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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Character of Occult Science
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  • intermediate stage of conditional rejection or acceptance of what this
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Essential Nature of Mankind
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  • the concealed. For during life the concealed must wage constant battle
  • science of the supersensible must enter. It must seek that which wages
  • ordinary language, and for sense-observation these words express only
  • point where in our age the discussion of such a member of the human
  • the great progress in natural science in our age. This progress rests
  • Memory appears in various stages. Its simplest form occurs when a
  • its mental image, is able to visualize it. He has formed this image
  • The ego rises to a higher stage of its being when it directs its
  • following: In the whole range of language there is one name that,
  • pronouns are a rather late product of the evolution of languages and
  • evolution of language out of a different verbal usage.
  • then mounts up by stages to what fills the intellectual soul. One
  • toward the manifest world. He, thereby, develops to higher stages of
  • work on his soul, proceeding from the ego. How man is engaged in this
  • living in the present age is engaged in this work whether he wants it
  • Through this work, however, higher stages of the being of man are
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Sleep And Death
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  • is extinguished in sleep includes the mental images, pain and
  • images in the place of these prototypes. When man directs the senses
  • images that are likenesses of the world about him. These likenesses
  • are at first disturbances for the images that stimulate the ether body
  • own activity, to bring to his astral body the images that are required
  • the images from the world about it. It lives there actually in the
  • the images through which the human being receives his form lies in
  • out of place in our age in which certain materialistic modes of
  • Around this fact sleep weaves a pictorial process. The images, as
  • world enters his consciousness in images; after casting off this body,
  • world. In reality, the ego not only damages the other person through
  • damage to itself is not apparent to it during life. After death this
  • complete surrender to the spiritual world. He enters upon a new stage
  • have been laid aside the language of the new environment penetrates
  • stages will be presented when, subsequently, the evolution of the
  • and misery, equipped with only meager ability, and he appears to be
• 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,
  • without this human ego up to the stage at which the ego came in touch
  • reach the stage of evolution at which they were able to receive an ego
  • really unprejudiced. In the following pages, information concerning
  • excellent first stage of all spiritual-scientific training. — It should
  • instances will reference be made in the following pages to a
  • Earth of ours passed through three preceding planetary stages, and in
  • between these stages there lie intermediate stages of
  • world stages lying so far back in the past, such as these that are
  • perception of the present stage, the earlier ones are also contained,
  • possible intermediate stages. That is true, but it is also true for
  • past evolutionary stages have really survived, alongside the perfected
  • stages of present-day evolution, just as alongside a man of fifty,
  • able to distinguish between these different successive stages of
  • planetary incarnation, reached a certain stage of maturity in his
  • a reincarnation of the previous planetary stage. This recapitulatory
  • stage, however, stands at a higher level than that of the previous
  • incarnation because of the intervening stage of spiritualization. The
  • period is concluded, but because of its own higher stage of evolution,
  • stage higher. This was also the case in the previous planetary
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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 2)
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  • Saturn. At that time the physical body passed through its first stage
  • was likewise changed, and it stood now in the second stage of its
  • first stage of existence.
  • a higher stage of evolution than the physical body, and when, in the
  • material, the most advantageous effect on the articular surfaces is
  • physical body in the same life in which the damage has occurred, but
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 3)
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  • conscious while observing Saturn, were at a stage of evolution quite
  • be compared to mirrors, only it was not the images of the beings in
  • development, in stages that can only be divined, to such a height that
  • stage of the Saturn evolution has been reached through the
  • Their lowest member is also an astral body, but it stands at a stage
  • member, but who have developed it to such a stage that it has the
  • but the Spirits of Personality recognize the image of their own inner
  • When all this occurs, the Spirits of Personality stand at the stage at
  • begin to glimmer, to sparkle, even to radiate. Because this stage of
  • their own, they are unable, at this stage of their existence, to
  • Saturn stage already described. This activity exerted by them gives
  • light images of the sense organs, can be recognized within Saturn by
  • processes to the Spirits of Fire in the form of images. They forego
  • harmony with the outer cosmic processes. At the Saturn stage under
  • scale, constitutes man, at this stage, on a small scale. This is the
  • starting from the middle stage of Saturn evolution described at the
  • very beginning, the stages of this evolution might be characterized by
  • language by expressions containing the idea of time, for we must also
  • a certain stage; it has reached that low, dim consciousness spoken of
  • only in the last stage of Saturn. The Spirits of Will are active
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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 4)
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  • stage,” effects the raising of man to a condition of
  • with the present consciousness of man, this Sun stage could, to be
  • must first transform the various evolutionary stages that it had
  • the stage of his evolution acquired on Saturn conforms to the
  • physical body. The more advanced stage that man attains on the Sun may
  • already on Saturn, is raised to a second stage of perfection by
  • similar to what was already described for the Saturn stage.
  • human physical body at that stage of evolution. They are completely
  • central stage of its development. It is at this time that the Spirits
  • of Personality — who had reached their human stage on Saturn — rise to a
  • still higher stage of perfection. They surpass their human stage and
  • stage of consciousness when the Earth — that is to say, the fourth
  • planetary evolutionary stage — shall have reached its goal and passed
  • pictorial images the inner soul states of the beings in his
  • Sun stage, the Spirits of Personality acquire this perception as a
  • called love were making itself felt in the images that stream forth
  • itself advances a stage on its evolutionary journey. It acquires the
  • Personality actually reach the human stage for which they were
  • attain upon Saturn. Hence, during the Sun stage the following can be
  • the human beings who have remained behind at the Saturn stage. They
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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 5)
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  • recapitulates the stages of the Saturn evolution, but under quite
  • During the Sun stage, too, not all organisms attain their full and
  • stand only at the Saturn stage, while others have only attained the
  • Sun stage. Because of this, two other kingdoms arise alongside the
  • have remained behind at the Saturn stage and therefore possess only a
  • Sun stage and who, therefore, on the Moon are too immature to
  • result, a kind of cleavage arises in human nature, and through this
  • cleavage, after the Spirits of Form begin their activity, some thing
  • cleavage begins in the cosmic Moon body. A part of the Moon's
  • element — the heritage of the Thrones — that was then at their disposal,
  • to lift to a higher stage that part of it that was related to the
  • ancient Saturn state, only now at a higher stage. The human ancestor
  • remained behind at each of the earlier stages of evolution, these
  • stages of the Sun evolution.
  • stage; there are, however, others who, on the Sun, have retrieved
  • their failure to rise to this stage. Many Fire Spirits, too, who
  • These Spirits of Personality have attained a stage at which they
  • the inner nature of these beings as a spiritual tone language. The
  • human being at this stage of his evolution already possesses an astral
  • that images were evoked in the dull dim consciousness by the presence
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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 6)
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  • consciousness that stands one stage higher than the
  • required for the Earth stage. Just as the new plant only develops what
  • of the new stage of evolution the three members of human nature appear
  • development of a higher stage of consciousness. — This takes place in
  • three preliminary stages. In the first stage, the physical body is
  • This is a preliminary stage of the Earth evolution, which may be
  • At this stage of evolution the Earth stands before the spiritual eye
  • bosom of the higher spiritual beings. At this stage they touch the
  • stage of his existence man consists of sentient soul, astral body,
  • “These are the Archangels.” Thus, at this stage man does not
  • are the images of the higher beings in whose bosom he feels his
  • is then permeated by the images of the higher beings in whose bosom he
  • lives. — At this stage of its evolution the Earth experiences two
  • is indicated by these terms at the present earth stage. If at the
  • body according to these tone forces. Thus, at that stage, human forms
  • a fire or heat body, that the stage of evolution is reached in which,
  • At this stage of evolution, man felt himself during his earth
  • own formation. According to the images of his astral body he fashioned
  • images. What these beings communicate to him, resounds to him; their
  • mental images received from fire and heat the earth man is most
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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 7)
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  • The life of man between birth and death — in the post-Atlantean age — had,
  • that age, turning toward the sense world, says, “Rather a beggar
  • through natural heritage bore within itself the characteristics of the
  • what had already existed in the spiritual world from primeval ages.
  • Lemurian age. The human beings, as to their soul nature, may thus be
  • age was prepared that began in the fifteenth century and still
  • themselves pillars of this age, were descendants of those Atlanteans
  • many people who had preserved to a high degree the heritage of the
  • mysteries. Such influences caused a cleavage in the soul of the human
  • cleavage of the soul were already present when the teaching of Christ
  • slumber, and they were nourished by the heritage of Atlantean
  • evolution at a certain time begins to ripen in the preceding age. What
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 1)
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  • BETWEEN birth and death man, at his present evolutionary stage, lives
  • spiritual world. This view, however — considering the present stage of
  • appropriate to our age. We shall speak here about this path. Other
  • the pupil. No proper instruction for spiritual development in our age
  • spiritual training. It is possible that a certain stage of soul
  • development may remain concealed up to a certain age in human life and
  • forth this stage. If the individual pays no heed to such training, it
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 2)
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  • has nothing else in mind but the visualized image under consideration.
  • consciousness. Symbolic visualized images are, therefore, better than
  • We understand what it means to immerse ourselves in a visualized image
  • image; yet this visualization is the image of an object perceived by
  • the senses. But if we undertake this with a visualized image formed in
  • illustrated above through a visualized memory image. Such a
  • what may be called imaginative cognition. It is the first stage of
  • “objective cognition.” Beyond this lie the higher stages of
  • This belongs to true spiritual training at this stage. If the soul
  • stage of spiritual training. They correspond to the kernel of the
  • the necessary stage, then the human being will not only feel himself
  • experience. In order completely to find his way about at this stage of
  • ordinary self-love is meant. This self-love increases at this stage of
  • Against this however, the strongest impulses of egotism wage war. — The
  • characterized stage by proper training is just as able to distinguish
  • judgment, and he wishes to give birth to his higher ego at this stage
  • discourage training, but it must be taken very seriously.
  • weeping; not the horror of an evil action, but the blind rage of
  • should not in any way disregard, at any particular stage of life,
  • must bring the control of thought and feeling to such a stage that the
• 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
  • position to permit such an intermediate stage to act upon him, travels
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 4)
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  • mental images and feelings is, correctly speaking, the development of
  • its sense-image, is a picture of its reality. These “organs”
  • higher stages of evolution, and what we may have gained by having
  • “peering” cannot furnish the truth, but only a mirage.
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 5)
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  • stage of imaginative cognition to the stage that may be called
  • higher stage of cognition to understand the inner nature of these
  • beings themselves. This stage of cognition may be designated intuitive
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 6)
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  • image before him, the parts of which have been taken from the
  • that my soul has done in order to bring the image into existence, but
  • I do not wish to hold the image itself; I wish to live quite inwardly
  • within my own activity, which has created the image. Thus, I do not
  • intend to meditate on an image, but to dwell in my own image-creating
  • growing and decaying plant. One allows to arise in the soul the image
  • One acquires gradually by meditating on such an image a feeling of
  • visualization of growth and decay from the image of the plant. He must
  • one-sidedness. For example, if he becomes aware of the advantage of
  • him advantage for his inner development. This will not be the case if
  • of the spirit at every stage of his development. This consists in not
  • cause not only the images, to which he has surrendered himself in
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 7)
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  • senses and form from them mental images and concepts. This is not the
  • present stage of its evolution, coarse in comparison. It offers
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 8)
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  • worlds of knowledge, he notices at a certain stage that the cohesion
  • human soul may feel or think about it. With the images of the world of
  • or not. — In order to be able to advance further from this stage of
  • first image before the human soul when the latter ascends into the
  • his destiny engraved in the image of his Doppelganger. If man has made
  • image of his own nature. — We see from this how necessary it is that man
  • image in itself, and if, as a result of this distinction, everything
  • first recognized the image of his own Doppelganger. He will be able to
  • still contained mental images of outer perceptions. The human being is
  • not alone responsible for the content of these mental images; he does
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 9)
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  • ordinary self and which appears to him in an image. A sort of battle
  • before him, but he cannot perceive it completely. For whatever stage
  • are always still higher stages. At these stages he will perceive ever
  • spiritual at any of these stages. The temptation is extremely great
  • himself as an image of all the hindrances that the development of the
  • stage, the entire compass of all imaginable worlds, of having attained
  • The figure that one perceives at this stage of development shows the
  • spiritual that he must not remain stationary at this stage but must
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 10)
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  • corresponding stage of his development the student becomes acquainted
  • may designate this stage of cognition as the becoming aware of the
  • student has struggled through to such a stage of knowledge, a new
  • losing one's own essential being. This stage of development may be
  • from the untrained power of judgment. — The stages of higher knowledge,
  • These stages need not be thought of as successive experiences. On the
  • reached only a certain degree of perfection in a preceding stage when
  • he begins exercises that correspond to a subsequent stage. It may well
  • knows the images of the psycho-spiritual world, he cannot merely read
  • the same in all ages of Earth evolution, but that the starting points
  • of man have been different in different ages. If the human being
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Present and Future of Cosmic and Human Evolution
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  • over from the Moon becomes evident only at a certain stage of
  • contains a form that is still in its germinal stage and that will only
  • Jupiter evolution. If we observe this Jupiter stage with supersensible
  • field of consciousness do not possess the nature of sense images; they
  • stage of supersensible perception higher than the one just described
  • attained at present such a high stage of evolution that it does not at
  • stage of evolution that may be designated Vulcan evolution. It has a
  • successive stages within human evolution that in this book have been
  • concept, their image, needed by the soul, arose in its inner being.
  • With the power of cognition described, not only images of the physical
  • ancient soul condition like a heritage could still receive the
  • they possessed no longer fitted the new age. For it is a consequence
  • Then the dawn of the new age broke, which is to be designated as the
  • confident knowledge of former ages, traditional knowledge, lost more
  • we shall find that it is a significant image of the nature of what has
  • supersensible worlds, the first stages of which have been described in
  • this knowledge. We move now in an age in which this knowledge ought to
  • begins, mankind will have been able to re-attain at a higher stage
  • through the development of the modern age, as proceeding from a world
  • occurred between the Atlantean and post-Atlantean ages, and the
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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Details From the Realm of Spiritual Science
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  • These perceptions appear at a certain stage of development, however,
  • in old age. — As a result the course of human life falls into three
  • here. If supersensible cognition has raised itself up to the stage of
  • transformation, however, is preceded by another on a lower stage, and
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Preface First Edition
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  • astonishing how such assertions are at all possible in our age. The
  • “Whoever has read a few pages of this book will, according to his
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Preface: Fourth Edition
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  • the supposedly exact thinking of our age affirms to be “probably
  • the wish must make itself felt that in the present age it should no
  • age.
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Preface: Sixteenth to Twentieth Edition
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  • consciousness alongside the content of knowledge of our age, without
  • the age has produced regarding “the limits of knowledge”
  • of what, in the course of the ages, has appeared in human thought
  • result of my reading the literature of the Middle Ages. If I employed
  • The Stages of Higher Knowledge.
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Special Comments
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  • (a) page 30 and fol. pp.
  • (b) page 39 and fol. pp.
  • (c) page 51 and fol. pp.
  • present age they have reached a stage in which their physical parts
  • of the ancient Moon at a higher stage. The present Mercury is the
  • before the soul as an image of time-space occurrences, so is it