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  • Title: Threshold/Spiritual World: I: Concerning the Reliance which may be placed on Thinking
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    • For even if we cannot arrive at a clear understanding of something through
    • to thought, feels that the latter is not merely something which he is
    • cultivating in himself as a human force of the soul, but also something
    • intends to live in something which belongs at the same time to him and
    • is something deeply tranquillising in being able to surrender
    • says, “It is not only I who think, but something thinks in me;
    • anything to meet the spiritual facts, or the information about them ready
    • must again and again be filled with the thought, allowing nothing else
    • impression, it diffuses something which disturbs the mental ease of
    • in the best way when it is felt to be something distinct from and raised
  • Title: Threshold/Spiritual World: II: Concerning Knowledge of the Spiritual World
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    • is nothing of the experience present but only its image in the memory.
    • a picture of memory yet expressing, not something previously experienced
    • but something unfamiliar to the soul. If we do this, we have formed
    • that all “presumed” spiritual experiences are nothing else
    • from which illusion may arise. We may have seen, for instance, something
    • possibly feel convinced that we never had anything to do with the matter
    • many other things make it quite comprehensible that the statements made
    • means. Just as something written does not call upon us to describe the
    • sight do not call upon us to apprehend them as anything but images ;
    • thing to genuine clairvoyant consciousness. The important point is what
    • world is at first to be looked upon as something lying wholly outside
    • is really nothing else but what may be characterised as memory. The
    • things are experienced. Through experience we learn by degrees to read
    • true that in this connection many absurd things are asserted by people
    • people and things in complete contrast with the corresponding inclinations
    • our earth-life we have often been driven to be fond of something which
    • against things being in reality as they have just been described. He will
    • be able to say, for instance: “You are indeed fond of something,
    • every affection. This antipathy to the thing referred to comes up in
    • facts of the case.” In general there is nothing to be said against
  • Title: Threshold/Spiritual World: III: Concerning Mans Etheric Body and the Elemental World
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    • 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
    • latter something quite strange and unfamiliar, the qualities of which
    • have nothing in common with what the soul is able to learn through its
    • of the soul of which it is at first unconscious. The feeling is something
    • he knows nothing of it, that he, as an etheric being, inhabits an elemental
    • world. When he becomes conscious of this state of things, the consciousness
    • as an etheric being in the elemental world, things are different. Then
    • at first knows nothing of this force, although possessing it. In order
    • be allied with everything which makes for endurance, solidity, and weight.
    • that there is something in their etheric nature which is of higher quality
  • Title: Threshold/Spiritual World: V: Concerning Reincarnation and Karma
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    • difficult for the soul to recognise that there is something prevailing
    • which exists independently of everything that may be developed in the
    • ordinary consciousness lives in this state of things, which is thus
    • even if the soul in ordinary consciousness knows nothing about
    • something that happens. It is the other self that guides the soul to the
    • physical world as substantial and material. We discover that everything
    • kingdom and in the higher kingdoms of nature they accomplish something
    • world, however, they do develop, amongst other things, the kind of activity
    • of the spirit, we find that something else is connected with their work
  • 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
    • for everything of a psychic nature (feeling) which is to be found there,
    • describe physical things and portray them slavishly in his thoughts.
    • to philosophise about things. On the other hand, the exaggeration of
    • personal predilections: all these things are the dark side of the
  • Title: Threshold/Spiritual World: VIII: Concerning the Guardian of the Threshold
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    • the same thing as is seen by one who can read it, but it only has meaning
    • would be taken for something quite different from what they really are
    • we are confronting ourselves — which is the same thing as standing
    • expect to see something almost tangible, people do not heed clairvoyant
    • in their own being than in other things.
  • Title: Threshold/Spiritual World: IX: Concerning the Ego-Feeling and the Human Souls Capacity for Love
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    • everything which life in the physical world can give the soul, is it
    • world it retains something of the supersensible in its consciousness,
    • faculty of transformation, we cannot experience anything genuine in
    • turn away from the thing so described; by antipathetic we simply mean
    • something not confined to the clairvoyantly awakened soul; it is always
    • pure, original nature it is of such a kind that nothing in the physical
    • developed with clairvoyance is by no means something which only enters
    • what is supersensible to become transformed into something else. If what
  • Title: Threshold/Spiritual World: X: Concerning the Boundary between the Physical World and Supersensible Worlds
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    • 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
  • Title: Threshold/Spiritual World: XI: Concerning Beings of the Spirit-Worlds
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    • their etheric body they develop something which man can only develop
    • know anything about a supersensible being unless he carried up into
    • something penetrates into the human soul which rises as though out of
    • when in the sympathies and antipathies of the physical world, something
    • himself drawn to the supersensible is directed to physical things. Love
    • of existence are in that world. It would not wish to have anything to
    • for what it is, and are able to dispense with everything in it which
  • Title: Threshold/Spiritual World: XII: Concerning Spiritual Cosmic Beings
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    • own existence as it were, and feel their existence as something which
    • suggestions, as something which is not in them but in the universe,
    • would come into existence there at all. For all these things it is necessary
    • conditions. He can do nothing there if he has only the ideas which are
    • bring with us into the spiritual world all those things not really existing
    • correspond to any thing or occurrence in it. Every delineation of things
    • spiritual world. On entering the latter, everything to which physical
    • to any physical thing or process, are still present in the soul when
    • one. But to spiritual sight the physical world has lost everything which
    • world, there vanishes everything which is not actual being. And the
  • Title: Threshold/Spiritual World: XIII: The First Beginnings of Mans Physical Body
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    • its first beginning in the cosmic order of things. This beginning may
    • were something more than merely a physical manifestation of the etheric
    • world, it turns out that there is something in it, belonging to it intrinsically,
    • thoughts; it does not yet feel in the world of cosmic thoughts anything
    • of everything which man, as a physical, etheric, and astral being, is
    • expression of something which was already in existence during the ancient
    • Moon condition of the earth. This state of things continues as long
    • physical entity something is left behind, when, from the standpoint
    • of the spiritual world, everything is taken into account which happened
  • Title: Threshold/Spiritual World: XIV: Concerning Mans Real Ego
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    • merely this: “I have existed, and now I am confronting nothingness.”
    • soul an exchange of thought between the memories and the supposed nothingness
    • the facing of supposed nothingness. This supposed nothingness is at
    • first an absolutely real nothingness to the soul. Yet the soul still
    • everything in itself which so far the consciousness of that existence
    • have known of a thing in order that a clearly recognisable remembrance
  • Title: Threshold/Spiritual World: XV: Summary of Part of the Foregoing
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    • of everything which he is able to experience through his thinking, feeling,
  • 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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    • something of the changeful character of such experiences. It cannot
    • into a world in which there is nothing which can be observed with the
    • as man develops them in his physical body, experience things. This world



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