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- Title: Threshold/Spiritual World: Cover Sheet
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- Title: Threshold/Spiritual World: Introductory Remarks
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- Title: Threshold/Spiritual World: I: Concerning the Reliance which may be placed on Thinking
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- thinking itself would not be able to bring satisfaction, even if we
- who doubts the validity and power of thought itself is deceived about
- who develops in himself the feeling here indicated with regard
- cultivating in himself as a human force of the soul, but also something
- which quite independently of him and his soul bears within itself some
- oneself to the life of thought. The soul feels that in that life it
- can escape from itself. This feeling is as necessary to the soul as
- the opposite one of being able to be wholly within itself.
- of these conditions. When awake the soul is in itself, living its own
- life; in sleep it loses itself in the universal life of the world,
- and is therefore to a certain extent freed from itself. The conditions
- the life of thought is a release of the soul from itself, just as feeling,
- remaining within itself.
- events draws into itself me and my soul; I am living in those events
- then possible to feel oneself taken into the universe and secure therein.
- the cosmic life expresses itself in me; my soul is only the stage
- upon which the universe manifests itself as thought.”
- expressed, of the world thinking itself in the human soul, is entirely
- there is in the attitude of soul which says, “I feel myself to
- and strengthens these forces within itself, and they become the organs
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- Title: Threshold/Spiritual World: II: Concerning Knowledge of the Spiritual World
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- event or being, is endeavouring to express itself through them.
- lies behind and expresses itself through the pictures.
- soul must, of course, first prepare itself for seeing such images
- required not only the capacity for beholding a world of images in oneself,
- life. As pictures these are woven entirely by the soul itself. And the
- has acquired for itself in the physical world. The fabric of the pictures
- it and the supersensible world, when it feels itself to be in contact
- science leads to a knowledge of self which embraces subconscious states
- of soul and is able to free itself from any illusions with regard to
- Title: Threshold/Spiritual World: III: Concerning Mans Etheric Body and the Elemental World
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- his ordinary consciousness man calls himself “ I,” signifying
- 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
- him. The etheric human being has to find himself in that which is not
- the soul inwardly, that it can be conscious of itself as an individual
- to possess it consciously, the soul must first prepare itself. It must
- being feels himself to he a member of a whole.
- and is not reality itself, we may speak of them as Gnomes.) We also
- within itself spiritual germs so that in time to come a further sphere,
- by, from which the earth has formed itself by transformation; whilst
- Title: Threshold/Spiritual World: IV: Summary of the Foregoing
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- 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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- to know in our own depths a being of which we feel our own self to be
- itself from the influence of conscious life. It begins to feel that this
- learns to immerse itself in the process of the development in one human
- yet essentially real, as though it were about to reveal itself as an
- a second self, which appears independent of and set over the being which
- we have previously looked upon as ourself. It seems like an inspirer
- of that self. And we as this latter self, then flow into one with our
- inspiring, superior self.
- in a higher sense is one's own self, and which nevertheless stands outside
- that which is necessarily felt to be the self in the physical world.
- The way in which the second self rises out of the waves of the soul's
- “other self.”
- its being inspired by its other self, yet that inspiration is nevertheless
- something that happens. It is the other self that guides the soul to the
- aptitudes, and so forth within it. This other self lives in the sum-total
- self which is conditioned by birth and death, and shapes human life,
- joins that other self, it learns to say “ I ” to the total
- grows together in the way that has been indicated, with the other self,
- man learns to know himself as another being, different from his
- world. One class of these spiritual beings presents itself in such a
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- Title: Threshold/Spiritual World: VI: Concerning the Astral Body and the Luciferic Beings
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- urgent necessities of the physical world, and feel itself, with regard
- human soul belongs, through its other self, to the higher world. But it
- if it has passed through adequate preparation, feels itself as a conscious
- consciousness is attained when man experiences himself in his etheric
- self, and the higher world to which he belongs. In this way also he
- is not able to reflect itself become changed into that which it now is
- are active. If clairvoyant consciousness betakes itself beyond the earth
- body is possible, it finds itself carried back to a remote past, previous
- Title: Threshold/Spiritual World: VII: Summary of the Foregoing
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- as a being independent of that consciousness, then experiences itself
- is this permanent entity itself; he lives in it as though in his
- other self. Inasmuch as he, as a being, is that other self, so he lives
- and origin as man's other self are working in the physical and elemental
- 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
- self, and this comes to expression in repeated earthly lives.
- Title: Threshold/Spiritual World: VIII: Concerning the Guardian of the Threshold
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- itself the forces which allow it, after entering, to maintain itself there
- the soul did not arm itself with adequate power for thought, the
- feel itself becoming more independent, but it would be adapting itself
- itself adequately by thought. It is one of the instinctive peculiarities
- world in proportion as it has sufficiently strengthened itself in the
- to the way in which it experiences itself in the physical world. It
- feels itself to be in its own element when it can experience itself
- achievement — a certain self-knowledge is brought about, of which
- They desire to subdue the soul, which feels itself drawn down by them
- as if into unknown depths. The moment of self-recognition is a serious
- one. Far too much philosophising and theorising about self-knowledge
- than drawn towards, the earnestness connected with real self-knowledge.
- within itself, as self-experience, the necessary state of maturity.
- is man himself, but which he can as little perceive with ordinary
- consciousness as the eye can see itself, is the guardian of the threshold
- of itself.
- able to formulate to itself any knowledge worthy of the name. Clairvoyance
- If the soul has been strengthened just in the direction of self-knowledge,
- Title: Threshold/Spiritual World: IX: Concerning the Ego-Feeling and the Human Souls Capacity for Love
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- human soul consciously enters the elemental world, it finds itself obliged
- way.” This transformation of self, this conscious projection of
- oneself into other beings, is life in supersensible worlds. By this
- process of conscious self-projection into others, we learn to know the
- and antipathies and experience itself alone, regarding and feeling merely
- of self in the soul. As far as the elemental world is concerned we may
- itself with regard to the necessary surrender to experiences of sympathy
- and antipathy: “I will keep entirely to myself and within
- myself.”
- And by a species of development of will the soul wrenches itself free
- and antipathy. This life in the self is, as it were, the sleeping state
- and develops a wish to experience itself only, that is to say, feels
- waking state of physical life with a fully developed feeling of self.
- For such experience, saturated with the feeling of self, in the physical
- but through the soul which experiences itself in the physical body. If
- world that the soul's feeling of self, its experience of the ego, although
- the strong ego-feeling were to project itself into the soul's conscious
- But the faculty of self-surrender, a natural impulse in the elemental
- experience. Elemental self-surrender means experiencing oneself in
- own soul. In order to develop the latter experience, the feeling of self,
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- Title: Threshold/Spiritual World: X: Concerning the Boundary between the Physical World and Supersensible Worlds
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- into other beings, and the strong ego-feeling, or feeling of self. Neither
- physical existence, he would feel himself in his soul as something which
- would not be able to know about anything in it except himself; for he
- would not feel himself related to any other being or event. This, in
- would be lost. Such a soul would be living in contradiction with itself.
- Clairvoyant consciousness has therefore to live itself into the capacity
- it should only bring to bear so long as it knows itself to be in the
- adapted for a supersensible world. If the soul, knowing itself to be
- without the self-knowledge brought about by the guardian of the threshold,
- It would be misunderstanding the order of the world to surrender oneself
- within the physical world and are changed thereby into selfish impulses.
- Title: Threshold/Spiritual World: XI: Concerning Beings of the Spirit-Worlds
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- learns to know itself there in a way of which in the physical world it
- itself, in order to know itself. And it further observes that these
- beings in supersensible worlds have become what the soul itself, through
- within that world powers and faculties which man himself can only unfold
- they are beings of like nature to himself, they differ from him in not
- Not till the soul experiences itself in that world, do pictures or conceptions
- himself drawn to the supersensible is directed to physical things. Love
- feeling of self; love which in the physical world is sought for the
- sake of such an enhanced feeling of self is equivalent to a Luciferic
- the self has the effect of emancipation; but love for the physical
- when it is sought on account of the self has not this effect, but, through
- the gratification gained by its means, only puts the self in fetters.
- the Luciferic and Ahrimanic elements by rooting them out of himself.
- Title: Threshold/Spiritual World: XII: Concerning Spiritual Cosmic Beings
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- within the physical world. These beings do not feel their self —
- that self with their will much more than man does his; they will their
- world proper, it experiences itself in conditions which diverge still
- itself. These beings have a body, which may be called a thought-body.
- as man experiences himself independently with the physical world.
- of the spiritual world. When the feeling of self-surrender, such as
- it feels itself to be in a completely new relationship towards the physical
- of the physical world is itself spiritual To the soul's gaze, looking
- The supersensible world reveals itself ultimately as a world of beings,
- Title: Threshold/Spiritual World: XIII: The First Beginnings of Mans Physical Body
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- which expresses itself as an ego-experience could arise in the human
- into the supersensible. Then for the first time does it feel itself
- able to observe. Man then feels himself in a still higher sphere than
- which only the ego can experience itself, the super-spiritual world.
- When the soul feels itself in its etheric body, and elemental events
- as the consciousness is only experiencing itself in the elemental world.
- 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
- as its environment, it knows itself to be outside both the physical
- itself within the spiritual world: “In the physical world I am
- restricted by finding myself, as it were, upon an island in the universe
- to develop further and further the faculty of self surrender which is
- thoughts within itself, has need only of the strength naturally allotted
- that it develops within itself and of itself the force which the physical
- present to the soul as memories. And the soul itself is beyond those
- itself on its own memories. The content of its consciousness is at first
- 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
- everything in itself which so far the consciousness of that existence
- has given it. The soul must actually place itself at the edge of a spiritual
- must be because the soul itself, by an act of will, has caused it to
- at this, there emerges from the forgetfulness it has itself brought
- can experience itself in the etheric and astral bodies, so too can it
- experience itself in the real ego.
- physical death man gradually lives himself into his spiritual environment.
- itself in physical existence. In the case, however, of one who penetrates
- Title: Threshold/Spiritual World: XV: Summary of Part of the Foregoing
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- becomes aware of his real ego when he effaces in himself the memories
- man recognises himself as an independent individual being or ego.
- man recognises himself as a member of the earth's elemental or vital
- of a spiritual world. In it is situated man's other self which realises
- itself in repeated earth-lives.
- 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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- body then experiences by itself, the soul being no longer with it, that
- the “spirit region.” The soul, experiencing itself in the
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