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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Character of Occult Science
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  • wishes to understand himself, he must acknowledge that he rejects
  • possible, however, to rise above this arbitrary self-limitation and,
  • The human power of thought wishes to occupy itself with this latter
  • world-content just as it occupies itself, in the other case, with the
  • nature as a kind of self-education of the soul and to apply what it
  • call itself a science.
  • but an experiencing of what the human soul itself is not. The
  • process of acquiring Knowledge The soul experiences itself in its
  • something besides the knowledge of nature itself: it is
  • self-development experienced in acquiring knowledge of nature. Occult
  • science desires to employ the results of this self-development in
  • acknowledge it even more than the natural scientist himself. He knows
  • self-evident that in such cases there arises much unscientific talk
  • instance, scientific self-education in the observation of nature has
  • to be in error, himself possesses the above characterized firm
  • himself with an exposition of occult science will soon see that
  • These facts cannot be discovered if the path to them is itself not
  • riddles can be solved out of itself, and that, although the human
  • science, which is based upon assured facts, cannot concern itself with
  • questions are self evident and that they must be recognized as a fully
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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Essential Nature of Mankind
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  • that limits itself to the manifest. These effects express themselves
  • the denial of the concealed, but by placing the concealed itself in
  • the light of consciousness. An ether body, left entirely to itself,
  • body. Sense-observation is not concerned with the astral body itself,
  • entity. — If the astral body were left to itself, pleasure and pain,
  • upon a fatal error. What man has to say to himself about his capacity
  • what he experiences with himself in relation to the things and
  • occurrences of the outer world. Man has these experiences with himself
  • relationships in regard to oneself, so one can judge them in regard to
  • objects. This is the activity by which the ego severs itself more and
  • through its very nature, distinguishes itself from every other name.
  • itself. The name “ I ” can never resound to the ear of a human
  • being from without as his designation; only the being himself can
  • apply it to himself. “I am an ‘ I ’ to myself only. For every other
  • becomes aware of itself as an I. Just as the sentient and intellectual
  • souls live in the outer world, so a third soul member immerses itself
  • Divine within himself because his innermost being is drawn from the
  • an inner knowledge of himself, just as he gains through his astral
  • place, consciousness of self is more ancient than the word I. Personal
  • such, uses for himself, no matter by what proper name others may call
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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Sleep And Death
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  • life, and we must admit that much that has called itself occult
  • left to itself, life becomes weak and sickly, supersensible knowledge
  • were left to itself, it would have to crumble to dust. What, however,
  • corroboration by means of life itself is the proof that can be
  • role in human existence. It expresses itself in the fact that the
  • is of like nature to itself, to supply it with the means of
  • astral body on awaking. During sleep it is in a world like itself; in
  • perception, it must separate itself from its own world. From this
  • during the waking state he lifts himself out of this all-encompassing
  • awakens and finds himself in the act of unconsciously throwing off a
  • their activity, something creative asserts itself in man. This is the
  • teacher, while directly afterwards the teacher, himself, answers the
  • occurrences to himself, as the same individual. Thus, in order to
  • recognize himself as an enduring ego, he must be equipped with the
  • did not exist, the ether body could not sever itself from the physical
  • happens if a person for one reason or another sees himself suddenly
  • critics. To be sure, for supersensible perception itself there is no
  • ether body and the astral body, the latter is left to itself in its
  • the ego has developed spirit self, life spirit, and spirit man. As far
  • member that needs no external organs for self-perception; it also
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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 1)
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  • consciousness soul. At a higher stage of human existence, spirit self,
  • that the earth itself, this dwelling place of man in the most
  • into themselves, and how did this ego itself come into existence and
  • development of the earth planet itself, in the sense of spiritual
  • mode of thought that restricts itself to the processes of the physical
  • supersensible knowledge itself is dealt with. — We must also consider
  • process that he himself is unable to observe, since pure thinking is
  • itself a supersensible activity. Thinking, as a sensory activity,
  • cannot of itself lead to supersensible occurrences. If, however, this
  • supersensible perception, it then grows through itself into the
  • characterized above, the actual Earth itself. The essential nature of
  • falls into two parts. In the first period, the Earth itself appears as
  • Earth now contains within itself the germinal nuclei of the human
  • upon the Earth itself. Therefore in our descriptions of these states
  • Saturn and Sun are to be described. What presents itself there to
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 2)
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  • only then could it draw into itself an etheric body. Through this
  • from the Sun to the Moon, received into himself the astral body, and
  • future, the astral body will have perfected itself, it will have a
  • elude the scientific mode of observation that confines itself only to
  • being indulges himself altogether too much in enjoyments and desires
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 3)
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  • heat as something in itself, but to perceive it only in connection
  • itself. When the smallest particles of a gas are in motion, this
  • fashioned itself out of the heat body as a result of the insertion
  • ego, spirit self, and life spirit. Just as our earth is surrounded by
  • could have been discovered on Saturn itself, but through its activity
  • oneself through spiritual perception to the beginning of the Saturn
  • itself, however, but only its reflection, as it were, the shell of
  • what here presents itself to supersensible cognition. The interior of
  • itself appears with the simplest, dullest form of consciousness. We
  • the life of Saturn itself. What constitutes the Saturn life on a large
  • human will manifests itself to supersensible perception through
  • nature. If he gives himself up to ideas that he himself forms in his
  • something within himself that physical senses cannot perceive; on the
  • finally, a spiritual state of being that is complete within itself and
  • needs no external being in order to become conscious of itself. Pure
  • emerges out of the darkness as a being of will; it advances itself to
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 4)
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  • itself attains the first degree of its perfection during the Sun
  • closely-bound whole, the physical body now begins to detach itself as
  • such a state manifests itself after the Spirits of Motion have begun
  • their activity. The following spectacle presents itself to
  • from itself. We might thus also speak of light structures that are
  • time retain full self-consciousness. His pictorial perception will not
  • himself through spiritual-scientific training. The nature of this
  • called love were making itself felt in the images that stream forth
  • itself advances a stage on its evolutionary journey. It acquires the
  • itself into two sections on the Sun. One section is absorbed, as it
  • the human physical body was alone developed. Upon the Sun itself,
  • personality of their own upon the Sun itself, but who reflect back to
  • mode of perceiving the lower kingdom existing outside himself. This
  • develops an inward life that manifests itself to consciousness in a
  • toward cosmic space, this human being presents himself as a
  • manifests itself like a machine. Just as at that time the first germ
  • expresses itself outwardly as a kind of primitive language. If a
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 5)
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  • during the Sun period, had detached itself as a new Saturn, is once
  • pause, this new Saturn had again united itself with the Sun.
  • body itself has passed through a development to which the physical
  • nature of passion and desire. This expresses itself gradually by a
  • life; the environment then imprints itself upon this severed being as
  • independently. — In this way the Moon body severed itself from the sun
  • and by means of it developed their own life, which shaped itself
  • into these conditions. Thus the Moon body contained within itself,
  • itself in all subsequent events of the Moon embodiment.
  • mass and more mobile in itself. This kingdom spread itself out over
  • the other like a viscous sea. The human being himself may be called a
  • thus beheld himself as a copy of the cosmos, while his sun-part felt
  • itself only as a copy of the sun. — These two kinds of beings began a
  • and pain within itself, but it relates them to itself. It has not yet
  • attained a full ego consciousness that says to itself, “I
  • exist,” but it feels itself borne and sheltered by other beings
  • and a sleeping man does not perceive the actual event itself, but
  • laws to be able to conduct himself according to the
  • rises out of the former like a kind of head. It is in itself mobile,
  • described, in the conditions of life within the human being himself.
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• 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
  • through the sentient soul man feels himself bound to the body of the
  • same time the astral body detaches a part of itself; this becomes the
  • soul says to itself, “These are the Spirits of Personality.”
  • experiences in himself as tone; the intellectual soul says to itself,
  • expresses itself again in condensing. The Earth receives the watery
  • event takes place. An independent cosmic body severs itself from the
  • be able to sense the effects of the sun beings within himself if his
  • passes through a day and a night period. (This expresses itself
  • developing embryonic body. The soul feels itself surrounded completely
  • as previously. Formerly, the soul fashioned the body for itself from
  • present that contains also the vivifying force itself. By its
  • of itself, but It also implants a part of its vivifying power into the
  • likeness itself. The spiritual beings who affect the Earth from the
  • himself is not on Earth. By incarnating, the soul feels not only the
  • himself belonging to the beings of soul and spirit with whom he was
  • soul — returning to earth — to unite itself again with the body. Now the
  • occurred on the earth itself, but it united itself with it and caused
  • itself that is enkindled by the earth fire. Then this astral body is
  • itself still further, so that it is transformed from a light body into
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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 7)
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  • isolation, to concentration of all interests only upon himself. Human
  • of the Spirit of Light, to Whom the initiate lifts himself in a
  • through natural heritage bore within itself the characteristics of the
  • human consciousness from the moon, manifested himself to him. In
  • had to come revealed Himself to Moses from two directions as the
  • human being to bring himself to a soul state that allowed him to
  • opposed what in the post-Atlantean humanity had fashioned itself as
  • present and shows itself in the most manifold phenomena of life. The
  • period already proclaims itself. For what is to arise in human
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 1)
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  • waking. During its waking state the soul surrenders itself to
  • that case, find itself in a state of nothingness? Would it be unable
  • ordinary outer world, would then find itself in a state similar to
  • self-awakening. Such a human being will find that through it his
  • cases of self-initiation. They should, however, not tempt us to
  • such self-initiation, doing nothing to bring about initiation through
  • proper training. Nothing need be said here about self-initiation, for
  • it is possible through ordinary self-examination without spiritual
  • training, may ask himself after encountering the rules recommended for
  • is willing to surrender himself to such training only, and who does
  • not permit himself to be driven to blind faith by prejudice of any
  • self-awakening of the spiritual organs of perception such training is
  • self-initiation, is not compelled to pass through the most varied,
  • leads straight forward. If self-initiation takes place for such a
• 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
  • soul must open itself for the purpose of spiritual training have no
  • upon itself than when it employs symbolic visualizations that are
  • I may say to myself that the human being has a greater perfection than
  • of the growing plant; I can produce within myself the feeling of how
  • feeling of liberating joy may stir in me when I surrender myself to
  • dedicated to the actual meditation itself, to repeat the construction
  • shows itself to be especially effective. Let us take, for example, the
  • It may say to itself, an action performed through goodness of heart is
  • morally good. The contemplating soul, however, may now free itself
  • on for a long time before the student himself is able to perceive any
  • inner activity is thereby enhanced. It liberates itself from the
  • experiences itself in its true inner, independent nature, while in the
  • everyday waking state it becomes conscious of itself only through the
  • state, and does not, therefore, experience itself, but is only aware
  • say to himself, “My consciousness is not extinguished when I
  • can lift myself out of them and then feel myself as a being alongside
  • self, has lifted itself out of the self that is only bound to the
  • pupil had released himself from the world of the senses and intellect,
  • in a certain sense, self-perception. It belongs to the essence of
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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 3)
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  • what we may call familiarizing oneself with sense-free thinking. If
  • since I am unable to perceive the spiritual world myself?”
  • human thinking, when it arouses itself with inner energy, is able to
  • comprehend more than is usually presumed. For in thought itself an
  • research offers increasingly one's own, one accustoms oneself to a
  • really thinking, finds oneself already in the region of a living
  • supersensible world. One says to oneself, “There is something in
  • this something.” By surrendering oneself to sense-free thinking
  • means of our senses. The observer of the sense world says to himself,
  • it makes itself known to me through its color and fragrance.” One
  • oneself when sense-free thinking acts in one, “Something real
  • experienced when spiritual reality manifests itself in sense-free
  • something external to himself. The observer who has surrendered
  • himself to sense-free thought feels the spiritual reality announcing
  • itself as though it existed within him, he feels himself one with it.
  • feeling, “Whatever has the nature of being in itself may also
  • announce itself to me by my being united with it as though I were one
  • and those one experiences in oneself when one silences this arbitrary
  • silent within myself; I produce no thought associations; I surrender
  • myself to what ‘thinks in me.’ ” Then one is fully justified in
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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 4)
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  • acquainted with himself as a new ego. The new organs of observation
  • close oneself to it. If someone repeatedly says to himself, “I
  • practice itself he stands in a world of soul and spirit, and with
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 5)
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  • to this point perceives the releasing itself from the physical body of
  • himself in the newly attained world. The imaginative world is an
  • are attained by man only when he has developed himself beyond the
  • person who seeks cognition of the supersensible world develop himself
  • perceives, but in which he is able to orientate himself, and which he
  • the feeling, “Now I am beginning to orientate myself.” — The
  • preceding chapters of this book itself. How the human being takes
  • to orientate oneself within the imaginatively perceived.. Without
  • understanding of the macrocosmic phenomena and to limit himself only
  • shows itself in a condition similar to the Earth after the sun had
  • severed itself and the moon forces were still present in it. If one
  • means of intuitive cognition. — If man himself wishes to have a
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 6)
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  • to himself what has to happen there, let a person consider again the
  • 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
  • meditate upon what he has himself done inwardly. Only through such
  • determined by outer impressions immediately finds himself uncertain
  • grows accustomed to withdrawing into himself frequently in such a way
  • that he is less concerned with brooding on himself than with quietly
  • he surrenders himself to a certain soul activity, to fall into
  • develop such an inclination toward it that he begins to shut himself
  • being to meditate in a twofold manner. He may simply say to himself,
  • following question to himself, “How does it happen that this
  • capacities?” A human being posing this question to himself will
  • certainly be disastrous to the human being were he to let himself be
  • able to look up with self-surrendering admiration to personalities as
  • exalted powers makes himself thus mature for knowledge of
  • of things is closed to him. — The person, however, who permits himself
  • surrender, to deaden in himself a healthy consciousness of self and
  • self-confidence sins against the law of equanimity and equilibrium.
  • The student will continually work on himself in order to make himself
  • to himself, “In me there lie hidden forces and I can draw them
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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 7)
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  • it like a fine network and making it into a self-contained being. If
  • would not be able to distinguish himself from it had he not developed
  • at all by means of the physical body itself, also no breathing
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  • ego itself.
  • world of soul and spirit that reveals itself to him, and the world
  • itself in a certain form. At the moment, however, when pleasure or
  • 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
  • himself and the outer spiritual world. It is necessary that he learn
  • to eliminate all the effects of himself upon his soul-spirit
  • knowledge of what he himself carries into the new world. It is
  • self-knowledge, in order to be able to have a clear perception of the
  • development demand that such self-knowledge must take place quite
  • develops his ego, his self-consciousness in the everyday
  • perceives himself in so far as he experiences himself inwardly in his
  • it does not present itself to the human being like stones, plants, and
  • animals. Also, man learns to know himself only partially through inner
  • perception. He has something in himself that prevents his having more
  • profound self-knowledge. This is an impulse to transform immediately a
  • trait of character if he, as a result of self-knowledge, must admit to
  • it and does not wish to deceive himself about himself.
  • away from himself, remaining what he is, then he, naturally, also
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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 9)
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  • seventh, and has shaped itself into an independent principle. Indeed,
  • Doppelganger, the “guardian of the threshold” himself, and
  • has to direct and lead with his newborn self what he is in his
  • ordinary self and which appears to him in an image. A sort of battle
  • powers. — In the higher world, self-knowledge is different, in a certain
  • respect, from self-knowledge in the physical-sensory world. Whereas in
  • the physical-sensory world self-knowledge appears only as an inner
  • experience, the newborn self presents itself at once as an outer soul
  • phenomenon. Man beholds his newborn self as another being standing
  • more and more of his “higher self.” This “higher
  • self” can thus only partially reveal itself to the student of the
  • aspect of his “higher self,” to observe this “higher
  • self,” so to speak, from the standpoint he has gained in the
  • threshold,” and place it before the “higher self” in
  • himself as an image of all the hindrances that the development of the
  • higher self must encounter. The student will perceive what a load he
  • must drag in the form of his ordinary self, and if he is not strong
  • stationary here, but unceasingly strive to reach my higher self,”
  • of feeling to be a prisoner he may feel himself as the immeasurably
  • ordinary self of man has in consequence of the influence of the forces
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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 10)
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  • world of soul and spirit, between himself and what lies outside him.
  • everything has unfolded itself step by step. Through spiritual
  • human being himself, and the greater world, the macrocosm. If the
  • he feels himself in his complete independence. This feeling is a
  • existence. In this way he learns to know himself in the form he
  • this guardian now transforms himself into the form of the Christ,
  • The Christ shows Himself to the student as the “great ideal of
  • himself within the present-day conditions of life. When describing
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Present and Future of Cosmic and Human Evolution
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  • knowledge of this evolution in the past. For what presents itself to
  • itself, it gradually resolves itself into two pictures. One of these
  • in which the other picture shows itself, however, reveals that it
  • transformed itself into the Earth. We may call this future form the
  • this body shows itself within their soul nature, which reveals itself
  • of Moon forms. The picture of this world also resolves itself into two
  • transformed itself when the effects of the Earth and Jupiter processes
  • consciousness has lifted itself to higher observation. Only when what
  • centuries A.D., after it had prepared itself since the fourth and
  • significance when new faculties appear. Human life then adapts itself
  • into the future. This prepared itself slowly, beginning with the
  • this period. It is only self-evident that, up to the present,
  • asserts itself — knowledge of a moral law, or a human relationship — the
  • soul will then say to itself: My feeling can only justify itself when
  • has bestowed upon human evolution repeats itself, in a certain way, in
  • Egypto-Chaldean culture will repeat itself in such a way that the soul
  • conducts itself as a member of a spiritual world, outside of which it
  • intermediate stage, which presents itself as a sojourn in a higher
  • world, the Earth will transform itself into Jupiter. Within this
  • his soul is finally itself to become the outer world. The human spirit
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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Details From the Realm of Spiritual Science
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  • object, what streams out of it, as it were, and what he himself
  • experience itself) that the inner perception is not imaginary, but
  • life in which a human being finds himself because of the constitution
  • The life of the human being as it expresses itself in the succession
  • fit himself into the conditions of the world and life and is active
  • developed in such a way that it has first unfolded in itself what was
  • birth of the ego, has enriched itself through the experiences of the
  • outer world, it begins from a certain point of time to nourish itself
  • here. If supersensible cognition has raised itself up to the stage of
  • bodies — and fashions these, in reverse order, into spirit self, life
  • place; the formation of the intellectual soul expresses itself in
  • ego's eliminating itself with the result that remnants of ancient
  • surrenders itself completely to a feeling for a certain length of
  • time, this feeling transforms itself into knowledge, into a
  • picture-like perception. If, for example, the soul fills itself
  • feeling of humility, then the content of feeling transforms itself
  • of observing detailed occurrences within it. He makes himself capable
  • egotistical longings, even though he had persuaded himself that it was
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Preface First Edition
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  • say to himself, ‘It is certainly queer what eccentricities can be
  • through which he feels justified in believing himself in agreement
  • principle for himself. He would not, for example, write about the
  • physics, the author believes himself fully justified in what he has
  • might ask himself, “Has the author entirely neglected to study
  • year, and today he believes himself truly capable of judging quite
  • regard, however, is contained in the book itself. It is shown there
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  • this self-delusion. — If we do not wish to listen to these depths of the
  • not at all to be underrated. He who occupies himself with them will
  • himself, it may appear to many quite strange that he, nevertheless,
  • contradictory. For not everyone concerns himself with the experiences
  • soul-life frees itself from them. To certain modern schools of thought
  • self-delusion. From their point of view, it will be found easy to
  • the wish must make itself felt that in the present age it should no
  • realize that the meaning of life does not reveal itself in general
  • terms about soul, self, and so forth, but only through the real
  • processes through which knowledge frees itself from its limits present
  • in the sense world and fits itself for experiencing the supersensible
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Preface: Sixteenth to Twentieth Edition
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  • What reveals itself to spiritual perception as the world of spirit
  • experience, not only spiritual perception itself, but also the
  • suggesting the understanding to himself have not the slightest inkling
  • But it is a fact that what expresses itself merely in concepts of
  • in the larger surveys I had always examined myself carefully as to
  • autosuggestion playing a role, so — I told myself — spiritual perception
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  • in itself the states that of necessity appear in normal human life, it
  • is possible that, when the soul makes itself insensitive to a given
  • outer impression, it calls forth in itself the desire for enjoyment of
  • of man and the human being himself pass through the states that have
  • science, the present Saturn is studied, it shows itself, so to speak,
  • their present representatives in the cosmos. It is self-evident that
  • itself at present to seeking a reciprocal relationship between the
  • itself be driven to concepts that will extend the idea of a mechanical