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• Title: CaMF: Chapter 1: Points of View
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  • the spiritual requirements of the “life of the soul” without reference
  • scientific thought in modern spiritual life. But those who are alert
  • spiritual requirements of humanity, nevertheless they should be noted
  • natural science is the greatest power in modern spiritual life. And
  • one who speaks of the spiritual concerns of mankind may not pass it by
  • attempts to satisfy spiritual needs is shallow and superficial. If
  • shall then apply to the higher regions of spiritual life what they
  • spirit can only learn from natural science. He really needs only to do
  • must investigate in the spiritual domain as they do in the physical,
  • but he need not adopt their opinions about the spiritual world,
  • spiritual evolution of man just as impartially as the naturalist
  • observes the material world. Then in the domain of spiritual life we
  • spiritual developments like Christianity, or the world of ideas of any
  • examination of the documents relating to spiritual life. This is
  • expresses it. And likewise, in studying spiritual life we shall have
  • to keep to the spirit and not to its outer documents.
• Title: CaMF: Chapter 2: Mysteries and Mystery Wisdom
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  • SOMETHING LIKE A VEIL OF SECRECY conceals the manner whereby spiritual
  • sensuality under the control of the spirit. Fasting, solitary life,
  • of the spirit. He was to behold a higher world. He could find no
  • which arise in the spiritual life of their soul. They assign only a
  • others, who, although their spiritual eye is still closed, have a
  • what they hear. They believe in humanity and wish to open spiritual
  • eyes. They can only offer the fruits their spirit itself has gathered;
  • comprehension for what is seen by a spiritual eye. —
  • eyes of the spirit. First of all he is not here for this purpose. He
  • rights by the spiritual eye. This spiritual eye allows us to see what
  • this still, but it is immersed in something higher, in the spirit. Now
  • material world. When he tries to grasp spirit images, he seizes
  • the spirit begins to animate this space.
  • where to him the spirit interprets all life as death. Then he is no
  • new sun and a new earth appear to him. Out of spiritual fire the whole
  • has been killed. The spirit has passed through material life as a
  • him draw near, and I was then between waking and sleeping. My spirit
  • feelings, which should have evoked the spirit from these words. For
  • the acquisition of spiritual cognition. The latter can be understood
  • the spiritual world through their own experience; they can be
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• Title: CaMF: Chapter 3: Greek Sages Before Plato In the Light of Mystery Wisdom
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  • harmony. If we apply this to the spiritual world we have the thought
  • upon ordinary assumptions about things. The spirit dissolves the
  • “There are people who take written laws only as pictures of spiritual
  • was only a symbol of the eternal spirit which dissolves and reforms
  • material things. He meant both and neither, because for him the spirit
  • spirit of the sage is to move over all things like fire, transforming
  • spirit within him, the spirit which is rooted in the eternal. This
  • spirit, however, is born for him personally out of the conflict of the
  • elements. This spirit should also pacify the elements. In man, nature
  • independent. He can participate in the eternal spirit which he beholds
  • only to the extent of the mixture the eternal spirit has produced in
  • the temporal. The spirit works in him. But it works in him in a
  • spirit.) Thus for Heraclitus what lives in man extends itself far
  • themselves. Let us agree to accept for the spirit what seems to us
  • right with regard to nature. Is the perfected spirit to have the same
  • origin as the imperfected spirit? Is Goethe to have the same
  • disposition as any Hottentot? The spirit of Goethe cannot have the
  • same spiritual predispositions as an aborigine, any more than a fish
  • has the same predisposition as an ape. The spiritual ancestry of
  • Goethe's spirit is different from that of the aborigine. The spirit
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• Title: CaMF: Chapter 4: Plato as a Mystic
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  • THE SIGNIFICANCE of the Mysteries in the spiritual life of Greece can
  • that the spirit is eternal to someone whose eyes have been opened so
  • that he can see this spirit? — Socrates indicates living experiences.
  • spirit in the material world. Is not this a fact which can be compared
  • the spiritual. However, can he expect the same of the spirit as of his
  • within him. If we immerse ourselves wholly in the spirit, then we live
  • the demands of his spirit when this endangers his body. And who is
  • transitory nature, but which arise from the spirit. And precisely
  • these paths breathe the same spirit. All are intended to show that man
  • perception, and another when his spirit is alone with itself. Socrates
  • points to the archetypal nature of the spirit for those who listen to
  • him. If they find it they can see with spiritual eyes that it is
  • true spiritual status. The consciousness which once again appears in
  • unconsciously for the divine. We are far from the spiritual reality
  • the soul and take it as a picture of this process. In this spiritual
• Title: CaMF: Chapter 5: Mystery Wisdom and Myth
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  • life. The mystic formulates the great question about his own spiritual
  • — The mystic had to recognize how the creative spirit of man comes to
  • spirit. He sought truth, wisdom, where the people had set up a myth.
  • the spirit, of the unconsciously creative soul. The soul is governed
  • initiate. He experiences the pictures with spiritual organs of
  • without its activation through real occurrences in the spiritual
  • corresponding spiritual events. To be able to stand within the latter,
  • initiation. There the spiritual events which he sees are illustrated
  • mythology as such an illustration of true spiritual events, has not
  • yet advanced to a comprehension of mythology. For the spiritual events
  • reminiscent of the material world are not in themselves spiritual, but
  • are merely an illustration of the spiritual. Whoever lives only in
  • pictures, lives in a dream; he lives in spiritual perception only when
  • he has reached the point of experiencing the spiritual in the picture,
  • illustrative character the same myths can express various spiritual
  • apply them now to one spiritual fact and again to a different one.
  • spirit, and out of what he had gained from this lower knowledge he
  • spiritual eye. Hercules caught the doe of Artemis. The latter is the
  • spiritual element, the advice of Medea. Even when man has found his
  • spiritual events lying behind these pictures, but here we intend only
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• Title: CaMF: Chapter 6: Egyptian Mystery Wisdom
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  • terms of material reality an occurrence which has spiritual reality at
  • and dies. The physical part of him disappears. But the spiritual, the
  • universal Spirit. Christ Jesus awakens this universal Spirit once more
  • no longer only that for which each individual spirit had to undergo a
  • in a condition enabling him to perceive something spiritual — in higher
  • been permeating the spiritual life of humanity ever since.
• Title: CaMF: Chapter 7: The Gospels
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  • as mystical facts, as experiences recognizable only by spiritual
  • be seen through only at a higher level, the spiritual level of
  • Greek and Egyptian spiritual life. If we examine folk religions we
  • find various ideas about the spiritual. If we trace back to the deeper
  • wisdom of the priests, which in each case proves to be the spiritual
  • personality, in spirit, to be to his community what the cult of the
  • kingdom of the spirit, as that all should be convinced that such a
  • spiritual kingdom exists. “In this rejoice not, that the spirits are
• Title: CaMF: Chapter 8: The Miracle of the Raising of Lazarus
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  • which exists in the cosmic spirit. For him these facts are the medium
  • understand them as the expression of a spiritual occurrence, and then
  • Lazarus has become another man. The “Word,” the Spirit, did not live
  • in him before; now this Spirit lives in him. This Spirit has been born
  • resurrection when he refers to the coming to life of the spiritual
  • world in the body. What Plato calls the spiritual soul, John calls the
  • Whoever becomes spiritual has caused the divine to rise from the tomb
  • spiritual sense. Lazarus became a different person. He was raised to a
  • then, took place in Lazarus? The Spirit came to life within him. He
  • affection. The latter would be contrary to the spirit of John's
  • awakening was a pictorial action revealing the Spirit. The person
  • he had to fulfill them himself by a spiritually real action.
  • it, as an external event to which a far more significant spiritual one
  • spiritually he lives through pictorially. The word “pictorially” is
  • spiritually. — From this point of view the following words of Jesus are
  • spiritual facts. If a priest of an ancient order had written it, he
• Title: CaMF: Chapter 9: The Apocalypse of John
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  • the revelation: “I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard
  • with a revelation received by John in the Spirit. And it is the
  • despise. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the
  • represents the spirit of his community, has entered upon the path
  • wisdom by being spiritualized and made divine. If it does not reach
  • wisdom. You are not thus, says the “Spirit” to the angel of Ephesus;
  • spirits” (daemons) of the wisdom of the Mysteries have become the
  • as bodies for spiritual beings. And the angels are the souls of these
  • will happen after this.” The messages of the seven spirits of the
  • now sees “in the Spirit” leads him to the spiritual, primal source of
  • in a spiritualized age in the near future by means of physical
  • evolution. The initiate experiences now in the Spirit what is to
  • of Spirit. And I beheld a throne in heaven, and one seated on the
  • forms has been transmuted into spiritual life.
  • have already acted in the spirit of Christianity. Creative thought
  • opened (chapter 7), it is evident that the spiritual world of
  • that spiritual world out of which Christianity itself proceeded. What
  • appear. Again these angels are spirits from the ancient
  • Mystery-conceptions transferred to Christianity. They are the spirits
  • a more spiritual time will begin. Then life will no longer flow on as
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• Title: CaMF: Chapter 10: Jesus and His Historical Background
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  • THE SOIL OUT of which the spirit of Christianity grew is to be sought
  • fundamental conviction to become widespread that this spirit must be
  • designed to quell the lower nature in man so that the spirit
  • experienced the spirit in himself up to a certain stage rose to a
  • suitable stage the higher spiritual world would arise in his soul.
  • would also be able to feel that in Jesus a being of high spirituality
  • had appeared. The higher the spirituality the greater the possibility
  • “union with the Spirit” was the concern of a few neophytes only. Among
• Title: CaMF: Chapter 11: The Essence of Christianity
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  • met only on a spiritual plane in the dark secrecy of the Mysteries but
  • differences in the spiritual life of the personality and to see in
  • be interpreted as a higher stage in the evolution of spiritual
  • existence. The preparatory steps had to be sought in a past spiritual
  • for future stages of spiritual evolution. The conservation of the
  • spiritual power of the soul and the eternity of that power could be
  • of the first Christian centuries who sought for a deeper spiritual
  • Christ is the Logos. As such He is above all of a spiritual nature. In
  • relationship to this spiritual Logos. This was the crucial question
  • Neoplatonic philosophy, and presented in the form of a spiritual
  • Neoplatonic world conception. Sense-perception dims man's spiritual
  • our reasoning logic if we are to find the bridge to spiritual
  • world as the spiritual Son of God; He is the mediator between God and
  • imbued with His spirit are grouped into a hierarchy. A “Church” of
  • only possible when the soul finds the higher spiritual element in
  • itself and its spiritual eye is opened so that the light issuing from
• Title: CaMF: Chapter 12: Christianity and Pagan Wisdom
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  • understood as a more inward, spiritual Mystery wisdom. Such
  • processes of a purely spiritual nature replace the procedures which
  • a state of spiritual exaltation and illumination in which it no longer
  • arise. This wisdom-filled harmony is the spiritual image of the
  • Godhead. It is the divine Spirit diffused in the world; cosmic reason,
  • Logos becomes embodied in him. The spiritually developed personality
  • experiences in his innermost being as spirit, is the cosmic Spirit.
  • darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved
  • human spirit. Man experiences within himself what God has experienced
  • given spiritual birth to God, to the Spirit of God that became Man, to
  • spirit. The Neoplatonic conception of the world, which developed
  • his spiritual experience:
  • spiritual vision to reasoning, and after that reposing in God, I ask
  • or seen, must be spiritually experienced as the word of life. — The
  • related only to the spiritual realm, and on the other hand it leads to
  • conclude that the Word becomes spirit in the innermost soul. The
  • spiritual representation in the old world conceptions. This became a
• Title: CaMF: Chapter 13: Augustine and the Church
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  • how this conflict has become resolved in the spirit of Augustine we
  • are enabled in a mysterious way to penetrate the spiritual struggles
  • Augustine was a personality in whom deep spiritual needs developed out
  • in the face of spiritual problems, and who has tasted the depressing
  • spiritual only in material images. It is a deliverance for him when he
  • to reach who is seeking the true life in the spirit. There are
  • how he achieved spiritual vision. Everywhere he asked where the
  • perceive itself as spiritual in order that it may find its way as
  • spirit into the spiritual world. Augustine had struggled through to
  • spiritually laid open and expounded by him, the mystical veil thereof
  • Christ event other conditions had begun for souls seeking the spirit
  • the flesh" it was possible to say that experience of the spiritual can
  • who wished to seek the spiritual foundations of existence was
  • higher spiritual regions. — It was only going one step further to say:
  • oral tradition. This step was taken by the spiritual movement which
  • darkness of the temple into the clear light of day. The one spiritual
• Title: CaMF: Comments By the Author
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  • outer facts without rising to the spiritual background underlying
  • Comment 2: For those who can observe rightly the “Spirit of Nature”
  • the method of thinking which proceeds from spiritual points of view.
  • Comment 4: It is said above that those whose spiritual eyes are opened
  • can behold the realm of the spiritual world. It should not, however,
  • initiation can be formed only by one who himself has “spiritual eyes.”
  • without as yet possessing “spiritual eyes” himself.
  • to knowledge gained through “spiritual eyes.” On the other hand,
• Title: CaMF: Foreword
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  • of spiritual experience forming the science, art and religion of the
  • Christ's Deed of Freedom he recognized the spiritual impulse in which
  • “Today it is no longer possible to find the spiritual unless we grasp
  • light of the Spirit.
  • refers indirectly to a modern spiritual training, leading to what he
  • termed “exact cognition of the spirit.” Although he cited numerous
  • conscious perception of spiritual reality, he saw in Christianity a
  • In addition to sharing with others the fruits of his own spiritual
  • of the spirit, involving a method of training suited to the capacities
  • dormant faculties within himself, can learn to open his spiritual
  • The first step on this path of spiritual training is to be found in
  • spiritual achievement. In an early Christian century one of the Desert
  • able to see himself. — Such a one has his spiritual eyes open.” Rudolf
  • toward an opening of their spiritual eyes to a conscious perception of
• Title: CaMF: Translators Notes
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  • “And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual,
• Title: CaMF: Author's Preface to the Second Edition
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  • spiritual reality which can be seen only through such conception. Only
  • of a spiritual fact whose nature can be recognized only when the
  • powers of cognition are taken from the source of spiritual life
  • a personality whose notable writings on the spiritual life of mankind
• Title: CaMF: Opening Quotes by Rudolf Steiner
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  • mission will be fulfilled when it is understood in its true spiritual form.
• Title: CaMF: Reference Guide to Principal Themes in Christianity As Mystical Fact, Based on Other Works by Rudolf Steiner
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  • The Spiritual Hierarchies,
  • The Spiritual Hierarchies,
  • Spiritual Beings in the Heavenly Bodies and the Kingdoms of Nature,
  • Published in Turning Points in Spiritual History, London, 1934, p. 45.
  • Christ and the Spiritual World,
  • Spiritual Hierarchies,
  • Egyptian Myths and Mysteries and their Connection with the Active Spiritual Forces of Today,
  • Christ and the Spiritual World,
  • Spiritual Beings in the Heavenly Bodies and the Kingdoms of Nature,
  • Published in Turning Points in Spiritual History,
  • Published in Turning Points in Spiritual History,
  • The Spiritual Hierarchies,
  • Spiritual Hierarchies,
  • Christ and the Spiritual World,
  • The World of the Senses and the World of Spirit,
  • Christ and the Spiritual World,
  • The Spiritual Hierarchies,
• Title: CaMF: Introduction: Rudolf Steiner -- A Biographical Sketch
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  • Perhaps the old Count had a foreboding as to what a great spiritual
  • to be familiar in the spiritual world. This personality used the works
  • new mental and spiritual energies in Steiner s own personality. It was
  • Philosophy of Spiritual Activity
  • in this manner abreast of the spirit of the time would be a most
  • than an ideology,” for anyone standing in the spiritual world it
  • to the spirit-beings who desire to invest a particular ideology with a
  • It is a plain fact that in some form or other spiritual knowledge has
  • The faculty of spiritual perception and secret wisdom is obtained through
  • Philosophy of Spiritual Activity,
  • body which draws into itself as its soul the Spirit of the Universe.”
  • organs of spiritual perception which have been implanted into man by
  • called Imagination: a higher seeing of the spiritual world in
  • revealing images; Inspiration: a higher hearing of the spiritual
  • sphere of Spiritual Beings becomes possible.
  • awe-inspiring body of spiritual and practical knowledge to which he
  • to lay the foundation for a Science of the Spirit within Western
  • anthroposophical Science of the Spirit to various branches of Science,
  • 1917-1925): first-hand descriptions of the spiritual world. During
  • Movement a complete spiritual rebirth of the Christian Sacraments for
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