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Title: Lecture: The Etherisation of the Blood
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outcome of research into the spiritual world.”
are to reach a worthy goal in world-existence and if our actions are
present in the world, so there are two poles in man's life of soul.
ego are outpoured into the great world bordering on physical
into the spiritual world. The physical body in its ordinary state is
sleep as regards the outer physical world; daytime consciousness at
the present time is sleep as regards the spiritual world.
higher worlds.
belonging to a higher world, the world we call the Astral plane. And
Processes in the Heavenly World, or Devachan, are projected, mainly
shadow-reflections of the Heavenly World or Lower Devachan.
Higher Devachan, of the Higher Heavenly World.
The Astral world is reflected in the world of thought; the Devachanic
world is reflected in the aesthetic sphere of pleasure and
displeasure; and the Higher Devachanic world is reflected as morality.
Higher Devachan, the Higher Heavenly World. These reflections are the
the external world is contrived with the aid of products of
will move about in the physical world, but is the only etheric
body able to work in the physical world as a human physical body
Christ in the world; more and more they will be influenced in waking
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Title: Lecture: Buddha and Christ: The Sphere of the Bodhisattvas
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to the higher worlds. Every moral action has a definite connection
with the higher worlds. Our intellectual aptitudes have a
In our present age it is mainly the forces of the astral world that
a magical link established with the spiritual world.
world and has therefore been impelled more and more strongly towards
the world of the senses.
draw man upwards again to the spiritual world fall into two categories:
sends down his forces from the higher worlds, from the super-sensible
worlds, and inspires all bearers of culture who are not yet permeated
have to acquire in the physical world the power to behold the
in the world of men as the etheric Christ it matters not whether we are
Nevertheless, if during his life in the physical world such a man had
clairvoyant perception of the process of world-evolution to discover
others. He will convince the world through his own power and it would
world.

Title: Festivals/Easter: Lecture III: The Death of A God and Its Fruits In Humanity
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signify in the world, namely, the need to impart soul to our
“world-body,” as we may call it.
“world-body.” Looking back only a little into the historical
past, the idea of a world-body peopled by a humanity forming one whole
they are related to the spiritual world.
continues to guide humanity from the spiritual worlds without living
through the world: the Christ Impulse which at the Baptism in the
upon Himself because the course of world-evolution is, first, a
beggar in the upper world than a king in the realm of the Shades.’
Dread of the world lying behind the physical plane, dread of the world
spiritual worlds, and this impulse was given in the Fourth
was an issue that the gods in the higher worlds had to settle among
deeply into the material world than was originally intended. And now
occurs only on the earth. In the higher worlds there is
higher worlds, for it falls outside the sphere of the physical
world.
Christian points to a deed of the spiritual worlds, enacted
The task of the spiritual-scientific conception of the world is to
peace in the world. At the highest level of truth, all nations and all
Mutual understanding augurs peace in the world. This peace is the
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Title: Faith, Love, Hope: The Third Revelation
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coming into the world it has to be protected and cared for by those
Commandments something is given which has spread through the world as
spiritual world whose image is here on earth — the Ego. This
world-history people are meant to learn through Spiritual Science, to
closely into this fact. From the world-conception of Spiritual Science
see into the spiritual world. They will also realise that this picture
world — not in a physical body, but as for the newly awakened
intervening, in an etheric body, directly from the astral world in the
its significance. In short, what is important in the world of Maya,
the external world of space, vanishes away; we must learn to recognise
revelation that comes directly from the spiritual world —
the World-Spirit, as a sign of grace on the part of the creative,
guiding Spirit of the world, when to-day our heart urges us towards
world-conception, have become arrogant and overbearing, now say:
world-conception. They did not say what people imagine they would have
super-sensible world, makes it possible for us to turn all our
they go through the world. For love is a living force that stimulates
of confidence in the future. As far as the physical world is
Life would be impossible in the physical world were not future events
through the world with this clearly visible in his physical
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Title: Faith, Love, Hope: Towards the Sixth Epoch
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at first the external world should pass this by, or even treat it as
individuality in the spiritual world. We know, too, that there are
definite connections between every thing and every being in the world,
have left it for the super-sensible world. There is always a connection
replica of what is real in the spiritual worlds; we must expect the
of the dream-world that — if we are unable to go into these
the external world confronting us when we are awake.
in the super-sensible world. Human beings lived with the dead in spirit
dead; they are living in the super-sensible world. I can perceive what
good also for the other Beings in the super-sensible world; those, for
the spiritual world, of personally experiencing how matters stood with
“Formerly our souls could rise to the world we call that of the
to the spiritual worlds. In relation to earthly evolution as a whole,
super-sensible world, will prove to be comparatively short. It had to
those now going through the world apathetically, ignoring what
mysteries of the spiritual world will thereby find a way to forge ever
is their intellectualism, their intellectual conception of the world.
and knowledge of the world. But at the same time it was the epoch in
to-day a seer into the super-sensible worlds can gain some idea of what

Title: Reappearance/Christ: Lecture IX: The Etherization of the Blood
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beings in the etheric world, not His return in a physical body. The
world existence and if our actions are to be worthy of us as members
divine-spiritual powers of the world, which can appear as man.
darkness are present in the world as the principle poles of the
great world bordering directly on our physical existence. We could
ask what there is to be said about contemplation of the world,
world. The ordinary physical body is asleep to this observation, and
relation to the outer physical world; daytime consciousness at the
present time is sleep in relation to the spiritual world.
life of soul into relation to what we know as the higher worlds.
to a higher world, the world called the astral plane. You represent
mental pictures and the astral world, so now in relation to feeling I
can point upward to Devachan or the heavenly world. Processes in the
heavenly world, or Devachan, are projected, mainly into our breast,
moral-aesthetic world, we bear within our souls shades of the
heavenly world or Lower Devachan.
heavenly world.
three realms which, in the macrocosm, the great world, lie one above
the other. The astral world is shadowed in the world of thought, the
intellectual world; the Devachanic world is shadowed in the aesthetic
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Title: Esoteric Christianity: The Christ Impulse in Historical Development - Lecture 1
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general statements about the being of man in connection with World
immediately struck by the fact that we experience the world about us
long the world has worked upon us. Now only the memory pictures of the
impressions of the world in this way.
world, our sense impressions and our thoughts intermingle. And at
outer world merge with what we are as individuals. They become one.
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds.
thoughts on the external world. If, for instance, someone can think
is taking an independent individual stand with regard to the world.
independent and so are our ears. We can perceive the world of colour
and the world of sound independently. We can no longer do this when we
separate sense realms, we perceive the etheric world in general. And
Whoever perceives the etheric world and can gradually realise that a
higher world of this kind exists, can have an inner conviction that an
than one world. The human being goes to sleep without knowing that he
is in another world. But the fact that he is asleep and does not know
anything about it does not prove that this other world does not exist.
Other worlds do impinge in a certain way. The human being perceives
with his senses when he is in the physical world but not when he
withdraws into himself: then he has an intellectual world which
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Title: Esoteric Christianity: The Christ Impulse in Historical Development - Lecture 2
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illusion to assume that in the world outside the same impulse is at
Spiritual Science, must become known in the world: that is, the truth
inequalities in the world. Then the human being who is privileged to
it. For Spiritual Science has not come into the world through the
spiritual world. Something will come to meet them, appearing before
what can speak to us from the spiritual world.
concepts of the spiritual world arise out of the purest depths of
what can only be given by the vision of the spiritual world that is
he only saw into the spiritual world three times in his life: once
to work henceforth from the spiritual world. He must not appear again
world conception stream of the philosophers of the West. He himself is
the driving force working out of the spiritual world into that life
the world, and Buddha made a fire and roasted himself, in order to
What is Buddha's task out there in the spiritual world? It is his task
streaming through our world; it is the Buddha force. It is also
it was destined to work for only three years in the earthly world. He
same way, begin working in the etheric world. So we can speak of a
spiritual world — and this does not mean trained clairvoyants,
etheric vision: see Him Who will only take part in world events from
world does not consist of lifeless molecules. All that is spread out
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Title: Esoteric Christianity: Rosicrucian Christianity - Lecture 1
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initiates, had no further access to the spiritual worlds, and when
they spoke about the spiritual worlds they had to confine themselves
spiritual world from tradition or from those initiates who awakened
spiritual world.
could see directly into the spiritual world, but they could awaken to
worlds. Then it was that the council of the spiritual elite assembled.
world. He was a very delicate child in that incarnation of the
world they were taken to be its enemies. Each individuality worked his
and all interest in the physical world disappeared. He lived entirely
death into the general world ether. This was a permanent etheric body,
spiritual etheric body again radiated from the spiritual world into
known world. After he had received all the wisdom of the twelve,
Christian Rosenkreutz they could develop an absolutely new world
world. They wanted to investigate the maya of matter. Just as man has
etheric substance is like nothing else in the world. It is neither
substance lived in the world in a certain form both in the macrocosm
and in man. In the world outside man they revered it as the mighty
on the one hand in man and also outside in the world in the rainbow
divulged to the world, for not until they had worked at them for a
outside world. The temptation is too great that people would idealise
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Title: Esoteric Christianity: Rosicrucian Christianity - Lecture 2
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described is a fact of the physical world, though it does not come by
spiritual world. He may at first imagine that the voice has come from
messages from the spiritual world. Such events can occur once or many
from the spiritual world that I belong to his stream. Christian
having met Christian Rosenkreutz in the spiritual world between his
on the altar of the world.

Title: Esoteric Christianity: Jeshu ben Pandira - Lecture 1
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worlds in addition to our physical world, and declare that the human
being sustains a relationship, not only to this physical world, but
the human being is connected with super-sensible worlds. In other
to the invisible, super-sensible world: in man's thought-life he has
something which points to higher worlds. What this conceptual world is
it. Thus we have concepts of the world surrounding us, and we may
any clue to the existence of higher worlds, we must take cognizance of
our concepts appear to us to be enveloped in mist; the external world
world, our emotions with another super-sensible world, and our will
that is in the physical world. When we conceive, our life of concepts,
our thought life, is in relationship with the astral world. Our
emotions bring us into connection with what we call the Heavenly World
with the Higher Devachan, or the World of Reason. Man thus stands in
relationship with three worlds through the impulses of thinking,
world, he can carry his thoughts into the astral world; he can carry
his emotions into the world of Devachan; he can carry into the higher
Heavenly World all that he possesses in his soul of the nature of will
occult science is in speaking of the three worlds. And, when we take
relationship to the highest of the three worlds into which the being
Our ordinary thought life reaches only up to the astral world. No
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Title: Esoteric Christianity: Jeshu ben Pandira - Lecture 2
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principles of education, there are many persons in the world now who
By means of a monistic and materialistic world view it is possible to
is the peculiarity of the monistic and materialistic world view: the
lacking energy, will be the results of this world view.
the world of imaginative representations, he then observes that the
terribly illogical life of the world. Anyone who has acquired a
above, from the higher worlds. In ever-increasing measure, men will

Title: Esoteric Christianity: The Christ Impulse as Living Reality - Lecture 1
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to what is also taking place in the super-sensible world in our time.
before the outside world wants to develop a deeper understanding for
external world outlook considers as dogmas, and to regard the conclusions
in the outside world of materialism, men would hasten of their own
to a world conception of a spiritual kind. But men are rigid with
world conception, or the biased dogmas arising out of this. Whereas
deceives the outside world which is not competent to judge. The
the outside world, because it sometimes works with facts that are
innumerable worlds that rise far above our world in spiritual
As opposed to this, Spiritual Science stands in the world as a
we notice that it is bound in the widest sense to the material world
connected with the next element, the astral world. It is from the
but rejects them from that part of the astral world that is lower
suitable for this spiritual world. Thus our life of mental images and
world, our life of feeling with lower Devachan and our life of will
the Roman was completely attuned to the physical world that he
to keep in touch with the outside world. You should not choose in the
in the materialistic thinking of the world and in Spiritual Science.
lift it up into the astral world. The human being who has advanced to
respect, enabling it to enter the lower Devachanic world in a
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Title: Esoteric Christianity: The Christ Impulse as Living Reality - Lecture 2
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time when the spiritual world was entirely shut off from human vision,
knowledge then existing, of the world and its secrets, was gathered
world, he came under no influence save theirs; they cared for all his
twelve great religions and world conceptions have been given to us,
The child lived only a short time longer. In the external world we
world. And he has worked on into our time, either as a human being or
ruthlessly making his way in the world (he may be a thorough
that the warning came from the spiritual world, and secondly, that
actually been saved, moreover by a warning proceeding from a world
pass into the hands of the outside world. He wanted to translate it in
therefore, the world does not yet possess the Gospels in their true
the Maitreya Buddha. And then his influence from the spiritual world

Title: Esoteric Christianity: The Dawn of Occultism in the Modern Age - Lecture 1
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different religious confessions and schools of thought in the world.
Whatever knowledge of the spiritual worlds existed in the thirteenth
these men to have direct vision of the spiritual world. Darkness had
spiritual world, but they were able to bring to life within them
before Damascus. Thereby it was possible for all the twelve world
life he brought to fruitfulness, in the outer world too, all that he
the West and over practically the whole of the then known world in
This new impulse also came to expression in the exoteric world. The
also necessary in the process of historical development. Eastern world
called the crisis in the world of the demons. And what does this mean?
regions of the spiritual world. The ego still lived in the astral
world; but the beings and powers which the ego was able to behold
vision of the good powers, but as he looked into the astral world he
This enabled him to perceive that a crisis was at hand in the world of
our voice heard in the world than it will be for any others. The
adherents of other views of the world will have less persecution to

Title: Esoteric Christianity: The Dawn of Occultism in the Modern Age - Lecture 2
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eyes have perceptions of colour. After death the world of concepts is
rooted in the spiritual world, we begin to understand our destiny. We
death and a new birth, that is to say, from the spiritual world. Upon
has given me a sign from the spiritual world that I belong to his
Rosenkreutz in the spiritual world. It was then that Christian
in the spiritual fabric of world existence. If we develop the memory
spiritual life which streams and pulses through the world. Theoretical
spirit forms from the higher worlds. To have an imaginative conception
death’ But we must ourselves believe that the world is arranged in
body. The world-spirit has inscribed such a picture in nature to draw
Anthroposophy: to bring to the world the rejuvenation which it needs.
the knowledge that the soul can gain mastery over the external world.

Title: Esoteric Christianity: The True Attitude To Karma
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then arise, bringing the realisation that even when the world seems
bestowed by the wise guidance of worlds, without our assistance, as
world who want to receive us into themselves.
arms of the divine powers of the world, and the only worthy attitude
progress in life. Whenever the world bestows upon us the good and the
beautiful, we must feel that behind this world stand those powers of
whom the Bible says: ‘And they looked at the world and they saw that
the world which in the beginning was good, and what he must contribute
brought from the spiritual world. These forces, however, are spent by
world; in the earlier period we were taking something from the
spiritual world. It is in the middle period that we are most deeply
involved in the physical world, most engrossed in the affairs of outer
direct contact with the world. We have our life in our own hands. At
relation to the outer world. But this relation with the world is
are most alien to the spiritual worlds, to which the spiritual worlds
about the world are dependent on our karma. Very much lies in these
what he acquires in the world, is harbouring an illusion for the sake
realising that his soul is only a mirror in which the outer world is
other worlds in which our higher self also lives, and this is none
is. But Spiritual Science does tell us about these worlds where our
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Title: Esoteric Christianity: Intimate Workings of Karma
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talk about karma and our experiences in the world, so that Spiritual
experiences in the spiritual world appear in our earthly life, but in
experiences in the spiritual world.
world; spiritual darkness prevailed, and it was impossible even for
spiritual world. In the thirteenth century even those who in earlier
world. The gates of the spiritual world were closed for a certain
into the spiritual worlds. It was necessary for men to live through
that condition of darkness, to find the gates to the spiritual world
men who through the operations of world karma had gathered at a
religions, the philosophies and world conceptions that are spread over
shut off from the outside world. He was removed from his family and
rayed out in the ether world, he was liberated from the restrictions
those others who do not see. Everything in the spiritual world is
Everything that happens in the spiritual world has an influence on us,
and only when we realise that the soul lives in the spiritual world
world. And reference must be made here to a fact that is of the
in the spiritual world between death and a new birth and is not to be
we may have met Christian Rosenkreutz in the spiritual world. I have
spiritual world that occur during the life between death and a new

Title: Esoteric Christianity: The Mission of Christian Rosenkreutz
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Anyone who makes his mark in the world as a leading occultist, like
Anyone who asks from the standpoint of occultism what kind of world
promoting any understanding of the spiritual foundations of the world
and the things of the world, for there has never been a worse
instrument for understanding the spiritual foundations of the world
In earlier, pre-Copernican thought, the external world was indeed
maya, but much traditional wisdom, much truth concerning the world and
the things of the world still survived. Since Copernicus, however, man
realised that the view of the world of the stars held by Copernicus is
The view of the world held by the school of Copernicus and Kepler is very
And so Christian Rosenkreutz, confronted by a world conception which
rosicrucians were faced with the necessity of comprehending the world
in space the Copernican world-system was maya, even as concept. Thus
physical plane but also some who were in the spiritual worlds; and the
a physical body but sends down his influence from the spiritual world.
the spiritual world that the forces of Buddha were streaming into the
from the spiritual world — and he has co-operated in measures
fervently for the spirit and those engrossed in the world of industry,
of the world for the sake of spiritual life.
of the world. The world is moving fast in the direction of practical
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Title: Mission/Rosenkreutz: Lecture I. The Dawn of Occultism in the Modern Age
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confessions and schools of thought in the world. If we rightly
Whatever knowledge of the spiritual worlds existed in the thirteenth
for these men to have direct vision of the spiritual world. Darkness
of the spiritual world, but they were able to bring to life within
world-conceptions, religious and scientific — and fundamentally
one. The twelve basic world-conceptions were gathered together
the outer world too, all that he had lived through in that brief space
of the then known world in order to receive anew the wisdom which in
This new impulse also came to expression in the exoteric world. The
also necessary in the process of historical development. Eastern world
world of the demons! And what does this mean?
lowest regions of the spiritual world. The “I” lived still
in the astral world; but the beings and powers which the “I”
the astral world he saw only these evil beings. The only means of
in the world of the demons. And those who had been baptised knew: We
our voice heard in the world than it will be for any others. The
adherents of other views of the world will have less persecution to

Title: Mission/Rosenkreutz: Lecture II. The Dawn of Occultism in the Modern Age
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physical eyes have perceptions of colour. After death, the world of
spiritual world, we begin to understand our destiny. We have brought
world. Upon this rests a certain occurrence of very great importance
given me a sign from the spiritual world that I belong to his stream.
contact with Christian Rosenkreutz in the spiritual world. It was then
in the spiritual fabric of world existence. If we develop the memory
life which streams and pulses through the world. Theoretical knowledge
spirit-forms from the higher worlds. To have an imaginative conception
forth from the body. The World-Spirit has inscribed such a picture in
Anthroposophy, is to bring to the world the rejuvenation of which it
over the external world.

Title: Mission/Rosenkreutz: Lecture III. The True Attitude to Karma
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will then arise, bringing the realisation that even where the world
bestowed by the wise guidance of worlds without our assistance, as
world who want to receive us into themselves.
world, and the only worthy attitude is one of thankfulness. Nobody who
Whenever the world vouchsafes to us the good and the beautiful, we
must feel that behind this world stand those Powers of whom the Bible
says: “And they saw that it [the world] was good.” But in
course of incarnations, man has made of the world which in the
by the forces brought from the spiritual world. These forces, however,
into the spiritual world; in the earlier period we were taking
something from the spiritual world. It is in the middle period that we
are most deeply involved in the physical world, most engrossed in the
were and are in direct contact with the world; we have our life in our
with our relation to the outer world. But this relation to the world
are most alien to the spiritual worlds, to which the spiritual worlds
he acquires in the world, is harbouring an illusion for the sake of
his soul is only a mirror in which the outer world is reflected, may
headway can be made. Rather we must ask about those other worlds where
teaches us of the worlds to which the higher Self belongs, through
been gleaned from the outer world and then deposited within him! We
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Title: Mission/Rosenkreutz: Lecture IV. Intimate Workings of Karma
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the world, to the end that Spiritual Science may become a real
in the spiritual world appear in our earthly life — but in a
experiences in the spiritual world.
the souls of men were completely shut off from the spiritual world;
world. In the thirteenth century, even those who in earlier
world. The gates of the spiritual world were closed for a certain
into the spiritual worlds. It was necessary for men to live through
that condition of darkness, to find the gates to the spiritual world
who through the operations of world-karma had gathered at a certain
of the world spread over the Earth — were united in that
shut off from the outside world. He was removed from his family and
radiate more freely in the ether-world, when he was liberated from the
spiritual world is interconnected. Whatever influence may radiate from
world has an influence upon us and only when we realise that the soul
lives in the spiritual world just as the lung within the air, shall we
world. And reference must here be made to a fact that is of the
transpires in the spiritual world between death and a new birth and is
spiritual world. I have laid particular stress on this outstanding
connected directly with the spiritual world and to be found during the

Title: Mission/Rosenkreutz: Lecture V. The Christ Impulse as Living Reality
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spiritual world. When this Bodhisattva had become Buddha, he was
the Maitreya Buddha. And then his influence from the spiritual world
time, when the spiritual world was entirely shut off from human
the spiritual knowledge of the world and its secrets then existing was
world, he came under no influence save theirs; they were his teachers
twelve great religions and world-conceptions have united into one
The child lived only a short time longer. In the external world we
all the great religions and systems of thought in the world. And he
ruthlessly making his way in the world (he may be a thorough
firstly, that the warning came from the spiritual world, and secondly,
actually been saved, moreover by a warning proceeding from a world of
earthly world are concerned, death has already come to you and your
transcription, it should not pass into the hands of the outside world.
posterity. In reality, therefore, the world does not yet possess the

Title: Mission/Rosenkreutz: Lecture VI. The Starry Heaven Above Me - The Moral Law Within Me
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passing into the spiritual world we are still subject to our own,
to him in the higher worlds. Such services of friendship are always
plane into the spiritual worlds, in spite of the great gulf which
the world of the stars; but the more dimly he lives through these
the world of the stars, the more slowly does the soul return to
the spheres of Jupiter and Saturn and then, finally, the world of the
Theosophy gives us a deep and profound understanding of the world. A
the knowledge that before this life they were in a spiritual world,
law within me” — this realisation alone gives the world its
greatness. Man says to himself: “In the world of the stars I
my sojourn in the world of the stars I did not try to receive its

Title: Mission/Rosenkreutz: Lecture VII. The Mission of Gautama Buddha on Mars
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A being like Christian Rosenkreutz, who is present in the world as a
world-conception can be derived from the Copernican tenets, will have
world and the things of the world — for truth to tell there has
foundations of the world than the ideas of Copernicus — never in
world was, indeed, maya: but much traditional wisdom, much truth
concerning the world and the things of the world still survived. Since
world of stars held by Copernicus is much less correct than the
earlier, Ptolemaic view. The view of the world held by the school of
And so Christian Rosenkreutz, confronted by a world conception which
globes in cosmic space the Copernican world system was maya, even as
physical plane but entelechies operating in the spiritual worlds; and
a physical body but sends down his influence from the spiritual world.
from the spiritual world that the forces of Buddha were streaming into
but from the spiritual world — and he has co-operated in measures
fervently for the Spirit and those engrossed in the world of industry,
the world for the sake of the spiritual life. Left to itself, without
the wise counsels of the spiritual worlds, steps were taken to avert
world and its affairs. But the content of Buddhism which was not
guide the world work together, not only on the Earth but from one
as a means for reaching the spiritual world. When the modern pupil of
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Title: Lecture: Esoteric Studies: Cosmic Ego and Human Ego
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the fourth, the Greco-Latin, which, for a more comprehensive world
so that our Spirit-Self can shine into it, as from higher worlds, as a
Being who shines into me from upper worlds, who directs and leads me,
worlds ... And thus it will be later with the Life-Spirit, or Budhi,
from one cosmic body to another; but since the other world bodies are
said: “It is absurd that the greatest drama in the world should
Bodhisattvas of the world, upon whom streams what flows from the

Title: Lecture: Facing Karma
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nature of human karma, of human destiny. Why do we suffer in the world?
us feel that even if the world appears to be filled with suffering, it is,
divine powers of the world who want to receive us and who, as it were,
blissfully embedded in the divine forces and powers of the world. Here the
move ahead in life. In what the world bestows upon us as goodness and
beauty, we must conceive the world powers of which it is said in the Bible,
“And he looked at the world and he saw that it was good.” But
has made of the world during its evolution, which originally was a good
world, and what he must contribute toward its betterment by educating
brought along with us from the spiritual world are now placed outside
is something we carry into the spiritual world; previously, we took
us from the outside world. We have passed our training period; we are fully
world in which we live. The human capacities that are seeking a
relationship to the world are our power of reasoning and that part of our
alien to the spiritual world, which withdraws from us and closes up. It is
ideas is always derived from the outer world, and depends on the way
In our ideas and concepts we really know nothing of the world except what
from observations in the outer world, he is being led by his laziness into an
unreal world. Thereby we are saying nothing less than that we know
nothing but a mirror of the outer world may delude himself into believing
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higher worlds? Four relationships to four worlds. Working
connection with spiritual-science, other spiritual worlds besides our
physical world, and declare that the human being sustains a
relationship, not only to this physical world, but also to
worlds. In other words, can even the ordinary person, possessed of no
physical. They belong to the invisible, super-sensible world: in man's
thought-life he has something which points to the higher worlds. What
this conceptual world is may be grasped by each person in the
concepts of the world surrounding us, and we may speak of the
existence of higher worlds, we must take cognizance of dream life,
external world vanishes, and we feel as if our soul being were
bring us into relationship with the super-sensible world, our emotions
with another super-sensible world, and our will impulses with still
everything that is in the physical world. When we conceive, our life
world. Our emotions bring us into connection with what we call the
Heavenly World or Lower Devachan. And our moral impulses brings us
into connection with the Higher Devachan, or the World of Reason. Man
thus stands in relationship with three worlds through the
to the astral world, he can carry his thoughts into the astral world;
he can carry his emotions into the world of Devachan; he can carry
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there are many persons in the present population of the world who did
materialistic world view it is possible to maintain only two
peculiarity of the monistic and materialistic world view: that the
results of this world view.
When he rises to clairvoyance and arrives at the world of imaginative
illogical life of the world. Any one who has acquired a certain
above, from the higher worlds. In ever increasing measure, men will

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