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• Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture VII: The Great Initiates
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  • indicate how this great event has again been symbolized for the
• Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture VIII: The Path of Knowledge and Its Stages
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  • world when he learns to consider the objects around him as symbols.
  • outward appearances as symbols of the spirit, but the pupil can also
  • meadow saffron and a violet. If I see the meadow saffron as a symbol
  • outwardly comes to meet me, but also as a symbol of a certain
  • quality. In the violet, one can behold a symbol for a calm, innocent
  • plant, from animal to animal and regard them as symbols for the
  • comes then to behold the symbol for a characteristic quality in every
  • species of animal. One perceives one animal as a symbol for strength,
  • another as a symbol for slyness. We must try to pursue such things,
  • language is spoken in symbols. Language is nothing but a
  • speaking in symbols. Every word is a symbol. Even science, which
  • in that its words work symbolically. If you speak of the wings of the
  • in these symbols, but the advanced occult pupil will not lose himself
  • The pupil must find for himself such symbols in language. In this way
  • occult script? There are certain pictures, symbols, which are formed
  • by simple lines or the joining of colors. Such symbols constitute a
  • letter B is used in many different words, so can a symbol in
  • sees these symbols as a literate man does to an illiterate one in the
  • physical world. Our symbols for writing on the physical plane are for
  • the astral sign-language. Take an ancient astral symbol, Mercury's
• Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture IX: Imaginative Knowledge and Artistic Imagination
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  • power of imagination and the carbuncle. This was used as the symbol
  • Occult symbols are drawn
  • symbolism one finds genuine knowledge there. He who knows the
• Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture II: The Psychological Foundations of Anthroposophy
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  • designated as emblems, as symbols.
  • symbolic picture of this “archetypal plant.” Moreover, he
  • value of such a “symbolic archetypal plant,” if it
  • naturally, only a few examples of effective symbolic
  • being, through the symbolic union of an animal shape and the most
  • symbol appears, the more saturated with content, the better it is.
  • Under the conditions described, this symbol acts in such a way on the
  • one another. An old symbol which may be used with good result is the
  • being, the enhancing capacities being symbolized by the straight
  • become especially significant, to the extent that symbols of cosmic
  • added to these. They consist also in symbols, but such as correspond
  • through the symbol of light, of the wisdom which may be pictured as
  • as symbolized by warmth which comes about in the presence of light.
  • a symbolic character — fashioned out of such concepts. The mind
  • within the symbol to which one attains in the meditation. If success
  • capable of completely eliminating the content of the symbols from his
  • subjected while he was absorbed in the symbols. The content of the
  • symbols pictured must be cast out in a sort of real abstraction and
  • only the form of the experience in connection with the symbols
  • must remain in the consciousness. The unreal symbolic character of
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• Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture III: Supersensible Knowledge: Anthroposophy as a Demand of the Age
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  • the forms of signs and symbols. They pointed out that much which