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- Title: Threshold/Spiritual World: Contents
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- Concerning Man's Etheric Body and the Elemental World
- Concerning Reincarnation and Karma; Man's Astral Body
- and the Spiritual World; and Ahrimanic Beings
- Concerning the Ego-Feeling and the Human Soul's Capacity
- The First Beginnings of Man's Physical Body
- Concerning Man's Real Ego
- 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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- consciousness human thought is like an island in the midst of the stream
- attitude of the soul with regard to thinking underlies all human
- cultivating in himself as a human force of the soul, but also something
- upon which the universe manifests itself as thought.”
- expressed, of the world thinking itself in the human soul, is entirely
- from this very thought, quite clearly, what so many refutations and proofs
- Title: Threshold/Spiritual World: II: Concerning Knowledge of the Spiritual World
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- conception of what is actually spiritual, and of its relation to man.
- events and beings crowd in upon man when he has prepared his soul to
- an idea of this entirely different way of manifesting may be gained
- manifestations of a spiritual world. Now it should on no account be
- in this sphere. Many people who believe they have manifestations from
- many other things make it quite comprehensible that the statements made
- man's ordinary consciousness, which has no means of penetrating into
- true that in this connection many absurd things are asserted by people
- think they have been. Many people, for instance, when convinced of the
- but human nature is complicated, and secret antipathy is mixed up with
- such an objection; and in many cases it may be quite correct. Knowledge
- Title: Threshold/Spiritual World: III: Concerning Mans Etheric Body and the Elemental World
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- III: Concerning Mans Etheric Body and the Elemental World
- Concerning Man's Etheric Body and the
- MAN arrives
- consciousness. For there are many things present, and living, in the
- human soul, of which at first it knows nothing, and of which it has to
- when we can see that the body belonging to man, which is perceptible
- etheric body is the second principle of human nature. It forms
- body man is not cut off from its corresponding outer world to the same
- to the physical world as man's etheric body is in relation to his physical
- body. Man, as an etheric being, stands in an etheric, or elemental
- Man is
- sets in when man becomes clairvoyant. The clairvoyant then knows about
- his ordinary consciousness man calls himself “ I,” signifying
- or beings of the outer world as part of his ego. When man realises himself
- him. The etheric human being has to find himself in that which is not
- must yet be considered as belonging to one's own ego. As etheric human
- the inner nature of the etheric human being as thoughts do in the physical
- in the elemental world, is present in man's ordinary life. The soul
- for clairvoyance. As long as a man cannot make up his mind to acquire
- etheric human being behind the physical human being, and a supersensible,
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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
- an elemental environment, as physical man lives in a physical environment.
- (Jupiter). One may give the foregoing schematically as follows. Man
- this body, man comes to recognise himself as an independent, individual
- means man comes to recognise himself as a member of the earth's etheric
- Title: Threshold/Spiritual World: V: Concerning Reincarnation and Karma
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- Man's Astral Body and the Spiritual World;
- and Ahrimanic Beings
- human life. Into that life the germ will carry over the results of the
- learns to immerse itself in the process of the development in one human
- in different human individualities. I have tried in the following plays
- and “The Awakening of the Soul,” to portray how various human
- or aggregate of the destiny of a human life. It moves alongside of the
- self which is conditioned by birth and death, and shapes human life,
- aggregate of the life-destiny, just as physical man says “ I ”
- or the spiritual ego. The life of a human being is seen to be inspired
- by his own permanent entity, which lives on from one life to another;
- man learns to know himself as another being, different from his
- at the knowledge that, as human beings, we belong to both worlds. We
- way that through them we discover the reason why man experiences the
- the Ahrimanic beings. It appears that their original sphere is the mineral
- bring fully into manifestation what is their real nature. In the vegetable
- Ahrimanic class are less dominant than in the latter. From the elemental
- that in the higher kingdoms of nature the part of the Ahrimanic beings
- of existence, the mission of the Ahrimanic beings is legitimate.
- when we view the activity of the Ahrimanic beings from the world
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- Title: Threshold/Spiritual World: VI: Concerning the Astral Body and the Luciferic Beings
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- world is part of the cosmic order of things. While the human soul is
- as the Ahrimanic beings would be keeping to their own sphere if they
- in two directions. On the one hand it is owing to them that man is able
- Moreover, man is able to enjoy unfettered thought; he need not merely
- human soul belongs, through its other self, to the higher world. But it
- to those facts which hold good for every human soul, there is added
- in clairvoyant consciousness, the knowledge of the facts. Every human
- soul belongs to the higher world, and when man is living in the physical
- world. The Ahrimanic and Luciferic forces which are spiritual and
- far as the human soul lives in the higher or spiritual world, it is
- 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
- science recognises that within man's astral being are working, not the
- body and the subtle, etheric body of man. But it is necessary that the
- man's astral body has its origin in the higher world, in the spiritual
- world, the etheric and physical bodies of man must also be looked upon
- which originate from the Luciferic and Ahrimanic beings. Now since those
- a kind of human astral essence. And a degree of clairvoyance which merely
- human astral essence is just that principle of human nature which opposes
- man's conforming to the laws really suitable for him in the order of
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- Title: Threshold/Spiritual World: VII: Summary of the Foregoing
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- MAN bears
- permanent human entity, which passes through repeated earthly lives in
- in a purely spiritual world, after human physical death, and in due
- This permanent entity acts as the inspirer of man's destiny in such
- Man
- is this permanent entity itself; he lives in it as though in his
- and origin as man's other self are working in the physical and elemental
- worlds as Ahrimanic and Luciferic powers. The way in which they work
- accordance with the foregoing, the following survey of man may be
- means of this body man recognises himself as an independent individual
- By means of this body man recognises himself as a member of the earth's
- body man is a member of a spiritual world of which the elemental and
- physical worlds are reflections. In the astral body lives man's other
- Title: Threshold/Spiritual World: VIII: Concerning the Guardian of the Threshold
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- as his experiences in the physical world are concerned, man is outside
- his real being is rooted. The part played by physical experience in human
- impossible to find one's way as a human being within the elemental world
- should not know what any of them really were. We should be like a man
- — such as man — in the act of beholding the elemental world
- entering the spiritual world, the Ahrimanic beings, for instance,
- 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
- aware how strongly we cleave to that life which connects man with the
- ourselves as human beings, consciously and unconsciously in the physical
- recognised they still manifest their power in quite a remarkable way.
- satisfaction to know that human nature is so ordered that its instincts
- true reality which will guide us further in human evolution.
- may say that there is hidden within man a being that keeps careful
- to the supersensible world. This spiritual being, hidden in man, which
- is man himself, but which he can as little perceive with ordinary
- sight, that meeting is not an event which happens only to the man who
- meeting happens to every human being every time he falls asleep, and
- undiscovered by many earnest seekers after the spiritual world. In this
- Title: Threshold/Spiritual World: IX: Concerning the Ego-Feeling and the Human Souls Capacity for Love
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- IX: Concerning the Ego-Feeling and the Human Soul's Capacity for Love
- Concerning the Ego-Feeling and the Human Soul's Capacity for Love;
- human soul consciously enters the elemental world, it finds itself obliged
- to change many of the ideas which it acquired in the physical world;
- the physical world. Just as we have a physical world of many colours,
- so can we experience an elemental world containing many sympathies or
- of a “sense” which man is able to awaken for the elemental
- at hand for every human soul, being part of its nature. But in the ordinary
- life of the soul the knowledge of this part of human nature is not
- developed. Man bears within him his etheric body; and through it is
- connected in manifold ways with beings and events of the elemental world.
- is the waking state. When the human soul is awake in the elemental world
- human clairvoyance, the memory of the soul's experiences in the physical
- other hand, it is essential for human consciousness within the physical
- world, is not to be put on a par with what is called love in human
- being: love, which is the source of all genuine morality in human life,
- springs up. Love is the most important result for man of his experience
- is spiritual in man as he lives the physical life becomes so transformed
- clairvoyantly conscious the human soul awakes in the spiritual world;
- German “Zauberhauch” is “tragic breath” ...
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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
- of these forces of the human soul can be unfolded in physical existence
- a way as to make man's being possible by their mutual balance, just
- as sleep and the waking state make human life in the physical world
- man in its own world a certain fixed stamp, by means of which he is
- the elemental world with his etheric body in this manner. In the elemental
- world, in order to be a human being in the full sense, he must be able
- the human soul were to develop in the physical world the capacity for
- universe that spiritual science finds the origin of evil in human action.
- etheric being of man could not come to development in the elemental
- remain at rest in the depths of the soul, there regulating man's relation
- strong. Egoism does not make a human being strong in the depths of his
- soul, but weak. And when man passes through the gateway of death, the
- Title: Threshold/Spiritual World: XI: Concerning Beings of the Spirit-Worlds
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- the elemental world beings confront the human soul who have developed
- within that world powers and faculties which man himself can only unfold
- such as man has through his physical body. Although to a certain degree
- senses of the kind which man possesses. Their knowledge is like man's;
- as man from the depths of his soul draws up his memory-pictures.
- 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,
- although they may be said to be, in the manner indicated, of the same
- nature as he. They constitute a kingdom above man, a hierarchy superior
- to him in the scale of beings. Notwithstanding their similarity to man,
- their etheric body is different from his. Whereas man is woven into
- If man
- their etheric body they develop something which man can only develop
- a consciousness of their own being, although man would not be able to
- a faculty for observing them by the help of the human etheric body.
- This clairvoyant consciousness lifts the human soul up into the world
- therefore in man's physical body. They are not present in the experiences
- If man does not respect the boundary between the physical world and
- and Ahrimanic beings, who though of like nature to the supersensible
- their field of activity and their abodes to the world which man perceives
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- Title: Threshold/Spiritual World: XII: Concerning Spiritual Cosmic Beings
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- there who are able to develop a life in that world which man only acquires
- their ego — as man feels his in the physical world; they permeate
- that self with their will much more than man does his; they will their
- their thoughts, as man creates his; they feel all their thoughts as
- and they feel the necessity of willing their existence in a manner corresponding
- and willing. These faculties of the human soul could not be unfolded
- within the elemental world in man's etheric body. Human will would be
- only a weak, dreamlike faculty in the elemental world, human thought
- for man to be invested with a physical body.
- clairvoyant human soul ascends from the elemental world into the spiritual
- physical world; but in the spiritual world man confronts entirely new
- to be gained in the physical world. All the same, man's inner life as
- a human soul in the physical world must be so strengthened that he will
- not brought into the spiritual world, man would simply lapse into unconsciousness
- a plant is present in the physical world. We have, as human souls, to
- in the physical world but manifesting themselves there nevertheless
- as man experiences himself independently with the physical world.
- the conceptions acquired by man, there arc certain thoughts saturated
- world to gain that which man can only gain in the physical world, and
- who attain that stage of existence in the spiritual world, the human
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- Title: Threshold/Spiritual World: XIII: The First Beginnings of Mans Physical Body
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- XIII: The First Beginnings of Man's Physical Body
- The First Beginnings of Man's Physical Body
- condition conceptions lead which may be prompted by the animal and human
- the clairvoyant consciousness of man finds within the etheric body
- body of man.
- to understand the physical body of man, we require, however, a different
- activity of human consciousness. At first it appears as an outer counterpart
- of the etheric body. But close observation shows that man could never
- were something more than merely a physical manifestation of the etheric
- take place in man, but they could not be so synthetised that the consciousness
- which expresses itself as an ego-experience could arise in the human
- the quality of clairvoyance. Man's ego-experience can at first only
- it. For man has an etheric and an astral body in which the ego-experience
- take place. Now if the human physical body is looked at from the spiritual
- of everything which man, as a physical, etheric, and astral being, is
- able to observe. Man then feels himself in a still higher sphere than
- of it becomes detached, and is manifest as the expression of the deeds
- which man was constituted as a physical being during the ancient Moon
- of the earth as man's physical entity at that period. But even of this
- that Saturn period the first beginning of the physical human body came
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- Title: Threshold/Spiritual World: XIV: Concerning Mans Real Ego
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- Concerning Man's Real Ego
- with ancient traditions, we may say, “The human soul experiences
- Man, in so far as he belongs to the elemental world, cannot die; he
- is possible; for into whatever a human being may change, his past experience
- the human soul the knowledge of that real ego. Just as clairvoyant consciousness
- human soul. Clairvoyant consciousness simply experiences consciously
- a fact appertaining to the nature of every human soul, of which it is
- physical death man gradually lives himself into his spiritual environment.
- Title: Threshold/Spiritual World: XV: Summary of Part of the Foregoing
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- MAN bears
- of thinking, feeling, and willing. Even in the spiritual world man only
- The human
- the Sun, Moon, and Earth periods, it developed into what the human physical
- with the foregoing, man's collective being may be expressed in tabular
- man recognises himself as an independent individual being or ego.
- man recognises himself as a member of the earth's elemental or vital
- The astral body in a spiritual environment. Through it man is a member
- of a spiritual world. In it is situated man's other self which realises
- The real ego in a super-spiritual environment. In this man finds himself
- 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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- of the human soul in the elemental and spiritual worlds must be adapted
- as man develops them in his physical body, experience things. This world
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