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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Character of Occult Science
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  • natural-scientific method; that is to say, it holds fast to just the
  • degree, from purely inner impulses, the ability to hold fast to the
  • allow the capacity of soul unfolded through a knowledge of nature to
  • fact that the person holding it has no knowledge of this other kind of
  • which he himself admits his ignorance? Unprejudiced thinking must hold
  • to him. This death and despair in their manifold forms are, at the
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Essential Nature of Mankind
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  • supersensible knowledge, with people holding such views. It ought
  • influence of heat and cold, pain and pleasure, under certain regularly
  • intellect, as consciousness soul it takes hold of its own being.
  • spirituality. Here, however, man must first take hold of this
  • to take hold of the spirit in all manifestation, he must do it in the
  • same way he takes hold of the ego in the consciousness soul. He must
  • subject to the manifold changes of existence; religious experiences,
  • sevenfold scale, so does the homogeneous human nature appear in the
  • the case in regard to the sevenfold membering of the human being. (On
  • that in the case of colors the number seven does not hold good, since
  • he has no intention of renewing the old concept of “life
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Sleep And Death
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  • as a result of this, unfold a subsequent activity, body-free, in a
  • thought are prevalent. Those who hold such thoughts can naturally say
  • told by people who have experienced such things comes very near the
  • unfolds like a seed upon which the spiritual environment acts that has
  • environment in order to develop into a new plant, so, too, unfolding
  • brilliant capacities unfold in him, he is cut out for a fruitful,
  • may not wish to use the word “chance,” still those who hold
  • will hold that even in the outer world nothing occurs at a definite
  • relationship. But those holding this view should not be blamed if they
  • from those of the persons who merely hold to the facts of the senses.
  • suppose that two men get hold of a stick of sealing wax. One makes
  • which the experience can be attained, however, holds good for
  • everyone, just as the method of proving a mathematical problem holds
  • corresponding thoughts just referred to, is the only one that holds
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 1)
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  • being stand in the most manifold relationships to the whole cosmos and
  • element as it does of the spiritual element that holds sway, also at
  • just as in his perception of a man of fifty the one-year-old child is
  • you, besides the man of fifty, one-year-old children and all the
  • one-year-old children are present. Within the earthly events of the
  • them fit to receive the ego. The unfoldment of the ego within the
  • The relationship that these worlds of the ancient past hold to the
  • their destinies upon Saturn, Sun, and Moon are truly as manifold as
  • not be misunderstood by the one who holds the existence of such
  • three-year-old children move about alongside fifty-year-old men and
  • full scope of the conditions of life. The three-year-old child exists
  • alongside the fifty-year-old man; similarly, the corpse, the sleeping,
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 2)
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  • the oldest. It is also the member that, in its own way, has attained
  • Saturn unfolded again, as though from a germ of a past evolution, and
  • shows that the physical body has passed through a fourfold
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 3)
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  • throughout, but would find hot and cold regions alternating in the
  • with hot or cold gaseous, fluid, or solid bodies. Especially the man
  • say, “I feel warm,” “I feel cold.” This inner
  • could not have the consciousness described above. They behold the
  • were, to unfold themselves.
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 4)
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  • to be permeated by the life body. We have now before us a twofold
  • work for a time upon the twofold human being just as they had worked
  • upon them, these gaseous structures were in ceaseless motion, holding
  • pictures of their perceiving consciousness. They behold supersensibly
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 5)
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  • A twofold element now appears within the newly emerging planetary
  • spiritually and materially, a twofold life: one that stood in close
  • own independent way. This division into a twofold life expresses
  • the above described vaporous environment. The most manifold processes
  • drying out process. When the sun period again drew near, these old
  • then, as though from the grave of his old corporeality, he arose,
  • life. The old body had become unusable; it was cast off and then
  • with the Son of Life. Even though he may not behold him, nevertheless
  • they saw themselves, as it were, manifolded in the individual human
  • is not until the Earth period that their unfolding and that of the
  • Life lives in and through me; he beholds the Moon environment through
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 6)
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  • following the Moon period, he can unfold in himself a degree of
  • is inherent in the seed coming from the old plant, so in the beginning
  • it unfolds again, to receive the more highly developed life body.
  • enabled to unfold themselves in the physical world.)
  • sufficiently prepared to behold the sublime sun beings themselves.
  • behind in their ancient Moon state had a twofold consequence for man.
  • unfolding a free activity in his consciousness, but at the same time
  • the most manifold way. Many examples of feelings and sensations due to
  • unfolded their chief activity is designated the
  • this Luciferic influence they were in the position of unfolding the
  • through this exalted Being an understanding of the Christ unfolded
  • others, they were unable to behold the manifestation of the Christ
  • supple, and easily molded. A human being who expressed more intensely
  • immobile, less easily molded bodily forms. Advancement in soul
  • Atlantean evolution in which, through the laws holding sway in and
  • described. During the unfolding of these second and third
  • it was possible for supersensible perception to behold them in the
  • region of the spiritual sun. He was able to behold these powers when
  • to unfold in itself the soul faculties that could be gained through
  • physical sense world in such a way that although it could behold the
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 7)
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  • twofold way, either by being led to the spirit of the super-human or
  • assumed, in the normal course of Earth evolution, the role of molding
  • behold the kingdom of the Sun Spirit outside of earthly evolution. Now
  • which after various migrations and most manifold destinies had made
  • present and shows itself in the most manifold phenomena of life. The
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 1)
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  • knowledge. These doubts disappear if one holds in mind the nature of
  • carries them out. There is no need to withhold the reason why this or
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 2)
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  • when the eye no longer beholds the latter, is a memory of the tree.
  • blossom unfolds, and now we think of a human being beside this plant.
  • remains cold and much less effective than when it has received,
  • our inner eye, at the same time letting the feeling hold sway that has
  • as an example. In spiritual training the most manifold pictures of
  • but the holding sway, for a certain length of time, of the feeling
  • higher degree upon the unfolding of the soul faculties, when they are
  • help of the body because of the weaker unfolding of its forces in that
  • previously unorganized soul-spirit nature. The individual beholds
  • He will have to employ great inner energy in order to hold fast in
  • must be able not only to hold fast to these visualizations, but he
  • beginning as a soul-spirit organism and what is to be taken hold of by
  • memory are great, however much we may endeavor to hold them back. Not
  • natural processes hold back the influences of the outer world that the
  • world of soul and spirit. This may happen in a twofold way. It may be
  • behold a world of soul and spirit, or if, after waking, he can look
  • old being like a second alongside the new. What, up to the present,
  • this control is to be acquired through practice has a twofold purpose.
  • inner firmness and the capacity to hold the attention strictly to one
  • contradict the old.
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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 5)
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  • designates the impressions as sensations of heat or cold, as
  • which must unfold themselves to him like a supersensible script.
  • fate of the human soul after death; if I am told something about that,
  • Saturn, Sun, and Moon evolutions was described, but it was told that
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 6)
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  • process — I wish to hold fast to; I let the picture itself, however,
  • I do not wish to hold the image itself; I wish to live quite inwardly
  • unfolds leaf on leaf, until it develops flower and fruit. Then again,
  • and wavering when he has to unfold a soul-life that has discarded all
  • these precautions, then he will have a twofold result. In the first
  • faculties as favor the unfolding of supersensible knowledge. If he
  • new impressions and new experiences, but also by permitting the old to
  • being to meditate in a twofold manner. He may simply say to himself,
  • feelings that holds him back from the deed. Now it may be that he does
  • must hold my mind open to this ,something in me that cannot at all be
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 7)
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  • members of the human body in the most manifold way. The most important
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 8)
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  • transform his nature that it may unfold spiritual organs of
  • the threshold that lies before the world of soul and spirit.”
  • encountering the “guardian of the threshold,” man were to
  • “guardian of the threshold,” his own inner nature, which he
  • the “guardian of the threshold.” This encounter will be the
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 9)
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  • of the threshold,” further experiences await him as he ascends
  • relationship exists between this “guardian of the threshold”
  • Doppelganger, the “guardian of the threshold” himself, and
  • phenomenon. Man beholds his newborn self as another being standing
  • threshold,” and place it before the “higher self” in
  • threshold” begins to take on quite a different form. He presents
  • the “guardian of the threshold,” now stands before the soul.
  • “guardian of the threshold” calls forth can be of such a
  • in the first instance as the “guardian of the threshold.” In
  • threshold” in contrast to the already described “lesser
  • with the “greater guardian of the threshold,” something
  • “lesser guardian of the threshold” is afforded the
  • that finally lead to the “greater guardian of the threshold”
  • The “guardian of the threshold” will assume, to a certain
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 10)
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  • everything has unfolded itself step by step. Through spiritual
  • Doppelganger, the “guardian of the threshold.” He has,
  • threshold,” who stands before him as an ever present exhorter to
  • threshold.” To the perception of the student of the spiritual
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Present and Future of Cosmic and Human Evolution
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  • to these new faculties, and it is no longer able to exercise the old
  • soul. Through such initiates a transition was created from the old
  • themselves unable to behold this world, to a trust in the
  • evolution of the intellectual faculties, which have unfolded to an
  • exuberant blossoming and will unfold still further in the present and
  • knowledge,” which from this side takes hold of mankind now and
  • will take hold of it more and more in the future, may be called
  • quite different from the old. What the soul knew in ancient times of
  • unfolds itself into a “cosmos of love.” Everything that the
  • ego is able to unfold within itself is to become love. The exalted Sun
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Details From the Realm of Spiritual Science
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  • what the physical eye beholds, then he is able by means of
  • individual human being holds fast to the ether body, upon the degree
  • a new birth, unfolds as a germinal beginning of the subsequent life.
  • in the most manifold way. How long the human being remains in the
  • being into earth-life occurs. Since there must be a twofold
  • developed in such a way that it has first unfolded in itself what was
  • in old age. — As a result the course of human life falls into three
  • periods: one in which the physical and ether bodies unfold; another in
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Preface First Edition
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  • author of this book, however, intends to hold to the above expressed
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Preface: Fourth Edition
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  • system. A person holding the point of view out of which this book is
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Preface: Sixteenth to Twentieth Edition
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  • present day but does not yet behold the world of spirit.
  • autosuggestion playing a role, so — I told myself — spiritual perception
  • in older descriptions of the spiritual in order to be able to express
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Special Comments
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  • being if we do not hold in mind what appears quite especially unique
  • environment where especially the sun characteristics were unfolded.
  • beings who possessed characteristics that can only unfold on the