Esoteric Instructions
GA 270
This is a new translation of Esoterische Unterweisungen für die erste Klasse der Freien Hohschule für Geisteswissenschaft am Goetheanum. Bilingual speakers often choose the German when working with mantras, and indeed in a lesson in Berlin, January 29th, 1907 (GA 97) Rudolf Steiner is recorded to have said, "Every set form of words, every prayer has its greatest effect in its original language." A translation should have the flow and form of the translator’s native language, but as much as possible the sound, rhythm, meaning, and power of the original language. In his lectures on the Genius of Language (GA299) Steiner emphasized that he tried to choose words of German rather than Latin etymology, for the meaning is more contained in the actual sounds of the words, but also in that Latin is not only more conceptual, but does your thinking for you, which we should not allow. In this translation English-derived words are used whenever possible.
Translated by John Riedel MD
| Lesson I | February 15, 1924 | |
| Lesson II | February 22, 1924 | |
| Lesson III | February 29, 1924 | |
| Lesson IV | March 07, 1924 | |
| Lesson V | March 14, 1924 | |
| Lesson VI | March 21, 1924 | |
| Lesson VII | April 11, 1924 | |
| Lesson VIII | April 18, 1924 | |
| Lesson IX | April 22, 1924 | |
| Lesson X | April 25, 1924 | |
| Lesson XI | May 2, 1924 | |
| Lesson XII | May 11, 1924 | |
| Lesson XIII | May 17, 1924 | |
| Lesson XIV | May 31, 1924 | |
| Lesson XV | June 21, 1924 | |
| Lesson XVI | June 28, 1924 | |
| Lesson XVII | July 5, 1924 | |
| Lesson XVIII | July 12, 1924 | |
| Lesson XIX | August 2, 1924 | |
| First Recapitulation Lesson | September 6, 1924 | |
| Second Recapitulation Lesson | September 9, 1924 | |
| Third Recapitulation Lesson | September 11, 1924 | |
| Fourth Recapitulation Lesson | September 13, 1924 | |
| Fifth Recapitulation Lesson | September 15, 1924 | |
| Sixth Recapitulation Lesson | September 17, 1924 | |
| Seventh Recapitulation Lesson | September 20, 1924 | |
| First Lesson in Prague | April 3, 1924 | |
| Second Lesson in Prague | April 5, 1924 | |
| Lesson in Bern | April 17, 1924 | |
| Second Lesson in London (notes only) | April 27, 1924 | |
| The Three Tablets |