Lecture XIII
GA 94/1906-07-10/p005
·1906-07-10
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English
MediumMedium alignmentSome paragraph re-numbering between this translation and the German original — the locus may slip by a paragraph or two.
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: «Zusammenfassungen und Notizen von Vorträgen u. Vortragsreihen» (Summaries and notes of lectures and lecture cycles). Rudolf Steiner Verlag Gesamtverzeichnis 2022, volume subtitle. The translation is the maintainer's, not a published one.
At a certain high level of development, the student reaches the point where the experience arises: the function of thinking without thought content remains present in the complete emptiness of consciousness. The student learns to be conscious in meditation and to exercise this function in such a way that he does not give himself any content for his thinking. This is a beginning, and the spiritual world can then begin to flow into him. The inspiration process begins.
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