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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Character of Occult Science
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  • existence and what significance it has in human life. The origin of
  • When we consider the significance of natural science in human life, we
  • other achievements in the field of knowledge and life; he will have to
  • external, sensory reality of life verifies his observations. He
  • supposed to belong to the religious life alone.
  • victor over all that hampers and weakens life. It signifies, in a
  • certain higher sense, a weakening of life, indeed a death of the soul,
  • force of life must be introduced from without if such a person is to
  • get possession of any life force at all. He then perceives the things,
  • life. What guards against this exhaustion is the concealed something
  • these depths, in order to draw up ever new life-force, dies away
  • no longer proves conducive to life.
  • way. If he lays waste his life by losing the relationship with the
  • being into doubt, into a feeling of insecurity of life, indeed, into
  • weakens life and makes it incapable of the service required of him in
  • it gives strength and firmness to life, and not alone gratification to
  • its power to work and its trust in life is inexhaustible. No one who
  • life. They do not wish to see stunted what life offers in its
  • the striving for supersensible knowledge likely to weaken life and to
  • world, into a dreamer; they give him strength from the sources of life
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Essential Nature of Mankind
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  • observation of life, that is, to death and, in connection with it, to
  • so-called lifeless nature — the mineral kingdom — which always bears death
  • life is dedicated to a higher purpose. Only when death has occurred is
  • the concealed. For during life the concealed must wage constant battle
  • the physical body are fashioned during life. This form disappears by
  • entity, what prevents the physical substances and forces during life
  • body. Let us call the independent member the ether or lifebody. — In
  • of this ether body or life body, the point has also been reached where
  • forces, like those to be found in the so-called lifeless body, in the
  • complicated than in the lifeless, however. Not so long ago, ordinary
  • the living body besides what is present in the lifeless mineral. They
  • spoke of a “life force.” This “life force,” to be
  • sure, is not visualized as having the nature of the lifebody
  • underlies such a concept. This “life force” was thought of
  • Then came the time when this “life force” was discarded from
  • sides that the assumption of something similar to “life
  • point of view presented here concerning the life body. It is useless,
  • all suffering, all pleasure are submerged for conscious life. As
  • arises again when we awaken. The power that awakens life again and
  • essential difference in the experiences of waking life. This
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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Sleep And Death
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  • life without considering death. For a human being in whom there is no
  • here for an active, purposeful life and his accomplishments are based
  • persons lacking in vital energy and the joy of life, and who are
  • life, and we must admit that much that has called itself occult
  • under that name, bears a character unhealthy and hostile to life. But
  • conditions of life in its widest sense, get along without what the
  • supersensible is able to offer. Life continues during sleep, and the
  • necessity destroy his life. Likewise, a world concept that is not
  • new life may arise. It is precisely the knowledge of the supersensible
  • life.” Just as there could be no life in the ordinary sense of
  • supersensible alone makes the life of revealed knowledge possible. It
  • never weakens life when it appears in its true form. When, having been
  • left to itself, life becomes weak and sickly, supersensible knowledge
  • sleep, the life-activities continue; for, the moment the physical body
  • perception must follow its life until it again takes possession of the
  • corroboration by means of life itself is the proof that can be
  • his experience. He may, in this way, find that life has thereby become
  • observations of ordinary life are, the more readily will he come to
  • human life, unconsciousness occurs during this body-free condition of
  • power during waking life. The astral body carries on its waking
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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 1)
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  • is composed of four members: physical body, life body, astral body,
  • life spirit, and spirit man are formed. These members of the human
  • It is evident that human life is related in the most diverse ways to
  • enters an external life in the present sense of the word. It was in
  • the three bodies, astral body, life body, and physical body, and it
  • life.
  • earth condition in which the three bodies, physical body, life body,
  • of the life of the earth goes further and further back, it comes to a
  • traced down to the condition of life in which we find it today. If a
  • the ordinary life of the physical world. Just as logical presentation
  • show how it can be done at any point in the course of practical life.
  • physical body, life body, astral body, and ego. Yet this form would
  • physical body, life body, and astral body. These beings, who in a
  • physical, life, and astral bodies, the opportunity not only of
  • physical, life, and astral bodies is characteristic of the second
  • belonging at present to the sphere of human life, and this
  • full scope of the conditions of life. The three-year-old child exists
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 2)
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  • connection with the life body, astral body, and ego, described in the
  • of evolution without having a human life body, astral body, or ego
  • as to be able to receive a life body. To this end, Saturn had first to
  • raised to the third degree of its perfection. Moreover, the life body
  • consisting of physical body, life body, and astral body. The physical
  • body thereby reached its fourth degree of perfection, the life body
  • physical body in the same life in which the damage has occurred, but
  • human life on earth, but even if there is no desire to gain such
  • deeper knowledge, yet the ordinary view of life shows that the human
  • life, and astral bodies.
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 3)
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  • ego, spirit self, and life spirit. Just as our earth is surrounded by
  • although there was no life in these heat bodies themselves, the life
  • question that were mirrored, but their life-conditions. Nothing living
  • like an echo, the life sent down to it. The whole of Saturn appeared
  • like a mirror of celestial life. Certain exalted beings whose life was
  • conscious of the reflection of their own life from the heat bodies of
  • gradually acquires the ability to reflect life back into cosmic
  • co-operation of will and life there begins the activity of other
  • Saturn bodies have acquired the ability to reflect life, this
  • reflected life is in a condition to be permeated with the qualities
  • reflected life, the activity of the astral body of the Spirits of Form
  • this life into individual living beings, so that Saturn now appears
  • possess a life and soul of their own, but that reflect the life and
  • the human personality in the present cycle of life. The beings who
  • imparted to the latter. — In the whole of Saturn there is no inner life,
  • life as it streams back to them from Saturn in the form of heat.
  • the present time everything was a reflection of external life and
  • sensation, now a kind of inner life begins. Here and there within the
  • Saturn world a life of light begins, now flaring up, now darkening.
  • taking place in the life of Saturn. These beings may be called
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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 4)
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  • etheric or life body. Before this can occur, however, the Saturn
  • life of the Sun. When the human being has developed to the point where
  • Kyriotetes, begin to let the ether or life body flow into the human
  • becoming the bearer of an ether or life body. This ether or life body
  • the physical body and the first degree of perfection of the life body
  • be attained, it is necessary in the further course of the life of the
  • When the Spirits of Wisdom begin to pour the life body into man, the
  • life begins. What on Saturn had to be characterized as an appearance
  • of life, now becomes actual life. This pouring in of the life body
  • parts. Whereas previously the physical body and life body formed one
  • to be permeated by the life body. We have now before us a twofold
  • human being. One part is a physical body worked upon by a life body,
  • the other part is pure life body. This separation takes place during
  • an interval of rest in the life of the Sun. During this interval, the
  • human life body. As a result, it acquires the capacity to carry on
  • means of the forces of the life body. These structures represent the
  • life body. Previously, when only the Spirits of Motion were acting
  • the Sun evolution, capable of working upon the newly formed human life
  • henceforth, on the human ether or life body in co-operation with the
  • Spirits of Personality. By means of this activity, 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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  • life bodies formed upon the Sun were absorbed during the pause by
  • Thus these life bodies do not appear at this time as something united
  • ether or life body. Moreover, they are unable to incorporate this
  • at the beginning of the Moon evolution. The physical life of man
  • life-endowed state of the Sun. At this time, however, all life still
  • appears as a semblance of life. Then a pause occurs similar to the
  • instreaming of the life body, for which the physical body has now
  • which occur in him through the possession of a life body and which
  • of an independent life body. This is the lowest of the Moon kingdoms.
  • radiation gradually awoke to independent life. The whole of evolution
  • life; the environment then imprints itself upon this severed being as
  • body and then reflected back its life. Had nothing else happened, the
  • air, and water life. The progress from the Sun to the Moon embodiment
  • life before them, like a reflection, mirrored back to them from the
  • and by means of it developed their own life, which shaped itself
  • independent of the life of the sun. Alongside the experiences of the
  • spiritually and materially, a twofold life: one that stood in close
  • union with the life of the sun, and one that deserted it and went its
  • own independent way. This division into a twofold life expresses
  • he was adapted to Moon life, the sun spirits made of him a being
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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 6)
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  • with a physical, life, and astral body, but these members of his being
  • form of existence before the life or ether body can also advance. The
  • it unfolds again, to receive the more highly developed life body.
  • higher level for the purpose of developing the life body. Again after
  • should be given to the fact that man possesses a physical body, a life
  • life body do not yet exist in a physical or etheric form, but in an
  • appearing in soul form. This is also true of the life body.
  • physical and life forces still appear in soul form. Within this cosmic
  • this fact, Earth life is enkindled within them, but the largest part
  • through the contact with the Earth fire does the warmth of life play
  • of life within the human being was not the only result of this
  • life body, and physical body woven of fire. The spiritual beings who
  • has enkindled life in him, so air playing about him produces an effect
  • that may be likened to spiritual tone; his life body resounds. At the
  • and when the latter is aroused to life by the Earth heat, his sentient
  • realm of physical life. They come in contact with the nuclei mentioned
  • awaken the likeness to life, but the quickening must take place in the
  • of life. — If evolution had continued in this way, the Earth would have
  • the life-giving, engendering force that was more effective. This was
  • First, it is the astral body — which also contains both the life or
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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,
  • soul during earth life and of his retaining power beyond death. Among
  • because they had, during earth life, felt the physical world of the
  • much greater, because in the life between birth and death they had
  • earth life and likewise during the life after death, when they
  • prepared for a new earth life. During earth life the power of Ahriman
  • At present we are able in spiritual science to describe life between
  • themselves during earth life for companionship with the Spirit of
  • culture. During earth life they had brought the culture of the
  • felt that his life after death was only a shadow-like existence; and
  • death cannot change anything for this human being during life; that is
  • being the ego manifests in such a way that the physical life contains
  • at the same time the whole spiritual life. Such a being is the bearer
  • At the moment in the life of Christ Jesus, when His astral body
  • is able to carry with him out of life through the portals of death
  • may be described as an all-encompassing ideal of life. As such it
  • modes of life. We have already described the conditions that prevailed
  • their karma, the most varied life-interests appeared in the
  • present and shows itself in the most manifold phenomena of life. The
  • results in life are the consequences of the other side of the soul's
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• 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
  • later on in this book. Here let us first consider life in its two
  • is awakened in the soul that in ordinary life is only aroused by the
  • being at a certain moment in the course of his life, without special
  • life will pour into his will from a spiritual world. — There are such
  • development of themselves may easily say, “Human life is directed
  • spiritual training, “How can these rules be effective in the life
  • development may remain concealed up to a certain age in human life and
  • may happen that his ability remains concealed during his present life
  • and will only reappear in some subsequent life.
  • into a different being in regard to his entire life-conduct. It
  • his conduct of life, but of telling him about soul-exercises which,
  • of his life-functions that lies outside the observation of the
  • supersensible. In addition to these life-functions the human being
  • observation is as much separated from the ordinary functions of life
  • permeate the ordinary course of life with impressions of supersensible
  • ethically determined conduct of life, an insight into the
  • means of ennobling the conduct of life. On the other hand, as a result
  • enabling the soul to bring into its life moments in which the
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 2)
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  • waking life, which have the task of depicting outer things. The more
  • While the powers of everyday soul-life are distributed in many
  • concentration of the entire soul-life upon one visualization. This
  • with such thoughts but to bring them to life in my feelings. I may
  • feeling of joy. In the normal course of life the soul may experience
  • depths than it employs in everyday life or in everyday cognition. Its
  • everyday life. — The very nature of the human being, however, makes
  • degree quite unknown to everyday soul-life. It would be a
  • nothing else, shows the difference. In the spiritual world also, life
  • the life of visualization and thought. It is similar with desires,
  • a development of his thought life that it is impossible for him to
  • development of thought life he becomes, as it were, an observer of
  • what he experiences in himself, while, without this thought life, he
  • above all, objectivity. In the physical-sensory world, life is the
  • let itself be corrected by life if it did not wish to come into
  • facts of life. If now the human being turns his attention away from
  • upon the origin of man, or upon the nature of life. Through simple
  • in the world of thought. In the physical-sensory world, it is life
  • instability in the life of will rest upon the desire for things the
  • may bring the entire mental life into disorder when a higher ego is
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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 3)
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  • aware of how the thought world has an inner life, of how one, by
  • into our inner life, just as the characteristics of sense objects flow
  • active within itself, may throw light on the problems of world, life,
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 4)
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  • rule, by most human beings through the ordinary relationships of life
  • student in a certain sphere of his inner life of all that springs only
  • totally different world of which one knows nothing in one's life of
  • encounters this higher life in one's own astral body if one does not
  • forms of spiritual life that correspond to the partial success dulls
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 5)
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  • present, he has only known in his inner soul-life. He knows that
  • death.” The other members of human nature — life body, sentient
  • but it would be impossible to understand the life course of the whole
  • to the comprehension of human life. Therefore, in the sense of
  • cognition. (Intuition is a word misused in everyday life for an
  • life. What is released after death from the human bodily nature goes
  • inspiration is able to discover what may be said about the life of man
  • earth life to earth life.
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 6)
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  • this is that the human being who is accustomed to have his inner life
  • and wavering when he has to unfold a soul-life that has discarded all
  • of discrimination, his life of feeling, and his character. If he takes
  • arranging and working over his life-experiences, he will gain much. He
  • life-experience into relationship with another. He will become aware
  • will develop, in truth, what may be called a rich inner life. The
  • the withering and devastation of the inner life. Those go the farthest
  • here merely of the so-called important impressions of life, but every
  • circumstances of this person's life, perhaps even to his great
  • added something to his understanding of life. It would, however,
  • misled by the merit of such a view of life to excuse everything he
  • whoever with mature judgment in later life looks upon the starry
  • able to admire the forces ruling in human life, and it is not of
  • certain processes of life with which his personal judgment is not, at
  • make this clear. A man is in a certain situation in life where he may
  • toward such occurrences in life. It then becomes aware, as though in a
  • human being directs his efforts toward an extension of soul-life, but
  • into the regions of spiritual life only by guarding himself carefully
  • the life within his own soul activity into which he has immersed
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 7)
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  • motions, forms, and currents appear in the human ether or life body
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  • other in the conditions of ordinary human life. One sees, for example,
  • certainty and firmness to the power of judgment, and to the life of
  • example, hidden inclinations that do not come into evidence in life
  • considers the following. In the life of the physical senses man only
  • doing so under the present circumstances of his life. In the latter
  • has even in ordinary life a quite definite effect. The normally
  • the human being is not conscious in physical-sensory life. This
  • shame in everyday life; it prevents the innermost nature of the human
  • the rest of the world of soul and spirit. In everyday life of the
  • judgment, feeling-life, and character without spiritual-scientific
  • feeling-life, and character. Through this regular training man learns
  • firmness of the power of judgment, of the life of feeling and
  • environment. — For man's life in the physical-sensory world, the
  • through physical death, and in the course of life between death and a
  • from those he knows in the life between birth and death. If, without
  • coloring of reality through one's own soul nature. In ordinary life of
  • simple example of this sort of delusion in the physical sense-life is
  • judgment on the path of life. Everything that he experiences causes
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 9)
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  • in this book when life after death was discussed.
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  • life. Indeed, we understand the physical body only when we recognize
  • himself within the present-day conditions of life. When describing
  • incarnation. Whoever considers human historical life, be it only
  • centuries A.D. all life-conditions have changed when compared with
  • stands in any situation presented by modern life. — Progressive
  • period to period to ever changing forms, just as outer life changes
  • outer life and initiation.
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Present and Future of Cosmic and Human Evolution
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  • in quite a different manner. Whoever observes life knows how true this
  • increases, what forms it assumes in regard to the hidden facts of life
  • significance when new faculties appear. Human life then adapts itself
  • knowledge flow into general life, while the human souls of the fourth
  • thought, feeling, and will-life of humanity. The “concealed
  • will permeate more and more the manifestations of human life.
  • proclaim will be able to reappear as truth of life of human souls in
  • and Venus as his inner life permits just within the conditions that
  • life-body, and upon the Moon the Spirits of Motion his astral body.
  • inner life, it becomes the seed of love. Wisdom is the pre-condition
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Details From the Realm of Spiritual Science
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  • THE LIFE OF MAN AFTER DEATH
  • fading memory of the whole life just passed is present. (See Chapter
  • the memory of the life just passed through continue after death, that
  • contains the fruits of the past life, and it is the bearer of
  • a new birth, unfolds as a germinal beginning of the subsequent life.
  • being into earth-life occurs. Since there must be a twofold
  • life in which a human being finds himself because of the constitution
  • THE COURSE OF HUMAN LIFE
  • The life of the human being as it expresses itself in the succession
  • after birth only as independent forces. Later in life, however,
  • falls away at this period of life. A “birth” of the ether
  • fit himself into the conditions of the world and life and is active
  • further course of life the ether body also begins to feed on the
  • in old age. — As a result the course of human life falls into three
  • being compelled, during the last period of life, to feed on the forces
  • that it lasts about one third of the duration of life between birth
  • bodies — and fashions these, in reverse order, into spirit self, life
  • It lives an astral life in a physical body that has been fashioned
  • the state of dreaming, nothing that belongs to the realm of dream life
  • greatest possible deepening of the life of feeling. The path of
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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Table of Contents
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  • 3.The Life of Man After Death
  • 4.The Course of Human Life
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Preface First Edition
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  • Views of the World and Life in the Nineteenth Century
  • Views of the World and Life in the Nineteenth Century, or perhaps the
  • World and Life in the Nineteenth Century to him, is the most monstrous
  • conformity with a conscientious view of the sphere of life in
  • superstition so easily meet in actual life, and where, above all, they
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Preface: Fourth Edition
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  • meaning and significance of life must remain unanswered if there be no
  • about this fact, but the depths of the soul-life will not tolerate
  • Human cognition, as it acts in everyday life and in ordinary science,
  • more value for a certain kind of soul-life than the proof that is
  • soul-life is bound to the instruments of the body, the strengthened
  • soul-life frees itself from them. To certain modern schools of thought
  • prove that “all soul-life” is bound up with the nervous
  • be some sort of soul-life independent of the body, and who are
  • the life of the nerves exists that “spiritual scientific
  • longer be in keeping with spiritual life to decry a direction of
  • realize that the meaning of life does not reveal itself in general
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Preface: Sixteenth to Twentieth Edition
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  • the content I had seen as the nature of the life of individual man,
  • obstacle to life that causes them to seize upon the communications of
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Special Comments
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  • regular course of life in rhythmical sequence like the right and left
  • in itself the states that of necessity appear in normal human life, it