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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Character of Occult Science
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  • its essence, is incapable of being scientific, but because, in such an
  • being at present is still far from being able to answer all the
  • the weak human being to want to penetrate into a world that is
  • limits by forbidding the human being to ask unbiased questions.
  • than that the human being is denied access to a possibly existent
  • is common to all human beings. It is certainly true that the insight
  • is also a fact that all human beings who go far enough arrive, not at
  • Differences of opinion exist only as long as human beings wish to
  • At the proper moment, every human being can find the way to occult
  • when a human being sees himself forced to turn away from the
  • appear when the inner force of the human being dwindles. Then all
  • beings, and events that appear before his senses; he analyses these
  • within the human being, then finally also the outer aspect of things
  • This question by no means concerns only the individual human being,
  • world. The human being comes to understand that he injures the whole
  • universe and all its beings by not developing his forces in the proper
  • being — the decaying of which can lead him finally to despair — but
  • The human being can deceive himself. He can yield to the belief that
  • being into doubt, into a feeling of insecurity of life, indeed, into
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Essential Nature of Mankind
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  • the “revealed mystery” within the individual human being.
  • being is accessible to the senses and to the intellect dependent upon
  • emphasized that in this member of man's being, the corpse, the same
  • In a later chapter of this work we shall consider how the human being
  • The human being possesses this ether body in common with the plants,
  • by being interpenetrated by the ether body, so likewise the forces of
  • characteristic of consciousness that a being reacts to certain
  • stimuli, but that the being experiences something in its inner nature
  • effect of heat, the being, for example, inwardly experiences pain.
  • The fourth member of his being that supersensible cognition must
  • feeling” begins. The fact that a being feels hunger, for example,
  • of it make themselves felt within the being in question. It pounces
  • being to seek food, but when pleasure has arisen at a previous
  • the past experience of pleasure the driving force in the human being's
  • pleasure. Memory, however, is only present when a being not only feels
  • being, and he realizes that the animal's behavior corresponds to the
  • and with another human being and also with animals in exactly the same
  • The ego rises to a higher stage of its being when it directs its
  • to the object or being to whom it applies. The “ I ” as
  • designation for a being has meaning only when this being applies it to
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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Sleep And Death
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  • being passes during sleep, and it is impossible to solve the riddle of
  • life without considering death. For a human being in whom there is no
  • by what can be known about the invisible. A human being who does not
  • It is similar with death. Living beings succumb to death in order that
  • place in the human being during and by means of consciousness are
  • to maintain the physical body. Were the human being able, through his
  • cannot stroll about on the body in the way that the human being walks
  • universe out of which the entire human being is born. The source of
  • the images through which the human being receives his form lies in
  • physical environment in the narrower sense. Whereas the human being is
  • in confused succession. In his dream life, the human being is freed
  • of the members of man's being. What supersensible perception has to
  • employed for this work when the human being sleeps remains after death
  • During the union of the human being with his physical body, the outer
  • experience of the human being after death. He perceives the life
  • disappears at death. As long as the human being retains the ether
  • experience in his memoirs. Once, when he was near being drowned while
  • desires that the human being creates because he is conscious of his
  • ego, the fourth member of his being. Those desires and wishes arising
  • that the hungry being experiences in taking food is a manifestation of
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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 1)
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  • FROM the foregoing considerations it may be seen that the being of man
  • being stand in the most manifold relationships to the whole cosmos and
  • of man's being.
  • conditions of earth existence in which the human being, in his present
  • spiritual being of man has passed through a series of lives upon this
  • in the remote past, when for the first time this inner being of man
  • connection. The ego unites for the first time with the being composed
  • beings are condensed from an element that was formerly spiritual. — In
  • cosmic being, and everything material connected with this earth planet
  • question. Let us imagine a being having only the senses that can
  • ice is formed by means of refrigeration. For such a being, water would
  • disappeared. When a being reaches corporeal existence, the substance
  • this form shows the human being to be composed of the four members:
  • within the previous planetary incarnation there were beings evolving
  • physical body, life body, and astral body. These beings, who in a
  • of the human being was present. Therefore, light is shed upon the
  • human being of the present if his evolution is traced back to the
  • described only in outline, because the processes and the beings and
  • clairvoyant observation is very different from the objects and beings
  • consciousness. Since, however, the present being of man cannot be
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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 2)
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  • Of the present four members of the being of man, the physical body is
  • being, there will be no difficulty in correctly picturing these
  • much greater significance for the entire being of man than the present
  • particular perfection of this member of the human being. In this
  • essential kernel of the human being, the ego, stands at present only
  • being in such a manner that they be a manifestation of its own nature?
  • being indulges himself altogether too much in enjoyments and desires
  • man's being. The proofs are taken from spiritual research, and this
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 3)
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  • The beings of these three kingdoms only came into existence in later
  • periods of evolution. Of the present physically visible earth beings,
  • beings of the mineral, plant, animal, and human kingdoms belong to the
  • earth, but there are also other beings who do not manifest in a
  • physical body. These beings were also present during the Saturn
  • Let us imagine a human being with his present sense organs approaching
  • organized cosmic being, appearing in ever changing states, consisting
  • illustration.) The beings of whom supersensible cognition becomes
  • different from the present, sensorily-perceptible earth beings. Before
  • this faculty of cognition beings appear who did not possess a physical
  • existence later on. Among the beings perceived by supersensible
  • vehicle of these beings was an ether body; they had, however, besides
  • as highest member spirit man. These beings have a still higher member,
  • described in this book as belonging also to human beings: astral body,
  • It consisted of the beings just mentioned
  • and still others. Between the heat bodies of Saturn and these beings
  • members of their being into the physical heat bodies of Saturn and,
  • of the beings in their environment was expressed, in them. They might
  • be compared to mirrors, only it was not the images of the beings in
  • like a mirror of celestial life. Certain exalted beings whose life was
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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 4)
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  • approximates the state in which the human being now exists during
  • human being attains a higher degree of consciousness in the course of
  • sleep” as a new cosmic being, the Sun. But as a result, the
  • conditions of evolution are changed. The spiritual beings, whose
  • conditions. The germinal human being, however, first appears on the
  • life of the Sun. When the human being has developed to the point where
  • Sun that yet other spiritual beings interpose themselves in a way
  • first signs of an inner activity appear in the germinal human being;
  • human being. One part is a physical body worked upon by a life body,
  • work for a time upon the twofold human being just as they had worked
  • before on the single-membered human being. The Spirits of Motion then
  • speaking, this human being may be said to consist of heat structures
  • pictorial images the inner soul states of the beings in his
  • present time, a human being can only develop such perception in
  • reason for this phenomenon may be discovered. Exalted beings are now
  • working actively in the light radiating from the Sun. These beings are
  • reproduction of the living human being appear. Exudations are driven
  • that in the course of an epoch all the beings involved do not by any
  • there exist beings and formations that do not fit into its conditions.
  • the human beings who have remained behind at the Saturn stage. They
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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 5)
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  • being that shall be called the Moon. This Moon, however, must not be
  • active within the physical human being; now the forces of the acquired
  • is as though the human being consisted only of heat substance, while
  • activities, the human being reappears as he was during his
  • separate epochs. During the second of these, the human being is so far
  • human being. They prepared themselves for this task during the Sun
  • astral body to flow into the human being, he acquires his first soul
  • appear in the human being. He seeks to repeat what has caused pleasure
  • regularly developed human kingdom. One of these consists of beings who
  • A second kingdom consists of beings who have remained behind at the
  • air also permeate the human beings. Thus it happens that on the Moon
  • substances and beings separates from the rest. Two cosmic bodies are
  • thus formed from one. Certain higher beings who, prior to this, were
  • the human beings, by the two lower kingdoms just characterized, and by
  • certain higher beings who did not go over to the first cosmic body.
  • This latter cosmic body, occupied by higher beings, appears like a
  • separation is that the beings, departed with the reemerging sun, are
  • unhampered in their further development by the denser Moon beings.
  • down upon the Moon beings from their sun. These Moon beings likewise
  • the above-mentioned spiritual beings, living in the environment,
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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 6)
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  • sketch, all beings and forces concerned appear in a more spiritual
  • evolution. A being who possessed such highly developed capacities of
  • between the two evolutions. For such an individual, the beings and
  • again out of the dim darkness of the cosmic womb. Only a being
  • At the end of the interval of rest from outer activity, the beings who
  • appear with new abilities and faculties. The beings standing above men
  • the human being to such a point that, during the Earth period
  • him. During the Saturn, Sun, and Moon evolutions he invested his being
  • with a physical, life, and astral body, but these members of his being
  • period, just as during the Saturn evolution, higher beings work only
  • enough in its evolution, all beings must again pass over into a higher
  • third of the recapitulation periods just described. All beings and
  • which something of these beings and forces can still be perceived
  • present human being dwells between death and re-birth. These are the
  • regions of the land of spirits. The beings and forces then gradually
  • although it has an astral form. It is a being ruled by physical laws
  • as a cosmic being that is wholly soul and spirit, and in which the
  • cosmic Earth being is luminous, but its light is not one that physical
  • In this cosmic being something now takes place that may be called a
  • the various beings who participate in evolution. What may be observed
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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 7)
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  • more the human being turned his interest toward the physical-sensory
  • spiritual world this power leads the human being to complete
  • beings who at death are in the power of Ahriman are reborn as
  • what the human being can experience in this state of existence when he
  • connection of the human being with the spiritual world was fostered.
  • them. Lucifer concealed from the human being that part of the
  • beings revealed themselves in shapes that bore only the higher members
  • they practiced in their souls all those faculties that the human being
  • beings behind nature. The creative powers of the forces active in
  • nature below the human being revealed themselves to them. What had
  • in the course of time a human being would appear with an astral body
  • And the physical body of this human being must be of such a nature
  • death cannot change anything for this human being during life; that is
  • being the ego manifests in such a way that the physical life contains
  • at the same time the whole spiritual life. Such a being is the bearer
  • twofold way, either by being led to the spirit of the super-human or
  • to the being of the powers of nature in special states of the soul.
  • Since the initiates of the mysteries predicted that such a human being
  • that in special states of consciousness the spiritual being who had
  • super-human spirit becomes human through the ego. Thus the Being Who
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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 1)
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  • induced if the human being can bring about the soul experiences made
  • being at a certain moment in the course of his life, without special
  • self-awakening. Such a human being will find that through it his
  • it can appear without observing any kind of rules. How the human being
  • indeed be felt by such human beings as a sort of insolence or as an
  • feel it obligatory that everything be revealed to the human being that
  • the most concealed holy of holies of the human being. It involves a
  • into a different being in regard to his entire life-conduct. It
  • supersensible. In addition to these life-functions the human being
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 2)
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  • blossom unfolds, and now we think of a human being beside this plant.
  • that the human being is indeed more perfect than the plant, but he
  • in a certain sense more perfect than the human being who is filled
  • of his being led astray by his desires and passions. I see that the
  • I may say to myself that the human being has a greater perfection than
  • human being is capable of evolution; how he may purify and cleanse his
  • Such a symbol, as is described here, portrays no outer thing or being
  • feelings perceives how a human being performs an action that is
  • very far. — Since human beings are varied in character, so are the
  • are spiritual facts and beings to which the senses have no access.
  • “real” in a different sense from the facts and beings of
  • as instruments. The first thing that the human being experiences on
  • can lift myself out of them and then feel myself as a being alongside
  • experience: the observation of a soul-spirit ego being. This, as a new
  • unconsciousness. The soul-spirit being, naturally, existed before
  • reflection of its own being, strengthened through the exercises, and
  • soul's own being, and the student of the spiritual recognizes in these
  • fundamental being. At this point the sensing of repeated earth lives
  • everyday life. — The very nature of the human being, however, makes
  • clear to the human being during sleep that now he is in another world;
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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 3)
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  • feeling, “Whatever has the nature of being in itself may also
  • announce itself to me by my being united with it as though I were one
  • saying, “Something possessing the nature of being acts within
  • also more difficult for many human beings. This path is presented in
  • which acts in the human being like a living entity, and not thought
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 4)
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  • through the fact of their being active organs. Whereas eyes and ears
  • are being individually developed may, by way of comparison, be called
  • The existence of these organs in the human being produces nothing of a
  • rule, by most human beings through the ordinary relationships of life
  • the senses. Higher beings are working upon the astral body, just as
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 5)
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  • beings and facts. — Beside this similarity of the imaginative with the
  • truths about the being of man become accessible to imaginative
  • human being who might wish to stop in this world would perceive the
  • beings undergoing transformation, but he would be unable to explain
  • former one learns to know the inner qualities of beings who transform
  • of beings; through inspiration one penetrates into their inner
  • spiritual nature. One recognizes above all a host of spiritual beings
  • and discerns a great number of relationships between one being and
  • another. One has to deal with a multitude of individual beings also in
  • multitude is of a different character. There each being has a quite
  • perceive a being in the world of inspiration, there is no evidence of
  • an outer influence upon another being, which might be compared with
  • the effect of one physical being upon another, but a relationship
  • exists between two beings through their inner constitution. Let us
  • inspiration may only be compared with reading, — and the beings in the
  • preceding chapters of this book itself. How the human being takes
  • then shown how the cosmic being, within which the human being
  • the members of the human being and, on the other, the consecutive
  • transformations have taken place within the human being as a result of
  • and beings who co-operated in order that such transformations could
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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 6)
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  • this is that the human being who is accustomed to have his inner life
  • the same time gain the faculty of being able actually to carry out
  • being to meditate in a twofold manner. He may simply say to himself,
  • capacities?” A human being posing this question to himself will
  • certainly be disastrous to the human being were he to let himself be
  • significance for the development of the human being; this is what is
  • little importance if we, even as mature human beings, can have
  • forth from my inner being. Therefore, when I see something that I must
  • The greater the capacity of a human being to direct his attention to
  • human being directs his efforts toward an extension of soul-life, but
  • and beings everywhere, but also by assuming that the uninvestigated
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 7)
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  • body of a human being who has attained inspiration and intuition
  • radiations into external space. The more the human being is developed,
  • it like a fine network and making it into a self-contained being. If
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 8)
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  • way from feeling or thinking. A human being would not be in a healthy
  • but rather what displeases him. The human being now notices that on
  • emergence of a special fourth soul-spirit being that may be described
  • two forces in the soul that act in it like independent beings. Still
  • another seventh power and being appears that is similar to one's own
  • of the new world now perceived by him stand soul-spirit beings. These
  • according to what the human being feels or thinks. In this way he
  • spreads like a veil over the supersensible beings. Although real
  • beings confront him, he does not see them, but instead, his own
  • being of man, no matter whether he himself knows much about this being
  • it does not present itself to the human being like stones, plants, and
  • thinking human being will take care that what fills him, through
  • impels man to conceal something in his inner being and not allow it to
  • the human being is not conscious in physical-sensory life. This
  • being from appearing before him in a perceptible picture. If this
  • feeling were not present, the human being would perceive before him
  • human being. Even the mere attempt to penetrate into this world causes
  • perception of his own being in its true form. He would lose through
  • the Luciferic beings with all their effects are contained within the
  • distinction is only possible if one perceives one's own being as an
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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 9)
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  • phenomenon. Man beholds his newborn self as another being standing
  • which overtakes the human being when he first becomes aware of some
  • have the feeling of being a prisoner. On the contrary, he believes he
  • being during physical sense-existence from perceiving the soul-spirit
  • beings of the outer world lying behind the veil of the sensory. The
  • delusions arising from the intermingling of his own being with the
  • degree, an individual shape for each human being. The encounter with
  • is free from personal coloring and applies to every human being.
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 10)
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  • relationship of everything that exists in the human being to
  • corresponding facts and beings of the world outside him. For it is a
  • corresponds to a process or being of the outer world. At the
  • with this relationship between his own being and the great world. We
  • human being himself, and the greater world, the macrocosm. If the
  • losing one's own essential being. This stage of development may be
  • the human being were to flow out into the universe, merging with it.
  • knowledge of the spiritual beings themselves through whose
  • co-operation the world, to which the human being belongs, comes into
  • possesses as a spiritual being in the world of soul and spirit. He has
  • whose Being and participation in Earth evolution has been made clear
  • Sun Being, the Christ, has intervened in the Earth evolution and how
  • being can follow, no matter what the situation in which he may find
  • of man have been different in different ages. If the human being
  • human beings have become different from what they were previously. The
  • departure for spiritual development just where the human being now
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Present and Future of Cosmic and Human Evolution
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  • within the conditions that confront the human being at present within
  • the sphere of the earth. The beings and things that participated in
  • being into which the Earth will be transformed, just as the Moon has
  • on the Moon certain beings and things are present that will assume
  • during the Jupiter state. The beings and facts perceived within this
  • nevertheless, say that these beings possess a “body.” Yet
  • as their present being, like a sum of condensed memories which they
  • bear within their soul. We are able to distinguish in their being
  • beings and things become visible that are the further developed forms
  • those about the past. The human being cannot, at the outset, confront
  • world. What the human being now acquires as knowledge through his
  • concept, their image, needed by the soul, arose in its inner being.
  • certain knowledge of non-sensory facts and beings. This was the
  • more and more human beings who lacked such faculties. Instead of these
  • beings were by degrees removed from a direct, dreamlike perception of
  • thirteenth — chiefly the fifteenth — centuries of our era. Human beings
  • the world of soul and spirit strengthened the human being in his
  • human beings always existed who developed the higher powers of
  • feel them as being of its own being. If knowledge about this or that
  • being or thing dawns upon the soul, the intellect will then find it
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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Details From the Realm of Spiritual Science
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  • with the outer senses. If the human being touches an object and has a
  • cause, and above all, without their being caused by his own body.
  • that it is caused by a being of the world of soul and spirit in a
  • expression of a being of the world of soul and spirit. If this being
  • true supersensible perception by the human being of our time, the
  • physical human being. Of course, a strong increase of will is
  • body and the other members of man's being may be described. Whoever
  • which, after the death of the human being, the astral body still
  • III.) The length of this period varies with different human beings. It
  • individual human being holds fast to the ether body, upon the degree
  • may have an impression of this power when it observes a human being
  • lengths of time without being overpowered by sleep. For the most
  • extreme length of time that a human being is able to remain awake does
  • preceding incarnation. Since the experiences of a human being are
  • in the most manifold way. How long the human being remains in the
  • being into earth-life occurs. Since there must be a twofold
  • life in which a human being finds himself because of the constitution
  • The life of the human being as it expresses itself in the succession
  • birth represents the breaking loose of the human being from the
  • physical maternal sheath. Forces, which the embryonic human being had
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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Table of Contents
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  • 6.The Members of Man's Being
  • 9.Observation of Special Events and Beings of the World of Spirit
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Preface First Edition
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  • being may acquire, and these must be expressed without any personal
  • the possibility of being able to follow — right up to the present — all
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Preface: Fourth Edition
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  • worlds. Yet there are human beings — really not few in number — who find
  • number of human beings who have an understanding for the supersensible
  • and an experience is reached which is similar in every human being who
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Preface: Sixteenth to Twentieth Edition
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  • in the second place, could be understood by every thinking human being
  • I counted upon the fact that there are human beings who feel, more or
  • its inner being toward the spirit.
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Special Comments
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  • being if we do not hold in mind what appears quite especially unique
  • in the human being as the process of real perception of previous
  • but, for the sake of understanding the human being, the significant
  • being.
  • The statement that, if the personal talents of a human being were
  • of man and the human being himself pass through the states that have
  • beings were present who were unable to participate in this separation,
  • beings who possessed characteristics that can only unfold on the
  • evolution. Similarly, Mars is a celestial body on which beings dwell
  • dwelling place of beings who, by having developed certain earth