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• Title: Book: Chapter II: The Nature of Humanity
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  • explanation is only possible with the help of supersensible knowledge,
  • a point where it see no more in the living organism than a combination
  • so-called lifeless body, or in the mineral. The combination is only
  • sufficient explanation. Latterly, there has again been a reaction.
  • mere figment of the imagination.
  • the other hand, as the designation of a being, only has meaning when
  • reach a man from without as a designation of himself. It is only to
  • which the word, the designation for it, has evolved. That the real
  • lower inclinations and turns to higher ones. In so doing, he works
  • From the above explanations it will be seen that the sentient soul and
  • they could simply follow the given explanations, and not themselves
• Title: Book: Chapter III: Sleep And Death
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  • clear in the further course of our explanations.
  • dreaming the play of fancy and creative imagination which our
  • Science mere figments of imagination.
  • supersensible describes, if in fact, a light of explanation thereby
  • they are to those who want to base all their explanations on facts
  • combination, thus as it were taking the watchmaker's place, he will
  • explanation of the otherwise inexplicable. But with the spiritual
  • of reincarnation fortifies his inner life.
  • give a satisfying explanation of the life of present-day mankind when
• Title: Book: Chapter IV: Man and the Evolution of the World (Part 1)
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  • earthly incarnation that the I or Ego first began its activity
• Title: Book: Chapter IV: Man and the Evolution of the World (Part 2)
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  • and discrimination will recognize that a complete observation of the
  • strictly borne in mind in regard to these designations. They must not,
• Title: Book: Chapter IV: Man and the Evolution of the World (Part 5)
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  • duller, now clearer; and the alternation was accompanied by a changing
  • determination of substance and of its forces by the Spirit goes still
  • reflected in the Sun This alternation in states of consciousness may
  • be compared, in the man of the present day, both to the alternation of
• Title: Book: Chapter IV: Man and the Evolution of the World (Part 6)
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  • and in this way the alternation of the above-described periods of
  • physical incarnation, along with all the other things that were around
  • filling the Earth with the lignified relics of their incarnations.
  • his incarnation, he could not perceive its introduction directly but
  • and entered into incarnation — periods, that is, of his growth on
  • a new animal-soul come into incarnation. And it is in this sense that
  • place in the course of immense epochs, the precise determination of
  • singled out: the alternation of day and night. (The movements of the
  • with reincarnation, individual human Karma began to show itself.
  • himself. This was, in fact, a mistaken idea of reincarnation, which
  • about reincarnation was to be found only in the schools of the
  • passes in the body-free condition from incarnation to incarnation.
  • that in place of the true form of this world, hallucinations could
  • which caused him to appear even there as a being whose inclination was
  • self-determination.
  • a mistaken idea of reincarnation. As in the Atlantean age, it had been
  • through the Initiates alone that the true idea of reincarnation could
  • ancestors had belonged; and they believed themselves reincarnations of
  • human beings of that time. Teachings on reincarnation, that were
  • inclinations were not directed solely to the supersensible world. They
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• Title: Book: Chapter IV: Man and the Evolution of the World (Part 7)
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  • One particular prophet in this sense arose within a nation who
  • This was the nation of the Israelites, and the prophet to whom we
  • nations were capable of receiving, capable also of assimilating to
  • themselves as a nation, with each man merely as a member of the
  • nation. As man came to understand — to begin with, purely in
  • faculties the inclination towards the physical world of sense until
  • the inclination had reached maturity. Letting it slumber until then
• Title: Book: Chapter V: Knowledge of the Higher Worlds (Concerning Initiation) Part 1
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  • and emerge again only in one of his later incarnations.
• Title: Book: Chapter V: Knowledge of the Higher Worlds (Concerning Initiation) Part 2
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  • the Imaginative being the first. The word Imagination may well raise
  • or “imaginations,” it may be termed “Imaginative
  • in the picture-worlds (Imaginations) which appear as a result of the
  • heart and kernel of the pupil's own being; in the Imaginations of this
  • Imaginations, does he approach the real external world of the spirit.
  • creations of our fancy — visions, hallucinations and the like? As
  • his desires and impulses, his inclinations and passions. These are
  • fail to show discrimination in regard to what he observes there. Had
  • inclinations, his impulses and passions, he will be conferring
  • not be confused lack of discrimination, or with an arbitrary shutting
  • combinations — two by two, three and one at a time, and so on, in
  • foundation of sound judgment and discrimination.
• Title: Book: Chapter V: Knowledge of the Higher Worlds (Concerning Initiation) Part 3
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  • determination, grasp more than is generally supposed. For this
• Title: Book: Chapter V: Knowledge of the Higher Worlds (Concerning Initiation) Part 4
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  • that such a designation has no more direct relation to reality than
• Title: Book: Chapter V: Knowledge of the Higher Worlds (Concerning Initiation) Part 5
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  • constant alternation of birth with death. In the Imaginative world we
  • would be unable to give any explanation for the changes that were
  • be so regulated that exercises leading to Imagination are continued
  • something different and new, compared to that of Imagination. With
  • Imagination we see the manifestation of these beings in the realm of
  • “reading” the perceptions of Imagination are like the
  • individual letters or sounds. Nor is it only explanations of this kind
  • When the pupil of the Spirit goes forward from Imagination to
  • rises to a knowledge of this kind. With Imagination, he is already
  • characteristics of the Beings he perceives. Imagination leads him to
  • recognize, in his perceptions, emanations of a living reality of soul
  • man acquired by Imagination and Inspiration will find himself without
  • incarnation to the next. It is therefore only with Intuitive cognition
• Title: Book: Chapter V: Knowledge of the Higher Worlds (Concerning Initiation) Part 6
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  • the attainment of Imagination, described above ads deep inner
  • Imagination are still associated with sense-impressions, in those that
  • recommended to him when setting out to attain Imagination —
  • discrimination, in his life of feeling and in his conduct and
  • harmony should reign among the various qualities and inclinations of
  • doing, if it is to satisfy your own inclinations that you refrain from
  • Intuition and must continue working with those for Imagination and
• Title: Book: Chapter V: Knowledge of the Higher Worlds (Concerning Initiation) Part 8
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  • world. Someone may, for instance, have deeply hidden inclinations,
  • All his inclinations, his sympathies and antipathies, his passions and
  • and such strokes of destiny in our present and future incarnations,
  • incarnations. Therefore this Ego, with all its encumbrances, must
  • intelligent discrimination and of right feeling and strength of
  • picture belonging to the world of Imagination, what he has already
  • certainty and stability in his powers of judgment and discrimination
  • however, does he enter the world of Imagination that its pictures
  • his own character and inclinations, so must he now also find the way
  • taking place in his soul. As he sets out on the road to Imagination,
• Title: Book: Chapter V: Knowledge of the Higher Worlds (Concerning Initiation) Part 10
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  • has had but a few genuine Imaginations, for him already to be doing
  • incarnations, and this moving on from incarnation to incarnation is
  • soul change from one incarnation to the next. Even a superficial study
• Title: Book: Chapter VI: Present and Future Evolution of the World and of Mankind
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  • in this new way were able by their own Imagination, Inspiration and
  • feeling became deepened and enhanced. Souls who in their incarnations
  • bring the fruits of this development into their incarnations in the
  • themselves into the higher worlds by Imagination, Inspiration and
  • by dint of Imagination, Inspiration and Intuition of the higher worlds
  • their incarnations between the fifth post-Atlantean epoch and the
  • foreknowledge, this predetermination of the cosmic future. But a man's
  • souls if the latter have themselves incurred this kind of incarnation.
• Title: Book: Chapter VII: Details From the Domain of Spiritual Science
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  • (hallucinations, and the like.)
  • woman or as a man, two incarnations will as a rule take place
  • factors: the inner thirst of the soul for incarnation, and the
  • incarnation may result even before the “thirst” has reached
  • its full intensity, a well-adapted incarnation being within reach;
  • normal culmination, since at the proper time no opportunity to
  • Through Imagination, Inspiration and Intuition supersensible cognition
• Title: Book: Preface to the First Edition
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  • one's temperament, with a smile or with indignation — shelving it
  • all such explanations and lines of thought associated with such names
• Title: Book: Preface to the 1913 Edition
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  • to what is real and what is not. In place of theoretical explanations
• Title: Book: Preface to the 1920 Edition
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  • the explanations clearer and more cogent. In many parts of the book,
• Title: Book: Preface to the 1925 Edition
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  • picture-form, that is, in Imaginations, through which Inspirations
  • experienced in Intuition. (Concerning “Imagination, Inspiration
  • and Intuition,” the necessary explanations will be found both in
  • Imaginations cannot rest content with such pictorial descriptions. He
  • the consciousness of the seer move on from one objective Imagination
  • “Imagination” to be no mere subjective picture but the
  • Since the Imaginations described in this book first grew into a total
• Title: Book: Additional Reading Material
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  • Reincarnation and Karma. (Four lectures).
• Title: Book: Supplementary Notes
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  • Such explanations as have here been given about memory are
  • explanations given here are not concerned with the mere word, but with
  • own bodily nature. There is this alternation: the state of being given
  • of reincarnation of Old Saturn. It came into existence because, before
  • reincarnation of Old Moon on a higher level. The present Mercury is a
• Title: Book: Synopsis
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  • Change of consciousness on approach to new incarnation. Prevision of
  • after death (89-90). Reincarnation not an endless repetition (91).
  • see also page 328). Approach to the truth of reincarnation
  • from I. H. Fichte (100-1). Reincarnation and the cosmic past and
  • seven cycles in all (158-61). Culmination in the middle period, when
  • Beginning of Reincarnation and Karma (188). Reproduction and the
  • reincarnation (196).
  • One’ (203-4). Erroneous ideas of reincarnation after the downfall
  • Rise to ‘Imaginative cognition’. Spiritual Imaginations
  • (237). Birth of a new and independent Self (237). Imagination, to
  • discriminate real experiences from hallucinations (242-50).
  • ‘Illumination’ (258). Delicate nature of spiritual
  • experiences (259). Patience and resignation (259). The spiritual path
  • Imagination, Inspiration and Intuition and the three stages of life
  • being. Deeper self-knowledge needed for discrimination (280-1).
  • Imagination, Inspiration and Intuition in this regard; pure spiritual reality
  • 1. Study of Spiritual Science;2. Imagination;3. Inspiration;
  • (311-12). Absence of rigid predestination. The cosmic plan compatible
  • birth. Interval between incarnations in relation to the Platonic year.
• Title: Book: Translators Notes
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  • giving to it the alternative designation Bildekräfteleib —
  • Imagination, Inspiration and Intuition. The words are
  • identical in the two languages, but whereas ‘imagination’
  • English, the same does not apply to Imagination in German. In