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• Title: Esoteric Development: Cover Sheet
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  • the first time in English. Permission to reprint revised
• Title: Esoteric Development: Introduction
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  • great deal of attention in the first quarter of this century with his
  • to speak of them from firsthand experience. This is not only
  • basic books” of anthroposophy, is itself the first step to such
  • knowledge. A reading of the first chapter of Occult Science, an
• Title: Esoteric Development: Notes to the Texts
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  • April 8, 1911; GA 35. Translated by Olin D. Wannamaker. First
  • Wannamaker. First published by Anthroposophic Press, Inc. 1943.
  • 20, 1922; GA 305. First published in the Anthroposophy Quarterly
• Title: Esoteric Development: Additional Reading
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  • the world, and with the issue of human freedom. In the first half of
  • from 1934, when he first came into contact with Steiner's work, and
  • “The Map of Childhood,” “The First Seven
  • of discipline, fairy tales in the first grade, the teaching of Norse
• Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture VII: The Great Initiates
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  • As in every science, in every spiritual process one must first learn
  • himself and this work comes into expression first through changing
  • inner immersion, is the first stage which a student of initiation
  • instruction of higher powers. Actually in the first four sentences
  • insight into the soul-world, then true “pupil-ship” first
  • happens in this moment, when man has passed beyond the first steps
  • instruction can only be grasped if one has attained the first
  • himself can be admitted to the first stage of a still deeper
  • who by grace have received initiation. The first who was called to
• Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture I: Inner Development
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  • inward soul properties is the first obstacle. Present humanity
  • than I with unlimited love and trust. First, I must acquire this
  • personality in which a higher individuality lives. The first
  • But the paths to Olympus must first be illuminated before one can
  • first time. There, standing at the gateway of this personality, you
  • born. Just as man in his first birth was born out of the deep inner
  • First man must develop the
  • which everyone receives once he has developed the first five. It is
  • alternates among four states. The first state is the perception of
  • becomes transparent for us. The first stage is called
• Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture VIII: The Path of Knowledge and Its Stages
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  • knowledge exist great distinctions. The first important
  • prejudiced thinking must first be eliminated. A man must accustom
  • The first is that each pupil must go through a definite experience.
  • hideous human faces. This first experience represents a mirror-image
  • of formation of the first sub-race of our present main race,
  • animated by significant dreams. These are the first heralds of his
  • during Imaginative knowledge. On the first stage, he perceives the
  • stages. In the first, he attains knowledge of the conditions of life
  • them first in Lemurian times. During the preceding Hyperborean epoch
  • things must be really pondered over; that is the first step to ascend
• Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture IX: Imaginative Knowledge and Artistic Imagination
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  • who wishes to follow the Rosicrucian path. In the first place, he
  • imaginative development. He tells him: strive first of all to love
  • earth because they first flowed along in streams. Just as lead is
  • rudiments of the human eye had first arisen in the Sun evolution.
  • First the etheric body formed itself and this again formed the human
  • employer was first worked out among the printers. Lead brings about
  • images of the Greek gods one plainly sees three distinct types: first
• Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture II: The Psychological Foundations of Anthroposophy
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  • condition of the mind must first be created by means of certain
  • possible development of the mind. This first part of my exposition
  • aware if certain prerequisite conditions are first brought
  • shall be tested only after they have first been simply described.
  • ideas which the human being forms he wishes to have at first what may
  • world” and the knowledge of it mark only the first step for the
  • first step. Through intense concentration upon the soul life, brought
  • content of the mind is entirely subjective. At first, this content
  • first extend to showing what content from the sum total of the
  • opinion which may be formed at first concerning the experiences of
  • into partial factors. At first, he senses the attraction toward an
  • one has first seen, then turns away from, and then turns toward
  • first a merely subjective process. When the remembrance now actually
  • through its reflection by the physical body. The first factor in
  • has been described. It has been my desire at first to register here,
  • other conditions. First, the belief is created through this confusion
• Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture X: The Three Decisions on the Path of Imaginative Cognition
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  • We will think first of
  • [This lecture was given during the first World
  • entered, as it were, through three portals. The first may be called
  • first, like a little rounded seed which germinates into a being
  • world. But there, at first quite invisible to one, stands the power
  • that which one would like to have. This then is the first portal: the
  • second portal without having passed through the first. This is not
  • point without first going through the first portal. A real
  • through the first portal and then approached the second portal
  • himself at first to be in certain conditions which in their outward
  • the first point, then one would have to travel along the road again;
  • At first, when one has
  • essentials. If one has first passed through the Gates of Death, one
  • leads us first of all from within the physical body and physical
  • we have not first passed through the Gate of Death but go directly to
  • first something that flits away so lightly and fleetingly over the
  • attainments does not at first come from the higher forces, from
  • the ground from which we learn: that which at first appeared as a
• Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture IV: The Attainment of Spiritual Knowledge
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  • Now firstly — for
  • independently of the physical body, are the first super-sensible
  • The first thing that
  • This is what we can first discover in the way of the super-sensible
  • sense. It impresses itself only if one can first, with all effort,
  • of development towards which we must bring ourselves. We must first
  • us through Inspiration; the first thing that we now experience
  • by means of the preparations I have now indicated. The first
  • us earlier, we think of first, and that which comes to us later, we
  • fifth, then the fourth, and so on, to the first act. Through all such
  • as fluent as the first. That is only a trivial matter but there are
  • the spiritual, we must first, as it were, get outside
  • I will mention two, but there are many. The first lies in the fact
  • freed from the body, for then one becomes for the first time a whole
  • first stage of initiation-knowledge. For initiation-knowledge,
  • one must first have an inclination towards truth, because truth, not
• Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture III: Supersensible Knowledge: Anthroposophy as a Demand of the Age
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  • only to the first half of the nineteenth century to discover
  • the laboratory and the clinic. I shall discuss this first in
  • thinking in exactly the same way in which we acquired at first the
  • own soul life. We learned first in concentration to efface what
  • at first only by means of a comparison what now appears to the soul,
  • senses, who contemplates the first stage of the super-sensible within
  • And the first thing, in
  • physical body derived from matter and heredity. Now for the first
  • humanity, making us for the first time completely human. Our feelings
  • desire to be taken seriously in the realm of cognition. We first
  • describe as the first steps in the unfolding of a higher love in the
  • such a way that we first consider the earlier and then the subsequent
  • themselves at first solely to the microscope or telescope, but which
• Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture V: General Demands Which Every Aspirant For Occult Development Must Put to Himself
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  • The first condition is the
  • respect if one strives at first to choose the most uninteresting and
  • After a time a second, similar act should be added to the first;
  • too, one should continue the first exercise, although it is a less
  • paramount duty than in the first month. Nevertheless it must not be
  • fruits of the first month are soon lost and the slovenliness of
  • of the first and second months is maintained, as in the second month
  • with the exercise of the first month.
  • the mood indicated. The exercises of the first months are also
  • enables one for the first time to work in the world for its genuine
  • to himself that he is just about to reach a first rung on the upward
  • be stressed: First, the six exercises described paralyze the harmful
• Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture VI: Further Rules in Continuation of the General Demands
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  • First:
  • this first rule must be accompanied by the acquisition of