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- Title: Threshold/Spiritual World: Contents
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- and the Spiritual World; and Ahrimanic Beings
- Concerning the Astral Body and the Luciferic Beings; and
- Concerning Beings of the Spirit-Worlds
- Concerning Spiritual Cosmic Beings
- Title: Threshold/Spiritual World: Introductory Remarks
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- parts of the universe and of the human being which come into view when
- Title: Threshold/Spiritual World: I: Concerning the Reliance which may be placed on Thinking
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- of thought which, being overstrained, constructs doubts and perplexities.
- Being of a cosmic nature, a Being to whom he must work his way, if he
- is something deeply tranquillising in being able to surrender
- the opposite one of being able to be wholly within itself.
- when I, through thinking, let their being flow into me.” It is
- of the spiritual world, its beings and facts, it must, after having
- Title: Threshold/Spiritual World: II: Concerning Knowledge of the Spiritual World
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- as far as the events and beings of the spiritual world. And unless this
- events and beings crowd in upon man when he has prepared his soul to
- different from the way in which physical beings and facts do so. But
- of spiritual sight, will be put in the way of being able to distinguish
- event or being, is endeavouring to express itself through them.
- little can anybody object to clairvoyant pictures being formed out of
- nearer to the beings and events of that world than the images seen
- life. So far from its being the case that images appear for the more
- against things being in reality as they have just been described. He will
- Title: Threshold/Spiritual World: III: Concerning Mans Etheric Body and the Elemental World
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- gain knowledge by degrees, just as it does of beings and events belonging
- like fear and dread, and the soul lives in it without being aware of
- or the possibility of attaining knowledge of it, as a result of being
- events and beings of the physical world are the outward expression of
- supersensible, spiritual events and beings. We arrive at this understanding
- body. Man, as an etheric being, stands in an etheric, or elemental
- he knows nothing of it, that he, as an etheric being, inhabits an elemental
- the being which presents itself in his physical body. The healthy life
- himself as a being separated from the rest of the world. That healthy
- or beings of the outer world as part of his ego. When man realises himself
- as an etheric being in the elemental world, things are different. Then
- his own ego-being blends with certain occurrences and beings around
- him. The etheric human being has to find himself in that which is not
- his inner being, in the same sense as “inner” is conceived in
- and beings which, although in certain respects part of the outer world,
- beings we are woven into the elemental essence of the world. In the
- the inner nature of the etheric human being as thoughts do in the physical
- world; and which do not behave like thoughts, but are like beings living
- being, not only in the presence of its own thoughts, but also when the
- forces and beings of the elemental world enter the field of its
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- Title: Threshold/Spiritual World: IV: Summary of the Foregoing
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- man's physical being is a subtle, etheric human being which lives in
- being, or ego.
- Title: Threshold/Spiritual World: V: Concerning Reincarnation and Karma
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- and Ahrimanic Beings
- to know in our own depths a being of which we feel our own self to be
- birth and death, as the developing germ in the being of a plant bears to
- a second self, which appears independent of and set over the being which
- beheld by clairvoyant consciousness, without being aware of the fact.
- its being inspired by its other self, yet that inspiration is nevertheless
- to his individual being. That which is called by an Eastern word Karma,
- or the spiritual ego. The life of a human being is seen to be inspired
- man learns to know himself as another being, different from his
- existence through the working of this being. When the consciousness
- enters the world of that other being, it is in a region which, as compared
- at the knowledge that, as human beings, we belong to both worlds. We
- the spirit. Yet this image, although reflecting the events and beings of
- we learn to know spiritual beings who bring about this independent
- be beings who belong to the world of the spirit with regard to their
- learn to know these spiritual beings in the lower world through
- world. One class of these spiritual beings presents itself in such a
- these beings consolidates and hardens the spiritual element of the physical
- of spirit. And so we will call the beings who bring about materialisation
- the Ahrimanic beings. It appears that their original sphere is the mineral
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- Title: Threshold/Spiritual World: VI: Concerning the Astral Body and the Luciferic Beings
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- VI: Concerning the Astral Body and the Luciferic Beings
- Concerning the Astral Body and the Luciferic Beings;
- another group of spiritual beings, who from the world of the spirit
- is part of the conditions of its existence. Its being woven into the
- physical world is a result of the activity of beings whom one learns
- to know in the higher world. That activity is opposed by the beings
- These latter beings may be called the Luciferic beings.
- Luciferic beings stand in the physical world searching as it were,
- the higher world, the activity of these Luciferic beings is also abservable
- beings of the higher world, to be connected with the lower world. Just
- as the Ahrimanic beings would be keeping to their own sphere if they
- is based on the order of the cosmos, so the Luciferic beings would not
- to those necessities, a free and independent being. But the Luciferic
- beings go beyond the limits of their domain when they desire, in the
- spiritual kingdom for which they wish to remould the psychic beings
- see how the influence of Luciferic beings in the physical world expands
- point of view the Luciferic beings have cooperated in bringing about the
- being in the higher world. The facts of the case are not altered, but,
- what may be called an astral being. One of the many reasons which justify
- this expression is that the astral being of man as such is not subject
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- Title: Threshold/Spiritual World: VII: Summary of the Foregoing
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- as a being independent of that consciousness, then experiences itself
- other self. Inasmuch as he, as a being, is that other self, so he lives
- of the astral body is the world of the spirit. Beings of the same nature
- Title: Threshold/Spiritual World: VIII: Concerning the Guardian of the Threshold
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- his real being is rooted. The part played by physical experience in human
- as an independent being, and to experience in its field of consciousness
- not only thoughts but beings, as must be the case in the elemental and
- the necessity of being led through the physical world on its journey
- consciousness becomes filled with beings who are perceived in the form
- these beings an inner activity of the soul similar to that which is
- impossible to find one's way as a human being within the elemental world
- if we did not enter it as thinking beings. We might certainly behold
- the beings of the elemental world without thinking about them, but we
- on in the physical world. Rather is it the case that a thinking being
- also perceives the meaning of its beings and force, while a non-thinking
- being would see the pictures without understanding their meaning and
- entering the spiritual world, the Ahrimanic beings, for instance,
- if they were beheld by the soul of a non-thinking being. It is the same
- with the Luciferic and other beings of the spiritual world. The Ahrimanic
- and Luciferic beings are only beheld by man in their true reality if
- Luciferic beings, when seen from the spiritual world, would take possession
- desire to prepare similar to their own being. The soul would certainly
- physical world conceals from view such beings as the Luciferic
- is concerned, and, not being misled by them, it is able to strengthen
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- Title: Threshold/Spiritual World: IX: Concerning the Ego-Feeling and the Human Souls Capacity for Love
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- world, by the being living within the soul which may be called the
- the soul will develop the right relation to the events and beings of
- supersensible worlds. This is the attitude of surrender to what is being
- we see ourselves outside our own being and feel ourselves within some
- other being. A transformation of our own being into the other with which
- supersensible worlds. For there all experience is due to our being able
- in a being which through its nature transforms mine in this particular
- oneself into other beings, is life in supersensible worlds. By this
- beings and events of those worlds. We come to notice that with one being
- sympathies and antipathies. For on encountering a being or event of
- of the elemental being or event. But we must not think that experiences
- a quality of the elemental being or event which bears a similar relation
- to the sympathetic quality of another event or being as does blue to
- there one object is red and another blue, so the beings of the elemental
- at hand for every human soul, being part of its nature. But in the ordinary
- connected in manifold ways with beings and events of the elemental world.
- continuously so live as an etheric being that sympathies and antipathies
- its own being. Indeed, this feeling may reach such a degree of intensity
- that we may speak of willing our own being. It is then a question of
- of the elemental world; whereas the surrender to events and beings
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- Title: Threshold/Spiritual World: X: Concerning the Boundary between the Physical World and Supersensible Worlds
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- Therefore it is necessary for man's being that there should exist in
- into other beings, and the strong ego-feeling, or feeling of self. Neither
- a way as to make man's being possible by their mutual balance, just
- put into that world as a particular personal being. He is not put into
- world, in order to be a human being in the full sense, he must be able
- would not feel himself related to any other being or event. This, in
- beings or events, as far as such a person was concerned.
- being in the physical world. Confusion would reign in the life of the
- etheric being of man could not come to development in the elemental
- strong. Egoism does not make a human being strong in the depths of his
- Title: Threshold/Spiritual World: XI: Concerning Beings of the Spirit-Worlds
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- Concerning Beings of the Spirit-Worlds
- it becomes acquainted with beings to whom it is more or less related; but
- in addition to this it becomes aware of meeting beings in the supersensible
- beings in supersensible worlds have become what the soul itself, through
- the elemental world beings confront the human soul who have developed
- etheric body and the other supersensible principles of his being. The
- beings here alluded to have no such body with physical senses. They
- they are beings of like nature to himself, they differ from him in not
- being subject to the conditions of the physical world. They have no
- out of the depths of their being. Their inner life is, as it were, at
- way man becomes acquainted with beings who have become within the supersensible
- these beings are a stage higher than man in the order of the universe,
- to him in the scale of beings. Notwithstanding their similarity to man,
- antipathies of his etheric body, these beings are not earth-bound in
- observes what these beings experience through their etheric bodies,
- a consciousness of their own being, although man would not be able to
- know anything about a supersensible being unless he carried up into
- Clairvoyant consciousness learns to know these beings through developing
- in which these beings have their field of activity and their abode.
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- Title: Threshold/Spiritual World: XII: Concerning Spiritual Cosmic Beings
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- Concerning Spiritual Cosmic Beings
- consciousness comes to life in the elemental world, it finds beings
- within the physical world. These beings do not feel their self —
- and which is streaming out of the universe into their being. Thus in
- these beings no doubt can ever arise but that their thoughts are the
- these beings, it comes naturally to an idea of its own thinking, feeling,
- its entering the spiritual world, by their very being they prove themselves
- in the spiritual world that actual beings are present there, who actually
- itself. These beings have a body, which may be called a thought-body.
- In this body they experience themselves as independent beings, just
- such a way that it is able to receive an impression from the beings
- world, becomes so much intensified that in that surrender the being
- into existence. Then one spiritual being speaks, as it were, in one
- but we know that we are experiencing beings in these thoughts. To live
- in beings who do not merely express themselves in thoughts, but arc
- however, to the beings of the elemental world, the soul has the feeling
- beings, and that they will their own existence in conformity with this
- But with regard to the beings who need not descend to the elemental
- that not only do the cosmic thoughts flow into them, but that the beings
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- Title: Threshold/Spiritual World: XIII: The First Beginnings of Mans Physical Body
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- condition. The latter is revealed wholly as a world of beings and the
- actions of those beings. In order to get an impression of this Sun period,
- through the actions of spiritual beings during the ancient Sun period,
- arrive at a complete development of his being, unless the physical body
- in that environment which is equal to its own being. In order to feel
- of everything which man, as a physical, etheric, and astral being, is
- and beings are its environment, it knows it is outside the physical
- of spiritual beings who have been active from the beginning of the earth's
- which man was constituted as a physical being during the ancient Moon
- during the Moon period by the deeds of spiritual beings. But another
- during the Sun period through the deeds of spiritual beings.
- then left behind is first revealed as the action of spiritual beings
- spiritual beings. That beginning was afterwards so transformed during
- other spiritual beings that the present physical human body became what
- Title: Threshold/Spiritual World: XIV: Concerning Mans Real Ego
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- soul experiences itself in its astral body and has living thought-beings
- of my spirit by the actions of living thought-beings.” Now the
- In the spiritual world thoughts are completely independent living beings.
- and the beings of the spiritual world. During this intercourse the soul
- learns to feel itself as an astral being. To use an expression in keeping
- itself as an astral being within the cosmic Word.” By the cosmic
- Word are here meant the thought-deeds of living thought-beings, which
- can only be transformed into another being. In the spiritual world,
- is possible; for into whatever a human being may change, his past experience
- At first his being emerges into it with memories of the physical world.
- thought-beings corresponding to them incorporate themselves into the
- between death and rebirth, the living thought-beings of the spiritual
- knowledge of ourselves as spiritual beings if we are to be justified
- Title: Threshold/Spiritual World: XV: Summary of Part of the Foregoing
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- with the foregoing, man's collective being may be expressed in tabular
- man recognises himself as an independent individual being or ego.
- as a spiritual being, even when all experiences of the physical,
- Title: Threshold/Spiritual World: XVI: Remarks on the Connection of what is in this Book with Accounts in Theosophy and Occult Science
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- the astral body. The etheric body, after being detached from the soul,
- is transformed within the elemental world. It passes into the beings
- body then experiences by itself, the soul being no longer with it, that
- world above described as that of living thoughts-beings, the soul finds
- between death and rebirth all that it has experienced in its inner being
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