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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Character of Occult Science
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  • contempt. These people imagine that the kind of thinking thus
  • or that person imagines when he hears the term, “occult
  • science, has a magical sound because it seems to satisfy their fatal
  • appears as a fantastic, imaginary one. If, in our spiritual scientific
  • spiritual world is imagined in a way too similar to an experience of
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Essential Nature of Mankind
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  • replace the lack of use of the word I. With this insight the magical
  • of view; also with the contention that no magical nimbus be bestowed
  • imagined that this activity is something grossly material. What
  • anything “vaguely magical,” which they often ascribe to it,
  • from the very outset, themselves introduce this magical element into
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Sleep And Death
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  • dreaming and can only lead to empty imaginings. The rejection of what
  • Just imagine a physical human body removed from its surrounding world.
  • happens there may be illustrated by an analogy. Imagine a vessel
  • communications are simply figments of the imagination, if no heed is
  • imagine the burning thirst that serves as an analogy for the
  • imagine it spread out over all the other still existing desires for
  • whole, damaging world of passion becomes perceptible to the ego, and
  • imagine a sea of flowing feeling. Sorrow and pain, joy and delight
  • atmosphere of the sense world. Imagine a battle raging upon earth. Not
  • thoughts must be imagined as living, independent entities. What is
  • what exists in the land of spirits as thought beings. If we imagine
  • All mere dreaming and imagining about the supersensible brings only
  • thoughts something else is experienced. Imagine the following case.
  • being who imagines that, through a former life, he has implanted into
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 1)
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  • We must not imagine, however, that at any time all that exists of a
  • question. Let us imagine a being having only the senses that can
  • continuation of the past into the present. One might imagine that
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 2)
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  • physical sensory facts. In most cases it happens that the damaging of
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 3)
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  • Let us imagine a human being with his present sense organs approaching
  • For man of the present day it must be difficult to imagine something
  • of this state, imagine a mulberry or a blackberry, and note how it is
  • unprejudiced eye, we must imagine that a being can be “man”
  • above. It must not be imagined that the latter's development begins
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 4)
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  • the dreamy consciousness of the Sons of Life as magnificent, magic
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 5)
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  • plant-minerals, only we must imagine that the entire foundational mass
  • the Moon humanity, let us imagine this humanity as being embedded in
  • activities are imaginatively perceived. Thus the Spirits of
  • it were, for the human being, the imaginative thought pictures
  • this is said, it must not be imagined that under such conditions we
  • that, as he thinks, have not first received wisdom, may also imagine
  • situation only if we do not imagine abrupt transitions between periods
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 6)
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  • must imagine an egg-shaped soul form, existing in the surroundings of
  • imagined that in that primeval epoch the Earth's movement around the
  • fashioning human bodies, it should not be imagined that during the
  • these teachers with sublime powers, they were able to act magically
  • effects from person to person as though through magic powers. Thus a
  • elements. They may be called Magi. What they had preserved for
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 1)
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  • unconsciousness. Let us now imagine that the soul might be able during
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 2)
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  • Now let us imagine that we preserve this memory in the soul; we permit
  • what may be called imaginative cognition. It is the first stage of
  • knowledge, the first of which is imaginative cognition. The expression
  • “imaginative” may call forth doubts in those who think
  • “imagination” stands only for unreal imaginings, that is, a
  • spiritual science, however, “imaginative” cognition is to be
  • “imaginations,” the world of this higher state of
  • consciousness may be named the “imaginative” world, and the
  • knowledge corresponding to it “imaginative” cognition.
  • “Imaginative,” therefore, means something which is
  • imaginative experience is of no importance, but of utmost importance
  • thinking and to arbitrary imagining and therefore can bring forth only
  • pictures — imaginations — which appear as a result of the exercises
  • imaginative experiences constitutes an exception to this possibility
  • also the visualized imaginations themselves, characterized above, are
  • striven to create with such great effort. In the imaginative world
  • he experiences a spiritual fact only in his imaginings or whether real
  • spiritual reality that in truth is only his own fantastic imagining.
  • without being accompanied by damaging aberrations of fantasy. Without
  • the damaging attitude of mind found in, “I should like this, I
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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 3)
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  • THE inner excellence of the stage of imaginative cognition is attained
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 4)
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  • imaginatively to supersensible consciousness. (Granted, it must be
  • not to be imagined as something that, in the mental representation of
  • to imaginative cognition has its effect upon one or another organ. (In
  • perceive nothing!” then, in most cases, he has imagined that
  • because he does not perceive what he imagines he should see, he says,
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 5)
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  • physical-sensory world. He who possesses imaginative cognition will be
  • the imaginative world express something quite different from sense
  • behind imaginative perceptions stand soul and spiritual things and
  • beings and facts. — Beside this similarity of the imaginative with the
  • imaginative world. In the former can be observed a continual growth
  • imaginative world a continual transformation of one thing into another
  • of a plant in the physical world. In the imaginative world, in
  • imaginative world. In their place appears the concept of
  • truths about the being of man become accessible to imaginative
  • them is acquired through imaginative cognition. Whoever has advanced
  • Development, however, does not stop with the imaginative world. The
  • himself in the newly attained world. The imaginative world is an
  • stage of imaginative cognition to the stage that may be called
  • of imaginative cognition, and then only advance to
  • lead to imagination and to inspiration proceeds hand in hand. He will
  • character that first of all some of the phenomena of the imaginative
  • comparison with the world of mere imagination. Through the latter one
  • themselves. Through imagination one learns to know the soul-expression
  • themselves to imaginative knowledge. It is, however, also necessary
  • result from imaginative perception, but from cognition through
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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 6)
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  • described as meditation for the attainment of imagination. While,
  • however, those exercises that lead to imagination are linked to the
  • arise the imagination of the transformation that underlies physical
  • the acquiring of imagination the student must be clear, in regard to
  • acquiring imagination, to disappear from his consciousness, but also
  • for imagination and inspiration. A time will surely come when the
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 7)
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  • Imaginative consciousness is attained through the development of the
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 8)
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  • gives them form that depends upon his own nature. Let us imagine that
  • a certain picture appears before man in the world of imagination. If,
  • another form, as a picture of the imaginative world, what he has
  • As soon, however, as man enters the imaginative world, its pictures
  • bring about imagination, a symbol is first formed. In this symbol are
  • mistake an imaginary piece of hot iron for one that really burns. It
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 9)
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  • stage, the entire compass of all imaginable worlds, of having attained
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 10)
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  • II. Acquiring imaginative knowledge.
  • imaginations with certainty, yet he already performs exercises leading
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Present and Future of Cosmic and Human Evolution
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  • able to experience through their own imagination, inspiration, and
  • able to elevate themselves to higher worlds through imagination,
  • imagination, inspiration, and intuition about the higher worlds in
  • We see that the highest imaginable ideal of human evolution results
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Details From the Realm of Spiritual Science
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  • object. Let us now imagine this soul experience alone, without the
  • outer object. Let us imagine the experience of a sensation of heat in
  • simply present without a cause, it would be imaginary. The student of
  • experience itself) that the inner perception is not imaginary, but
  • physical-sensory world. Let us imagine that we retain a vivid memory
  • to know, in the case in question, that it is not imaginary, but the
  • spiritual perception and imaginary deception, hallucination, and so
  • ceases. It was, therefore, possible to say that imagination perceives,
  • By means of imagination, inspiration, and intuition supersensible
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Preface First Edition
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  • could imagine that someone might arrive at the following conclusion:
  • author does not do that in every case. He is able to imagine that his
  • thing imaginable. Haeckel would have unmistakably declined this
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Preface: Sixteenth to Twentieth Edition
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  • In my imaginative perceptions the spiritual nature of individual man stood
  • pictures (imaginations) through which inspirations speak, which have
  • But he who describes imaginations from the world of spirit cannot at
  • present merely present these imaginations. For in doing so he would be
  • without loss of their imaginative character within this form.
  • must advance from objective imagination to objective imagination
  • The knowledge that an imagination is not a mere subjective picture,
  • imaginings and objective perceptions. Thus the results of my
  • when the imaginations that this book presents merged into a complete
  • is necessary to know concerning the nature of imagination,