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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Character of Occult Science
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  • according to their nature, they are attracted by a deep, inner longing
  • science, in its essential nature, is not recognized by means of the
  • nature as a kind of self-education of the soul and to apply what it
  • knowledge of nature, since this knowledge can never lead to anything
  • soul-element does not live in what man knows about nature, but in the
  • occupation with nature. What it vitally achieves in this activity is
  • something besides the knowledge of nature itself: it is
  • self-development experienced in acquiring knowledge of nature. Occult
  • realms that lie beyond mere nature. The occult scientist has no desire
  • nature, the soul is guided by the object under consideration to a much
  • instance, scientific self-education in the observation of nature has
  • declarations, are able to enter into the nature of his communications
  • allow the capacity of soul unfolded through a knowledge of nature to
  • evolve further, as far as its own nature will allow, and then call
  • conception of the nature of “proof.” He learns that for an
  • possible. For the visible facts, through their very inner nature,
  • about the nature of man, about his conduct between birth and death,
  • world is considered to be much too much of the nature of thought. But
  • nature of what has been experienced will be gained in carrying out in
  • “nature” offers him. The supersensible method of knowledge
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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Essential Nature of Mankind
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  • Occult Science (1972): The Essential Nature of Mankind
  • THE ESSENTIALNATURE OF MANKIND
  • so-called lifeless nature — the mineral kingdom — which always bears death
  • the same nature as the mineral world. On the other hand, what
  • nature as the mineral world. We can point to the corpse as that part
  • as they must appear, according to their own nature, namely, as the
  • naturally, nothing of a bodily nature, however tenuous we may picture
  • sure, is not visualized as having the nature of the lifebody
  • lies in the nature of man, during his evolution, at times to bring to
  • plants, he is, in regard to his astral body, of the same nature as the
  • happen only if he has an unclear idea of the nature of consciousness.
  • stimuli, but that the being experiences something in its inner nature
  • nature. One speaks of the astral body as long as one considers the
  • through its very nature, distinguishes itself from every other name.
  • nature of the “ I ” is independent of all that is external;
  • of an external nature has access to that part of the soul with which
  • soul. Only a being with whom the soul is of like nature can gain
  • but only that it is of the same nature and essence as the Divine.
  • difficult to gain the proper insight into the nature of the I. Much
  • consideration of the matter. But the nature of a thing is not decided
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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Sleep And Death
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  • IT IS NOT possible to penetrate into the nature of waking
  • “Nature has invented death that she might have abundant
  • soul-spirit nature of man as fatigue. But this fatigue is the
  • is of like nature to itself, to supply it with the means of
  • out of the nature of the three lower bodies can only be active within
  • nature, it could at death draw complete satisfaction from the
  • nature of the ego. As long as the ego is within the bodies, these
  • spiritual nature of the ego. The ego must have sense enjoyments as
  • spirit.” All desires of a sensual nature, in which the sensual is
  • that has not arisen out of the spiritual nature of the ego during life
  • is of a spiritual nature. These creatures appear like distortions and
  • so far as the pleasure is founded in its own nature. The animal is
  • nature, not to maintain and further it, then such craving can be
  • neither the effect of its three bodies, nor that of its own nature. It
  • nature of the ego and arouse in it passions that have no relationship
  • nature with his ego, for only an ego has access to another ego. Just
  • composed of beings of a spiritual nature. — Yet he brings with him into
  • spiritual nature, it has, in a certain respect, a similarity to the
  • kind imparts its own inner nature to this ego. Without that separation
  • physical organs is perceived in its spiritual nature in the first
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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 1)
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  • spiritual nature is transformed into matter, but in matter we have
  • characterized above, the actual Earth itself. The essential nature of
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 2)
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  • being in such a manner that they be a manifestation of its own nature?
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 3)
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  • of this effect of heat, not of its inner nature. Let us try to
  • beginning of the Saturn evolution. At that time the bodily nature of
  • “Authorities,”) is of such a nature that the expressions of
  • down upon Saturn from its environment and communicates its nature to
  • nature. If he gives himself up to ideas that he himself forms in his
  • like the one just cited for the sake of comparison where the nature of
  • a being possessed of a semblance of life, of a soullike nature and
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 4)
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  • the Sun evolution because at that time his nature is invested with the
  • himself through spiritual-scientific training. The nature of this
  • were, by the human bodies and forms a kind of lower nature within the
  • Spirits of Love. A part of the retarded Saturn nature is mixed with
  • Saturn nature the precursors of the sense organs of the present earth
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 5)
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  • at first by themselves. They bear within their inner nature all that
  • astral body to flow forth from their own essential nature into the
  • however, the Spirits of Form do not give up their own nature to him,
  • the latter bear within themselves a Saturn and a Sun nature. As a
  • result, a kind of cleavage arises in human nature, and through this
  • nature of passion and desire. This expresses itself gradually by a
  • kind of animal — man. His nature contained the essential elements of the
  • by these spirits he had the power to ennoble his own nature, indeed,
  • sort of conflict within human nature, and through the influence of the
  • the inner nature of these beings as a spiritual tone language. The
  • much more intimate relationship with the actual nature of the
  • more important effect upon the inner nature of the human being than
  • corporeality. The latter divides into two parts, two natures. Members
  • his nature is, as it were, too dense, too much determined by other
  • two natures. One of these natures, not subject to the independent
  • his own nature. An inner vivacity begins chiefly in the astral body,
  • belonging to him, as a completion of his own nature. He feels it as
  • upon his own bodily nature during the sunless period. Then when the
  • into the inner nature of the human body.
  • surroundings. They appear with a nature that has little in common with
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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 6)
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  • of the new stage of evolution the three members of human nature appear
  • external form that appears like a copy of the human soul nature. It is
  • soul-spirit nature, entirely pictorial. It appears in the form of an
  • the soul-spirit nature of the human being were now on Earth,
  • heat who introduced a spark into his inner nature. When their external
  • his inner nature. He felt himself united with their forces, and this
  • began to shine through this influence. This was a time when nature
  • of man himself. Anyone who might have observed the processes of nature
  • beings who were most harmonious in their nature. Others were ready to
  • human nature, it came under the influence of the beings who had, under
  • extended its nature upon the inheritors of the forebear's form. The
  • Prior to this point in the evolution of his nature, man had no
  • Only that part of soul nature felt itself attracted to these forms
  • nature. This did not occur. Certain spiritual beings took an active
  • separation, beings who had retained so much of their Moon nature that
  • beings with the ancient Moon nature were confined with their irregular
  • development to the earth. In their Moon nature lay the cause of their
  • Moon nature, the force to work on the human astral body, namely, in
  • activity as something like a present-day nature force, nor as
  • place in the primeval age was not a nature effect but a spiritual
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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 7)
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  • of human nature, and in these members they carried the astrally
  • nature were revealed to them. They were able to speak of the spiritual
  • beings behind nature. The creative powers of the forces active in
  • nature below the human being revealed themselves to them. What had
  • And the physical body of this human being must be of such a nature
  • to the being of the powers of nature in special states of the soul.
  • unveil only as much of Its inner nature as human beings, peoples, were
  • Lemurian age. The human beings, as to their soul nature, may thus be
  • spiritual powers behind the forces of nature that were revealed in
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 1)
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  • entire nature is transformed. A boundless enrichment of his soul
  • certain transformation of his entire nature. The means for such a
  • transformation cannot, by its very nature, be thought out by
  • knowledge. These doubts disappear if one holds in mind the nature of
  • inner nature of the disciple would only occur were the teacher to
  • this domain. Whoever considers the nature of the human soul, as far as
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 2)
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  • nature, an awakening power upon certain hidden faculties of the human
  • truly they do this, the truer they are, and it is part of their nature
  • permitting instincts, desires, and passions to enter into his nature
  • the nature of meditation was to be described by a single example.)
  • that is brought forth by nature. But just because of this it has an
  • whole is certainly not produced by nature, but all its details are,
  • nevertheless, borrowed from nature — the black color, the red roses, and
  • deeply into the nature of things than ordinary thinking, it is able
  • bodily nature just as it does during sleep, but it does not, as in the
  • experiences itself in its true inner, independent nature, while in the
  • their very nature, not yet relate to anything real in the spiritual
  • previously unorganized soul-spirit nature. The individual beholds
  • everyday life. — The very nature of the human being, however, makes
  • new being in itself as the kernel of its soul nature, and this being
  • nature force within the human soul, and in order to vanquish this
  • upon the origin of man, or upon the nature of life. Through simple
  • action and the nature of the thing to be done so as to permit its
• 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
  • saying, “Something possessing the nature of being acts within
  • nature, stands already within the spiritual world; it presents itself
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 4)
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  • are, in truth, work performed on the soul-spirit nature, that is to
  • soul-spirit nature. If, however, one forms a definite opinion right at
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 5)
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  • entitled “The Essential Nature of Mankind.” To
  • death.” The other members of human nature — life body, sentient
  • spiritual nature. One recognizes above all a host of spiritual beings
  • supersensible observation, if one has learned to understand its nature
  • Otherwise its very nature remains unintelligible, just as Raphael's
  • higher stage of cognition to understand the inner nature of these
  • to have become united with its inner nature. Step by step the student
  • inspiration leads him further into the inner nature of beings. He
  • life. What is released after death from the human bodily nature goes
  • nature, we must investigate it by means of intuition also in the
  • period between birth and death. Whoever wished to fathom the nature of
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 6)
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  • fortunate gift of nature have an excellent basis for the forces of
  • acknowledge anything in the world will find that the essential nature
• 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
  • are permeated through and through by his own nature. The latter
  • in regard to what man notices in himself as his own essential nature,
  • feeling of shame. This is indeed the reaction of healthy human nature:
  • shame in everyday life; it prevents the innermost nature of the human
  • that his inner nature is concealed from him, he is also not able to
  • transform his nature that it may unfold spiritual organs of
  • image of his own nature. — We see from this how necessary it is that man
  • that flows from one's own inner nature becomes detached from the
  • This training will of itself be of such a nature that the encounter
  • coloring of reality through one's own soul nature. In ordinary life of
  • “guardian of the threshold,” his own inner nature, which he
  • speak to him purely out of their own nature. If the student has thus
  • to disregard his own nature also when he confronts the world of soul
  • coloring of supersensible world-phenomena with his own nature, must
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 9)
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  • nature that it causes the impression in the soul of the observer of
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Present and Future of Cosmic and Human Evolution
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  • field of consciousness do not possess the nature of sense images; they
  • this body shows itself within their soul nature, which reveals itself
  • remember. The latter is contained within them like a bodily nature.
  • Something of the real nature of the Christ event could also be known
  • essential nature of the Christ event.
  • fifth cultural period. Its nature consists in the advance of the
  • we shall find that it is a significant image of the nature of what has
  • justified through its own nature; if a knowledge of a different kind
  • possible for him to be according to his inner nature, precisely in the
  • the innermost core of human nature. And from there it is to flow into
  • the present-day “nature forces,” so in the future love will
  • reveal itself in all phenomena as a new nature force. It is the
  • transmuted by its very nature into love. The entire process that has
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Details From the Realm of Spiritual Science
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  • nature of the earth, but, at the outset, also the supersensible nature
  • the supersensible nature of other cosmic bodies should be considered
  • depend also upon the nature of the forces man takes with him from
  • of his bodily nature is connected with these conditions.
  • nature. — We may regard these changes in the following manner. Physical
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Table of Contents
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  • II.The Essential Nature of Mankind
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Preface First Edition
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  • discuss anything of a personal nature, it seems essential to do so in
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Preface: Fourth Edition
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  • thinking, of the nature of this thinking is a necessary spiritual
  • strengthening cognition are of an entirely spiritual nature; they are
• 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
  • the content I had seen as the nature of the life of individual man,
  • experienced the nature of such revelation knows that the thoughts of
  • through an incorrectly conceived view of nature.
  • comprehension of the spirit world is not of the nature of artistic
  • the knowledge of “nature”? Occult science is the science of
  • nature, but in that region toward which the soul turns when it directs
  • is necessary to know concerning the nature of imagination,
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Special Comments
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  • nature. Two soul states alternate: the state of surrender to outer
  • impressions and the state of surrender to one's own bodily nature. In
  • expression of the desire for the enjoyment of one's own bodily nature
  • its own bodily nature; that is to say, the soul goes to sleep, even
  • intellect trained in outer observation of nature. But just as it is
  • observation of nature insofar as supersensible cognition is concerned