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• Title: Book: Chapter I: The Character of Occult Science
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  • Chapter I: The Character of Occult Science
  • The Character of Occult Science
  • An ancient term — ‘Occult Science’ — is applied to
  • things which people think of when they hear the term ‘Occult
  • research. Whoever speaks of ‘Occult Science’ will do well to
  • ‘occult’ in the sense of secret — accessible only to a
  • here. The reader will do justice to our use of the term ‘Occult
  • here named ‘Occult Science’ can be no science. Such a man,
  • admit that his categorical rejection of any kind of ‘Occult
  • Occult Science seeks to free the scientific method and spirit of
  • short within the sense-perceptible, Occult Science would like to
  • self-education, and apply the faculties, thus educated in the soul, to
  • which Occult Science seeks to activate in realms that lie beyond mere
  • Nature. Far from misjudging Natural Science, the occultist thus values
  • Occult Science must indeed have a watchful eye for all the vagaries
  • discredit on any form of research into Occult Science. Their very
  • rule the rejection of Occult Science by scientists or scientifically
  • claimant to Occult Science can do no other than simply bring forward
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• Title: Book: Chapter II: The Nature of Humanity
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  • to the attainment of higher faculties of cognition can only be of
  • his evolution man brings certain faculties to a high degree of
  • perfection at the expense of others. The faculty of precise sensory
  • Natural Science, was bound to eclipse the cultivation of those human
  • faculties which lead into the hidden worlds. But the time has come
  • round again when their cultivation is urgently needed. The recognition
  • the animal or not. This difficulty is due to untrained observation.
  • faculty of memory, but he can not derive this knowledge from mere
  • learns to write are afterwards forgotten. It is only the faculty of
  • sphere and property. The part of the soul to which this faculty
  • perception can most readily form an idea of this transcendent faculty
  • Occult Science calls this third member of the soul, the
  • Thus Occult Science sees the
  • discussed with reference to memory, give rise to difficulties once
  • what Occult Science calls the Spirit. Thus the spiritual soul is
  • has he not learned and added to the faculties he had in childhood?
  • finds difficulty in conceiving that work upon the physical body should
  • Thus in the light of Occult Science man appears as a being composed of
• Title: Book: Chapter III: Sleep And Death
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  • claimed the title of “Occult Science” in the past or is
  • provides. Life goes on in sleep; the faculties with which we work and
  • the further exposition of Occult Science will reveal, the home of the
  • immediately a creative faculty begins to stir in man. It is the same
  • creative faculty which is at work in fully dreamless sleep, there
  • perception. Only if he had attained the faculty to be aware of his own
  • consciousness, faculties of this kind must indeed be acquired. The way
  • presence, it is only too easy to pronounce the findings of Occult
  • by the normal faculties of thought and judgment. One need only ponder
  • bias. (Let occult scientists learn as much as they can from those who
  • difficult to see that in this astral body there will no remain
  • more thoroughly gone into in the light of Occult Science. For
  • man cultivates — those above all which signify an
  • repair the faculties and forces exhausted in the waking hours. But
  • the first moment of his existence. Brilliant faculties unfold in him;
  • of the facts, may have another difficulty at this point, the force of
  • those who do not want to take this path, the difficulty remains.
  • animal. The characteristic properties and faculties of the animal are
  • powers and faculties from the pupil's own inner life must come to meet
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• Title: Book: Chapter IV: Man and the Evolution of the World (Part 1)
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  • of the paths whereby man attains the faculty to look back, in
  • the world. And if we are able to raise our faculty of perception and
  • understood with man's ordinary faculty of thought. There must
  • himself perceive supersensibly but has a good reasoning faculty, is
  • assuming the statements of Occult Science to be correct, the world
  • by Occult Science. Only in a few characteristic instances will
  • ‘Occult Science’ — that is to say, the Science of the
• Title: Book: Chapter IV: Man and the Evolution of the World (Part 2)
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  • The difficulty is, however, undeniably great for those planetary
  • life. This makes it exceedingly difficult even to bring the
  • borne in mind that the difficulty exists, and that many of the things
  • no difficulty in forming a right idea of the varying degrees of
• Title: Book: Chapter IV: Man and the Evolution of the World (Part 3)
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  • It will be difficult for man of today to imagine something that
  • faculty of reflecting life, the life which is thus rayed back can
  • sense-organs, become perceptible in Saturn to the faculty of
  • human will manifests itself to the faculty of supersensible perception
  • find it still more difficult to come to terms. With the
  • Saturn, are at another stage than before. Their own faculties have
  • acquired — under different conditions — the faculties to
  • begins to unfold by its own inherent faculty — by virtue of the
• Title: Book: Chapter IV: Man and the Evolution of the World (Part 4)
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  • of the human being. The life-body thus attains the faculty to carry
  • into the actual faculty, with the result that on Sun they were ready
• Title: Book: Chapter IV: Man and the Evolution of the World (Part 5)
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  • Spirits of Movement can bring into action the faculty they have
  • have transmuted what they had prepared into the actual faculty. This
  • was lifted beyond this life. With the faculties bestowed on him by
• Title: Book: Chapter IV: Man and the Evolution of the World (Part 6)
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  • with faculties sufficiently highly developed to be able to perceive
  • faculties could trace the spiritual events that are enacted in the
  • new faculties. By their former deeds, the Beings who stand above man
  • those faculties and forces which enabled them to live for a
  • from their Old Moon nature the faculty to work upon the human astral
  • descriptions — independent. This faculty they used; they gave the
  • became the master of his own faculty of cognition. On the other hand,
  • withdrawn to a certain extent from the faculties man had acquired
  • able to effect a notable enhancement of the faculties inherent in the
  • humanity in the sense above described. These cultivated their secret
  • revelation, they received at the same time the faculty to clothe their
  • faculties through the working of the Luciferian principle, inasmuch as
  • quite detrimental. One such faculty is that of speech. Speech came to
  • the faculty to place at their own disposal the forces of growth and
  • services of Jupiter, Venus, etc. were cultivated in a good — or
  • they had to silence their own faculty of cognition. Then did there
  • men, endowed merely with such culture of intellect and heart as they
  • faculties that could lead to observation in the spiritual world.
  • post-Atlantean culture-epochs, ancient India lived through a second
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• Title: Book: Chapter IV: Man and the Evolution of the World (Part 7)
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  • body of the Graeco-Latin culture. In earthly life they had cultivated
  • souls all the faculties man had acquired since that time,
  • fulfilled, another faculty was instilled into mankind — the
  • faculty whereby the influence of Ahriman can be turned to good. Out of
  • though they had lost the old clairvoyance, developed the new faculties
  • the physical, those faculties of man whose instrument is in the brain
  • faculties the inclination towards the physical world of sense until
  • their spiritual culture was devoted entirely to these influences,
• Title: Book: Chapter V: Knowledge of the Higher Worlds (Concerning Initiation) Part 1
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  • the knowledge that opens up before him now that he has a faculty of
  • given me certain faculties. It has not bestowed these faculties on me
  • inner faculties of the soul, someone might feel, implies an intrusion
  • it should manifest, the faculty he possesses would still remain hidden
  • supersensible knowledge is something that engages all man's faculties
• Title: Book: Chapter V: Knowledge of the Higher Worlds (Concerning Initiation) Part 2
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  • an awakening power; they awaken hidden faculties of the soul. They
  • he possesses higher faculties of soul, by means of which he can refine
  • in themselves lead to the awakening of higher faculties in the soul;
  • dormant faculties of the soul. Meditations that are directed wholly to
  • idea that will awaken the inner faculties, but he prolonged surrender
  • efficacious in unfolding the inner faculties of the soul. Necessary as
  • not the important thing; what is important is the faculty of soul that
  • Only after the pupil has acquired the faculty of wiping out the
  • he developed sufficiently his faculty for logical thinking, there
  • would have been no difficulty in allowing his everyday self to assume
  • forth that require to be cultivated by one who desires to find the
  • succeed in cultivating this control it will undoubtedly involve
  • cultivated that are of value. Are we by nature easily excitable,
  • their more immediate result in the cultivation of the desired
  • individual faculties, to his particular character and temperament.
  • training, he will develop supersensible faculties which perceive the
• Title: Book: Chapter V: Knowledge of the Higher Worlds (Concerning Initiation) Part 3
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  • connection, since he is accustomed to apply his thinking faculty to
  • exact; at the same time, it is for many people also more difficult.
• Title: Book: Chapter V: Knowledge of the Higher Worlds (Concerning Initiation) Part 4
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• Title: Book: Chapter V: Knowledge of the Higher Worlds (Concerning Initiation) Part 5
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  • neglect to cultivate an understanding for the great events and
• Title: Book: Chapter V: Knowledge of the Higher Worlds (Concerning Initiation) Part 6
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  • The faculties of cognition that belong to Inspiration and Intuition
  • find the exercises difficult. If however he will patiently and
  • perseveringly cultivate within him the qualities of soul that are
  • within him particularly good ground for the growth of the faculty of
  • the feeling of reverent devotion. One who cultivates this feeling or
  • foundation upon which to build the faculties of supersensible
  • which guides me better than can my faculty of judgment at its present
  • shutting down our faculty of judgment because some dim feeling impels
  • to develop the needed faculties within myself? For when by dint of
  • patient inner work some faculty develops in him, he will receive the
  • always take pains to cultivate this attitude of soul. They will
• Title: Book: Chapter V: Knowledge of the Higher Worlds (Concerning Initiation) Part 7
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  • faculties the “Reading of the Hidden Script” and yet further
• Title: Book: Chapter V: Knowledge of the Higher Worlds (Concerning Initiation) Part 8
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  • sees to it that the various faculties of the soul co-operate in an
  • orderly manner. In the affairs of everyday life these faculties —
  • order reigns among three faculties of soul; it has to guide and lead
  • firmness to the faculty of thoughtful judgment, to the feeling life
  • Thinking this over carefully, we shall have little difficulty in
  • namely the special exercises for the cultivation of sound judgment,
  • faculties with which to fact it. The encounter with his Double, will
  • instances where an illusion of this nature is more difficult to dispel
  • his mental faculties which can ensure for him the ability to
• Title: Book: Chapter V: Knowledge of the Higher Worlds (Concerning Initiation) Part 9
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• Title: Book: Chapter V: Knowledge of the Higher Worlds (Concerning Initiation) Part 10
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• Title: Book: Chapter VI: Present and Future Evolution of the World and of Mankind
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  • heightened degree to which it applies when dealing with occult facts,
  • difficulties. The branch of spiritual science is hence confined within
  • all his faculties had undergone an essential change. The kind of
  • in whom such faculties were lacking. Men now began to think about
  • faculties of soul, were able still to receive the spiritual world into
  • time. For by the very laws of evolution, an older faculty of soul
  • loses its full significance when new faculties develop. The life of
  • acquired faculties of intellect and feeling with the fully conscious
  • who had not yet had to reckon with the new faculties of mind and soul
  • faculties of supersensible perception, by the development of which
  • by this very fact the human faculties of understanding and good
  • in the fourth epoch evolved these faculties to a high degree would
  • addition to the faculties of intellect and feeling developed higher
  • faculties of supersensible cognition were undeveloped in a large
  • world when they themselves had not the faculty of spiritual sight.
  • faculties the knowledge reached and entertained in bygone ages by the
  • make firm in human souls the faculties of reasoned thought and
  • to the cultivation of intellectual powers, while the traditional
  • facts can only be investigated with higher faculties of cognition (the
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• Title: Book: Chapter VII: Details From the Domain of Spiritual Science
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  • virtue of its own faculties and forces unfolds at a slower rate than
  • the Go on man's nature by virtue of the highest faculties —
  • faculties, the development of which has only been beginning during the
  • pathway into the supersensible. But it is very difficult to carry out
  • worlds described in this work on Occult Science, also enables one to
• Title: Book: Table of Contents
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  • I The Character of Occult Science
• Title: Book: Cover Sheet
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• Title: Book: Preface to the First Edition
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  • understand the writer of this Occult Science attacking all that
  • than the substance. In the field of Occult Science irresponsible
• Title: Book: Preface to the 1913 Edition
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  • true and demonstrable, and so it is that our ordinary faculties of
  • ordinary faculties of cognition cannot reach into the supersensible
  • difficulty that all our mental and psychological life is bound up with
  • the would-be occultist with his “amateurish” science only
  • valid. Here once again, it is admittedly difficult to come to terms
  • alleged dependence on whatsoever cult or school of thought. Nor does
• Title: Book: Preface to the 1920 Edition
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  • on the character of Occult Science. I think there will now be less
  • science merely declares that such and such are the findings of Occult
• Title: Book: Preface to the 1925 Edition
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  • quietly be working at a new and independent publication, Occult
  • Occult Science, and, with these premises in mind, by 1909 I felt able
  • books Theosophy and Occult Science have been widely
  • Misunderstandings were soon evoked by the chosen title, Occult
  • the case be “occult” or “secret.” Surely a rather
  • mean the science of Nature. “Occult Science” is the science
  • of what takes its course in realms which are “occult”
  • spirit. It is “Occult Science” as against “Natural
  • I take the present opportunity of mentioning this too. Occult
• Title: Book: Additional Reading Material
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• Title: Book: Supplementary Notes
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  • earlier conditions. It is this faculty to perceive the past which is
  • when one is wilfully obtuse to some impressions, it is not difficult
• Title: Book: Synopsis
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  • Chapter I. The Character of Occult Science
  • Concerning the term ‘Occult Science’. The ‘manifest
  • faculties (36-8). The student becomes an active participator in
  • Loss of the faculty to divine the future. Fear, error and the
  • Christ-Initiates (195). Higher human faculties — notably that of
  • (263). ‘Reading of the occult script’ (263). Knowledge of
• Title: Book: Translators Notes
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  • rendered ‘mind’. The difficulty is evident in earlier
  • before the first edition of Occult Science.
  • Occult Science. One other lecture-cycle, frequently recommended
  • An unavoidable difficulty is presented by the word Vorstellung
  • 1939 American edition of Occult Science it is translated
  • This new edition of Occult Science is a free translation. While