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• Title: Esoteric Development: Introduction
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  • understanding of life — and when many are being led astray by
• 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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  • normal outer life.
  • along with a discussion of dreams, sleep, death, life between
  • Human Freedom” and “Man and His Life on Earth and in the
  • Steiner's life that have been previously unavailable to English
  • author is a research scientist and a lifelong
  • “Body Free Life of the Soul,” “The
• Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture VII: The Great Initiates
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  • himself acquired experiences of the higher, super-sensible life, knows
  • for growth, life, and propagation. One can see this etheric body,
  • creation, this etheric body, produces man's essential life. Its color
  • our experiences that life brings us, are absorbed by us and they are
  • from inspired men. This has the effect of filling us with new life.
  • arranges his whole life of soul so that he takes himself in hand,
  • life out of their own deeper knowledge of the human being. I could
  • being — for we live a separate life through our etheric body
  • — then we have overcome our outer, separate life, we have
  • become part of universal life.
  • enters into universal life. The man who has attained this has
  • the schooling. Let us go back to everyday life at the time when the
  • intelligent German poet and thinker, whose life has all the
• Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture I: Inner Development
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  • difficult to achieve because life conditions tend to distract
  • life more and to withdraw from the influences of external life. Such
  • cultures offer a soil where inner life in the higher sense can
  • indispensable that all life usually surrounding the yogi cease
  • his attention to his inner life. He must also become free of all
  • memory impressions, particularly those of everyday life.
  • one's inner life. Whoever goes more and more deeply inward must
  • distancing from external practical life, may arise in him lest he
  • impossible to distinguish his higher life from insanity. It truly is
  • a kind of insanity when the inner life loses its proper
  • life within you and external life. You probably would find yourself
  • easily arise if the development of the internal life severs one's
  • for awakening higher spiritual life.
  • receives guidance for the occult life, sometimes quite erroneously
  • life. Everyone seeking the higher life must write into his soul with
  • us in everyday life, his higher and lower natures are intermingled,
  • and that is fortunate for everyday life. Many persons among us would
  • every aspect of life a demon lies in wait for him, ready to lead him
  • from the hidden areas of life. Therefore, a very determined shaping
  • build the necessary foundation for occult life.
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• Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture VIII: The Path of Knowledge and Its Stages
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  • think in ordinary life without bringing order into their thoughts.
  • a still more rigorous molding of the soul life, the study of books
  • so-called “Rhythm of Life.” People know such a
  • life-rhythm only very slightly in everyday life. They live carelessly
  • plan still bears a certain life-rhythm in that the sequence of daily
  • life? Nonetheless, one can ascend to a higher development only
  • by bringing rhythm and repetition into one's life. Rhythm holds sway
  • kingdom, and in the sexual life of the animals, everything is ruled
  • same time each spring. This is a way of bringing rhythm into life.
  • rhythm is put in place of the old one. Making life rhythmic in such a
  • the life-rhythm, the relation of microcosm to macrocosm, and
  • stages. In the first, he attains knowledge of the conditions of life
  • the conditions of life. He perceives how the different beings
  • only in this life, but also when you step through the portal into the
• Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture IX: Imaginative Knowledge and Artistic Imagination
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  • second named. This consists in man's not passing through life as
  • sunflower a picture of strong, vigorous life, of self-reliance,
  • the actual spiritual life of the earth. Thus certain plants become
  • relationship of the external lifeless world to the human organism is
  • ego-life, and occultists have always recognized this. It represents,
  • for instance, the life that goes forth from death. Thus in Goethe's
  • were working out of the deepest life of spirit. If one observes the
  • Gothic buildings of the Middle Ages. New life comes to its expression
  • Then later, when spiritual life comes to expression in external
  • forms, we shall have a style which expresses this spiritual life.
• Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture II: The Psychological Foundations of Anthroposophy
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  • again and again in the course of the cultural life of humanity, with
  • of established facts of the life of the mind, anthroposophy believes
  • the horizon of the normally conscious life of the mind, there is
  • to emphasize that the life of the mind here referred to is not to be
  • as are other facts of the life of nature and of the mind. But this
  • of the life of the human mind without the cessation, during the
  • evidences of the mind's conscious life.
  • and ideas of ordinary life or of scientific research; but he does not
  • as spiritual seed, so to speak, in the soil of the mind's life, and
  • awaits in complete serenity of spirit their effect upon this life of
  • on the contrary, we have to do with an actual process in the life of
  • upon the mind's life. The effect achieved in the mind depends
  • intellect. What is essential is the seclusion of the mind's life with
  • not disturb anyone in his ordinary life. The time required is
  • consciousness necessary for the normal human life. (The fact that
  • mind which has been described, most concepts in human life are
  • serenity its effects upon the mind's life, there comes about
  • effective as real forces in the mind's life. The spiritual
  • somewhat long — the inner life processes are felt to be
  • change in its sense of existence. If we agree that, in normal life,
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• Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture X: The Three Decisions on the Path of Imaginative Cognition
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  • independent life. One receives the feeling that, “Hitherto I
  • particular life and inner agility of its own.” It is as if one
  • has a life of its own, so that one feels oneself to be the sheath of
  • particular life of its own.”
  • the life of the meditator. He is then deeply stirred by the objective
  • of the thought to life.
  • which then begin to come to life. This entrance into the spiritual
  • back into the normal condition of life does one realize:
  • “I have not been asleep but I have been within the life of
  • whereas in physical life one is an Ego, adding one thought to
  • thought with intention. We then live in the whole life of thought
  • through this encounter with the lion. In the life of feelings this
  • spirits whose life-element is in the air, in the encircling warmth
  • and also in the light; they also have their life-element in the music
  • life we call our “lowest nature.” This dragon comprises
  • for Lucifer and Ahriman so to influence our subconscious life of soul
  • exert ourselves to allow what easily comes to life in the thoughts to
  • appears as reality, permeated with color, sound, and life. For
  • we must let these colorless and soundless forms take on life from
  • if one has stretched oneself and has identified oneself with the life
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• Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture IV: The Attainment of Spiritual Knowledge
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  • reorientation of the whole human life of soul.
  • human life, and in that we make experiments. We seek always for
  • takes its start from thinking. The life of thought must be
  • And a good training for this life of thought is to give deep study to
  • perception of outer processes are themselves unfolding a life of
  • performing the only completely free act there is in human life.
  • another upon education, and for a third upon our life. And ask
  • that has been given us by heredity, education, and life in general.
  • the life of meditation with splendid resolutions abandon it again
  • colored by all kinds of remains from our past life of perception and
  • must gather together the whole human life of soul in order to
  • realizes too that whereas one's thinking and sentient life were
  • our being without our knowing anything of it in ordinary life. It is
  • this etheric body which in man's waking life is full of inner
  • and course of our life back to the time of birth. A phenomenon
  • drowning, namely that they see their life backwards in a series of
  • that one can see all the events of the present earthly life.
  • initiation-knowledge gives is the view of one's own life of soul, and
  • supposes. One usually supposes in the abstract that this life of soul
  • leave a man wholly in the world, capable of continuing his life as
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• Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture III: Supersensible Knowledge: Anthroposophy as a Demand of the Age
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  • scales, regarding the relationships of life and existence.
  • friendly to the world: that is, the human life of sentiment, the
  • human life of feeling. In modern research, human feeling is not
  • everyday and in scientific life. Yet, if we recall — as science
  • may exist, even within the life of subjective feeling, something that
  • different: this is the will aspect of the life of the soul. Whoever
  • this human will which says to us in every moment of our waking life
  • there is anywhere in life a firm basis from which one may search for
  • called attention to the super-sensible aspect of human life, to that
  • aspects” of human life. Men deserving of the very highest
  • healthy human life enters into the chaotic experiences of dreams in
  • “subconscious” states of the life of the human
  • himself in his sense life that complete clarity which we possess
  • It is rather easy in ordinary life to acquire an empty consciousness;
  • memory: the whole inner life of the person appears in a new way
  • before the eyes of his soul, as he has passed through this life in
  • becomes a precise picture of man's life, such as appears, even
  • of his entire earthly life in pictures appearing before his soul
  • soul at the moment indicated, when the entire earthly life confronts
  • definite point of time in his life he began a friendship with a
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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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  • applied to the outer or the inner life if he does not fulfill these
  • worthless, indeed in a certain respect actually harmful, if life is
  • The outer hindrances are lessened by the rules of life which follow;
  • particular race, or if the daily round of life, certain
  • try to think of some action which in the ordinary course of life we
  • exercise should be moved to the center of life — the
  • no fear that such an exercise will make life arid and unproductive;
  • single exercise but of a sustained attentiveness to the inner life of
  • “positive attitude” to life. It consists in seeking
  • training. There are indeed many circumstances in life which
• Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture VI: Further Rules in Continuation of the General Demands
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  • be understood so that every esoteric pupil arranges his life in such
  • especially as to whether he follows these demands in his inner life.
  • strived inwardly for his whole life not to lose sight of these rules,
  • acquired through his position in life, profession, family
  • his firmness and security in life because he is carried by his
  • He would soon find himself standing in life without support were he
  • my life has placed me.” On the contrary, the more one tests,
  • accurate. Many people in their outer life do not at all incline to
  • indolence, yet in their conceptual life they are little
  • difficult, especially under the conditions of life in our age.
  • life of this so-called abstract, and who will not enrich his soul