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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Character of Occult Science
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  • others is to cause them to think that what is meant by it must bring
  • souls by means of something that can be clearly understood. Their
  • cannot be said to be known by means of ordinary research. He who
  • these phenomena when grasped only by means of the senses and the
  • — What is meant here by
  • science, in its essential nature, is not recognized by means of the
  • subject matter it is dealing with, but by means of the human
  • produces its effect by means of his art of persuasion instead of
  • into human perception only by means of soul activity. The exponent of
  • therefore, to speak of the means by which a consideration of the
  • means of a proof applied from without The fact that this is not
  • meant here, these two thoughts express facts that can be experienced
  • if we use the right means. For many people these thoughts signify
  • world perceived by means of the human senses is the only one, that its
  • he, therefore, thinks that all questions may be answered by means of
  • be answered by means of the facts that he expects will be discovered
  • to him. To a person who has been led to occult science by means of
  • This question by no means concerns only the individual human being,
  • enter upon our own inner path to them. It is true that what is meant
  • means of the practical application of the soul exercises given in the
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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Essential Nature of Mankind
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  • however, the word will be limited to the meaning given above. It will
  • upon an enormous improvement in the means of sense-observation, and it
  • form and shape by means of the currents and movements of the ether
  • means of the mineral substances and forces contained in it, but only
  • within the body. With man this is by no means the case. He can produce
  • the existence of memory merely by means of inner observation. The
  • designation for a being has meaning only when this being applies it to
  • visualizations continue to work in the Intellect by means of their own
  • because it works by means of constant repetition. It therefore
  • knowledge to the means that enable him to undertake this work on the
  • spirit self and life spirit in full consciousness. These means will be
  • if they but held to the meaning of the above description and did not,
  • “spiritually invisible” to the spiritual means of
  • 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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  • what can be discovered by means of supersensible observation has once
  • corroboration by means of life itself is the proof that can be
  • required for such things. Anyone not desiring to employ the means for
  • 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
  • toward his environment he forms, by means of perception, thought
  • is of like nature to itself, to supply it with the means of
  • these capacities, and the means of accomplishing this will be
  • by means of a force whose existence is easily to be understood. If it
  • through the soul-life of man be explicable only by means of
  • world by means of physical sense organs becomes perceptible. It has at
  • this world for which the spiritual world offers no means of
  • desires also are satisfied by means of bodily organs, for in the
  • merely a transition from desires that can be satisfied by means of the
  • sense represent not beneficial but destroying forces in life. By means
  • means. Moreover, the only thing that then hinders that part from
  • this world, appear to these creatures as food by means of which their
  • invisible to the eye, were prowling around by means of which
  • impelled to desire only by means of that in the outer world for which
  • physical eye. What is to be described here may be illustrated by means
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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 1)
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  • its environment, to the dwelling place in which it evolves. By means
  • this relationship by means of knowledge that gathers its facts from
  • science. By means of such research one arrives at the beginning of
  • raising the hand. In a similar way the researcher, schooled by means
  • exists. By means of this spiritual insight, the spiritual is
  • which lumps of ice were gradually forming by means of ingeniously
  • ice is formed by means of refrigeration. For such a being, water would
  • here also. Supersensible facts can be investigated only by means of
  • the supersensible facts can be known only by means of spiritual
  • view by means of the above-mentioned logic, before he tries to
  • spirit. That is not what was meant when it was said that the hidden is
  • verification of the concealed by means of the manifest, in order to
  • If we trace back the evolution of the Earth by means of the
  • the evolution of the spirit as it is meant here. Whoever has come to
  • In this way, by means of the evolution of the Earth, man is brought a
  • not mean exactly what is meant by these words, light and heat, at the
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 2)
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  • within it, often meaningless and running counter to higher human
  • acute for those who understand spiritual science by means of something
  • meaning only for those who are able to acknowledge the repetition of
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 3)
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  • means of clairvoyant perception. — These sense organs thus are the fruit
  • beings, it is not intended to mean that they were only active at that
  • Saturn by means of supersensible cognition, this consciousness is
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 4)
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  • means of the forces of the life body. These structures represent the
  • what takes place upon the Sun, and this perception is by no means mere
  • Spirits of Personality. By means of this activity, the life body
  • means reach the goal of their evolution. There are some who fall short
  • personality. By means of supersensible consciousness it is possible to
  • the human being expresses this outwardly by means of a tone, and this
  • the actual meaning of the Sun evolution for the human being is gained
  • by means of all the processes that have been described. This human
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 5)
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  • fluid. This state may be called “water.” We do not mean by
  • experienced, and by means of the succeeding events, the reflecting
  • and by means of it developed their own life, which shaped itself
  • lifted above that life. By means of the capacities bestowed upon him
  • urge. — This picture consciousness is by no means one by which only
  • forces by means of the spirit, however, extends further. The beings
  • means of them. These senses, which belong to the physical human body,
  • means of ideas filled with wisdom, he would be unable to extract any
  • themselves. Anyone who wishes by means of wisdom to comprehend things
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 6)
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  • Therefore the Earth fire-ball is by no means a uniform substance, but
  • infuse the body, which has become more dense in the meantime, also
  • united inwardly with these forces, then he was able by means of
  • able to feel the Spirits of Form clearly by means of heat and who
  • same way as was the custom of a more ancient science. What is meant
  • body to regulate and control, by means of it, the images arising in
  • increased by means of spiritual influence. In the life of the soul
  • advanced described above. By this means the Luciferic power injected
  • Personality. By means of that portion of the life body not united with
  • spirit. Man, however, drew them — by means of the Luciferic nature — into
  • them by means of which they perceived only with that part of the ether
  • called here the Christ or Sun oracle — oraculum meaning the place where
  • meaning of Earth evolution. We would be in error were we to presuppose
  • physical body, nor could they be brought, by means of the described
  • the means at their disposal, which are not to be discussed any further
  • manifest in them. Then out of them and by means of them the high
  • (Maya). By all possible means the human being strove to gain insight
  • What is meant here by the “ancient Indians,” is not what is
  • men, Jupiter men, and other planetary men. By means of supersensible
  • as warriors and also what they invented as a means of gaining the
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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 7)
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  • who had had the least contact with what had occurred in the meantime
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 1)
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  • deal with the means through which the state of consciousness necessary
  • The means of initiation lead from the ordinary state of waking
  • certain transformation of his entire nature. The means for such a
  • would not be especially reassured even though the means of bringing
  • verbally or whether someone having the knowledge of this means
  • who has the will for his higher development the means for undertaking
  • undertake this transformation by means that elude the consciousness of
  • employs such means. A proper instruction does not make the pupil a
  • only then appear, but training may be just the right means of bringing
  • means of ennobling the conduct of life. On the other hand, as a result
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 2)
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  • acquires a means of lifting itself out of everyday consciousness. The
  • training that is under consideration here offers among the first means
  • consciousness. The most important means are just those that consist of
  • visualization must, by means of free will, be placed at the center of
  • We understand what it means to immerse ourselves in a visualized image
  • visualized picture, but that it has first been constructed by means of
  • of the symbol by means of thoughts and feelings of the above described
  • other examples of means for inner meditation are given. Especially
  • upon which to meditate may be given. In every case these means to
  • impression upon the physical senses is meaningless and the development
  • effective means of training varied for the individual man. — In regard
  • meditation is a means of acquiring knowledge about higher worlds, but
  • “Imaginative,” therefore, means something which is
  • his feeling the following: I now visualize something by means of
  • waking soul is not yet able to prevent by means of its own power. If,
  • continuity of consciousness during sleep.) It is not at all meant by
  • means of which we have only prepared ourselves for spiritual
  • significance. For through it the human being knows what it means to
  • ordinary self-love is meant. This self-love increases at this stage of
  • by means of inner force. If we have schooled ourselves in regard to
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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 3)
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  • observe these facts by means of the physical senses. Nevertheless, the
  • means of our senses. The observer of the sense world says to himself,
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 5)
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  • How we may read by means of this occult script, and how we may
  • communicate what is read, will now be made clear by means of the
  • separation, one then understands adequately the meaning of the process
  • the time not provable. What is meant here has naturally nothing to do
  • knowledge of a sense-being means to stand outside it and to judge it
  • being through intuition means to have become completely one with it,
  • nature, we must investigate it by means of intuition also in the
  • man by means of imagination and inspiration alone, would miss the
  • means of intuitive cognition. — If man himself wishes to have a
  • intuition. By means of it he perceives what progresses in him from
• 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
  • that has combined these parts, then he has a means for meditation that
  • development of which are beneficial when the student strives by means
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 7)
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  • at all by means of the physical body itself, also no breathing
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 8)
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  • perceive that by means of which he should develop inner organs in
  • moreover, so many means for the attainment of self-knowledge and
  • by the student of spiritual science by means of his ordinary power of
  • see that within this world one also finds the means of disposing of
  • means of unprejudiced observation, to rectify the delusion by means of
  • still possible. Through education, learning, and through other means
  • understand them by means of his capacity to judge. If on the other
  • qualities he has learned to perceive by means of unerring intuition.
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 10)
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  • revelation of the meaning and significance of Earth evolution that the
  • incarnation to incarnation is not without meaning and significance.
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Present and Future of Cosmic and Human Evolution
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  • as was comprehensible and good for them. — In harmony with the meaning
  • means of their own faculties, what had been comprehensible through
  • it is given in legend and myth, is understood in its deeper meaning,
  • only if one has acquired the necessary means that have been described
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Details From the Realm of Spiritual Science
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  • IF HIGHER members of man are observed by means of supersensible
  • what the physical eye beholds, then he is able by means of
  • who remains awake by means of inner strength. It now becomes evident
  • By means of imagination, inspiration, and intuition supersensible
  • being of man by means of the highest faculties, which began their
  • The question may be asked whether inner meditation and the other means
  • The answer to this must be: Whoever acquires by the described means
  • knowledge, for that which gives information about the meaning of life.
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Preface First Edition
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  • meant as a general prerequisite for everyone. Others may, with
  • endeavor to examine what is offered by means of the knowledge of their
  • not only meant the spiritual scientific test by supersensible methods
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Preface: Fourth Edition
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  • meaning and significance of life must remain unanswered if there be no
  • understanding by means of a comparison. The fact that comparisons
  • the faculty of eyesight can be strengthened. The means, however, for
  • realize that the meaning of life does not reveal itself in general
  • inadequate the means of presentation available to him prove to be in
  • means, does not have a merely subjective significance for the
  • training of the soul that is meant here, however, strives for
  • with the means that are possible and adequate for the soul in this
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Preface: Seventh to Fifteenth Edition
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  • however, sought, by means of a revision of the first chapter of this
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Preface: Sixteenth to Twentieth Edition
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  • is attained by means of healthy inner experience. This is achieved in
  • ancient meaning.
  • perceptive research by means of the state of consciousness that I have
  • investigate, by means of soul and spirit perception, the historical
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Special Comments
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  • possible, by means of mathematical concepts, to place the solar system