theosophy to a certain degree. If you then penetrate into the Brahmin teaching, you will find that everything that Theosophy has can already be found in the Brahmin teaching. What Jakob Böhme said is already a step higher. But if you go back to the Brahmin teaching, you will find that That was already there too. They go further, they become chelas, go back to the Brahman teaching and find that this is already in it. We finally come to the conclusion that we cannot determine how deep the Brahman wisdom is. And when we come across even deeper wisdoms, it is likely that we will find even deeper ones in them.
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