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Title: The Inner Development of Man
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highly than the occult teacher. The instructor of mystical and
require one thing of the aspirant without which no higher personal
The development of the inner man is birth on a higher level. It is the
the first step in the direction of higher learning, a person must free
public will be found in my book, Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and
The rules that are put down in the book, Knowledge of the Higher
What is found in Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and Its Attainment is
Anybody who reaches a higher level in this direction owes it to having
and everyone is required and this is what is meant with higher, occult
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and its Attainment,

Title: Lecture: Newborn Might and Strength Everlasting
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highest art the mystery of human evolution on earth and the relationship
famous churchyard, the Campo Santo, enclosed by high walls. It contains a
"Higher up, we see some hermits sitting on a hill. Some are gathering food,
Man's higher destiny is to preserve this spiritual youth in relation to the
The sign of highest life

Title: William Shakespeare
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other highly learned man, for example Lord Bacon of Verulam, who in
the higher estimation of the individual during the Renaissance. During

Title: William Shakespeare
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the plays which bear his name, but some other highly learned man,
result of the higher estimation of the individual during the
education he was not encumbered with higher academic study, gave

Title: The Manicheans
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of that which at higher stages appears as fetters. The Life that

Title: Lecture: The Work of Secret Societies in the World
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stages of development. Their correspondence with the Higher
spirit are called upon to climb one day to the highest stages of
such. To do something for the higher self does not partake of egoism
because it is not done only for the self; the higher self will be united
with all the others, so that what is done for the higher self is at the
evolution. The high Degrees of Freemasonry originally had no other aim or
too that one who reaches a higher Degree can accomplish greater things.
egoistical in the highest degree and it is the hallmark of our time. And so

Title: Christ and the Twentieth Century
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Gnostics to be a highly important moment in the evolution of earthly
evolution as impulses of the highest spirituality. Thus the problems
Ranke and others, we must say: The highest that is attained by
can rise above himself into a higher condition of his soul-life,
highly advanced personalities (who themselves had passed through
developed to a higher level, when he has released himself from the
‘rebirth of the soul’ at a higher level will arise from
higher level — in effect when man knows himself freed from the
higher level a stumbling block. And then Spiritual Science will show

Title: Lecture: The Crossing of the Threshold and the Social Organism
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KNOWLEDGE OF THE HIGHER WORLDS”
in the connection of the human soul with the higher Hierarchies,
day with the higher Beings, through the experiences of the preceding

Title: Lecture: And The Temple Becomes Man
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yet imperfect, but at least it will be a beginning, leading to higher
and higher stages of perfection in the same domain.
evolution. During the second year of my studies at the Technical High

Title: Lecture: The Migrations of the Races
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high spiritual development to penetrate into the chaos of the peoples,
whereas this teaching had reached a very high stage of development
personal in its highest form, given expression on the physical plane
people who had received the highest form of the law, were of such a
Rome that civil law, oratory, and eloquence are brought to the highest
spiritual life at its highest level was needed, and it was only to be
of Initiation. It was now a matter of making him into the highest
only been prepared for. The highest Initiates had actually seen it.
own, which was the highest existing form of the law. But Christ had
its influence because it led to the very highest levels of thought.
Root Race, an advance in human evolution of the highest importance
on other planets. But during the Fifth Root Race, highly developed
communities, were under the influence of Higher Beings. They were
directly dependent upon Higher Beings, Beings who had gone through
connection with Higher Beings, but to whom such comprehensive guidance

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 1: Forgetting
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actually sheer dilettantism on a higher level.

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 2: Different Types of Illness
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for in the blood that is the expression of a much higher member of
the ego, a member of the human being that is at a high level. Even as
whole sphere includes a knowledge of the higher members of man's
good breeding, nor had he moved in high circles; he lacked grace and

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 3: Original Sin
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meaning from higher worlds. As long as we are in the physical world,
materialistic medicine is ignorant of man's higher members, almost

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 4: Rhythm in the Bodies of Man
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higher entities. When the human being's own astral body and ego
higher beings. It is due to the action of these spiritual beings, who

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 5: Rhythms in the Being of Man
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man's higher members, so that each physical organ expresses the
higher Organisation of the higher members. What we call the lungs
were planted into man by higher spiritual beings. But today I want
they live in higher-worlds. But in regard to the particular things we
of man's being and their inter-working; and then on a higher level,
but on a higher level. Therefore men have to bring the future to

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 7: Laughing and Weeping
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strongly as it can that a high level of intelligence is to be found
could squeeze an individual ego into a horse, it would feel highly
control over the laughter muscles. This shows that they have a higher
shows that man is at a higher level with regard to that which he can
of the higher over the lower. Whereas weeping signifies a knuckling
weeping are something which can in the highest sense be called the

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 8: The Manifestation of the Ego in the Different Races of Men
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when man descended from higher regions on to the earth. Although man
visible, and as such they were highly developed, but regarding their
highest degree ethereal beings with highly developed etheric bodies
senses would assume these beings to be the most highly developed
will see that they were much more highly developed than the souls
anthroposophical literature, namely that those higher beings who were
confined to rigid forms, and the highly developed human beings, those
not on a very high level spiritually, for he has rushed into his body
itself in the highest degree. This makes the people dreamy, and the
one valkyrie, with the one higher soul. And the valkyrie, one might
personal element, which man prized so highly, was inward, and man
appeal to what we call the development of a higher ego from out of
of the higher ego out of the lower. In ancient Atlantis, for
being, which I find to be the highest thing within men when I look
about a higher world! Of course everything is more spiritual today
myself, that is my higher ego, the divine man within me is there!
divine man to speak out of them, talking incessantly about the higher
attain our higher ego by evolving upwards from stage to stage. Our

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 9: Evolution, Involution and Creation out of Nothingness
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higher animals. Lower animals are characterised by the very fact that
development continues in the higher animal after puberty. But the
enriching his ego, and reaches higher levels from one incarnation to
a raising of his existence on to a higher level. What he takes into
evolving appears at a higher stage. Where does this new element
higher the level at which man is. Imagine a dog standing in front of
other like that. The more highly developed a man is the more he sees.
earlier times by mighty spirits on a higher level than man. And
since then ascended higher and higher. Today they have reached the
higher elements that man can bring forth out of his ego.
are these higher elements man produces from out of his ego? They are
altar of the spirits of personality my highest and most beautiful

Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture One
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before a human being can reach the highest stage of development he
have led him astray. He must avoid empty theories and high-sounding
Intercourse between human souls and the higher Hierarchies will
taken place between the Beings of the higher Hierarchies. At this
spiritual world. We do not help the Spirits of the higher Hierarchies
higher worlds depends upon our own inner tranquillity; the calmer we
higher knowledge will be attained by one who attempts to formulate it
out of concepts already familiar to him. Higher knowledge can be
of the higher worlds must be developed through steady, tranquil work.
character of that life. The first stage of higher knowledge is what
Spirits of the higher Hierarchies. The opposite is the case if a

Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Two
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meeting between Abraham and Melchizedek, the priest of the Most High.
a curse, from Christ to the highest blessing. Is there not a

Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Three
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or poles were erected along the highway between Berlin and Paris and
relevant here: “If you are seeking for the highest and the

Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Four
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into the higher worlds conditions are complicated. A complete picture

Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Five
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Knowledge of the Higher Worlds. How is it Achieved?

Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Six
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man experiences the higher 'I' of which he is unconscious
the embryo. Why is this? The reason is that the Beings of the higher
new birth he experiences that higher ‘I’ of which we can

Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Seven
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the higher Hierarchies have the most varied tasks, among them the one
Beings belonging to the higher Hierarchies. Now we know that the
‘higher Adam’ — the Christ. According to Paul, the
Beings of the nearest higher Hierarchies to a far greater extent than
Beings of the higher Hierarchies have recognised this and therein
freedom. Among these Beings of the higher Hierarchies there are some
high in the ranks of the Luciferic spirits, but they are definitely
certain spirits of the higher Hierarchies did not keep pace with
souls who are the most highly developed and in whom a certain break

Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Nine
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namely, the Beings of the several higher Hierarchies. Let us ask
also his destiny are received by him from the Beings of the higher
the Beings of the higher Hierarchies in two ways. We may recognise
because it is dark in the higher world in which we then live. Thus we
higher Hierarchies. But in order to receive their gifts, to avoid
enabling the higher Hierarchies to be visible to the soul must be
deeds and the Beings of the higher Hierarchies are indeed illumined
into his soul. It is Lucifer who illumines the higher worlds for him
it is true, perceive the higher Hierarchies, recognise when they are
character. The forces of the higher Hierarchies are then not exactly
darkness. The Spirits of the higher Hierarchies would have bestowed
into higher worlds.
contrived that the gifts of the Beings of the higher Hierarchies
truly aware of what the gifts of the higher Hierarchies would have
and powers of higher worlds who are all the time pouring into the
and growth, from the higher worlds into this physical world. And when
that moreover the higher Hierarchies will also be there and able to
higher Hierarchies only that for which we have prepared ourselves on
being when he acquires some knowledge of the higher worlds. Death
his connection with the higher worlds. Outwardly, earthly life will

Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Ten
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(Lust und Unlust), and then into the higher regions of
highest region of the Soul-World, the region of pure Soul-Life, is
higher interests that can develop in the further evolution of
the account of the three highest regions of Spiritland traversed by

Title: Michelangelo
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how the highest achievement is possible at different times with
through a period in which these senses could reach their highest and
of the world to its highest point in the coming of Christ to earth
thinking to the highest level of clarity. The first of them appear in
the highest things. Sibyls and Prophets stand over against each other
powers of reflection on everything that was higher than the
my soul that turns to His great Love on high
Spiritual Science is always closely in harmony with the highest striving
my soul that turns to His great Love on high

Title: Lecture: The Etheric Being in the Physical Human Being
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arose during the development of the Earth. Upon the Moon, higher
existed upon a higher stage, it lived in man instinctively, in
Even as higher
evolution, so higher spiritual beings are now at work in
the spiritual beings of higher hierarchies. Only if our will can
now, which reveals itself to higher knowledge. And then we notice

Title: Errors in Spiritual Investigation
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qualities of the soul life in a higher stage come to be of even
the reality, of higher spiritual worlds. As we have seen, this
development of the higher spiritual organs, which can be brought
faces the higher world in a state of what one must designate as a
spiritual investigator dims his higher consciousness. The matter can
consciousness. A stupor, a fogging of the higher, super-sensible
the facts of the higher, super-sensible worlds purely and clearly. Any
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and Its Attainment,
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds)
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds,
all, we want through the spiritual training to enter a higher world.
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds.
hand against carrying the outer sense world into the higher world; he
ordinary world into the higher world. If in the ordinary world we
is necessary for the spiritual investigator, to a much higher degree
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds,
human being is endowed with the higher organs of observation. If what
nature of the higher world. Because man is accustomed to approach

Title: Lecture: The Christmas Mystery, Novalis, the Seer
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higher vision the direct proof that Christ lives, that He is
as the ‘Son of Man’ in this higher, cosmological
of the peoples and as an enactment in the highest
the divine worlds were no longer the highest, creative worlds
were lower in rank than the highest Gods.
into higher realms and since then could be seen by men only
your own higher Self, but only provided you have merited this
God known to you as the Most High.
teachings that must precede vision of the higher worlds, then
unparalleled example of union between the higher worlds and
higher glory and sublimity.
St. John's Gospel in an even higher degree and also of the other
of the old Earth — woven and born out of the highest

Title: Lecture: Buddha
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itself the highest earthly wisdom cannot save him from
not a process of descent from a higher to a lower level; rather is it
original nature. There is a higher man. If this higher man
that higher nature which man's process of descent has veiled. He
says: “I must seek, not Nirvana, but the higher man within me.
from the lower man, seeks to awaken the higher man within, whom he
Ego-consciousness, to that higher state described in Paul's words:
to a higher Ego whence it has descended. The Buddhist believes in the
world of facts and strive to reach a higher stage merely in the inner
the “higher man” — the Christ-man. He is resigned
because he knows that for the moment he has not reached this highest

Title: Lecture: What Has Geology to Say About the Origin of the World?
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contain fossils of more highly developed forms of animal- and
evidence of more highly-developed animal species, until we come
so on; so that the appearance of more highly developed animals in the later,
evolved to higher forms. That would give a clearly outlined picture
monument of the time. Sitting on a high, bare summit with a free view
become attuned to higher contemplations of nature; and as the human
gaseous cosmic nebula in a state of high temperature, had detached
unshaken; its back rises on high, where its summit was never reached
how life could arise out of this dead globe. This is a highly
of a finer, higher order – this needed only a part of the
piled on high; and in that way oceans are formed. In short, to such
there traces of it in the high mountain ranges. Great blocks of earth
future epochs when it will be revealed on ever and ever higher
ever higher and ever more spiritual life;” how much more must
regard that which has produced out of itself a higher life as a

Title: Evolution/Aspect: Lecture 1: Introductory Lecture
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The highest
individuality in Eastern occultism with the exception of the highest
highest individuality to which the Eastern occult teaching leads. And

Title: Evolution/Aspect: Lecture 2: The Inner Aspects of the Saturn-embodiment of the Earth
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The Knowledge of Higher Worlds etc. and other methods
‘imagination’ is the following: In Knowledge of Higher

Title: Evolution/Aspect: Lecture 3: The Inner Aspect of the Sun-embodiment of the Earth
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really attain to what the higher knowledge gives. He who is unable to
feel this spirit of self-surrender can never attain to higher
the higher Self with wisdom. In ordinary life we only know self-will
in the form of prejudice, and prejudices always destroy the higher
way up to the higher worlds. There he must be able to experience this
must always be emphasised that we can never attain higher
away with when we wish to attain to higher knowledge. The soul must
view when we look up and wish to have a higher sense-perception of

Title: Evolution/Aspect: Lecture 4: The Inner Aspect of the Moon-embodiment of the Earth (Part 1)
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is not always the case. A man who has begun to lead a higher life,
higher worlds, is that of renunciation. In relation to this many
realm of the Beings of the higher worlds, for these Beings, as we
resignation by higher Beings. So now, on the Sun we see the following
arising and passing away. It is in the highest degree remarkable;
upon your souls): I have till now thought more highly of the gods! I
Higher Beings, and here too we must again refer to something alluded
opponents; when the highest that can possibly be expressed, the
necessary forces to enable him to express this, the highest and most

Title: Evolution/Aspect: Lecture 5: The Inner Aspect of the Moon-embodiment of the Earth (Part 2)
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of yet higher Beings was rejected, it will be easy to rise to the
establish a particular connection with still higher Beings, which
of these Beings in such a way, that on the part of those Higher Ones
when the human soul begins to aspire and prepares for higher
sacrifice offered to highest Beings, to more widely-extending,
would have experienced in another, in this case a higher Being. Thus
movement. If a number of persons devote themselves to a higher Being
Achilles — from being grasped with the higher
lies in the higher consciousness must be plunged into the
between her and Wetter Von Strahl, which plays no part in the higher
his higher consciousness, for as far as that was concerned he was not

Title: Evolution/Aspect: Lecture 6: The Inner Aspect of the Earth-embodiment of the Earth
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ancient Moon-Beings pressed through to the Higher Entities but was
to the Higher Entities as sacrificial substance. We saw, indeed that
this, which aspired, but was unable to ascend to the Higher Entities,
found that this sacrifice was not accepted because the Higher
after the Higher Beings, into such a condition that they can approach
adjusted, through the wealth of impressions received from the Higher
established between these beings and the Higher Entities which
thereby to bring it into connection with the Higher Entities. This is
connection with the Higher Beings through the sacrifice, impressions
have continued its existence within the Higher Entities in a
conditions necessary to that existence are in those Higher Beings. It
renunciation by the Higher Entities of Death.
Beings who belong to higher spheres having rejected what was to have
ascend higher — from man to the Beings of the Higher
higher than man, is there any meaning in speaking of actual death.
accomplished? Can it be accomplished in the higher worlds? No! For
and animal kingdoms — as they have their beings in the higher,
among the Higher Beings can there be a question of death; only of
in the historical development of man, the realities of the higher
something corresponding to it exists in the higher worlds’.
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Title: Lecture: The Spirit in the Realm of Plants
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every leaf of the higher plants consisted of innumerable, tiny
never a precondition for the higher; rather the higher, the living,
the plant being. The substances developed here yield what the higher
higher organisms can only thrive through the warmth developed by

Title: Lecture: Zarathustra
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are with higher states of consciousness, they are incomprehensible to
Initiation into the higher mysteries of the universe. Among
ascent into higher worlds, it is right to state that the man who
could raise them to higher and higher stages of existence. They
grown immeasurably great and the highest human forces are Ahura
pass along one side, we arrive at the opposite, the highest point. If
the rotation of Time. In the highest sense, he taught that while one
the “pure children of God,” who serve the highest Divine
can either attain the highest perfection or sink to the greatest
Even the Greek writers stated that the highest Godhead had perforce
highest moral idea (the moral purification of man) among the
vanquish evil. This shows the high value placed upon the noble
Earth and the highest spiritual factor is Truth. This is in complete
the realm of the lower Asuras and ascend to the higher. Your nature
the realm of the higher Asuras.’
Highest, the Primal One has put into my mouth. I will speak what

Title: Lecture: Hermes
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higher than our laws of physics, chemistry and biology. A note of
picture-worlds represented, to the several peoples, the higher forces
less of spiritual force. The higher worlds gradually closed their
regarded as the embodiment of higher beings. It is even said that
knowledge of definite laws of spiritual life, laws higher than those
Egyptian. He said to himself: “Behind man there is a higher
me. My highest powers are inwardly related to these primordial
higher world, feelings which had been handed down to the Egyptians by
processes. We come from the world of Osiris and Isis; the highest
higher perfection, came forth from Osiris and Isis. These qualities
to himself: “I bear a higher Self within me, but since I have
entered into a physical body this higher Self withdraws to the
the higher power in man, spread over cosmic space, is overcome by
his inner being a striving towards a higher Ego. And according to
every true thinker, this higher Ego is there, deeply concealed in all
to reach the Higher Self, was known by the name of Horus, the
marvellous processes of his blood. He must learn to know his higher
energise their deepest forces of soul. There were still higher
those ancient times men possessed the very highest clairvoyance. Each

Title: Lecture: Reincarnation and Karma
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will write: “That highly gifted Scientist X has manfully
laws of spiritual life and you will find these higher laws
scientific conceptions to lead on to those of a higher
with respect to the higher qualities of the soul, the really
higher qualities of the soul not only as a development but as a
higher degree of the lower. And therefore one thinks an
that the observation of certain psychic functions in the higher
which man shares with animals and the higher spiritual qualities
accurate observation, that animals, even the highest, cannot
Counting is the simplest, the most trivial of the higher
that is, into the higher human. Naturally, it is very easy to
reason why it is able to produce higher degrees of
at the moment is the highest possible, and into whose mind it
objection to the statement that all higher functions in the
our human destiny, to our highest aims, the gaining of this
similarity between the human being and the higher species of ape
same laws of nature, from the higher species of ape? Further, do
we not find that which we call higher human spiritual activity,
followers are in the right, all talk of higher spiritual laws of
animal and man is that between the most highly developed
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Title: Lecture: Life and Death
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Take the highest animals. How far do they carry that out? As
the same correlation on a higher plane, to that between the
the higher realms of being. Let us take fatigue, for
covering, with enrichment and higher development of the
might express thus; “We purchase the higher form, the
rise to the higher worlds. A life of idea must therefore be
fact, that we can only evolve higher in new embodiments if we

Title: Lecture: Birth of the Light
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heads of mankind, three representatives of high magic come to
pay homage to the great spiritual King Who appears in the high
form that He has attained. For as high a being as Zarathustra
is meant to express the highest human striving, yet at the same
And of high priests my teachers there were seven —
aspect of the Christ-Impulse: namely, that the highest thing in
can feel this higher nature of Love over against Power and
the child-body might lie before us. The highest wisdom remains
children and before whom the highest love appears in its full
are reminded of the highest wisdom, and that the ideal of
highest wisdom is placed before us. The cosmic aspect meets us,
evolution is re-formed. Highest power through the cosmic
Impulse is revealed to us — highest power so great that
standing were suspended. Then man met man; high and low
merriment, but the highest in their souls — the
evolution from higher worlds. So it is not only the Child of
is that which we can feel in our highest spiritual concerns, if
impulse which can bring us the high ideal for which we strive.

Title: Lecture: Galileo, Giordano Bruno, and Goethe
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world. He was, in the highest sense of the word, the man who
Then something higher and truer than any impression created
which relate to the higher worlds. But when Giordano Bruno
Goethe could not understand this highly materialistic idea.
rising higher, and that it is not in anything external, such
muscles like those of the animals, constitutes the higher
up from the vertebrae and spinal marrow to a higher level. It
a stage higher than those of Giordano Bruno. Giordano Bruno

Title: Lecture: The Mission of Raphael in the Light of Spiritual Science
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not at some time reflected in the human soul, celebrating its own higher
with the traditions of Greek culture are highly characteristic of the
a higher stage of his soul's development. Four years after the picture
upon his lips but revered him as deeply as if a spirit from a higher world
perfection quite naturally as mature in the highest degree. Truly, the
higher spiritual faculties, we are no longer able to enter fully into
a man for Raphael has become one of the basic elements in higher development

Title: The Social Question and Theosophy
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have a distant future in mind when we speak of awakening higher
called upon to be active in human evolution. Taken in a higher
individual man. This deed is to the highest degree honorable
climbing higher on the ladder of evolution than all others: the
see, for example, his essays from 1905, The Stages of Higher
how, in higher spiritual realms, what obtains as law is nothing
All that happens is that the worker gets higher wages [...].
A further high point in the strike movement was the miners'
higher pay, better worker protection, and recognition of the

Title: Goethe's Secret Revelation: Lecture I
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highest contemporary Science was given to the Natural Science
without any reference to a higher something, which must also exist
sets in motion higher spiritual forces, which are not applied to
absolute reality in the highest sense of the word, and in them you
(Spiritual Stream) one of whose highest and most beautiful aims is
ever higher and higher by means of methods applied to inner
order to ascend to higher conceptions, and thereby to gain
its highest, to find a bridge over my own body, in order to
Everything, indeed, that surrounds her is highly indicative,
saying: ‘Recognize, Realize the Highest.’ And the power
developing his powers higher and higher, so that he can, in a free
the higher stages of human existence.
which in ancient times was called the ‘initiation into higher
initiation up to the highest stages, to the point where the soul is
capable of grasping the highest secrets. This is viewed

Title: Goethe's Secret Revelation: Lecture II
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higher such capabilities as we have on a given level of existence. It
to higher standards. To put it more clearly, if also more
reaches ever higher knowledge by developing himself, and what he
other than increasing the powers of man to ever higher stages of
or, as one might also say, on the way to higher knowledge.
for the highest. As Schiller in his Æsthetic Letters depicts
Youth man's aspiration for the highest, wanting straight away to
with the highest soul-condition, with the Beautiful Lily. But if he
a higher development, can, in certain circumstances, play a
wanted to climb to higher stages of knowledge and had not this
different shapes, in lower or higher places, and so on. Now he
struggle upward selfishly to higher regions of existence in an
knows that just such conceptions, even the highest, are meant
represents a higher stage of man's evolution. Goethe nowadays
must be developed, if a higher stage is to be reached; she says that
real knowledge. We bar ourselves off from the higher, true
Divan’ as the highest acquisition of
bridge for you, and you will wake up in a higher life and be one with
cut off from the higher ego, you can exhaust the essence of things.
in order to acquire new life in higher spheres, and of the deepest
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Title: Goethe's Secret Revelation: Lecture III
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essentially higher stage and a higher
experience of his own soul. Here are the highest experiences
appearance, the higher meaning will not escape the observation of
Goethe met in the different branches of knowledge of the High
on the next step they learnt to know what was taught of the higher
the highest step they reached to the recognition of the sublime,
taken by many people. This striving for higher things was denounced
highest problems of life. Those who have no inclination to compare
a higher stage of perfection. Art is man's continuation and

Title: Goethe's Secret Revelation: Lecture IV
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what is the highest in the world, what He, the Great, Ahura Mazdao,
To see the highest life for which I'm panting. —
characteristic in the highest degree. Let us think of the entry
‘But struggle not to higher orders:
assume from them a higher form. The Homunculus is shattered
when the soul has raised itself up into higher worlds; a child of
in his higher state of consciousness is led to the great powers in
the field. Faust's consciousness is to be raised still higher. The

Title: Christianity in the Evolutionary Course of Modern Mankind
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gradually rise to higher and higher truths. Still it was right
to the higher truths, for only through
these higher truths will that gradually be attained which,
humanity, only at a higher stage, there are also in the course
their development in higher, more spiritual regions, who, in
Being into itself, and can gradually rise to ever higher stages

Title: An Impulse for the Future
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metamorphosing to higher forms of being. In the microcosm as in the
have climbed to ever higher stages of knowledge, worldwide and
isolation, grasping the higher I, could find itself again in the
objective of which is to raise human development to a higher stage.

Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture I: The Significance of Supersensible Knowledge Today
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together. Also, it is on a higher level than tolerance, and
secure, aware that their lives have a higher meaning, it has
nothing illogical in the knowledge of higher worlds of which

Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture II: Blood is a Very Special Fluid
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general. In humans, and also in the higher animals, blood is
the body. Humans and the higher animals must of necessity
references made to higher beings are to beings that really do
that divide into four lower and three higher.
upon the three higher spiritual members as the
only where there is at least the rudiment of what at a higher
the higher nervous system fell asleep, they would behold in a
measures the function of the higher nervous system is
environment. The incorporation of the higher nervous system
outside itself; through the higher nervous system, what takes
their evolution, the highest form of the nervous system is
developed; it enables people to obtain from the highly
higher level. This world of mental pictures mirrors, it is
with this transformation, another one occurred on a higher
system); fourth the higher astral body emerging from the
clairvoyance and enables humanity to reach a higher stage of
it to a higher consciousness, whereas today's waking
but on a higher level, that is similar to what happens in the

Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture III: The Origin of Suffering
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human beings and the higher creatures are concerned — a
higher development go together. Furthermore, humanity has
perceived when the higher senses that slumber in us are
gain insight into this next higher stage of evolution, we
where life already exists. It reveals itself as higher than
reached a certain higher level. Only when the force of life
a level of evolution so high that the external light and air
the higher perfection of cosmic forces, conflict arose. If
higher animals conveys deeply repressed pain.
from the annihilation of life something that is higher, and
creates from destruction something higher than life, namely,
truth. You certainly know it in your higher consciousness,
consciousness. This bringing forth of a higher element is
produces is on a higher level, and gives rise to feelings of
that enhances life. Thus, something higher, namely, pleasure
something higher. The origin of suffering is found where
initiation by means of which a higher consciousness is
Everything is seen in a new light and on a higher level. But
must be repeated at a higher stage. The soul forces that
nature. Only when this occurs is a higher consciousness and
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science points to the fact that there are highly developed
could reach higher stages of development. Such exercises lead
higher development in no way neglect worldly, everyday
offers honey to the human soul, to carry it up to higher
experiences and take them up to higher worlds.
higher stage of evolution, they become the leaders and guides
thigh bone. Here we find the perfect solution to the problem:
higher stage; it is the bon viveur that continually
to the highest spiritualized love. Untold numbers of beings
by the plants. In this respect, the higher depends on the
to the highest spiritual love, but all love, the highest as
hearts of those who seek higher development. In order to have
higher; but without evil we would have no feeling of self, no
test of evil. For love to reach its highest goal, the love of

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sorrow, but we find that as life reaches higher levels things
death. He says: “When we consider the most highly

Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture VII: Education and Spiritual Science
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immensely strong. The higher animals such as apes were
developing through soul and spirit to ever higher levels. The

Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture VIII: Insanity in the Light of Spiritual Science
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body, particularly through higher impulses, especially of an
high level of initiation is reached can work on the physical
extent, and only in the case of highly evolved individuals.
correspond to their higher, that is, their above members:

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cosmos. Nevertheless, the higher forces it bestows often are
already made this highly unlikely. If a person was able to
possibility to evolve, to reach higher stages; the knowledge
This process is unconscious except in highly evolved human

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is for knowledge of the higher self.
person's higher self to be found? We can by means of a
comparison make clear where the higher self exists, and what
higher self — the light. The situation is the same in
highest sense of the word.
comes to expression as high ideals, beautiful hopes and
human life is surveyed from a higher viewpoint, it is

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but through higher ones, attained when its hidden forces have
prerequisite for the higher stages is the very highest
highest secrets of nature and the spiritual world, to that
higher secrets. A number of such paths exist. That is not to
The highest truth is one. No matter where or when
human beings ever lived or live, once they reach the highest
another path. The same applies to the path of higher
differently from modern people. This difference in the higher
relaxed, but the higher Rosicrucian knowledge is not
you will find in my book Knowledge of Higher Worlds and
teacher of Rosicrucianism will guide the pupil to the higher
higher stages. From the start it must be made clear that,
not qualified to rise into higher worlds. This happens for
derived from higher worlds, which present a self-sustaining
Without this kind of thinking the higher stages of
World-Body. He meant that human beings represent the highest
higher level and open to the lance of Amfortas, as the plant
in one sense is higher, in another lower than that of the
— mankind's highest ideal. He saw the whole of nature
Certainly even the most highly developed person will not
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from a higher point of view impossible.
can indeed be discussed from the highest spiritual scientific
honestly and sincerely pursues the path to higher knowledge.
progress. That person knows that the path to higher knowledge
expression. What he sought was a higher unity of Shakespeare
beings a higher being resides, a higher self that was only
that higher entity that rises above the everyday. He felt
higher order is always depicted in myths and sagas as a
a person's inner striving towards a higher consciousness as a
union with a higher aspect of the being that is seen as
female figure that is looked up to as the higher
sight. In either case, this higher self is depicted in
higher aspect of his being. Hence, the Walkyries are shown to
higher consciousness. The Walkyrie Brunnhilde is created
daughter of Erda represents the higher consciousness of
configuration and higher perfection of his inner being, he is
person's higher development. It made him place at the centre
stage of higher spiritual development. The Swan mediates
remain as it is; a force that, to reach higher stages, must
create a higher spiritual life.”
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Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture XIII: The Bible and Wisdom
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the Bible had been inspired by a higher spiritual source.
higher stages of development and we become aware that our
developed human being and the highest developed ape, than
between the lowest and highest developed ape. This
external bodily form, is closer to the highest evolved ape,
than the latter from the highest evolved animal.
is followed through, the higher stages are seen to continue
the highly advanced human being, the initiate, and the person
is to attain his higher humanity. He will know that heaven is
from the savage to the highly advanced individual who has
have already developed the higher clairvoyant consciousness,
that is, the higher perception that mankind in general will
and ears can be opened so that he attains a higher kind of
Higher Worlds and its Attainment, you will find this
must observe if he is to attain the highest goal. A principle
of life an ever higher levels. Once the highest was attained,
out of one's mind" but becoming conscious on a higher level.
higher consciousness. Strict rules were observed; the
which spiritual beings emerge. If a very high stage had been
typical of someone striving to attain a higher development,
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Title: Necessity and Freedom: Lecture I: The Past Shows Us a Picture of Necessity
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say that the chauffeur was guilty at all from a higher point of
physical occurrence there is a higher, more subtle one.
to me as well, in a higher part of my being.” This is to
plane. He may have progressed a stage higher in knowledge,
of the soul? How is it possible for a higher world order to

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Of sublime galimatias, of nonsense in high-faluting
external world we will then look down upon from a higher
evolution beyond their nature stage and became the higher

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headmaster received an even higher one. That is a matter of
still remember from this that beings on a much higher level

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the highest order. But are we not actually doing away
a Middle High German epic of about 1200, telling of the
the highest order that require a space must come at a
higher consciousness, a consciousness beyond the ordinary
view of a higher consciousness, you will not always judge in
at the same time the impulses of higher spiritual beings will

Title: Necessity and Freedom: Lecture V: The "I" is Found on the Physical Plane in Acts of Will
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Knowledge of the Higher Worlds
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and Its Attainment,
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds,
mystery. And the most highly acclaimed speakers are the ones

Title: Haeckel, "The Riddle of the Universe," Theosophy
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which he is very highly endowed.
relation to the highest questions concerning a divine ordering
the secret of species will indeed have reached the highest
operation, but that something higher has to be taken into
announced the connection between man and the higher animals
from the higher animals. But since that day scientific thought
higher animals, they being in their turn the developments of
their adherence to the theory of man's descent from the higher
similarity in external structure between man and the higher
higher and lower species of apes, and that we could but come to
higher animals to man. In more recent times scientists have
standing high above man — a being farther removed from
of natural science was seeking after a purer, higher, and freer
developed; and once these new organs are developed, higher
those higher powers, one able to penetrate into worlds hidden
The Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and Its Attainment.
apparitions of the higher worlds pass before the spiritual eye
as visions of light, but the tones also of those higher worlds
fantastic and highly improbable. All theories thus advanced
relationship of man with the higher mammals, with the man-like
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Title: Spirit of Fichte: Lecture I: The Spirit of Fichte Present in Our Midst
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house was not even as high as tolerable comfort, indeed it was very
“no.” He felt very ill at ease in this high-class
needs. Already aspiring, even at that age, towards the highest, he
made his own the manner of approach towards the highest things and
human happiness, human rights and the high ideals of humanity.
the highest that no higher ideal of knowledge could ever be found,
(then the highest in prestige of any in Germany) the remarkable
quest for a philosophy of life, towards the highest levels of
may well prove to be of the highest value.”
German nation, on its highest level, and speaking from the depth of

Title: Lecture: The Christmas Festival In The Changing Course Of Time
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Let us greet God-Father on His highest throne

Title: Mysteries of the East: Lecture 1
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Initiates in the higher worlds. The principles of Initiation change in
the Upper and Lower Gods. The path into the higher worlds is bound up
higher worlds. We shall have to bring forward things which in a
founded ultimately on the experiences of Initiates in the higher
worlds. It is from the higher worlds that the knowledge and the
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds.
public the Way into the higher worlds. But it must be said also that
the higher worlds, one need hardly say, is never closed, but anyone
figure in ordinary soul-life must all become a means to higher
purposes, higher goals. In ordinary life a man perceives the external
them a means to higher ends. In ordinary life a man looks out on a
to the higher worlds. A mixing of the two attitudes may occur: one can
be so absorbed in the urge to reach the higher worlds as to be guilty
to an end where the higher worlds are concerned.
he experiences in the higher worlds. This stage can be reached only
other people when one is seeking to follow the path into the higher
preparations for the path into the higher worlds involves the
moment when one is preparing to rise into higher worlds, intellectual
Initiation. During the ascent into the higher worlds a moment comes
through in such manner that thou standest before the Higher Worlds,
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Title: Mysteries of the East: Lecture 2
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the higher members of his being (astral body and ego) man belongs not
for the purpose of penetrating into the higher worlds, he develops
morality. These souls show us how in the higher worlds there is an
which things come about in the higher worlds is dependent on beings
highest degree one-sided. For what takes place in the world of
the higher worlds.
advance still further in regard to higher experiences. This matter of
ascending into the higher worlds is not such that one can say: To-day
you are beginning your ascent into the higher worlds, and then you
indeed come stage by stage into the higher worlds, but from this
sojourn in the higher worlds he must again come forth and live in the
He must learn to be a seer only for the higher worlds, and not to
needed for the higher worlds. This must be strictly avoided. He should
acquires for the ascent into the higher worlds. Quite definite
Now in order to grow up correctly into the higher worlds, and to have
highest members of his being, belongs not only to the Earth but is at

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of the Akashic Record. In the higher worlds a seer is able to discern
our time ascends into the higher worlds, he goes through certain
experiences much that is significant in the higher worlds through such
of our time, when he has thus mounted to the higher worlds, feels it
experience of this loneliness, this forlorn condition in the higher
ascend into these higher worlds, you are met by forlorn-ness, despair.
experienced when formerly they rose into the higher worlds. It might
higher worlds; but his soul now feels lonely and forsaken, whereas
differently what they beheld in the higher worlds. What is it, then,
beings of higher worlds who are working upon the sense-world from the
higher worlds, and gazing down, as it were, into the sense-world; he
current of events which are prepared for our world out of the higher
worlds. Because in the course of a sojourn of this kind in the higher
higher worlds in the manner described. It was experienced. also by
past times found their highest satisfaction. It must be added that the
higher worlds. If aspirants were to be led up into the higher worlds
in the same way into the higher worlds, he would of course also be
the higher worlds at Initiation — souls, for example, who went
souls were raised into the higher worlds through the Hermes
raised his soul into the higher worlds and met Isis with the mourning
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Title: Mysteries of the East: Lecture 4
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results in the higher worlds of this changed situation in the life of
who was dying to the higher worlds and descending into the earthly
connection with the most intimate things of the higher worlds, where
souls of earthly men; and in this new life, rising to ever higher and
higher glory, would consist the further development of the Earth, even
have the humanised Cosmos. What we may call the pedagogical high
the one hand there is the great, high-minded soul who could bring
very little agreement with the higher ego of the person. It should be
who is striving to attain to higher worlds that in the shape of his
world, and through it to rise into the higher spiritual worlds. A wish

Title: First Lecture: The Gospel of St. John
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are realities pertaining to higher worlds, that besides our
world but present facts of a higher world. Those who have
world) which lies even deeper, will come to a new and higher
understand the John Gospel without rising to such higher
revelations from higher worlds that the writer of the gospel
the John Gospel learned, through experience in higher worlds,
came into this world from higher worlds must be understood
from a higher world. And he who portrayed Him most deeply had
to raise himself to the two higher worlds we have mentioned,
these two higher worlds. His Gospel reveals this to us.
higher worlds. There one can find the wisdom to understand
the John Gospel rise to the two higher worlds and become
ourselves what takes place when one sleeps. One's higher
real ego of man, the bearer of the higher centre of his
unconscious in higher worlds. But if he does practice then he
can attain consciousness in these higher worlds. When his
higher knowledge. Where does this light shine? In the
however, John only understood once his higher self had
your higher self. It is the “I” within you. But
higher ego appears before Him — his own higher ego,
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Title: Second Lecture: The Gospel of St. John
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of the John Gospel directs one to the higher world. When we
especially alcohol. Other requirements for any higher
experiences in the higher worlds. This is possible for
The animal is of higher rank than the plant. It breathes
live.” The same relation exists between the higher
here experienced, represents a symbol of the higher world. He
who is able to live spiritually in the higher world, who has
the washing of feet in the higher world. He who
the washing of feet in a higher world. This is the
higher world. The strength acquired by the soul is symbolised
disciple who bears witness that Christ lives. Now the higher
transparent. He has lost his own separate life, the higher

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ascend to higher stages of human existence. Through
the higher stages national peculiarities were of no account,
initiates who felt their higher self to the extent that they
reach a certain comprehension. Everyone has a higher self,
servant of the higher self then one can say in a certain
higher interests become mere subsidiary interests, mere
This constitutes a higher state of consciousness.
say “I” to oneself. When the higher, the
able to penetrate into higher worlds, all that is, to begin
with, a stage of inner development even on higher planes, is
to have awakened the higher self, to be born so that the
stage for the higher life. This leads us deep into the
expect it to live there. Likewise for the higher world, one
his higher self. The physical world is the school. He who has
other senses is work done for the higher life.
higher senses, that he must develop the chakrams or holy
preparation. Our work here prepares the organs for a higher
necessary to make it possible for us to see and act in higher
worlds. One is perfectly justified to speak of a higher world
and to value it higher than our lower world, but we should
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higher vantage-point we think of the Christmas Festival on the one
in the reality of the higher realms of the spiritual worlds, for in
same stages as on the descent, but now in a higher form. To-day man
A destiny in the very highest degree significant is approaching us,
merely proclaim the existence of higher worlds, nor be mere religion,

Title: Forming of Destiny: Lecture 1: Spiritual Life in the Physical World and Life Between Death and Rebirth
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higher consolation, a deeper source of strength than can be obtained
would have to be regarded as little higher than the animal, and
occupying a relatively high post was suddenly seized by such an
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and its Attainment
higher spiritual worlds and the wise beings therein, in order that the
all the pain which for higher ends it must cause. This is what

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occasionally be imparted to you something from the higher and later
this, otherwise I could not give out the later and higher truths in

Title: Forming of Destiny: Lecture 3: The Subconscious Strata of the Soul-Life and the Life of the Spirit After Premature Death
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in a higher sense than did the Greek. The Greek could not see certain
be considered from a higher human point of view, then one may say:
earthly life, but in such a way that, as a higher soul, one longs that
die, but the human entity incarnated in the child may be a highly
evolved soul, and continue its life after death as a highly evolved

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Beings of the Higher Hierarchies, and the other human souls living
creates here which is higher reality than the ordinary reality
most selfless people; perhaps it holds good for them to a higher
This astral body goes through life wiser, in a much higher sense than
egotism is removed either into a deeper or a higher sphere of

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Beings of the Higher Hierarchies. Man becomes, as it were, a thought

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again develop a higher perception of the spiritual world. I might say
supposed to be very highly evolved and is exalted above the dark age
refine one's ideas, and to evolve higher. And he certainly no longer

Title: Lecture: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture I
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is however necessary to gain a higher standpoint, to penetrate more
planetary evolution he will reach still higher stages. All those which
Higher development consists in this, that one casts out what is in
retaining the snake on a higher level in his spinal cord. With still
become a higher being. This will also be so with his stages of
of the higher stages of consciousness: ‘Verily, Verily, I say unto
you, the servant is not greater than his lord’. The more highly

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needs his organs both for the lowest and the highest impulses. He also

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minerals on the Higher Mental Plane. Human consciousness on the
Physical Plane and its development to higher stages. The riddle of the
We can regard plants and lower animals as the means whereby higher
higher worlds. The plants are, as it were, only the feelers which are
extended by the higher beings; they gain information through the
man into a higher kingdom. The last faculty to be attained by man is
connect the ‘Es denkt’ (‘it thinks’) with speech. The ear is a higher
higher consciousness first developed the organs.
The minerals also have consciousness. This lies on the higher mental
plane, in higher regions than that of the plant. Blavatsky calls it
consciousness is in the higher regions of the mental plane. The
of his brain, as in an ant heap a higher consciousness rules. But as

Title: Lecture: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture IV
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cells. The building of cells is on higher planes something absolutely
highest principle. It is only through the impulse of the spirit that
When from the higher planes one studies consciousness as it functions
consciousness into a state of being which is at a higher level than we
The ant heap also has a much higher consciousness than present-day
man. The consciousness of the ant heap is to be found in the higher
the bees is to be found in the higher regions of the Buddhi plane. How
through beings who stand higher than we do who had already gone
body of a higher spiritual being. The human spirit also comes
Now we can ask why higher beings manifest themselves in an ant heap.
been different. The foreseeing wisdom of Higher Intelligences was

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mineral kingdom to be found? That is the highest form of
non-criticism. Particularly in regard to the highest questions this is
develop no warmth are also without passion. At higher levels man must
in the service of the human spirit. Our age has placed its highest
just a small instrument of a higher spiritual power which also stood

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the kama-rupic man (man with an astral body). The higher animal is to
him, can lead him upward to his higher self. Passion should not be
higher stage. This purifying of passion, this leading upwards of its
Earth, only then is he free to choose either to use these higher
bring into the Earth something coming from higher worlds. Such an
still higher beings, through the Nirmana-kayas. From Mars they added
higher than the Bodhisattvas. The latter are able to order evolution
stage higher than the Nirmana-kayas, stand those beings who are called
position to become a Pitri. The next and even higher stage, the last

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In man as he is today, his higher forces are intermingled. His further
development depends on the emergence of his higher self from the
parts, however, from which the higher has been withdrawn do not remain
compel the higher things of the mind to rise up out of the lower body.
being mastered by the higher.
other hand the higher trinity was being cherished and fostered. These

Title: Lecture: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture VIII
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rest and the higher part of man has found in the physical a fitting
reached its highest point. The Rishis, those still half-divine beings,
highest point. It was prepared for in the Middle Ages and has now

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Of the higher principles in man, Atma developed on Old Saturn, Buddhi
smell. The senses that developed later had to descend from higher to
dependent on the higher bodies. When one eliminates everything that
what is lower in man does in fact lie in the higher bodies which today

Title: Lecture: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture X
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Globe and then into the Higher Mental condition, the Arupic. It then
remain at a still higher level, no longer in the Ether, but in the

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plane. The re-ascent to the higher planes through schooling towards
connected. Man only has such higher thoughts when senses awaken for
physical senses. Previously he was on the higher planes. He descended
self-awareness. On the higher planes life was still completely
accustom oneself to live on higher planes just as selflessly as man
We must therefore seek in the higher worlds for something lying
the Mental Plane this is only possible for the higher Masters.
less free on the Arupa Plane of the Higher Mental World. Man gradually
however still higher from the Arupa Plane up to the next higher, the
and there gives it over to still higher Planes.
world and half towards higher worlds. When it is opened to the
consciousness of self on the higher planes, hence in dream he is not
Whoever carries his development to a still higher stage is surrounded
comprehends why man, when he has been on the higher planes again

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physical body with higher forces. A piece of rock crystal is also
parts of the physical body, but they are intermixed with man's higher
until he attained illumination in order to rise to higher stages, to
lowest work on the astral body. Higher forces work on the etheric body
and still higher Devas on the physical body, the most perfected body

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have yet to ascend to higher stages. We must realise that we have a
foundation of the teaching about the higher spiritual beings and to
times three ranks of divine beings. The three highest are: Seraphim,
question; as we shall see, the activity of human beings in the higher
There is however no need for man to be inactive in the higher regions.
Nature, are influenced from the Arupa Plane, (Higher Devachan). There,
consciousness, one understands that these forces are guided by higher
therefore, as the seventh, yet another member which is higher than
as man. As development progresses to higher planes a being gains
laws; this was only possible for beings at the higher stage of Wisdom.

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higher organs than by implanting the seeds for these organs on the
The higher bodies flow into one another: for instance Atma is in truth
and reaches a still higher condition he again describes an
higher level. At this stage the initiate has a state of consciousness

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life for the development of the organs of the higher bodies. When we
and Power, then in your higher bodies you will develop those organs
These develop the organs of the higher man.’
order by their means to mount still higher to a complete
and more strongly within himself. The higher forces compel all human
The soul has three members: the consciousness soul as the highest

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thoughts, beings still higher and more significant than those active
our soul it is an impression, a kind of foot-print of a higher
consists. The thought in us can only become the imprint of a higher
spiritual being because this higher being has a body formed of the
In the higher spiritual world there is a counter-image for every
sealing wax. The substance is the higher spiritual being which
the traces of what is happening in higher worlds.’ It is with regard
corresponds with reality. It is also because a higher being is working
reached a higher stage. This is the pre-requisite for a quite new kind
As a rule man forms merely thoughts. The more highly developed man
reflection of imagination. When a man who is seeking higher
realities which have arisen through the fructifying impulse of higher
beings; thus one can see these higher spiritual beings on the Astral
the highest initiates, these actually overcome the Karma of Deeds. He
possesses Intuition; or he must receive it from the high initiates in

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primitive condition deriving from a higher condition. This is
human beings are descended from others who had already attained a high
that time, higher spiritual beings had an influence on the unfree will;
is, such a one as had reached its highest perfection on the Old Moon.
The lower astral body merged with the higher astral body. A great part
somewhat from each other, from the finest, approximating to the highly
only it has already found its state of balance with the higher astral
have to differentiate in it a lower and a higher nature. The higher

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The miraculous is nothing other than the penetration of a higher world
beings from higher planes intervene in human life.
higher substance is the opposite of the lower; instead of filling out
Old Moon, out of which the Moon has developed to a higher stage. Thus
yet physical matter of this kind; it was more highly developed than
that we are continually surrounded by beings whose higher nature is
These are higher beings because they had completely developed Manas on
therefore they stand at a higher stage and on the other hand they
it backwards, when we see it in its ever higher and higher nature,
we are drawn down by the asuric beings. The higher forces of these our

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higher individualities, such as those we call Masters. They can send
called the relationship of man to his higher self. Such is the true
nature of this process. The higher self of man does not live within
us, but around us. The more highly developed individualities are the
higher self. Man must be clear that the higher self is outside him.
The higher self is around us. If, in preparation for the future, we
etheric body. The higher self is in the universe; therefore the
in a good way towards what will lead to the higher self.
through this to attain to the development of his higher self. What in
higher self. In order however really to get to know the higher self we
must seek for it where it already is today, with the higher
passions and so on. Now everything which is of a higher nature lifts
someone uses his highly evolved intellect to gratify those desires.

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the highest sense of the word. Whoever imbues himself with this, knows
stand therefore at a higher level. There are different standpoints and
but has a higher standpoint. Goethe, in his ‘Metamorphoses of Plants’,
thoughts and introduce the spirit of mathematics into higher regions.
Goethe attains to the highest heights as an artist he is only
dissolved, with highly developed people the smallest. The ennobled

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astral air lived spiritual beings — both lower and higher —
taken place. The Monad has descended from the highest regions of
The development of the higher man proceeds in such a way that, to
The highest degree of perfection which we have put out from ourselves,
the work of our higher Ego we transform the transient body given us by
higher, outside ourselves, we must seek to approach. Therefore our
Higher Self is not to be sought within us, but in the individualities

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somewhat higher stage than on the Old Moon. There he had not yet
order to be able to receive the higher principles. This purification
a higher stage.
The Sun-men too had attained a certain high development. There were
being on a higher level than the Moon-men, and they developed to quite
guidance of higher beings, the Devas, in order to further evolution in
possessed in the highest sense of the word, the power that had
Earth today in the very highest Mysteries. At that time everyone
however selected only the most highly developed examples and evolved a
inhabit the Earth. This discrepancy between higher and lower Nature
higher and higher. By so doing he condemns man to suffering. Man must
Luciferic knowledge. Those endowed with this higher degree of
more highly developed. Jehovah and Lucifer are engaged in an unceasing
man is not only able to develop his higher nature upwards, but working
this highest Adept, the Saturn Adept, the Father Principle, the Hidden

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again proceed on his way at a higher stage. For this reason he must
place between two Earth lives is the first degree of higher
thing is gone through again, but at a higher stage.
lower level and human beings are Moon-men who have ascended higher.
then have been raised half a stage higher and everything else with
There we have to do with a repetition at a higher stage where all our

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in it. Everything that takes place in the higher kingdoms is not
The higher ego then

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why a Sun God had to come, a higher being than Lucifer. There still

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The consciousness of the entire mineral world is in the highest
in working harmoniously upwards from the physical to higher planes. In
Among the Indians the king of the gnomes is called Kshiti, the highest
of the gnomes; the highest being among the undines: Varuna; the
highest being among the sylphs: Vayu, and everything having its

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Gotthard Tunnel did not need perhaps to possess such a high degree of
red blood as do also the higher animals. That is to say, from then on
Manas, but this Race sees as the highest stage the psychic experience

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descended so deeply as present-day animals, nor yet ascended so high

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transition to something higher.
for something higher, that is, self-propagation. He will gradually
Sub-Race of the Fifth Root-Race the ‘I’ will again reach a higher

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spiritual vision of the highest order combined with a completely
The Graeco-Latin stream is a higher form of the Judaic; here the cult

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thought. Our highest member, which places us above all other earthly
an instrument of the higher members, is itself in control, and
place, not only ethically, but also in a higher sense. The

Title: Lecture: The Human Soul and the Animal Soul
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also of a higher body, the so-called “etheric body” or
perceive the “higher” bodies of man just as ordinary eyes
can perceive the physical body. These “higher” members of
to these higher members of man's being. In the etheric body the
to the plants. We say: Whereas man has still higher super-sensible
time being we will confine ourselves to the higher animals —
own digestion. The highest level of experience in the soul life of an
the higher animals — it will be better to speak of the lower
higher animals. We can also observe that bodily pain in children is a
higher animal, being so closely bound up with its bodily nature,

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being emancipated to a high degree from the immediate organism, and
disregard this, for higher points of view may drive it into the
of the Higher Worlds. There we see how in normal human beings the

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Kadmon, who was both man and woman. The highest cosmic being
can raise him to his higher self. Thus, during the time of the third

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experienced as a decisive event in the life of a higher being — as
reached the level of development of the animals. The highest kingdom
ancestor was at a higher stage than that imagined by materialistic
him yet. The human soul descended to earth from a higher planet, and
the Lemurians were fructified by the higher human soul — a great
the human soul has worked in and formed the human body for its higher
Himself in the Heavens.” This is what “Glory to God in the Highest”
degree, man went beyond everyday feeling and attained to a higher soul
path of high morality, soul rhythm and spirit harmony. He who had
presented to our souls as a feeling of nature of the highest order. If
prevail when the higher stage of harmony, which today has been
festival of the birth of mankind's highest feelings and will impulses.
truth, a higher self, a divine, sun-like, light-filled Being. This

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From those eternal deeps bursts ever higher
While foam and mist high in the air are driven.
was celebrated annually by the highest initiates in the Mysteries at
experience only the outer pictorial expression of the highest
who were ready to bring about the resurrection of the higher self
people can remain indifferent when the awakening of the Higher Self
nature the higher man, the spirit man, will glow and radiate again.
darkness of matter. This is the moment of highest bliss in the
Thus they learned to look up to the highest ideal of mankind, to the
and humanity will then awaken to a higher existence, to a new phase of
within it in the highest sense. Man felt that within Christianity the
as a sign that out of the darkness of matter a higher man can be born
more highly civilized he is, the more does this rhythm decrease. Just
found in the Sun Hero. Through the strength of the higher man born in
This Sun Hero, this higher man, was born in the Night of Consecration.
the lowly, the Highest, Christ Jesus, was born!
seeds that signify the three higher members of man.
nature and, springing from it, the resurrection of the higher. Goethe
The triangle is the symbol of the higher man: Spirit Self, Life Spirit
similar to the clouds and mists in high mountains. The sun and moon
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You shall not recognize as higher gods those who show you an image of
there is a spark, an emission of the highest, the most exhalted
The highest divinity took part in this. As long as man was unable to
no notion of the highest divinity who helped create him and lives
you from the now highest of Gods. It cannot be symbolized with an
lowlier images of the highest god are also destructive to health.
recognize as higher gods those who present to you an image of anything
true ego, shall also be an image of your highest God, and in your

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and see it become a reality up to the highest steps of the
could at that time connect the higher worlds in a glowing

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as human beings of higher development, in order to instruct men who
that the higher man, that higher man who has been plunged into matter,
Through his higher bodies man wrests himself from his fetters again,
and mounts up to something higher. Kama-Manas works its way up again,
If we pass on to the higher Manas, we find that it has a similar
one stage higher, his work has become one stage lower. That is a law.
Manas. Here is meant the higher Manas. In the book Theosophy Rudolf Steiner calls it ‘the spirit-filled Consciousness-soul’ or ‘Spirit-Self’. (p. 57, revised English edition, 1954).

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very highly evolved, far more highly evolved than man at the stage he
in the higher wisdom, the influence of those Beings, who are not
higher occult wisdom teaches you something, you can also weave around

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the disposal of a higher individuality. Hence later the transformed
Sieg was named Odin. Odin is the highest initiate of the northern
disposal of the higher, more spiritual Odin. He himself lived later as
this that makes the possessor of these higher occult faculties
an initiate who represents the highest streams of spiritual life, but,
sign. There are things that must be regarded as events on a higher
culture of preparation, which lasted until a higher initiation

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evolution of the highest importance will be made; the leaders of
the fifth root-race highly developed human individualities have
were under the influence of higher beings. They were directly
dependent upon higher Beings, Beings who had gone through their own
with higher Beings, but to whom such comprehensive guidance is not
inspiration direct from higher spiritual beings, from super-men. This
means to be dead to the earthly and withdrawn to a higher plane of
signify different stages of soul-life on the higher, spiritual plane.
Now things are no longer decided on the higher level, but Paris is
an influence will have developed, not in higher spheres, but in the
edition of his book Knowledge of the Higher Worlds. In later

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of theosophy, that emanates, so to speak, from the high regions of
theosophy, were all occasions for rising to high altitudes of
high vantage point. This extends the visible horizon, but without the
at all would vanish. In my book, Knowledge of the Higher Worlds
points of view, above the middle, from self to higher self, and it
implies the ability to see with the organs of this higher self. The
the higher self — not with the ordinary self — there is
abodes where the higher spiritual life was cultivated, where the
them, but not all of these realized that higher secrets had been
experience, the experience of the higher worlds, shining through
creatively without having recourse to the higher worlds.
must start at the lowest step, gradually ascending to the highest.
there exist still higher senses, we must proceed cautiously. We must
Finally we come to the tenth sense, the highest in the

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proper must be sought higher up in the sense of equilibrium —
some alert boy asks his teacher how we can stand the high atmospheric
unfortunately untranslatable, a sort of higher play on words. Cf.
higher than that of temperature. No higher senses, therefore, could
takes place in man that provides what he lacks. Higher beings
objects, so that we may know them. Beings of an order higher than man
As a still higher sense, the ninth, we mentioned the
greatest experiences vouchsafed him who ascends to higher cognition
When progressing to higher cognition, penetrating the secret of
Eva. You will know what a higher being of the order of Archangel has
lecture we will ascend to the sense of concept and the higher senses

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Higher Senses, Inner Force Currents and
Higher Senses, Inner Force Currents
astral body; it is capable of still higher achievements. In the cases
are still higher, purely spiritual senses, but let them here be
senses are active only in more highly developed, clairvoyant people,
examining the still higher senses that correspond to the other lotus
entire higher life of the soul would be revealed to us in their
that higher activity comes into being through which we rise from the
Higher up lies what in the narrower meaning we can call our senses.
and the brain is a sense organ of a higher order.
acknowledge the higher truths that spiritual science is in a position

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action, owing precisely to this separation that meant a higher
however, discloses higher forces holding sway above the capacity for
visualization, when a higher faculty such as memory is to be
higher activity is to be brought about, the ego must oppose the
the law is exemplified that tells us that the higher activities of

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world, but then ascending to higher realms in order to show that the
glimpses of a higher soul life, from which the light of theosophy
Our observations will lead us up to the high ideals of human society,
characterized. As soon as we judge an act to be good or bad, higher
Sis-tine Madonna is beautiful, that steeple is high, you are dealing
relation to the higher planes could be accurately comprehended
introspection will convince you of this. If you want to create higher
how extensive is the soul's need to express higher things in such a
provide the possibility of rising to higher visualizations. Even

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achieved the highest development of their ego. This is added lest you
might infer that the most highly developed people would be the most
bored. There is a sort of cure for boredom; and in a higher stage of
carry into the future something that interests us, we have the higher
the genius of speech is highly intelligent you can never speak of

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Fled is the conclave of the gods to high Olympus,
Of thy high banquets there remains no token;
something that corresponds on a higher plane to desire, something
of higher development, we combat desire, we are not combatting will
of our highest attributes. Don't confuse this with concepts like “the

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future. It discloses, indeed, something highly peculiar, namely, that
us recall the highly significant fact that man's retrogressive memory
highly beneficial. For example, seven school classes could be so

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To many people the spirit is a highly debatable fact
sight this might not seem a desirable thing to do, but in a higher
it as a precept; hence in my Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and
of what is set forth in Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and Its
are symptomatical in those who seek the higher worlds from motives of
higher one looks, the more everything of a material character

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designate as precisely the element in us that raises us to higher
that on the path to the higher world we must devote ourselves in
higher soul forces in a healthy, normal way? How can we proceed from
that he feels he must strive to realize his own higher nature, a
allegorical visualization to a higher aspect of the soul, the lofty
with intuition in the higher sense, such as is meant in my book,
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and Its Attainment. Within
consciousness to find something that is a higher event. It is the
of the higher worlds before attaining to any concretely outlined
Those whose souls truly meditate in the higher worlds, however, all

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all this, as set forth, for example, in my Knowledge of the Higher
approximately. On the whole, even when this world is highly
world; he can see many vision-like phenomena of the higher world
without rating at all high as a human being. It is all a matter of
higher cognition as well. He must learn to know himself in an
phenomenon that people hold high opinions of themselves, and a person
It is not a case of coming from a higher world and being imprisoned
of the higher world by ignoring external perceptions and devoting
but it is something highly variable, fluctuating.
this ego-consciousness more and more, to develop it to an ever higher
us when we contemplate it in the higher regions, and it ceases to

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of the particulars connected with the higher world, as regards the
those Beings who had already reached a high development, and were in
at work who, on account of their higher development, were able to
receive the experiences from the higher worlds and carry them down to
of brain, so that the truths, which in the higher worlds are quite of
them; he could not have communicated messages from a higher world, nor
conditions were established. Formerly, Beings from the Higher Worlds
Higher Worlds.” At that time it was not yet necessary for man to
experienced in an earthly body; and because he was such a high
higher, for he learnt through his descent.
from the higher spiritual worlds into this world. To this other
power of vision on the sentient soul, will at a higher stage become
others. A higher Individuality had come down and was like the radiance
Man is struggling up to the higher ego. That was foreshadowed for the
food from the higher regions, there must be other Individualities who
from higher regions. He was a Teacher. What had the other Being to do,
Leaders of humanity we have, in a sense, to do with more highly
the Devachanic world, and after that through the higher Devachanic
heavenly world, and the Higher world is the world of reason, of
As I was saying, between death and rebirth, man ascends to the higher
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things to-day — to speak of them from the high horse of

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enthusiasm for what is good, for high ideals, we owe to the
the physical, etheric and astral bodies. In the astral body a high
covering, in order to rise higher and higher in the course of his
poverty of spirit, the highest Christian proclamation is this:

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one able to apply the words to the events of higher planes. The life
highest and best form in the body which was derived by inheritance
the generations, become the proper ego-vehicle for the high being who
much the higher, from the now finer physical into the Spiritual. The
of Christianity and of the Christ Being Itself, from a Higher
1930, single individuals will find it possible to develop higher
materialistic mind was being prepared, in that the highest things were
reality higher than a physical one, a reality to which one can only
how high they may lead us! Not in vain has man been placed in the

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represented a higher unity combining the ecstatic Initiation of the
man and the higher mammals. It is an indisputable truth that man has
ascent into the higher worlds, and to translate the truths into
have already observed: Those who sit in the high places of ‘true
such as the above-mentioned, when those who sit in the high places of
the Lamas of Thibet!’ Only to the highest Initiates is it

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develop the intellectual or mind-soul, or soul of higher-feeling. And
in that Epoch, so as to be able now, gradually to bring to a higher
intellectual soul or soul of higher feeling. Man had to develop in a
who, in their Sentient-Souls, were granted revelations of a high
order; while in Europe there were souls who, without having any high
vehicle for the highest. A premature ego-feeling, a too great feeling
kept back from acquiring the forces so highly evolved in Asia.
it in the Intellectual-Soul or soul of higher feeling; the culture of
from the lowest to the highest, already speaks in the Sentient-Soul,
do what is right that he may press up to the higher ego.

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way!’ From a higher standpoint this sort of observation is
the higher regions, but a God who became individual man.’ Now I
such! St. Paul is therefore supposed to say, that the highest idea
possible is that of a God, a Christ, not only hovering in the higher
revelations of the higher worlds must always come along the by-way of
towards acquiring that higher faculty through which in the form of
the result of the action of this seed of conscience? — The higher

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could approach only with a certain superficiality the high goals we
of the realm of the Spirits of Movement — the next higher
higher Hierarchies there were not the Genius of Speech — who
leaps sheer down, a real waterfall. Higher up on the same slope is

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has been said by the highly intelligent Leibnitz. In this way I

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Knowledge of the Higher Worlds,

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the higher Hierarchies as their thoughts. As our little
higher Hierarchies. And we can say that while in a certain manner we
of the higher Hierarchies roam over the single individualities among

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could approach only with a certain superficiality the high goals we
of the realm of the Spirits of Movement — the next higher
higher Hierarchies there were not the Genius of Speech — who
leaps sheer down, a real waterfall. Higher up on the same slope is

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has been said by the highly intelligent Leibnitz. In this way I

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Knowledge of the Higher Worlds,

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the higher Hierarchies as their thoughts. As our little
higher Hierarchies. And we can say that while in a certain manner we
of the higher Hierarchies roam over the single individualities among

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The highest elements in the consciousness of humanity are linked to
and death, and the highest a human being can attain: the fruit of pain
highest possessions of life.
higher creatures on our globe. Thus at the beginning of the Biblical
root of a climbing upwards, of a higher development. Suffering in the
death. Through nothing in art can this highest victory of man, this
victory of his highest forces and impulses, victory of the noblest
the highest fact of all historical evolution; when we look up to the
we see here too that a highest element in the consciousness of
suffering is connected with the highest in man.
a reality which can be seen when the higher senses slumbering in man
world we raise ourselves to the next higher stage and try to
something higher. Whenever life is continually destroyed as life,
higher stage, if it is to renew itself from itself. Only a life that
countenance. Yes, when one observes the higher animals they show to
out of destruction causes a higher element to arise from the decay of
something still higher than life, and so in the midst of life forms a
higher state, consciousness. Ever further and further we see the
indeed out of a higher state of your consciousness that what has been
consciousness. This giving birth, this bringing forth of a higher
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Title: Lecture: The Origin of Evil
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The highest elements in the consciousness of humanity are linked to
and death, and the highest a human being can attain: the fruit of pain
teaches of the existence of certain highly evolved men, the
higher; an ascetic fleeing from the world does not serve
it brings with it into the higher world. The soul must spiritualise
sense experience and carry it up into higher worlds.
principle. Each being when it has developed to a higher stage becomes
its highest. Wisdom rests hidden on the foundation of
instance the upper thigh bone. We see there solved in the most
The astral body does not indeed stand higher. It is the “enjoyer”
highest spiritualised love. Immense numbers of beings which the
carbonic-acid and give out oxygen. Here then the higher depends on
and evolves up to the highest divine love. But all love, lower and
higher, is breath of the gods. Now it might be said: If all that is
higher occult development. In order to be able to feel the good, man
for the higher. But without evil there could be no self-feeling, no
of evil. The All-Love can only be brought to its highest blossoming

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The highest elements in the consciousness of humanity are linked to
and death, and the highest a human being can attain: the fruit of pain
riddle of death, and says: When we look at the highest evolved being

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beings of the higher Hierarchies. We know that what is called the
higher and lower beings of the Hierarchies. Today, and in the

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connection with the spiritual world, a connection with the higher

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higher spiritual Beings in the cosmos have also been at work in
time from the Spirits of Form or from the higher spiritual realms as a
countermeasures the higher Beings introduced illness and suffering as
spiritual world. More and more he will not only teach that the highest
now in higher, purer glory — the Spirit of independent understanding,
scientific movement in the world is raised to a higher sphere inasmuch

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spiritual Beings of a higher rank than himself; these Beings would
him by higher spiritual Beings. The instincts prompting him to action
would not have been of exactly the same nature as those of the higher
higher Beings would have guided him as it were on leading-strings. In
but corresponds in a high degree with the reality — namely, that the
the hands of higher, Divine-Spiritual Beings; independence would not
higher rank than he — Beings who had not descended into the physical
exceptional cases would a high Initiate, foreseeing an earthquake, be
going on in the whole universe, up to the highest spheres. It is by no
their effects in the higher worlds make investigation into these
manifestations and free vision in the higher world impossible or to

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realise at the outset that such visions or higher experiences (or
body, a shining oval. When a human being dies today, the higher
physical brain is the instrument for man's highest spiritual activity.
activity of the higher bodies and the physical body. There was no
the Beings who came as the highest Intelligences from other realms to
achieve mastery over the still higher bodies. This process which is an
of the etheric body and of the higher bodies which, in the course of
conscious in the higher bodies. In the present sub-race of the Fifth
our Fifth Root Race to an end. It will be followed by another, higher
consists in the fact that man learns more and more to use his higher
at the expense of others. An individual who strives for higher
expression in the very highest sense. The highest sublimation of
nation or race there have been individuals of high spiritual

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highest level were made known. In the Gospel of St. John this
all of them capable of speaking of these revelations of the highest
higher form of Intuition is necessary in order to see what will come
unrolls before us in the region of astral vision, however highly
Apocalypse, we have to do with higher astral vision; from the fourth
only by means of a comparison. The highest to which man can raise
highest manifestation which can exist in the world was for all
world-creative, universal Will. When man desires to bring the highest
highest sense through the Word, but now through the Word that has come
into being through the Highest, world-creative Will, just as man
brings the highest that is in him to expression in the words, through
the essential, basic principle is the highest that man can see
as the Second Divine Person, or as the Son of God, as the Highest
Highest Being, through Whom the entire universe works, just as man can
rise again in a higher life, this deepest of all Mystery-secrets which
Teachers stood as it were on high mountain and from there proclaimed
truths of the higher world are announced to him. It is the Mystical
from higher vision. In Christianity, the fruit of this higher vision

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undergone, through their training on higher planes. Thus in the
nature as themselves. These Beings who had already reached a higher
reached by humanity only in the far distant future. These highly
feeling is filled with the wisdom which it contains: The Highest
— it is given from the Primal Beginning; The Highest — it

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aspect, the human being has a second, higher member of his being, the ether
the same way that we will work again when we achieve a higher spiritual

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higher realms of being are often at fault in leaving aside the details of
with eternal life, with the highest qualities of the soul or with great
characteristics as evidence of his status as the highest of earthly beings in

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spoken of its goal as attainable only through a higher clarity, a brighter
it said in these lectures that there is a path of ascent to the higher
can develop faculties of knowledge higher than those he has now.
because the development of higher faculties by the methods of spiritual
accomplished in the soul for higher faculties to arise? The way in which they
wants to educate a pupil in the higher faculties leading to Imagination would
of man's rise to a higher stage of consciousness as it is of the
shows us the plant sap in all its purity, and yet at a higher stage than it
become a pure expression of his higher soul-nature. Thus the black cross
highest and truest sense can make real for us what can be found in the

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inner soul-forces under conscious control, so that they can rise to higher
to higher levels.
conflict between our higher and our lower ego. Then our feelings surge up and
highest thoughts and feelings — even these I have now banished and have
if we rise to the higher stages for which prayer and mysticism are a
power to raise him higher. But, however high a stage we may have reached, we
have never finished with a prayer; it can always raise us to a still higher
forth the mystical frame of mind, and it can be the subject of higher forms
into our highest endeavours. Then this egotism will take revenge upon us. We

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there is the highest member of the human being which makes him the crown of
because our soul has developed to a higher stage from these experiences: our
expression on a higher level of what we are faced with as necessity on a
soul which the soul develops and which raises it to ever higher levels of
rise to a higher level of musical appreciation have to remain in the soul,
science regard all those who proclaim a new, higher level of truth to be
they were able to raise to a higher stage of development but which they were
birth and death as higher development. But not everything which assimilated
we know: in the higher stage which we enter in the life between death and a
being to a higher stage, and every fatal illness, too, leads the human being
to higher levels. The former as far as the inner human being is concerned and

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study of a single life is always in the highest degree
evolution proceeds, a higher part of the soul, which exists in everyone,
higher part the intellectual soul or mind soul. When man ceases to follow
the highest member of the soul, the consciousness soul, where the ego comes
lecture on mysticism, we can rise to a higher form of soul-life by cutting
In earlier lectures we have seen how the soul can raise itself into higher
to reach the higher levels of existence. He has to bring about, deliberately
everything in mystical life and knowledge of higher worlds that we call inner
to a higher life but can give us some support in our ascent — if for
about our ascent into higher worlds by vegetarianism or by not eating this or
nourishment can have. Anyone who is trying to lead a higher, more spiritual
he will never impart to anyone the means of rising into higher worlds without
investigator can tell him about the higher worlds, he will never remain
positive content at a higher stage. That is why we so often emphasise that
the seeker must not only strive for higher levels, but must at the same time
There are even people who are highly mistrustful of information about the
spiritual science is in the highest sense competent to cultivate these
He cannot rise to higher stages unless he leaves a lower positive stage and
a higher level. If we learn how to observe Nature rightly, we can see how
a higher level when we have first to be negative in order to progress from a
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soul-life is considered healthy and clear-sighted to the highest degree. I
follow the invisible higher true inner human being who leaves the outer human
in the higher sense if one does not recognise that the monon is something
slavishly subject if the higher soul members are little developed, is
from soul and spirit — a statement on a higher level which we have
higher it reaches and therefore becomes correspondingly less exhausting. When

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scarcely find anyone, however unprepared to reflect on higher spiritual
philosophers who speak of conscience in terms of the highest praise. One of
being. At the same time, he held that the highest experience for the human
him, as Plato describes him, that the purest morality and the highest degree
with the aid of the light that comes from raising the soul to higher levels
within the consciousness soul he develops a higher, clairvoyant form of
of the sense-world, he must raise his soul-life to a higher level. Then he
his soul to a higher level of development. A moment comes when those elements
chairs and tables in the physical world: and he now takes up into a higher
consciousness soul, comparable to yet higher soul-principles, we can well
should say to us: just as the ego rises in this way to higher states of soul,
construction of the human thigh-bone, with its wonderful crisscross of
external form. Apollo had approved the deed; but there is something higher.
Aeschylus wished to indicate that a still higher cosmic ordinance obtains,
clairvoyantly aware of it — we find that even the highest culture of
came over from the East; they needed only to be raised to a higher level. It
the highest level — of the eastern outlook: Buddhism takes hold of the
When conscience speaks, it is God speaking in the soul. The highest spiritual
a higher sphere. When we hear that something has been done for reasons of
“God in man”. And when Goethe says that the highest experience
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will understand that we have time to consider only the highest achievements
Homer himself. Unfortunately, works of art of the highest order are all too
have been created by men as the highest products of Nature in accordance with
high order had drawn them out of their souls in accordance with the same laws
highest manifestations comes from the same sources as do knowledge and
to indicate that he is indebted to a higher power for his verses, and we need
only a little understanding of Homer to realise that for him this higher
have brought human beings into violent conflict. I must look up to a higher
consciousness soul which tend to hold the ego back from higher stages of
development which enlists these good forces, it comes gradually to higher
down on by the highly placed — we must bear in mind the following
by actors who, except for Shakespeare, would not be rated highly today. Who
fondly imagine that from the first they were acclaimed in the highest circles
but for respectable people it would have been highly improper. Hence we can
details — that art, after having been a narrow stream flowing on high
figures as Shakespeare's highly individual characters should
search for higher answers to the riddles of the world — all this is
Hamlet, Cordelia and so on. Goethe entered into the highest human element in
spiritual perception of a higher world, art takes hold of man's inner
those who cannot reach the spiritual world through higher training, is to

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knowledge of the highest things if we view them from one side only.
opinions, other paths leading to the highest things, that may differ
to what is highest in the life of the soul! Is it not natural that
what leads to the highest should also be the most difficult? Yet: we
general perception of the spiritual world is of higher worth than
stands higher among the hierarchies of the spiritual world than other
higher ethics, the higher moral teaching given out to us from the
pursue a certain higher development will probably say:—
own Earthly period. Here forces from higher realms are continually at
“Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and how to attain it.”
was imparted to us by higher Beings, and which fails when the external
in the higher worlds; this is then spread abroad and is known by

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spiritual matters is a higher one. It follows that many things seen
necessary truth can alone be seen are so infinitely high. If people
down from a higher standpoint can be of service to all, though there
be seen from the spiritually higher standpoint of Theosophy. Thus
cautious in translating the truths gained at a higher level into
impressions he receives from the higher world. When matters arise

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ancient knowledge of Atlantis faithfully. The high school pupil of
hook. Any book that is the result of investigations into higher world
had spun from higher worlds, a mighty new impulse came from the

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theosophical life. In that case it might happen that the higher
training was led step by step along the path to higher worlds. How he
awakened. We read how higher stages gradually evolved out of lower
the spiritual realms, but in a higher way than had been done before.
could not to do so and maintain his self-consciousness however highly
yet filled with the spirit. When seeking entrance into higher worlds
higher stages of development.
macrocosm, and who does not attain at once to the highest — the
the initiation passed through by John, and was therefore of a higher
symbolic. John declared “a higher initiation is to come to
but to baptise in the higher sense described by John as the
dealt with in which mention is made of a higher Power, of an

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necessary to a still higher degree when we advance to the
consideration of certain high spiritual matters. Therefore we shall
so high Buddha still sees them, and now at the final stage of his
for I was not yet sufficiently advanced. Again I rose a step higher,
first no individuality was in him as had risen so high through his
bearer, the sheath one might say, of a higher Being, of a spiritual
Being is inspired at certain times by some higher Being. This is not
highly evolved Being as the Buddha, but was chosen as one into whom a
high individuality could enter, could dwell, and inspire him. Such
initiation was found which I have just described in its highest
in the following way to be the bearer of a higher Being, who could
way throughout the life of this highly evolved human being as they
who have higher perception see that there is conflict from the
a higher stage where “human” things are seen. It is
filled by a higher Being, as was the young Zarathustra, his bodily
those such as we see in their highest representative in the great

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higher are the Thrones, Cherubim and Seraphim. We have thus a
higher we come to the Exusiai, here we have to do with a quite
how the Beings of the higher Hierarchies differ from the three just
other hand, we have to recognise those higher Beings affecting
ascribe to spiritual Beings that have to be sought among the higher
higher revelations. Such revelations are perceived as carrying more

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these higher members of my Being before my Karma makes it possible
and sets up high ideals, and one who is disinclined to do this, who
highest ideals in any domain of the physical plane. Idealists
up forces in the higher members of their being, and they gain through
physical body is filled by various higher members, it sums
connected with the highest knowledge. When a clairvoyant observes the
linked with the higher members of man's Being. People will then
where we have so often to rise to the highest spheres, we must
with higher spheres, we shall make use of some of the things dealt

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highest degree of spirituality possible in man becomes apparent when
whose aim it is to develop and ripen their higher natures, take note
connections, it will rise again in a higher form.”
slain, that a higher man must rise again in him — that is, he
spiritual Beings. Exactly as tone in one connection rises to a higher
higher when they become the cosmic word or Logos; and this they are
organisation of man the next thing higher than the muscles is the
more that we cannot understand!” It stands before us as a high
past, yet one sentence, in the higher moral sense just mentioned, has

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that arose later, is seen through it to be at a higher and more

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through, and how it rises to higher worlds. You know that we have to
distinguish a higher from a lower part of the self; that man has come
through its training here so as to rise to higher conditions. You
spheres to which his higher self belongs — that in order to
reach these higher regions he has to fulfil the saying of
have a Theosophy, a teaching concerning the lower and higher ego,
higher elucidation of these same secrets, a longing for theosophy.
The rhapsodist did not tell of people who strove towards their higher
out of each, so that he might rise to something higher. By what means
carrying out our spiritual development we find our higher self.
in order to raise his own soul (represented by Morgana) ever higher,

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life by means of long exercise to understand the truth in higher sense.
was eradicated in the pupils, before they could progress to the higher
how the animals transformed themselves up to the monkey to higher forms
to higher levels. Goethe’s soul stems also from an ancestor like
last beside the higher ones. The chemical-physical laws which hold sway
Differences thereby arise between the single souls. A higher individuality

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phenomena in nature, the human being is nothing else than a higher disposed
finds its core of truth in future. So, this higher truth of religion
high degree.
the higher animals? Is there no difference?
wanted to prove the higher soul of the human beings, they emphasised
of kama, the higher mind soul builds itself from the spiritual realm.
theosophy lets a soul develop from a soul. It also lets the higher arise
higher soul element could come to the fore as an impact in the organic.
of education is to wake this higher soul element resting in every human
was the beginning of any education, higher beings had to be there when
to a higher point of view. Also today there are teachers who tower above

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through honest struggle of the human soul, and tried to gain higher
he is born in the world, is determined for advancement, for higher development.
long way. Only those who have arrived at the highest summit of human
is higher than truth. — We want to see how far the whole theosophical
to higher and higher opinions. But we have to realise that we must go
that which theosophy calls wisdom-filled modesty in the higher sense
will have reached something higher in distant future, we have to admit
also that we have other opinions in distant future which are higher
this life is the divine life which leads to the higher thoughts which
we must look for ambitiously. But no human opinion is higher to us than
stands higher than the living sensation of the divine wisdom which always
beings. These were higher levels than that which the completely savages
are not yet able to rise to a higher idea of God. Their culture does
different views about the old divine wisdom in the human voice. A higher
turns out that there are souls of lower and higher levels. There are
in everybody, who wants to hear me, that I long for higher levels and
higher summits of existence and wisdom. — The theosophist talks
beyond our senses to the higher worlds which gives us a right sensation
advanced beings who have already developed to a higher level than the
that they have to go beyond it that they have to grow up to higher and
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only as a human being, who is of a higher rank, indeed, than the other human
doctrines which were once the highest mystery, and the contents of this wisdom
Jesus, really spoke of the God Who had become flesh, of the higher spirit of
What did the higher birth mean?
for the fact that something higher forms the basis. One cannot emphasise this
on which the higher faith of the other apostles was based. He equated it with
God-Man is not the simple man from Nazareth, but the higher spirit of God which
that it has also approached the highest religious truth and tried to understand
the human imagination, but to something even higher, to seizing real spirituality
one does not speak in materialistic views, but which rises to the highest levels
highest matters that the simple reason, which is, so to speak, in the natural
pull down this highest truth to the level of the general human reason. But just
The highest truths were only explained
the immediate image of that which the highest wisdom contained. It was in such
sages. However, in the founder of Christianity the higher compassion lived to
hearts, to strike sparks out of them. Thus they had to experience the highest
an even higher knowledge than the other disciples by their Master. They had
the words which follow that which I have told. They are significant to the highest
even the highest; the spirit of God, the living Word, can become enslaved by
has to be looked for in a higher region, in the region of spiritual life. If
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that can be experienced of a higher world view also to those who do
rests on a higher experience. The theosophist says that the source of
is a higher experience. If you read Leadbeater’s
and from pure reason we have things which are the objects of the highest
the sciences which deal with the higher capacities of the soul rational
that it must have a sum of angles of 180 degrees. Any higher knowledge
— If this held true, then could not be spoken of a higher experience
we could not speak of any higher beings. Hence, this is also an objection
which is raised against theosophy: you have higher beings of which you

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to the higher things of the spirit by means of faith. We must believe! He tries
from the lowest quantum of energy up to the highest spiritual reality. Because
only relatively different from that which arises from the highest point of the

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not even ascended the highest summit of insight. Each of us is on the ladder
of truth, of the world spirit. If we have climbed up a higher level of knowledge,
up an even higher summit.
nevertheless, I acknowledge that this point of view is far higher than that
higher point of view. Nobody is allowed to dare, especially not from the theosophical
our egos. We could say that tidings of any higher world came to us if we get

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in the animal realm, and, finally, a higher level of this animal soul which
demanded to get the highest levels of human knowledge out of the depths of the
he must get the highest truth out of himself, then one also sees that the best
soul and raises it up to a higher level. The human soul is lifted out of the
higher and higher, the more it frees itself of any sensory phantasm. Who searches
higher, more perfect, and that it is entitled to bear the germ of something
still higher, of something unlimitedly perfect in itself. This human soul has
develop to higher levels to receive its vocation, its task and also its destiny.
reflection of the highest spirit. That is why I may close the first lecture
but receives its heat from the fire. — The human soul is just like a higher
it is understood as a reflection of the highest being which we can find everywhere

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the causes of the highest manifestations of the human mind finally in the mechanical
grief can lead to the highest summit, simply because he is equipped at his birth
higher, more perfect animal has received its character of species because it
as the animals — only higher developed.
beings up to the highest ones in natural way. However, where Aristotle speaks
of the highest soul, he rightly says completely the same as we have explained
learn walking. Pain is the lesson. It prepares us to a higher level of development.
cause which has an effect for the next life. We get to a higher level of the
favour, gets a higher sense: pain is a developmental factor.
We also understand the developmental level of the soul from the highest genius
higher developmental level, a higher level of perfection of the soul-being which
lives in the savage on a lower level. As well as the higher animal species differ
You can pursue the human being from the highest ingenious talents down to the
as geniuses want to accept nothing higher, then one cannot accuse such arrogance

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or philosophical arguments, but while he let a high developed human being express
But not before the human being was able to see the highest truth of soul and
those teaching sites in which one tried to lead the students to the highest
in ancient times those sites where the highest questions of the spiritual life
causes desire and harm in order to get higher knowledge. Our desire and harm
to the highest experiences of the spirit.
but higher pains and higher joy and higher bliss at the same time which flow
highest truth only at the moment when he has lifted his senses over the everyday
highest member of the human being, the mind, face the hypnotist if the soul
a higher developmental state of the human being like Plato, like the mystery
with his higher wishes, also become effective forces with his purified soul.
a human being becomes sensitive in a higher sense and more sensitive than he
of a much higher type. Is the susceptibility of the human being lower than that
to get to a certain knowledge and higher development.
to extinguish ourselves, just as with other higher performances, if we are able
has to fulfil a higher ideal. He fulfils this ideal if he understands the mysterious,

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for example, in the field of zoology, if he did not know the higher questions
longer be led by the leaders of science to the higher humanities. You get no
experiments; whether the highest possible scientific efficiency is not an obstacle
of spiritism can be on the high level of a naturalist, like the mentioned researchers,
existence is not the only one, but that a higher existence is in the world that
higher worlds. It is a simple historical fact that the founders of the theosophical
and of all religious movements to produce evidence that there is a higher spiritual
are found in much higher spiritual worlds. We grope in the dark if we walk in
scenery where higher spiritual powers pull the strings of that which takes place
There are highly developed beings among humankind, and those who have found
century the materialistic turning point took place when the higher beings saw
that a materialistic high tide must come up, they caused the counter-pole. They
to itself, to a higher, spiritual life. Unfortunately, one sought for too much
Before our highly developed brain
which are even today always in us, covered and controlled by the highly developed
also advances. One cannot deny further advancement to higher and higher levels
to this clear consciousness, but to an even higher view, then we recognise the
world not through elimination of the consciousness, but through higher development
Higher development of the consciousness, full, clear beholding, as the adepts
and periods of evolution in which the consciousness will be higher than the
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believed that one could gain higher explanations of the human soul studying
A higher level of this dream consciousness
etheric body leaves the physical body with other higher members which we get
saying: we are it. This ego has higher parts again about which I do not want
to an end. This is just again the case of the higher kinds of soul-life. These
world higher forces are active.
which the human being reaches this way and which should allegedly be “higher,”
On account of their clairvoyant ability they experience the higher facts with
but if the somnambulist informs us about the higher world which we cannot perceive
with the senses, about the so-called astral world or about the higher spiritual
who knows these higher realms that he does not presuppose that the medium has
determined view that one should enter the higher spiritual world, which can
of them to get to know the higher spiritual life. Theosophy knows where these

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to investigate the higher spiritual worlds, those worlds which are beyond the
higher than truth. — I would also like to ask the scientist to keep in
higher than truth.
the highest tasks, it would already appear as something absurd from the beginning
to one of higher level, to an initiate. Only the initiate should be able to
I can indicate only roughly what I have to say. A certain basis of higher, spiritual
those who had to lead them behaved to the highest truth. The mysteries provided
— who wanted to develop by immediate own beholding to the highest truth.
to the highest super-sensible truth were regarded as magicians, as allies of
of higher intuitive forces. So that within such occult brotherhoods the way
to the highest truth was taken like in the mysteries — I mention only
shows that there are mysterious ways to get to the highest truth. He also speaks
question which anybody must answer who wants to rise in worthy way to higher
the highest ..., mighty all-embracing spirit who has spoken through Solomon
times that only somebody who is in the possession of the highest super-sensible
such a way as Swedenborg had told it. Another example: a high-ranking person
of the higher truth prepared for the people. Meyer got this view on account
for to be able to approach the higher, super-sensible truth, and everybody who
— It knows that the answer is: human being, rise up to the higher spheres
We do not want to behold a higher

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highest force because it happens by means of a transformation of the whole human
high and that one wanted to accept nothing that one cannot see with eyes, cannot
to have, otherwise, the highest respect, had this standpoint. I only mention
becomes ineffective. Also a friend of mine whom I hold in high esteem, Hans
is in a certain way. Those know this who know the higher methods which science
to be acquainted with the secrets of the higher spiritual life, and you are
able to do this only if you have developed your force to a higher level. It
the power in himself who can be the hypnotist must develop particular higher
humankind is led again to a higher moral, spiritual and intellectual level and
highest power is not acquired by vivisection of the spirit but by the development
of forces in us. Moral, mental, spiritual higher development is that which makes
With it one wanted to make it clear that the human being can recognise the highest
And the higher the knowledge, the bigger is the power. The guidance of the world
knowledge seizes our whole being that we stand before the highest truth and

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of the most perfect human being, of that who has come to a higher level of the
of today what such a human being is able to experience of the higher world is
the basis of the theosophical world view. It is this higher experience which
is this higher experience? What does it mean to experience something of the
regarded as the highest and most marvellous human performances. If we look at
You can also not get to a higher view if you consider nature and spirit as you
You need to become absorbed in higher
at his soul, then he finds that something exists in him that represents a higher
higher level and are not immediately identical to the life-force of the plant,
higher being as spirit. The consideration of the spirit itself and its demands
At that time its sympathy went to external forms. But the higher developed soul
Somebody, however, who has developed the higher spiritual abilities in himself,
open eye of the occultist distinguishes the higher, brilliant light of the spirit
which is no sensory light which is a brighter shining light in higher worlds,
in higher spheres, and this radiant light of the spirit is for the occultist
transforming higher and higher, to form it from the imperfect to the perfect

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of it nothing else can arise than a high-spirited and a somewhat snooty shrug
as something unconscious, even if it takes a particularly high rank.
of the higher world. One has been accustomed to use the term theosophy for this
What theosophy spreads as a higher
the development of the higher senses, the knowledge of the higher senses, it
includes what the human being sees, summarises, surveys with the higher soul
the higher development of the spiritual forces the higher spiritual is revealed
from a higher point of view sees how he appears there and knows how to classify
working behind it. Then one sees that often a higher spiritual development must
but the facts which theosophy announces from the higher standpoint will be proven
If you say that the human being has reached the highest levels and will not
human beings have always stood higher than others of their surroundings —
on account of the development of the higher worlds. By the development of the

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higher? We cannot declare the realm of beings finished; we have to look up from
the lower beings to the higher beings which are not accessible to us, because
have developed from the higher, from the spiritual. If the researchers pursue
of a physical, but also of a higher world. If we look at the manifestations
of this higher world, then the wishes, desires, passions and impulses are as
and can throw back the light impressions for our physical eye. How these higher
senses awake how the human being can attain the higher consciousness, we hear
The human being lives in this higher world, but his consciousness, in so far
as he is an average modern human being, has not awoken for this higher world.
a world of thinking, and a world of the higher spiritual life which lies above
the higher planes as the physical researcher does on the physical plane; this
considers the development of humankind in a higher light and because he can
we know that dualism and monism find a unity in an even higher harmony if anybody

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community shall be taken up step by step to the higher levels. One cannot recognise
a higher education and discipline of his soul forces. The human being who has
else than an emissary of such higher human individualities who have attained
to asceticism that it leads to estimate non-existence higher than life. One
but fullness and wealth of being that it is the highest summit of consciousness
no predicate which is got from our earthly conceptions to this highest being.
which come from higher individualities, and then this is theosophy. One believes
in the higher worlds. Then it is a matter of indifference whether it happens

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through the best minds searching for the Higher Worlds. We can
of a highly respected aristocratic family, Friedrich von
Weimar, and clearly expresses how closely the spiritual high
self-elevation in the highest sense of human beings reaching
Higher World directed course towards an initiation, up to a
soul can be lifted up into a higher world. For Novalis it gave
a higher spiritual reality, that the day with all its
might often have heard that such reaching into the higher

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higher order, the so-called Devas.
towards an ordering of the world of realities by means of the highest
Soul and Body. The Devas are at a higher stage than man, but they do
higher form of consciousness out of his life in the physical plane.
enkindled so that the higher personality can develop. Only then can
highest goal of humanity is symbolically expressed by means of the
progress to this higher, clear consciousness. He is left with the

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read thoughtlessly — thoughtlessly in a higher sense — many things
soil and then retire again from the physical to the higher planes.
the spirit and offers up the best, the highest fruits of the spirit.
been before when propagation had descended on mankind from the higher
he carries it up with him to higher planes. The physical is the mark
the effect of the Rakshasas. Those whose vision extends to the higher

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understood in a higher sense. This human being who has not descended
us. The Druid priest had to search for the higher self within him. He
between the higher and the lower ... [Gap]
secret of all initiation is to give birth to the higher human being
higher level. This birth of the higher human being takes place in all
to deceive even the higher beings. He must not only repeat truths but
priest spoke out of the higher plane. His words, though simple, being
the expression of higher truths, sank into the souls of his hearers.
are able to grasp higher truths today it is because we have been
he was initiated into the higher secrets and shown the path to higher
highest, the holiest of things. At the time when Christianity was

Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 4: The Prometheus Saga
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Earth already in the state of more highly developed, mature human
(The name ‘Manu’ comes from the Sanskrit root ‘man’ = ‘thinking.’ In Indian theosophical terminology this denotes highNote 2)
it is that the higher human being, which has been placed into
(These seven principles and the organs with which they are occultly connected are enumerated as follows:Physical body — base of the nose.Etheric body — liver.Kama or Kama-Rupa (astral body) — digestive system, stomach.Kama-Manas (astral-ego) — umbilical cord.HighNote 5)
his higher bodies, man frees himself again from these fetters and
rises to higher worlds. Kama-Manas, in which the ego is active, works
then proceed to Higher Manas, or Spirit Self, this is connected in a
that man has progressed one stage higher, the field of his activities

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that part of man which bore the germ of his future Higher Manas — and
A higher kind of piety is thereby being prepared
present in a very highly evolved reincarnation prior to the birth of
with Christianity. The higher self of man, composed of Atma, Buddhi

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from a higher stage, appears like a fetter; it is just out of this
bishops. What was previously life later becomes form for a higher
doing — they are the Catholics and Jesuits of the higher degrees. Of

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Mason. After these three degrees come higher degrees which lead the
so on, is actually something which takes place on a higher level.
symbols which help to create a higher community, or whether ... [Gap]
which penetrates to higher relationships, to rhythmical relationships
And after that come the high
of the first three degrees has gradually been transferred to the high

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with regard to higher education and schooling, a union for the purpose of
led beyond the first three degrees to the higher degrees possess rather more
consciousness. The first of these higher degrees is the Royal Arch degree
officer is Jeshua, the high priest;
Zerubbabel. In the West is the High Priest Jeshua, and the Prophet
initiated into this Fourth Degree, the first of the higher degrees,
from these three degrees there are also the higher degrees. And those
the higher degrees are also functioning. But in Germany, within the St. John
the higher degrees that the St. John masons there generally look upon the
higher degrees as nonsense. The Grand Orient of Germany is obliged, for this
branches of masonry which recognise the higher degrees.
higher degrees. The degrees pertaining to craft masonry are credited
is therefore never admitted to the higher degrees of Orient masonry
time, it gives a picture of the teaching given in the higher degrees,
highest training of all, the most profound occult instruction, which
There are indeed a few who have higher degrees. They have been
‘Concerning the Secrets of the Higher Occult
‘One of the secrets belonging to the highest
and rests solely in the possession of the higher occult degrees of
‘Our higher degrees themselves provide the
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important that we should speak about the higher degrees of
higher degrees trace back to a personality often spoken about but
recognised in its true nature only by the highest initiates,
attempted originally to bring Freemasonry in London to a higher
astral body, Kama-Manas body, causal body, [higher Manas or spirit
eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth higher degrees of Freemasonry.
the higher degrees is something which, in its more intimate aspect,
about higher truths. That is why the democratic principle is not
on which to discuss them. What distinguishes masonry of the higher
higher degrees of Freemasonry far surpasses what can be divulged in
of each of the four paths one can rise to a higher perception through
harmoniously, as is the aim of Freemasonry; then the highest

Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 10: Evolution and Involution as they are Interpreted by Occult Societies [The Atom as Congealed Electricity]
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called upon to reach one day the highest stages of perfection. But
higher self is not selfish because it is not done only for the self.
This higher self will be united with all other higher selves, so that
the secrets of future phases of evolution. The higher degrees of
kind of pioneer. He knew, too, that one who had reached a higher
are now at the high point of egoism. The intellect is egoistical in
the highest degree, and it is the hallmark of our time. And so we

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a tunnel must, of course, first of all have a command of higher
[astral], Kama-Manas [ego], higher Manas [spirit-self], Buddhi
at the upper part of a thigh bone and you will see how wonderfully it
other hand, are the higher bodies, which have
higher principles, the fifth, sixth andc seventh. This is also
higher. The sixth king, Servius Tullus, represents the sixth member
since it is not possible to maintain the high level, the impulse, of
physical body was perfected. Then the higher principles (the psychic
ones. The sons of Abel turn to the higher spheres when they have finished
All higher work is only to be undertaken in an association. The Knights of

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developed beyond Noah's Ark, and now he has to surround his higher
man who has become conscious of his own higher self. The inner divine
two higher beings — Buddhi and Manas. Thus man enters the stage of
may come to expression, in which the Name of the Most High may find
High Mass, which was intended only for those who wished to undergo
occult training, to embark on the ‘Path’. In this High
which man will have attained a much higher stage and will no longer
proceeded the High Mass, from which all the uninitiated were
to be a sheath for what is higher. But this Temple
which is the symbol for both man's higher and lower selves,
highest sense, when man himself is a temple for Yahveh.

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development of man's higher attributes.
Humanity is given a higher task — only because the outer building, so
the spiritual inner part in which the higher tasks of humanity are
trinity, Atma, Buddhi and Manas, the threefold higher nature of man
representation of the higher forces of Atma, Buddhi and Manas. And
you conceive these higher principles as the idea of a work of art,
his threefold nature that the three higher principles find their
to a higher stage.
a higher stage. Thus, he must raise his physical body to a higher
our three bodies into the three higher members of the whole divine
were, frozen thoughts. We must dissolve it back again into its higher
astral included — one stage higher.
stages [of evolution]. The three Higher Kingdoms — the Plant Kingdom,
the Plant Kingdom, and then rise to still higher Kingdoms. Today with
attempt which was made to guide the lower nature of man to a higher
higher, each member [of man's being] was to be ennobled.
three higher Kingdoms. Hence it must become incorporated in the
is exactly the opposite; he carries his head on high, orientated
towards the higher worlds in order to receive the spirit — his
etheric body will provide the basis, at a higher stage, for the
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the tiniest blood corpuscle. The physical body is controlled by high
cosmic forces; it is higher beings who can exercise power here today
with high beings who can influence the physical body.
incorporated from above, from higher spheres [into the earth] just as
Son Principle; there is no higher development without other
higher Manas had to be kindled. Therefore, the new era begins with

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and uplifted for higher tasks, for participating in the affairs of
Devas are beings who are at a higher stage than man and
are able to work on higher levels of existence. Thus we find Devas
when we enter the higher planes clairvoyantly. We find Devas on the
astral plane, on the Rupa plane, on the Arupa plane, and higher
can be no miracles. There are facts on a higher level, but no
being to the manifestations of the earth, one must adopt a higher
higher plane and in another form.
higher associations: the family, the tribe and further ethnic and
activity of higher individualities comes indeed to expression. Such
higher stages, to beings who have continually higher plans for world
where do the higher beings obtain this plan? We find an answer to
this if we consider that there are still higher stages of evolution
out. These higher stages are indicated to us by the Ancients, for
His perception was: Higher than all knowledge and perception is the
Unperception. But this Unknowing is a higher knowing, and this
Unperception is a higher perceiving.
we find something still higher. The Masters can weave the [third]
Logos because they have ascended still higher than the nature of
thinking. When the higher powers are developed, then, in such beings,
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quite specific tasks. Nobody could be promoted to a higher degree
identified in the higher planes and worlds. However, man cannot
race, who can see not only on the physical plane but also on higher
seek to conceive what it means to have foresight on higher planes.
occurrences which have already taken place in the higher
for each successively higher level of development in the pupils. The
duty. For, as the pupil progressively advanced to higher ideals,
Chela is one who acknowledges not only higher duties, who has
own, but is so advanced that he has outgrown the lower and higher
nothing more than what has been brought down from higher planes to
something which also originates from the higher spheres. Take as an
can more easily attain to certain higher perceptions through occult
contact with higher realms through pictorial concepts. These work
[thereby] be able to arrive at very high stages of
age and our own. In ancient India you have high intuition and very
still higher, and that he himself might perhaps one day attain this
higher knowledge. He knew that he was a cell in a spiritual organism.
fully one must be able to see into the higher worlds. But the point
is not that the theosophist is already able to see into higher
higher worlds without finding the way there, yet another installment
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only in a specific higher realm.
recapitulated in our three cultural epochs in a specific higher
then transformed, at a higher level, to spiritual wisdom. Out of this
so. Only when the connection with higher worlds was lost did the
quite lost. Because of that, the so-called Higher Degrees of
in the knowledge of higher planes. It is therefore quite natural that

Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 18: Freemasonry and Human Evolution II
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are told that higher spirits made revelations to Moses, which he then
wrote down. The knowledge of higher things was already there,
everything was still at a higher level than the physical plane. The
of the future must be brought out of the higher human, which lives
spiritually quickened with what is higher than the sexual, with what
theosophy is to use the wisdom that comes from higher planes to bring
speak, mummify it in its old form. The plan of the higher [worlds]
involves reaching towards the awareness of the higher humanity beyond

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attention rather less to higher vantage points, but rather speak
higher realms of existence. Whatever may have happened in the past,
nation from a higher vantage point can reflect that every nation has
higher planes than the astral plane. In order to meditate on the
reached its highest point in our present time.
This is not so easy, especially for those who have acquired higher
above the mind of his nation. When what shines down from this higher
in ourselves, which will raise us higher. This is no blind belief,

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so-called Higher Degrees, which are best preserved in the so-called
the Higher Degree masonry. The Craft- Masons claim that the Higher
the possession of the eighteenth or twentieth or still higher degree.
Higher Degree Freemasonry traces itself back to the old Mysteries,
have preserved the higher super-sensible knowledge for mankind. This
impulses are for him one unity — On the higher realms of vision there
religious ardour in these high events that were enacted before his
these ancient Mysteries that the Higher Degree Freemasons trace back
their origin. In their higher degrees they have nothing else than an
imitation of the higher degrees of the Mysteries, into which the
such higher degrees. Actually, the higher degrees have more or less
world; and to perfect the high ideals of humanity in a fully
the highest ideals, he will say that the highest ideals are wisdom,
world, and rising to the highest spiritual realm; which streams we
to a higher level.
forces to a higher stage [of development]. The Holy Grail was to have
which entails the acquisition of higher powers. Thus, the bond [of
anyone who thinks intuitively, with his thoughts rooted in higher
of the future, it will be the real content of the higher degrees. The Royal
higher worlds — apart from those who have once more sought and found
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well as of the high developed ones. Nevertheless, one cannot
that today the conceivably highest confusion prevails about the
time they lead into the higher worlds.
higher development with the fact that he took up desires and
itself, although it is on a higher level, and becomes again
can be to you like the dawn of a higher development of the

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higher must exist that connects the various plants. The older
sets higher spiritual forces in motion that do not turn to
different points of view as one of its highest aims and that
order to find truth, to rise higher and higher one has to apply
on the wall above the not too high doors. At the table, Christ
being to wake spiritual organs in himself to ascend to higher
noon when the sun is highest to find a bridge over my own body
words: “Recognise the highest.” The strength of the
develop his forces higher and higher, so that he can penetrate
develop to the higher stages of human existence.
human soul that one called initiation in the higher mysteries
soul. He shows the process of initiation up to the highest
highest secrets. This is exoteric, from a purely historical

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abilities of knowledge higher, which we have on a certain level
the things rising to higher points of view, to a more correct
comes to higher and higher knowledge, that he develops, and
to higher and higher levels of knowledge and thereby to attain
higher knowledge.
representative of the human being striving for the highest. As
highest. He wants to reach the beautiful lily at first; he
can attain the union with the highest soul condition, with the
higher — may play a rather bad role under certain
property and wanted to ascend to higher levels of knowledge,
higher regions and so on. Now he pursues gradually how the
does not strive selfishly to the higher fields of existence and
highest ones — should be used in such a way that they can
signifies a higher level of human development. Now, Goethe
must develop if a higher level should be attained, it tells
higher, from the real knowledge if we are not ready to
which Goethe characterises as the highest achievement of the
and you revive in a higher life, you are one with the being of
exhaust — separated from the higher ego — the being
concepts and the soul material to revive in higher spheres, he
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to be of higher divine origin. This belief, this assumption is
inspiration of higher powers. It was believed to be written out
written out of a higher human consciousness, that it is due to
human beings would have written under the influence of higher
That the earth developed from a mist of higher temperature to
There we see that all schools, the lower and the higher ones,
to the higher developed senses of the human being, to the
lower also diverted from the higher. The spiritual researcher
even further; we can trace back it in even higher spheres where
we find even higher beings. If the spiritual researcher
was connected with the even higher spheres, he has to choose
highly essential. However, you must carry out the principle to

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highest wisdom to understand this event and to bring it to
it, he thinks that he really beheld Him in a higher view, who
the knowledge of a higher world which is round him in such a
The human being can behold this higher world as the operated
develops higher, so that he becomes sighted in the spiritual
human being as the physical body, that we have higher members
recognised in the higher worlds. The God was the same who lived
instrument of the higher vision, the vision in the spiritual
a child arises from the womb, the higher is born by the lower
Bible in such a way, then it is the high universal book again,
who has developed the higher spiritual forces can come to this
Someone who looks down from the higher vantage point surveys
more and portrays more from this higher vantage point. We come
it is not difficult to say, who stood on the higher vantage
high esteem of the Bible in all its parts. A time will come
wisest wisdom estimates the highest what is given to us in the

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various methods that lead up the human being to higher
which the human being works his way up to the higher worlds.
into the higher worlds. The process can be given, but one
can do research in the higher worlds who has attained
one said to them that it has come from higher beings. The
not matter; whether the higher beings generally exist, that is
higher beings exist or not, we reject the whole theosophy.
environment and does not want to rise to the higher point of
the higher point of view from which the spiritual undergrounds
to overlook the world from a higher viewpoint. Thereby the

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certain things in order to reach certain higher levels of
being has higher members. Already the next part of the human
being is supersensible, has a higher reality than the physical
is an expression of the physical members and of three higher,
possible, brings the human being to a higher level than the

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a higher viewpoint that makes it possible to bridge that which
in the higher members, the more mental-spiritual members. There

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solver of riddles of the highest social and spiritual problems
from Germany. Then we see Tolstoy losing certain higher goods
struggled striving for the highest summits of human
fulfilled with love and desire to help, and that the highest
after some time. There he is already highly happy with the
the soul to higher fields out of the spirit. On the other side,
civilisation to the highest summits. Never can one hope that on

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penetrates into the higher worlds. One often stresses that
knows about the higher worlds. For the acceptance of his
develop the higher organs of knowledge bit by bit slumbering in
venture this way to the higher fields of life without standing
and on the right with high wooden walls, so that passing
higher in his activity of thinking, he faces the impressions as
of the highest. If he is out now to find a solution quickly,
thoughts, something higher really thinks in him, and this
higher works tremendously educating on him. This is essential
one side — he can go up to the highest fields of
absolutely, before anybody penetrates to the higher spiritual

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iron something rests that makes a lot of higher, nobler
we are not allowed to compare the higher forces about which we
the determination of the human being using high ideals.
high idealistic viewpoints knows what can be objected to it,
interaction of the higher members with the lower ones the whole
experiences of the higher members are transferred more and more
know that the higher members work into the denser members.
higher members. One should be able to project oneself

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highest human member, by which he towers above all beings, is
body is the instrument which he should control by his higher
moral, but also in the higher sense would be boring. All

Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture XIII: The Riddles in Goethe's Faust - Exoteric
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the own soul. There are the highest spiritual experiences with
appearance, the higher sense will not escape the initiate at
higher secrets of existence, the concealed side of existence,
the highest stages, one got to know the stages of the divine
crowd from on high through all the earth
the same time, these high pieces of art were produced as the
highest physical works by human beings according to true and
on a higher level of perfection. Art is a continuation and
and if a higher love as well

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want to talk about the highest in the world what He has taught
strive henceforth towards being's highest form. —
higher mystery.” However, Faust has to descend to this
Faust shall experience with his high consciousness how these
just don't aspire to the higher classes,
elements to assume a higher figure from them only. Homunculus
with the spiritual when the soul has raised itself in higher
act, we understand what arises from the marriage of the high
Faust is led in his higher state of consciousness to the powers
rise even higher. The whole world should appear spiritualised

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he will ascend to even higher degrees of existence.
Compare everything that spiritual science says about the higher

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How Does One Attain Knowledge of the Higher Worlds?
way that his soul from which the higher spiritual forces should
spiritual world. One calls the purified soul the higher inside
which external eyes can observe, this comes from higher, from
being, who has purified his soul, has ascended to higher
who bears the higher human being in the human being, a human
try to visualise the soul, which the higher human being bears
universe; the highest has arisen from this soul that the human
world and bears the higher human being, the Horus, who is
appears in it, the highest human ideal is born out of the human
highest ideal, the highest humaneness that is just Christ? In
higher knowledge from the universe. We look back at more and
the true, higher human being who slumbers in every human being,
higher knowledge and to higher life. Therefore, he lets Faust
say “forced” — to recognise the higher

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an illustration to that knowledge of higher worlds. At
higher worlds.
stage of consciousness generally like the higher animal forms
a higher development at the same time, even if one has to give
riddle to the human being where he must apply his highest
devoted itself very easily to the higher beings, the
inside of the things, but he asserted his ego to the highest
initiates already pointed to higher worlds in the old
higher level, with free consciousness, in the spiritual world

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transformed in such a way that he can perceive the higher
in higher worlds is an initiate.
everywhere where the human soul or a higher being should live
its task, then they establish something like a higher organism,
a higher body, and thereby they enable a higher spiritual being
higher spiritual being lived like the soul in the human body,
that the souls are the members of a higher body. The thirteenth
something higher among themselves, then one rose from the
the higher, the spiritual world. This is the expression of the
finds the access to the higher worlds again. Thus, the trained
this spiritual world did not appear to him as the highest.
than somewhere else, the message that the highest spiritual,
higher clairvoyance than by the old mysteries. Here in Europe,
the highest things the mystery of the Holy Grail in the later
human being rises to a higher view, to a higher development of
the development of the higher bodies, before he ascends by
distinctly separated, the human being developing higher is more
ties him to the sensory world had to fall down at the highest
him upwards to the higher worlds where space and time do not
is expressed which finds its higher egoity. In the union of the
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scientific knowledge. Nobody can acknowledge the high value and
present is inclined so much if it concerns questions of higher
How Does One Attain Knowledge of the Higher
One Attain Knowledge of the Higher
methods for the higher worlds.
soul. You have to increase another quality up to the highest
should build high wooden walls on the left and on the right at

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human soul by the development meant here that is like a higher
self in the usual self that is equipped with higher senses that
world, the more he must leave the higher world. Our usual
fragmented thereby. We go to the highest idea. For pragmatism,

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How Does One Attain Knowledge of Higher
rises to the second stage of higher knowledge that one can call
stage is nobler or higher, I want only to say that one can
produced at the same time as the highest natural works by human
how in a higher measure that what comes
“If we rise to a higher field of moral by faith in God,

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Knowledge of Higher Worlds? and
Knowledge of Higher Worlds?
One Attain Knowledge of Higher Worlds?
human being something higher must exist than this physical

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part of the development of higher soul forces? The answer
higher knowledge with pain. That what comes up then as a
misfortune, which are adapted to prepare higher intellectual
necessary in the human destiny beyond the grave but that higher
wisdom pulsates, nevertheless, through our life. From a higher
higher point of view from which any conscious experience of the
higher viewpoint the survey of life appears to him as filled
Another example: I felt highly satisfied
realise how a highly educated man of the more recent past who
could not know spiritual science struggles with the highest

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that it is easy to put the highest questions if one is as it
the soul to attain higher cognitive faculties. Such a thinker
spiritual world. In the spiritual world that exists in a higher
spiritual being, and that his highest, his best spiritual can

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Do you search the highest, the
Because one can look up at no higher worlds
How Does One Attain Knowledge of Higher Worlds?.
Knowledge of Higher Worlds?.
Then there is still a higher level of
from the lowest level of love up to the highest levels,
saint or as a higher human being. He must strive rather to
How Does One Attain Knowledge of Higher
One of these highest degrees enabled the

Title: Spiritual Science/Treasure for Life: Lecture VIII: Voltaire
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higher member of the human soul the intellectual or mind soul
more inward. We call the highest member of the human soul the
deepest longing, the deepest wanting and the highest cognition

Title: Spiritual Science/Treasure for Life: Lecture X: Homunculus
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How Does One Attain Knowledge of Higher
not physically visible but to a higher beholding.
just don't aspire to the higher
aspire to higher
the human being is the highest member of creation because these
is not content with it; he still aims at something higher. He
High above in immeasurable
High above in immeasurable

Title: Spiritual Science/Treasure for Life: Lecture XI: Spiritual Science as a Treasure for Life
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represent a high treasure for life which the human
what it is as such, or by what it can give. It opens a higher

Title: Human History: Lecture I: The Relation of the Human Being to the Supersensible Worlds
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How Does One Attain Knowledge of the Higher Worlds?
How Does One Attain Knowledge of the Higher Worlds?
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we hear from them that they experience the highest in their
his knowledge to satisfy the highest longings in his soul that

Title: Human History: Lecture II: Death and Immortality
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but also of the highest, the human being in the laboratory was
him, so that they have taken him in states of the highest
bliss, but also to the highest pains and the deepest tragedy.
How Does One Attain Knowledge of the Higher Worlds?
Spiritual science will raise the whole life to a higher level
It always survives to higher life.

Title: Human History: Lecture IV: From Paracelsus to Goethe
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“high school” was vagrancy, he referred to the fact
learnt directly on the high school of nature. He called nature
what he could learn in such a way in his high school could be
high self-confidence of the value of his knowledge not because
get to know Goethe to the highest degree to look at his
hidden soul forces, so that higher sensory forces come into
as the ears hear the tones, these higher senses perceive the
nature, as with Paracelsus, or by a development of higher
his Faust first, because he himself was still in high spirits in
wants to approach nature without developed higher cognitive

Title: Human History: Lecture VII: The Prophet Elijah
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ancient times to a much higher degree than in the present. He
penetrated by a higher understanding of the human beings saying
significant self-education to higher spiritual heights. What
to ascend to higher worlds, he starved from
Then he should experience a higher level.
as it were to a higher floor, that it attains a higher level of
with his higher forces with Elijah, that is he was together
with him in the higher world. The spirit of Elijah indicated
initiated into the fact that Elishah can ascend to higher
which is miraculous in the highest sense really developed what

Title: Human History: Lecture VIII: The Origin of the Human Being
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origin of the human being must be of the highest interest to
conditions with the higher animals, but he energetically
higher animal world.
showed a higher developmental level of the mental activities in
one cannot derive the human being from the forms of the higher
higher, pithecoid mammals.
from higher mammals because a conscientious study of the
formative forces and conditions of the higher mammals can be
of the present higher mammals, but one has to assume original
human hands than to the present limbs of the higher
in regions where it lived on high trees. It
existence from higher mammalian forms during the ice age, this
said: look at the higher mammalian forms, there you have a
of idiot in a certain higher sense for a certain time. But if
of the human being in this higher spiritual development out of
Higher spiritual knowledge proceeds always

Title: Human History: Lecture X: Christ and the Twentieth Century
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was carried by a high-minded attitude which does certainly not
that intervened in the human development as the highest
example, and others applied it, one has to say that the highest
can today ascend beyond himself to a higher development of his
to a higher one if one is released from the obstacles that
soul on a higher level will develop from the wonderful
point of view where it is reborn on a higher level if the human
offence at what happens as the rebirth of the soul on a higher

Title: Human History: Lecture XI: Human History, Present, and Future in the Light of Spiritual Science
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our consciousness can be further developed to higher forms. The
How Does One Attain Knowledge of the Higher Worlds?
today in particular? Take the highest ideal which people have
clairvoyant consciousness that was still a higher one than the
core — what lives and weaves in the world as the highest
human being in such a way, as if the highest divine-spiritual

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the soul for a culture of the higher self, for a beholding in

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his higher self to which he ascends if he leaves his personal
research exceeds by experience to a higher area.
knows spiritual science that he himself is lost in this higher
appears as an exemplary image of a being enclosing a higher
the normal consciousness, a higher being already works on the
Where do we find the higher self of the
something higher that cannot be forced into the human
How Does One Attain Knowledge of the Higher Worlds?
How Does One Attain Knowledge of the Higher Worlds?,
higher worlds waits for that which comes then. The development

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stressed that the human skeleton is like that of the higher
between the bodily frames of the human being and of the higher
for example, that the higher animals differ from the human
naturalists at Goethe's youth that between the higher animals
everywhere from the lowest creatures to the highest ones and
still below with his original being among the higher
meant could be easily disproved, because any pupil of a high

Title: Spirit and Matter: Lecture I: Spirit and Matter, Life and Death
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Knowledge of Higher Worlds? and in my Occult Science. An
degree that from a higher viewpoint this outer sensory world is
can awake from the usual consciousness to a higher

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experiences that rouse the soul deeply, experiences of highest
it appears on a much higher level of spiritual beholding that
clears up in a higher, spiritual reality where the human being

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How Does One Attain Knowledge of Higher Worlds? how the
heart by high poetic beauty, by wonderful imagination, by a
reality to the the word is contestable higher, spiritual
of others if he has also experienced the higher twist of fate
method remains right. In a higher sense, the human beings form

Title: Spirit and Matter: Lecture IV: Human Soul and Human Body Considered Scientifically and Spiritual-Scientifically
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significance for the highest questions, for example, for the

Title: Spirit and Matter: Lecture V: The Riddles of Soul and World in the German Cultural Life
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discharge into the ether as the highest of the material states
exactly in my book How Does One Attain Knowledge of Higher
inner higher human being to them... In recent time even Kant
with something higher:

Title: Spirit and Matter: Lecture VI: Life, Death, and Immortality in the Universe
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in the book How Does One Attain Knowledge of Higher
of spirit to this, then it works destroying to the highest

Title: Spirit and Matter: Lecture VII: The Beyond of the Senses and the Beyond of the Soul
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higher degree. Someone who wants to observe own tender feelings
a level higher, namely in the soul.
higher consciousness compared with the usual one. I have taken
example, in How Does One Attain Knowledge of Higher
consciousness, a higher self-knowledge can come into being. I
contents of a higher self-knowledge. Because the human being
and numerous of his disciples who were highly surprised now
highest causes or his destination.” This is, in the end,

Title: Answers to Big Questions: Lecture I: The Nature of Spiritual Science and Its Significance for the Present
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spiritual abilities are still imperfect, with the higher
animals and especially with the higher mammals they are quite
into something higher, into a star. They continue doing this,
carries a higher intention, a higher mission in itself, so that
human life, as for the satisfaction of the highest need of the

Title: Answers to Big Questions: Lecture V: The Nature of Sleep
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was on high sea, the sailors carpenter and mend when it drives
being can get perception in the higher worlds. All that shows

Title: Answers to Big Questions: Lecture VII: How Does One Attain Knowledge of the Spiritual World?
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of the Higher Worlds? However, today I do not want to recur
with them in such a way that his spirit arises to the higher
other side, the human being lives, indeed, in his way a higher
symbolises the higher life that awakes if the red blood has
itself; but it dresses what it gets down from the higher worlds
the higher worlds. In the following talks, I have to describe

Title: Answers to Big Questions: Lecture VIII: Predisposition, Talent and Education of the Human Being
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of the highest interest to look in which way the
Even with people of high standing — if they have not
Moriz Benedikt complains, for example, that many high school
deeper soul members in space. As the higher soul members

Title: Answers to Big Questions: Lecture XIV: Moses
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higher level of soul development, of knowledge, to a higher
highest, most important to humanity. If we feel that we still
Egyptians had a high mission in the whole development of
fact that one deals with Moses as with a soul which the highest
knowledge of higher spiritual worlds has to experience certain
struggles to attain a higher position of his soul. What is
have attained a surveying knowledge to a high degree that one
female figures which the soul can develop as higher knowledge
strongest that he can experience. Highly gifted human beings
meet him as a highest in his life.
being does not have because he develops his higher intellect,
it also applies to those human beings who attain higher

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for which we not only have high respect because it leads us
There Du Bois-Reymond spoke highly of this ideal of an
cognitive forces to higher levels than he has them in the
higher level, it is possible to find other things in space and
from the sun — and the advance to a higher consciousness,
from the earth, so that he can advance to his higher
heat, the spirit has advanced a step and conjures up higher
things, higher life from the heat chaos. Hence, the final state
investigation of the highest things. — People may say:

Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture I: Haeckel, the Riddles of the World and Theosophy
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highest questions of existence, a concession to be unable to
secret of the species arrives at the highest. — You have
higher in the realm of life.
the origin of the human beings from the higher animals was the
higher animals that this resemblance is bigger than the
resemblance between the higher and lower simian species. One
higher animals. In newer time, the researchers have found new
lookout for a pure, freer and higher air, for the air, which
organs are developed, higher abilities appear.
the higher forces to look into the worlds concealed to the
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds? Then gradually order and
into the highest world secrets, you can be quite uninterested
higher worlds as light phenomena with the spiritual eye, but
hears also tones of the higher worlds sounding, so that the
I) either only as a phrase or as a higher truth. Where
recognises the relationship of the human being with the higher
intellectually insignificant; the other is morally of high
higher developed brother.
physical-visible surface of the earth as the highest sensuous
submit to the higher education process of the soul; the
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human and highly noble-minded striving of His Majesty, the
peace already in the hearts of high-minded idealists, and,
If we look from the higher animals at the lower ones and if we
species is to us the same in a lower field as in higher fields
the highest animal species. It is true: somebody who has a
earth would never have developed, and the higher powers who
struggle does not lead at all to higher development. From the

Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture III: Basic Concepts of Theosophy. Soul and Spirit of the Human Being
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This development of a higher life was always nourished and
discernible. The instruction that leads to such higher
evening anew. Somebody who strives for a higher development
spiritual-divine world. If we look for our higher self, which
ourselves in the all-embracing spirit. This is something higher
develop this higher self first, and you develop it, spreading
out the higher self about the whole world. Those who advised

Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture VI: The Basic Concepts of Theosophy. Human Races
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highest cultural level, the other on the most primitive,
From this chronicle, from the higher spiritual experiences the
only place if certain so-called higher levels of the human
whereas the animals have less developed higher senses, the
perfection. It is the same here on these higher levels of
conducted by higher influence, by higher spiritual beings, this
Lemurian was a dependent creature in the hands of higher
disappear at once when the higher one appears. It survives for
Atlanteans and developed higher under other climatic
consciousness, from inspirations of higher forces. Hence, at
development gets an even higher sense and we understand that it

Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture VII: The Core of Wisdom in the Religions
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humanity, Tao expresses and already expressed the highest to
which is higher in certain respects, however, also lower in
thing, you look for a higher concept. You define the single
the higher heavenly world and have contact with the gods, with
the human being, what strives for this highest as the word
of religare, of the connection with a higher consciousness that
highest wisdom, from spiritual research. However, we also
all religions contain as a core of our highest destination:

Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture VIII: Fraternity and the Struggle for Existence
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who owns a less high mental power in a robust body? — One
practical life to a moral height. The mutual aid was highly
from it. We could point to the highest summits, to the enormous
the material, the physical in this developing higher culture
comes from the fact that the thinking about the highest
these little cells cause, what does it cause that a higher
the possibility that a higher being expresses itself by the
higher being is among the five, already among two or three
which higher spiritual beings delve themselves to work using
pictorial, but also something real to the highest degree.
because they draw higher beings into their circle. One does no
co-operates with brotherly love in a community. Higher beings
highest ideals of the soul. Human life produced the manifold
spiritual-scientific worldview wants to train the highest goods
What does spiritual science show to us? It shows a higher
reality, and it is this consciousness of a higher reality that
This is the higher principle of spiritual fraternity. Everybody
ourselves, for that is true in the highest spiritual sense,

Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture IX: Inner Development
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incomprehensible as higher mathematics is for the usual farmer
calls the higher human loneliness. The second one is the
overcoming of an egoism that has risen high concerning the
which one calls inner life in the higher sense. In the Eastern
someone who aims at the higher spiritual science, but only,
your higher life from insanity to a certain degree. It is
can hardly get a really higher development, because the most
intimate consciousness of human community belongs to the higher
whose development is higher than mine is with boundless love
being is a personality in which a higher individuality lives.
searching not always only in ourselves for our higher selves,
human beings. However, if it concerns my higher self —
of the higher truth: I myself. I must drop this difference
preconditions that are necessary to wake the higher spiritual
the higher self lives in the human being, he only needs to let
his inside speak and the highest truth is revealed. —
that his higher self appears. We do not find the higher self in
profit anything from our own selfish ego for our higher self.
has learnt reverence in the highest sense of the word. Assume
earliest youth, a personality by which in you the highest idea
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important in the life of a higher being. Yes, even more: one
higher being, but still more like a reminiscent sign of
festival of humanity of the highest rank.
of animals. What lived on our earth as the highest realm was
this human ancestor ranked higher than the materialist
part was not yet in him. It descended only from another, higher
the higher human soul. Spiritual science calls this great
body for its higher development. Unlike the materialist natural
should not say, glory to God in highest heaven — but God
beyond the everyday feeling, where he came to a higher mental
had climbed up so high on the ladder of spiritual knowledge had
Thus, the great ideal of peace places itself as the highest
higher stage of the unity of feeling is attained which is
They remind him that in him a true, higher self is, a divine, a

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lawful necessity, above all a higher order than outdoors in
However, is it not anything significant in the highest sense
higher than truth, is surely often misunderstood by such like
higher for us than our belief. This is the sense of the saying.
the first times. Now the high spiritual human being was
to control the lower by the higher.
human beings in these temples of initiation, in these high
higher world, a spiritual world, that world to which the human
existence. After the human being had passed this higher world,
higher worlds, his words had wings because of the experiences
Only a few, choicest ones could be blessed with the higher
there are high and low mountains in history, high mountains
that outreach the high that they are facts and symbols at the
wants to gain the highest by science and its wisdom, the
books, but if we rise into the higher worlds, we have the
experienced only in the higher worlds beyond the gate of death.
something higher speaking. We are able to become citizens of a
higher world; we find that Christ is with us to the end of the
the future. Then we understand the high spirits correctly if
our life in the highest sense of the word. This is the true

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believe you what you say about higher, spiritual worlds and
teach us, but life in its entirety up to the highest spiritual
higher and more divine existence of which we do not need to
thoughts and language are only higher forms of that which we
consists of a higher and a lower nature, and that his lower
development in the spiritual realm as the higher counter-image
a certain way. This buddhi of the highest glory and sublimity
into this world with the highest glory, showing that
mysticism, the life spirit in its highest potentiality.
would be brainless in the highest degree to believe that one
pain. What exists, however, in the highest configuration with

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completion and from which we hope that it advances to higher
and higher levels of perfection. We attribute everything that
the highest member, as the last link in a developmental chain
ends, I am the highest of the beings, which are possible here
gods who were higher than the human beings, but lower than the
face us; and then even further up the realms of the higher
be. There the higher realm faces the lower one again and helps,
escaped, so to speak, to a higher realm, to the plant realm,
lower realm offers the basis and forces to the higher one, and
the higher realm helps again to preserve the existence of the
lower one. Thus, it is with any next higher realm. The animal
between the plants and the minerals or between the other higher
its self, but it strives for the high stages of perfection,
the self: not only because I love it, but because the higher
truth. However, who overcomes the doubt gains higher knowledge
Ascended the human being to the higher realms, he would remain
out of the same spirit, the governor of the higher life, who
beings and makes them all equal compared to the highest
soul meets soul in the higher love due to the Christ principle.
inevitably, light and love in the higher area of human life
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abstract, only scientific knowledge of some higher principles,
with the higher spiritual beings. Anybody who was initiated
of the human being to get contact with the higher beings.
possibility to behold in the higher world, transforming
means of higher knowledge are transformations of subordinated
the ear is on the lower developmental stages! All higher organs
can also today be transformed into higher senses.
Thus, some human beings were equipped with higher senses just
of the higher worlds. Just such persons could inspire the
may develop something according to the highest and most
completely penetrates his being with that core of the highest
if the human being himself develops to that level where higher
the higher beings. If he wanted to understand the principles
perception. Nevertheless, it is a higher level of percipience
transformation of the lower forces to higher and higher ones
human wisdom. We felt her with our hearts, with our higher
of Dionysus and put them in a higher light purifying the mere
being in the highest refinement against the solidifying, the
that the human being performs on his higher level. For he is
highest on the current developmental level.
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Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture XV: Germanic and Indian Secret Doctrines
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bearer of a higher tripartite nature we call spirit self, life
the life spirit “buddhi,” and the highest,
higher members, manas, buddhi, and atman are not to be
being has these members also in common with higher realms of
higher spiritual members of his nature up into the realms of
higher spiritual beings. Therefore, we can also say, the human
soul world and ascends then to a still higher world that we
highest like the human being, but they have a mental one only.
that they can ascend quicker to higher levels of perfection
deal with some exceptionally high teachings, but starts from
introduces him also in the higher spiritual world which he can
then take along in reality. This is the higher state of
experiences a new reality. Then he can rise to a still higher
consciousness to the next higher one. The present human
experience higher truth for which perhaps they cannot account
beings in certain respect whose highest member belonged to the
highest essence. These beings, in certain respect ancestors of
human beings developed up to higher spheres. They received
because they took part in the higher spiritual worlds. These
citizens of a higher world already in this life. At the same
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Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture XVI: German Theosophists at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century
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intellect, it offers us only phenomena. However, higher senses
itself,” to the higher human cognition this veil is torn,
earth-life to earth-life and ascend then to higher states of
higher this develops the human being.
already in the highest degree stimulating for those, at the end
higher etheric body than that which decomposes after death with
this higher body of the human being. You can find there fine
somnambulism and on higher spiritual life.
adapted to open the human soul to a higher vision. He also

Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture XVII: Siegfried and the Twilight of the Gods
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highest of all with the usual language — but not yet
the high element of expression, music, to produce the deepest
weeks ago, we have seen that some experience of higher mental
higher spiritual view. The gods are higher experiences, are
if he has attained higher senses. A straight line runs from the
dream up to the highest astral-spiritual experiences of the
the soul soars immortality, because it combines with its higher
this higher level. Because bravery was the highest virtue with
Someone who ascends to the higher knowledge of wisdom must
various dangers to a higher consciousness. The flames and the
the human being is able to behold in the higher world, the
higher nature is always mixed with the lower one, it controls
stormy passions. If, however, the higher nature lifts out
flames form from the higher consciousness, and the initiate has
attainment of this higher consciousness of the priest sages is
bravery, which is attained with the higher soul. Brunhilda
time — the higher consciousness signifies something
with the higher consciousness and let fulfil himself with it.
affianced wrongfully. Hence, the higher consciousness must have
causes the doom of Brunhilda finally. Brunhilda, the higher
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highest that the human being can imagine as the jewel, as the
humanity ascends higher and higher, that every single human
also not abstruse to realise that there are higher developed
and more, to raise the human being to the higher worlds, this
body, so that the human being was enraptured to the higher
world and could witness the qualities of the higher world. An
higher knowledge. You know that it is the path of the pupils
the path to higher knowledge consists of the fact that one
esteem himself higher than other human beings, who finds his
higher ego in the love to all beings. Who does no longer hope
Parzival is informed of the higher virtues, and there he
of the human being to the higher self is described in Parzival,
Whereas Parzival shows how the human being finds a higher ego
higher ego, Lohengrin shows how the medieval folk goes through
humanity, the initiates, further humanity always to a higher
furthers humanity to a higher stage in the middle of the Middle
called a swan. The master who is deeply initiated rises higher,
— It is the swan that brings him from even higher
higher knowledge this way, but they want to develop the higher
the legends and myths, if we let it rise for the higher soul of

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to a higher stage: what was extinguished because of the
leaders of humanity who knew how the higher spiritual life of

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have talked repeatedly about the phenomena of the higher
still higher worlds exceeds the usual cognitive capacities of
However, then the other worlds that are attained by higher
knowledge have a higher significance to us. One often asks, to
fellow man a treat, to what end does he need to look for higher
human being meets in the higher worlds are not only efficient
animal creature, but the higher he develops, the more he also
invisible in the world become clear to us in the higher worlds.
come to the highest knowledge of the divine world forces if one
passing the worlds first, which separate him from the highest
the higher worlds. A kind of higher knowledge that is also
self. Only outside himself, the human being finds his higher
the external world; one should look for the higher self only in
higher self. We must seek for the god in the invisible worlds
higher knowledge. Everything physical dries out, if it is
leads to higher development. Ask your own inside where the
the higher self of the world. While we investigate the higher
self of the world, we investigate our own higher selves. It is
wants to fulfil the conditions of the higher development must
such high development. Hence, the real occult direction of
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consider from a higher point of view and from whom one can

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him like a higher nature. This was so strong in him that
was always a symbol of the birth of the higher self to the
salt-like acerbity; then it rises higher and higher up to

Title: Knowledge of Soul and Spirit: Lecture I: The Mission of Occult Science in Our Time
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contemporaries that it concerns something dark to the highest
see and hands can seize, there is a higher world, an invisible
than the saying that is from a higher spiritual point of view a
should find of the highest and supersensible things in his
nature, the human being must trust in a higher revelation, and
result of the research in the higher world could not be found
is pronounced once, up to the highest areas.
the knowledge of the higher worlds without being a clairvoyant
especially high degree. It will become already clear to you how
what they perceived in the higher worlds. Then others ordered
the highest degree. You can get an idea of the difference
penetrate on these three ways into the higher worlds, to attain
show them how they can attain the highest deepening by

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and on a higher stage even acting. Briefly, spiritual science
science and the experiences in the higher worlds. In the main,
characterised last time, on experiences in the higher, in the
Darwinism materialistic. It made such a high-minded thinker and
bring forward facts of the higher world to humanity that will

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today conducted to a relatively high degree just like in
higher one, in an extrasensory life that does not wear out
methods of the higher beholding. However, we understand the
us, the uneducated savage and the high developed human being.
high-minded moralist who has pure holy moral concepts and
way do both differ? By the fact that the high-minded man worked
high-minded moralist and idealist has transformed and purified
without the ego; in the high-minded human being, everything
body, and this is the highest that the human being can attain
the spiritual-scientific training takes place on the highest
tends to the spirit, attains a higher consciousness, and frees
the earth-life. The soul keeps on developing higher and higher.
Thereby it will be the best servant of the high religious

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spiritual, higher worlds, the thought will also appear of
higher worlds? The today's consideration on initiation can only
are embryonic in him and can be developed higher and higher.
cannot recognise certain higher worlds. However, at the same
time, one has to say that these higher worlds are not to be
that the human being can ascend to higher and higher stages.
higher and higher, indeed, that is hindered by that what
developed to higher cognitive forces, to look for means and
of the higher, extrasensory worlds.
on a higher stage — can be compared to the organ of the
speaks in spiritual science of higher worlds.
He who doubts the higher
higher worlds? He talks about them because he knows that merely
freely to the communications about the higher worlds, we get
the first impulse to develop the higher forces which make us
clairvoyant, and somebody who applies the higher forces in the
such higher worlds pursued, so to speak, secretly? Why did one
of such matters to behold something of the higher worlds.
today concerning the introduction to the higher worlds? Why is
higher worlds from the viewpoint of the spiritual research, but
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one would have to erect high wooden walls on both sides, so
higher than what the blind person experiences if one operates
also to the higher worlds. The danger, the dreadful that is
necessary that occult science can offer, its highest and its
included in the divine world order from a higher viewpoint. It
is something very healthy from a higher viewpoint. Imagine once
It is a high truth on the
peculiar that maturity belongs to the highest matters if one
spread in theosophy can be serious and deep to the highest
higher world are also attained the better, the more one can be
be the highest; but in its reversal, it is a caricature and a

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science understands by heredity, but it ascends to higher facts
from lower principles to principles that apply to the higher
transform in higher regions? The solution of this question
mental, from the lowest desire up to the highest moral
True knowledge of the ego is the highest form of knowledge. The
and their individual existence is over. The higher the

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even of the highest animals to the human beings. We also
resemblance of the higher animals and their performances to the
some people regard the high-developed animals as caricatures of
else than a kind of a higher, very complex machine.
to a lower, sometimes to a higher degree than with the human
bees or, if we go up to higher animals, the dens of the
higher development of that which we find in the animal realm?
as a higher animal? Spiritual science only can answer to this
to the consideration of higher levels than the physical level
has descended from a higher world to the physical body. It is
researcher to the higher world is similar to that.
being takes possession of it in his individuality in his higher
organs of higher knowledge of the most human beings are not
higher being that has memory and imagination. The wise
individual souls. However, if we go back from the higher
perfect, it can be a dwelling place, a temple for the higher
its height, be glad, highest creature of nature that you can

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world and even higher spiritual worlds are brought forward,
touch with hands, but that one can still live in higher regions
significant if I have high abilities. However, if the human

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by field only. Nevertheless, these things are of the highest

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that hover high over our everyday existence. However, the
concerning layers contain, after the higher mammals, related to
clear the secrets of the higher, supersensible world to the
developmental stage where no higher senses, no “spirit
higher stage, they develop more ice from the water. Always ice
developed to higher stages. Higher animals precipitated again
evolution everything imperfect goes back to the higher. The
higher, the original is not in our physical figure, but in the
attains a much higher stage in the future. This organ is the
much higher organ in the future. It is fasciated because it is

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developed the higher forces underlying the today's culture.
of the human being to the higher spiritual worlds! Again, a
initiation and has learnt to use the higher senses slumbering
higher level. However, you see two forces working into each
service of the spirit, the highest bearer of progress. If one

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How Does One Attain Knowledge of the Higher Worlds?,
can be raised to a higher level. It occurs to nobody, to call
from the organism. However, the higher, supersensible senses
different. I characterise briefly how these higher senses — the
and willing, are capable of a higher development. If we briefly
higher spiritual development, for the experience of a
higher spiritual life. If the human being lets such thoughts of
is a creative force for a higher kind of elements which
creative forces, the higher rises the next existence. While the
get involved in these higher worlds. Our age is tired of the
is high time that the human beings learn again that in the

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of these higher parts, of the etheric and astral parts? The physical
able to understand why that which was to lead man up into the higher
us to understand the highest things.

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In our time it is present to a particularly high degree because the
last third of the 19th Century produced a great number of highly significant
took place as feelings in Russia were running high, threatening already
is sensible to select for high political office someone who is more

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highly respected science has to offer are theories built on shaky foundations.
in the book Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and its Attainment

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developed higher up in man's organism and became related to the head
with spiritual beings in the cosmos, with the beings of the higher Hierarchies.
is given the possibility to attain that higher consciousness of which
cognition through a higher consciousness. There were people of deeply
But in regard to certain higher knowledge man's earthly consciousness
through the development of a higher consciousness. If we were able to
were. But man will attain this higher consciousness only if the impulse
science can describe a faculty of sight which is on a level higher than

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a high order, passed on to him from his father. One could say that on
His high position within Freemasonry enabled him to make his own, to
knowledge accumulated over centuries. Just because of his high position
if it is used to denote the highest impulse in the pursuit of knowledge
Hermann Bahr is that he attempts to find in man the higher, the divine
life, lives in us as truly as our own highest being lives in us. As

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with higher questions. The inclination to do so has since waned. To
an earlier epoch had reached higher development, would be able to inspire
writer manages to appear high-minded and worldly while remaining a thoroughly

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do often arise. On occasions, in accordance with higher laws, discussions
investigate for it is the beings of the Higher Hierarchies who reveal

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the Hierarchy of the Angeloi and that he recorded what came from a higher
human mediator for what the Angel proclaimed concerning a higher world.
of things can be grasped only if one is able to listen to higher beings
or receive impressions from them. No one, except higher beings who at
if one wants to reach certain higher knowledge one must learn to regard
one's whole being as a member of a higher organism. Just as a finger
highly significant phenomenon that Luther should appear, embodying the

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to recognize that the two aspects meet in a higher unity. It must be
value in the eyes of the Highest Powers, but solely his soul's acknowledgement
He would be more and more convinced that he merely represented the highest
That he was able to speak in this way was due to the higher unity of
what had existed in the fourth post-Atlantean epoch. That was the higher

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has reached a certain high plateau in its development. Just think of
as a result of man's highly developed intellect. It has certainly progressed
is highly uncomfortable for modern man. For example, when someone embarks
the Higher Hierarchies. Proclaiming freedom for nations is not a concept
comparable to knowing that when a pendulum is at its highest point the
reveal connections of a higher order between the issues. On the other
any further. Those to whom people today look up and regard as highest
1510; at that time it was considered virtuous to climb a very high flight

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It hangs high up in windy heights;
sleeping of the elementary and higher spirits connected
is at its highest point in winter, that therefore the

Title: Reincarnation and Karma: Lecture I
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physical body, with the etheric body which is only one stage higher,
the activity of thoughts in the higher worlds we must at the same

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memory; it should be regarded rather as a higher, wider power of
highly critical point, when he led and guided events against a host
concepts we must acquire about the higher worlds, are in a sense
about the higher worlds. What we learn directly from concepts is also

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in the outside world, just because it is in the highest degree
such as the possibility of becoming conscious of higher worlds
the ordinary sense-world to higher worlds. This, then, is not the
distinction does not really lie in the acceptance of a higher world,

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world, although there may now and then intrude some higher level
into the higher mysteries of the world, irrespective of the
stream. When we now speak of entering the higher spheres, we
been at their highest level, working separately, in the days of
raise himself ever higher and higher; but at the same time there
servants of the Highest Divine Power, is similar to
estimated from twenty-four up to twenty-eight, and even as high
of nerves of extreme potency in bringing about either the highest
the highest; but since your being has been especially organized
constituted that you may attain even unto the highest of
him in the words which The Highest — The First One — has put

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vision world in which they conceived higher powers to be actively
higher realms were slowly closed, so that the pictures manifested
their leaders in virtue of outstanding individualities and highly
something akin to higher beings. It has been said that this
higher being, and his birth was brought about through spirit
with ideas similar to the following: There is a latent higher
regarding a higher spiritual world of the existence of which they
to attain to yet higher states of perfection, has of a verity
manner: — Osiris, the higher power in man, which is spread
stimulus to strive towards higher spiritual enlightenment, is as
higher self, as Horos — the posthumous son of Osiris. It was
understand his higher nature in regard to its physical aspect. To
were, however, yet higher mysteries, The Mysteries of Osiris, in
Universe — as having possessed in high degree the power of
man’s power of clairvoyance was truly at its highest, but
eyes are raised on high we can gaze into that hidden world from
they sought the aid of those higher spiritual forces and beings
— ‘All that I have cometh from Thee. Thou went on High in
not only mankind, but also beings from the higher spiritual
creation existences which have not attained to the higher level
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decadence from a primarily highly clairvoyant spiritual state
upward step was, as it were, a mitigation granted by some higher
Bodhisattva-Gautama. Gautama was possessed of a higher wisdom
perfect freedom; for earthly wisdom, even that of the highest
from higher to lower states, do not of themselves constitute what
to his coming down from a higher spiritual state and entering a
belong, not only lapsed from its former higher spiritual
When man fell away from his previous high
of us abides a higher personality. If this more noble hidden-self
forward to the awakening of his higher self, that more exalted
his present conscious-state and existing Ego, to a higher plane
a higher consciousness liveth in me.’ The Christian
fallen from a higher spiritual state, and have entered upon a
be vanquished, — conquered by that higher spiritual power which
and personal ideas, seek a higher plane merely through the
within his being; he yields, because he realizes that the highest

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the natural sciences, which claims in so high a degree our deep
which this especial being is raised to a higher degree of soul
high standard of discernment and understanding of the
capacity of apprehension to the higher level of the spiritual
experiences. Certain people, especially those of a highly gifted
found in man, because he has developed a higher intellectual
to a higher power of discernment and attain to an order of
developed to a very high degree. They had no knowledge of our

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fuller and a higher order of human understanding, so that all
mystical initiation of the highest order, through which might
as Elijah, were endowed with this specific and highly penetrative
also hungered; but he did not seek thereby to rise to a higher
certainly not to be recommended as a step toward higher spiritual
was that his own soul had, as one might say, risen to a higher
higher state or world. This was made possible, not because of the
indeed ascend to the higher regions where the spirit of Elijah
into the higher realms; if thou art able to perceive my spirit as
amazing, in the highest spiritual sense is, that out of such
the influence of the prophet Elijah, man was raised to a higher

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tendency which has been called Gnosis [a term denoting a higher
higher wisdom, and various degrees of light and shade in that
with the dawn of Christianity. This higher spiritual wisdom
highly developed human individuality to Whom historical research
in character to this ancient higher spiritual wisdom, the
highest point to which the Science of History has as yet reached
from his present false ideas, risen to a higher standard of
life. Concepts of the soul’s rebirth upon a higher plane,
during the soul’s rebirth into a higher sphere. Spiritual

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was of high degree; I have risen to high positions in
telling as that it was he who had raised me to a high

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Being of the higher Hierarchies under whose influence it
organism develops into its highest expression in the
that Being of the higher Hierarchies with whom man must
the Earth but comes into the Earth from higher worlds,
higher worlds for the Gods they worshipped, the
evolution of humanity, man and the higher animals were
heredity. And the last man who unfolded higher

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body symbolizes what brings death and is connected with the higher spiritual

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of smell and taste, actually have to do with our inner life in a higher
consciousness. The sun rises higher and higher. It rises to the sense
of the sense of speech although we could never understand the higher
of a higher kind, which he now wanted to join by all means, just
spider web, he was not averse to hold Jews in very high esteem.

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our physical body has to be a highly complicated creation for the simple
of the development of our higher, spiritual elements, namely, the etheric
of ancestors culminates in a genius. People think this is highly logical.
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dream life,” to a higher reality, the reality of the spirit. And
between this higher spiritual reality and that of everyday life.
read. It is the same with everything we call the higher and lower degrees
that do not exist is, according to the Oriental view, a highly superfluous
are on a higher stage of cultural development. However, you also say,
Christianity in a higher sense.

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Goerlitz, Jacob Boehme. He struggled with the highest problems
Boehme was able to soar up to his high spiritual standpoint. In
climbed a moderately high mountain in the vicinity of his
his soul so that it had the highest psychological significance
the stranger. The latter offered him a high price and it came
first stage of a higher spiritual life, as the stage of
the book Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and Its
admired in the highest degree if one has the requisite
elevated to the highest heights of spiritual life.
the glistening, high-flown formulae of Jacob Boehme, and
the highest region of clairvoyance, — and if we find how

Title: Richard Wagner: Lecture I
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beyond his own Self and develop his higher Ego.
still higher stage the key of knowledge will be delivered to him.
upon as a new and higher stage of consciousness. Elsa of Brabant
Lohengrin poem. This reveals Richard Wagner's high inner calling.
higher wisdom — knowledge, or the Holy Grail.
messengers of the higher initiates. What was this initiate

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Jesus sacrificed his body to a higher individuality when he was
initiated stage by stage, in order to bring about the higher development
through an initiation. He must awaken Brunhilde, the higher consciousness,
to unite it again upon a higher stage, when the sexes shall have

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Higher
upon a higher stage. She urges Wotan to sever the connection between
which must again rise to higher worlds. He grows up secretly, guarded
higher initiates and is shown the path leading to Brunhilde, the
higher consciousness.
himself with virgin wisdom. Consequently his impulse toward higher
the union with the higher Self has been reached, the ring,
The higher wisdom
highest bliss!”)
highest bliss. Within earthly life it is indeed highest bliss to

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to a new feeling, high above everything that is entangled in the physical
the highest Brahmin caste, who had haughtily spurned the love of a
substance of the Middle Ages. In the highest minds of the Middle Ages
something higher. It arose before love underwent the already mentioned
completely different within the sixth sub-race: the higher
caste. The lower castes are excluded, but a high spiritual standpoint
with the development of man in the direction of higher
the souls have risen higher, the races have degenerated. Every step
possibility to incarnate more highly. Richard Wagner knows that
to hear the higher call, the call meant for humanity in general. The
into a higher form of love. What lives within the race must be
redeemed by something higher, by the higher, purer soul that is ready
against the tempting powers of Kundry. A higher element was perceived
higher, spiritual knowledge.
lacking, Amfortas yields to the temptations of Kundry. The higher
ascetic and is unable to reach a higher spiritual knowledge; and on the other
Holy Grail as a sorrow-laden king. This higher Christianity is
through the Virgin, (the higher love, which is not filled with
dies and will be replaced by a higher female element which
A higher virgin
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those who had reached the highest degrees. During the 17th
nothing to contribute then and those who had reached the highest
points of this wisdom, the highest grades, withdrew to the Orient.
down by people like us, but they derive from higher beings, that they
so-called initiates. An initiate is one who has developed to a high

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see it. A highly developed clairvoyance is required in order to
will have reached his highest point of evolution, when in the center
during which man will reach a still higher stage of evolution, will

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from a beginning to a high point of perfection, we call
so-called Dangma, the highest developed seer. This state is
hollow form, swimming in a great, mighty sea of the highest spiritual
the highly developed seer who can consciously move in the spiritual
reverts to water, with higher temperatures even to steam. By this
more highly developed beings. An analogous state appears in the sixth
Pralaya and then a state only visible to the highest developed seer.
highest level.
higher, spiritual nature. There were no chemical elements involved.
higher animals formed. The lower animals were similar to today's
matter that would not enable him to become the bearer of a higher
higher stage; they could not incorporate during the third race at all.
highly developed individuals. In Theosophy they are called solar
pitris or sun pitris. They had reached a higher spirituality, but
spiritually highly developed humanity arose. The sagas and myths
brain matter, thereby allowing them to achieve a higher level of
science to a high level of development, which previously had not been
reached a high-point: control by the spirit, which had incarnated in
matter, so that humanity could ascend to higher and higher stages of
being, who could reflect himself in his body. He will rise to higher
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Title: Inner Realities: Lecture 1: The Inner Aspect of the Saturn-embodiment of the Earth
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The Knowledge of Higher Worlds,
Knowledge of Higher Worlds

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never could we really attain to what the higher knowledge gives. He
attain to higher knowledge. For what would be the opposite of this
opposes the permeation of the higher Self with wisdom. In ordinary
always destroy the higher insight. But we must imagine what is here
when a man works his way up to higher worlds. There he must be able
higher knowledge so long as we work after the fashion of ordinary
away with when we wish to attain to higher knowledge. The soul must
we look up and wish to have a higher sense-perception of what takes

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a higher life, who lives temperately, who only eats as much as is
higher worlds, is that of renunciation. In relation to this many
renunciation takes place in the realm of the Beings of the higher
its influence is renunciation, resignation by higher Beings. So
arising and passing away. This is in the highest degree remarkable:
more highly of the gods! I have always believed them able to give
of Higher Beings, and here too we must again refer to something alluded
the highest that can possibly be expressed, the opposition of
enable him to express this, the highest and most significant. That is

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of yet higher Beings was rejected, it will be easy to rise to the
connection with still higher Beings, which might have been
we think of these Beings in such a way, that on the part of those Higher
human soul begins to aspire and prepares for higher striving. We saw
the sacrifice offered to higher Beings, to more widely-extending,
would have experienced in another, in this case a higher Being. Thus
movement. If a number of persons devote themselves to a higher Being
higher consciousness; otherwise the whole tragedy could not be
lies in the higher consciousness must be plunged into the
the higher consciousness, but in the deeper strata of the soul
means of his higher consciousness, for as far as that was concerned

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the ancient Moon-Beings pressed up to the higher Beings but was not
the higher Beings as sacrificial substance. We saw, indeed, that
this, which aspired, but was unable to ascend to the higher Beings,
found that this sacrifice was not accepted because the higher Beings
higher Beings, into such positions that they can approach them from
the wealth of impressions received from the higher Beings, who are as
higher Beings a relation is established between them which conveys
bring it into connection with the higher Beings. This is exactly like
connection with the higher Beings through the sacrifice, impressions
have continued its existence within the higher Beings in a different
necessary to that existence are in those higher Beings. It became
the higher Beings — which we encounter at the third stage of
Beings who belong to higher spheres having rejected what was to have
higher — from man to the Beings of the Hierarchies — we
rank, nor to those higher than man is there any meaning in speaking
accomplished? Can it be accomplished in the higher worlds? No! For
higher, super-sensible worlds — we cannot speak of death. And in
neither among the Higher Beings can there be a question of
that even in the historical development of man, the reality of the higher
and something corresponding to it exists in the higher worlds.”
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Title: Destinies of Individuals and Nations: Lecture 2: Nationalities and Nationalism in the Light of Spiritual Science
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higher self in man, a higher self which is more than the
call man's higher self, the concept of nationality loses
into this the higher he will ascend. In so far as man
powerful way, how man resists the higher self that is
into this nationality! The higher self has already at
nationality. This higher self is resisted by that part of
against his own higher self. Wherever the ranting and
to recognize his higher self, the part of him that is
the higher self in man. And all who want to share in our
way of thought or feeling will recognize this higher self
a work representing the high point of culture on the Italian
does not, of course, refer to life in the higher self.)
is in physical life, man is in a way unjust to his higher
national, presents itself before his higher self. He
national self which stands between him as a higher self

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whose Inspirations are connected with a highly developed
highly developed civilizations — that deep
the spirits in the supersensible sphere. Higher spirits,
spirits belonging to higher hierarchies, are fighting in
one. That is why the spirits of the different higher
certain spirits belonging to the higher hierarchies. They
higher. Men are still rejecting it today, rejecting it as
exist in our time hands over his soul to the higher
enter into physical existence. The higher worlds receive
human progress as their highest responsibility will be
on the karma of folk souls. And seen from a higher point

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received from the higher worlds first had to be
striving for the highest.

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lead to the conclusion that all the talk of higher worlds
direction — that is something highly significant in
felt highly dissatisfied. Asked as to the reason for his

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Prepare my self to be a higher self.

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through higher powers, out of head clairvoyance' but
powers that serve digestion but also those of a higher
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds

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of attaining to genuine higher knowledge always consists
immovable. This would have a highly significant result.
most highly esteemed science arises because they are
able to give him that information in very high regard.
that comes from higher spiritual entities.' Demiurgos

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we have something which the spirits of the higher
spirits of the higher hierarchies. We must not allow
higher hierarchies. We know we have this kind of dual
that are the higher hierarchies the way our body lives
in the world of the higher hierarchies.
spirits in the higher hierarchies. Among them are the
spirits in the higher hierarchies develop thoughts and
them. We are objects to the spirits in the higher
evolution of such spirits in the higher hierarchies
to the spirits of the higher hierarchies, except that
referring to a spirit belonging to the higher hierarchies
higher up when it acts more on the soul sphere; it
we have to go higher up. There will be times when it
higher mathematics in comparison to elementary
speaking of man's relationship to the higher worlds we
who has the same relationship to the higher world of the
again into the higher world? Why does it do this with
at a higher level and we can only find it with the aid of

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spiritually higher hierarchies, the Angeloi, willed for
it to have been at a higher level, yet it was involuntary
evolution, therefore, spiritual entities of a higher
spiritual entities of a higher kind are active in
karma. It is controlled by spirits from the higher
just spoken of as the one revealed to higher perception.

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high. Its feet stand upon a projection of the rock and
figure is on the highest pinnacle of rock and it is
fore, made to sound peculiarly high-flown in his
And this is considered the highest
form of presenting the divine, as the highest form of
strive for higher accolades’ (in German, nach
do not strive for higher places’ (in German,
the immortal part of man, working to attain to higher
observe how in the culture which represents the highest

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exist for us; to realize all that we know in the high
by entities from higher hierarchies. Into our dreams
influencing us from the higher world by way of the
and will activity. This is guided by higher wisdom to the

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which is rather crude in man and more highly developed in
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds.
is called Inspiration. This is a higher form of
of entities belonging to higher hierarchies who express
entities from the hierarchies. The deeds of the higher
higher hierarchies are reflected in our mirror. We then
are the servants of the higher entities that are the

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of young students from the High School at Zurich desired a course of

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somewhat unsatisfactory to the higher spiritual consideration. We
scientific and an artistic perception of the world into a higher
the highest, but which to-day is considered somewhat strange. Thus we
that one can talk of man's highest being without the requisite
of his highest being; whereas he is by nature a complicated being,

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ordinary sense of the word and the higher; although this ‘being
for the ‘conception’ of a higher cosmic relationship,
often described the reason. The higher faculties of the super-sensible
higher impulses of incarnate beings), as the lower impulses of
super-sensible beings are related to the higher spiritual qualities of

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pillars just described: a high-principled course of life, and an

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Higher consciousness. Our head consciousness is a sieve, but the
certain circumstances is much more keen and subtle than the higher
cunning by the lower consciousness. The higher consciousness was not
later becomes friend, husband, or wife. The higher
than was the lady herself in her higher consciousness. So too, is it
everything. The higher consciousness not being so alert as the lower,
reality, from a deep deliberation sought what in his higher
the higher consciousness as through a sieve, the man knows nothing of
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and its Attainment)

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consciousness of the beings of the higher Hierarchies, to receive a
rebirth. On the other hand, the beings of the higher
because the question may arise as to how the beings of the higher
carry the future within them. Of course the beings of the higher
the perception of what the higher Hierarchies accomplish, forms as it
perception of the beings of the higher Hierarchies in his soul will
that man must grasp the higher Hierarchies clairvoyantly; but in so
what flows into existence from the higher Hierarchies. In all these
use of the whole man instead of the higher consciousness only.

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deeper one, a feeling generally unrecognised by the higher soul; a
in the lower soul should be raised to the higher — the feeling:
lower soul and can be raised to the higher. That again is something
feels, and which is so difficult to bring up into the higher soul at
impulses which, felt in the right way, can supply the highest
evolution) we must say of these two highest principles that they are

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connected with super-sensible beings, beings of the Higher
Man stands in constant connection, through his being, with higher and
lower beings of the Higher Hierarchies. We will look into this
higher degree when we go further East. It is the special

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higher Hierarchies; with that world in which man lives between death
speaks; these only exist because of the higher organization of man.

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Soul-Self reaches its highest development in the time when he
accept it as something deeply connected with our higher

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forms of the bones in man and in the higher animals and finds

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pointed out in our higher teaching institutions. People

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striking this is — and ask yourselves to what a high
then higher animals, then still higher ones, and out of these
men finally developed as, in a sense, the highest animal all.

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pointing in a highly indicative way to the origin of the
learn, in a much higher sense than they wish to today, to
this he is led a step higher. This justifies his asking once

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third form, best described perhaps as “higher
consciousness in which the spiritual world is open to higher
higher perceptive consciousness, we find an exactly similar
higher consciousness as spiritual, super-sensible reality, the
higher perceptive consciousness is experienced, it is
“Knowledge of Higher Worlds and its Attainment.”)
“Knowledge of Higher Worlds.”
“Knowledge of Higher Worlds”)

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superimpose the high surfaces of the seventh on the hollow
is about eight and a half metres high, and the chief figure
as being like his) is something in the highest decree
into the higher world is never a sentimental one. Mere
of egoism. You know how often, when the highest spiritual

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not lacking, where men strive towards the best and highest

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divine within him”, “his higher self”,
possession of the Church — is highly symptomatic. It is
that Christ was known in the highest sense during the first
the course of events through the centuries, the higher
who is thus revered as the “highest being.” To
mind which appears at a higher stage in St Bernard, as the
Men must eventually learn to employ higher concepts than

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higher source, was to be poured. Platonism was the first

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such forms, what could be the object only of wisdom's highest
detached, a state higher than the physical-sensible.
In a yet higher
a still higher civilization and a spiritual sense, as a
higher form, in Goetheanism. — This is plain speaking,

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first stage of higher knowledge; as described, for instance,
“Knowledge of Higher Worlds.”
And to attain to still higher knowledge of the
hostility to Goethe: but this is a highly intelligent,

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institutions in which highly developed spiritual Beings, using
intercourse with the highest spiritual beings on other planes. For in
these higher Personalities.
of a higher, spiritual life. To-day, too, there are men in whom
higher spiritual forces are alive, who see into the spiritual worlds
and are able to hold counsel with Beings of higher worlds. But it has
the thigh-bone. No technician could put together anything as perfect.
an imprint of the highest wisdom. And if the physical body only were
higher beings live with their higher spirit-bodies, in an astral
presumption to place ourselves above the higher forces working in

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shown how Faust, the representative of the highest human effort,
— the higher world, the world “above”; and the world
“below,” the expression of that higher and spiritual
to man and the higher animals, this blood is practically fluid life.
the higher animals first to absorb the oxygen from the air into it,
allusions to higher Beings, such Beings do actually exist, although
in its turn encloses and develops within itself the germs of higher
and three higher grades.
into his “sympathetic” system, and to lull his higher
processes, the activity of the higher system of nerves is suspended,
higher nervous system is expressive of the change which has taken
being to sense what is taking place outside it; the higher system of
highest form of the nervous system, such as is possessed by mankind in
general at the present stage of evolution, takes from the more highly
of this inner life he forms, at a higher stage, a new world of images
higher stages of development. The transformation thus begun extends
The higher astral body, which has been evolved from the lower one, and which finds its expression in the spinal cord and the brain;
which the blood extracts from its cosmic environment the highest
When, therefore, man temporarily suppresses his higher consciousness,
days, in order that humanity may evolve to a higher stage of
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brings a person to union with the higher spirituality. A higher power, in
moral strength to the highest attainments of clairvoyance. But time,
patience and energy are needed to bring most people to the higher degrees
Divine, and through it he seeks entry to the higher worlds.
form of his prayer will be but a means of rising to higher spiritual realms
with the divine currents in the world. This union, on the highest plane, is
he gain a relationship with higher spiritual beings, were he himself not an
possibility of unfolding for the future the three higher principles —
the three higher potentials (spirit self, life spirit and spirit man) with the
that the higher triad of spirit self, life spirit and spirit man united with
Correctly speaking, at that period in the Lemurian epoch, the highest
word. Only a kind of envelope existed, made up of the highest animal
principles of human nature. But until then the higher human being, which
spiritual science it has always been called the higher triad, and the
But the higher, eternal portion, which passes through all incarnations, has
The three higher members of the human being — the eternal portion —
may thus be looked upon as the three highest principles in man, but
highest principles of human nature are at the same time the three lowest
You see that the three principles of higher human nature may be looked
highest principle in us, which we shall only develop at the end of our
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only other words for the Chaos out of which the highest Spiritual
that certain words intend something that points to higher worlds. It
is the task of this spiritual movement to carry up into the higher
possessed higher knowledge as a result of a high spiritual
himself into the higher worlds by a strong and energetic will. It is
vapourous state in a higher form of development, is what we call the
gaseous state; it is a vapourous condition at a higher level of
understanding of the word ‘chaos’ with respect to higher
Chaos. Such ideas out of the Chaos, taken from the higher worlds, are

Title: Lecture: History of the Physical Plane and Occult History
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higher individualities.
world of higher and lower spiritual beings according to the
felt himself at home in these higher worlds in these worlds
whether in sleep or to a higher degree in the life between
with higher Beings, I plunge, as it were, into the life of
these higher Beings”. The man felt himself one with the
higher beings and in this feeling of oneness with them he
being part of the existence of higher spiritual Beings was
highest degree fruitful, but that which they were able to

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modified. Thus, we gradually rise to ever higher truths. Still, it
higher truths. Only through them will what spiritual science is
rest of humanity but are at a higher stage, there are also other
in higher, more spiritual regions and who did not need to descend
Christ Being into itself, thereby rising to ever higher stages of

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soul, he realized that if he wanted to reach the highest point of
All.” Then follows the highly remarkable and significant description
exercises that may be found in Knowledge of the Higher Worlds, what
higher spiritual forces are to be derived is free of all urge and
the higher being of man, that inner being of which it has been said
but in sources of a higher soul and spiritual nature; it has not an
cleansed and purified, who has ascended to higher knowledge and has
who gives birth in man to the higher man, to a man who represents a
forth the true higher man — what is he? He cannot be otherwise
the soul that gives birth to the higher man out of himself, out of the
of the spiritual universe, and springing from this soul the highest
and gives birth to Horus, the higher man, who is to be victorious over
highest human ideal, which is born out of the human body impregnated
sublime ideal, the highest peak of humanity, the Christ Himself — for
higher knowledge our souls are fructified from out the cosmos. We look
higher man slumbering in every human being, all that is best in man,
through the different stages up to higher knowledge and the higher
out of spiritual heights and will ascend again to this higher
repeat compelled, to recognize the higher spiritual realities; nor

Title: Lecture: The European Mysteries and Their Initiates
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trained that he can finally perceive the higher worlds with spiritual
The man who so trains his soul that he can perceive in higher worlds,
deeply into his soul and rises to a level higher than that of ordinary
human soul, or for a higher being, single members must be working
playing his own part, they form a kind of higher organism or body, and
thus make it possible for a higher spiritual being to dwell among
knew that a higher spiritual being was living among them as the soul
lives in a human body, that their souls were members of a higher body.
the higher influence to descend. And so the Thirteenth was recognised
a power which enabled a higher being to dwell among them, they were
path leading to the higher worlds. The trained clairvoyance of
the old Initiates was a higher faculty than the innate, natural
— This quest of the soul for the highest was called by the outer
quite definite feature in common whereby they are raised to a higher
that a man attains to a higher kind of sight and that his soul
undergoes a higher development. Before he sets out on this path, three
the development of his higher members. The first step is to purify the
the path of higher development thoughts begin to arise in him which
the astral body. By this ether-body he is borne upwards to the higher
higher Egohood. The union of the lily-soul with the rose-soul was
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Title: The Nature and Origin of the Arts
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from the higher worlds, who stands before the women and
manifesting this emotion, for I belong to a high spiritual
off-spring. I have descended to this level from the higher
figure replied, “My home is in the higher regions. I
figure replied, “My home is in higher regions, in
younger the higher it ascended; a third figure into which

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consider first of all a Buddhist scripture which is held in high
attachment to nothingness, so that he may rise to a higher existence
redemption’ in the highest sense of the words; a religion of
life, to a higher state of perfection than in the previous one.
a higher and more perfect stage, can continue to become more and more
single earth-life, ascends to ever higher and higher degrees of
Buddhism, and who stand even on the highest of philosophical
says, for instance, ‘The image of the highest type of mankind
transformed, and that which was to him the highest and holiest that

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According to Spiritual Science man is a highly complex
world. As a second, higher member he has the etheric, or life body.
higher principles as belonging to a far-off future of human
certain epoch was able to mould in man the highly artistic organ of
proceeded from a higher activity preceding that of the human Ego,
that the higher Spiritual activities, having created the astral,
we ourselves do when we rise to higher spiritual activity through
realisation that prose writing, for instance, is a much higher

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these inner soul forces, so that they can rise to higher
thus the beginning of true higher spiritual research that
our development to a higher level.
is this that prevented the higher and stronger divine force
heat in the cosmos that appears in higher beings as physical
inner warmth and it originally created the higher beings; the
through what we long for and desire as the highest. Thus, it
the real world all our soul's truest longing and highest
ourselves begins, the struggle between the lower and higher
swept away. It was given over to its highest thoughts and
rise to the higher stages to which prayer and mysticism are
forth the power to raise him ever higher. But whatever height
Our souls can always be raised higher. The Lord's Prayer can
even into our soul's highest reaches. For this, we shall be
higher spiritual activity. For instance, is it not clear that

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blind for the physical plane — these were highly honoured! And
his words to the chiefs. High on Cromia's side he sat, waving
power: ‘Raise my standards on high, spread them on Lena's

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the higher worlds as one speaks of events and experiences of the ordinary
about the higher worlds as about something — one might say —
hesitation to speak on a certain chapter of the higher worlds that will
For after all, what purpose is served by all our studies of the higher
the first place? We talk of these higher worlds not at all with the
the higher worlds, as we call them, lie all around us, that we live
higher worlds lie the causes and grounds for facts that take place before
to higher worlds. Today let us consider this relation as regards the
and characterize the higher worlds as if things were just the same there
higher worlds. There is an immense difference between the physical world
and the higher worlds, and this difference increases the higher up we come.
from the higher worlds — let us say from the devachanic world
In order to describe the higher worlds more exactly than we have done
knowledge of the inhabitants of the higher worlds, of their condition

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is given to us through the knowledge of the spiritual, the higher, the
the higher animals in a physical respect. Here, through plain facts
us now pass to a somewhat higher animal species — the fish —
to evolve somewhat higher, and then the head of a more highly-organized
of the higher animals arise, and so on. But the matter is not so simple
structure that has embodied itself to form the fish may evolve higher,

Title: Astral World: Lecture III: The Law of the Astral Plane: Renunciation
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within us and come to an experience and observation of the higher worlds.
does one attain knowledge of the Higher Worlds? [Now in book form],
the path of knowledge, when wishing to press up into the higher worlds.
higher worlds is connected with the development of thinking, feeling
of expressing facts in both the sense-world and the higher worlds, so,
of expression of a higher world. This type of feeling is personal. The
world of Higher Devachan.
henceforth, spiritual resounding. In experiencing the higher worlds
higher worlds and knows: “I am deprived of this or that and there
on the Old Sun. These divine Spirits have ascended into the higher worlds;
sacrifice; no, a higher, richer development is linked with sacrifice
The ascent to the higher
are so transformed that he or she may be led up to higher knowledge
higher faculties.

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of higher knowledge could this be more apparent than in all that is
high repute who, among other activities, had rendered wonderful
and becomes conscious of the presence of higher forces with him,
still higher degree. Kepler has to rely more or less upon pure
the fact that our age sets too high a value on purely intellectual

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higher super-sensible members of his being. We must say that these are
world. During the whole of his life they are attached to the higher
to man's physical body, we mention a higher one too. For in life
feeling would rise to a very high pitch, and once it had re-occurred it
into consciousness. In this way our higher spheres of consciousness are
instead of nought. However high the denominator, provided it is not
“Knowledge of the Higher Worlds” how through meditation
high point but will still not get very far. It will be different if he
about the relation of man to the higher worlds. The book referred to is
“Knowledge of the Higher Worlds”.

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That good luck as well as bad may be in the highest degree subjective, that
knowledge when it is taken in a certain higher sense, signifies at the very
Let us suppose that a man with very high ideas, even with the gift of an
soldier; in spite of his brilliant gifts he rose to nothing higher than
inmost core of my being which will lead it to higher and higher perfection.
is only an incentive to higher development, ill-fortune is also a challenge to

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from a higher level; just so such life processes as we observe today
higher ones, could develop out of lifeless matter. It is interesting
higher level in normal man, and on the highest one in the human
in us today in order to develop a still higher spiritual life in us.
establishes what follows as his highest duty:

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science. We can admire in the very highest degree the splendid
pursued in detail in the book “Knowledge of the Higher Worlds.”
process, and we could not rise to our higher spiritual life at all if
organism the so-called higher feelings and emotions emerge again in
higher moral feelings and those moods in a man which develop into
his higher moral and aesthetic feelings. Here we see that which lives
the instincts of man is restored by the higher moral and aesthetic
death, so that the spirit may raise itself to an ever higher level of
spirit and soul can rise to a higher perfection. Even when looking at

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in my book, Knowledge of the Higher Worlds, life itself can
which are at their highest tension when we are nearing the
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds to have some perceptive
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds
united. In like manner the highly concentrated forces in
existence is rising continually to a higher level; and that
consciousness to ever higher levels, to remember not only his
misfortune do we fit ourselves for rising to a higher level.
Science, therefore, raises from the past to a new and higher

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been accomplished in the world. The highest principles of the art of
as we shall see further on, he prized so highly — if that
from a higher one, his was a figure of tremendous significance —
perfection were possessed by this artist in the highest degree”.

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formed. This feeling of personal gratitude to the higher kingdoms
‘We owe what lives in the very centre of our being to the Higher
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds.

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added a higher being — the Spirit-Self which will manifest within him.
the divine-Spiritual Beings whom we have learnt to know as the Higher
Hierarchies. They will come forth to us from out the Higher
Hierarchies; and we today are already in relation with these Higher
are something much higher than they are in the physical world)-more
real meetings with these higher principles of our being. These
higher Self, — the Spirit-Self which we have yet to develop, and
meeting with the higher world; and it may be said that most people are
The second meeting of which we now have to speak is higher. From the
of course, an immeasurably higher Being than they, but that is not the
and exercise of religion. Spiritual Science may in the highest sense,
If we speak in a more abstract way of the Beings of the Higher
normal way a man has a higher Spiritual principle outside his head
wrench our bodily nature away from the lower and lift it higher.)

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merely as One, who although the Highest, entered human evolution and
Nazareth at the Baptism by John. That is most certainly in the highest
delivered by a highly honoured person of our day, who in his very
calls ‘the higher nature in

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hours of sleep it stands with respect to man, at the highest stage.

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this rules as highest directing principle, that which in the life of
went on, in the course of the year he came in touch with a Higher
waking. But in those olden times, when man still had a high degree of
high enough to be able to connect what took place historically on the

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path). It was only possible for a very highly-developed soul to have
that a higher feeling of shame would make one blush to gaze upon a

Title: Lecture: The Human Soul and the Universe
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added a higher being — the Spirit-Self which will manifest within him.
the divine-Spiritual Beings whom we have learnt to know as the Higher
Hierarchies. They will come forth to us from out the Higher
Hierarchies; and we today are already in relation with these Higher
are something much higher than they are in the physical world)-more
real meetings with these higher principles of our being. These
higher Self, — the Spirit-Self which we have yet to develop, and
meeting with the higher world; and it may be said that most people are
The second meeting of which we now have to speak is higher. From the
of course, an immeasurably higher Being than they, but that is not the
and exercise of religion. Spiritual Science may in the highest sense,
If we speak in a more abstract way of the Beings of the Higher
normal way a man has a higher Spiritual principle outside his head
wrench our bodily nature away from the lower and lift it higher.)

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to clothe the highest truths in words and to give them forth in open
that it would be impossible to put the highest insight into the
be too arid, too dry and cold to express the highest truths. Besides
existence to a higher one. That was the riddle he wanted to solve,
was then considered worthy to have the highest truths communicated to
developed within itself at a higher stage, when it became transmuted
The highest transmutation which man can accomplish is illustrated by
what we call the Highest freedom. When a man follows the primal and
the Lily. The highest forces of the soul, the highest state of
he says that man ascended into the higher spheres of existence and
Goethe has described that Love as the highest state of Freedom, as
organized for a higher life. These three bodies form, according to
physical world from higher spheres, from spheres of which he himself
his spiritual nature is concerned, comes originally from higher
gifted with the highest forces of human nature, which theosophy calls
It appears to no one who has not worked his way up to that higher
stage of development at which his higher self, his selfless nature
highest wisdom is called occult, because it only appears when a man
become light, he then learns to recognise the highest Spiritual
forces that live in a highly developed soul are also to be found in
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viewpoint. A somewhat higher one is held by those who say: It is not a
is not the highest viewpoint, for what have I still in mind except the
the indwelling God. That is why Tolstoy reaches out again for a higher
possessions, external well-being as the highest goal. And now —
is to lead men to a higher level, to a higher standard of life. And
prosperity increases, will also have a higher ethical standard. All
merely an instrument of a higher spiritual force which was also behind

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the resurrection of the higher life. It is offered by the Initiate
this. Jesus of Nazareth is a very highly developed individuality. In
disposal of a higher Being, and, in fact, did so). In the Sixth Root
of Nazareth that utters these words — a body so highly developed that
earthly in order that the Higher may come to life. In the middle of
again when the higher man is born. It is this that is symbolised by
guide. There is a higher aura, that of the intelligence, which has, it

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acquiring higher knowledge, the development of higher sense organs or
aim to raise to a higher stage this human capacity for knowledge. So
and press on to a higher stage, so that it becomes possible to know
these initiation schools. Among all peoples, those having a higher
acquainted with the highest knowledge accessible to us in this world
our being led through certain methods to the higher stages of
himself acquired experiences of the higher, super-sensible life, knows
the inner way that leads to this higher knowledge. And it is only one
developing so that in the future he will reach many higher
attained to an image of God, that which has arrived at the highest
however, the only thing that man has. He has still higher members of
highest thoughts of mathematics and geometry, that have an eternal
instruction of higher powers. Actually in the first four sentences
regular way, implant the higher sense-organs of the soul into his
path as particularly important in the attainment of the higher
whoever really wishes to evolve to the higher super-sensible stages of
higher principles is known. No practicing mystic recognizes more than
this room were 200 degrees higher than it now is, none of us would be
reached the highest stage of man and celebrated his resurrection.
initiation could one rise to higher astral experience.
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acquiring higher knowledge, the development of higher sense organs or
preconditions are truly necessary. Just as higher mathematics would
science calls “higher human solitude.” The other is
cultures offer a soil where inner life in the higher sense can
yogis. A yogi is one who strives for higher spiritual knowledge, but
impossible to distinguish his higher life from insanity. It truly is
has little chance of arriving at higher development. One aspect of
higher development is a most intimate awareness of human community,
the experience. Hence I must meet one who has a higher development
personality in which a higher individuality lives. The first
higher self only in ourselves but also in our fellow men. Everyone
self I am separated from other humans. But as far as my higher self
united with my fellow men; the one speaking to me out of higher
for awakening higher spiritual life.
and confusedly, one may often hear that the higher self lives in the
highest truth will thereby become manifest. Nothing is more
see that, as a rule, no matter how much you fancy that your higher
higher self is not found within us for the time being. We must seek
is further along than we are, since there the higher self is visible.
One's higher self can gain nothing from one's own egotistic
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personal experience of a higher being — as personal an experience as
not only an expression of an event in the life of a higher Being, but
very highest order in cosmic and human life. In the days when genuine
only. The highest kingdom upon the Earth had only reached a stage at
which it was preparing to receive something higher. And then there
of the human race stood higher in the scale of evolution than modern
scientists believe, but the higher part of their being, the divine
higher planetary sphere to our Earth which was now to become the scene
human soul has been working in the body and bringing it to higher
not say: ‘Glory (honour) to God in the highest,’ but rather: ‘To-day
is raised to a higher level, where knowledge of the Spirit is

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acquiring higher knowledge, the development of higher sense organs or
revealed to the pupil if he fords the entrance to the higher worlds.
What is highly essential
good does it do me to learn about the higher worlds, the different
different on the Devachanic plane, not to mention in even higher
the higher worlds can still try to picture them to himself. I am also
manner of representation. He who ascends to the higher regions sees
in this thinking a good guide in the higher worlds. He will not
higher worlds. He who reaches up into these worlds learns new methods
himself in pictorial concepts which represent the higher worlds
example. There is a certain process in the higher worlds which also
than a reproduction of the laws of the higher worlds. The
occult script which acts as a signpost in the higher worlds.
life? Nonetheless, one can ascend to a higher development only
way is a prerequisite for ascent into the higher worlds. But no one
higher worlds will recall that the whole cosmos took part in the
higher egotism. When people say, “I need only let my self
everyday selves to rise as high as possible. They wish to bring
learns to perceive his higher self in the world.
know his higher self. Then he speaks to the flower as to a member of
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acquiring higher knowledge, the development of higher sense organs or
higher temperatures, in which metals were able to flow all around as
there; they could live in the higher temperatures of that time. The
goodness. This was so to a high degree in the Egyptian mysteries and

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on a higher level than all the other arts. Why? Schopenhauer finds
a still higher plane of Devachan, tone becomes something akin to
with the truths of the higher worlds. This phenomenon is entirely
composer conjures a still higher world; he conjures the Devachanic
highest position among the arts by those who know the relationships
held in such high esteem by all who sense such a relationship.
above. One who understands this expression in its highest sense
imprints of ever higher and higher worlds. In music, too, he
experiences the image of a higher world.

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so that all higher animals, just like the human being, possess a
higher animal, of which nothing remains any longer on the earth
today, since it became extinct long ago. The higher animals of today
these beings; it descended from the higher worlds. Animality
esotericist goes on to consider higher and subtler substances, more
a still higher state, we come to what esotericists call “chemical
a physical organ that stands at the highest level of development.

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Onward to strive, to highest life still climbing. —
Up to the highest wish in trust hath striven,
celebrated every year by the highest Initiates in the Mysteries, at
outer, pictorial expression of the highest Mysteries. This imagery has
higher Self within them, or, as we should say in our time, those who
awakening of the higher Self in man is of no importance. In the
where the higher Man, Spirit-Man, again glows and shines within him.
life, in what may be called man's highest Ideal. Thus did they learn
earth and humanity will then waken into a higher existence, into a new
matter a higher Man can be born in the human soul.
man is to have his roots in freedom; and the more highly civilised he
through the power of the higher Man within him, he was able to direct
higher Man, was born in the Holy Night. In this sense, Christ Jesus is
born the Highest — Christ Jesus. Associated with the festival of His
symbolise the three higher members of man's being. When Adam died,
the resurrection of the higher. Goethe expressed the same thought in
the peaks of high mountains. The sun and moon did not shine clearly in
birth of the higher Man within me! In me too the birth of the Saviour,

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and shot the arrow so high into the air that it did not come down for
again, but I shot so high that mine never returned to earth!”
more or less higher moments, when we feel our connection to the
sisters: the three brothers had thrown out their higher sisterly
the initiates experience on the astral and higher planes. Fairy tales

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rise to ever higher truths. It is therefore correct to
simple ABC's to the higher truths, because you will
agree that through these higher truths we gradually attain
incarnations in a more productive way. They are now on a high
other human beings but stand on a higher plane, there are
capable of accomplishing their development in higher, more
himself into it. It was not such a high avatar that we can
transmission of the story. The highest degree of such
into itself, thereby rising to ever higher stages of

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to higher worlds. Every hour spent in spiritual scientific
higher sense, these then are the qualities that spiritual
difficult to understand why the highest authorities have
higher gods, but rather the subordinate Devas who
of higher gods. Because this danger existed, the soul had to
present age to those who have already attained a high level

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higher, super-sensible knowledge must exist. How so?
spiritual world; and it can be developed, raised to ever higher levels, so as
surrounding realms which are higher than those perceived through the senses.
higher knowledge was given to a minority in symbolic form. While today we

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body, and will lead the etheric and physical bodies on to ever-higher stages.
But if we look at the Ego, we find that this high member of man's being is
and an ascent to higher stages of the Ego comes within reach. The outstanding
an attribute of the soul that must be overcome if a man is to rise to higher
A higher truth
emotion comes into it, Men would agree on the highest truths if they had gone
ourselves and imbue us in the highest degree with a sense of truth and a
in order to rise higher; he understood everything we learnt yesterday about
you come upon something remarkable and highly significant at the very start.
this, we shall be in the right relationship to our high ideal,

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Draws us on high.
highest summit that we shall be considering today.
from within the Sentient Soul. Man has progressed from this stage to higher
similar means provided for the Consciousness Soul, the highest member of the
highest instrument of knowledge—thinking.
Draws us on high.
that are still beyond its understanding, provide a good impulse for higher
reverence. These are the organs whereby the Ego, and above all the higher
higher members of the soul. The obscure forces of sympathy and antipathy,
speaks. When Goethe speaks of the regions to which the higher reverence
can lead us, in order to gain there the highest knowledge, and when his
Draws us on high —
Draws us on high.

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observe how what is called asceticism — in the highest sense excluding
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from blind sensation and instinct to the highest moral ideals. Only a
his higher level as the plant is in its certainty and security on the lower
not found in the plant. He must hold before his eyes the high ideal of one
normally dominates him, and raise to a higher level all that is dominated by
conquered, in order to derive from it a higher life. That is the proper
plant, he can say: “Something in me is higher than the plant, but I
expression of our higher being, of what Schiller meant when he spoke of
“the higher man in man”. The blood will then be, as it were, a
feelings gives us an image of human life raised to the level of a higher
to rise to higher worlds through inner meditation and contemplation does not
strength to use the means I have described for developing higher faculties.
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extremes as it were, and if we want to develop higher faculties we need pay
higher worlds and higher relationships. It can be no more than an external
gain understanding of the higher worlds may find a certain obstacle in the
leading us to higher worlds. Vegetarianism will never lead anyone to higher
its accustomed standpoint, it does not rise to higher powers, and he puts up
that people with these symptoms are inclined to rise to higher worlds by
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Seek you the highest, the greatest?
it attains the highest degree of usefulness that can be imagined for a
of service to higher beings. And it will now be an idle triviality to repeat
in outer existence towards the highest levels. This is bound up with what we
plant has risen to the highest expression of its individual being, it is on
of vegetable growth reaches its highest manifestation in the blossom and of
upon to sacrifice its highest self on behalf of its successor in the form of
itself in order that something new may emerge. The highest manifestation of
has in common with the mineral kingdom. We speak of higher members of his
ruled by his higher nature, by his Ego, and his Ego becomes increasingly the
give birth, within his own Ego, to a higher Ego; and this higher Ego will not
we may call a higher man. In this way he brings forth something in himself,
soon see that this participation is a foundation for the higher participation
are shown how he wants to develop his own Self to the highest degree and with
raise it to a higher level. Of course, Goethe is well aware that Wilhelm
show, one might say, the nature of egoism at its highest point. This
beautiful soul, Susanne von Klettenberg, rose indeed to high levels, but
regards this as a kind of highest stage. And it is characteristic of Goethe
higher stage. He was to be shown that a man cannot do enough to develop in
himself an active life of soul; he cannot go far and high enough in what may
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course is to start with a document that is very highly regarded in Buddhist
dependence on this nothingness in order to reach a real, higher state of
over into a new life, where they are lived out on a higher level of
can rise in the course of further incarnations to ever higher and more nearly
forth in ever-higher stages of perfection, until, permeated by the spirit,
outer world all that was once found there. That is also the highest meaning
clarity within it, that men of the highest philosophical eminence are
highest type of man is he whom we may call a “saint”; a man who

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is highly stimulating. Although many details in it have since been corrected,
through the work of this highly gifted man, Fechner.
it are heard, it is in fact highly vulnerable.
Here we enter the highly dangerous realm where those who believe they have a
body, which he has in common with the minerals. Next we have in man a higher
Through higher
higher qualities which were formerly an external influence and which are now

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ourselves can attain a high level of spiritual understanding
all in any real (or apparent) knowledge of higher things by
lead to the highest within us. Is it not natural that the
path to the highest should also be the hardest? Hence we
itself can be led into those higher spheres. We gain
that plane. If a Buddha or a Bodhisattva stands at a higher
higher qualities through a number of incarnations on the
indication of what I mean by the higher morality, the higher
who follow the path leading to higher development are likely
Moon and the Earth itself. Forces from higher spheres are
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higher Beings, the strength which falls away when we lose the
things in the higher worlds — things which are then made

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HIGHER KNOWLEDGE AND MAN'S LIFE OF SOUL
essential truths can be seen is so infinitely high. If people
can be observed from the higher, spiritual standpoint of
life the truths attained at higher levels. For although it
at high levels of the spiritual world intelligible to a
same time to be cautious in proclaiming higher truths
higher world. He must be quite certain that his personal

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genuine investigations into the higher worlds could of course

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higher worlds, how he must undergo certain experiences and
awaken forces slumbering in his soul, how each higher stage
strove to rise into the higher worlds he could not retain
higher worlds was told that he could not rise into those
and man rises to higher stages of existence.
highest Initiation, the Sun Initiation, but could achieve a
even higher source.
was regarded as the higher. Hence John the Baptist declared
proclaimed: A higher form of Initiation will be vouchsafed to
water, but in the higher sense described by John as
and speak of a higher Power — an Angel who speaks through

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higher spiritual Being. This is not poetic imagery but a
Zarathustra was chosen to be the abode of a higher Being and
its highest form by the great Buddha. Taking Zarathustra as a
following way to be the bearer of a higher Being who was not
himself actually to incarnate. It was decreed by the higher
world he would reach a higher stage and would see what is
such as the Zarathustra-child is filled by a higher Being the
to regard the personality concerned as being no more highly
highest level. Christ descended into a human being in his

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have learnt about the higher, supersensible worlds. We have
Folk lies in the hands of the Archangelos. All these higher
higher level we come to the Exousiai. They are supersensible
how the Beings of these still higher Hierarchies differ from
spiritual Beings of the Hierarchies higher than the Angeloi,
Time-Spirits to still higher forms of revelation. Such
revelations are recognised as belonging to a realm higher
lightning. Knowing that the higher the rank of the
that point of time a child is highly impressionable. Just
present, in its highest form, the consciousness otherwise

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THE HIGHER MEMBERS OF MAN'S CONSTITUTION:
idealism, who sets himself high ideals, and one who,
plane our actions can never wholly conform with our highest
of the evolution of man, forces are set astir in the higher
body of man is somehow permeated by certain higher members.
is willingness to acknowledge that higher members of
higher level, to conduct itself worthily in the face of
where our thoughts are so often lifted to the highest
consideration of higher things, making use of what we have

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Gospel which reveals the very highest insight into the
understand how the highest spirituality in human nature
he is one who aims at developing higher qualities and who
cosmic laws — it must rise again in a higher form. And
that a higher man must rise from within. This was the
into a higher sphere when it becomes a spoken human word, so
a higher stage when it becomes the Cosmic Word, the
physiological sense, is at a higher stage than the muscles.
verses apply, in the high moral sense I have indicated, to

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and influence of this Impulse at a higher and more perfect
not fail to draw attention again and again to the highest

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the higher worlds; how a higher part of the Self must be
the Earth in order to rise to a higher stage. We have also
spheres to which his higher Self belongs, into the higher
the lower and higher Ego, about man's physical, etheric
These forces have changed into the longing for a higher
about saying that man strives towards his higher self and to
in order that he might rise to a higher stage. To what stage
development we find our higher Self. The minstrels said: The
represented by Morgana, to higher and higher stages during
with the highest powers of his soul to receive this source of

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the higher worlds, you will discover, at a certain level of spiritual
happenings, for example, when the highest animal organisms were the
high that it never comes back!” Sure enough, the lark did not

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acquiring higher knowledge, the development of higher sense organs or
attainments does not at first come from the higher forces, from
which serve digestion, but also those of a higher kind, those which
find described in the book, Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and its

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with the higher spirituality, so we can say that the Ego represents

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lower level, on a higher level the soul that comes out of the

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developed the principle of mutual help to a high level. We specially
application of mutual help to an extraordinarily high level in
life to a high moral level. Mutual support, mutual help was
cultivated to a high degree in those organizations.
look at the highest peak of this development at the extensive
In everything that appeared as the highest fruits of this culture we
about that thoughts concerning the highest principle are separated
that a higher being expresses itself through those tiny living
that a higher being presses itself through the unified members. It is
new higher being is among these five — even among two or three;
higher spiritual beings descend to act through the individual human
highest sense, reality. Because of this spiritual scientists are not
magicians because they pull in higher beings. One does not call upon
sisterly, brotherly love. Higher beings manifest themselves there. If
Brother/Sisterhoods out of the spirit, out of the highest ideals of
towards the highest treasures of mankind in the sense of the mutual
us a higher reality, and it is this consciousness of a higher
spiritual forces which stream from man to man, the higher mutual help
world nor into ourselves, because it is true in the highest spiritual

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and elevates the life awakened by Vishnu to the highest
the day on which the Sun again rose to a higher altitude. The
astral sight must return upon a higher level; all that which
of mankind, who were aware of how the higher spiritual life

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however highly trained a person may be in body-free
rate exceedingly highly, have been led to the mistaken belief
scientist very highly esteemed in his own country, a

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far into high spiritual worlds. Moderns don't need anything more to
get into very high spiritual worlds. We must live entirely in

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the life and substance of higher beings. We would then have
remembered this during the day and we'd always know that higher
reverence for high spiritual beings.

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spirits of higher hierarchies who send out their helpers to
they'll work themselves higher to the degree that they
elemental messengers of the higher hierarchies will also

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higher and day consciousnesses simultaneously.

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and dead as the cross's wood. Then the higher, spiritual ego

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that's just pseudonym for the highest spiritual being. Only the

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higher beings took a thought many millions of years ago and thought
the thought of many higher beings.
oscillation, but this was already put into it by higher beings. So
into the higher hierarchies for awhile and thereby gets forces; the

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super-sensible world, we're actually taken hold of by higher beings who

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to a higher level; it becomes more selfless and ready for
any experiences in higher worlds.

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higher organs after we've built them up in the described way.

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higher beings have brought about in us. A man should never forget
the thoughts of our ego, so world forces weave our higher I.

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wants to pursue the highest aim of human quest for knowledge in
One Attain Knowledge of Higher Worlds? and in other
One Attain Knowledge of Higher Worlds?, can note
skill to higher perfection if you practise it often. In the

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consideration, actually, from the highest human riddles. One
One Attain Knowledge of Higher Worlds? and
limits, but he develops his soul with it, and thus those higher
human being gets to know the higher ego that remains usually
a higher, malleable organ with the much faster proceeding life
However, we get to an even higher mental picture of our ego,

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to the highest degree to speak of things of another world. He
intermaxillary existed, while all higher animals would have
practical reason with Kant — to a higher region, why one
higher ability lets the thinking appear before the human being.
level the same as the beholding consciousness on a higher
One Attain Knowledge of Higher Worlds?. Goethe did
One Attain Knowledge of Higher Worlds? and in other
higher human being lives, as compared with what the usual
announce this higher human being who carries his desires up to
higher human being in the human being. Goethe did not want to
lives as a higher human being within the human being. This
higher being in the human being appeared to him so rich in its
themselves and to the higher human being. This lives in the
spiritual researcher must have patience and energy to a high

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being who lives between birth and death really a higher,
essential element of the higher human being.
supersensible is on a higher level in certain respect than the
a higher level. You see, the things are not as simple as the
spiritual researcher discovers on a higher level of existence
spiritual-mentally in the human being on a higher level. There
the spirit whose participant the human being is on a higher,
spiritual-mentally on a higher level because his higher
which is on a higher level, but is more imperfect. Then he
theoretically, then that is highly confirmed scientifically
the human being with the whole universe what the higher being

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level of higher consciousness, with the Inspirative

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lower nature in relation to his higher nature that is expressed
and animal head is, actually, only a higher organised,
relating to the outside world with the senses is a higher
higher sensory organism of the head on the one side, and thus
production. This evolution is the highest development of the
The moment of highest clarification, of most intensive
animals at death. These two moments of the highest reduction
highest of the spiritual-mental does not relate at all to the

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contents which somebody regards as revelation of higher worlds
the inner weaving and living of this highest member of the
highest critical introspection always what could keep him from

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think that the highest revelations of the human being have to
One Attain Knowledge of Higher Worlds?, in the
it is possible to wake to a higher consciousness that I have
higher area, which less enters into the usual consciousness.
Imagination and Inspiration. However, just of this highest
look once again at that which is expressed in the higher

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he was sure that the artist could give man of the highest. He

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of preparation than the more highly developed animals. Great
embryonic development of higher animals shows us.
so clearly. This judgment is made from a fairly high level; we
shall we get anywhere if we have always to test the highest
and set on a higher level what he did from a sense of duty.

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a word which we can only apply to the higher spiritual realm.
illusion to the region of the spirit. The highest reality is
work of art. They aimed at a reflection of higher reality, of
The spirit out of which we act is the highest. In that period,

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in a continual struggle for a higher view of the world; how he
against one who struggles higher. This struggling (philosopher)
of me is only a hieroglyph of the highest being.
higher acting within human life which cannot be solved within
man's freedom still remains the highest; an inner necessity

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everything is predestined, and complete. Man is set in a higher
which hovers over Wallenstein. Man belongs to a higher order, a
higher spiritual world — that is for Schiller the meaning
preface, he might raise art to a higher level by means of the

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higher conception of the drama and to reach back to the primal
regarded the primal drama as the higher form, was already alive
in Schiller. Schiller's idea of raising the beautiful to higher
reached a still higher answer to his question.

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one has reached a higher view. Men at a higher level can
world, but to be the heralds of a higher spiritual reality.
unite all that it has won of knowledge, into a higher idealism

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had the definite object of leading man to a higher level of
them if the higher that lives in him is purified; he can raise
raising man to a higher level of existence. During the
by the help of Kantianism and the artistic, to higher views,
material. Schiller in his plays was always striving higher

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the love for universal peace lives in the hearts of high-
support of such high quarters, would be highly successful.
our attention from the higher animals to the lower species in
highest measure are those who advance furthest. Consequently,
sphere the same as the single human individuality upon a higher
highest animal-species. Indeed, those who have some
to develop a self-conscious earthly life, and the High Powers
individuality is upon a higher stage the same as the group-soul
not lead to a higher development. Each animal-species developed

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place within the world as our highest, as our moral willing
conscious within the spirit in a higher, and above all, in a
value most highly — lectured on September 10, 1911 at the

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into the ether, just as the highest element of matter flows
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which they called Schema, and which was for them the higher,
anthropology, but with something higher:
“If it is indeed highly welcome that the most recent
them very highly. This natural scientist has earned great
Till we at last have all the highest aims achieved.

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besides they are told it will happen before they die, it is highly

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Iphigenie ranks very high. He was, however, quite unable to

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higher spiritual hierarchies in cosmic evolution.
of the higher worlds and about their connection with man. It must be
pertaining to the higher spheres of spiritual science. It is possible
into the higher worlds we there meet with beings who, it is true, do
In the same way we find in still higher regions, on the devachanic plane,
the egos of quite large plant groups, and in the highest parts of Devachan
here on the physical plane. We saw in this way that in these higher
by higher beings of the astral world, and the actual ego is behind
When we raise ourselves from the physical world into higher worlds
one does not know that beings who live above in higher worlds are active
manifestation, of beings of higher worlds. It is of these things that
in the higher worlds as being much more complicated than people are
the aspect of the higher worlds, there exists an unbroken connection
If we then mount up higher to the devachanic plane we find certain beings
Again we find on the higher
possess to an infinitely higher, more frightful degree all that lives
there are beings, men and higher animals, who have lymph and there these
a higher standpoint than could he presented in earlier lectures, how
that are highly prized in human society — quite apart from what
path of occult development to ever higher stages of knowledge learns
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higher spiritual hierarchies in cosmic evolution.
away, as it were, what was the best and most capable of the highest
Sun took with it certain higher beings and together with these higher
sun-evolution, will have added something which, in spite of their higher
and which in times to come will evolve into higher conditions, carries
comes into being. This Vulcan-existence is actually a higher condition
on Venus are sun-beings — actually at a higher stage than the
there arises, as a still higher stage of evolution, something that in
today call a “Zodiac” — it is the stage higher than
stars lie like bodies embedded in it — then a higher stage is
to a higher stage after having themselves passed through a planetary
forces also correspond, in man, to the higher members of his being,
to his higher, nobler attributes. The forces which are in the descending
eighth member, higher than spirit-man. We begin to enumerate thus:
lowest member and above, a highest member best designated by the number
Zodiac, to reach into the Zodiac. The more the ego strives for the highest
is man's highest. Let us try to conceive of these beings
whose lowest sphere of operation is man's highest (Libra in the

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higher spiritual hierarchies in cosmic evolution.
the higher sections of theosophy. Much goodwill, therefore, will be
no opportunity of throwing light upon the higher realms of spiritual
at a higher stage than man went through it in a kind of watery condition.
they are highly exalted beings, two stages above man. They are so advanced
see why that happened when you re-member that highly-evolved beings,
a furious tempo. Only such beings as stood two stages higher than man
the beings more highly organized than the plants, permeating the red
the beings of an essentially higher order than man, whom we have called
high enough to be able really to endure the sun existence. You must

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higher spiritual hierarchies in cosmic evolution.
higher level than man in his first rudiments.
stage higher than man can reach in the course of his evolution through
they now have the astral body and their higher development means that
about that man divided into a higher and a lower part. Thus from the
to rise higher and those passions which are imbued with selfishness
have often mentioned, a piece of the thigh bone, in which the lattice
constructed as the thigh bones which carry the human upper body like
We have to do here, as you see, with highly exalted beings to whom we
— as member of higher beings — is equivalent to our life-spirit.

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higher spiritual hierarchies in cosmic evolution.
the higher beings who were connected with the sun and who gave the human
to a higher condition. His senses were opened, the two heavenly bodies

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higher spiritual hierarchies in cosmic evolution.
of planetary evolution are ever advancing to higher stages. The human
he has evolved to Jupiter he will be capable of receiving a still higher
the periphery of the Moon became capable of a higher evolution when
the Moon became Earth; they ascended higher. The beings who at that
schooling for the higher love. Earthly man is to develop love in himself,
man to a higher stage. But the advance of evolution to such a stage
and must again decline, how it attains its highest point in the flight
man will know and thence ascend to the recognition of the highest spiritual

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higher spiritual hierarchies in cosmic evolution.
Yahve, the lawful, Prince of this World. The highest spirit is
stages. We know too that he will lift himself to higher stages of evolution
beings already in existence who stood as high as man stands today. There
were beings too who at that time stood far higher than man stands today.
and who stand today one stage higher than humanity. In the Jupiter-evolution
notion that man can look up direct to the highest Divinity; we have
of the Angels? we receive as answer: In a certain respect it is a higher
mission, and since they have a consciousness two stages higher than
consciousness of the Archangels is so high that they have fully perfected
did not look up direct to the highest Being, but that they turned their
people. They revered as the highest God, Yahve or Jehovah. But for them
strives upwards to an ever higher consciousness, and that even now in
the course of earthly evolution he is ascending to an ever higher consciousness.
abstractions, but go into these details. For the highest beings of whom
looked back to Atlantean times when they dimly perceived higher kingdoms
to rise into the higher worlds. The physical plane of external reality
hierarchy stay be-hind, they have not risen as high as the others, but
Powers. Only with a faint divining could we look up to a still higher

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higher spiritual hierarchies in cosmic evolution.
The threefold nature of man: body, soul, and spirit. Beings higher
of man, of the higher worlds, of evolution, etc., but far more than
beings, to higher spiritual beings who formerly played that part in
beings who today stand higher than man were then passing through their
who are today two stages higher than man, the Fire Spirits, went through
In the future phases of our planet man will bring it to a higher development.
of man. If we now look up from man to the higher beings of whom we have
on the Moon and have now ascended higher. Such a coarse corporeal nature
al-ready developed the higher members of the spirit not yet possessed
as it were, towards the higher worlds and linked to spirituality. I
wit in the highest degree and anyone coming into touch with them can
say that his highest member is the ego or ‘I’ and the lowest is the
In the higher nerve system, particularly in the brain which is built
that the moment some member of our organism is brought to a higher stage
lies a stage higher than the physical body. Still less can one see the
astral body because it lies higher still. But beneath physical matter
minus 1 and minus 2. And then we have still others whose highest principle
one. We can also say that if man's higher members were not there
we call the ego. The gnomes have the physical body as their highest
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higher spiritual hierarchies in cosmic evolution.
under higher beings.
but as a sort of limb of spiritual beings. He belonged to higher spiritual
higher souls the opportunity of descending to man. The more that men
projection where a being of the higher worlds touched the physical world.

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higher spiritual hierarchies in cosmic evolution.
stones, the minerals, have their group egos in the higher parts of Devachan.
of other, higher beings. So the human being is taken every night into
the bosom of higher beings, as it were, and they endow him with the
man is a spiritual unity, that what happens in his higher members, the
higher worlds must take possession of the physical body in the night
man's astral body and ego are in a higher world, but he himself
the astral world, but yet not high enough upwards with his ego, to justify
from what we call man's higher ego. For we know that man is gradually
entanglements between the spiritual world in the higher sense and our

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higher spiritual hierarchies in cosmic evolution.
man's gaze looks through it. And then we come to still higher
all the time relationship with the higher worlds, however improbable
astral body of higher beings to manifest in it. The Arts and what they
through man's connection with the higher worlds — and only
of higher worlds which is loftier and more significant than anything
uniting in the physical world with something still higher. He has a

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highly inappropriate to produce one of the old Greek dramas in a
In Oriental occultism — apart from its very highest Initiates who
This is the highest Individuality recognised by Oriental occultism.

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attaining high academic honours. The other boy was much less talented.
in the form of his great talents Very soon he became a man of high
disappeared into the coffin. People were astounded in the highest
highest degree at the vistas of spiritual life opened up by the

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which does science the very highest credit, and intolerance does not
to a higher world and has drawn nearer to what is spoken of by all
normal consciousness but connected with higher forms of consciousness

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Beings seem strange and remarkable in the highest degree; they have
of the culture connected with the ether-body which reached its highest

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the blessings and high lights of one particular epoch, this most

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about the primal origins or the ultimate and highest meaning of life.
phases of evolution and that a higher vantage-point must be
over the Earth, among all the peoples. It is of the highest
have remained in the higher worlds?” Man could not remain in
high level, and while this sort of thing goes on, it is futile to
the individual human Spirit. What will remain as the highest substance
to its highest degree. The mouth must convey the impression that it is
Ideal embodied in Him. When man reaches out towards this highest Ideal

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something of the highest importance was taking place at that time in
very highest degree. To imagine that when one human being met another,
physical plane, not in the higher worlds. Now that Kaliyuga has come
as a phenomenon, complete in himself, giving forth the highest and
work that it is difficult to imagine him rising still higher or

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given to these Beings of the Higher Hierarchies because everything
Beings of the Higher Hierarchies are involved in a constant process of
In our present age, the Spirits of Form are moving to the higher rank
themselves move into a higher category and withdraw from the
up as they do to higher ranks, have themselves to evolve, and prepare
Buddha-life was a kind of preparation for a higher mission; that it
geographical boundaries? It is high time to reflect on these things

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with a certain part of its being, it stood at a far higher
dwelling; he has fallen from his high estate.
In Spiritual Science the first level of higher consciousness

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named Caiaphas, being the highJohn XI, 49–52).

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must draw your attention to something that is highly
Christians today act in any way differently from the high

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therefore thought it highly desirable that the study of
higher sphere to its present level.
from a higher sphere, with the result that they are of
that there is a higher vision of the world in which the
whole. But this higher vision will not be reached through a
certain sense, been corrupted, has fallen from a higher
sphere and must recover once again its former high estate.
corrupted and must lift itself to a higher level. The
to a higher level is found in the Mystery of Golgotha, that
higher realms from which he has fallen. He would not have
succumbed to the Luciferic temptation, for in those higher
no longer be possible; it must be transposed to a higher
High Priests — He is speaking of the Kingdom of Heaven.
order has descended from its former high estate, the purely
world will be raised once again to higher realms, must start

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raised to a higher level, pervades the Gospels and why
contrast. And this contrast was raised to a higher level by

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abandoned; but we recognize the high purpose that inspired
policy was to establish a highly centralized political
and gave high praise to Cato because he proposed to banish
highest importance, “thorny” problems as

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post-Atlantean epoch only. They had reached their high point
Eleusinian Mysteries that had reached their high point
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds
withholding of higher knowledge from those unfitted to

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might ask: Would not a high Initiate have been more suitable
world, whilst the higher Initiates had more or less purged
dead. From the fourth degree the initiate rose to a higher
higher degree, the initiate attained to those insights which
political science must be founded on a higher order of ideas,
higher order of ideas embodied in the plant kingdom, but
believe in a higher form of State which recognizes a more
but I cannot help being touched by these high hopes. These
Bahr too thinks highly of it. He is a man of taste and well
wishes to publicize the book and proposes to write a highly

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Knowledge of the Higher Worlds,
attained a high degree of clairvoyance, genuine clairvoyance;
high degree of Imaginative cognition which is a necessity for
higher stages of knowledge. And it was especially his
and the phenomenal world, observations which are highly
interact; a higher power brings about a harmony or agreement
a higher power, just as an impression is made upon the soul
chance is only a shadow-image of higher necessities.
higher perspective. Apart from Franz Brentano, one of the
Aristotle, not in a more perfect state, but in a highly
the public is highly credulous. They are first told in the
kingdom where the dead and the higher Beings dwell. In many

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higher animal.
a higher disposed animal, as a member of the physical-natural creation,
have a higher observation point of the world view.
where they can no longer give answer to the higher questions with their
the development of higher organs, of higher capacities. If the human
being develops these higher capacities in himself, he faces the world
able to develop higher organs, you would experience that even higher
like all the other physical forces, only a higher one and this is the

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lead to the higher spheres of spiritual life; so that nobody should
to the higher fields of existence. It is not possible that one theosophist
ascend to the higher fields of existence.
as the highest component the imperishable being of the human being,
elements of the human being. Who learns to observe in the higher realms
the consciousness and also the ability of observing in these higher
to small circles. The last who spoke something of these higher fields
laws and is also embedded in a world like the body. In higher sense
is subjectively something higher; he is also a sum of feelings, of desires,
An even higher world than
that is higher than the lifeless. Everybody knows the passage in his
such an etheric duplicate body. That human being who develops the higher
and is called kama-rupa or astral body in theosophy. The highest member
soul encloses memory and the low reason. The highest member contains
Thus I have shown the highest member of the human soul to you.
sentient body and the soul-body separately. This higher part of the
higher octave of red and violet the aura gleams in the most manifold
called attention to the fact that in this world higher experiences exist
as a rudiment. This manas is connected as firmly with the highest member
highest part of the soul and the lowest part of the mind form a whole
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the higher fields. But there are the same laws in these higher fields,
solely in the higher fields of the spiritual life.
facts. Not before the higher facts take place before his soul-eyes as
human beings cannot come to higher levels of development.
physical sense, as far as the human being is on the highest level of
leads us to a higher concept of describing the evolution within the
life, the physical law of cause and effect faces us in the higher life,
the physical world and attains in the future and on higher levels what
also in sleep and in the higher states. It makes the remembrance possible
In the even higher fields
of the individuality, of the higher personal if he understands how to
theosophy regards as its highest ideal, it is also not the last ethical
us from the sensuous world to the higher worlds who themselves behold
the higher super-sensible secrets of existence clairvoyantly. But this
for example, is individualised gradually and in connection with higher
and feels that he is penetrated by it. The higher the things are for
being gradually passed to the higher knowledge. It existed as a so-called
taken up step by step to the highest profundities. These ancient mysteries
higher community who had found direction and goal in themselves, who
higher planes of existence it is also a fact. The external Christianity

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not consider the narrow ken of a present human being but from a higher
other, higher forms.
from relatively imperfect levels to a higher level in the present, and
up to a culmination to be replaced in future by a higher mental activity.
concept of a world life, a concept of life in its highest significance.
being as something higher. Indeed, the external shape of any being is
of the world and the epoch of the non-cognition of any higher reality
a lot. Goethe supports a by far higher, much more comprehensive theory
will get something higher than Darwinism is. This is the Goethean theory
with the eyes of the scientist rising to higher stages of life. We must
between were the careful spirits who could not rise to a higher understanding

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According to the same higher
is not the highest goal Tolstoy says , because what else I have in mind
is why Tolstoy resorts again to a kind of higher organised Christianity,
to develop the forms highly and to regard the external possession, the
external well-being as the highest. And now we know that we do not have
point. The material culture should induce the human being to get a higher
a better external livelihood also have a higher morality. All moral
you develop this form culture highly that you really get to a higher
them to the highest degree; it produced the big and immense progress
being acts out of the higher, internal, divine nature, and neither is
to a higher one, who are able to behold super-sensible worlds, they should
If theosophy has to lead us to higher worlds, we have to bring the super-sensible

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in the supra-physical. As true it is that we climb up to the higher
senses knows nothing about these higher worlds. He lives in them; however,
the higher life in this life and becomes aware of that which I have
in the physical world, it also takes place in the higher world, in the
and highest group are the forces of the most real spiritual life. It
where the soul addresses itself to higher tasks than it can get in the
highest pours into the soul and that it reappears as God's light.
gets to know this higher region which we have called soul-light, soul-force
used to calling these highest regions of the astral world the summer
death, his mind, his third part, the highest part of the human being,

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higher region.
because our language is not made for these higher areas of existence.
being. The thought life corresponds to this higher spiritual reality.
to distinguish in it. For him the regions of this higher reality separate
called the higher light of aeons. This organises the human being and
world, he beholds everything filled with higher reality that appears
aura is traversed by a higher aura. While the aura of the soul shines
in a softly gleaming light, this higher spiritual aura, which remains
even higher regions, he experiences the all-encompassing life. This
Then an even higher region
above which refer to our earth. Here we already get in touch with higher
something that is brought in from a higher region to our earth. This
on earth, which contains, however, what gives just a higher shine to
of the devachan which are even higher are regions, which are still less
divine, as the higher spiritual, as the actually idealistic, which comes
as higher moral, as higher religiousness and subtler spiritual science
higher regions of devachan any wisdom, any higher shine of existence,
higher, the more he is able to act out in this world of the spirit.
and comes back with increased forces. Who has experienced a higher sense
longer, of course. It is a state of the highest bliss. What limited
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questions on the high school. Some notes of this time show not only
have brought to the highest development was detached for our time, so
a picture of something much higher that we have discussed in the preceding
the highest; the personality that stands out by its ingenuity or devoutness
on the physical plane or the sensuous world but also in the higher worlds.
If we ascend through the soul-world to the higher spiritual worlds,
something of a higher music sounds to us. Not the music which we perceive
found is an expression of a higher fact, something that is much more
expression of the higher world's secrets. Thus the way was shown
renovator of the old Greek art which expresses the highest secrets in
in the higher degrees any human being has consciousness. So we have
consciousness lives in life and ascends to higher and higher figures.
which is worth to be pulled out to higher formation. Thereby we have
figures show higher formation. He did not understand the consciousness
that develops and goes into higher and higher figures. Nietzsche saw
the fore in always higher form.
in higher and higher forms. Hence, he taught the “eternal recurrence
returns on higher levels. This is the thought to which he was influenced
in the same figure, not in the same form, but in a higher figure, in
a higher form. This was the second state of Nietzsche's development.
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knowledge and experience, and a second level. A higher level is only
limits and a higher level with which one is enabled to make experiences
idea of the higher worlds, soon convinces himself that the least is
without which never own higher experience is attained: this is patience.
instructions which he has attempted. The highest is achieved by minor
publicly in my writing How Does One Attain Knowledge of the Higher
Does One Attain Knowledge of the Higher Worlds?, are descended
Does One Attain Knowledge of the Higher Worlds? is harmless in
the soul-eyes, and who attains a higher level on this path has to owe
the saint. Understanding everybody is necessary. This is the higher,
the higher qualities of calmness, rest and peace inside and the qualities

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the swing of a pendulum between the higher and lower self,
shows the development of the human being from the lower to the higher
in any mysticism the highest psychic is female; cognition is a conception
to the higher regions, to the devachan, we would say. However, Goethe

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unless a higher being had grasped and developed this being up to a higher
then again higher beings until the highest spiritual influence took
if one speaks in such abstract higher ideas. Hence, the creation history
in it like a big raise to the etheric heights. If you are raised higher
and higher to the recognition of such thoughts which are modelled on
reality is raised to a higher level, into the pure thought-world. You
in my Theosophy. It is the higher self that separates itself from that
can be raised to a higher sphere, the world of feelings can also be
raised to a higher sphere. That world of joys and desires is apparently
higher regions, it is even higher than the world of thoughts. The eternal
in the feeling is higher than the thought. If you raise the feeling
to the higher spheres like the thought in mathematics, then you experience
thinking. There is a higher thinking that is logical and coherent that
which is the mostly unconscious in the human being rises to the highest
world principle it is hard to talk of this highest development of the
as the highest spiritual in the soul intermingles with the lower qualities
ego, manas the “higher thinking”, the pure thinking, and
take up the higher spirituality in themselves at first; they had to
higher principles in themselves. These are the physical ancestors of
thereby ascended to a higher level. The human being was freed from the
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can develop this cognitive faculty higher and higher, so that we gradually
of the human soul to higher and higher insights, because all human soul
the Theosophical Society it was only possible to give this highest truth
highest. The marriage of the male with the female in the human soul
highest. This human principle striving at first in selfness is shown
preserved the names. All higher truth stands in the etheric shine before
who strives for the clearness, the highness, and the purity of the views.
higher truths stand before us if we express this attitude. It was this
the highest form of the human consciousness, the lily.
mathematical studies even during later years, even up to the highest
to something higher, something uniform behind all sensuous phenomena.
higher spiritual beholding in this fairy tale. Let us now try to penetrate
from lower to higher stages. This moment is called in the myths, in
self-consciousness, the self-consciousness, and a higher one. The lower
nature of the desires and the higher one of the consciousness are linked
world. If the human being wants to be brought back to the higher worlds
luminous and has taken up the higher divine nature in itself, it also
there concerns the highest secrets of human development.
only develop higher in the mystery temple up to now. This is that soul-force
The silver king indicates an even higher element than wisdom: it is
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human being develops from his lower self to the higher one, and that
of the kings, the representatives of the highest spiritual powers. We
his head and reminds him: recognise the highest! He is endowed with
spiritualised that way. The human being becomes the creator of a higher
to develop his higher self in himself if he deadens the lower one in
complacent, selfish attitude. They cannot recognise the high value of
passions only does not suffice. An even higher wisdom must come; the
ancient wisdom will be replaced by an even higher wisdom. The events
itself represents the higher self of the human being which gets to knowledge.
who meets it with inner life. But this refers only to the highest enlightenment.
higher consciousness that the human being obtains if he sacrifices himself
future ones, in him. The young man attains the highest consciousness
get to the higher secrets. However, the time comes when the temple of
achieved his goal, the gate of higher knowledge uncloses itself to him,
highest forces of the human being in their purity. In these three forms
scabbard; this is the symbol of the highest human force: atma. The king
speaks: “recognise the highest.” The young man receives
the secret of the decay of the lower and of the rise of the higher human

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to develop his soul to higher capacities and, hence, “refrains
he gets the longing for developing his soul to a higher condition, he
of the time in which the human being descended from his higher spirituality
to approach a higher future. Because the human being gives reality the
possibility to grow into a higher future, he cares for idealism.
in the human soul to ascend to a higher spirituality. This soul state
usual reason. The human being penetrates to something higher with the
soul pushes him that he should develop higher and higher. He brings
is an image of the fact that a lower and a higher ego-consciousness
consciousness which should lead him to higher and higher stages in the
dark earth.” Then he cannot develop the higher consciousness in
can combine with the higher female principle in his soul will thereby
to receive messages from higher worlds.
the higher things which he beheld not in life but in the art. He should
faced me. Above a high wall, I saw the branches of ancient walnut-trees.
again, and then the initiation on higher level is repeated for you.
if on a higher level the initiation is possible. Then the gate is visible
of the higher secrets before our souls in these both fairy tales, The
higher states of consciousness by this development. A found piece of

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stands higher and contains more than one can otherwise bring forward
as experience in these higher fields. You find the relevant periods
then which we call our immortal spirit. This higher element, this higher
higher thinking. Without spirit the human being could not count, without
spirit he could not speak, without spirit no higher spiritual activity,
never mind still higher activities would be possible. So that we deal
of fancies rather than to a higher spiritual world. There he would miss
gets to a higher level, and in another respect it descends to a lower
spoken, the higher mammals did not yet exist. The higher mammals have,
that is today the human being and the higher animal realm. The human
higher animals.
once advanced peoples. The same applies to the higher animals if we
the human being still undifferentiated from the other higher animal
we are with a temperature higher than hundred degrees, and imagine also
shadings. At higher temperatures even bigger changes are to be observed.
that the farther we go back in the earth development, we come to higher
and higher temperatures. The theosophist or the practical mystic sees
liquid ones become vaporous et etcetera Now we come back to much higher
realises that life was possible in these higher temperatures of the
earth .The human being really lived in these higher temperatures, indeed,
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to increase these human cognitive faculties to a higher level, so that
to higher levels, and then one can recognise what one could not recognise
been such initiatory schools. With all peoples recognising men of higher
of the human cognitive faculties and got to the highest knowledge, which
the point that we are led to higher stages of cognition using certain
of the higher super-sensible life knows the intimate ways leading to
this higher cognition. Only such a man/woman is competent to say what
to much higher stages in future.
the image of God today, what of the human being has come to the highest
only what the human being has. The human being has even higher members
these are only certain abstract, academic thoughts, the highest thoughts
written down by Mabel Collins (1851-1927) according to higher instructions,
being has to implant higher soul senses lawfully into his aura. The
the attainment of the higher stages of the human being? This eightfold
who really wants to develop to higher super-sensible stages has to develop
in this room the temperature were 200 degrees higher than now, we would
it revives in the matter, how it gets to its highest stage in the human
was in such initiatory school one could ascend to the higher astral
that rise of the soul to higher stages during the new cultural stage
his name. He belongs to a higher world. The chela, the swan, provided
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is the highest happiness of the earth children only.” But, nevertheless,
personality wants to be free, free before the highest, before the divine.
that was higher than personality: he recognised his individuality. The
An ideal which is a higher
them once on a higher level. A poet like Ibsen had to reach into this

Title: Origin and Destination of Humanity: Lecture XVIII: The Future of the Human Being
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in our time and that he points to something higher that overcomes the
by those who are imbued with a higher spiritual reality. However, this
material cover is thin. At that time, the earth was still in a high
the human being penetrates the higher worlds consciously and not in
and reality. Nobody can come to the higher world who indulges every
which I have often stated so that the human being rises to the higher
rounds develop higher capabilities of the human being. What I have just
Then it will higher develop, until the development concludes. This will
be the master of the plant world on a higher level, as he is now master
We have to raise everything to a higher stage that the human being can
personality and individuality, between lower and higher manas. What
anything higher, while it constructs ships, railways, telephones et
being is the remaining. Art is something that has a still much higher

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interlinked with jamborees, with devoted words to the highest idealism
Schiller starts considering life from the highest point of view.
in his dramas which belong to the highest of humanity. The human being
up to the highest heights of thinking and imagination.
in himself and expresses on a higher level what is poured out in the
perpetual work on the soul and its further development to the higher
higher and higher things the higher he develops. Who accustoms himself
being and want to raise this core a stage higher.
each of the next dramas, Schiller tries to reach a higher level to educate
descended from higher spheres, who embodies himself in the material
the highest fields of this spiritual being. What he sought was nothing

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They should collaborate with young people who prepare for the highest
people about the highest cultural problems have to be determinative
faculty. Indeed, as well as the high educational system is today, we
he could ascend to the other, higher faculties. For the other faculties
were called the higher ones with some right. Then he could advance to
who could see up to the highest summits of existence because of his
beings in the highest form had lived in which the human being can attain
experienced the highest form of knowledge with wisdom. He must have
he must strive and experience what introduces him into the highest form
that this flows out of depths that it is got down from high scientific
himself with the high teachings of the Trinity of God, of the divinity
and of the announcement of the Logos in the world, of the high metaphysical
To someone who has achieved this, who knows something about the high
how this way is taken from the highest point down to the lowest existence,
from the spirit of God which we find as higher spiritual beings in the
wanted to know something about the highest heights of existence strove
highest height. Because science confines itself to the sensuous, it
reaches its high development. However, it becomes an oppressive authority,
form which should express truth of the higher plane, not only symbolically,
fills our understanding with real contents. It is the higher spiritual

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substitute on the field of law. When the old high schools had developed
get an overview of the principles of life. Nobody advanced to the higher
that the high school gives the general education. But today also this
has disappeared in the high schools. Only few old-fashioned people represent
also in the high school.
and to found such a connection between life and the highest principles
still had a higher exact thinking and where one tried once to bring
higher fields of existence. There is a mathesis as the Gnostics say.

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it should advance to higher fields, it fails. Hence, without intuition
reality. Higher, subtler forces are necessary that must be developed
high as possible.

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for the high school. The modern arts faculty is unworthy of its name;
the human soul belongs to the highest tasks of life. However, only someone
he know if he has experienced a purely philosophical higher education,
soul are capable to develop to higher stages. The human being is not
yet complete when he leaves the high school and the universities. Theosophy

Title: Aspects/Evolution: Lecture I
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an understanding of the higher members of the human being and their
accomplish together with higher beings of soul and spirit.
higher knowledge; it originated with the Greeks, even with
reached the highest eminence. After the soul has gone through
has been recognized as such stands higher than words spoken
necessarily and truly is stands higher than that derived from

Title: Aspects/Evolution: Lecture II
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an understanding of the higher members of the human being and their
certain form of life which then progresses to ever higher
worth nothing; one must rise to a higher life. One must rise
higher life will arise. Why bring up one's children properly
incarnations? That brings one into the higher regions and so

Title: Aspects/Evolution: Lecture III
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an understanding of the higher members of the human being and their
Aristotle, the highest God held sway, while lesser Gods held
divine-spiritual element. The possibility of receiving higher
and highly praised, but if some aspect of natural science had

Title: Aspects/Evolution: Lecture IV
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an understanding of the higher members of the human being and their
man's higher soul and spirit. What Professor Benedikt
an indication of a higher kind of human capability. On the
those higher realms investigated by anthroposophy. But other
higher consciousness, he must begin by immersing himself,
Christ as the higher “I” (p. 191) which is
stem from higher worlds. I cannot regard it as belonging to
that spiritual powers in higher worlds wish to communicate
now able to give, of my best, must also proceed from higher
one gains knowledge of facts belonging to higher worlds
stage of higher knowledge, is symbolic he thinks that ancient
unity: the text, the music — which itself is highly

Title: Aspects/Evolution: Lecture V
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an understanding of the higher members of the human being and their
insight of a higher order. When he says of truth that it must
from these more elementary aspects to some on a higher level,

Title: Aspects/Evolution: Lecture VI
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an understanding of the higher members of the human being and their
it clear that I have the highest regard for Franz Brentano,

Title: Aspects/Evolution: Lecture VII
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an understanding of the higher members of the human being and their
how highly revered. He was close to Gladstone, but even he
introduced was so high that the revenue from their estates

Title: Aspects/Evolution: Lecture VIII
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an understanding of the higher members of the human being and their
dealing with certain higher truths. It is only now that the
never be the foundation, in a higher sense, for an existence
highly that our libraries grow into gigantic monstrosities,
the highest secrets if we only had the sense, Goethe made a
thinking that has become independent. We lack to a high
have in the past a high degree of insight into repeated earth
thinking and history, history in its highest sense, that is

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the greatest problem of life, one should try not to place too high a
imparted by a spiritual science able to penetrate into the very highest
from it seems itself to be circling, like the eagle, in heights high
be emphasised that love in itself cannot be too highly valued, for whatever
the circumstances, love remains one of the very highest human attributes.
Thrones: these are the three highest Spiritual Hierarchies. The Seraphim
and perceive in a higher, clearer way, all that we have learnt to know

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down to the earth out of the highest, even the very highest, divine
This means that the physical body is the most highly perfected, having
to ever higher stages, we shall understand that for him a bodily instrument
of the highest quality should be extracted, which would enable mankind
have reached in Abraham the highest conceivable degree of intensity.
which had indeed risen to a higher level than these, but had not yet
of heaven, the kingdom of man in its highest sense, is actually on the

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world was still the common heritage of men. Although the higher experiences
aspire to the higher form of clairvoyance, but who worshipped the god
conscious that the highest spiritual condition that can be bestowed
highest faculties in Abraham, but from Hagar, from Sinai. Those, therefore,

Title: History of the Middle Ages: Lecture II: Persians, Franks, and Goths
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force, the Goths were full of tolerance. The high level of culture
Christ a man highly developed above all other men, but a man among
Himself, throned high above men.
have not yet reached to a higher level of culture. Other races came
there. These fitted in to the higher stages of culture which had
north, and how, in the meantime, high civilisations had developed

Title: History of the Middle Ages: Lecture III: The Impact of the Huns on the Germans
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against the Roman Empire. Thus the Romans, with their highly
unknown to them. We see the clash of highly developed culture with
the population lived at a high level of culture, this mode of
work which is well-known as indicating a high level of spiritual

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but of land owning. Such justiciaries were the highest judges. In

Title: History of the Middle Ages: Lecture V: Charlemagne and the Church
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Lord's Supper represented the symbolism of the highest Sacrifice.

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those who were left from the Roman population: the higher court
sciences, three lower and four higher.
in civil service, whether in a high or low position. “Parsons”
The four higher
science of space. Arithmetic is a higher form of counting.

Title: History of the Middle Ages: Lecture VII: France and Germany
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transferred to the so-called high court of justice, which had been

Title: History of the Middle Ages: Lecture VIII: From the Middle Ages to the Renaissance
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find higher knowledge, he had to go to Italy, France, etc. Now there
which the modern High German has grown. All this took place in

Title: The Human Soul in Life and Death
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may be called scientific in the best and highest sense, it must
distance from her. This is the highest that science aims at the
thoughts, these higher genii think our spiritual nature, think
our bodies is really the thinking of higher powers. Contrary to
the thought of higher consciousnesses. With the will we must
the consciousness of higher Beings and its own experience of
being contained by higher Beings — and of being contained
consciousness. Something comes into play that is higher than
spiritual investigator lives upwards into a spiritual, higher
world; in so doing he becomes the thought of higher Beings. But
we may rise into the consciousness of higher Beings we rise in
the higher Beings, but we remain in the power of inner
reach the higher consciousnesses, as the thoughts preserve
themselves in the consciousness of the higher Beings.
reality there. That is why I called a ‘higher’
memory. When we reach up into the consciousnesses of higher
through the memories, into a higher world, but we ourselves are
of the higher consciousnesses
ourselves in the consciousness of higher Beings.
‘memories’ of higher consciousnesses when we strip
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Title: Insanity from the Standpoint of Spiritual Science
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physical, but unconsciously. Only a higher pupil of the

Title: Two Pictures by Raphael
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as to recall something quite real and true. And higher up
souls which opens to them the higher worlds.
mystery of Christ, His whole descent from the higher worlds was
had itself been born as a higher world, — higher even in
born again at a higher stage — spiritually, in a new

Title: Easter and the Awakening to Cosmic Thought
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brain and blood. The soul develops slowly to a higher stage where it can understand the powers
realises that his astral vision must return, but at a higher stage. What has now been
the higher life of man wakes out of the lower nature, have understood the Easter thought. Dante

Title: Karma and Details of the Law of Karma
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gentle character, a highly emotional human being an equable, harmonious person. An

Title: The Secrets of Sleep or Karma
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describe are, to those whose higher senses are opened, just
conditions. They're the development of higher capacity, and
world as a rule be at a higher stage. By this means his
incarnation brings about its higher development. This is
higher worlds lie partly open. One who, in addition to the
laws of karma belong to higher worlds. Hence if one thinks
higher worlds to each single one of them. Naturally the
able to see clearly in the higher worlds can say what the
this calamity they have been brought together for higher
reincarnation and karma that a highly developed human soul
example, higher ideas can only be expressed in this world
being which is born and dies. The higher part of the

Title: Evil and Spiritual Science
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one that easily throws up the highest questions, as they are
development of the soul aimed at uplifting it to higher
“How does One Achieve Knowledge of the Higher
decorates the garden” is present to a higher degree. If
a world, in which our I comes to its highest elevation and
world so as to somehow use it at the highest level to achieve
can be portrayed as its highest being for its spiritual being,
into the physical world, and that its highest and best
beings who perhaps higher than mankind are able to realize

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circumstances. As is known, a high solar being moved into the body of Jesus
to the Mystery of Golgotha. About this high Christ being has already been
higher, spiritual regions was that Bodhisattva who then incarnated in India
of mankind. Thus, from higher spheres, mission after mission is transmitted
held together in the higher worlds by the ego of the respective underlying

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years old. In him we meet the high solar entity, the Christ entity. We are
â€œHow to gain knowledge of the higher worlds.â€
the power of love flowed down and manifested itself through this high solar

Title: Raphael's Mission in the Light of the Science of the Spirit
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being, for Raphael has become one of the pillars upon which the higher
higher level each time. About four years after the
higher spirit stood before them in that ascetic body.
highest degree and truly bears special forces of humanity in
since in ordinary life, without higher spiritual forces, we are
higher culture of the human spirit is founded. We would fain

Title: Leonardo's Spiritual Stature: Lecture
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the dining hall of the cloister and one day had it made higher.
shall see, he valued so highly: the search for truth. The
Leonardo appears as a tragic figure. But, seen from a higher

Title: Fairy Tales: in the light of Spiritual Investigation
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were the highest animal organisms, where the present sun,
an arrow, shooting it so high that only after a long time
up so high that it does not come back down at all!” For

Title: The Worldview of Herman Grimm in Relation to Spiritual Science
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life-experiences a stage higher, to a sphere of pure
said, he brings the highest spiritual spheres down to the
“net.” The friend recognizes that it is high time
raises itself along with the higher soul-members, out of the
enclosure for the higher soul-members of the human being. That
illusion: If higher spirits, other-worldly spirits wanted to

Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture I: Anthroposophy and Natural Science
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committees of this High School week that I give an introduction
the plant; they only become absorbed into a higher principle,
result overlook what appears in higher spheres. Due to special
qualitative. Then one is able to reach higher areas of nature's

Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture II: The Human and the Animal Organisation
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higher animals, there's no differentiation to the number in
in the cosmos to the animals. When we observe the higher

Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture III: Anthroposophy and Philosophy
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there was also a higher world of revelations, a world of higher
the idea of higher spirituality came about for Hegel, that on
Soloviev speaks like the old priest who lived in higher worlds
higher worlds: priestly speech translated philosophically is
“Knowledge of the Higher Worlds”

Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture IV: Anthroposophy and Pedagogy
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withdraw completely out of the bodily, yet it does to a high
highly foolish to take the feet or hands as they are at a

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Intuition, in his higher senses becomes a more free person than

Title: Impulse of Renewal: Lecture VII: Anthroposophy and the Science of Speech
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rose to a higher level — still dreamily, yet in a
of the speech which came about in New High German.
[‘Hochdeutch’ or High German
which is also understood by most Germans. New High German
differs from Old High German as the latter refers to
of the language is primarily only possible in High German.
English. When, by contrast, we speak High German, we can
firmly connected with it; here also, as not in High German, the

Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture I
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small scale. So the highest festival we can hold is to consider
the higher Hierarchies: the Beings belonging to the Angels,
Atlantean age. The Beings of these higher Hierarchies gradually
live in the age in which these Beings of the higher Hierarchies
Beings of these three higher Hierarchies has not only waned
because the Beings of the three higher Hierarchies no longer
the higher Hierarchies no longer work upon us and we have no
of the three higher Hierarchies.
the three higher Hierarchies. They will be in the thoughts and
that of the higher Hierarchies.
to find the way back to the higher Hierarchies. The difficulty
more in such a way that the Beings of the higher Hierarchies no
when he works his way upward to the Beings of the higher
Beings of the three higher Hierarchies. The way in which human
connection with the activity of the Beings of the higher
to the higher Hierarchies and about karma. A third thing may be
From my description in Knowledge of Higher Worlds you know that
the higher Hierarchies, in the recognition of the fact that the

Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture II
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the higher Hierarchies as the Earth evolution proceeds. The
uttering some very high-sounding words, then read out the
consciousness of their association with higher beings through
Angel Beings who are connected with man, the Angeloi. Higher it
Rome. Naturally the Greek and Roman world was far more highly
which lead higher than the sphere of the Angeloi. Our interests
Archangeloi. It is possible to rise stilt higher, and
There were the ordinary masses: then those people of a higher
type, who possessed the higher life of the mind through their

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of the Beings of the three higher Hierarchies standing nearest

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in Berlin no theatres, no high schools, no public school,
“People's High Schools” or “Educational
Academy regarded it as one of their highest distinctions to be
from the lowest form to the highest grade in the public
but usually regarded by philosophers as something highly

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