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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Character of Occult Science
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  • feelings of the most contrary character. For many, it possesses
  • science.” — It is not to be denied that for many the term, occult
  • For many people do not wish to satisfy the deepest longings of their
  • mandate arising from his own personal feelings. In order to understand
  • existence and what significance it has in human life. The origin of
  • subject matter it is dealing with, but by means of the human
  • with the manifestation of the senses, we might easily be led to the
  • opinion that this sense-manifestation is the essential thing, and we
  • do not become aware that a certain attitude of the human soul has been
  • employed only in regard to the manifestation of the senses. It is
  • The human power of thought wishes to occupy itself with this latter
  • When we consider the significance of natural science in human life, we
  • but an experiencing of what the human soul itself is not. The
  • soul-element does not live in what man knows about nature, but in the
  • scientific mode of thinking, Since many people believe, unconsciously,
  • are not present for human perception without the activity of the soul
  • into human perception only by means of soul activity. The exponent of
  • manner of his narration not personal caprice but scientific thinking
  • recognized in the character of occult science calls forth many
  • take root in every human soul. For the occult scientist, as he is
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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Essential Nature of Mankind
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  • Occult Science (1972): The Essential Nature of Mankind
  • THE ESSENTIALNATURE OF MANKIND
  • IN THE OBSERVATION of man from the point of view of a supersensible
  • the “revealed mystery” within the individual human being.
  • Only a part of what supersensible cognition apprehends as the human
  • Within the manifest world, the physical body is the part of man having
  • differentiates man from the mineral cannot be considered as physical
  • that death lays bare the part of man that, after death, is of the same
  • of man subject to the processes of the mineral realm. It can be
  • emphasized that in this member of man's being, the corpse, the same
  • in both the human physical body and the mineral, their activity during
  • Thus, in man we have to differentiate sharply between the visible and
  • In a later chapter of this work we shall consider how the human being
  • manifest to him just as the phenomena of the senses are manifest to
  • which man attains to a higher perception can be of value to him only
  • that limits itself to the manifest. These effects express themselves
  • however, is able to observe, as an independent member of the human
  • of the human entity. The word “ether” is used here in a
  • such a concept will have to encounter the opposition of many
  • present-day opinions. The evolution of the human spirit has led to the
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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Sleep And Death
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  • consciousness without observing the state through which the human
  • life without considering death. For a human being in whom there is no
  • distrust. For it is quite comprehensible when someone says that man is
  • man cannot always be awake, he also cannot, in regard to the real
  • it is with what can be observed in the manifest world. The domain of
  • by what can be known about the invisible. A human being who does not
  • When man sinks into sleep, there is a change in the relationship of
  • his members. That part of the sleeping man that lies in bed contains
  • an other state. In order that the human ego and astral body not only
  • the manifest world. If it is seen how the revelations of supersensible
  • of supersensible perception and then apply it to the manifest facts of
  • human life, unconsciousness occurs during this body-free condition of
  • soul-spirit nature of man as fatigue. But this fatigue is the
  • place in the human being during and by means of consciousness are
  • body can retain the form and stature suitable for man only by means of
  • the human ether body, which in turn receives its proper forces from
  • images in the place of these prototypes. When man directs the senses
  • to maintain the physical body. Were the human being able, through his
  • role in human existence. It expresses itself in the fact that the
  • Just imagine a physical human body removed from its surrounding world.
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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 1)
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  • Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 1)
  • THE EVOLUTION OFTHE COSMOS AND MAN
  • FROM the foregoing considerations it may be seen that the being of man
  • consciousness soul. At a higher stage of human existence, spirit self,
  • life spirit, and spirit man are formed. These members of the human
  • being stand in the most manifold relationships to the whole cosmos and
  • of man's being.
  • It is evident that human life is related in the most diverse ways to
  • that the earth itself, this dwelling place of man in the most
  • conditions of earth existence in which the human being, in his present
  • form, did not yet exist upon our planet. It shows how mankind has
  • relationship exists between the evolution of man and that of his
  • of human development, and it becomes clear to it that the real inner
  • spiritual being of man has passed through a series of lives upon this
  • in the remote past, when for the first time this inner being of man
  • manner indicated, one then becomes aware that the ego meets with an
  • without this human ego up to the stage at which the ego came in touch
  • the spiritual causes lying behind matter. If we have before us a man
  • place in the human soul, to what constitutes the inner impulse of
  • substances of the earth planet are manifestations of spiritual forces
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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 2)
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  • Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 2)
  • THE EVOLUTION OFTHE COSMOS AND MAN
  • Of the present four members of the being of man, the physical body is
  • the greatest perfection. Supersensible research shows that this human
  • different from the present human physical body. This earthly human
  • of evolution without having a human life body, astral body, or ego
  • occurred during the Moon evolution. The human ancestor, having evolved
  • perfection. Upon the Earth the ego was added to the human ancestor
  • If we give ourselves up to an unprejudiced examination of the human
  • much greater significance for the entire being of man than the present
  • is fitted together in such a manner that, with the least amount of
  • the human body structures are to be found full of wisdom, and if we
  • particular perfection of this member of the human being. In this
  • within it, often meaningless and running counter to higher human
  • like manner it is possible to show that the ether body, in its way,
  • essential kernel of the human being, the ego, stands at present only
  • accomplished of its task of transforming the other members of man's
  • being in such a manner that they be a manifestation of its own nature?
  • touched upon here, and the actual cause of many disease processes
  • human life on earth, but even if there is no desire to gain such
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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 3)
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  • THE EVOLUTION OFTHE COSMOS AND MAN
  • only man existed at that time, and only that part of him, the physical
  • beings of the mineral, plant, animal, and human kingdoms belong to the
  • earth, but there are also other beings who do not manifest in a
  • in the subsequent evolution of man.
  • Let us imagine a human being with his present sense organs approaching
  • most varied manner. Heat would be perceived radiating according to
  • For man of the present day it must be difficult to imagine something
  • with hot or cold gaseous, fluid, or solid bodies. Especially the man
  • could never occur. A man of today, as such, cannot confront ancient
  • body like that of present-day man. When we speak here of
  • today in the mineral kingdom. The present human physical body is not
  • laws manifested themselves only through heat effects. Thus the
  • beginnings of the present physical-mineral body of man. The latter
  • besides man, may be called inhabitants of Saturn, are those, for
  • this a higher member that transcended all the human vehicles. Man has
  • 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
  • described in this book as belonging also to human beings: astral body,
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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 4)
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  • THE EVOLUTION OF THE COSMOS AND MAN
  • stage,” effects the raising of man to a condition of
  • with the present consciousness of man, this Sun stage could, to be
  • approximates the state in which the human being now exists during
  • human being attains a higher degree of consciousness in the course of
  • conditions. The germinal human being, however, first appears on the
  • 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
  • physical body. The more advanced stage that man attains on the Sun may
  • When the Spirits of Wisdom begin to pour the life body into man, the
  • first signs of an inner activity appear in the germinal human being;
  • change takes place in the human germ, namely, it divides into two
  • human being. One part is a physical body worked upon by a life body,
  • work for a time upon the twofold human being just as they had worked
  • before on the single-membered human being. The Spirits of Motion then
  • human life body. As a result, it acquires the capacity to carry on
  • such a state manifests itself after the Spirits of Motion have begun
  • human physical body at that stage of evolution. They are completely
  • permeated by heat and enclosed by a mantle of heat. Physically
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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 5)
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  • THE EVOLUTION OFTHE COSMOS AND MAN
  • one cosmic formation. The second thing to be noted is that the human
  • with the corresponding physical human bodies, but these latter appear
  • at the beginning of the Moon evolution. The physical life of man
  • active within the physical human being; now the forces of the acquired
  • is as though the human being consisted only of heat substance, while
  • activities, the human being reappears as he was during his
  • separate epochs. During the second of these, the human being is so far
  • human being. They prepared themselves for this task during the Sun
  • astral body to flow into the human being, he acquires his first soul
  • appear in the human being. He seeks to repeat what has caused pleasure
  • On Saturn, the human physical body was composed of heat, which on the
  • human physical body now gradually takes on a form composed of three
  • regularly developed human kingdom. One of these consists of beings who
  • advanced human kingdom. — But something else takes place. The substances
  • air also permeate the human beings. Thus it happens that on the Moon
  • result, a kind of cleavage arises in human nature, and through this
  • the human beings, by the two lower kingdoms just characterized, and by
  • further condensation of the human physical body also. The former
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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 6)
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  • THE EVOLUTION OFTHE COSMOS AND MAN
  • the human being to such a point that, during the Earth period
  • picture-consciousness possessed by him during the Moon period. Man,
  • of the new stage of evolution the three members of human nature appear
  • present human being dwells between death and re-birth. These are the
  • begins, they have descended so far that their lowest manifestations
  • Everything human existing at this period still possesses its astral
  • form. In order to understand this state of humanity, special attention
  • should be given to the fact that man possesses a physical body, a life
  • who are destined to become human beings in our present form on the
  • this human being in the beginning of the physical Earth period, we
  • of life within the human being was not the only result of this
  • stage of his existence man consists of sentient soul, astral body,
  • take part in human existence surge up and down in the astral body;
  • through the sentient soul man feels himself bound to the body of the
  • picture-consciousness in which the spiritual beings manifest
  • characterized organizing of man becomes ever more distinct. At a
  • now takes place also in man. Not only the Earth heat touches his
  • the human soul, we must realize that beings higher than men surge up
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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 7)
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  • THE EVOLUTION OFTHE COSMOS AND MAN
  • The life of man between birth and death — in the post-Atlantean age — had,
  • more the human being turned his interest toward the physical-sensory
  • world, the greater was the possibility of Ahriman penetrating into the
  • power of Ahriman. The danger of the prehistoric Persian people was
  • would have fallen prey to Ahriman to a high degree, had Zarathustra
  • impressive manner to the fact that behind the physical-sensory world
  • Persian culture did they escape from the clutches of Ahriman during
  • prepared for a new earth life. During earth life the power of Ahriman
  • spiritual world this power leads the human being to complete
  • isolation, to concentration of all interests only upon himself. Human
  • beings who at death are in the power of Ahriman are reborn as
  • death and a new birth as it is when the Ahrimanic influence has been
  • what the human being can experience in this state of existence when he
  • depends on his victory over the Ahrimanic influence. Man approaches
  • here be held clearly in mind in considering the path of human
  • Light. Since, however, during that time human interests between birth
  • time of the Greco-Latin cultural period a large part of mankind was in
  • the condition here described. We can see how the mission of man in the
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• 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
  • chief alternating states — waking and sleeping. Man acquires a knowledge
  • induced if the human being can bring about the soul experiences made
  • germinal state; they must be developed. — It may happen that a human
  • self-awakening. Such a human being will find that through it his
  • it can appear without observing any kind of rules. How the human being
  • development of themselves may easily say, “Human life is directed
  • indeed be felt by such human beings as a sort of insolence or as an
  • feel it obligatory that everything be revealed to the human being that
  • the most concealed holy of holies of the human being. It involves a
  • human evolution — must, in a certain sense, be declared outmoded. It is
  • this domain. Whoever considers the nature of the human soul, as far as
  • development may remain concealed up to a certain age in human life and
  • these may arise through thinking that training would transform man
  • cannot, however, be a question of giving man general instructions for
  • supersensible. In addition to these life-functions the human being
  • relationship to man is not true spiritual training, but its
  • proceeds from the entire soul of man will it appear as if things were
  • required for this training that would transform man into something
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 2)
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  • nature, an awakening power upon certain hidden faculties of the human
  • While the powers of everyday soul-life are distributed in many
  • blossom unfolds, and now we think of a human being beside this plant.
  • that the human being is indeed more perfect than the plant, but he
  • in a certain sense more perfect than the human being who is filled
  • I may say to myself that the human being has a greater perfection than
  • how the red blood flows through the human veins and how it is the
  • human being is capable of evolution; how he may purify and cleanse his
  • certain thoughts about plant and man. For the effect of such a symbol
  • soul faculties, but that this effect is produced only by the manner of
  • as an example. In spiritual training the most manifold pictures of
  • varied manner. Also certain sentences, formulae, even single words,
  • feelings perceives how a human being performs an action that is
  • interest of his fellow-man, and such an action may be designated
  • very far. — Since human beings are varied in character, so are the
  • effective means of training varied for the individual man. — In regard
  • manner described.
  • The symbols that are constructed in the above described manner do, by
  • world. They serve the purpose of detaching the human soul from
  • is bound at the outset. This detachment cannot occur in man prior to
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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 3)
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  • man is able to form only such thoughts. Human thought does not need to
  • human thinking, when it arouses itself with inner energy, is able to
  • experienced when spiritual reality manifests itself in sense-free
  • also more difficult for many human beings. This path is presented in
  • and Philosophy of Freedom. These writings offer what human thought can
  • which acts in the human being like a living entity, and not thought
  • and man. These writings stand at an important point intermediate
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 4)
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  • the higher organs of perception within the human astral body. They are
  • observation open up a new world, and in this new world man becomes
  • The existence of these organs in the human being produces nothing of a
  • sensory character any more than human thinking produces some sort of a
  • rule, by most human beings through the ordinary relationships of life
  • spiritual perception must take place in this or that manner, and
  • proper time as is important for me. I do not demand it impatiently,
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  • receives from that world still resemble in many ways those of the
  • truths about the being of man become accessible to imaginative
  • entitled “The Essential Nature of Mankind.” To
  • death.” The other members of human nature — life body, sentient
  • human being who might wish to stop in this world would perceive the
  • are attained by man only when he has developed himself beyond the
  • world manifest themselves to him; then after a time he will experience
  • “man.” It is produced through the concordance of the sounds
  • preceding chapters of this book itself. How the human being takes
  • then shown how the cosmic being, within which the human being
  • the members of the human being and, on the other, the consecutive
  • the human physical body, the Sun state and the ether body, and so
  • forth. It must be shown that the germinal human physical body has come
  • transformations have taken place within the human being as a result of
  • occur in humanity as are expressed in the transformations during the
  • human being were it only perceived through imaginative cognition. One
  • understand the relationships between what happens to the human being
  • to facts that, so to say, touch upon immediate human interests.
  • fate of the human soul after death; if I am told something about that,
  • A description of the human states after death remains completely
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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 6)
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  • Man is able to attain knowledge by means of inspiration and intuition
  • soul activity. Such meditation must be carried out in regard to many
  • this is that the human being who is accustomed to have his inner life
  • equilibrium of the soul qualities. Man is only too easily inclined, if
  • man in every situation — even in the poorest surroundings — may have
  • transformed in the human soul. For example, somebody may discover that
  • viewed as a fault of character. Such an experience may cause the human
  • being to meditate in a twofold manner. He may simply say to himself,
  • capacities?” A human being posing this question to himself will
  • certainly be disastrous to the human being were he to let himself be
  • understand them; it will occur when this attitude is demanded by the
  • significance for the development of the human being; this is what is
  • able to admire the forces ruling in human life, and it is not of
  • little importance if we, even as mature human beings, can have
  • The greater the capacity of a human being to direct his attention to
  • make this clear. A man is in a certain situation in life where he may
  • he followed his judgment, but that by non-performance of the deed, a
  • blessing has ensued. Such an experience may lead man's thoughts into a
  • state of healthy premonition, that something exists in man that
  • human being directs his efforts toward an extension of soul-life, but
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• 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
  • which man adds to the scope of his faculties the “reading of the
  • body of a human being who has attained inspiration and intuition
  • present themselves to supersensible cognition in the following manner.
  • members of the human body in the most manifold way. The most important
  • radiations into external space. The more the human being is developed,
  • human ether body flow into one another. If that happens, the moment
  • has arrived when man perceives the world of inspiration consciously.
  • concepts is, in inspiration, given simultaneously with perception. Man
  • delicate, intimate, and subtle, and the human physical body is, at the
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  • other in the conditions of ordinary human life. One sees, for example,
  • way from feeling or thinking. A human being would not be in a healthy
  • but rather what displeases him. The human being now notices that on
  • torn by three personalities in as many directions and its inner unity
  • as a direct influx of currents into man, similar to thoughts. The
  • entire cosmos then appears as a thought-structure confronting man as
  • entrance into the supersensible world, man knew thinking, feeling, and
  • human soul may feel or think about it. With the images of the world of
  • according to what the human being feels or thinks. In this way he
  • a certain picture appears before man in the world of imagination. If,
  • are, independent of man, but they reflect what man is himself. They
  • in regard to what man notices in himself as his own essential nature,
  • being of man, no matter whether he himself knows much about this being
  • development it is necessary that man learn to distinguish between
  • surrounding world of soul and spirit. Now, certain facts of human
  • development demand that such self-knowledge must take place quite
  • naturally at the time of the entrance into the higher world. Man
  • for everything belonging to man. All his inclinations, sympathies,
  • may be designated as the karma of man. If this ego were to be seen
  • first image before the human soul when the latter ascends into the
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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 9)
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  • influence of the newborn ego strengthens and fortifies man's
  • phenomenon. Man beholds his newborn self as another being standing
  • which overtakes the human being when he first becomes aware of some
  • ordinary self of man has in consequence of the influence of the forces
  • of Lucifer. Now, however, in the course of human evolution another
  • power has entered the human soul through the influence of Lucifer.
  • book as the power of Ahriman. It is the power that prevents the human
  • form the human soul has assumed under the influence of this power is
  • adequate manner. — If, because of incorrect spiritual training, a person
  • degree, an individual shape for each human being. The encounter with
  • is free from personal coloring and applies to every human being.
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  • process described in this book, in order to understand man and his
  • relationship of everything that exists in the human being to
  • fact that every member of the human organism stands in a relationship
  • consider that the human physical body, for example, was present during
  • and soul body, the sentient soul, and the other principles. Man is
  • human being himself, and the greater world, the macrocosm. If the
  • the human being were to flow out into the universe, merging with it.
  • co-operation the world, to which the human being belongs, comes into
  • man on earth.” — If thus through intuition the Christ is recognized
  • supersensible worlds, which is described here, is one that every human
  • of man have been different in different ages. If the human being
  • out by the modern man without modification. Since that time, human
  • incarnation. Whoever considers human historical life, be it only
  • human beings have become different from what they were previously. The
  • departure for spiritual development just where the human being now
  • evolution leads mankind in regard to the path to higher knowledge from
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Present and Future of Cosmic and Human Evolution
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  • THE PRESENT AND FUTURE OFCOSMIC AND HUMAN EVOLUTION
  • IT IS IMPOSSIBLE to know anything of the present and future of human
  • within the conditions that confront the human being at present within
  • presents the shape the Earth had during its Moon evolution; the manner
  • They experience it just as the earth man experiences his body. At a
  • science, as the Venus evolution. In a similar manner there is, for a
  • those about the past. The human being cannot, at the outset, confront
  • occur in the future stirs human feelings and will; the past is endured
  • in quite a different manner. Whoever observes life knows how true this
  • successive stages within human evolution that in this book have been
  • period is the one in which mankind now stands, the present. This
  • The condition of the human soul and all the human faculties changed
  • world. What the human being now acquires as knowledge through his
  • possession of all mankind. During the Greco-Latin period there arose
  • more and more human beings who lacked such faculties. Instead of these
  • faculties, intellectual reflection upon objects began to appear. Human
  • significance when new faculties appear. Human life then adapts itself
  • conscious manner began to develop, besides the acquired powers of
  • had to begin to do this in a manner quite different from what was
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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Details From the Realm of Spiritual Science
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  • THE ETHER BODY OF MAN
  • IF HIGHER members of man are observed by means of supersensible
  • with the outer senses. If the human being touches an object and has a
  • true supersensible perception by the human being of our time, the
  • this manner, the less one will be able to distinguish between real
  • describe the general impression that the clairvoyant has of the human
  • physical man before him, he is capable of diverting his attention from
  • physical human being. Of course, a strong increase of will is
  • body and the other members of man's being may be described. Whoever
  • place of man appears like a separate cosmic body. If, however,
  • and Mars evolutions, and so forth. — When the human astral body yields
  • body of man during the waking state. Therefore, the name “astral
  • THE LIFE OF MAN AFTER DEATH
  • which, after the death of the human being, the astral body still
  • III.) The length of this period varies with different human beings. It
  • individual human being holds fast to the ether body, upon the degree
  • may have an impression of this power when it observes a human being
  • extreme length of time that a human being is able to remain awake does
  • When the ether body is released from man after death, a portion of it
  • still remains for the rest of man's future evolution. This may be
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  • II.The Essential Nature of Mankind
  • IV.The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man
  • VI.The Present and Future of Cosmic and Human Evolution
  • 1.The Ether Body of Man
  • 3.The Life of Man After Death
  • 4.The Course of Human Life
  • 6.The Members of Man's Being
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  • “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.”
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Preface First Edition
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  • author treats the simplest scientific concepts in a manner that shows
  • can only be called “absolute ignorance.” Many sentences
  • best that such expositions be laid aside with many other freaks of the
  • human mind.’ ” — What, however, does the author of this book say if
  • bear only a personal character. It must contain views that every human
  • coloring as far as this is humanly possible . The introduction of the
  • This would necessitate, however, the writing of many volumes of
  • human glandular or nervous system as he does, were he not at the same
  • to conclude that anyone who discusses “heat” in the manner
  • never heard of the existence of a man named Kant, according to whom it
  • Many kinds of possible criticism could still be cited. There might be
  • “It is incomprehensible how one and the same man can write these
  • wish to employ these human faculties. The author says without
  • and superstitious for the true. Many who are gladly satisfied with a
  • that this book makes too great a demand on the powers of thought. Yet
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Preface: Fourth Edition
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  • entirely indeterminable by human intelligence.” He who knows and
  • appreciates the reasons why so many earnest persons are lead to
  • into supersensible worlds is denied to human knowledge.
  • For two things offer themselves for consideration. First, any human
  • worlds. Yet there are human beings — really not few in number — who find
  • it impossible to remain deaf to the demands coming from these soul
  • that has been employed in determining the limits of the human
  • phrases about “academic wisdom” and the like. In many cases
  • himself, it may appear to many quite strange that he, nevertheless,
  • one has if one approaches the supersensible realm with the human
  • Human cognition, as it acts in everyday life and in ordinary science,
  • undertaken to show that the natural human eye with its power of
  • We can appreciate the feeling aroused in many a person by this
  • mankind. To prove that the human power of sight cannot penetrate to
  • The human power of cognition can be strengthened and enhanced, just as
  • number of human beings who have an understanding for the supersensible
  • by the manner of the description. This manner is, for example, one
  • and an experience is reached which is similar in every human being who
  • effects his development in the right manner out of his subjective
  • difficult to come to an understanding with many a thought habit of our
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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Preface: Seventh to Fifteenth Edition
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  • of this chapter. From many sides I could hear, “Other sciences
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  • In my imaginative perceptions the spiritual nature of individual man stood
  • the content I had seen as the nature of the life of individual man,
  • picture of the painter is to the man who does not paint. Moreover, the
  • in the second place, could be understood by every thinking human being
  • the consciousness of mankind was furthest removed from the world of
  • I counted upon the fact that there are human beings who feel, more or
  • called forth misunderstandings. From many sides was heard, “What
  • of what, in the course of the ages, has appeared in human thought
  • the astral body of man, that was a proof, to the critic, that I was
  • evolution of mankind, the cosmos, and so forth. In the details I have
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Special Comments
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  • memory, and what is here described as actual memory in man. Certainly,
  • of memory. We shall, however, never gain a real comprehension of man's
  • in the human being as the process of real perception of previous
  • ought to have a different word for the processes of memory in man. It
  • but, for the sake of understanding the human being, the significant
  • thing is the recognition of the difference between what occurs in man
  • ether body. They pass over into each other. If man learns something
  • the ether body. Everything that becomes a possession of the human soul
  • in a manner demanded by the facts. Sleep is supposed to be a result of
  • that a man, not at all tired, may fall asleep while listening to an
  • tired. Since the human soul can, through habit, arbitrarily call forth
  • 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
  • between human evolution and celestial bodies co-existing with the
  • since they had absorbed into themselves so many of the characteristics
  • there will be many objections to what has been brought forth here by
  • refuses at present to form thoughts that are not only demanded by
  • purely natural scientific manner and which will show that what
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