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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Essential Nature of Mankind
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  • The human being possesses this ether body in common with the plants,
  • say: it could only maintain a plant-existence within the physical
  • plants, he is, in regard to his astral body, of the same nature as the
  • animals. Plants are in a continuous state of sleep. A person who does
  • ascribing a kind of consciousness also to plants that is similar to
  • It is then stated that if an external stimulus is applied to the plant
  • “sensitivity” of some plants that, for example, contract
  • animals than it is to ascribe consciousness to plants. It is very
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Sleep And Death
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  • as minerals, plants, and animals surround him in the sense world and
  • its innermost depths. Just as the plant seed, which is an extract of
  • the entire plant, develops only when it is inserted into another
  • physical eye is manifest in its effects in plants, animals, and men.
  • environment in order to develop into a new plant, so, too, unfolding
  • out of the astral world. When the ego is now transplanted into the
  • plants from the sun. By observing supersensibly one becomes aware of
  • how human souls hover above the plants, how they change the surface of
  • 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 3)
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  • earth, and are counted among the mineral, plant, and animal kingdoms.
  • beings of the mineral, plant, animal, and human kingdoms belong to the
  • for the animals, plants, and minerals of the present time. (It is,
  • anything — By considering this chaotic substance, one has transplanted
  • kind. Plant life at present also has this “dreamless sleep
  • one that is similar to that of a plant seed resting in the earth,
  • preparing to grow into a new plant. In a similar manner the human germ
  • from its concealment and, through the forces that have been implanted
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 4)
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  • degree of consciousness in which our plant world is at present
  • be likened to the movements of sap in our present-day plants.
  • wish to keep to the above comparison with the plants of the present
  • a compact plant formation, but with a gaseous or aeroform structure,
  • in present-day plants. The gas appears to supersensible consciousness
  • appears more like a plant giving the impression of personality. We
  • that may be likened to that of the plant when its powers of growth lie
  • light of day in a new plant, so, after the rest period, all life upon
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 5)
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  • during the Sun evolution were still plant-like, with sensations and to
  • plant-minerals, only we must imagine that the entire foundational mass
  • of the Moon is composed of this plant-mineral substance, just as the
  • hard, woody structures, or with horny forms. Just as plants spring up
  • kingdom — a sort of plant-animal — sprang up, covering and permeating the
  • described here. The mineral-plants, the plant-animals, and the
  • animal-plants. These animal-plants must be thought of as floating,
  • animal-plants appear only as condensed, regular forms of this element,
  • animal-plant kingdom; behind and within the mineral-plant beings the
  • that it was then that the Spirits of Personality implanted
  • to be found on the sun, so there are also to be found mineral-plants
  • and plant-animals. These other creatures, however, remain endowed with
  • wisdom in each plant leaf, in each animal and human bone, in the
  • At the point of time when the astral body implanted in the human being
  • transpires just at this period. It is then that wisdom is implanted
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 6)
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  • required for the Earth stage. Just as the new plant only develops what
  • is inherent in the seed coming from the old plant, so in the beginning
  • in an external world. They fashion themselves in plant and flowerlike
  • of itself, but It also implants a part of its vivifying power into the
  • forces of the physical body previously implanted in it to unite itself
  • the present-day plant kingdom.
  • reproduction of animal nature, and chiefly those of plant nature. He
  • could extract, for example, the force that causes plant growth and
  • uncertainty, the possibility of the sense of fear implanted itself in
  • initiates were preserved and later implanted into the individuals best
  • oracle establishments that had been transplanted into this region from
  • originating chiefly from the Mercury oracle, had been transplanted
  • oracle. A new cultural germ was planted into what could thus be
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 7)
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  • bodies, as well as the mineral, plant, and animal kingdoms, formed the
  • aptitude was implanted in human earth evolution for receiving the
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 2)
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  • plant as it roots in the earth, as leaf by leaf sprouts forth, as its
  • blossom unfolds, and now we think of a human being beside this plant.
  • and faculties which, when compared with those of the plant, may be
  • thither, while the plant is chained to the earth. Furthermore we say
  • that the human being is indeed more perfect than the plant, but he
  • also shows peculiarities that are not to be found in the plant. Just
  • because of their nonexistence in the plant the latter may appear to me
  • plant follows the pure laws of growth from leaf to leaf, that it opens
  • the plant, but he has purchased this perfection at the price of
  • besides the forces of the plant, which appear pure to us. I now
  • visualize how the green sap flows through the plant and that it is an
  • the color of the green plant sap transformed into red, and the red
  • of the growing plant; I can produce within myself the feeling of how
  • certain thoughts about plant and man. For the effect of such a symbol
  • decay of the plant, about the slumbering creative forces in the plant
  • thoughts by means of plant and man that may be gained, without any
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 5)
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  • of a plant in the physical world. In the imaginative world, in
  • proportion to the withering of the plant the growth of another
  • into which the decaying plant is gradually transformed. When the plant
  • acquaintance with such things necessary. If, for example, a plant
  • that during the period of flowering has overshadowed the plant from
  • fructification, the plant is in a position similar to the entire Earth
  • prior to the sun separation. After fructification, the plant blossom
  • of plant fructification. One will say that the plant is in a sun state
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 6)
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  • growing and decaying plant. One allows to arise in the soul the image
  • of a slowly growing plant as it shoots up out of the seed, as it
  • growth and decay for which the plant remains a mere symbol. From this
  • visualization of growth and decay from the image of the plant. He must
  • now let the plant disappear completely from consciousness and only
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 8)
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  • does the plant or animal world in the realm of the physical senses.
  • stones, plants, and animals stood before his senses. The student of
  • plant in the world of the senses remains just as it is, whatever the
  • it does not present itself to the human being like stones, plants, and
  • stones, animals, and plants are perceived. This feeling is thus the
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Present and Future of Cosmic and Human Evolution
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  • the forces of this mineral kingdom will be transformed into plant
  • forces. The plant kingdom, which in contrast to the present plant
  • The Venus evolution will be one in which the plant kingdom also will
  • “archetype of love.” Thus the seed of love is planted into
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Special Comments
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  • animal or even in the plant when something appears that resembles
  • the corresponding processes in the plant and animal kingdoms, then one
  • on the one hand, and in animal and plant on the other. What may appear