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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Character of Occult Science
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  • senses and the intellect serving them. If, however, such a person
  • possible, however, to rise above this arbitrary self-limitation and,
  • The human power of thought wishes to occupy itself with this latter
  • Something, however, arises here that may cause misgivings. In studying
  • about non-sensory world contents. Not, however, because such talk, in
  • world. It would, however, be of no avail if, at the very beginning of
  • unjustified. Since, however, in the case of scientists, or
  • should, however, never attempt to present his subject in a way that
  • these facts. A difference, however, is encountered with respect to
  • thinking, however, the activity, which in natural-scientific thinking
  • the visible, yet the human powers of cognition are unable to penetrate
  • viewpoint, however, the only reason for such an opinion can be the
  • is a transgression against the faculties bestowed upon man if we allow
  • Whoever thinks, however, that the views concerning the supersensible
  • by way of personal caprice. It must again be admitted, however, that
  • consciousness that the powers of cognition are capable of development,
  • that rests within the depths of things. If the power to descend into
  • its power to work and its trust in life is inexhaustible. No one who
  • communications, experiences that he, however, has not yet passed
  • through the power of suggestion, as it were, is unfounded. For the
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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Essential Nature of Mankind
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  • of this volume must be devoted. Here, however, a few thoughts must
  • the ordinary eye. Here, however, we shall describe the result of
  • perception, yet its effects are clearly evident to the reasoning power
  • however, is able to observe, as an independent member of the human
  • however, the word will be limited to the meaning given above. It will
  • naturally, nothing of a bodily nature, however tenuous we may picture
  • complicated than in the lifeless, however. Not so long ago, ordinary
  • science, too, held still other points of view. Whoever has followed
  • this, however, will not be inclined to make common cause with the
  • necessary. Acknowledgment of the concealed, however, will not be won
  • state, in so far as the manifest is concerned. This activity, however,
  • arises again when we awaken. The power that awakens life again and
  • that of animals and men in their waking state. That, however, can
  • pleasure. Memory, however, is only present when a being not only feels
  • animal anything similar to human memory. Such an objection, however,
  • power underlying memory may be called an inner power; the judgment
  • concerning this power is acquired, also in regard to one's own person,
  • arising of knowledge of an object that is present. What, however,
  • significance of which, however, must be appreciated. This fact is the
  • of view; also with the contention that no magical nimbus be bestowed
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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Sleep And Death
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  • were left to itself, it would have to crumble to dust. What, however,
  • facts of the sleeping state in their particular form. If, however,
  • such disturbance. This very disturbance, however, plays an important
  • power during waking life. The astral body carries on its waking
  • waking life, however, it is torn out of this world of its own. What
  • something isolated. Let us, however, take a little sponge and with it
  • physical environment in the narrower sense. Whereas the human being is
  • mechanical laws. In order that the house may be built at all, however,
  • on the power of judgment that the possibility of arriving at a proper
  • sense-perception and to the rules governing his power of reason. Yet
  • complete unconsciousness. It retains, however, something essential,
  • borrowed from it has something arbitrary about it. Every person has
  • however, less obvious in these facts. It is more difficult fully to
  • together; in death, the physical body, however, is severed from the
  • are statements that are clear to those endowed with supersensible
  • can be comprehended by ordinary thought power after it has once been
  • discovered. This thought power must consider in the right way the
  • experiencing anything new. What it does possess, however, is a memory
  • extent allowed by this body. Nothing is lost to the soul that makes an
  • out of the nature of the three lower bodies can only be active within
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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 1)
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  • members and transforms them. Out of this transformation, at a lower
  • lying behind these substances. If, however, this spiritual observation
  • We must not imagine, however, that at any time all that exists of a
  • perceive ice, not, however, the finer condition of water, out of which
  • supersensible perception; if, however, they have been investigated and
  • researcher who has the power of perception in supersensible realms may
  • thinking, may correct him. Essentially, however, there can be no
  • perception. — It cannot, however, be sufficiently emphasized that it is
  • cannot of itself lead to supersensible occurrences. If, however, this
  • One may ask: How can a sound power of thought accept the existence of
  • however remote, presents no impossibility. Only for someone who does
  • stage, however, stands at a higher level than that of the previous
  • however, that these designations must not, at the outset, be
  • representations borrowed from present earthly relationships. When, for
  • consciousness. Since, however, the present being of man cannot be
  • have acquired the power of discrimination and extend it to include the
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 2)
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  • be seen in the course of this description that the form, however,
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 3)
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  • there are solid, fluid, and gaseous bodies; heat, however, denotes
  • a solid, a fluid, or gaseous body. This condition, however, is only
  • example, who have no need at all of a physical body. The lowest
  • vehicle of these beings was an ether body; they had, however, besides
  • , “Dynameis,” or “Powers.”) They have no physical
  • or ether body, but their lowest vehicle is the astral body. When the
  • soul-qualities, however, are in no way its own, but only the
  • Their lowest member is also an astral body, but it stands at a stage
  • now intervene who likewise have the astral body as their lowest
  • itself, however, but only its reflection, as it were, the shell of
  • have the physical body as their lowest principle, but the astral body
  • however, and differs from day consciousness in degree and also in
  • process; the Spirits of Harmony, however, perceive it and are
  • appear to spiritual perception as though endowed with life, but their
  • that is, however, not controlled by an inner ego, but is regulated
  • of light begins, followed by a play of taste and tone; finally,
  • doing? Finally, however, we shall come to a point where the
  • observation, however, we shall notice that all questions concerning
  • dissolution, not, however, one in which it entirely disappears, but
  • Spirits of Wisdom on Saturn. The lowest principle of their being was
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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
  • conditions. The germinal human being, however, first appears on the
  • evolution. In order, however, that this second degree of perfection of
  • a separate part. This detached physical body, however, continues also
  • their form only momentarily. Now, however, they assume temporarily
  • from the Sun. If we observe more closely with our soul powers, the
  • were, by the human bodies and forms a kind of lower nature within the
  • independent life body In the manner described. There are, however,
  • however, there is no possibility of a similar activity by the retarded
  • of personality is bestowed upon the second kingdom of the Sun. Hence
  • mode of perceiving the lower kingdom existing outside himself. This
  • way comparable to an inner perception of smell. Outwardly, however,
  • that may be likened to that of the plant when its powers of growth lie
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 5)
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  • the powers of spiritual observation. It was previously perceptible to
  • these powers, but had disappeared from view during the period of rest.
  • being that shall be called the Moon. This Moon, however, must not be
  • gaseous body are also active within him. The latter, however, do not
  • life-endowed state of the Sun. At this time, however, all life still
  • however, the Spirits of Form do not give up their own nature to him,
  • this, however, our present water, but any fluid form of existence. The
  • of an independent life body. This is the lowest of the Moon kingdoms.
  • the human beings, by the two lower kingdoms just characterized, and by
  • result they acquire a still greater degree of power with which to work
  • Similar processes take place also in the two lower kingdoms.
  • present we have towering masses of rocks, so at that time harder
  • lifted above that life. By means of the capacities bestowed upon him
  • by these spirits he had the power to ennoble his own nature, indeed,
  • lower kingdoms.
  • organisms have been embodied, endowed with the most varied qualities.
  • stage; there are, however, others who, on the Sun, have retrieved
  • organisms. They enter a state in which the higher powers of the
  • have absorbed powerful forces in a free state, they are able to
  • Spirits of Fire, however, have risen to the degree of consciousness
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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 6)
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  • however, must first be prepared to receive what is to be bestowed upon
  • they have ascended into sublime worlds. The lowest of these worlds in
  • descend again to lower worlds. Before the physical Earth evolution
  • begins, they have descended so far that their lowest manifestations
  • the Earth enclosed by a cup at its lower end like an acorn. But the
  • He cannot, however, perceive these beings directly; he can only sense
  • the Earth. Man, however, needs for his further development a place of
  • this surface is turned away from the sun. It should not, however, be
  • quite different. It is, however, useful to realize here that the
  • air, however, is felt by the soul as something entirely of a
  • in an external world. They fashion themselves in plant and flowerlike
  • like fluttering flowers, and during the Earth period the human being
  • power, as an inner strengthening. Seen from without it appears as
  • effect of the sun the human soul also loses the power to control these
  • being, however, forsakes his body and returns to the spiritual state
  • from the time it is freed from the body no longer have the same power
  • do this with the solidified form. Other powers now intervene in the
  • of itself, but It also implants a part of its vivifying power into the
  • Since they were distributed over the whole Earth, however, they became
  • caused by the weakening of the power of the Earth element through the
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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 7)
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  • however, its influence also upon the body-free state after death. The
  • soul during earth life and of his retaining power beyond death. Among
  • power of Ahriman. The danger of the prehistoric Persian people was
  • prepared for a new earth life. During earth life the power of Ahriman
  • spiritual world this power leads the human being to complete
  • beings who at death are in the power of Ahriman are reborn as
  • Light. Since, however, during that time human interests between birth
  • sensory-physical existence to full flower, and they had thus doomed
  • visible symbols of their special spiritual powers. Superhuman forms
  • occurred after the middle of the Atlantean epoch. The initiates owed
  • existence. Through it the spiritual powers lying behind the forces of
  • beings behind nature. The creative powers of the forces active in
  • however, was only possible to be prophesied by the mysteries was that
  • to say, physical death cannot have any power over him. In such a human
  • to the being of the powers of nature in special states of the soul.
  • same time, however, the other kind of mysteries had affected his soul
  • human being to bring himself to a soul state that allowed him to
  • set bounds to the power of Ahriman. From this moment the realm that
  • illuminated by that spiritual lightning flash that showed its
  • Everything that flowed into the world of the senses poured forth from
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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 1)
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  • through these sense-activities. Whereas in sleep the soul has no power
  • to experience anything consciously, it is to receive this power from
  • cases of self-initiation. They should, however, not tempt us to
  • by spiritual powers with whose guidance no one should attempt to
  • interfere; we should wait patiently for the moment when such powers
  • can be revealed through his spiritual powers.” If such a thought
  • Other doubts, however, can still arise about such training. We may
  • presents it in a book that we then read. There are persons, however,
  • spiritual world. This view, however — considering the present stage of
  • during training. The experience, however, will always be accompanied
  • the course of previous lives. It may easily happen, however, that just
  • cannot, however, be a question of giving man general instructions for
• 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
  • to be true in this sense. The visualizations, however, to which the
  • a question of the soul's directing its powers in such a way that it
  • While the powers of everyday soul-life are distributed in many
  • instincts and passions through his higher soul powers. I visualize
  • visualization has a soul-awakening power if we surrender ourselves to
  • through preparation, its soul-illuminating power. During meditation,
  • however, we should not call forth in the soul all the preparatory
  • awakening power for certain purely soul faculties. To be sure, someone
  • nevertheless, borrowed from nature — the black color, the red roses, and
  • morally good. The contemplating soul, however, may now free itself
  • spiritual science, however, “imaginative” cognition is to be
  • the soul is compelled to draw forth much stronger powers from its own
  • also have developed such a power of will that it can extinguish, can
  • they gaze, powerless to withdraw them. Only one group of inner
  • fashioned from the stimuli of the world of the senses. If, however, he
  • sufficient inner soul power be present in order really to perceive
  • not elude the attention. This is, however, always the case with but
  • memory are great, however much we may endeavor to hold them back. Not
  • everyday life. — The very nature of the human being, however, makes
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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 3)
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  • world, this thought is not sense-free. It is, however, not a fact that
  • incomprehensible. These communications, however, are not only
  • its own power and that wishes to employ it. — By making what spiritual
  • although the thought associations are not effected by the power of
  • spiritual science lead us to sense-free thinking. There is, however,
  • to him, however, as a world of thought. He who feels himself in the
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 4)
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  • “lotus flowers,” according to the forms which they present
  • another of the “lotus flowers,” is formed. After all that
  • speaks of “lotus flowers” as though they were delicate,
  • soul-spirit nature. If, however, one forms a definite opinion right at
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 5)
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  • The psycho-spiritual organs, the lotus flowers, are fashioned so as to
  • so-called two-petalled lotus flower; the one in the neighborhood of
  • the larynx — the sixteen-petalled lotus flower; a third in the heart
  • region — the twelve-petalled lotus flower; a fourth in the region of the
  • organs may be likened to flowers of a corresponding number of petals.)
  • One becomes conscious of the lotus flowers through the astral body.
  • physical world there is, however, a significant difference. Certain
  • Development, however, does not stop with the imaginative world. The
  • the physical-sensory world; in the world of inspiration, however, this
  • themselves to imaginative knowledge. It is, however, also necessary
  • separation of the moon. It was necessary also to describe the powers
  • symbols or sounds. This “reading,” however, is not only
  • that during the period of flowering has overshadowed the plant from
  • What, however, takes place when man advances further into the period
  • intuition. This part of the being of man, however, is always present
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 6)
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  • however, those exercises that lead to imagination are linked to the
  • process — I wish to hold fast to; I let the picture itself, however,
  • unfolds leaf on leaf, until it develops flower and fruit. Then again,
  • growth and decay. If one wishes, however, to attain the corresponding
  • measures that can lead to safeguarding and strengthening of his power
  • question of chief importance here, however, is equanimity and
  • off from the impressions of the outer world. This, however, leads to
  • added something to his understanding of life. It would, however,
  • but only through understanding them. If, however, because of
  • powers. — It is especially so with a soul quality that is of great
  • exalted powers makes himself thus mature for knowledge of
  • of things is closed to him. — The person, however, who permits himself
  • own personality and in having faith that its powers will continually
  • he followed his judgment, but that by non-performance of the deed, a
  • may be investigated if the necessary powers are present.
  • wait until such answers come to them. — If, however, they become
  • experiences. Were there to be, however, nothing left in his
  • meditation just as we had previously surrendered to what owes its
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  • lotus flowers in the astral body. Through the exercises that are
  • of these currents flow to the lotus flowers, permeating them and their
  • perceptible. The center in the region of the heart does not, however,
  • flowers serve him as organs through which he brings the ether body
  • into motion. Before this occurs, however, special currents and
  • supersensible forces of the physical body. One should not, however,
  • inner tranquility, the powerful hindrances of the physical body are
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 8)
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  • followed by a feeling of pleasure or displeasure. One may, perhaps,
  • another. That is, the power of desire and will associate with
  • healthy order would be interrupted if the ego were to prove powerless
  • This separation, however, must only exist during supersensible
  • certainty and firmness to the power of judgment, and to the life of
  • would cease. If, however, the development of the student proceeds in
  • another seventh power and being appears that is similar to one's own
  • itself in a certain form. At the moment, however, when pleasure or
  • thinking, feeling, and willing. This, however, is an inner perception;
  • question. If man, however, penetrates into himself and confronts
  • concealed feeling, however, acts in a similar manner to the feeling of
  • perception. — If, however, through correct training man strives to
  • this world. It is a fact, however, that this concealed feeling acts
  • like a great benefactor of man. For all that man acquires of power of
  • for higher knowledge, in the fostering of a healthy power of judgment,
  • himself acquainted through his power of judgment with the evolution of
  • understood, through his ordinary power of judgment developed in the
  • by the student of spiritual science by means of his ordinary power of
  • firmness of the power of judgment, of the life of feeling and
  • If, however, the encounter were entirely avoided — something that might
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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 9)
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  • and the soul-power that, in the above description, has resulted as the
  • powers. — In the higher world, self-knowledge is different, in a certain
  • will, however, not astonish a person who keeps in mind the fact that,
  • of Lucifer. Now, however, in the course of human evolution another
  • power has entered the human soul through the influence of Lucifer.
  • This is the power that was designated in an earlier section of this
  • 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
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  • possible to indicate the facts in a sketchy outline. We must, however,
  • from the untrained power of judgment. — The stages of higher knowledge,
  • I. Study of spiritual science, in which one employs one's power of
  • however, also encountered the “greater guardian of the
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Present and Future of Cosmic and Human Evolution
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  • consciousness, however, not everything is perceptible that, having
  • however, is able to obtain a picture of the previous condition. If
  • in which the other picture shows itself, however, reveals that it
  • With the power of cognition described, not only images of the physical
  • however, are stragglers of a more ancient epoch. The kind of knowledge
  • faculties. There were, however, also individuals who in a quite
  • conscious manner began to develop, besides the acquired powers of
  • however, certain initiates who still possessed the natural clairvoyant
  • fact that they paid no attention to the new powers of intellect and
  • powers of intellect and feeling. The souls who were incarnated at that
  • time with highly developed powers of intellect and feeling carried
  • concerning the Christ event — traditions that by the very power of their
  • human beings always existed who developed the higher powers of
  • cognition. From them there flowed into the souls of other men as much
  • necessity to occur just at a time when the powers of supersensible
  • because of this that the force of tradition was so powerful at that
  • epoch was the fostering of the powers of the intellect, whereas the
  • and more of its power over the human soul. But in its place there
  • in this book. If, however, such research has been made, these facts
  • in a still dim way. The new possession will, however, have a form
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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Details From the Realm of Spiritual Science
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  • These perceptions appear at a certain stage of development, however,
  • developed such a power of will that, in spite of the presence of a
  • currents of the ether body. We may, however, describe the ether body
  • place of man appears like a separate cosmic body. If, however,
  • cosmic bodies, physically separated from the earth. The knower of
  • depends upon the degree of power with which the astral body of the
  • may have an impression of this power when it observes a human being
  • lengths of time without being overpowered by sleep. For the most
  • so forth. These are changes, however, in which certain repetitions
  • 2,100 years, one as a man and one as a woman. These things, however,
  • essentials; in individual cases, however, they show themselves varied
  • after birth only as independent forces. Later in life, however,
  • body takes place. The human being, however, still continues to be
  • development. The astral body, however, participates in all processes
  • new birth so that this becomes comprehensible. There are, however,
  • everything that happens to man. The affairs of these beings, however,
  • on earth are the most exalted, belong there to those on a lower level.
  • among the lowest. In those higher regions, reasoned conclusions
  • transformation, however, is preceded by another on a lower stage, and
  • consciousness soul upon a transformed physical body. We may, however,
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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Preface First Edition
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  • human mind.’ ” — What, however, does the author of this book say if
  • This would necessitate, however, the writing of many volumes of
  • what modern science knows about them. This statement, however, is not
  • author of this book, however, intends to hold to the above expressed
  • regard to this book it is necessary, however, to state such things, in
  • conclusion, however, might also be drawn: “For the philosopher,
  • modern criticism. It is, however, possible really to know how, in the
  • of a more than crude dualism.” — The author of this book, however,
  • regard, however, is contained in the book itself. It is shown there
  • chapter, The Character of Occult Science. Something more, however, is
  • that lie beyond the power of the intellect bound to the sense world,
  • that this book makes too great a demand on the powers of thought. Yet
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  • undertaken to show that the natural human eye with its power of
  • declaration is true and demonstrable that the ordinary power of sight
  • into supersensible worlds. Yet the proof that the ordinary power of
  • research into the cells. Why should the proof that the ordinary power
  • mankind. To prove that the human power of sight cannot penetrate to
  • must, however, be strongly emphasized that only those can suspect in
  • The human power of cognition can be strengthened and enhanced, just as
  • the faculty of eyesight can be strengthened. The means, however, for
  • our own. — On the other hand, however, we have the fact that there are a
  • training of the soul that is meant here, however, strives for
  • entirely inwardly, the universal validity of which, however, is
  • appear of value. The question, however, may be asked: What have the
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  • however, sought, by means of a revision of the first chapter of this
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  • book, I may well be allowed to say something publicly about the state
  • relationships, however, which had to be presented in Occult Science
  • cannot, however, be presented in such thoughts alone. For this
  • In order, however, to make such a comprehension really possible, the
  • I sought, however, for such a possibility of expression in every case
  • fixed on the expressions. If I spoke of “lotus flowers” in
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Special Comments
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  • of memory. We shall, however, never gain a real comprehension of man's
  • is not the word, however, that is important in the above presentation,
  • and through it gains a certain power of discrimination, then a change
  • has occurred in the astral body; if however, this judgment or
  • cannot do this, however, if at the end something appears that
  • The present Jupiter has arisen, however, through the presence of
  • cosmos to one endowed with soul. To show — which could very well be