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  • Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Character of Occult Science
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    • spirit of natural-scientific thinking, it can be retained through the
    • spiritual science. In natural science, the facts present themselves in
    • facts. The exponent of spiritual science must place his soul activity
    • spiritual science therefore presumes that the reader is seeking facts
    • brought to it, as it were, from without. In spiritual-scientific
    • This is the beautiful fruit of the knowledge of spiritual science that
    • appears as a fantastic, imaginary one. If, in our spiritual scientific
    • be strong enough to remove the foundation from under this spiritual
    • Also concerning such points of view, spiritual-scientific endeavors
    • out of which his spirit and soul have sprung.
    • and in his disembodied state in the spiritual world; in addition, the
    • communications concerning spiritual-scientific knowledge, we live in a
    • spiritual existence. In absorbing the results we, at the same time,
    • spiritual world is imagined in a way too similar to an experience of
    • the spiritual world does not lie in a thoughtless, suggestive
    • we become participators in the knowledge of the spiritual world; by
    • In the spirit and true sense of the word, no real scientist will be
  • Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Essential Nature of Mankind
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    • present-day opinions. The evolution of the human spirit has led to the
    • spirituality. Here, however, man must first take hold of this
    • spirituality. He must recognize it in himself, then he will be able to
    • science calls the spirit. Thus the consciousness soul is united with
    • the spirit, which is the hidden in all that is manifest. If man wishes
    • to take hold of the spirit in all manifestation, he must do it in the
    • has worked on his soul, ennobling and spiritualizing it out of his
    • fact, all cultural life and all spiritual human endeavor consists in a
    • by the ego, may be called the spirit self. (This is what, in
    • spirit self we have a higher member of man's being, one which, so to
    • spiritual basis with thought and feeling, then the impulses that the I
    • member may be called the second spiritual member, the life spirit. (It
    • “life spirit” is the appropriate term for the reason that
    • spirit, however, they are permeated by the activity of the 1.
    • transformation of the astral body in spirit self; his religious and
    • transform it into life spirit. In the usual course of life this occurs
    • spirit self and life spirit in full consciousness. These means will be
    • question of showing that, beside the soul and the body, the spirit is
    • spirit, in contrast to the transient body, belongs to the Eternal in
    • being, and these forces are of a spiritual nature. We are not speaking
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  • Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Sleep And Death
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    • surrounding world of soul and spirit. For the ordinary conditions of
    • soul-spirit nature of man as fatigue. But this fatigue is the
    • organic formative activity when freed from the presence of the spirit
    • science presents in an absolutely correct way lies the spiritual
    • a spiritual background of the world and it may be considered trivial.
    • to the prejudice of the observer of the supersensible. (Spiritual
    • the ego has developed spirit self, life spirit, and spirit man. As far
    • perception in sleep of this spirit self, life spirit, and spirit man,
    • world and cannot therefore receive the revelations of the spirit in
    • possessed no other desires than those arising from its own spiritual
    • spiritual world into which it is translated. But life has given it
    • this world for which the spiritual world offers no means of
    • these bodies, and the desires that have their source in the spiritual
    • manifestations of the bodily organs the hidden spirit is at work, and
    • something spiritual. This spiritual element exists also after death,
    • although in another form. All spiritual desires of the ego within the
    • spiritual world. This third type of desire is produced by the ego
    • world also in so far as there is no spirit manifest in it. — The basest
    • enjoyments can be a manifestation of the spirit. The gratification
    • spirit because through the eating of food something is brought about
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  • Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 1)
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    • consciousness soul. At a higher stage of human existence, spirit self,
    • life spirit, and spirit man are formed. These members of the human
    • Spiritual science1
    • perception sharpened by spiritual organs. It traces back the process
    • spiritual being of man has passed through a series of lives upon this
    • earth. Spiritual science thus reaches a point of time, lying far back
    • Spiritual science must go still further back in its research, if it
    • development of the earth planet itself, in the sense of spiritual
    • the task of this work to enter into these ideas because for spiritual
    • the spiritual causes lying behind matter. If we have before us a man
    • other hand, we may turn our spiritual attention to what is taking
    • of spiritual perception, sees spiritual processes behind all processes
    • substances of the earth planet are manifestations of spiritual forces
    • lying behind these substances. If, however, this spiritual observation
    • evolves out of the spiritual. Prior to this, only the spiritual
    • exists. By means of this spiritual insight, the spiritual is
    • spiritual element in part condenses, so to speak, into matter. Here we
    • was formerly water, so also, through spiritual observation, we are
    • beings are condensed from an element that was formerly spiritual. — In
    • this way the physical earth planet has evolved out of a spiritual
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  • Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 2)
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    • pass over into a spiritual state and then reincarnate as the Sun.
    • acute for those who understand spiritual science by means of something
    • by sickness. Spiritual science is in the position to show that a great
    • of spiritual science concerning the evolution of the four members of
    • man's being. The proofs are taken from spiritual research, and this
    • of spiritual research relate to facts the effects of which show also
  • Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 3)
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    • If one directs the spiritual organs of perception, not to the
    • different to the researcher in spiritual science. For him, heat is
    • body a condensed fluid. Thus the spiritual scientist speaks of heat
    • wishes to follow the spiritual researcher into this realm, it is only
    • necessary to grant that there exists spiritual perception. In the
    • as highest member spirit man. These beings have a still higher member,
    • and between the ether body and spirit man they have all the members
    • ego, spirit self, and life spirit. Just as our earth is surrounded by
    • spiritual character.1
    • radiated back by Saturn may be called “Spirits of wisdom.”
    • oneself through spiritual perception to the beginning of the Saturn
    • the activity of the already mentioned Spirits of Wisdom unites with
    • may be called the “Spirits of Will.” (In Christian
    • be called the ”Spirits of Motion.” (In Christian esotericism
    • that reside in the astral bodies of the Spirits of Motion. The result
    • flung-back soul activities of the Spirits of Motion. — After this state
    • still other beings that may be called the “Spirits of Form.”
    • of development different from that of the Spirits of Motion. Whereas
    • reflected life, the activity of the astral body of the Spirits of Form
    • beings. One might say that the Spirits of Motion cause Saturn as a
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  • Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 4)
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    • conditions of evolution are changed. The spiritual beings, whose
    • conditions of the Sun, the already mentioned Spirits of Wisdom, the
    • Sun that yet other spiritual beings interpose themselves in a way
    • When the Spirits of Wisdom begin to pour the life body into man, the
    • the expiration of this interval, the Spirits of Wisdom continue to
    • before on the single-membered human being. The Spirits of Motion then
    • such a state manifests itself after the Spirits of Motion have begun
    • perceptible to spiritual vision. This evolution then proceeds further.
    • Spirits of Motion continue their activities until these are
    • supplemented by the activities of the Spirits of Form, the effect of
    • Spirits of Form permit their forces to flow in and out of the human
    • life body. Previously, when only the Spirits of Motion were acting
    • ensues a period of rest, at the end of which the Spirits of Form
    • central stage of its development. It is at this time that the Spirits
    • himself through spiritual-scientific training. The nature of this
    • Sun stage, the Spirits of Personality acquire this perception as a
    • the already designated Spirits of Love — Seraphim. They work,
    • Spirits of Personality. By means of this activity, the life body
    • of it. Thus during the Saturn evolution not all of the Spirits of
    • observed. When the Spirits of Wisdom begin to pour in the life body,
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  • Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 5)
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    • the powers of spiritual observation. It was previously perceptible to
    • what, in a certain sense, forms the spiritual sheath of the planet.
    • adjusted to the new Moon conditions that the Spirits of Motion are
    • astral body of the Spirits of Motion continues until the Spirits of
    • Form begin their activity. Because the Spirits of Motion allow their
    • of the Spirits of Form. Then these changing feelings become
    • however, the Spirits of Form do not give up their own nature to him,
    • desire lacks inwardness and independence. It is guided by the Spirits
    • cleavage, after the Spirits of Form begin their activity, some thing
    • acquire new possibilities of evolution. The Spirits of Form, in
    • was formed from the body of the Spirits of Will — Thrones. From this
    • the above-mentioned spiritual beings, living in the environment,
    • sun body in which spiritual beings, adapted to it, would have their
    • spiritually and materially, a twofold life: one that stood in close
    • ennobled. Whereas the Spirits of Form gave him a shape through which
    • he was adapted to Moon life, the sun spirits made of him a being
    • by these spirits he had the power to ennoble his own nature, indeed,
    • spiritually, may be described in the following manner. The human
    • already come into existence. There are, for instance, Spirits of
    • their failure to rise to this stage. Many Fire Spirits, too, who
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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
    • possessing still higher faculties could follow up the spiritual events
    • forces have again become spiritualized. During this spiritualization
    • during this period of spiritualization, is the same world in which the
    • regions of the land of spirits. The beings and forces then gradually
    • At this stage of evolution the Earth stands before the spiritual eye
    • as a cosmic being that is wholly soul and spirit, and in which the
    • something like an organism permeated with soul and spirit. The beings
    • bosom of the higher spiritual beings. At this stage they touch the
    • of their being still belongs to the world of soul and spirit. Only
    • life body, and physical body woven of fire. The spiritual beings who
    • picture-consciousness in which the spiritual beings manifest
    • From the spiritual world he looks down, as it were, upon an earthly
    • that may be likened to spiritual tone; his life body resounds. At the
    • have first the Spirits of Personality who are of importance to man,
    • soul says to itself, “These are the Spirits of Personality.”
    • tone waves he perceives the Spirits of Personality and the Archangels.
    • relationships the spiritual beings inhabiting them bear to one
    • movements through soul and spirit causes that the spiritual states are
    • soul-spirit nature, entirely pictorial. It appears in the form of an
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  • Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 7)
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    • there exists the world of the Spirits of Light. In proportion to the
    • one, thus barring all outlook into the spiritual world. In the
    • spiritual world this power leads the human being to complete
    • At present we are able in spiritual science to describe life between
    • has gained the true spiritual perception of what really exists.
    • more and more what is possible for him to be in the spiritual world.
    • themselves during earth life for companionship with the Spirit of
    • spiritual perception of the soul remained also clouded after death.
    • the spiritual world after death reached a climax for the souls who
    • counterparts instead of toward the spiritual archetypes. During the
    • spiritual world. Thus what is great on the one hand is of necessity
    • connection of the human being with the spiritual world was fostered.
    • spiritual world that, without his cooperation, had poured into his
    • would have been able to experience this region of the spirit world as
    • only experience it in special states of the soul. Then a spiritual
    • visible symbols of their special spiritual powers. Superhuman forms
    • concealed all that part of the spiritual world that would have
    • the revelation of this part of the spiritual world to the fact that
    • existence. Through it the spiritual powers lying behind the forces of
    • nature were revealed to them. They were able to speak of the spiritual
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  • Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 1)
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    • possible by spiritual science; and everything that this science
    • consciousness into a soul activity, through which spiritual organs of
    • life will pour into his will from a spiritual world. — There are such
    • by spiritual powers with whose guidance no one should attempt to
    • unjustified desire to interfere with the wisdom of spiritual guidance.
    • upon them. When they say to themselves, “Wise spiritual guidance
    • can be revealed through his spiritual powers.” If such a thought
    • spiritual organs of perception and who are of the opinion that these
    • spiritual world. This view, however — considering the present stage of
    • all these facts, doubts may arise about the spiritual path of
    • the pupil. No proper instruction for spiritual development in our age
    • employment by a person who seeks spiritual development need not be a
    • it is possible through ordinary self-examination without spiritual
    • spiritual training, “How can these rules be effective in the life
    • the present time a true spiritual science will only indicate rules for
    • self-awakening of the spiritual organs of perception such training is
    • spiritual training. It is possible that a certain stage of soul
    • science. They are pure soul-spirit processes, entirely devoid of
    • relationship to man is not true spiritual training, but its
  • Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 2)
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    • soul must open itself for the purpose of spiritual training have no
    • rapidly — in spiritual training everything depends upon the
    • during meditation. Only the characterized symbol is to hover in spirit
    • as an example. In spiritual training the most manifold pictures of
    • results. What belongs unconditionally to spiritual training is
    • to the senses may be called, in the sense of spiritual science,
    • spiritual science, however, “imaginative” cognition is to be
    • are spiritual facts and beings to which the senses have no access.
    • of true spiritual training, doubts of this character are unjustified.
    • their very nature, not yet relate to anything real in the spiritual
    • the one I was previously.” This is the first purely spiritual
    • experience: the observation of a soul-spirit ego being. This, as a new
    • unconsciousness. The soul-spirit being, naturally, existed before
    • observing the spiritual world. It was somewhat similar to a physical
    • in meditation first has fashioned the soul-spirit organs out of the
    • previously unorganized soul-spirit nature. The individual beholds
    • spiritual training that the soul, through the practice of
    • This belongs to true spiritual training at this stage. If the soul
    • sphere of spiritual experience, in which a soul would find itself in
    • stage of spiritual training. They correspond to the kernel of the
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  • Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 3)
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    • student of the spiritual to acquire such sense-free thinking is to
    • communicated to him by spiritual science. It is not possible to
    • understand the descriptions of spiritual researchers, and if someone
    • since I am unable to perceive the spiritual world myself?”
    • comprehensible to a mode of thinking taught through spiritual
    • its own power and that wishes to employ it. — By making what spiritual
    • experienced when spiritual reality manifests itself in sense-free
    • himself to sense-free thought feels the spiritual reality announcing
    • of one's thoughts is derived from the communications of the spiritual
    • the fact that the spiritual researcher calls up thoughts in his
    • spiritual science lead us to sense-free thinking. There is, however,
    • spiritual science itself. Yet it is shown that pure thinking, merely
    • between cognition of the sense world and that of the spiritual world.
    • sense-observation, while still avoiding entering upon spiritual
    • 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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    • soul-spirit organs of perception are continually active while
    • full consciousness. This results in the feeling that soul-spirit
    • really a “living within them.” — The soul-spirit organs that
    • such a way that one or another of the soul-spirit organs, one or
    • supersensory cognition who believe that the spiritual researcher
    • of the student of the spiritual and arranges them to follow one
    • development the spiritual student must have great patience and
    • permit their employment by the spiritual student in perceiving the
    • spiritual world. This is the moment when something occurs for him that
    • become a witness for the spiritual world. But he should not waver if
    • 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
    • spiritual perception must take place in this or that manner, and
    • spiritual training, they will constitute something for him that he
    • practice itself he stands in a world of soul and spirit, and with
    • It is not valid to object that “the spiritual student must thus
    • practice in the sphere of spiritual training calls forth satisfaction
    • making progress in the right direction. Every spiritual student may
    • spiritual development a partial success is often the reason for a
    • forms of spiritual life that correspond to the partial success dulls
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  • Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 5)
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    • The psycho-spiritual organs, the lotus flowers, are fashioned so as to
    • but soul-spirit causes. If he experiences something like an impression
    • behind imaginative perceptions stand soul and spiritual things and
    • spiritual nature. One recognizes above all a host of spiritual beings
    • Spiritual science, therefore, may call cognition through
    • would perceive, indeed, how the soul-spiritual members are released at
    • When the student of the spiritual advances from imagination to
    • it will suffice; why does spiritual science wish to demonstrate such
    • spiritual science, observation of Saturn, Sun, and Moon is at the same
    • according to the external impression. To have knowledge of a spiritual
    • of the spiritual ascends to such knowledge. Imagination leads him to
    • but to recognize in them the outpouring of something psycho-spiritual;
    • Thrones or Spirits of Will, Spirits of Wisdom, of Motion, and others
    • were mentioned. In the Earth evolution mention was made of the spirits
    • in the land of spirits after purification. Then something appears for
  • Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 6)
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    • only through soul-spirit exercises. They resemble those that have been
    • of the spirit attempts to let the black cross and also the red roses
    • consciousness and only to retain in his soul the spiritual activity
    • will not be entirely easy for the student of the spirit to comprehend
    • foundation for a development into the spiritual worlds. An example may
    • spiritual. He acquires the possibility of penetrating in a true way
    • into the regions of spiritual life only by guarding himself carefully
    • enter the spirit world in the right way who is happy in experiencing
    • student of the spirit. He must completely abandon the notion that
    • of the spirit at every stage of his development. This consists in not
    • the answer to certain questions is received. Students of the spirit
    • the spiritual world now begins to open itself to cognition in a form
  • Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 7)
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    • world of soul and spirit and to unite with it, so that outer
    • occurrences in the realm of soul and spirit and inner events in the
    • would therefore merge with the environment of soul and spirit and
  • Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 8)
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    • If the student of the spirit ascends upon the path into the higher
    • emergence of a special fourth soul-spirit being that may be described
    • physical-sensory, but the psycho-spiritual. Behind the characteristics
    • of the new world now perceived by him stand soul-spirit beings. These
    • the spiritual can now perceive an important difference between the
    • world of soul and spirit that reveals itself to him, and the world
    • soul and spirit this is, at the outset, not the case. They alter
    • soul and spirit, which takes on a peculiar coloring through the whole
    • himself and the outer spiritual world. It is necessary that he learn
    • to eliminate all the effects of himself upon his soul-spirit
    • surrounding world of soul and spirit. Now, certain facts of human
    • world of soul and spirit. This Doppelganger (double or twin likeness)
    • of man must, according to a law of the spiritual world, emerge prior
    • shall find it comprehensible that spiritual research ascribes much
    • concealer of the entire world of soul and spirit. Owing to the fact
    • order to cognize the world of soul and spirit; he is unable so to
    • transform his nature that it may unfold spiritual organs of
    • the rest of the world of soul and spirit. In everyday life of the
    • constantly to close the door of the world of soul and spirit to the
    • become conscious — to conceal the part of the world of soul and spirit
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  • Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 9)
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    • After the student of the spiritual has encountered the “guardian
    • this principle sets the student of the spiritual a special task. He
    • spiritual at any of these stages. The temptation is extremely great
    • for him. He has plunged into the world of soul and spirit, but now
    • spirit and that it is a peculiarity of this world that events may
    • student of the spiritual something in addition to what appeared to him
    • being during physical sense-existence from perceiving the soul-spirit
    • spiritual that he must not remain stationary at this stage but must
    • adequate manner. — If, because of incorrect spiritual training, a person
    • Just as the student of the spiritual in his encounter with the
  • Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 10)
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    • If the student of the spiritual has had the above described
    • world of soul and spirit, between himself and what lies outside him.
    • everything has unfolded itself step by step. Through spiritual
    • I. Study of spiritual science, in which one employs one's power of
    • IV. Living into the spiritual environment — corresponding to intuition.
    • with the individuality of the student of the spiritual, he may have
    • If the student of the spiritual has experienced intuition, he not only
    • knows the images of the psycho-spiritual world, he cannot merely read
    • knowledge of the spiritual beings themselves through whose
    • possesses as a spiritual being in the world of soul and spirit. He has
    • spiritual, he has then acquired the possibility of recognizing who it
    • threshold.” To the perception of the student of the spiritual
    • in the spiritual world, what occurred historically on earth in the
    • experienced knowledge of the student of the spiritual. It is thus a
    • wishes to tread the path to the spiritual world he cannot at present
    • upon the student of the spiritual of ancient Egypt cannot be carried
    • 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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    • and cosmic evolution in the sense of spiritual science without a
    • the perception of the spiritual researcher when he observes the hidden
    • evolution, in the sense of spiritual science, if one does not observe
    • spiritual impressions of tone, light, and warmth. The latter do not
    • this future world may be designated, in the sense of spiritual
    • when he has received communications through spiritual science about
    • spiritual is in a position different from the position concerning
    • the world of soul and spirit and were ever more dependent upon a
    • spiritual world directly into their consciousness. These individuals,
    • possible for them to penetrate into the world of soul and spirit. They
    • cultural period. In that period the method of spiritual training began
    • the world of soul and spirit strengthened the human being in his
    • intercourse with the world of soul and spirit the mighty traditions of
    • forces giving impulses to the human being from an external spiritual
    • conducts itself as a member of a spiritual world, outside of which it
    • mankind will have advanced so far that the spiritual powers and beings
    • a completely spiritualized existence to the Vulcan evolution, the
    • from the “knowledge of the Grail”: the spiritualization that
    • man acquires through his own efforts. For this spiritualization
    • his soul is finally itself to become the outer world. The human spirit
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  • Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Details From the Realm of Spiritual Science
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    • Occult Science (1972): Details From the Realm of Spiritual Science
    • DETAILS FROM THE REALMOF SPIRITUAL SCIENCE
    • the spiritual experiences such inner perceptions without physical
    • 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
    • spiritual perception and imaginary deception, hallucination, and so
    • perception of the world of soul and spirit, remains entirely
    • development of the student of the spiritual. — It is possible to
    • are made in the sense of spiritual science. (See Chapter II in this
    • everything that, during man's spiritual development between death and
    • remains in the spiritual realms, the earthly dwelling place undergoes
    • spiritual world between death and a new birth depends in one way only
    • to a spiritual condition that finds no further satisfaction in its
    • inner spiritual experiences, and which develops the longing toward the
    • Education of the Child from the Standpoint of Spiritual Science. In
    • spiritually by its own ether body. It feeds on the ether body. In the
    • spiritually only between the twelfth and sixteenth years and of its
    • THE HIGHER REGIONS OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLD
    • cognition gradually reaches the regions of the spiritual world in
    • intuition, it then lives in a world of spiritual beings. These beings
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  • Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Table of Contents
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    • VII.Details from the Realm of Spiritual Science
    • 5.The Higher Regions of the Spiritual World
    • 9.Observation of Special Events and Beings of the World of Spirit
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    • RUDOLF STEINER, philosopher, scientist and educator, (1861–1925), has achieved world-wide fame as the originator of the Science of the Spirit known as Anthroposophy, and as a pioneer of genius in a variety of fields of learning.
    • “As a scientist by external training and inmost calling, Rudolf Steiner shared the generally expressed goal of science — that the wisdom of man shall discover the wisdom of the universe. Through Steiner this goal now clearly extends beyond physical-material limits. Modern exact clairvoyance, as developed by him, reveals spiritual facts to spiritual vision as clearly as men's ordinary senses reveal to the intellect the facts of the physical world. The facts of the physical world actually demonstrate and clarify spiritual knowledge. Yet the anthroposophy of Steiner shuns vague mysticism, finding facts of the spiritual world fully accessible to scientific investigation and proof. Thoughts, to him, are objective, and like any thought of science, a thought with purely inner existence can now be tested, tried and verified (or disproved) through its physical applications or on its own ground of thinking. Steiner's anthroposophy, or “spiritual science,” thus greatly extends the dimensions of science. It breaks through the limits of knowledge that Kant had proclaimed and the world had accepted, almost as under a kind of hypnotic spell.”
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    • spiritual science about which he would be sufficiently able to say
    • brochure goes far beyond Haeckel's hypotheses and places the spiritual
    • not only meant the spiritual scientific test by supersensible methods
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    • ANYONE attempting an exposition of the results of spiritual science as
    • penetrate into the spirit world, and these reasons are in a certain
    • thinking, of the nature of this thinking is a necessary spiritual
    • strengthening cognition are of an entirely spiritual nature; they are
    • the life of the nerves exists that “spiritual scientific
    • longer be in keeping with spiritual life to decry a direction of
    • less, a subjective concern of the mystic. The spiritual scientific
    • attempts have been made to give to this or that spiritual movement
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    • In my imaginative perceptions the spiritual nature of individual man stood
    • the presentation of the spiritual. In the preface to the first
    • time about the science of the spirit.
    • What reveals itself to spiritual perception as the world of spirit
    • the senses, not what is seen by the spirit.
    • The content of what is spiritually perceived can only be reproduced in
    • their origin in spiritual entity
    • But he who describes imaginations from the world of spirit cannot at
    • the world of spirit. His presentation will then have this world of
    • spirit as content, but this content will appear in the form of
    • present day but does not yet behold the world of spirit.
    • In spiritual cognition everything is immersed in intimate soul
    • experience, not only spiritual perception itself, but also the
    • world becomes experience in regard to the spiritual world.
    • slightly — by the assertion that the spiritually perceived is
    • What is spiritually perceived is fully comprehensible to the
    • comprehension of the spirit world is not of the nature of artistic
    • one who presents what he perceives spiritually must bring his
    • a book which, in the first place, offered the content of my spiritual
    • spirit, the communications from that world would answer a most urgent
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