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• Title: Threshold/Spiritual World: Cover Sheet
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  • on the supersensible world. Here again, Steiner also presents clear
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• Title: Threshold/Spiritual World: Contents
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  • Concerning Knowledge of the Spiritual World
  • Concerning Man's Etheric Body and the Elemental World
  • and the Spiritual World; and Ahrimanic Beings
  • for Love; and the Relation of these to the Elemental World
  • Concerning the Boundary between the Physical World and Supersensible Worlds
  • Concerning Beings of the Spirit-Worlds
• Title: Threshold/Spiritual World: Introductory Remarks
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  • worlds. It has not been sought to give either a systematic or in any way
  • spiritual sphere than with those of the physical world. And if we rest
  • spiritual world. On this account I try to present spiritual facts again
• Title: Threshold/Spiritual World: I: Concerning the Reliance which may be placed on Thinking
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  • on the supersensible world. Here again, Steiner also presents clear
  • to the world that is independent of him.
  • life; in sleep it loses itself in the universal life of the world,
  • world. It is possible to arrive in quite a legitimate way at the feeling,
  • expressed, of the world thinking itself in the human soul, is entirely
  • to the spiritual world. Access may be denied to the clearest thinking
  • of the spiritual world, its beings and facts, it must, after having
  • for the perception of the spiritual world and its truths.
  • world during our meditation.
• Title: Threshold/Spiritual World: II: Concerning Knowledge of the Spiritual World
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  • In The Threshold of the Spiritual World, Steiner describes various
  • on the supersensible world. Here again, Steiner also presents clear
  • Concerning Knowledge of the Spiritual World
  • as far as the events and beings of the spiritual world. And unless this
  • the spiritual world too much like the physical world of the senses.
  • an idea of the way in which the spiritual world first makes its appearance
  • of the spiritual world will be perpetually bringing forward the objection
  • manifestations of a spiritual world. Now it should on no account be
  • a spiritual world are certainly only occupied with their own memories,
  • world. It may be said positively that for true clairvoyance there is
  • required not only the capacity for beholding a world of images in oneself,
  • physical world.
  • world is at first to be looked upon as something lying wholly outside
  • that world. The powers of the soul, strengthened by meditation, first
  • bring it into contact with the supersensible world. By means of these
  • has acquired for itself in the physical world. The fabric of the pictures
  • world. Through the pictures we shall learn to read in the supersensible
  • world. The impressions of the physical world naturally bring us much
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• 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
  • In The Threshold of the Spiritual World, Steiner describes various
  • on the supersensible world. Here again, Steiner also presents clear
  • Elemental World
  • at the recognition and knowledge of a supersensible spiritual world
  • to the outer world.
  • world, before it is perceived and recognised by the soul, is to the
  • experiences in the physical world. Thus it comes about that the soul
  • may be confronted with the spiritual world and may see in it an absolute
  • reasons for disproving and for evidence against the spiritual world,
  • just described. People do not deny the existence of the spiritual world,
  • of the spiritual world. Liberation from this longing for a materialistic
  • narcotic for deadening the dread of the spiritual world cannot be gained
  • events and beings of the physical world are the outward expression of
  • body man is not cut off from its corresponding outer world to the same
  • world. When we speak of an outer world in connection with the etheric
  • body, it is not the physical outer world, perceived by the senses, that
  • to the physical world as man's etheric body is in relation to his physical
  • world.
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• Title: Threshold/Spiritual World: IV: Summary of the Foregoing
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  • on the supersensible world. Here again, Steiner also presents clear
  • The elemental outer world is incorporated in the supersensible etheric
  • an earlier or Moon-world, and the preparatory stage of a future world
  • physical body, in the surrounding physical, material world. Through
  • The subtle, etheric body in the surrounding elemental world. By its
• Title: Threshold/Spiritual World: V: Concerning Reincarnation and Karma
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  • Man's Astral Body and the Spiritual World;
  • the so-called outer world is environment to the ordinary senses. The
  • present one, when it has experienced in a spiritual world after death,
  • to live on in a purely spiritual world after death, till it was ripe
  • that one may hold one's own, not only as regards a spiritual outer world
  • that which is necessarily felt to be the self in the physical world.
  • enters the world of that other being, it is in a region which, as compared
  • with the elemental world, may be called the world of the spirit.
  • long as we feel ourselves to be in that world, we find ourselves
  • of the physical world are enacted. We look from another world back upon
  • at the knowledge that, as human beings, we belong to both worlds. We
  • feel the physical world to be a kind of reflected image of the world of
  • the spiritual world, does not merely do this, but also leads an independent
  • life of the reflected image of the spiritual world. We feel them to
  • be beings who belong to the world of the spirit with regard to their
  • origin, but who have left the arena of that world, and sought their
  • field of action in the physical world. We thus find ourselves confronting
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• Title: Threshold/Spiritual World: VI: Concerning the Astral Body and the Luciferic Beings
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  • another group of spiritual beings, who from the world of the spirit
  • are seen to be active in the physical world (and also in the elemental
  • world), as in an adopted field of action. These are the spirits who
  • 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
  • living in the physical world, it is passing through a development which
  • 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
  • Luciferic beings stand in the physical world searching as it were,
  • in order that they may draw it out of the physical world and incorporate
  • the higher world, the activity of these Luciferic beings is also abservable
  • in the elemental world. Within this they strive to obtain a certain
  • the physical world, although that sphere has been preordained, by the
  • beings of the higher world, to be connected with the lower world. Just
  • urgent necessities of the physical world, and feel itself, with regard
  • face of the universal order of the higher world, to create a special
  • in the physical world.
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• Title: Threshold/Spiritual World: VII: Summary of the Foregoing
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  • on the supersensible world. Here again, Steiner also presents clear
  • within him a soul-centre belonging to a spiritual world. This is the
  • in a purely spiritual world, after human physical death, and in due
  • world and that of the etheric body the elemental world, so the environment
  • of the astral body is the world of the spirit. Beings of the same nature
  • worlds as Ahrimanic and Luciferic powers. The way in which they work
  • I. The physical body in the environment of the physical world. By
  • 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
  • the spiritual world, in which, as has been stated in the preceding pages,
  • which enters the supersensitive worlds, it is necessary to strengthen
  • those very forces of the soul which are acquired in the physical world.
  • timidity in entering the supersensible world. It even tries to avoid
  • spiritual worlds, then the soul also feels that only by life in the
  • physical world has it been enabled to gather those forces. It realises
  • the necessity of being led through the physical world on its journey
  • clairvoyant consciousness passes. On entering the elemental world, the
  • of pictures. In that world it is not able to develop with regard to
  • developed in thought-life within the physical world. Yet it would be
  • impossible to find one's way as a human being within the elemental world
  • the beings of the elemental world without thinking about them, but we
  • clairvoyant consciousness during its sojourn in the elemental world
  • on in the physical world. Rather is it the case that a thinking being
  • — such as man — in the act of beholding the elemental world
  • entering the spiritual world, the Ahrimanic beings, for instance,
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• Title: Threshold/Spiritual World: IX: Concerning the Ego-Feeling and the Human Souls Capacity for Love
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  • and the Relation of these to the Elemental World
  • human soul consciously enters the elemental world, it finds itself obliged
  • to change many of the ideas which it acquired in the physical world;
  • on entering the elemental world, the firm basis on which it must build
  • up its inner life. The ideas which are gained in the physical world
  • only offer an impediment to entering the elemental world as long as
  • only lives in the physical world, should be accustomed to look upon
  • if it did not develop a consciousness in the physical world which in
  • everything which life in the physical world can give the soul, is it
  • able to enter the elemental world in such a way that it does not lose its
  • the elemental world, but may also be kept clearly in the consciousness.
  • If the soul is too weak for conscious experience in the elemental world,
  • supersensible world at all with its consciousness. When it makes the
  • world, by the being living within the soul which may be called the
  • at the supersensible world, so that on sinking back into the physical
  • world it retains something of the supersensible in its consciousness,
  • faculty of sound judgment, as it may be acquired in the physical world,
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• Title: Threshold/Spiritual World: X: Concerning the Boundary between the Physical World and Supersensible Worlds
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  • on the supersensible world. Here again, Steiner also presents clear
  • World and Supersensible Worlds
  • to understand the mutual relations of the various worlds, we must take
  • into account the fact that a force which in one world is bound to develop
  • comes to be developed in another world, be directed against that order.
  • except in a deadened form. In the elemental world they exist in such
  • as sleep and the waking state make human life in the physical world
  • elemental world that the ego-feeling and the capacity for transformation
  • act upon each other in the way indicated; the physical world can only
  • man in its own world a certain fixed stamp, by means of which he is
  • put into that world as a particular personal being. He is not put into
  • 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
  • would be condemned to complete isolation in the elemental world; he
  • the elemental world would be equivalent to the non-existence of those
  • the human soul were to develop in the physical world the capacity for
  • transformation necessary for the elemental world, its personal identity
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• Title: Threshold/Spiritual World: XI: Concerning Beings of the Spirit-Worlds
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  • soul enters the supersensible world with clairvoyant consciousness, it
  • learns to know itself there in a way of which in the physical world it
  • world to whom it is not only related, but with whom it must compare
  • beings in supersensible worlds have become what the soul itself, through
  • its adventures and experiences in the physical world, has become. In
  • the elemental world beings confront the human soul who have developed
  • within that world powers and faculties which man himself can only unfold
  • being subject to the conditions of the physical world. They have no
  • world that which he may become within the physical world. Owing to this,
  • supersensible worlds the forces which he acquires in the physical body.
  • This clairvoyant consciousness lifts the human soul up into the world
  • Not till the soul experiences itself in that world, do pictures or conceptions
  • For these beings do not interpose directly in the physical world, nor
  • beings, who do not, so to say, set foot in the physical world.
  • If man does not respect the boundary between the physical world and
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• Title: Threshold/Spiritual World: XII: Concerning Spiritual Cosmic Beings
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  • consciousness comes to life in the elemental world, it finds beings
  • there who are able to develop a life in that world which man only acquires
  • within the physical world. These beings do not feel their self —
  • their ego — as man feels his in the physical world; they permeate
  • When the clairvoyant soul grows familiar with the world inhabited by
  • within the elemental world in man's etheric body. Human will would be
  • only a weak, dreamlike faculty in the elemental world, human thought
  • merely an indistinct, fleeting world of ideas. No feeling of the ego
  • clairvoyant human soul ascends from the elemental world into the spiritual
  • world proper, it experiences itself in conditions which diverge still
  • further than do elemental conditions from those of the physical world.
  • In the elemental world there is still much that is reminiscent of the
  • 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
  • bring over from that world into the spiritual world that which makes
  • not brought into the spiritual world, man would simply lapse into unconsciousness
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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
  • take place in the physical world, when he is invested with his physical
  • spiritual worlds and interpenetrate his etheric and astral bodies with
  • world, it turns out that there is something in it, belonging to it intrinsically,
  • which even from the spiritual world is not fully disclosed in its reality.
  • If the consciousness enters the spiritual world in a clairvoyant capacity,
  • the soul grows familiar with the world of thought-reality; but the
  • may be carried into that world, is not woven simply out of universal
  • thoughts; it does not yet feel in the world of cosmic thoughts anything
  • the spiritual world so far known to him. We will call this world in
  • which only the ego can experience itself, the super-spiritual world.
  • From it even the region of thought-reality seems an outer world. When
  • clairvoyant consciousness is transferred to this super-spiritual world,
  • as the consciousness is only experiencing itself in the elemental world.
  • In that world the consciousness is able to become aware of the way in
  • When the consciousness enters the spiritual world, another part of
  • of the spiritual world, everything is taken into account which happened
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• Title: Threshold/Spiritual World: XIV: Concerning Mans Real Ego
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  • itself within the spiritual world: “In the physical world I am
  • world I am limited by my etheric body; in the spiritual world I am
  • island. Beyond them is a world which I should be able to perceive if
  • already necessary for its life in the elemental world. It is under the
  • it from experience in the physical world, in order to be guarded in
  • supersensible worlds from having its consciousness deadened, clouded,
  • or even annihilated. In the physical world the soul, in order to experience
  • to it apart from its own inner work. In the elemental world thoughts,
  • unless the soul, before entering this world, has worked on the strengthening
  • will-power, for in the elemental world a thought is no longer merely
  • In the spiritual world thoughts are completely independent living beings.
  • body develops for it in the physical world, and which in the elemental
  • world is developed by the sympathies and antipathies of the etheric
  • body. It must forgo all this assistance in the spiritual world. There
  • the experiences of the physical world and the elemental world are only
  • two worlds. Around it is the spiritual world. This world at first makes
  • that intercourse becomes a world of conceptions in the consciousness
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• Title: Threshold/Spiritual World: XV: Summary of Part of the Foregoing
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  • on the supersensible world. Here again, Steiner also presents clear
  • within him a real ego, which belongs to a super-spiritual world. In the
  • physical world this real ego is, as it were, concealed by the experiences
  • of thinking, feeling, and willing. Even in the spiritual world man only
  • of what is experienced in the physical world, the elemental world, and
  • the spiritual world.
  • from the super-spiritual world. Then it becomes evident that that body
  • physical body in the environment of the physical world. By its means
  • of a spiritual world. In it is situated man's other self which realises
  • elemental, and spiritual worlds, and therefore all experiences of the
• 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
  • names it will have to be borne in mind that even in the elemental world
  • it does in the physical world. Experience in the elemental world is
  • be as fixed and rigid as it must be with regard to the physical world.
  • of clairvoyant consciousness when it enters the elemental world and
  • is transformed within the elemental world. It passes into the beings
  • forming that world. When this transformation of the etheric body takes
  • however, experiences as its outer world after death the processes of
  • the elemental world. This experience of the elemental world “from
  • of the soul through the “soul-world.” It must therefore be
  • realised that this soul-world is identical with that which, from the
  • elemental world.
  • 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
  • is experienced as its outer world by the soul which continues to exist in
  • outer world, it can be done in the same way in which it is described in
  • real ego, has around it within the spiritual world that which has been
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