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Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Kassel, 2-6-10
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much more incisive. One who says this should make it clear to himself
in himself. A pupil must become a completely different man through an
or death. One had to subject oneself to exercises and trials which
himself: If I can't pass these tests, I'm not mature
to prepare myself for a new incarnation in Devachan, which can then
deceiving himself. A pupil must be honest with himself. Truthfulness
acquire; one must be extremely honest with oneself.
meditation once a month; the rest of the time I try to make myself
mature and worthy so that I might be permitted to immerse myself in
should have about a meditation — that one wants to make oneself
oneself to be united with the pan-spirit should not remain a phrase.
should devote himself to his meditations with complete devotion and
and only open himself to high spiritual forces. The meditator should
And I become a self-conscious organ

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Muenchen, 3-13-10
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You connected yourself
May my I raise itself from below upward,
month, and otherwise he prepares himself to pray it worthily that one

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Muenchen, 3-15-10
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In my sensations I lived for myself.
My soul felt its own being in itself.
May my I raise itself from below upward,
who has begun an esoteric training should make it clear to himself
he must work on himself very seriously so that eventually he'll
on himself? We know that man's etheric body is born at age
One who creates sharply outlined views for himself will find it
harder to accept its teaching than someone who keeps himself open for

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Hamburg, 5-16-10
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seriousness in one and to permeate oneself completely with the things
esoteric to tell himself that he still has a long way to go. One may
devotional mood. A man has these feelings in himself and he feels
were. It loses its rejection power and withdraws into itself, it now
itself behind all dying things. Goethe once spoke of the color that

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Hamburg, 5-19-10
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May my I raise itself from below upward,
approach the Christ Spirit more intensively and to connect himself
prepared himself ever more to take this Sun Spirit into himself.
of its beings looks up to the sun, it must tell itself that it can't

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Hamburg, 5-25-10
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May my force take the leader's force into itself.
May my I raise itself from below upward,
on guard and be watching himself in general. Human qualities are such
the spirit of heaviness only harms himself, and one should try to help
reasons we want to develop ourself are really selfless ones; we
And I become a self-conscious organ

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Oslo, 6-16-10
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men. If a man doesn't connect himself with these spiritual
connected himself with them through his prayer. Man has increasingly
center. He would be in ecstasy or “beside himself” in the
himself acquire the forces that helpers used to give him. An esoteric
this work on himself. He combats the desolation that will arise

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Oslo, 6-18-10
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in the Druidic mysteries. The candidate united himself with the spirit
such a way that if one makes oneself deaf and blind for one's
of the physical one, and thereby one unites oneself with the
content, then our soul would be alone with itself. But now it's

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Oslo, 6-20-10
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You connected yourself with the earth's first beginnings and the
I felt myself in your feelings.
My soul began to be in itself.
May my I raise itself from below upward,
let them work on you, and immerse yourself in them meditatively. These
knowledge. But he mustn't place himself above the concepts that
No one should let himself

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Muenchen, 8-24-10
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regular repetition while one completely forgets oneself.
And I become a self-conscious organ

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Muenchen, 8-26-10
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May my I raise itself from below upward,
there can be such for every esoteric pupil, is to make it clear to himself
with considerable concentration and yet be unholy within oneself.

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Berlin, 11-4-10
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everyone must experience and grasp it himself. And while this sound,
The vow is that the pupil tells himself: I will consider every sound
east. The pupil can orient himself in the spiritual, he no longer falls
I will find myself
begin by telling himself in all humility: I know nothing about human
And I become a self-conscious organ

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Berlin, 11-5-10
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It looked at me, myself, I who was a part of you.
May my I raise itself from below upward,
lower ego that identifies itself with the body become just as dark
selfless, we're mistaken. We can't act selflessly.
we get more selfless, we'll for instance, notice that we don't
And I become a self-conscious organ

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Kassel, 12-3,4-10
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action of ours has a selfish coloration. Our sympathy drives us to

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Kassel, 12-11-10
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matter it's a man's task to raise himself to spirituality
himself with the Godhead.
that's left to itself may have had certain vices that we could
an esoteric must tell himself: I will stand fast; I will go on my way

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Stuttgart, 12-31-10
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for hours if he could attain something that way. To exert oneself
sensible esoteric will tell himself that he must first create order
diseases, they appear. But if the etheric body has permeated itself
man permeates himself with spiritual truths or if he just lets the

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Stuttgart, 1-1-11
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I/A=existence, ch=shaping oneself, im=becoming
aware of oneself. The word Iachim (Joachim) has a

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Stuttgart, 1-2-11
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that come from the masters. An esoteric should watch himself and his
feelings and to especially focus on self-knowledge. Most
egoism. We often imagine that we're doing something selflessly,
have correct self-knowledge and see our own badness, an ice-cold
self-knowledge.
who observes himself exactly will then notice how deeply he's
he's drowning, especially if he abandons himself to ordinary
sense life. And so an esoteric must constantly watch himself, and it
doesn't hurt if he sometimes becomes a brooder about himself.
And I become a self-conscious organ

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Berlin, 1-17-11
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thoughts into itself. Old forms have a destructive effect on it and
effect They enable a man to fit himself into the hierarchies. New
by itself and the super-sensible part remains.
And I become a self-conscious organ

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Muenchen, 2-12-11
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slightly. Whereas someone who loses himself in external things gets
cleft in the etheric body, which announced itself in him as fear, but
concentrates oneself. So John the theologian calculated the
earlier, and its writer only moved himself ahead into the year
into himself to be spiritual revelations, when they may just be his

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Strassburg, 2-19-11
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oneself that if a divine spiritual will wants to let me enter higher
worlds it'll do this by itself, and so I'll wait. But if
but he knows nothing about love at all. He has devoted himself
completely into yourself you'll see all relationships,
wants to give men wisdom without love, which leads to selfish

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Hannover, 3-5-11
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he told himself: If I write this book out of the whole surroundings
the self that's in my body, since I'm connected with
everything around and in me. I must free myself from all of this. He
had to place himself on something like a rock that served him as a
himself to the evening to 9-30-395, to Patmos Island, as the sun had
separated from himself and all temporal things around him, so a
Rosicrucian pupil must acquire a firm foundation in himself. The best
the first men, it's like a pouring of oneself into the
this changed element. When a theosophist devotes himself to the
teachings and his astral body expands evermore, he loses himself in
earnestness. One must gain a firm support within oneself — like
himself to Patmos Island at sundown of Sept. 30, 395.
And I become a self-conscious organ

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Mannheim, 3-10-11
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should express itself in such a way that we feel that we're entering
wants to enter this spiritual world must tell himself: Everything
perception forces. To do this, we must practice self-knowledge. We
spray out our feelings and sentiments too selflessly from morn to
time. Therefore an esoteric should tell himself: “I'll
these are controlled thinking, actions one chooses oneself, equanimity,

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Berlin, 3-15-11
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immerse yourself in this feeling. That's how one gradually
curve touches itself.
danger with this experience is that one loses oneself ever more, in
Saturn condition if one couldn't raise oneself up to beings such as the
And I become a self-conscious organ

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Prague, 3-29-11
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state and hasn't prepared himself a long time by working at his
pride in oneself, reinforces one's personality, and one would
to take the consequences. An occultist must not excuse himself by
Not I, but Christ I me. This filling of oneself with the Christ

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Berlin, 6-12-11
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and will eventually be spirit self. Another planetary evolution of
the Christ himself. This wasn't the case before the Mystery of
Christ has become the spirit of our earth. He has poured himself
Christo morimur means nothing else than to immerse oneself in
remain true by itself. If it's an error, I'll be sure to
And I become a self-conscious organ

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Muenchen, 8-23-11
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that there must be ways to protect oneself against these delusive images.
appearing. Only through very patient, steady work on oneself, through
the overcoming of dishonesty in oneself, can one gradually get to the
produces errors in himself, thereby. He becomes receptive for all
the highest truths, pride, lies and dishonesty in himself. We must
yourself.
And I become a self-conscious organ
spiritual worlds one came from by emptying one's soul and immersing oneself

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Muenchen, 8-26-11
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himself. The streams that work through his four-folded being hold
stuck to this being and connects itself with it through its wish
correctly. To prevent this, an esoteric must devote himself to study.
esoteric shouldn't study for himself out of curiosity or the
with the feeling that we want to completely sacrifice our own self,
like spirits, as Christ sacrificed himself for world

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Karlsruhe, 10-10-11
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And find myself again
esoterics, we know that everything punishes itself, even if nothing
spirit of the world in which one rests while forgetting oneself,
And find myself again

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Karlsruhe, 10-14-11
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cases. Where it's dark, he should tell himself that it's
were set up facing each other, so that a reflection repeating itself
healthy human intellect then says to itself: My understanding stands
still on me here. Only an unhealthy soul lie lets itself be pulled
in himself to not want to be constantly cured of all his ailments
be with other people, not to help them. A supposedly selfless wish to
otherwise we would lose our self-consciousness completely. We're
himself in the midst of spiritual beings in such a way that

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Berlin, 10-24-11
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something selflessly, or we're unaware that we hate or envy
from satisfied passions when we don't have self-knowledge. A
his complete feeling of responsibility towards himself and the
the stronger the more he gives himself up to everyday sensory
be watching himself. It doesn't hurt if he sometimes broods about
himself. That's the only way he'll understand
And I become a self-conscious organ

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Muenchen, 11-19-11
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more aware, an esoteric should wrest himself away from maya and connect
himself with the world of real things. He can only do this through
has awakened a doppelganger in himself through his esoteric training.
himself. Another dishonesty that's hard to notice is the
the feeling that results from occupying oneself with such things. Now
The humane school inspector told himself: I won't ask the older
it's mostly the case that a man immerses himself say in the
heart through concentration. The experience forms itself into a
And I become a self-conscious organ

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Berlin, 12-16-11
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was placed on the other pan. He connected himself with the earth, so
Christ connected himself with earth evolution, so that a man can find
through water; but a material is given out of which he can himself
himself as this material.
these words that you should open up for yourself in mediation that

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Hannover, 12-31-11
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his defects and that he should improve himself. He should constantly
living under great delusions about ourself. For we can't see

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Hannover, 1-1-12
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he'd like to be with. Nevertheless, he tells himself that this
things happen every day; one lies to oneself and doesn't want
himself at a wall, so that he can't press on with his
further, and he will resign himself to this. But others who feel that

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Berlin, 1-7-12
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watch himself more; an esoteric's life of feelings and drives
to a higher level; it becomes more selfless and ready for
myself — but in such despairing moments one should repeatedly
the pupil. One should make this clear to oneself. It always signifies
And I become a self-conscious organ

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Muenchen, 1-10-12
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through the exercises, and criticizing is a desire to assert oneself,
a wanting to be something special, a need to separate oneself. An
man first closed himself off from the outer world and now steps out
of himself again, he would like to assert himself against the world.
life. The need to separate himself is something that's quite
us from outside, to the point of self-sacrifice or the forgetting of
oneself. When we've gotten to the point where our heart longs
need to go to other men because we love them selflessly, but usually
can assert itself like this. He should just oppose it because
portal of death, because he finds himself in the same condition as a
And I become a self-conscious organ

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Berlin, 1-26-12
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prepare himself for several lives in the outer world, but that if all
come back to oneself, one thinks: I was sleeping. If one took the
it on oneself as if one had burn wounds all over one. When we feel

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Stuttgart, 2-20-12
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one is connecting oneself with evolution's eternal values

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Stuttgart, 2-22-12
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oneself: How do I bring my soul forward, how do I develop it upwards?
thinks that he's living selflessly for his fellow men with
the rows of sphinxes in the temple at his initiation, he told himself
illumines his environment himself and perceives the spiritual

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Muenchen, 2-26-12
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devoted himself to esoteric life to think of leaving it for an
look upon the making of himself into a man as his highest striving.

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Stuttgart, 2-12
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He frees himself from guidance, takes his development in hand and
etheric body gradually separates itself. After these exercises have

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Mannheim, 3-10-12
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transform them into seeing forces. Only self-knowledge can lead us to
this. We spray out our feelings and emotions too selflessly from morn
himself. And it's the greatest sin against the Divine spirit to

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Frankfurt, 3-10-12
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various incarnations must now work itself out in a concentrated way

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Berlin, 3-22-12
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past over into the present. If one strips oneself of what one has

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Helsinki, 4-5-12
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develop courage and selflessness we lose our self when we're taken

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Helsinki, 4-14-12
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was followed by other thoughts as if by itself — this no longer
happens. An esoteric doesn't feel we as sure of himself or as certain
absolute love of truth, so that one doesn't even permit oneself

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Berlin, 4-24-12
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yourself meditatively into this thought of a motherless human being,
and told himself that he wasn't aware of these nature forces in
connected himself with the earth after he went through the portal of

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Koeln, 5-9-12
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he doesn't pull himself together and lazily avoids doing
have himself under control so that his nervous system doesn't
mystery of God's path can be known. He who revealed himself
through flesh, although in itself his being is spiritual, who is only

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Norrkoeping, 5-30-12
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feeling water oneself. How this warmth must then permeate is used as

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Oslo, 6-9-12
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supposed to discover forces in himself which are there, and
oneself.
come together each one should watch himself, and should ascribe
himself. One should always remain factual. One should let the truth
himself to meditation with all his might. That's supposed to be
counteract this. One should observe oneself, should study theosophy,
should not only try to be truthful oneself, but should investigate

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Oslo, 6-11-12
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faithful, conscientious self-observation is necessary if you want to
notice results soon. But self-observation shouldn't be
practiced so that it becomes self-satisfaction; that's a great
one must use strict self-control to avoid the danger of pride.
shouldn't close himself off from the outer world. He should
something for others in the future, and not just for oneself.
enough for him to excuse himself with an “I said it in good

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Muenchen, 9-1-12
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to adapt himself accordingly.
and Essene — into a relationship, because each one by himself is
but shouldn't rule by himself. As esoterics, we should really
shouldn't devote himself to it exclusively. Nikolaus V. Kues
And I become a self-conscious organ

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Basel, 9-20-12
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adult. And just as an adult must put himself in another soul state,
really like in his soul depths so that he has real self-knowledge.
Therefore strict and strong self-control is indispensable for an
revelations and it brings him forward. A pupil must put himself into
an experience presents itself from the spiritual world he should
the man himself, but love him. Whether or not we really love him will

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Basel, 9-22-12
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because he connects himself with the latter, rather than with the
to exist by itself.
crossed through and influenced by sympathy. A placing of oneself into
exclude oneself, and the other pole that projects in from the
of whom one says that although he seemed to let himself be led by his
free of one's body in the sense of higher self-knowledge, in
And I become a self-conscious organ

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Berlin, 11-8-12
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spare moment in daily life one can permeate oneself with the thought,
we've made out of ourself through our karma bumps into what
that no matter what may hit him, it's brought about by himself,
feeling can come to someone who develops himself like this, a feeling

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Hannover, 11-19-12
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thought yourself. It seemed to flit by and it was forgotten right
ourself. Most people don't understand why blows of destiny hit

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Muenchen, 11-28-12
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returning to something that I didn't weave myself; I

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Bern, 12-16-12
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And I become a self-conscious organ

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Zuerich, 12-17-12
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one wants to meditate, one must order oneself to exclude all thoughts
me,” “I raise myself into his kingdom.”
now raise oneself further to the divine principle that vitalizes and

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part III: Koeln, 1-2-'13
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self-knowledge. The Essene order, whose teachers also
before going to sleep seems to be designed to connect oneself
etheric bodies he should permeate himself with the holy feeling
self-consciousness yet, that through which he recognizes
himself as an individual being in the spiritual world and finds
himself together again with the brothers and sisters he was with in
again and to awaken with self-consciousness after we were immersed in
in the Holy Spirit and will awaken to self-conscious life.

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part III: Berlin, 2-8-'13
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meditation one should first immerse oneself completely in the content
who has prepared himself for this world experiences it as a world of
training in self-discipline. What did the Gods do to protect us from
Threshold isn't the permanent thing, also not the art work itself,
reverently thinking, feeling and living oneself into the three

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part III: Stuttgart, 2-17 (20)-'13
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awaking he should ask himself: What did you think and do shortly

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part III: Berlin, 3-16-'13
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beings' life is in our thoughts. But Lucifer worked and wove himself
man a mighty push forwards into the spiritual world all by itself
us over all by itself. Everything is completely reversed in It works me,
attainment of self-consciousness in the spheres we enter after
realizing oneself as an I, self-consciousness in the

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part III: The Hague, 3-21-'13, Good Friday
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today will be devoted to how a soul can raise itself into spiritual
at himself. They show a man what he's really like, all of his defects
is the self-consciousness that brings a man over into a new

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part III: Berlin, 4-11-'13
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himself that he had missed before. Here again it's not a matter of
semi-darkened room and sees himself. On the basis of this
eliminate these results by itself after awhile. There's only one

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part III: Strassburg, 5-14-'13
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now awaken it in himself, find it again and then bring it back to the
opportunity to incarnate repeatedly and to perfect oneself on earth
while looking up to the sun in order to feel oneself as an ego-being,

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part III: Stuttgart, 5-18-'13
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increasingly clear to himself meditatively. For example, just
grasps itself in memory, and high beings gave us the ego and memory.
The ego that grasps itself in memory is like a letter that an
reverential thanks and must tell himself that he owes his

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part III: Stockholm, 6-8-'13
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yourself. It sounds strange but it is nevertheless true that a man
knows himself. The reason self-knowledge is so difficult is that the
go into it. But one should also practice a self-knowledge of man in
Ahriman who's thinking, and not oneself. In a theosophical lecture
doesn't really love the spirit at all. He must force himself to keep

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part III: Muenchen, 9-3-'13
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during meditation — first sees himself. He has himself
oneself as a multiplicity; we see all the forces and beings that work
altogether are only I myself, all you together in your
this with all force and energy and self-contemplation, we would fall
and can protect himself from them. A man will only gain
self-assurance in the spiritual world if he can keep a balance
torture oneself a little with it.
don't want to go on this path, I don't want to develop myself into a

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part III: Muenchen, 9-4-'13
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to force itself to do meditations; it shouldn't want to live

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part III: Christiania, 10-5-'13
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certainly more concerned about a man's life than he is himself,
thinking could exist by itself when he lets it run wild, he must then
expressing himself is understood properly. One also has a burning,

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part III: Oslo, 10-6-'13
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protect oneself against Ahriman? By being satisfied with what's given
and neither be someone who enjoys himself all the time.
men to self-consciousness. But he wants them to have an exaggerated

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part III: Bergen, 10-11-'13
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etheric body loosens itself here it has a kind of dense wall before

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part III: Copenhagen, 10-15-'13
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fall into sin gave us self-knowledge, albeit a limited
one, and every time we take a step forward in self-knowledge

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part III: Nuernberg, 11-9-'13
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hear the complaint: I can't free myself of the many images and thoughts
learns to look at himself ever more objectively and at everything
he reproaches himself for having gone to sleep; this often works very
reproaches oneself for still being so bad because ugly images

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part III: Nuernberg, 11-10-'13
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important and necessary it was to have occupied oneself with
devote oneself to esoteric life, even if one doesn't

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part III: Berlin, 11-17-'13
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meditation or after it one could ask oneself: Where is the Christ?
Suppose that someone who awakened to self-consciousness at 10
the impression that he went to his door himself, knocked, and
woke himself up. Or on awaking by himself he would see himself coming
in as a light figure, walking towards himself, opening his eyes and
awaking himself thereby. He would be able to know: In the realm from
self-consciousness arises already during the first seven years. We're

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part III: Stuttgart, 11-23-'13
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himself against our better will the following example can perhaps
our meditation something is placing itself before us which we think
that we don't know, and yet it's our own self that reveals itself in
and it defends itself when we want to connect ourselves with
thoughts; it must bring us to self-knowledge — that we've
push back our ego that's defending itself.
exercised thorough self-knowledge, but are still looking for excuses,
through wooden glasses. Here again we see how Ahriman places himself

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part III: Muenchen, 12-9-'13
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make yelping sounds himself and then of course is rather scared about
adapt itself to what the ego and astral body took in. Thereby the
person is dissatisfied with himself, reproaches himself severely or

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part III: Leipzig, 12-30-'13
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that he keeps himself conscious.
on the human eye. When one makes this clear to oneself one will also
meditator looks at himself from outside he can have the feeling of a
tells oneself: Thank God that I'm punished and tortured and have to
own fault. The feelings with which a man should permeate himself so
Lucifer mixed himself into creation the cross's wood must

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part III: Leipzig, 1-2-'14
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and then immerse our self in this point and live in it for awhile. A
oneself in an etheric world. Every time I grab something or bump into
independent so that it experiences itself in the etheric
burning. One must make room for oneself everywhere in this elemental,
initiative will who can't make room for himself in the etheric world
point it stuns itself with a cry. We know that pain arises when the
experience that. At the fifth stage we develop spirit self or manas.
exercises and repeatedly rouse himself to new efforts and
content of what flows to a meditator when he makes himself empty after

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part III: Bremen, 1-11-'14
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oneself is something else — like a having to be
he says that he's not making any progress He hides from himself. He

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path through thinking is one that one can choose oneself. But very few

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part III: Hannover, 2-7-'14
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must immerse oneself entirely in the words that are given as
content of what flows to a meditator when he empties himself of the
one occupies oneself with an object that one has chosen for
felt myself in my etheric body. Then a feeling of deep reverence and

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part III: Stuttgart, 3-5-'14
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gets stronger through thought concentration and our inner self
unproductive by itself but which becomes food for what's supposed to
us that we can only unfold through strict self-training. Various
things I turn myself
I turn myself with ray senses; —
Let me feel myself volitionally in you.
Show itself to shining soul
That I may be weaving in myself.
I and luminous soul (- oneself -)
anticipation of truth. It's a guessing, a feeling of the new self.)

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one finds one's other, true self in the depths. A man in his skin is

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the soul awakens. To get to this point one has to ask oneself
himself and his boat. We don't experience it directly, for the
he experiences himself in the world from which thinking
theosophist to make it quite clear to himself to be armed against the
of the latter. This can only be attained if the soul works on itself
spiritual world the condition of being closed off in oneself
7-line form of the verses arose by itself, that is, the spiritual
material reveals itself in such a way that it presses into this form.
things I turn myself
I turn myself with ray senses; —
Let me feel myself volitionally in you.
Show itself to shining soul
That I may be weaving in myself.
I and luminous soul (- oneself -)
anticipation of truth. It's a guessing, a feeling of the new self.)
is either wrong — then it destroys itself — or it's right
after it has released itself from the physical world:

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into space, and then contract into itself to see what is weaving
during sleep; how would he see himself? When we meet someone on
that a man advances and develops himself up to Jupiter these
brothers and sisters, put yourself in this mood in earnest meditation

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waste product in itself is unproductive, but it serves as food
consumes corrupt things and perpetuates itself. But we should only
things I turn myself
I turn myself with ray senses; —
Let me feel myself volitionally in you.
Show itself to shining soul
That I may be weaving in myself.
I and luminous soul (- oneself -)
anticipation of truth. It's a guessing, a feeling of the new self.)
given us as a test to ask oneself once in a while whether one already

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place, the latter mixed himself and his fire into man's heart.
things I turn myself
I turn myself with ray senses; —
Let me feel myself volitionally in you.
Show itself to shining soul
That I may be weaving in myself.
I and luminous soul (- oneself -)
anticipation of truth. It's a guessing, a feeling of the new self.)

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thinking himself.
one deceives oneself about their true nature. What one calls
inspired by the Christ being himself. We should always keep this in

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acknowledge myself or I am: A. I acknowledge mankind or man is: U. I

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If we send feelings of unselfish love after the personality we

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no difficulties on the path except those the pupil creates for himself

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itself to us in sunlight. It's his breath of life in the air
to take into us. So that we could become aware of our self, our
spirit, so that we could become spirit-beings our self, this high
sun-spirit sacrificed himself, left his royal abode, descended from
will transform us himself and stream through us with his divine

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to physical light, when maya's veil placed itself before the spiritual
that was homogeneous to him did he strengthen himself anew so that he
preparation. Man slowly and gradually emancipated himself from gurus.

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to physical light, when maya's veil placed itself before the spiritual
that was homogeneous to him did he strengthen himself anew so that he
preparation. Man slowly and gradually emancipated himself from gurus.

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Hamburg, 3-3-1906
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for every study of social life. Now how can a theosophist free himself
thought firmly in mind one can free oneself from the materialistic
shape itself out of other thoughts and feelings. What this means is
esoteric must ask himself whether work is really what sustains life.
for myself. Social progress is completely dependent on the acceptance
The man frees himself who self-mastery finds.

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Archetypal Self from whom we have proceeded
Primal Self who lives in all things
To you, you higher Self, we return.
To this we add the verse that expresses how this primal Self works on
Primal Self from which everything proceeded
Primal Self that lives in me
Everything proceeded from this higher Self, even human bodies. We
himself. When man's forebrain developed, the organ of the I was put
that the higher self can stream into him to make him into a higher
connection with the divine self in the world through the pineal gland.
The higher self can enter a man if he prepares himself through a
selfless life and through purification of his body. It's not enough to
retreat within. The higher self is not in man at first but outside in

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Man can lift himself into the Gods' realm through this love. They
selfless, without desire, and that's why a man feels good among
organism. He knows the rest of the world better than he knows himself.
A man has an organ in himself that fills with air when he inhales and
transformation into spirit self, ennoblement of animal kingdom ...

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to himself.

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matter itself. But when I see with my eyes I only perceive an image of
object into myself when I taste it, I don't perceive these parts
so selfless that he lets his being resound through the world. The
second streams himself out in pictures. The first Logos lets his own
body stream out. That is the highest grade of selflessness, when one
Now a Logos does not work by himself — the three live and weave
himself in the other two. But we can't perceive the effects of the
Logos had fully streamed out it prepared itself. It was such
the second Logos himself who radiates out his being anew.
control. He'll generate oxygen himself and convert the blue blood that
still more selfless he'll be able to give out his own substances and

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that one must force oneself to do. Thirdly the overcoming of pleasure
oneself by controlled by them. Fourthly, look for positivity in

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his reverence for the Godhead who reveals himself in three Logoi, he
people we met, how they and we looked. Then we see ourself going into
read it. Initially one only sees things that concern oneself from
particular time. Simple exercises that one has to force oneself to do
outside of oneself. Fear, excitement and lack of composure must
the true sense. And if he develops himself into the future like this
Primal Self from which everything came
Primal Self to which everything returns:
Primal Self that lives in me
A is atma, U is buddhi, M is the wisdom that directs the higher self to AUM.

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creative Logos and he'll later be a creative logos himself.

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We speak of reincarnation and the law of karma. One can tell oneself:
think: I'll make myself aware of this foolishness, so that I can see
him in himself has accomplished a great deal. One who does this will

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In pure thoughts you find the self that can maintain itself.
again and to free himself from all the slags of the astral body, until
himself into the future condition of the earth and work with the world

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doesn't always repeat it to oneself. Likewise the stream of esoteric
wants to use this to put oneself, one's will and everything one has in
soul feels the effect of sounds, so it should devote itself to the
to pour it into oneself, so that the mild light begins to radiate
I will find myself
over to one, and can permeate oneself with the feeling that one will
find one's own self in divine things.

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Berlin, 2-12-1908
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From it see the three bestir itself
which he could elevate himself, then the above verse and figures were
warmth with the help of fire. Self-consciousness wouldn't be possible
with self-consciousness, as can be seen from the first symbol in the

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In pure thoughts you find the self
That can maintain itself.

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spirit self. This occurs in the Indian age through the spirit self
Greco-Roman sub-race spirit self develops in the consciousness soul and
spirit self in spirit self. Thereby new hostile powers are liberated
couldn't express himself. What does this look like from an occult
himself. But when he stammered a sentence there was much more real
It's a man's task today to free himself ever more from the restrictive
of his own free will. The spiritual world only discloses itself to an
that he can enter the spiritual world as a free, self-conscious being,

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previously. But if he connects himself with the physical world he goes
for a man to learn to occupy himself with things that lie beyond the

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Self-knowledge is the thirst and main thing in esoteric training. The
If you want to see yourself the way you are, you must make the mirror
One who lets himself be torn back and forth by his desires and wishes,
let himself be influenced by other people is like a man who gets a
man who quickly understands everything around him. But he himself is
correct judgment by himself. A strong, independent personality might
judgments, but he makes them by himself, out of inner deliberation and
D. An esoteric pupil should free himself from all outer

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interest up to itself, it drew everything up to its own realm. Thereby
it tied itself off from the Gods, and the result was death. Everything
feelings and deeds influence the whole, nothing exists for itself; I

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everything in himself, he's only occupied with himself, he does

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Berlin, 6-5-1908
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teacher: In your I that wills without self, and that thinks without
sense perception. Question: How can I will without a self, how can I
self.
himself more perfect. Outer deeds that seem to be ever so good can be

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body. The latter builds itself up through impressions and experiences
oneself in certain concepts, in eternal thoughts.
always productive, as when an artist devotes himself creatively to his
at itself, that must always be egofied anew, as Fichte puts it. One
must always create itself anew, must know itself anew. That's also

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Stuttgart, 8-5-1908
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Every esoteric who's trying to develop himself inwardly must know
Seraphim on spirit self, Cherubim on life spirit and the Thrones on

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destructive process for someone who only devotes himself to outer
makes himself ready to receive the instructions of spiritual beings.

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encloses him in himself. That's why alcohol was used in the Dionysian
locks it into itself, and tears the astral body apart through the
that evolution stopped with us, although this in itself wouldn't tell
true on a trial basis. Then he can find out for himself whether
they're true. When something happens to him he'll tell himself that he
by familiarizing oneself with the object first. After a few days one

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Muenchen, 11-8-1908
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men, he must be strict with himself and get rid of ambition and
and vanity would get him too involved with himself, and that would

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to acquire inner calm. One must learn how to shut oneself off
be able to make oneself unaware of the disquiet that big cities bring

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inner calm by withdrawing into himself so that the noises recede into

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Muenchen, 1-7-1909
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oneself against a swarm of bees by punching them: they would just
lower self that disturb one, and the bright one the divine thoughts of
the higher self. And when we place this symbol with its whole
all of these powers and loses himself in them. One who hasn't attained
himself. This is the temptation that approaches him from the other
flowed, united himself with the earth's astral body and brought it new

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Kassel, 2-26-1909
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otherwise he would fall prey to them. One must strengthen oneself to

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Berlin, 3-3-1909
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Let the pupil kindle feelings about them himself; and may his soul

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and had surrounded itself with a skin it had become a one, and people

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robust man he easily loses his inner hold on himself and can even
himself and avoids the danger of becoming shaky by imagining old
devoted and selfless, when in fact there's a fine egotism behind this

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Berlin, 5-5-1909
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himself and lets the master's teachings stream into him. Why is this

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Kassel, 6-27-1909
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Selfishness is combated through logical thinking. If thinking
regulates itself logically, desires can no longer come up and the body
not be produced for selfish reasons and purposes. They must proceed
them oneself, are placed before us and we try to grasp them with our

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to free himself from all worldly influences that drag one down,
who at this stage would call himself a “pious one” or
who, as it were, symbolized herself in the lily, saying “You are
that he had set outside himself through catharsis, and that this still
that's strengthened in itself — behind him: “You should
that revealed itself to him in every thing overcame him. And he
forward or backward — I would like to devote myself to you and
who did not overpower him as much, who seemed to lead him into himself
that pressed like warmth through the arm, that announced itself
himself, just as the Christ had gone through death on the same, and
urges us to be ourself in initiative actions (rose cross). 3 is really

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Muenchen, 8-30-1909
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way is our archetype itself, that created us. We must become a
Be it ever so hidden, there's a selfish motive in everything we do. We
must realize that we can't be selfless. It's a world karma that lets
should tell himself: Let me do something that I have made it my duty
myself that the divine element that's at work in me is doing this and
self in its striving towards perfection is revealed to him.
There are three revelations of the higher self: Through a dream, an
inserts the higher self into his humanness; this second I isn't in us
and can't be found by brooding into oneself but only by growing out
beyond oneself.
toward the higher self that floats above us. The pupil now lives in
outside of his center. He stands there firmly enclosed in himself
against all outer influences; he feels free in himself and free of all
of the effects of karma. He experiences the higher self that places him
thereby to consomatio of the higher self. And now spiritual
devotes himself to the exercises with patience, persistence and
higher individuality that radiates above him. Lohengrin unites himself
talents with his ordinary intellect. For this induces the higher self
attain the growing out and up of our human forces to the higher self
isn't stimulated, we can't find the higher self, it repeatedly

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himself very intimately. The fact that he has set out on this path
leaves his lower self that connects him with the outer world alone
itself and qualities that we thought we had overcome already crawl out
attention to himself, his life and his surroundings.
mind that he's mainly trying to get through to his higher self, and he
should reflect on what this higher self is. He shouldn't think that
he's supposed to bring something to this higher self — he should
oneself. One should pay attention to such dreams. Then in the course
that's cleverer than one is oneself. And the third time that one
confronts one's higher self is a very important and sacred one. This
feelings for the world and life. In observing himself, a pupil must
in himself. It's certainly there. The presence of one quality
out. Then the fear disappears by itself. The higher self will only
This union with the higher self is beautifully depicted in the saga of
Lohengrin and Elsa. Lohengrin comes to save Elsa, to unite himself
higher self, Lohengrin, must withdraw to higher worlds, can't unite

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“meeting with the higher self.”
spiritual world won't reveal itself to us in its true form, but all
higher self? Why do we try to become united with him? Here we must
body is the higher self with which we should reunite ourself and with
which we're a whole human being. An esoteric should tell himself: This
with all fervor, should form myself into a chalice that takes in this
thinks, but it's no thinking that he produces himself individually
we're dying, and then united with our higher self we're resurrected.
that radiates into higher world; and our higher self comes to meet

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thinker by itself. Drinking too much coffee leads to hysteria in
When a man works on himself he harmonizes his temperaments, but until

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