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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Character of Occult Science
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  • spiritual science. In natural science, the facts present themselves in
  • facts. The exponent of spiritual science must place his soul activity
  • spiritual science therefore presumes that the reader is seeking facts
  • brought to it, as it were, from without. In spiritual-scientific
  • This is the beautiful fruit of the knowledge of spiritual science that
  • appears as a fantastic, imaginary one. If, in our spiritual scientific
  • be strong enough to remove the foundation from under this spiritual
  • Also concerning such points of view, spiritual-scientific endeavors
  • and in his disembodied state in the spiritual world; in addition, the
  • communications concerning spiritual-scientific knowledge, we live in a
  • spiritual existence. In absorbing the results we, at the same time,
  • spiritual world is imagined in a way too similar to an experience of
  • the spiritual world does not lie in a thoughtless, suggestive
  • we become participators in the knowledge of the spiritual world; by
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Essential Nature of Mankind
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  • spirituality. Here, however, man must first take hold of this
  • spirituality. He must recognize it in himself, then he will be able to
  • has worked on his soul, ennobling and spiritualizing it out of his
  • fact, all cultural life and all spiritual human endeavor consists in a
  • spiritual basis with thought and feeling, then the impulses that the I
  • member may be called the second spiritual member, the life spirit. (It
  • being, and these forces are of a spiritual nature. We are not speaking
  • seems to consist, but of the spiritual work upon the invisible forces
  • emerges that there is still a third spiritual member in man. It is
  • spiritual nature are spirit self, life spirit, and spirit man. We see
  • spiritual nature. We have, therefore, seven members of man: 1.
  • “spiritually invisible” to the spiritual means of
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Sleep And Death
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  • science presents in an absolutely correct way lies the spiritual
  • a spiritual background of the world and it may be considered trivial.
  • to the prejudice of the observer of the supersensible. (Spiritual
  • possessed no other desires than those arising from its own spiritual
  • spiritual world into which it is translated. But life has given it
  • this world for which the spiritual world offers no means of
  • these bodies, and the desires that have their source in the spiritual
  • something spiritual. This spiritual element exists also after death,
  • although in another form. All spiritual desires of the ego within the
  • spiritual world. This third type of desire is produced by the ego
  • spiritual nature of the ego. The ego must have sense enjoyments as
  • long as it lives in the body, also in so far as it is spiritual; for
  • spiritual world must be rooted out. — Just as an object takes fire and
  • the enjoyment of the spiritual within the sense world. Yet the ego
  • deprives itself of the true spiritual reality in the world to the
  • that has not arisen out of the spiritual nature of the ego during life
  • passes spiritually before his eyes, only he experiences all this now
  • complete surrender to the spiritual world. He enters upon a new stage
  • spiritual experience. Indeed, these passions are now not mere shadows,
  • is of a spiritual nature. These creatures appear like distortions and
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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 1)
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  • Spiritual science1
  • perception sharpened by spiritual organs. It traces back the process
  • spiritual being of man has passed through a series of lives upon this
  • earth. Spiritual science thus reaches a point of time, lying far back
  • Spiritual science must go still further back in its research, if it
  • development of the earth planet itself, in the sense of spiritual
  • the task of this work to enter into these ideas because for spiritual
  • the spiritual causes lying behind matter. If we have before us a man
  • other hand, we may turn our spiritual attention to what is taking
  • of spiritual perception, sees spiritual processes behind all processes
  • substances of the earth planet are manifestations of spiritual forces
  • lying behind these substances. If, however, this spiritual observation
  • evolves out of the spiritual. Prior to this, only the spiritual
  • exists. By means of this spiritual insight, the spiritual is
  • spiritual element in part condenses, so to speak, into matter. Here we
  • was formerly water, so also, through spiritual observation, we are
  • beings are condensed from an element that was formerly spiritual. — In
  • this way the physical earth planet has evolved out of a spiritual
  • has condensed out of what was spiritually bound up with it previously.
  • spiritual nature is transformed into matter, but in matter we have
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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 2)
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  • pass over into a spiritual state and then reincarnate as the Sun.
  • acute for those who understand spiritual science by means of something
  • by sickness. Spiritual science is in the position to show that a great
  • of spiritual science concerning the evolution of the four members of
  • man's being. The proofs are taken from spiritual research, and this
  • of spiritual research relate to facts the effects of which show also
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 3)
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  • If one directs the spiritual organs of perception, not to the
  • different to the researcher in spiritual science. For him, heat is
  • body a condensed fluid. Thus the spiritual scientist speaks of heat
  • wishes to follow the spiritual researcher into this realm, it is only
  • necessary to grant that there exists spiritual perception. In the
  • spiritual character.1
  • oneself through spiritual perception to the beginning of the Saturn
  • composed of small individual parts. For the observer of the spiritual
  • appear to spiritual perception as though endowed with life, but their
  • imperceptible; pure spiritual light, which is external darkness;
  • finally, a spiritual state of being that is complete within itself and
  • spiritual light, that of the Spirits of Wisdom; pure inner being is
  • time passes over from a purely spiritual, inner existence into one
  • belong to the region that in spiritual science may be called
  • active, then the Spirits of Wisdom, then another group of spiritual
  • spiritual beings themselves undergo an evolution. For example, after
  • Will, the spiritual beings have gradually withdrawn. The Saturn
  • the moment of this awakening comes, the above described spiritual
  • other spiritual beings have correspondingly advanced to a higher stage
  • of their evolution. All these spiritual beings, therefore, are able to
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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 4)
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  • conditions of evolution are changed. The spiritual beings, whose
  • Sun that yet other spiritual beings interpose themselves in a way
  • perceptible to spiritual vision. This evolution then proceeds further.
  • himself through spiritual-scientific training. The nature of this
  • are their helpers. The Cherubim actually perceive spiritually what is
  • sleep, can be well understood if we direct our spiritual gaze toward
• 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
  • what, in a certain sense, forms the spiritual sheath of the planet.
  • the above-mentioned spiritual beings, living in the environment,
  • sun body in which spiritual beings, adapted to it, would have their
  • spiritually and materially, a twofold life: one that stood in close
  • spiritually, may be described in the following manner. The human
  • the inner nature of these beings as a spiritual tone language. The
  • spiritual beings ruling behind the physical facts as well as their
  • physical expression of the spiritual relationship of forces created by
  • hand, and with the more spiritual existence between death and a new
  • own life. He lived more spiritually. Only an approximate and
  • beings were active. Thus, through spiritual cosmic tones this human
  • spiritual tone-consciousness in which it yielded itself up to the
  • hand, higher spiritual beings, especially the Spirits of Form and the
  • sun. — Spiritually perceived, these processes appear as follows. The
  • itself to the spiritual eye through supersensible perception directed
  • psycho-spiritual states of the sun-Moon organism alternate with
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 6)
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  • sketch, all beings and forces concerned appear in a more spiritual
  • possessing still higher faculties could follow up the spiritual events
  • forces have again become spiritualized. During this spiritualization
  • during this period of spiritualization, is the same world in which the
  • At this stage of evolution the Earth stands before the spiritual eye
  • bosom of the higher spiritual beings. At this stage they touch the
  • life body, and physical body woven of fire. The spiritual beings who
  • picture-consciousness in which the spiritual beings manifest
  • From the spiritual world he looks down, as it were, upon an earthly
  • that may be likened to spiritual tone; his life body resounds. At the
  • relationships the spiritual beings inhabiting them bear to one
  • movements through soul and spirit causes that the spiritual states are
  • being, however, forsakes his body and returns to the spiritual state
  • likeness itself. The spiritual beings who affect the Earth from the
  • spiritual beings in their own form, but in his soul he feels the
  • that the deeds of spiritual beings live in this world of mental
  • environment, the soul feels within itself: “Now spiritual beings
  • the body-free state; this type felt its relationship to the spiritual
  • relationship to the spiritual world was especially weak in human
  • spiritual connotation; this is also true when he speaks of Jupiter,
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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Evolution of the Cosmos and Man (Part 7)
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  • one, thus barring all outlook into the spiritual world. In the
  • spiritual world this power leads the human being to complete
  • At present we are able in spiritual science to describe life between
  • has gained the true spiritual perception of what really exists.
  • more and more what is possible for him to be in the spiritual world.
  • spiritual perception of the soul remained also clouded after death.
  • the spiritual world after death reached a climax for the souls who
  • counterparts instead of toward the spiritual archetypes. During the
  • spiritual world. Thus what is great on the one hand is of necessity
  • connection of the human being with the spiritual world was fostered.
  • spiritual world that, without his cooperation, had poured into his
  • only experience it in special states of the soul. Then a spiritual
  • visible symbols of their special spiritual powers. Superhuman forms
  • concealed all that part of the spiritual world that would have
  • the revelation of this part of the spiritual world to the fact that
  • existence. Through it the spiritual powers lying behind the forces of
  • nature were revealed to them. They were able to speak of the spiritual
  • that that part of the spiritual world would be manifest to him that
  • at the same time the whole spiritual life. Such a being is the bearer
  • that in special states of consciousness the spiritual being who had
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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 1)
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  • possible by spiritual science; and everything that this science
  • consciousness into a soul activity, through which spiritual organs of
  • life will pour into his will from a spiritual world. — There are such
  • by spiritual powers with whose guidance no one should attempt to
  • unjustified desire to interfere with the wisdom of spiritual guidance.
  • upon them. When they say to themselves, “Wise spiritual guidance
  • can be revealed through his spiritual powers.” If such a thought
  • spiritual organs of perception and who are of the opinion that these
  • spiritual world. This view, however — considering the present stage of
  • all these facts, doubts may arise about the spiritual path of
  • the pupil. No proper instruction for spiritual development in our age
  • employment by a person who seeks spiritual development need not be a
  • it is possible through ordinary self-examination without spiritual
  • spiritual training, “How can these rules be effective in the life
  • the present time a true spiritual science will only indicate rules for
  • self-awakening of the spiritual organs of perception such training is
  • spiritual training. It is possible that a certain stage of soul
  • relationship to man is not true spiritual training, but its
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 2)
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  • soul must open itself for the purpose of spiritual training have no
  • rapidly — in spiritual training everything depends upon the
  • as an example. In spiritual training the most manifold pictures of
  • results. What belongs unconditionally to spiritual training is
  • to the senses may be called, in the sense of spiritual science,
  • spiritual science, however, “imaginative” cognition is to be
  • are spiritual facts and beings to which the senses have no access.
  • of true spiritual training, doubts of this character are unjustified.
  • their very nature, not yet relate to anything real in the spiritual
  • the one I was previously.” This is the first purely spiritual
  • observing the spiritual world. It was somewhat similar to a physical
  • spiritual training that the soul, through the practice of
  • This belongs to true spiritual training at this stage. If the soul
  • sphere of spiritual experience, in which a soul would find itself in
  • stage of spiritual training. They correspond to the kernel of the
  • soul's own being, and the student of the spiritual recognizes in these
  • student approach the true external spiritual world. In place of what
  • spiritual reality. The student feels how he grows in his soul from the
  • In the beginning the soul of the student of the spiritual is weak in
  • regard to everything that is to be perceived in the spiritual world.
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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 3)
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  • student of the spiritual to acquire such sense-free thinking is to
  • communicated to him by spiritual science. It is not possible to
  • understand the descriptions of spiritual researchers, and if someone
  • since I am unable to perceive the spiritual world myself?”
  • comprehensible to a mode of thinking taught through spiritual
  • its own power and that wishes to employ it. — By making what spiritual
  • experienced when spiritual reality manifests itself in sense-free
  • himself to sense-free thought feels the spiritual reality announcing
  • of one's thoughts is derived from the communications of the spiritual
  • the fact that the spiritual researcher calls up thoughts in his
  • spiritual science lead us to sense-free thinking. There is, however,
  • spiritual science itself. Yet it is shown that pure thinking, merely
  • between cognition of the sense world and that of the spiritual world.
  • sense-observation, while still avoiding entering upon spiritual
  • nature, stands already within the spiritual world; it presents itself
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 4)
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  • supersensory cognition who believe that the spiritual researcher
  • of the student of the spiritual and arranges them to follow one
  • development the spiritual student must have great patience and
  • permit their employment by the spiritual student in perceiving the
  • spiritual world. This is the moment when something occurs for him that
  • become a witness for the spiritual world. But he should not waver if
  • spiritual perception must take place in this or that manner, and
  • spiritual training, they will constitute something for him that he
  • It is not valid to object that “the spiritual student must thus
  • practice in the sphere of spiritual training calls forth satisfaction
  • making progress in the right direction. Every spiritual student may
  • spiritual development a partial success is often the reason for a
  • forms of spiritual life that correspond to the partial success dulls
• 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
  • behind imaginative perceptions stand soul and spiritual things and
  • spiritual nature. One recognizes above all a host of spiritual beings
  • Spiritual science, therefore, may call cognition through
  • would perceive, indeed, how the soul-spiritual members are released at
  • When the student of the spiritual advances from imagination to
  • it will suffice; why does spiritual science wish to demonstrate such
  • spiritual science, observation of Saturn, Sun, and Moon is at the same
  • according to the external impression. To have knowledge of a spiritual
  • of the spiritual ascends to such knowledge. Imagination leads him to
  • but to recognize in them the outpouring of something psycho-spiritual;
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 6)
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  • consciousness and only to retain in his soul the spiritual activity
  • foundation for a development into the spiritual worlds. An example may
  • spiritual. He acquires the possibility of penetrating in a true way
  • into the regions of spiritual life only by guarding himself carefully
  • the spiritual world now begins to open itself to cognition in a form
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 8)
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  • physical-sensory, but the psycho-spiritual. Behind the characteristics
  • the spiritual can now perceive an important difference between the
  • himself and the outer spiritual world. It is necessary that he learn
  • of man must, according to a law of the spiritual world, emerge prior
  • shall find it comprehensible that spiritual research ascribes much
  • transform his nature that it may unfold spiritual organs of
  • judgment, feeling-life, and character without spiritual-scientific
  • to know so much of spiritual science — as though without intention — and,
  • does not demand entrance into the spiritual world before he has
  • physical-sensory world, certain truths about the spiritual world. The
  • by the student of spiritual science by means of his ordinary power of
  • belongs to it. A proper training must lead the student of spiritual
  • measures that every student of spiritual science must take, to work
  • advice for spiritual training is correctly followed, the sources that
  • that the student of spiritual science undergoes before his entrance
  • without proper preparation. — The student of the spiritual, besides
  • realities, and it is important that the student of the spiritual know
  • self-evident than the fact that anyone ignorant of spiritual training
  • to ask, “Is there any proof for the student of the spiritual
  • asks such questions does not realize that in true spiritual training,
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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 9)
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  • After the student of the spiritual has encountered the “guardian
  • this principle sets the student of the spiritual a special task. He
  • spiritual at any of these stages. The temptation is extremely great
  • student of the spiritual something in addition to what appeared to him
  • spiritual that he must not remain stationary at this stage but must
  • adequate manner. — If, because of incorrect spiritual training, a person
  • Just as the student of the spiritual in his encounter with the
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Cognition of the Higher Worlds. Initiation. (Part 10)
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  • If the student of the spiritual has had the above described
  • everything has unfolded itself step by step. Through spiritual
  • I. Study of spiritual science, in which one employs one's power of
  • IV. Living into the spiritual environment — corresponding to intuition.
  • with the individuality of the student of the spiritual, he may have
  • If the student of the spiritual has experienced intuition, he not only
  • knows the images of the psycho-spiritual world, he cannot merely read
  • knowledge of the spiritual beings themselves through whose
  • possesses as a spiritual being in the world of soul and spirit. He has
  • spiritual, he has then acquired the possibility of recognizing who it
  • threshold.” To the perception of the student of the spiritual
  • in the spiritual world, what occurred historically on earth in the
  • experienced knowledge of the student of the spiritual. It is thus a
  • wishes to tread the path to the spiritual world he cannot at present
  • upon the student of the spiritual of ancient Egypt cannot be carried
  • departure for spiritual development just where the human being now
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): The Present and Future of Cosmic and Human Evolution
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  • and cosmic evolution in the sense of spiritual science without a
  • the perception of the spiritual researcher when he observes the hidden
  • evolution, in the sense of spiritual science, if one does not observe
  • spiritual impressions of tone, light, and warmth. The latter do not
  • this future world may be designated, in the sense of spiritual
  • when he has received communications through spiritual science about
  • spiritual is in a position different from the position concerning
  • spiritual world directly into their consciousness. These individuals,
  • cultural period. In that period the method of spiritual training began
  • forces giving impulses to the human being from an external spiritual
  • conducts itself as a member of a spiritual world, outside of which it
  • mankind will have advanced so far that the spiritual powers and beings
  • a completely spiritualized existence to the Vulcan evolution, the
  • from the “knowledge of the Grail”: the spiritualization that
  • man acquires through his own efforts. For this spiritualization
  • first divines and afterwards recognizes spiritual beings behind these
  • spiritual. The human being can also recognize that his inner
  • result of spiritualization. The greater the amount of spiritual
  • be the number of fertile seeds for the future. Spiritual knowledge is
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Details From the Realm of Spiritual Science
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  • Occult Science (1972): Details From the Realm of Spiritual Science
  • DETAILS FROM THE REALMOF SPIRITUAL SCIENCE
  • the spiritual experiences such inner perceptions without physical
  • spiritual perception and imaginary deception, hallucination, and so
  • development of the student of the spiritual. — It is possible to
  • are made in the sense of spiritual science. (See Chapter II in this
  • everything that, during man's spiritual development between death and
  • remains in the spiritual realms, the earthly dwelling place undergoes
  • spiritual world between death and a new birth depends in one way only
  • to a spiritual condition that finds no further satisfaction in its
  • inner spiritual experiences, and which develops the longing toward the
  • Education of the Child from the Standpoint of Spiritual Science. In
  • spiritually by its own ether body. It feeds on the ether body. In the
  • spiritually only between the twelfth and sixteenth years and of its
  • THE HIGHER REGIONS OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLD
  • cognition gradually reaches the regions of the spiritual world in
  • intuition, it then lives in a world of spiritual beings. These beings
  • these influences directly; the beings of the spiritual world convey
  • this we have a hint concerning higher spiritual worlds that are to be
  • thought of as being of such a character that spiritual matters, which
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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Table of Contents
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  • VII.Details from the Realm of Spiritual Science
  • 5.The Higher Regions of the Spiritual World
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Back Cover Sheet
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  • “As a scientist by external training and inmost calling, Rudolf Steiner shared the generally expressed goal of science — that the wisdom of man shall discover the wisdom of the universe. Through Steiner this goal now clearly extends beyond physical-material limits. Modern exact clairvoyance, as developed by him, reveals spiritual facts to spiritual vision as clearly as men's ordinary senses reveal to the intellect the facts of the physical world. The facts of the physical world actually demonstrate and clarify spiritual knowledge. Yet the anthroposophy of Steiner shuns vague mysticism, finding facts of the spiritual world fully accessible to scientific investigation and proof. Thoughts, to him, are objective, and like any thought of science, a thought with purely inner existence can now be tested, tried and verified (or disproved) through its physical applications or on its own ground of thinking. Steiner's anthroposophy, or “spiritual science,” thus greatly extends the dimensions of science. It breaks through the limits of knowledge that Kant had proclaimed and the world had accepted, almost as under a kind of hypnotic spell.”
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Preface First Edition
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  • spiritual science about which he would be sufficiently able to say
  • brochure goes far beyond Haeckel's hypotheses and places the spiritual
  • not only meant the spiritual scientific test by supersensible methods
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Preface: Fourth Edition
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  • ANYONE attempting an exposition of the results of spiritual science as
  • thinking, of the nature of this thinking is a necessary spiritual
  • strengthening cognition are of an entirely spiritual nature; they are
  • the life of the nerves exists that “spiritual scientific
  • longer be in keeping with spiritual life to decry a direction of
  • less, a subjective concern of the mystic. The spiritual scientific
  • attempts have been made to give to this or that spiritual movement
• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Preface: Sixteenth to Twentieth Edition
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  • In my imaginative perceptions the spiritual nature of individual man stood
  • the presentation of the spiritual. In the preface to the first
  • What reveals itself to spiritual perception as the world of spirit
  • The content of what is spiritually perceived can only be reproduced in
  • their origin in spiritual entity
  • In spiritual cognition everything is immersed in intimate soul
  • experience, not only spiritual perception itself, but also the
  • world becomes experience in regard to the spiritual world.
  • slightly — by the assertion that the spiritually perceived is
  • What is spiritually perceived is fully comprehensible to the
  • one who presents what he perceives spiritually must bring his
  • a book which, in the first place, offered the content of my spiritual
  • less desperately, the remoteness from all spirituality as a grave
  • the spiritual world with inner longing.
  • of spiritual training. For the calm, conscious effort of thought that
  • spiritual world by maintaining that they are transformed reproductions
  • autosuggestion playing a role, so — I told myself — spiritual perception
  • without anything living in the soul but the spiritual content of
  • but a representation in picture form of an objective spiritual content
  • a psycho-spiritual way, just as in the realm of sense-perception one
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• Title: Book: Occult Science (1972): Special Comments
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  • Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, and so forth. If now, in the sense of spiritual
  • sort or another. The disagreement of spiritual science with natural