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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Character of Occult Science
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  • The following objection is often heard in regard to the statements of
  • extremely controversial statements about which there may be wide
  • Others state that we must not maintain there is no hidden world behind
  • higher world. Yet the following may also be stated. If it is possible
  • should not make statements about something he does not know. Such
  • This is not a statement derived from the personal experience of one
  • and in his disembodied state in the spiritual world; in addition, the
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Essential Nature of Mankind
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  • state, in so far as the manifest is concerned. This activity, however,
  • again out of a state of unconsciousness is, according to supersensible
  • would have to remain in a continuous state of sleep. We might also
  • animals. Plants are in a continuous state of sleep. A person who does
  • that of animals and men in their waking state. That, however, can
  • It is then stated that if an external stimulus is applied to the plant
  • difference appears at once when man realizes that in the waking state
  • cannot carry out in the case of the animal, one states something based
  • identify the  I  with God. But it has not been stated that the  I  is God,
  • is meant by the statements made here will find that, in fact, they are
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Sleep And Death
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  • consciousness without observing the state through which the human
  • upon his devotion to it; furthermore, that the occupation with states
  • forces that are active and creative during the waking state receive
  • an other state. In order that the human ego and astral body not only
  • bodies. In the waking state, all three are united; in the sleeping
  • state, the astral body withdraws from the physical and ether bodies.
  • facts of the sleeping state in their particular form. If, however,
  • contrary, it is just in the sleep state that a lively activity is
  • state of consciousness developed in the waking state through union
  • of entering into this state of unconsciousness is experienced by the
  • prepare themselves to transform, during the following waking state,
  • the physical body. During the waking state, the astral body is not
  • a certain degree, for, during the waking state, the soul puts its own
  • its environment, so during the sleep state the astral body receives
  • during the waking state he lifts himself out of this all-encompassing
  • Dreaming is an intermediate state between waking and sleeping. What
  • perceive in the waking state, the life of sleep allows to remain in
  • sleep and there presents the soul state that appears as the antithesis
  • of the soul's waking state. If this dreamless sleep is to take place,
  • During the dream state, it is separated from the physical body in so
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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 1)
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  • slowly and gradually evolved from simple states of civilization to the
  • spiritual state of our planet. If we continue still further back on
  • physical planetary state that later became spiritualized and then,
  • to the senses, an insight into the earlier evolutionary states,
  • three members. This state passed over into a spiritual one and out of
  • it a new physical planetary state developed, that of the Earth. Within
  • germinal state. Because the entire planet had passed over into a
  • upon the Earth itself. Therefore in our descriptions of these states
  • how the Earth's states have developed out of earlier ones. We must
  • states become dissimilar to those of the present. Yet in
  • with these earlier states, we should not overlook the fact that we do
  • understood unless we go back as far as the Saturn state, the
  • nowhere does there exist, alongside the present Earth state, a
  • previous Saturn, Sun, and Moon state, or even a human form such as is
  • women, but within the earthly human being the previous states of
• 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.
  • that no attempt is made here to prove by such arguments the statements
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 3)
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  • Saturn incarnation, a state appears consisting chiefly of
  • organized cosmic being, appearing in ever changing states, consisting
  • given world of the physical senses, heat exists entirely as a state of
  • experience can alone give us an idea of the Saturn state at the period
  • therefore, hardly necessary to state that what has just been described
  • consciousness when it becomes aware of the Saturn state and who,
  • state. If we wish to trace back the source of this will, we find that
  • flung-back soul activities of the Spirits of Motion. — After this state
  • of this state, imagine a mulberry or a blackberry, and note how it is
  • soul of the beings dwelling in them. — In this state of Saturn, beings
  • beings” under conditions different from the earth state.
  • a germinal state, namely, spirit man (atma). Within Saturn, this dull
  • this state of heat are. What existed before cannot in any way be
  • sense-impression. Prior to the state of heat, a state existed that the
  • manifestations that preceded the state of heat of Saturn can be
  • such states may be mentioned: pure soul heat, which is outwardly
  • finally, a spiritual state of being that is complete within itself and
  • present-day consciousness to accept the statement that with the Saturn
  • state of heat what is called “time” first makes its
  • appearance, for the preceding states are not at all temporal. They
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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
  • evolution this heat substance condenses to a state that may be
  • compared with the present state of gas or vapor. It is the state that
  • such a state manifests itself after the Spirits of Motion have begun
  • pictorial images the inner soul states of the beings in his
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 5)
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  • life-endowed state of the Sun. At this time, however, all life still
  • Sun was condensed to a gaseous state, or air. During the Moon
  • reaches a state that may be compared with the density of a present-day
  • fluid. This state may be called “water.” We do not mean by
  • state is to be found on what remains over as Moon. The result of this
  • was more independent than the former. In the sun-part, only states of
  • ancient Saturn state, only now at a higher stage. The human ancestor
  • Moon kingdoms remain in a state of rest, but the finer parts — chiefly
  • organisms. They enter a state in which the higher powers of the
  • have absorbed powerful forces in a free state, they are able to
  • perceive the inner state of other beings in pictures — as was the case
  • in the previously described changing states of consciousness in the
  • distinguishable, alternating states of consciousness — a duller state
  • during the sun period and a clearer state during the period in which
  • life is more dependent upon itself. The first state is, indeed duller,
  • an alternation in the states of consciousness that may be compared
  • gradually ceases, should be characterized as a state intermediate
  • may be likened to an intermediate state between going to sleep and
  • part was given form. The alternation between the brighter state of
  • his visualizations become duller and duller, and a state of blissful
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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 6)
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  • form. In order to understand this state of humanity, special attention
  • creatures of the physical earth is contained in a germinal state. This
  • states of human consciousness. The sun beings tear the human soul away
  • together with the human beings, is in a sleeping state. It is entirely
  • movements through soul and spirit causes that the spiritual states are
  • would see its body in a corpse-like state, for it consists in large
  • another state of existence. The organic, watery, and aeriform
  • being, however, forsakes his body and returns to the spiritual state
  • mingled with them only in the finest state, in a way comparable to the
  • perceive it in a dull state of consciousness in the pictures of higher
  • from the body-free state into incarnation. It was his period of growth
  • state. As long as he possessed this memory, the solidification of his
  • the body-free state; this type felt its relationship to the spiritual
  • body-free state of existence, could no longer incarnate. The form of
  • body-free state he finds again in a higher configuration the Spirits
  • the earth individuality could only be effective in the body-free state
  • through the fact that in this state also the soul remained in the
  • having led him to an independent state of consciousness. The
  • on the ancient Moon had helped man to a higher state proved to be in
  • state of consciousness that was caused by the beings of the
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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 7)
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  • however, its influence also upon the body-free state after death. The
  • what the human being can experience in this state of existence when he
  • entered the body-free state from an incarnation in the Greco-Latin
  • The initiates of these mysteries were able, in special states of the
  • only experience it in special states of the soul. Then a spiritual
  • become conscious through the ether body without special soul states.
  • to the being of the powers of nature in special states of the soul.
  • that in special states of consciousness the spiritual being who had
  • human being to bring himself to a soul state that allowed him to
  • ancient dreamlike clairvoyance, the intermediate state between waking
  • state of constant strife with the companions of Lucifer. The God of
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 1)
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  • in ordinary life through three soul states: waking, sleeping, and the
  • state between them, dreaming. Dreaming will be briefly considered
  • chief alternating states — waking and sleeping. Man acquires a knowledge
  • of higher worlds if he develops a third soul state besides sleep and
  • waking. During its waking state the soul surrenders itself to
  • that case, find itself in a state of nothingness? Would it be unable
  • if a similar state of consciousness can actually be induced, if the
  • ordinary outer world, would then find itself in a state similar to
  • sleep, and yet it would not be asleep, but, as in the waking state, it
  • would confront a real world. Such a state of consciousness can be
  • result of research in just such a state of consciousness. — In the
  • deal with the means through which the state of consciousness necessary
  • This state of consciousness resembles sleep only in a certain respect,
  • the indicated state of consciousness. Through it a perceptive faculty
  • activities of the senses. The soul's awakening to such a higher state
  • The means of initiation lead from the ordinary state of waking
  • germinal state; they must be developed. — It may happen that a human
  • state of consciousness. I shall understand this guidance only when I
  • doubts about training for a higher state of consciousness will
  • about a higher state of consciousness were presented to him in a book.
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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 2)
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  • The attainment of a supersensible state of consciousness can only
  • state of consciousness of the soul. What is perceived in this state
  • Because this state is awakened in the soul by meditating on symbols or
  • “imaginations,” the world of this higher state of
  • best illustrated by a comparison with the state of sleep. On the one
  • consciousness, a higher waking state. The important point is that
  • state may be compared with sleep in regard to the liberation from the
  • body, yet it may be described as an enhanced waking state when
  • everyday waking state it becomes conscious of itself only through the
  • state, and does not, therefore, experience itself, but is only aware
  • must also, after he has done this, be able to sojourn in a state in
  • possible a state of transition in this regard. What the soul at the
  • beginning cannot achieve in the waking state on account of the
  • disturbances of the physical world, is possible in the state of sleep.
  • soul is active in a certain way while sleeping. In such states the
  • back again in memory upon such brief states of consciousness. It
  • only understood as a transitional state. It is good to pass through
  • this state in the course of training, but one should certainly not
  • state and cannot yet depend upon what it perceives. But through such
  • than from one that has been made during the state of complete
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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 5)
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  • what at death continues to live on in another state of existence.
  • develops, passes through the various states of Saturn, Sun, Moon, and
  • states of the Earth and its preceding transformations, disclose
  • that it be known what relationships exist between the Saturn state and
  • the human physical body, the Sun state and the ether body, and so
  • already into existence during the Saturn state, and that it has
  • states. It was necessary to show also, for example, what
  • after death and the preceding and succeeding states, were one unable
  • distant things as the Saturn or Sun state, and the sun and moon
  • A description of the human states after death remains completely
  • of plant fructification. One will say that the plant is in a sun state
  • before fructification, in a moon state after it. For it is a fact that
  • through various states in the subsequent period. The states directly
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 6)
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  • state of inspiration, one has to carry out the exercise differently.
  • state of healthy premonition, that something exists in man that
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 8)
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  • hand he states something as his own experience, his own observation,
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Present and Future of Cosmic and Human Evolution
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  • during the Jupiter state. The beings and facts perceived within this
  • of its states from the Saturn to the Vulcan evolution, it is also
  • state continued in a certain respect throughout the entire fourth
  • I act in accordance with this knowledge. Such a soul state is to be
  • state, what is now called the mineral kingdom will no longer exist;
  • state as the lowest kingdom. To this a higher kingdom is added, the
  • During the Venus state the earth remains united with the sun; during
  • the Jupiter state, however, evolution proceeds in such a way that at a
  • gradually proceeds over into the Venus state. During that state a
  • cognition is bound to state what it perceives concerning this sphere,
  • from the present state of human souls a future state appearing as
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Details From the Realm of Spiritual Science
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  • body of man during the waking state. Therefore, the name “astral
  • who, because of his state of body and soul, ought to be asleep, but
  • depends on the states of development through which man passes during
  • that time. These states lead the ego, after a certain lapse of time,
  • THE DREAM STATE
  • The dream state has been characterized, in a certain respect, in the
  • earlier states play over into the later. Thus, a remnant now appears
  • in the human being during the dream state of what was previously a
  • normal state. On the other hand, however, this state is different from
  • the state of dreaming, nothing that belongs to the realm of dream life
  • states of consciousness arise. These have no direct use in spiritual
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Table of Contents
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  • 7.The Dream State
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Preface First Edition
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  • presenting, explicitly, every detail that proves that the statements
  • what modern science knows about them. This statement, however, is not
  • regard to this book it is necessary, however, to state such things, in
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Preface: Fourth Edition
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  • soul, we shall naturally reject any statement about supersensible
  • Second, the statements resulting from “exact thinking” are
  • undertakes to make statements about supersensible worlds. It appears,
  • does not penetrate as far as the cells, so also is the other statement
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Preface: Seventh to Fifteenth Edition
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  • Science states this or that.’ ” It is quite natural for such
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Preface: Sixteenth to Twentieth Edition
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  • book, I may well be allowed to say something publicly about the state
  • perceptive research by means of the state of consciousness that I have
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Special Comments
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  • from which it has descended. (Ewald Hering, for example, states this.)
  • states into later ones. Here in this book this perception of the past,
  • awakes in it the desire, after experiencing this state, to enter
  • nature. Two soul states alternate: the state of surrender to outer
  • impressions and the state of surrender to one's own bodily nature. In
  • the first state the desire for the second is unconsciously produced;
  • the second state then takes its course in unconsciousness. The
  • in itself the states that of necessity appear in normal human life, it
  • though this state is not induced by the inner condition of the human
  • 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
  • belonging to the Saturn state that they could not abide in an
  • state. From all this we are justified in choosing the designations for
  • the states that have preceded the Earth and that will follow it from
  • perceived Saturn, Sun and other cosmic states of evolution with the