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• Title: True/False Paths: Complete Edition
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  • years 1883 and 1925
• Title: True/False Paths: List of Literature
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  • Man's Life on Earth and in the Spiritual Worlds
  • Earthly Death and Cosmic Life
  • (8 lectures in various cities during the years 1914 to 1923)
• Title: True/False Paths: Publisher's Note
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  • A list of literature bearing directly upon the
• Title: True/False Paths: Synopses of Contents
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  • search for self-knowledge. From these two sources arose the quest for
  • represented by Marduk or Michael. Marduk created Heaven and Earth
  • ordinary consciousness of today man distinguishes clearly between
  • every seven years, in accordance with the lunar phases. Waking
  • persisted until the fiftieth year and in old age they became highly
  • consciousness up to the twentieth year; waking consciousness up to
  • the fiftieth year; thereafter, clairvoyant consciousness.
  • plant archetypes in the world of stars. The plant-cover on Earth is
  • worlds on Earth:
  • A being with body and soul on Earth, but whose spirit
  • A being with body on Earth, the soul in the astral
  • about the plant-cover of the Earth. Above is the cosmic life and
  • reflected in the Earth as in a mirror.
  • reflected in the Earth and the Earth vanishes from our sight. Fear
  • of certain crystals we experience a revival of fear. At a later stage
  • of knowledge we learn to know the “metallity” of metals
  • of gravity is the heart. Under conditions of pain there is an
  • consciousness. Stability is centred in the heart and this centre is
  • the Earth sphere.
  • It radiates from the centre below the heart and the
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• Title: True/False Paths: Lecture One: Nature is the Great Illusion; Know Thyself
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  • phenomenal world, the fruit of years of patient and diligent study,
  • inherited from the earliest days of human thinking and aspiration, is
  • East there echoes across thousands of years the saying: the world
  • earliest times when men were nearer to the spirit than they are
  • in clear understanding, but with deep emotion, every man the world
  • see and hear, that you cannot be.’
  • and towards autumn they ripen and bear fruit. We see them grow, fade
  • and die: the duration of their life-cycle is a single year. We see,
  • not be limited to a single year, but should be extended over a longer
  • period of time and thus would bear new growing-points on their stems.
  • comes to the conclusion: I bear within me some quality that is
  • different from anything I see and hear around me. I must arrive at an
  • I see and hear.
  • is made to investigate the spiritual world along clear-cut,
  • We must bear
  • nebulous feelings about the true self and come to a clear perception
  • how much we have learned in recent times about the functions of the
  • glands, nerves, heart, brain, lungs, liver, etc. as a result of their
  • stimulating researches. They deserve our greatest respect and
  • step and how, from the tiny peripheral organs the complex heart and
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• Title: True/False Paths: Lecture Two: The Three Worlds and their Reflected Images
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  • first of all have a clear idea about the different states of
  • In his normal life on Earth today man enjoys a well-defined state of
  • a clear distinction between waking and sleeping, which, though
  • imaginary passage of the Sun round the Earth, that is to say,
  • with the duration of a single revolution of the Earth on its axis. At
  • can hear the noise it makes. You know that you can sit on it. But the
  • on the head, believing it to be located there, you hear nothing. Nor
  • to our calendar we reckon 365 days to the year; this is not quite
  • accurate however. If we continued to reckon 365 days to the year over
  • a day every four years. Thus, over relatively long periods of time we
  • Chaldeans deal with this problem in the very early days? For long
  • in a different way. Because they reckoned 360 days to the year they
  • were obliged to intercalate a whole month every six years, whereas we
  • reckon a leap year, with an additional day, every four years. So they
  • had six years of twelve months each, followed by a year of 13
  • month every six years instead of an extra day every four years, had a
  • As I mentioned yesterday, their daytime experience was not as clear
  • sitting on his chair and the whole so clear-cut that we can easily
  • visual experience would still have been known in the earliest
  • pictured to themselves the following: — below was the Earth;
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• Title: True/False Paths: Lecture Three: Form and Substantiality of the Mineral Kingdom in Relation to the Levels of Consciousness in Man
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  • astral plane. Then I tried to show how the plant-cover appears in its
  • level of consciousness and there for the first time learn the truth
  • about the plant-cover of the Earth. We then realize that the plants
  • we see growing out of the Earth are a reflected image of that majesty
  • divested of sensory impressions. Then we can look back upon the Earth
  • below is the Earth. The point from which we start our enquiry we call
  • the Earth, not as reflected images but in the form of living plants.
  • These plants do not appear as lifeless, unreal, nebulous images, but
  • as concrete reflections created by the Earth. One feels that the
  • Earth must be there to act as a mirror, so that the plant-beings in
  • solid Earth there could be no plants. And just as a mirror intercepts
  • not reflect — so the Earth must act as a reflecting medium in
  • the Cosmos no longer appears bright with stars but is the abode of
  • spiritual beings, this power of love fills our heart and soul, if,
  • mineral kingdom on Earth to the contemplation of the Cosmos. And
  • mineral-crystal world that we see on Earth is the creation of an
  • to the Earth, it is not reflected in the Earth or by means of the
  • Earth. That is the crucial point. When we raise our consciousness
  • look back to Earth again, the Earth no longer acts as a mirror; one
  • has the impression that the Earth has vanished from our sight. We
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• Title: True/False Paths: Lecture Four: The Secret of Investigation into Other Realms through the Metamorphosis of Consciousness
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  • clear.
  • training and discipline, one often hears the remark: I would be only
  • hear, for example, that the qualities of certain metals are
  • becomes all the more attractive when they hear that the practice
  • certain specific spiritual exercises. In such cases, years rather
  • constitution was different from ours, he learned, through his
  • out in earnest. The effect would be the same as if someone were to
  • one point must be clearly established. It is still possible today to
  • heart centre. Other states of consciousness are associated with other
  • heart, not in the heart. Therefore he knows nothing of this
  • dead, the consciousness below the heart centre is modified; it begins
  • with the souls he has known on Earth. But he is unable to enter into
  • the consciousness that lies below the heart. He is unaware that he is
  • abnormal sensitivity in this consciousness below the heart that
  • consciousness below the heart is too active, the consciousness in the
  • region of the larynx must be diminished; the heart lies
  • knowledge and research was so very different. The enormous advances
  • natural science today. In botany he is obliged to learn by heart
  • the dance he had attended the night before. We learn more about the
  • this loss filled their hearts with tragic sorrow.
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• Title: True/False Paths: Lecture Five: The Inner Vitalization of the Soul through the Qualities of the Metallic Nature
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  • earlier epoch, in the Mysteries of Ephesus, for example. We learned
  • endowed with the highest academic learning in all faculties, we
  • inhabit and we feel that the everyday world in which we learned so
  • and rock formations. Then we gradually draw nearer. When we set foot
  • we should be without eyes and ears, without sense organs. The world
  • world it is only meaningful to speak of the elements earth, water,
  • speak of earth, water, fire and air.
  • naive outlook of earlier epochs? He maintains that these
  • earlier conceptions were primitive: in those days men only spoke of
  • the crude elements, earth, water, fire and air, whereas today seventy
  • for the life of the soul and spirit, when we bear in mind their
  • mountain we knew through sensory experience appeared to be inanimate
  • formerly appeared static and inert now manifests that indwelling
  • from the world of reality. And in this way we learn about the reality
  • human beings, have yet to learn.
  • nerves, the nose and its olfactory nerves and the ear with its
  • — everywhere around us we would perceive earth, water, air and
  • nature of the four elements, earth, fire, air and water, our
  • peripheral organs, such as the eye and the ear, are continuously in
  • years after their death. The perception of this world is lost,
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• Title: True/False Paths: Lecture Six: Initiation-Knowledge, Waking Consciousness and Dream Consciousness
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  • uncorrelated, grotesque images and symbols that nothing can be learnt
  • accompany the dead in the first years after death. This etheric body
  • the physical body is endowed with eyes and ears. At the present stage
  • ears. Thus, when he withdraws from his physical and etheric bodies in
  • body in the physical world bereft of eyes and ears, so that all
  • eyes and ears of the soul. Through spiritual training of which I have
  • participated in all the inner activities of eyes and ears and of the
  • eyes and ears of the soul. He does not now perceive what is happening
  • able to dream dreams and yet be able to keep our feet on Earth. As we
  • able, at any moment in our search for spiritual knowledge, to be
  • appear to contradict the statement that the dream consciousness also
  • develop spiritual eyes and ears in the astral body and
  • through his eyes and ears. This is true Initiation knowledge. One
  • he must first learn to organize effectively his inner life which is
  • the spirit that can still be heard amid the clamour of our
  • beings when we are compelled in many cases to learn to read and write
  • Indeed, in the remote past, nearly everyone could be initiated into
  • I wish to give a full and clear account in these lectures of the true
  • Earth. His earthly life appears before his inward eye in the form of
  • life up to his thirty-seventh year. He can survey the panorama of his
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• Title: True/False Paths: Lecture Seven: Knowledge of the World of Stars. Differentiation of the Historical Epochs of Mankind and their Spiritual Background
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  • lecture we saw how man learns to command his different life-periods
  • spiritual knowledge this earlier epoch was totally different in
  • with them in some way through earthly knowledge, through ordinary
  • later years did the need arise to have direct contact with him as a
  • which were the driving forces behind man's life, activity and search
  • epoch the leading beings who influenced the evolution of Earth and
  • survey of the first years of childhood, we acquire knowledge of the
  • between our twentieth and fortieth years, or more precisely, between
  • early childhood. In our epoch it is the men in their twenties or
  • earliest years of childhood.
  • who is eager to learn, and when he perceives with the organ of this
  • with an intense eagerness to learn from him.
  • relationship. It is an age in which the main impulses for the Earth
  • fragmentary. Imagine how our epoch would appear in the eyes of
  • appear before us and we say: there stands “Paracelsus
  • “Jacob Boehme minor” appears before us in the later
  • truths which he learned from various traditional teachings and which
  • Latini, appears before us, then for the first time we really
  • luminaries, whilst Scotus Erigena appears like some erratic boulder
  • unknown to posterity, as well as the others I have mentioned, appear
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• Title: True/False Paths: Lecture Eight: Potential Aberrations in Spiritual Investigation
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  • in touch with the dead in the years immediately after their death.
  • the life of the deceased after he has retraced his earthly life (in
  • universe and so we learn to know the beings who belong to these
  • already learned that a plant is the reflected image of the archetypal
  • plant-being on Earth. And when we gain knowledge of the plant kingdom
  • clearly differentiate between the kinds of plants found on Earth.
  • perception, its appearance is different from that of many others. Let
  • Earth, the etheric body around it and the astral element seemingly
  • interesting. We find that our astral body is the bearer of forces
  • discussion I simply wish to present a clear-cut point of view which
  • and false paths in spiritual investigation. What do we learn
  • twenty or thirty years after their death until they leave this
  • say that here on Earth we construct motor cars, write, read and write
  • with human nature and to preserve what they learn in that field for
  • over from one earthly life to another our experiences associated with
  • earthly forces alone. In the course of civilization, therefore,
  • earthly life to another.
  • earthly life to another, especially the abstract content of our
  • Instead of being the bearer of the human Ego, such a medium is,
  • one earthly life to another. This is the real secret of mediumship
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• Title: True/False Paths: Lecture Nine: Abnormal Paths into the Spiritual World and their Transformation
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  • how there once lived on Earth illustrious teachers who did not
  • able therefore to incarnate in the ether surrounding the Earth. They
  • primordial culture on Earth. When we look back into these
  • of beings who have never lived on Earth. They live amongst these
  • ignore society and social relationships in our life on Earth, so we
  • the primeval teachers of humanity on Earth and the beings whom they
  • key to earlier Earth epochs and to the earlier incarnations of
  • Earth and with whom we either had, or had not, karmic connections. In
  • this level of consciousness, we gradually contact earthly
  • others who are no longer incarnated on Earth today.
  • disappeared. Isolated individuals, either by spiritual means or
  • more or less the condition of man in earliest times. Today we have to
  • the earliest painters worked, but we are unaware of it today.
  • unsubstantial bodies, but with clearly defined wings and head; and
  • investigation over the years. There has always been an active
  • investigation into the Moon sphere and how the world appears from the
  • founded in the course of recent years, has accumulated an abundant
  • in the years between 1906 and 1909, I described the Earth in its earlier
  • Earth incarnation as far back as the Saturn incarnation, whereas all
  • between Moon and Sun; in reality, they traced the Earth incarnation
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• Title: True/False Paths: Lecture Ten: Influences of the Extra-Terrestrial Cosmos Upon the Consciousness of Man
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  • of the Earth, the influences of the Sun and Moon are paramount.
  • would exist on Earth without solar radiations.
  • conjure plant life out of the Earth. They are essential to all animal
  • presentiment of the influences of the Moon upon the Earth, each in
  • speak, under the influences of Earth, Sun and Moon, and his
  • just as the Earth is the cosmic colony of humanity. As I have already
  • Earth, Sun and Moon during the period between birth and death. We
  • which he now bears within himself until the moment of waking.
  • with sunlight and then directs the sunlight through the eyes and ears
  • In the early
  • day without, within himself he bears the night. In the daytime there
  • from the way in which Mercury appears to us, we are in touch with a
  • Mercury appears there emerges the Being whom we call the Divine Being
  • along the clearly defined paths that lead into the spiritual world.
  • pursue our Initiation with the same clear and lucid consciousness
  • with human beings here on Earth. When we seek the spirit without
  • times on a false track. If we remain on Earth and are content to
  • At an earlier stage, when we experienced the light of the Moon within
  • wooed into the day, the visions of the Beings who have appeared in
  • draws near to us. The whole process is a preparation for experiencing
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• Title: True/False Paths: Lecture Eleven: What is the Position in Respect of Spiritual Investigation and the Understanding of Spiritual Investigation?
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  • worlds? This is a question that lies close to the hearts of those who
  • distinction will be clear to you when you recall that man, as
  • threefold consciousness — clear waking consciousness,
  • knows clear intellectual consciousness; a sentient consciousness, a
  • an act of will it is accompanied by a thought which is clear and
  • Just as we have in this instance a clear picture of the external
  • Clear thinking
  • utilizing the emergent forces in man as he draws near to the
  • findings of other research workers in this field. Everyone accepts
  • earlier centuries. They were far more inclined to believe those who
  • made researches into spiritual facts since they still preserved
  • learning. A chemist, for example, undertakes a piece of research in
  • reflect a different kind of outlook, which bears no
  • independent research work. Newton offers an excellent example of the
  • undertaken by those who, in their present life on Earth are able to
  • call upon forces from earlier incarnations, for it is these
  • spiritual research are accepted by healthy understanding, a way is
  • another. I have explained this clearly at the end of the later
  • dangerous and most obvious of errors and must be clearly recognized
  • consciousness because they appear unrelated, whereas in certain
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