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- Title: Threshold/Spiritual World: Contents
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- the Nature of the Thinking Soul; and of Meditation
- Concerning the Ego-Feeling and the Human Soul's Capacity
- Title: Threshold/Spiritual World: Introductory Remarks
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- for such formulae wherewith to develop the life of their soul will easily
- Title: Threshold/Spiritual World: I: Concerning the Reliance which may be placed on Thinking
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- the Nature of the Thinking Soul;
- of the soul's life, which flows by in impressions, sensations, feelings,
- set in, if the ship of the soul has worked its way to the island of
- The soul
- life of the soul comes to an end when it begins to doubt about thinking.
- attitude of the soul with regard to thinking underlies all human
- efforts after knowledge. It may be dulled in certain moods of the soul,
- but it is always to be found in the soul's dim feelings. The thinker
- the fundamental state of his soul. For it is often really his acuteness
- 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
- rhythm of the soul's life. Waking and sleeping are really only the extremes
- of these conditions. When awake the soul is in itself, living its own
- the life of thought is a release of the soul from itself, just as feeling,
- sensation, emotional life, and so forth are the expression of the soul
- at in this way, thought offers to the soul the consolation which
- events draws into itself me and my soul; I am living in those events
- From this condition of the soul, a strength ensues, which feels as though
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- Title: Threshold/Spiritual World: II: Concerning Knowledge of the Spiritual World
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- life of the soul attention be given to that which gives rise to ideas
- events and beings crowd in upon man when he has prepared his soul to
- Now let us imagine an image rising up in the soul in the same way as does
- but something unfamiliar to the soul. If we do this, we have formed
- in the soul, when the latter is sufficiently prepared for it.
- than more or less indistinct images of the memory, and that the soul
- It is thus that they rise out of the depths of the soul that is prepared
- pictured form and direct our soul's gaze to that which, as a supersensible
- soul must, of course, first prepare itself for seeing such images
- that world. The powers of the soul, strengthened by meditation, first
- the pictures that have been described emerge from the wave of the soul's
- life. As pictures these are woven entirely by the soul itself. And the
- materials of which they are made are actually the forces which the soul
- that these images are at first like a curtain put up by the soul between
- their soul with experiences of a former earth-life; but one should always
- 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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- at the outset are present in his soul. The difficulty in this case is
- the soul's inner experience, are not apprehended as such by ordinary
- human soul, of which at first it knows nothing, and of which it has to
- world, before it is perceived and recognised by the soul, is to the
- have nothing in common with what the soul is able to learn through its
- experiences in the physical world. Thus it comes about that the soul
- void. The soul may feel as though it were looking into an infinite,
- of the soul of which it is at first unconscious. The feeling is something
- like fear and dread, and the soul lives in it without being aware of
- the fact. For the life of the soul is determined not only by what it
- knowledge. Now when the soul searches, in the sphere of thought, for
- souls with thoughts which will deceive them and rid them of their dread
- soul's life, as here described. “Materialism as a psychic phenomenon
- of fear” is an important chapter in the science of the soul.
- of his soul in the world of the senses depends on his thus recognising
- with and in the soul. Therefore clairvoyance needs a stronger inner force
- than that which the soul possesses for the purpose of maintaining its own
- the soul inwardly, that it can be conscious of itself as an individual
- force of the soul by means of which it maintains its position as a being
- in the elemental world, is present in man's ordinary life. The soul
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- Title: Threshold/Spiritual World: V: Concerning Reincarnation and Karma
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- difficult for the soul to recognise that there is something prevailing
- within its life which is environment to the soul in the same way as
- soul unconsciously resists this, because it imagines its independent
- a vital fact, we learn to discern in the soul's nature an inner nucleus,
- sphere of the soul's conscious life between birth and death. We learn
- the course of this experience the soul learns to feel that a spiritual
- soul is of a spiritual nature.
- earthly lives. In the nucleus of the soul, which is to a certain degree
- independent of the soul, the latter is able to feel the germ of a new
- lives long past, in which the soul developed a germ which continued
- the soul has been adequately pre-pared, clairvoyant consciousness
- individual entity, there emerges from the waves of the life of the soul
- Once again it is necessary for the soul to be strengthened, in order
- The way in which the second self rises out of the waves of the soul's
- picturing the soul's life,
- “The Soul's Probation,”
- and “The Awakening of the Soul,” to portray how various human
- even if the soul in ordinary consciousness knows nothing about
- there, in the depths of the soul. It is, however, not expressed in thoughts
- something that happens. It is the other self that guides the soul to the
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- Title: Threshold/Spiritual World: VI: Concerning the Astral Body and the Luciferic Beings
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- desire to liberate the feeling soul entirely from the physical world,
- world is part of the cosmic order of things. While the human soul is
- who desire to wrench the feeling soul free from physical conditions.
- soul with powers which would continually stimulate it to rise above the
- the Luciferic forces in the soul is the source of much extravagance
- and confusion, for they try to develop the activities of the soul without
- 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
- soul belongs to the higher world, and when man is living in the physical
- processes of the physical world. The soul is also associated with a
- far as the human soul lives in the higher or spiritual world, it is
- because a knowledge of the soul's astral being is at the outset quite
- Title: Threshold/Spiritual World: VII: Summary of the Foregoing
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- within him a soul-centre belonging to a spiritual world. This is the
- Title: Threshold/Spiritual World: VIII: Concerning the Guardian of the Threshold
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- those very forces of the soul which are acquired in the physical world.
- If this strengthening has not taken place, the soul feels a certain
- if the soul finds that it is strong enough to enter, if it recognises in
- spiritual worlds, then the soul also feels that only by life in the
- these beings an inner activity of the soul similar to that which is
- if they were beheld by the soul of a non-thinking being. It is the same
- the soul did not arm itself with adequate power for thought, the
- soul the illusion that it was penetrating ever more deeply into the
- desire to prepare similar to their own being. The soul would certainly
- worlds do there of necessity ascend from the depths of the soul all
- world comes before the soul with the most vivid distinctness.
- up our minds to develop quite a different attitude of soul from the
- of their lurking-places in the depths of the soul. We must, however,
- They desire to subdue the soul, which feels itself drawn down by them
- goes on in the world. The soul's gaze is thereby rather turned away from,
- and reinforced faculties of the soul which make visible the guardian
- lasts. During sleep the soul rises to its supersensible nature. But
- beginnings, it is particularly important to bear in mind that the soul
- they remain quite unnoticed, like tiny clouds on the soul's horizon.
- If the soul has been strengthened just in the direction of self-knowledge,
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- 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
- but if the soul strengthens its forces to a corresponding degree, it
- the soul would never attain its inner solidarity, its necessary stability,
- everything which life in the physical world can give the soul, is it
- of the life of the soul must be gained in order that that independence
- may not only be present as an unconscious quality of the soul on entering
- If the soul is too weak for conscious experience in the elemental world,
- not imprinted with sufficient clearness on the soul to live on as a
- distinct memory. In this case the soul cannot really enter the
- world, by the being living within the soul which may be called the
- guardian of the threshold. And even if the soul has, so to speak, nibbled
- the soul will develop the right relation to the events and beings of
- an attitude of the soul is necessary which cannot be developed in the
- the elemental world, we feel an experience emerging in the soul which
- something not confined to the clairvoyantly awakened soul; it is always
- 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
- The soul, however, cannot
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- Title: Threshold/Spiritual World: X: Concerning the Boundary between the Physical World and Supersensible Worlds
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- of these forces of the human soul can be unfolded in physical existence
- physical existence, he would feel himself in his soul as something which
- the human soul were to develop in the physical world the capacity for
- would be lost. Such a soul would be living in contradiction with itself.
- at rest in the depths of the soul; a power which gives the soul its
- adapted for a supersensible world. If the soul, knowing itself to be
- soul's thought. Observation of the boundary between the worlds is a
- of our soul with regard to the physical world, and whether it is strong
- necessary consequence is that the soul takes them for realities when
- association with the realities to which they correspond, by the soul's
- not be projected into the soul's life within the physical world in the
- remain at rest in the depths of the soul, there regulating man's relation
- to the elemental world, but are transferred to the soul's experience
- soul, but weak. And when man passes through the gateway of death, the
- birth and death is such as to make the soul weak for the experiences
- Title: Threshold/Spiritual World: XI: Concerning Beings of the Spirit-Worlds
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- soul enters the supersensible world with clairvoyant consciousness, it
- beings in supersensible worlds have become what the soul itself, through
- the elemental world beings confront the human soul who have developed
- have so evolved that through their etheric body they have a soul-nature
- through a kind of ascent, or mounting-up of their ideas and other soul-experiences
- rest within them, and they draw it up out of the depths of their souls,
- as man from the depths of his soul draws up his memory-pictures.
- the life of their soul.
- he finds that their experiences are similar to those of his own soul.
- This clairvoyant consciousness lifts the human soul up into the world
- Not till the soul experiences itself in that world, do pictures or conceptions
- something penetrates into the human soul which rises as though out of
- existence in the soul, then the Luciferic essence may be present in
- upon the human soul, raising it above mere entanglement in the physical
- world. But when the human soul draws into the physical body the life
- Luciferic nature gains through that soul an influence which is opposed
- is loved with that part of the soul which is accessible io the Luciferic
- soul in the manner of the Luciferic element. The order of the universe
- beings make themselves felt in the thinking soul just as the Luciferic
- beings affect the feeling soul. The former chain thought to the physical
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- Title: Threshold/Spiritual World: XII: Concerning Spiritual Cosmic Beings
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- When the clairvoyant soul grows familiar with the world inhabited by
- and willing. These faculties of the human soul could not be unfolded
- clairvoyant human soul ascends from the elemental world into the spiritual
- a human soul in the physical world must be so strengthened that he will
- a sojourn there possible. If such a strengthened life of the soul were
- a plant is present in the physical world. We have, as human souls, to
- to any physical thing or process, are still present in the soul when
- on the soul the urgency of returning to the physical world or the elemental
- But when the soul brings correct ideas into the spiritual world, what
- is related to them in that world presses to meet them; the soul feels
- with feelings which are adapted to strengthen the life of the soul in
- but can live again in its own special way in the soul surrendered to
- way to the soul, another in another way; and a spiritual intercourse
- with the soul in the spiritual world.
- however, to the beings of the elemental world, the soul has the feeling
- soul has the feeling that they consist wholly of thought substance ;
- During the period through which the human soul passes between death
- is woven into physical existence between birth and death. When the soul
- the permanent thought-entity of the soul works in a shaping and inspiring
- way on the fate of that soul. In human destiny what has remained of
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- Title: Threshold/Spiritual World: XIII: The First Beginnings of Mans Physical Body
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- soul. This becomes specially evident when the consciousness develops
- the soul grows familiar with the world of thought-reality; but the
- ego experience, which through an adequate strengthening of soul-force
- this, the soul must advance still further into the supersensible. It
- When the soul feels itself in its etheric body, and elemental events
- 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
- to it in that sphere. The soul that has become clairvoyant may say to
- soul is indeed able to work its way through this veil, if it continues
- or even annihilated. In the physical world the soul, in order to experience
- unless the soul, before entering this world, has worked on the strengthening
- If they are to remain in the consciousness, the soul must be so strengthened
- present to the soul as memories. And the soul itself is beyond those
- no impression upon the astral body. The soul has to learn to live by
- But when the memories come from such soul-experiences as arc not merely
- soul an exchange of thought between the memories and the supposed nothingness
- of the astral body. The strength which is needful for the soul at this
- first an absolutely real nothingness to the soul. Yet the soul still
- and the beings of the spiritual world. During this intercourse the soul
- with ancient traditions, we may say, “The human soul experiences
- soul now wishes to step over into the super-spiritual world, it must
- 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
- 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
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- Title: Threshold/Spiritual World: XV: Summary of Part of the Foregoing
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- physical body is revealed in its true nature when the soul beholds it
- 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
- due to the soul's capacity for transformation and to its observation
- which the soul has during its complete development between birth (conception)
- the detachment of the physical body from the soul at death, there is
- also detached from the soul that which in this book is called the etheric
- body. The soul then lives for a while in the entity which is here called
- the astral body. The etheric body, after being detached from the soul,
- place, the soul which had lived in it is no longer there. The soul,
- of the soul through the “soul-world.” It must therefore be
- realised that this soul-world is identical with that which, from the
- the soul in the interval between death and rebirth — as described
- body then experiences by itself, the soul being no longer with it, that
- is experienced as its outer world by the soul which continues to exist in
- the “spirit region.” The soul, experiencing itself in the
- formed in it as soul-experiences during physical existence. Within the
- world above described as that of living thoughts-beings, the soul finds
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