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• Title: Esoteric Development: Contents
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  • Loneliness, Fear, Dread
• Title: Esoteric Development: Cover Sheet
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  • The lectures and written texts appearing
• Title: Esoteric Development: Introduction
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  • importance that such a book should appear now, a book that demands
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  • his sense of truth. He will have learned something of the
  • path, and although Steiner makes this abundantly clear, it will not
  • bout of thinking, when the concept for which we are searching at last
  • appears, we invariably say, “Ah! Now I see!” to
  • concept that has appeared in consciousness; and it is this seeing
  • the Scientist, “and sound to the ear, so are concepts and
  • It may take months, it may take years. The satisfaction, therefore,
• Title: Esoteric Development: Notes to the Texts
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• Title: Esoteric Development: Publisher's Note
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  • points in his lifetime. At the time when the earlier lectures
• Title: Esoteric Development: Additional Reading
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  • This work of nearly 400 pages begins with
  • Human Freedom” and “Man and His Life on Earth and in the
  • author is a research scientist and a lifelong
  • year. By following the verses through the year the soul gains a
  • initiate. The six exercises for the heart center are characterized as
  • editions. It is known throughout the world for its clear and concise
  • Years,” “The Small Child at Home and at School,”
  • prospective students and anyone wishing a clear understanding of the
• Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture VII: The Great Initiates
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  • the desire for knowledge. In the present time we so often hear that
  • research we constantly hear of such limits to knowledge, especially
  • acquire for himself through long years of patient exercise.
  • on earth their various religions and world-conceptions.
  • As in every science, in every spiritual process one must first learn
  • advice. Whoever has gone through a certain stage of learning, and has
  • this sphere. Whoever lacks this trust can learn nothing; but whoever
  • today complete. This must be made clear to anyone aspiring to become
  • described, so he was set down on the earth — from the hand of
  • his aura. All that man has learned through nature, all that he has
  • man then was not yet a being capable of clear thinking. All this
  • as each day one learns more nearly to know and love a child with all
  • shades of color, and, in the place of yellow, clear reddish ones
  • as one can speak of the wings of the lung, which also bear only a
  • middle of the head above the root of the nose, between the eyes. Near
  • of the heart there is the twelve-petalled one, and in the region of
  • backward in its development. Today it is appearing again,
  • appearing in a different shade of color; and finally, it will move
  • path in a conscious way, observantly and clearly, if he consciously
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• Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture I: Inner Development
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  • all the more clearly.
  • knowledgeable concerning our conditions on earth and that you
  • Earth but on Mars. The conditions on Mars are totally different from
  • those on Earth; the knowledge that you have gathered on Earth is of
  • and again the objection is heard, “What use are all the
  • and causes every vestige of egotism to disappear. Do this so
  • and confusedly, one may often hear that the higher self lives in the
  • self is making an appearance, it is the lower self that speaks. The
  • it outside of ourselves. We can learn a good deal from the person who
  • has learned to revere in the highest sense. Suppose that in your
  • earliest youth you had heard about a venerable person, an individual
  • the innermost heart.
  • clearly that he is doing something of immense importance to the human
  • alone. The lower nature comes forth appearing almost gruesome. When
  • People who previously appeared benevolent often become argumentative
  • and jealous. This characteristic had existed earlier in the lower
  • is hard. Look, for instance, at a plant or an object. You will learn
  • with joy, the next they are unbearably sad. Thus, people allow
  • be on the alert for possibilities of learning something new. And
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• Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture VIII: The Path of Knowledge and Its Stages
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  • already heard lectures pertaining to the path of knowledge or who
  • last thirty years have a few of the Rosicrucian teachings been made
  • having been taught earlier only in the most strictly closed circles.
  • like to make clear that there is not just one kind of path of
  • paths because human nature is different around our earth. One has to
  • nature actually appears to differ little in various lands. If one
  • becomes clear that what is good for the Orientals, and perhaps also
  • and Western natures, although they do not appear so different
  • Eastern imagination, and an Eastern heart work completely differently
  • physically near him. Certainly it is sometimes an urgent necessity
  • rearrange them. Only an overview of the information shall be given
  • occult trainings. This is the cultivation of clear and logical
  • good does it do me to learn about the higher worlds, the different
  • Akashic-Chronicle, and the evolution of the earth and the human
  • the senses of hearing and touch. One connects all of these with one's
  • different in appearance. Perceptions are again entirely
  • higher worlds. He who reaches up into these worlds learns new methods
  • pupil must learn on the Rosicrucian path of knowledge is Imagination.
  • The pupil prepares for this in that he gradually learns to immerse
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• Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture IX: Imaginative Knowledge and Artistic Imagination
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  • in the Rupa region of the Devachanic plane. By learning to survey a
  • group-soul, a man learns to penetrate to plant group-souls on the
  • Then man experiences that the plant-covering of the earth, that some
  • of the earth. That is the manifestation of these different plant
  • group-souls. Just as the human tears become the expression of the
  • expression of the human soul, so the occultist learns to look on the
  • the actual spiritual life of the earth. Thus certain plants become
  • for him like the earth's tears, out of which wells forth the earth's
  • the pupil just as someone may tremble and feel moved at the tears of
  • ascend from the plants; the plant-covering of the earth is then
  • which no wish is stirred by what comes near it. Chaste and pure is
  • Our earth today has a quite
  • the earth. It once had a completely different form. Let us immerse
  • earth because they first flowed along in streams. Just as lead is
  • and quicksilver will one day become a solid metal. Thus the earth is
  • always being formed in man during the earth's evolution, something
  • organs were formed within man while outside the earth became solid.
  • a relationship between the onyx and the organ of hearing. The
  • organ of hearing. An occult relationship exists further between the
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• Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture II: The Psychological Foundations of Anthroposophy
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  • “scientific.” This spiritual trend bears — in
  • coincide, although it bears many reminders of them. For this reason
  • be the object of scientific research; from the point of view of
  • the usual methods in research, it can be made an object of inquiry,
  • concepts or ideas. The spiritual researcher, in the sense here
  • and ideas of ordinary life or of scientific research; but he does not
  • clearly understood that undertaking these exercises of the mind need
  • organization, shall appear in its relation to man as a spiritual
  • symbol appears, the more saturated with content, the better it is.
  • clearly how, out of something not hitherto known to one, forces lay
  • perceive clearly the difference between the relationship of this
  • the described soul experiences a “spiritual researcher”
  • spiritual researcher, there exists the definite consciousness —
  • The consciousness becomes clearly aware that it is in relationship
  • — the spiritual researcher can discern through immediate
  • super-sensible reality, the spiritual researcher acquires through his
  • that the prudent spiritual researcher must be extremely critical
  • research than with the reservation that one thing or another has been
  • among the pronouncements of individual spiritual researchers
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• Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture X: The Three Decisions on the Path of Imaginative Cognition
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  • Loneliness, Fear, Dread
  • men of Earth committed to your charge
  • of the earth and for the freedom and progress of humanity passed
  • souls nearly related to us who, if they are to be located now, must
  • my dear friends, that the human soul can have experiences in the
  • things which crush one, which wear one down. But we must come through
  • this feeling of isolation to be able to bear the inner animation to
  • scientific movement began in Berlin a good many years ago, with
  • him were essences of soul. It was clear to him that in the spiritual
  • weighed down with what we have learned in the physical world; we must
  • acquires, or through a spiritual ear — for we also hear, we
  • dear friends, to speak of particular experiences which one can
  • particularly important to be very clear that certain experiences that
  • which does as it likes with one. One learns to act for oneself in the
  • fearful monster. This has been known for thousands of years in
  • gives rise to a dreadful fear, a fear of what is taking place in the
  • world of thought, of this living union with it, and this fear must be
  • overcome. This fear can in the most manifold ways simulate other
  • feelings that are not fear; but it is, in reality, fear of what one
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• Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture IV: The Attainment of Spiritual Knowledge
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  • of super-sensible research. But apart from this, let me add by way of
  • results of super-sensible research.
  • along the path of research leading to super-sensible worlds by means
  • initiation-knowledge the subject appears of itself. But that is then
  • of naiveté, hearing how organic beings are supposed to have
  • own being. I then bring this web to bear upon things in the outer
  • completely clear, in the modern sense. Patience and inner energy of
  • evening, in order to learn by degrees to look into the super-sensible
  • feeling. The substance of a meditation must be as clear and
  • even years. The forces of the soul must be strengthened and
  • that one can see all the events of the present earthly life.
  • influences from his own corporeality are disappearing, that is to say
  • antipathy with appearances in nature, and, above all, with other
  • has actually made headway. Wide-hearted sympathies and
  • worse, but we earn these memories. We have experiences, and we
  • drawn from the memory; what one learns, what one thinks, is usually
  • from it, so in super-sensible development one must learn to
  • they are experiences, but experiences which have to be earned
  • respectively, and we learn now to behold the eternal directly.
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• Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture III: Supersensible Knowledge: Anthroposophy as a Demand of the Age
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  • recognizes its own limitations, having clear insight into the fact
  • that it must restrict itself to the physical world of earthly
  • the human heart, of human feeling, during the present age.
  • magnificent contribution which scientific research has brought
  • earnest observation of the laws and facts of the external world of
  • research are willing to give very little attention to this light
  • researches.
  • most earnest of those who take up this research: the demand that this
  • of the heart, of opinions, perhaps even of fantasies regarding one's
  • field of external research — of actually rejecting the activity
  • eliminated himself in connection with his research; he prohibits his
  • prohibited in connection with this external research must be
  • modern research, a side which is alien to humanity even though
  • human life of feeling. In modern research, human feeling is not
  • express themselves in earlier periods as objectively about
  • contemporary research must the question be raised: could not some
  • But we find eminently clear
  • lectures we shall learn much more about the conflicts. But for one
  • side concerning scientific research, and on the other side concerning
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• Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture V: General Demands Which Every Aspirant For Occult Development Must Put to Himself
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  • cultivation of an absolutely clear thinking. For this purpose one
  • head to a point just above the heart.
  • anxiety or fear, no situation disconcert us, and so on. There need be
  • no fear that such an exercise will make life arid and unproductive;
  • this feeling into the body, letting it stream from the heart, towards
  • pouring it out from the heart. A connection with the exercises
  • bliss, one seeks in thought to guide this feeling to the heart and
  • out of and beyond oneself, as it were. One learns to regard a part of
  • repeated, as was suggested for the earlier months.
  • something just heard or seen, they say: “I never heard that, or
  • in accordance with natural law, or what has appeared possible
  • ears, and through the skin, in so far as this last contains the sense
  • phenomena and beings in the world completely disappear. A mood
  • soul. The very gestures and bearing of a person change under the
• Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture VI: Further Rules in Continuation of the General Demands
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  • particularly such feelings which very often bear the mask of selfless
  • esoteric pupil should be particularly clear that the observance of