The Threshold of the Spiritual World

Contents

Introductory Remarks

I

Concerning the Reliance which may be placed on Thinking; the Nature of the Thinking Soul; and of Meditation

II

Concerning Knowledge of the Spiritual World

III

Concerning Man's Etheric Body and the Elemental World

IV

Summary of the Foregoing

V

Concerning Reincarnation and Karma; Man's Astral Body and the Spiritual World; and Ahrimanic Beings

VI

Concerning the Astral Body and the Luciferic Beings; and the Nature of the Etheric Body

VII

Summary of the Foregoing

VIII

Concerning the Guardian of the Threshold and some Peculiarities of Clairvoyant Consciousness

IX

Concerning the Ego-Feeling and the Human Soul's Capacity for Love; and the Relation of these to the Elemental World

X

Concerning the Boundary between the Physical World and Supersensible Worlds

XI

Concerning Beings of the Spirit-Worlds

XII

Concerning Spiritual Cosmic Beings

XIII

The First Beginnings of Man's Physical Body

XIV

Concerning Man's Real Ego

XV

Summary of Part of the Foregoing

XVI

Remarks on the Connection of what is described in this Book with the Accounts given in my Books Theosophy and Occult Science