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Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Character of Occult Science
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for knowledge, or by the soul's sublimated curiosity. In between these
souls by means of something that can be clearly understood. Their
soul-activity arising in scientific endeavor. We must consider the
attitude of the soul when it elaborates science. If we acquire the
do not become aware that a certain attitude of the human soul has been
nature as a kind of self-education of the soul and to apply what it
but an experiencing of what the human soul itself is not. The
soul-element does not live in what man knows about nature, but in the
process of acquiring Knowledge The soul experiences itself in its
force of the soul for other fields.
nature, the soul is guided by the object under consideration to a much
studied. In the latter study, the soul must possess to a much greater
decisions accordingly; as soon as this guidance is abandoned, the soul
natural phenomena and, in spite of this, the soul attempts a
aberrations, which in the souls of prejudiced persons discredit all
allow the capacity of soul unfolded through a knowledge of nature to
attention to the fact that in such development the soul encounters
considers the activity of the soul as something that recedes into the
facts. The exponent of spiritual science must place his soul activity
makes this activity of the soul his own in the right way. These facts
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Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Essential Nature of Mankind
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is aware of his memory through inner soul-observation, something he
for memory he cannot derive from inner soul-observation, but only from
experiences in learning to write were to arise again in the soul as
supersensible perception separates the bodily element from the soul
gives permanence to this knowledge one designates as soul. From what
body is connected with that part of the soul that gives permanence to
exact designation, we may call the human astral body the soul body,
the soul, in so far as it is united with this soul body, we may call
the sentient soul.
has made its own. The part of the soul in which this occurs may be
designated the intellectual or mind soul. — It is characteristic of both
the sentient and intellectual souls that they work with what they
senses, and what is retained from this in memory. The soul is here
beyond all this. It is not alone sentient soul and intellectual soul.
of an external nature has access to that part of the soul with which
soul. Only a being with whom the soul is of like nature can gain
entrance there. The God who dwells within man speaks when the soul
souls live in the outer world, so a third soul member immerses itself
in the Divine when the soul gains a perception of its own being.
Divine. Thus he acquires, through this, the third member of his soul,
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Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Sleep And Death
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the expression of a healthy soul, and an inclination toward “idle
surrounding world of soul and spirit. For the ordinary conditions of
soul-spirit nature of man as fatigue. But this fatigue is the
and soul elements. This unconscious formative activity and what takes
a certain degree, for, during the waking state, the soul puts its own
conjure up different pictures in his soul, but they express
sleep and there presents the soul state that appears as the antithesis
of the soul's waking state. If this dreamless sleep is to take place,
through the soul-life of man be explicable only by means of
extent allowed by this body. Nothing is lost to the soul that makes an
conjure up before the soul the whole of life's past. This hindrance
that in such moments their entire life passed before the soul in a
physical and ether bodies. Another world can flash up for the soul the
moment it is withdrawn from the physical world that chains the soul's
in his fortieth year had done someone a bodily or soul injury in an
manifests itself in what the senses perceive in it? Nothing but a soul
only the perception of the ego can be produced in the soul's inner
But everything that can so live in the human soul as to make him a
how human souls hover above the plants, how they change the surface of
displays the attributes of his ancestors, for the soul-spirit element,
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Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 1)
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level, are developed sentient soul, intellectual soul, and
consciousness soul. At a higher stage of human existence, spirit self,
place in the human soul, to what constitutes the inner impulse of

Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 2)
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Certainly it is true that the astral body, as a soul member, stands at

Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 3)
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through and through. Thus we have to do here entirely with a soul
and feeling and similar soul activities were flung out into celestial
space from Saturn. The whole of Saturn appears like an ensouled being,
soul-qualities, however, are in no way its own, but only the
flung-back soul activities of the Spirits of Motion. — After this state
whole to appear like an ensouled being. The Spirits of Form divide
like an agglomeration of such soul beings. — In order to have a picture
possess a life and soul of their own, but that reflect the life and
soul of the beings dwelling in them. — In this state of Saturn, beings
soul without the impelling impulse of an external impression, he has
such states may be mentioned: pure soul heat, which is outwardly
a being possessed of a semblance of life, of a soullike nature and
for the actual soul experience in sensory perception, but we are

Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 4)
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pictorial images the inner soul states of the beings in his
be dreamy and dull. He will perceive the soul pictorially, yet at the
same time these soul pictures will be the expression of realities just
from the Sun. If we observe more closely with our soul powers, the

Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 5)
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astral body to flow into the human being, he acquires his first soul
physical; he perceives them, as it were, as etheric soul
becomes again a unified being. The physical becomes more soul-like,
and the soul in turn more closely united with the physical. — The sun
now more in a soul and spirit environment. Through this fact the
wisdom in him. They ensoul him with wisdom. He becomes in this way in
a certain sense an independent soul. To the influence of these beings
described, it evolves a soul activity and a life of ether body filled
intellectual soul in present-day humanity, whereas the astral body
the sentient soul. Because all this is brought about within the human
of the intellectual and sentient souls appear as the expression of
the intellectual and sentient souls. These latter are only the
nuclei of the intellectual and sentient souls are engendered. Yet it
consciousness soul occurs together with the birth of the ego, of
and sentient souls do not yet appear as though the human being himself

Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 6)
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are to be perceived in the astral or soul world.
appearing in soul form. This is also true of the life body.
as a cosmic being that is wholly soul and spirit, and in which the
physical and life forces still appear in soul form. Within this cosmic
eyes could perceive, even were they present, for it gleams with soul
the midst of this soul structure, a form similar to Saturn in its
something like an organism permeated with soul and spirit. The beings
fire Earth only with one point of their soul form, with the result
of their being still belongs to the world of soul and spirit. Only
must imagine an egg-shaped soul form, existing in the surroundings of
becomes the sentient soul. Therefore, it may be said that at this
stage of his existence man consists of sentient soul, astral body,
through the sentient soul man feels himself bound to the body of the
primal nucleus of what appears later as the intellectual soul. — In
the human soul, we must realize that beings higher than men surge up
soul says to itself, “These are the Spirits of Personality.”
experiences in himself as tone; the intellectual soul says to itself,
from the Earth penetrate his soul, still rising and falling within it
outstreaming as a flashing up and dimming of light. In his soul also a
souls is now added that of the consciousness soul. In the water
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Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 7)
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soul during earth life and of his retaining power beyond death. Among
absorption into the soul of this visualized world by the people of the
spiritual perception of the soul remained also clouded after death.
the spiritual world after death reached a climax for the souls who
soul, to receive the revelations of this world. They were more or less
an inner soul revelation. Because of the Luciferic impulse he could
only experience it in special states of the soul. Then a spiritual
they practiced in their souls all those faculties that the human being
and consciousness soul was revealed in a second type of mystery. What,
become conscious through the ether body without special soul states.
to the being of the powers of nature in special states of the soul.
Moses.. So many influences of initiation had entered the soul of Moses
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
in the world in which souls tarry after death, and in that region He
Lemurian age. The human beings, as to their soul nature, may thus be
reincarnated souls. As long as the after-effects of all this
mysteries. Such influences caused a cleavage in the soul of the human
soul did not preserve from ancient times the urge toward the spirit so
cleavage of the soul were already present when the teaching of Christ
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Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 1)
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in ordinary life through three soul states: waking, sleeping, and the
of higher worlds if he develops a third soul state besides sleep and
waking. During its waking state the soul surrenders itself to
During sleep the sense-impressions cease, but the soul also loses its
unconsciousness. Let us now imagine that the soul might be able during
memories of the day's experiences were lacking. Would the soul, in
soul is able to experience something even though no sense-activities
and no memory of them are present in it. The soul, in regard to the
induced if the human being can bring about the soul experiences made
through these sense-activities. Whereas in sleep the soul has no power
is awakened in the soul that in ordinary life is only aroused by the
activities of the senses. The soul's awakening to such a higher state
consciousness into a soul activity, through which spiritual organs of
observation are employed. These organs are present in the soul in a
preparation, makes the discovery in his soul that such higher organs
entire nature is transformed. A boundless enrichment of his soul
sense world that gives him such bliss, such soul satisfaction, and
embryonically in the soul will be described here. People who do not
consider it proper to open another world to the soul.” It may
has made a sufficiently strong impression on the soul, the above
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Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 2)
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soul lives before its elevation. Through the training the soul
quiet activities of the soul. They involve the opening of the soul to
soul. They are to be distinguished from the visualizations of everyday
soul must open itself for the purpose of spiritual training have no
awakening in the soul. The best visualizations for this purpose are
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
concentration of the entire soul-life upon one visualization. This
point of attachment to the outer world, making the soul less dependent
formed through the soul's own energy. The essential is not what is
through the way it is visualized, liberates the soul from dependence
soul by recollecting it. This visualization of the tree, which we have
Now let us imagine that we preserve this memory in the soul; we permit
the soul, as it were, to rest upon the visualized memory picture; and
the soul is immersed in the visualized memory picture of the tree. We
then have to do with the soul's immersion in a visualized picture or
in the soul. This may happen in the following way. We visualize a
We make the thought alive in the soul of how he has characteristics
to arise in my soul as vivid thought. Then I visualize further how the
instincts and passions through his higher soul powers. I visualize
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Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 3)
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through the fact that the soul meditations described are supported by
supersensible world. The soul is usually not conscious of this
the soul, thought weaves into thought, how thought seeks thought,
every case, re-create them anew within the soul. What is important is
research. Whoever permits these writings to act upon his entire soul

Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 4)
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soul-spirit organs of perception are continually active while
full consciousness. This results in the feeling that soul-spirit
really a “living within them.” — The soul-spirit organs that
such a way that one or another of the soul-spirit organs, one or
are supersensible and consist of a definitely formed soul activity;
they exist only as far and as long as this soul activity is practiced.
are, in truth, work performed on the soul-spirit nature, that is to
soul-spirit nature. If, however, one forms a definite opinion right at
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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the physical body. From among these soul organs the following will be
but soul-spirit causes. If he experiences something like an impression
but he considers it the outflow of a soul process that, up to the
present, he has only known in his inner soul-life. He knows that
behind imaginative perceptions stand soul and spiritual things and
themselves. Through imagination one learns to know the soul-expression
would perceive, indeed, how the soul-spiritual members are released at
fate of the human soul after death; if I am told something about that,

Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 6)
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only through soul-spirit exercises. They resemble those that have been
consciousness and only to retain in his soul the spiritual activity
question before one's soul. What have I done inwardly in order to
combine cross and rose into a symbol? What I have done — my own soul
that my soul has done in order to bring the image into existence, but
soul activity. Such meditation must be carried out in regard to many
growing and decaying plant. One allows to arise in the soul the image
The student must recall his own soul activity that has gained the
and wavering when he has to unfold a soul-life that has discarded all
quite definite soul condition, quite definite feelings and sensations.
in patience and perseverance he fosters in his soul such inner
equilibrium of the soul qualities. Man is only too easily inclined, if
he surrenders himself to a certain soul activity, to fall into
transformed in the human soul. For example, somebody may discover that
in either direction, but of equanimity and equilibrium of the soul
powers. — It is especially so with a soul quality that is of great
soul in which supersensible cognition thrives especially well. And
soul is benefited to the highest degree when it directs its attention
human being directs his efforts toward an extension of soul-life, but
There is a certain attitude of soul that is important for the student
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Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 7)
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world of soul and spirit and to unite with it, so that outer
occurrences in the realm of soul and spirit and inner events in the
would therefore merge with the environment of soul and spirit and
with what the soul performs in the exercises or otherwise in inner

Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 8)
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co-operation of the soul forces, of thinking, feeling, and willing.
These three soul forces stand always in a certain relationship to each
soul. That is to say, of necessity the visualizing of a thing will be
soul condition who might think that this or that is right, but who
willing. If this weakness were present, the soul would be as though
form its soul. — In the further course of this evolution the development
emergence of a special fourth soul-spirit being that may be described
two forces in the soul that act in it like independent beings. Still
willing only as inner soul experiences. As soon as he enters the
of the new world now perceived by him stand soul-spirit beings. These
world of soul and spirit that reveals itself to him, and the world
human soul may feel or think about it. With the images of the world of
soul and spirit this is, at the outset, not the case. They alter
at first, he remains indifferent to it in his soul, it then shows
soul and spirit, which takes on a peculiar coloring through the whole
to eliminate all the effects of himself upon his soul-spirit
surrounding world of soul and spirit. Now, certain facts of human
first image before the human soul when the latter ascends into the
world of soul and spirit. This Doppelganger (double or twin likeness)
case a feeling will creep over his soul that must be described as a
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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
experience, the newborn self presents itself at once as an outer soul
for him. He has plunged into the world of soul and spirit, but now
the “guardian of the threshold,” now stands before the soul.
nature that it causes the impression in the soul of the observer of
when he experiences this, he stands already in the world of soul and
power has entered the human soul through the influence of Lucifer.
being during physical sense-existence from perceiving the soul-spirit
form the human soul has assumed under the influence of this power is
would pour into his soul that only can be compared to the

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.
and soul body, the sentient soul, and the other principles. Man is
fundamental mood of the soul.
possesses as a spiritual being in the world of soul and spirit. He has
souls have passed through various incarnations, and this advance from
The faculties and qualities of souls alter from incarnation to
path to higher knowledge described here is eminently fit for souls who

Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Present and Future of Cosmic and Human Evolution
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this body shows itself within their soul nature, which reveals itself
bear within their soul. We are able to distinguish in their being
The condition of the human soul and all the human faculties changed
concept, their image, needed by the soul, arose in its inner being.
sense world emerge, but from the depths of the soul there arises a
the world of soul and spirit and were ever more dependent upon a
ancient soul condition like a heritage could still receive the
of the laws of evolution that an ancient soul faculty loses its full
possible for them to penetrate into the world of soul and spirit. They
yet have to consider the soul faculties first developed in the fourth
soul. Through such initiates a transition was created from the old
cultural epoch that the soul's exclusion from direct intercourse with
the world of soul and spirit strengthened the human being in his
powers of intellect and feeling. The souls who were incarnated at that
intercourse with the world of soul and spirit the mighty traditions of
content gave the souls a confident knowledge of the higher worlds. — But
cognition. From them there flowed into the souls of other men as much
knowledge flow into general life, while the human souls of the fourth
and more of its power over the human soul. But in its place there
human souls of the knowledge gained through modern supersensible
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Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Details From the Realm of Spiritual Science
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experiences in his soul. The inner soul experience of the sensation of
object. Let us now imagine this soul experience alone, without the
the soul without an outer physical cause. If such an experience were
that it is caused by a being of the world of soul and spirit in a
sensation of color in the soul. Let us visualize the inner sensation
of the soul when it perceives a red object of the outer
arises in the soul without an outer physical-sensory object or the
expression of a being of the world of soul and spirit. If this being
perception of the world of soul and spirit, remains entirely
the ether body. In his soul the same inner sensation emerges that he
further by indicating the experiences of the soul that correspond to
who, because of his state of body and soul, ought to be asleep, but
so much that the human soul can experience something new after a
sentient soul, intellectual soul, and consciousness soul. Then a time
through this the sentient soul, intellectual soul, and consciousness
soul are developed. For, while during the course of human evolution
the sentient soul is formed, transformations in the astral body take
place; the formation of the intellectual soul expresses itself in
soul in transformations in the physical body. In the course of the
that the sentient soul is already based upon a transformed astral
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Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Preface First Edition
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author of this book is able to enter with his thinking into the soul
own soul and through the

Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Preface: Fourth Edition
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soul, by reflecting deeply, will in the long run be unable to
about this fact, but the depths of the soul-life will not tolerate
soul, we shall naturally reject any statement about supersensible
it impossible to remain deaf to the demands coming from these soul
more value for a certain kind of soul-life than the proof that is
purely inner soul functions. They consist in what is described in this
soul-life is bound to the instruments of the body, the strengthened
soul-life frees itself from them. To certain modern schools of thought
prove that “all soul-life” is bound up with the nervous
be some sort of soul-life independent of the body, and who are
entirely convinced that for such soul experiences a connection with
terms about soul, self, and so forth, but only through the real
endeavored to present clearly the character of the inner soul
the soul, its singularity and personal peculiarity are stripped off
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: Sixteenth to Twentieth Edition
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of soul out of which it arose.
before my soul and I was able to describe it; the cosmic
my soul mood at that time, to be given in thoughts that are further
In spiritual cognition everything is immersed in intimate soul
All this stood before my soul as I developed my Occult Science.
But, before my soul there stood the very fact that at the time when
this reading makes necessary strengthens the forces of the soul and
nature, but in that region toward which the soul turns when it directs
without anything living in the soul but the spiritual content of
picture in my soul, I have advanced uninterruptedly in my ability to
investigate, by means of soul and spirit perception, the historical

Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Special Comments
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discrimination so alters his soul condition that he becomes
the ether body. Everything that becomes a possession of the human soul
relationships of the soul to the body, which must appear in the
that the filling of the soul with the impressions of the outer world
nature. Two soul states alternate: the state of surrender to outer
tired. Since the human soul can, through habit, arbitrarily call forth
is possible that, when the soul makes itself insensitive to a given
its own bodily nature; that is to say, the soul goes to sleep, even
before the soul as an image of time-space occurrences, so is it
picture with a soul content. Then it takes on a form that justifies
the above indicated parallels. This permeation with a soul content is
cosmos to one endowed with soul. To show — which could very well be

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