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SECTION 2
Steiner and Heindel Texts Compared
In this section we collate a selection of passages drawn from
Steiner books and lectures with their counterparts in the Cosmo and other Heindel books.
No Steiner texts will be cited that are dated later than 1907, the year
Heindel visited Steiner. (In his dedication withdrawal statement—see page 87 of
this study—Heindel informs us that he assimilated Steiner material from
November 1907 through March 1908.) This comparison traces the patrimony of
Western Wisdom Teachings. These Teachings are the inheritance of humanity.
Essentially it is the Message we are interested in, not the messenger. There
has been no attempt to make this collation inclusive. Such an undertaking would
entail a study many times the size of this presentation. Also, for practical
purposes, we have, with a few exceptions, omitted collating longer passages, but
they are numerous. In fact, what Heindel often refers to in a paragraph or
page, Steiner may elaborate in full lecture cycles or books.
“Under certain circumstances you must exclude all that you have
experienced hitherto, so that you can meet every new experience with new faith.
The occultist must do this quite consciously....The occultist must always leave
a way open to believe”—At the Gates of
Spiritual Science (Gates), fourteen lectures, 1906, p 113
“In all occult schools the pupil is first taught to forget all
else when a new teaching is being given....he must cultivate an attitude of
mind which ‘believeth all things’ as possible.”—p 6
“Whence does man come? Whither is he going? What is his
destiny?”—The History of Spiritism, Hypnotism and Somnambulism (hereafter HS), two lectures given in
“The life that
came...Whence came it? Why was it here? and Whither has it gone?”—p 19
“Lying is, from the astral standpoint, murder and at the same time
suicide.”—Foundations of Esotericism
(hereafter FE), thirty-one lectures held in
“A lie is both murder
and suicide in the Desire World.”—p 43
“[There] is a Persian legend told of Jesus. One day Christ Jesus
saw a dead dog lying by the wayside; he stopped to look at the animal while
those around him turned away in disgust. Then Jesus said: ‘What beautiful teeth
the dog has!’ In that hideous corpse he saw not what was ugly or evil but the
beauty of the white teeth. If you can acquire this mood, you will look
everywhere for the good and the positive, and you will find it everywhere.
This has a effect on the physical and
etheric bodies.”—At the Gates of
Spiritual Science (hereafter Gates.
This book has been retitled Founding of a
Science of the Spirit, with slightly different pagination. We will cite the
original title and page numbers.), fourteen lectures given in
“There is a story of Christ which illustrates this point [of ‘looking
for the good in all things’]. Once when walking with His disciples they passed
the carcass of a dog. The disciples
turned in disgust, commenting upon the nauseating nature of the sight; but
Christ looked at the dead body and said ‘Pearls are not whiter than its teeth.’
He was determined to find the good, because He knew the beneficial effect which
would result in the Desire World from giving it expression.”—p 44
“Antipathy produces self-seeking self-assertion”—Theosophy: An Introduction to the
Supersensible Knowledge of the World and the Destination of Man (hereafter
Theosophy), 1904, p 83
“the main-spring in this force of Repulsion is self-assertion.”—p
45
“The essential nature of this region [of “Soul Light, Active Soul
Forces and Soul Life”] is quite rightly described as ‘outraying’”—Theosophy, 1904, p 85
“The names of the three upper Regions of the Desire World are
‘Region of Soul-Life,’ ‘Region of Soul-Light,’ and ‘Region of
Soul-Power.’....we think of these Regions as radiating the qualities indicated
by their names...”—p 47
“Devachan [the World of Concrete Thought] has four divisions: (1)
the continents. (2) the rivers and oceans, (3) the airy region, (4) the region
of spiritual archetypes....At the second stage...life pulsates as a reality, as
though in rivers and streams....At the third stage...a man is surrounded by all
the passions and feelings of his past life...as clouds, thunder and
lightening.”—At the Gates of Spiritual
Science, 1906, pp 39-41
“Taking a more detailed view of the several divisions of the
Region of Concrete Thought we find....the Continental Region...the Oceanic
Region...[which] is best described as flowing pulsing vitality...The Aerial
Region....[where] we find the archetype of desires, passions, wishes, feelings,
and emotions...like flashes of lightning [are]the passions of warring
nations....The Region of Archetypal Forces is the fourth division.”—pp 49-50
“Often innumerable archetypes work together in order that this or
that being...may arise”—Theosophy, p
104
“...often many [archetypes] work together to form one certain
species.”—p 50
“The longings of the human soul appear here as a gentle
zephyr...flashing lightning and rolling thunder [signify]...passions of a
battle waged on earth.”—Theosophy,
1904, p 108
“The sighing of the wind in the tree-tops seems the longing of the
soul and like flashes of lightning the passions of warring nations.”—p 50
“The archetypes of the fourth region...govern the archetypes of
the three lower regions.”—Theosophy,
1904, p 108
“...this [fourth] Region is the home of the Archetypal Forces
which direct the activity of the archetypes in the Region of Concrete
Thought.”—p 51
“The etheric body is the architect of the physical body. The
latter has crystallized out of the ether body much as ice crystallizes out of
water.”—Supersensible Knowledge
(SSK), thirteen lectures,
“As the lines of force in freezing water are the avenues of
formation for ice crystals, so the lines of force in the vital body determine
the shape of the dense body.”—p 60
The etheric body glows “with a radiance a little darker than young
peach blossom.”—Gates, 1906, p 13
“[T]he vital body...is very luminous and about the color of a
new-blown peach blossom.”—p 60
“The ice is water, only the water has hardened and the forms of the
ice-blocks were within the water as lines of force. Thus is the physical heart
formed out of the etheric heart.”—TR,
1907, p 22
“As the lines of force in freezing water are the avenues of
formation for ice crystals, so the lines of force in the vital body determine
the shape of the dense body...Were it not for the etheric heart he dense heart
would break quickly under the constant strain put upon it.”— p 60
“The etheric body in the
male is female and in the female, male”—TR,
1907, p 23
“...the vital body of a man is female or negative, while that of a
woman is male or positive.”—p 60
“[A] man who is drowning, or falling from a great height, when
death seems imminent, may see his whole life before him.”—At the Gates of Spiritual Science, fourteen lectures, 1906, p 146
“When a person is drowning, or falling from a height, or freezing,
the vital body leaves the dense body.”—p 61
“Partial separations of the etheric body also occur when a limb
has ‘gone to sleep’ as we say. If a hand, for instance, has gone to sleep, the
Seer can perceive the etheric part of the hand protruding like a
glove...Because the etheric body is woven in the physical body in tiny,
pin-point formations, there arises in the physical body the well-known
sensation of prickling in a limb that has gone to sleep.”—TR, 1907, p 34
“...when a hand ‘goes to sleep.’ Then the etheric hand of the
vital body may be seen hanging below the dense arm like a glove and the points
cause the peculiar pricking sensation felt when the etheric hand re-enters the
dense hand.”—p 62
“Herein also lies the danger of hypnotism....The clairvoyant can
see the loosened etheric body hanging like a pair of bags or sacks on either
side of the head”—At The Gates of Spiritual
Science, 1906, p 29
“Sometimes in hypnosis the head of the vital body divides and
hangs outside the dense head, one half over each shoulder, or lies around the
neck like the collar of a sweater.” p 62
Regarding terminology: “That is why we also call his astral body
his body of desires.”—FE, 1905, p 10
“In ancient times this lotus flower turned from right to left—that
is to say, in the opposite direction to the hands of a clock...In the clairvoyant
seer it begins to move in the opposite direction—from left to right.” An Esoteric Cosmology (hereafter EC), eighteen lectures,
“In the involuntary clairvoyant developed along improper, negative
lines, these vortices turn from right to left, or in the opposite direction to
the hands of a clock—counterclockwise. In the desire body of the properly
trained voluntary clairvoyant, they turn in the same direction as the hands of
a clock—clockwise.”—p 67
“Were a man merely a member of a species, no biography could
exist. A lion or a dove are interesting insofar as they belong to the lion or
the dove species. The separate being in all its essentials has been understood
when the species has been described...what they have of interest in them,
father, son and grandson have in common.”—Theosophy
of the Rosicrucian, 1907, p 50
“When we learn the characteristics of one animal, we know the
characteristics of the species to which it belongs. All members of the same
animal tribe are alike. That is the point. A lion, or its father, or its son,
all look alike....We may write the biography of a man, but an animal can have
no biography.”—pp 71-72
Man Animal Plant Mineral
[Abstract thought]
[Concrete Thought]
[Desire World] Astral Plane — Ego Astral Body Etheric Body
Physical Plane Ego — — —
Astral Body Astral Body
Etheric Etheric Etheric Body —
Physical Physical Physical Physical Body
Above table from At the Gates of Spiritual Science, 1906, p 46
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1)
The consciousness of the mineral -
corresponding to deep sleep.
2)
The consciousness of the plant - ordinary
sleep
3)
Animal consciousness - dream life.
4)
Physical, objective consciousness - the normal
waking state.
—Esoteric Cosmology,
1906, p 99
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“Even superficial thought will make us realize that the physical body
is the most perfect part of our nature. Take, for example, a part of the
thigh-bone. This is not simply a compact, solid bone, but full of artistry,
constructed as it were of intersecting beams. Anyone who studies this bone not
only with the intellect but also with feeling will marvel at the wisdom which,
in its creation, has used no more material than is essential to support the
upper body with the smallest possible amount of power. No engineering art
applied to the building of a bridge is equal to the wisdom that has brought
such a bone into existence!”—Theosophy of
the Rosicrucian, 1907, pp 77-78
“The dense body is a wonderfully constructed instrument and should be
recognized as such by everyone pretending to have any knowledge of the
constitution of man. Observe the femur, for instance. This bone carries the
entire weight of the body. On the outside it is built of a thin layer of
compact bone, strengthened on the inside by beams and cross-beams of
cancellated bone, in such a marvelous manner that the most skilled bridge or
construction engineer could never accomplish the feat of building a pillar of
equal strength with so little weight.”—p 76
“On the physical plane animals have only a physical, an etheric and
an astral [desire] body; they have no Ego there, for their Ego is to be found
on the astral plane. Just as your ten fingers have a common soul, all animals
of one species have their common soul on the astral plane.”—Gates, 1906, pp 45-46
“There are, however, ten holes in the curtain and the man who is
in the division representing the Desire World can put his ten fingers through
these holes into the other division, representing the Physical World. He now
furnishes an excellent representation of the group-spirit which is in the
Desire World. The fingers represent the animals belonging to one species.”—p 78
1. Plato in the Timaeus says “the soul of the world is stretched
upon it [‘the body of the world’] in the form of a cross.”—Christianity as Mystical Fact, thirteen lectures, 1902, p 86
2. “Plato said in the language of the old mysteries: The
World-Soul is crucified on the Cross of the World-Body.”—At the Gates of Spiritual Science, 1906, p 84
“Plato, who was Initiate,
often gave out occult truths. He said ‘The World-Soul is crucified.’”—p 85
1. “The symbol for these three kingdoms is the Cross. The lower
beam symbolizes the
2. “The plant as an inverted man...In all innocence it stretches
its reproductive organs to the Sun...The root is really the head of the
plant...[which] is attracted by the center of the earth. Man is the opposite of
this: his head is at the top of his body, and below are the organs which the
plant spreads out to the Sun. The animal comes in between: its body is
horizontal...the old occult science gave expression to this in the ancient
symbol of the Cross....”—At the Gates of
Spiritual Science, 1906, pp 83-84
“The relations of plant, animal and man to the life currents in
the Earth’s atmosphere are symbolically represented by the cross...The lower
limb of the cross indicates the plant...Man is represented by the upper limb;
he is the inverted plant...The plant stretches its generative organs towards
the sun. Man, the inverted plant, turns his towards the center of the
earth...The animal, which is symbolized by the horizontal limb of the cross, is
between the plant and the man.”—pp 85-86
“[B]lood is the expression of the ‘I’ or Ego.”—
“The blood is...the
direct vehicle of the Ego.”—p 91
1. “Do not imagine that the astral body is inactive and has no
work to do during the night.”—TR, p
31
2. “Every night the astral body renews its harmony with the cosmic
astral ocean and reveals itself to the clairvoyant as anything but inactive.”—Theosophy of the Rosicrucian, 1907, p 33
“Sleep, however, is not
by any means an inactive state, as people generally suppose.”—p 93
“Cremation provides correctly for the dissolution of the physical
body into cosmic space.”—Gates, 1906,
p 141
“...the more rational method of cremation...restores the elements
to their primordial condition.”—p 103
In the lower desire world, the soul released from earth still
retains “his craving for outer objects...the desire remains but the organs are
lacking.”—Foundations of Esotericism,
1905, p 87
“Most people, especially if they die in the prime of life, have
many ties and much interest in life on earth. They have not altered their
desires because they have lost their physical bodies.”—p 103
1. The suicide’s “longing for the physical body is all the more
intense. It seems to him that he is like a hollow tree, like someone who has
lost his ego.”—Foundations of Esotericism,
1905, p 87
2. “In the case of suicide there are, in addition to the torment
caused by the feeling of having been suddenly emptied out, the unsatisfied
desires.”—Theosophy of the Rosicrucian,
1907, p 97
“The suicide, who tries to get away from life, only to find that
he is as much alive as ever, is in the most pitiable plight....he has an
unspeakable feeling of being ‘hollowed out’....that awful feeling of
‘emptiness’ remains [until the archetype for his body dissolves].”—p 104
1. Time spent in lower desire world is “about one-third of the
length of the past life.”—Gates,
1906, p 33
2. “The journey backwards begins with the last event before death
and proceeds at triple speed, to birth.”—Theosophy
of the Rosicrucian, 1907, p 36
“In the Desire World
life is lived about three times as rapidly as in the Physical World.”—p 107.
Upon release from the physical body “He feels his etheric body
growing and expanding as if it embraced the whole sphere of the earth, as far
as the sun...The individual feels as though with one part of his being he were
in Munich, with another part of his being in Mainz, with a third in Basel....He
feels as though he were dismembered.”—Theosophy
of the Rosicrucian, 1907, p 71
“When a man dies, he at once seems to swell out in his vital body;
he appears to himself to grow into immense proportions....The man seems to be
present with all the people with whom on earth he had relations of a nature
which require correction. If he has injured one man in
“Spend 4-5 minutes looking backward over the events of the day
[just before going to sleep]....let these events of the day pass quickly before
your mind’s eye, and make yourself aware of what your attitude is toward them.
In this way one observes oneself and asks if and to what extent one is
satisfied with what one has done, what experiences should have been made and
what could have been done better....We should merely learn from our own life
and take it as a lesson...we learn, above all, for that time lying beyond
death. After completing the retrospect of the day in this way, one then goes to
sleep with thoughts about the people one loves or would like to help.”—Letter
(example of one of hundreds of letters Steiner sent to people giving personal
esoteric instructions), Berlin, 1904, from History
and Contents of First Esoteric School (also referred to hereafter as H&C), p 67
“An exercise...the object of which is purification as an aid to
the development of spiritual sight...consists of thinking over the happenings
of the day after retiring at night. We review each incident of the day, in
reverse order, taking particular note of the moral aspect, considering whether we
acted rightly or wrongly in each particular case regarding actions, mental attitude and habits.”—p 111
“This harmony is a manifestation of reality; it was called by
Plato and Pythagoras the harmony of the spheres. This is not a poetic metaphor
but a reality experienced by the soul as a vibration emanating from the soul of
the world. Goethe, who was initiated...knew of the harmony of the spheres. He
expressed it at the beginning of Faust in words spoken by the Archangel
Raphael:
The sun-orb sings, in emulation
Mid brother-spheres, his
ancient round
His path predestined
through Creation
He ends with step of
thunder-sound.
—Esoteric Cosmology,
1906, p 45
“Celestial music is a fact and not a mere figure of speech.
Pythagoras was not romancing when he spoke of the music of the
spheres....Goethe also mentions [this celestial symphony] in the prologue to
his Faust, where the scene is laid in heaven. The Archangel Raphael says,
The Sun intones his ancient song
‘Mid rival chant of brother
spheres.
His prescribed course he
speeds along
Is thund’rous way
throughout the years
—p 119; see also Christianity
Lectures, p 102
1. “Everything physical is condensed, transformed spirit.”—Supersensible Knowledge (hereafter SSK), thirteen lectures,
2. “Where does matter come from? For spiritual research matter has
sprung from Spirit, is nothing but densified spirit.”—The Origin of Suffering, Evil, Illness and Death, three lectures,
“Matter is crystallized
spirit.”—p 120
The soul in the physical body “may be compared with that of a
snail secreting its own shell and then shrinking back inside it.”—Esoteric Cosmology, 1906, p 93
“...the dense vehicles of all kingdoms correspond to the shell of
the snail, which is crystallized from its juices, the snail representing the
spirit.”—p 73. “Matter...corresponds to the snail’s house, which is
crystallized snail.....That which is now the snail [spirit] will in time become
the house [body].”—p 121
“When you spread a fine powder as evenly as possible on a thin
brass plate and then stroke its edge with a fiddler’s bow the powder moves into
a definite line pattern....These are called chladny figures. When the spiritual
tone of the celestial harmony sounded forth into the universe it organized the
planets into their relationship.”—Occult
Signs and Symbols, 1907, p 11
“As geometrical figures are created by drawing a violin bow over
the edge of a glass plate containing sand, so the forms we see around us are
the crystallized sound-figures of the archetypal forces which play into the
archetypes in the Heaven World.”—p 123
“What is the human being doing in the period between death and a
new birth? He himself is working from out of the spiritual worlds, under the
guidance of higher Beings, at the transformation of the earth.”—TR, p 44
“[A]ll the denizens of the Heaven World work upon the models of the Earth. Climate, flora,
and fauna are altered by man under the direction of higher Beings”—pp 124-125
“Mathematical talent also needs...a special development of the
three semi-circular canals in the ear which lie in the three directions of
space. Special development of these canals determines mathematical talent.” Theosophy of the Rosicrucian, 1907, p 74
“[T]he faculty for space perception is connected with the delicate
adjustment of the three semi-circular canals which are situated inside the ear,
each pointing in one of the three dimensions in space. Logical thought and
mathematical ability are in proportion to the accuracy of the adjustment of
these semi-circular canals.”—p 126
“At about
the third week [after conception] the astral and etheric bodies take hold, as
it were, of the germ-cell and now begin to participate in the work on the
embryo.”—Theosophy of the Rosicrucian,
1907, pp 52-53
“The advanced pupil of an occult school sometimes commences to
build [his physical body] for himself as soon as the work during the first
three weeks...has been completed.”— p 128
“[H]e [the Ego] has a prevision of his coming life, not in all its
details but only as a survey”—TR,
1907, p 47
The incoming soul has “a panorama of the new life in store for it.
But, mark this well—this panorama contains only the principal events.”—p 129
The Spirit readying for rebirth “now has to gather round him new
‘astral substance’ rather as scattered iron filings are brought into order by
the pull of a magnet.”—At the Gates of
Spiritual Science, 1906, p 48
“This [mind seed-atom] begins to attract to itself materials from
the highest subdivision of the Region of Concrete Thought, in a manner similar
to that in which a magnet draws to itself iron filings.”—p 133
“The bell-shaped forms are made up of the causal [mental] body,
the forces of the earlier astral body and the new astral body.”—At the Gates of Spiritual Science, 1906,
p 48
“The material selected by
the threefold spirit forms itself into a great bell-shaped figure.”—p 134
“Just as immediately after death the whole memory of a man’s past
life appears like a tableau before his soul, so is a kind of preview of the
coming life given to the soul immediately before it incarnates. Not all the
details are seen...a shock from the glimpse of the new circumstances and
destiny now in prospect... [may cause the ego to hold back] the soul from
complete incarnation. Only a part of the soul then enters the body, and this
will result in the birth of an epileptic or an idiot.”—At the Gates of Spiritual Science, 1906, p 49
(1) ‘[T]he Recording Angels....impress the reflecting ether of the
vital body in such a way that the pictures of the coming life are reflected in
it.”—p 135.
(2) “[W]hen a particularly hard life reveals itself to the vision
of the returning Ego at the moment of entering the womb, it sometimes happens
that the Ego is so startled and frightened that it seeks to rush out
again....[I]nstead of the vital body being concentric with the dense body, the
head of the vital body may be above the head of the dense body. Then we have a
congenital idiot.”—Rosicrucian
Christianity Lectures, p 116. See also 1
Questions and Answers, pp 93-96
“If new creations did not arise [from the fourth region of
concrete thought] in the world, humanity would make no progress....something
original arises in the inner being.”—Theosophy
of the Rosicrucian, 1907, p 32
“There is an influx of new and original causes all the time. That
is the real backbone of evolution.”—p 135
“We shall close the subject of Rosicrucianism...[with] words also
expressed by Goethe, which as watchword belong above the cross wreathed in
roses symbolizing sevenfold man:
The power that holds
constrained all humankind,
The victor o’er himself
no more can bind.
—Supersensible Knowledge, 1906, p 168
“That [ordering our
lives] is the key to emancipation; as Goethe says;
From every power that all the world enchains
Man frees himself when
self-control he gains.
—p
137; see also Christianity Lectures,
p 60
“In feelings of shame...the blood is pushed up towards the surface
of the body, to its periphery. In feelings of anxiety...the blood flows back
toward the heart....This power of the ‘I’, which affects the blood, must become
ever stronger and more conscious.”—Lecture, Jan 16, 1908, Guidance in Esoteric Training, pp 106-107
“To further show the connection of the Ego with the blood we may
mention the blush of shame, which is an evidence of the manner in which the
blood is driven to the head....[In fear the Ego] drives the blood to the center
and grows pale, because the blood has left the periphery of the body.”—p 145
(1)“This passage [from Goethe’s Faust] is based on a remarkable
insight, namely that he who wins power over a man’s blood wins power over the
man himself. Blood is ‘a very singular fluid’ because whenever there is a struggle
between good and evil in a man’s life, it is really his blood that is being
fought for.”—Lecture, “The Occult
Significance of the Blood”,
(2)“Faust, representing striving man, enters into a pact with evil
powers, represented by the emissary from hell, Mephistopheles. At first he
regards it as a joke, but Goethe undoubtedly means the words spoken by
Mephistopheles at this point to be taken seriously: ‘Blood is a very special
fluid.’”—SSK, 1906, p 21
“The Blood the Vehicle of the Ego....Goethe, who was an Initiate,
also showed this [knowledge] in his Faust. Faust is about to sign the compact
with Mephistopheles and asks, “Why not sign with ordinary ink? Why use blood?”
Mephisto answers, “Blood is a most peculiar essence. He knows that who has the
blood has the man; that without the warm blood, no Ego can find expression.”—p
145
“Both the old Moon-consciousness and the new Jupiter-consciousness
are to be found in the human being of today; the former in feelings of shame, the
latter in feelings of fear and anxiety. In feelings of shame, in which the
blood is pushed up towards the surface of the body....In feelings of anxiety,
in which the blood flows back towards the heart....Imagine, my brothers and
sisters, that suddenly, one day, such a Moon-person began to feel: ‘I am an
I’.....The shame such a Moon-person would have felt would have burned in him
overpoweringly.”—Guidance in Esoteric
Training, 1907, p 106
“To further show the connection of the Ego with the blood we may
mention the burning blush of shame, which is an evidence of the manner in which
the blood is driven to the head, thus over-heating the brain and paralyzing
thought. Fear is the state when the Ego wants to barricade himself against some
outside danger. He then drives the blood to the center and grows pale, because
the blood has left the periphery of the body.”—p 145
“The substances of which the physical body is composed are
perpetually changing; after about seven years, every particle has been renewed”—Theosophy of the Rosicrucian, 1907, p 53
“[T]he particles of our bodies are constantly changing...at least
once in seven years there is a change in every atom of matter composing
them.”—p 149
“Within a period of 250 years, twenty-nine musicians were born in
the Bach family....A good musician needs not only the inner musical faculty but
also a well-formed physical ear...and these forms are transmitted by
heredity.”—Theosophy of the Rosicrucian,
1907, p 74
“In cases where the expression of genius depends upon the
possession of specially constructed organs, requiring ages of development, the
Ego naturally is reborn in a family the Egos of which have, for generations,
labored to build a similar organism. That is why twenty-nine musicians of more
or less genius were born in the Bach family during a period of two hundred and
fifty years.”—p 155
1. “2,160 years is approximately the time needed for the
accomplishment of a male and female incarnation, that is to say, for the two
aspects under which the human being gathers all the experiences of one epoch.”—Esoteric Cosmology, 1906, p 78
2. “The period required by the sun for its passage through one
zodiacal constellation is the period within which the human being is twice
incarnated, once as a man and once as a woman.”—TR, 1907, p 56
“[E]very Ego is born twice during the time the Sun is passing
through one sign of the Zodiac; and, as the soul itself is necessarily
double-sexed, in order to obtain all experience, it is reborn alternately in a
male and a female body.”—p 160
“This feeding on what is dead is rightly connected with the desire
for the ego. Man became independent through eating what is
dead....Atlanteans...began for the first time to eat food that was not taken
from what is living.”—Foundations of
Esotericism, 1906, pp 244-45
“In the Fourth Epoch man had evolved beyond the animal—he had
mind. Thought breaks down breaks down nerve cells; kills, destroys and causes
decay. Therefore the food of the Atlantean was, by analogy, carcasses.”—p 166
1. “In the old Mysteries only water was distributed, but in the
Christian mysteries, wine. For in the priesthood, through the partaking of
wine, knowledge of reincarnation was blotted out.”—FE, p 53
2. “Christianity therefore made the absolutely right compromise
and for a period of time did not teach reincarnation and karma [cause and
effect], but the importance of the single human existence, in order that man
should learn to love the earth.”—Foundations
of Esotericism, 1906, p 246
“[T]he time has now come when it was no longer conducive to man’s
advancement that he should know this doctrine [of Rebirth] and ignorance
concerning it came to be regarded as a sign of progress. This one single life
was to be made paramount. Therefore we find that the Christian Religion, as
publicly taught, does not embody the laws of Consequence and Rebirth.”—p 168
“Therefore the Bible tells us that Noah, the original ancestor of
the post-diluvian [post-Atlantean] race, became intoxicated by wine.”—Foundations of Esotericism, 1906, p 246
“[T]hose who escaped destruction [of Atlantis] began to cultivate
the vine and make wine, as we find narrated in the Bible story of Noah. Noah symbolizes
the remnant of the Atlantean Epoch, which became the nucleus of the Fifth
Race—therefore our progenitors.”—p 168
“As the era of Christianity drew near, man was destined to enter
upon an epoch of concentration upon earthly efforts; he was to work towards the
amelioration of earthly existence, the development of intellect, of logical and
scientific understanding of Nature. The knowledge of reincarnation, therefore,
was to be lost for two thousand years and wine was the means to this. Such is
the profound background of the cult of Bacchus, the God of Wine and
Intoxication.”—Esoteric Cosmology,
1906, p 51
Alcohol “acts upon the spirit of the Fifth Epoch man, temporarily
paralyzing it, that it may know, esteem and conquer the physical world and
value it at its proper worth....now...‘Bacchus,’ a god of wine, appears and
under his sway the most advanced nations forget that there is a higher life.”—p
169
1. “Thus they [Peter, James and John coming down from the Mount of
Transfiguration] spoke to him as though reincarnation was taken as a matter of
course, as also in many of other passages in the Gospels... ‘Say it unto no man
until I come again.’ Here we have the general, religious, profound truth of
reincarnation uttered in the intimate conversation between the Master and his
disciples.”—Gospel of
2. “Jesus taught reincarnation. For instance one can only make
sense of the ninth chapter (the healing on the Sabbath of the man born blind)
if one bases it on the idea of reincarnation....Neither had he sinned in his
physical body, nor had his parents...But the works of God in man shall be made
manifest, i.e., the self in man that passes through all his incarnations.”—ibid., pp 23-24
“In private He [Christ] taught Rebirth to His disciples....[but]
He commanded them to ‘tell no man.’...This was to be, for thousands of years,
an esoteric teaching, to be known only among the few pioneers who fitted
themselves for the knowledge....That Christ taught Rebirth and also the law of
Consequence is perhaps shown in no other place as clearly as in the case of the
man who had been born blind....He is not surprised at the question....He
explains, ‘Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents; but that the works of
(the) God should be made manifest in him.’...Christ differentiates between the
physically blind body of the man and the God within, which is the Higher
Self.”—pp 169-171
“Esoteric training begins in earnest only when we learn to work
into the etheric (life) body.”—Lecture, “The World-Historical Significance of
the Blood that Flowed on the Cross,” The
Christian Mystery, 1907, p 73
“The object of all esoteric training is to so work on the vital
body that the life spirit is built up and quickened.”—p 381 Also see Letters to Students: “The
“All that has entered into us without our conscious will under the
influence of divine wisdom—that is Involution. All that we must bring out of
ourselves by dint of will—that is Evolution.”—EC, 1906, p 33
“The period of time devoted to the attainment of
self-consciousness and to the building of the vehicles through which the spirit
in man manifests, is called Involution. The subsequent period of existence,
during which the individual human being develops self-consciousness into divine
omniscience, is called Evolution.”—p 185
1. “The astral earth
consisted of human astral bodies joined together like a great
blackberry.”—Foundations of Esotericism, 1905, p 166
2. “On Saturn the uniform substance differentiated...the organs
became rounded into cell-like balls—as if you took a mulberry.”—Theosophy of the Rosicrucian, 1907, p 95
“[T]he whole Globe was composed of virgin spirits, as a raspberry
is made of a great number of small raspberries.”—p 205
“What was present in the former Sun-body as relics of Saturn are still
to be found in the present Sun, as the so-called sun-spots. They are the last
vestige of Saturn.”—Theosophy of the
Rosicrucian, 1907, p 101
“These stragglers and the newly arrived life wave formed dark
spots in the otherwise glowing gas sphere which was the densest Globe of the
Sun Period, and our present Sun-spots are an atavistic remainder of that
condition.”—p 225
1. “This air permeated by watery substances (one calls it
fire-air, or fire-mist) was breathed by the beings of the Moon. They had no
lungs, even the highest beings breathed through something akin to gills, as
present-day fishes do.”—Theosophy of the
Rosicrucian, 1907, p 111.
2. “The human body on the Moon hung on a kind of strand which
extended into the atmosphere, as today the child in the maternal body hangs on
the navel cord. It was like a cosmic navel-cord.”—Theosophy of the Rosicrucian, 1907, p 112
“They did not touch the surface of the planet, but floated
suspended by umbilical-like cords. Instead of lungs they had a gill-like
apparatus through which they breathed the hot steamy ‘fire-fog.’ These features
of the Moon existence are still recapitulated by the embryo during the period
of gestation.”— p 228
“[M]ediuimship is a relapse to an earlier age.”—Foundations of Esotericism,
“[M]ediums...have retrograded.”—p 241
“As ice swims in water out of which it has condensed, so does
matter swim in a sea of spirit out of which it has condensed. Everything
physical is condensed, transformed Spirit.”—SSK,
1906, p 204
“To the Rosicrucians....space is Spirit in its attenuated form;
while matter is crystallized space or Spirit.”—p 247
“These words can be spoken...from the moment that ‘the cross
wreathed in roses’—what this expresses—has become one’s ideal, one’s watchword.
It stands as the symbol for a human being’s overcoming the lower self. He will
then understand Goethe’s words in the poem: West-East Divan:
This dying and becoming,
Thou art but a troubled
guest
O’er the dark earth
roaming.
—Supersensible Knowledge,
1906, p 167
“It is axiomatic that ‘The oftener we die, the better we live.’
The Poet-Initiate, Goethe, says:
Who has not this—
Ever dying and bringing
to birth—
Will aye remain a sorry
guest
Upon this dismal earth.
— p 249
The “ground-color [of the etheric body] is different from any of
the seven colors contained in the rainbow....[It] is actually non-existent for
sense-perception but to which the color of young peach blossom may be
comparable.”—Knowledge of Higher Worlds,
1904, p 164
“Four of these colors [of the invisible spectrum] are quite
indescribable, but the fifth—the middle one of the five—is similar to the tint
of a new-blown peach blossom. It is in fact the color of the vital body....a
color that has no equivalent in the physical world.”—p 253
Early humanity “had an organ for orienting himself, which is now
only present in vestigial form. This so-called pineal gland...enabled the
primeval human being to perceive whether he was approaching something helpful
or harmful. Above all, though, it was an organ for perceiving warmth and
cold.”—Guidance in Esoteric Training,
1907, p 97
“This organ has now degenerated into what is called the pineal
gland. Sometimes it is called ‘the third eye,’ but that is a misnomer, because
it never was an eye, but rather the localized organ for the sensing of heat and
cold.”—p 262
“[W]hen the Fire-mist forces were still present in the
environment, he needed a kind of swimming bladder...as is the case with the
fishes of present day...from a gill-breather man became a lung breather....And
God breathes into his nostrils”—Theosophy
of the Rosicrucian, 1907, p 120
“At that time Earth was in a condition of fire...seething, boiling
water...[man] had a bladder like fishes have now...[and] gill-clefts, and he was
breathing more as the fish do....In the middle third of Atlantis all that is
changed....Therefore Jehovah...breathes into man’s nostrils.”—pp 262-63
1) “Mankind must go through these seven spheres....Beside these there
is an Eighth Sphere to which everything goes that cannot make any connection
with this continuous evolution.” FE,
1905, p 105
2) “The astral sphere of the Moon...[is] the so-called eighth
sphere. The Moon actually provides shelter for astral beings which have come
into existence though the fact that man has thrown something off.”— Foundations of Esotericism, 1905, p 137
“The Moon—The Eighth Sphere—The seven Globes, A to G, inclusive,
are the field of Evolution. The Moon is the field of Disintegration.”—p 264
1. “If man stood only under the influence of the Sun he would
dissolve in an immeasurably rapid process of growth. It is for this reason
that...he has to leave the Sun....But if he had remained permanently connected
with the latter [the old Moon], this retarding of his growth would have
hardened him in a rigid form. Therefore he advanced to the development of
earth, within which the two influences counterbalance each other.”—Cosmic Memory (hereafter also noted as CM), 1904, pp 236-7.
2. “Jehovah wished to
make of them [mankind] beautiful statues.”—Foundations
of Esotericism, 1905, p 181
“If Earth had not segregated from the original Globe which is now
the Sun, the rapidity of the vibrations would have disintegrated man’s vehicles....He
would have become old before he had time to pass through youth....On the other
hand had the Moon remained with the Earth, man would have crystallized into a
statue. The separation of the Earth from the Sun...enables man to live at the
proper rate of vibration....The Moon-forces reach him from the exact distance
necessary to enable him to build a body of the proper density.”—pp 264-265
The “‘Spirits of Darkness’ are also called ‘Spirits of
Personality’ or of ‘Selfhood’ (Egoism)....The degeneration of selfhood into
selfishness must be ascribed to their activity, while on the other hand they
are the originators of all of man’s independence.”—Cosmic Memory, 1904, p 178-179
“In the Earth Period the Lords of Mind reached the
Creator-stage....They are called ‘Powers of Darkness’ by Paul.”—p. 222 “We owe
to the Lords of Mind the separate personality, with all the possibilities for
experience and growth thus afforded. And this point marks the birth of the
individual.”—p 266
The soul’s “male element is related to what is called will, its
female element to what is called imagination.”—Cosmic Memory, 1904, p 88
“The sex of the Ego....manifests...as two distinct qualities—Will
and Imagination. The Will is the male power...Imagination is the female
power.”—p 267
“Mars left this iron in the Earth in a vaporous form. But for this
occurrence....he [man] would never have acquired warm blood, for there is iron
in the blood.”—At the Gates of Spiritual
Science, 1906, p 86
“[I]ron is essential to the production of warm red blood....[T]he
influence of Mars over the iron in the Earth....has ceased and iron has become
available for use on our planet.”—p 268
“In days of yore, the sexual organs (the procreative forces) and
the organ of the voice (the word creative) were united. Two poles have appeared
in man’s being, where formerly there was but one single organ”—An Esoteric Cosmology, 1906, p 71
The larynx “was originally a part of the creative organ. The
larynx was built while the dense body was yet bent together....As the dense
body straightened and became upright, part of the creative organ remained with
the upper part of the dense body and later became the larynx.”—p 269
“The force by which mankind forms a thinking brain for itself is
the same by which mankind impregnated himself in ancient times. The price of
thought is single-sexedness. By no
longer impregnating themselves, but rather by impregnating each other, human
beings can turn a part of their productive energy within, and so become
thinking creatures—Cosmic Memory,
1904, p 90
“As a result of this change only one part of the force essential
in the creation of another being was available to one individual, hence it
became necessary for each individual to seek the co-operation of another, who
possessed that part of the procreative force which the seeker lacked. Thus did
the evolving entity obtain brain consciousness of the outside world at the cost
of half its creative power....however, it has evolved the power to create and
express thought.”—pp 269-270
“Ordinary theosophical literature has caused much confusion. This
has especially been done by Sinnett’s Esoteric Buddhism, the book which, on the
other hand, has the great merit of having been the first to popularize the
theosophical world-outlook in recent times.” Cosmic Memory, 1904, p 222
“The writer...simply sets forth in the next few paragraphs what he
has received, which shows how the differing (and seemingly contradictory) teaching
of two such valuable works as The Secret
Doctrine, by H.P. Blavatsky, and
Esoteric Buddhism, by A.P. Sinnett, may be reconciled.”—p 270
“In occultism therefore, we speak of the Mars half of Earth
evolution and of the Mercury half. Whereas the other names describe a whole
planet, Earth evolution is spoken of as ‘Mars-Mercury.’”—TR, 1907, p 80
“During the first three and one-half Revolutions Mars held
sway....During the last three and one-half Revolutions Mercury will
operate....Therefore occult science speaks of the Earth Period as
Mars-Mercury.”—p 274
The Earth “had formerly been surrounded by fire-mists, as in a
seething steaming vessel, and then by degrees the dense watery vapors withdrew.
The Earth was now covered by a very thin hardened crust, beneath which lay a
bubbling churning sea of fire, the remains of the fire-mist of the former
atmosphere. Then gradually tiny islands emerged, the first beginnings of our
present mineral kingdom.”—TR, 1907, p
121
“The crust of the Earth was just starting to become quite hard and
solid in some places, while in others it was still fiery, and between islands
of crust was a sea of boiling, seething water.”—p 275
“Goethe says: ‘The eye is formed by the light for the light.’ He
means that light is the creator of the eye, and this is perfectly true. We see
how true it is if we observe how the eye degenerates in the absence of light.
For example, in
“In an analogous manner, the perception of light called forth the
eye. The light itself built the eye and maintains it. Where there is no light
there can be no eye. In cases where animals have withdrawn and dwelt in
caves—keeping away from the light—the eyes have degenerated and atrophied
because there were no light rays to
maintain them and no eyes were needed in the dark caves.”—p 276
“The eye has been formed out of the physical organization by
light. Light is the progenitor of the eye.”—Theosophy
of the Rosicrucian (hereafter TR),
fourteen lectures given in
“As surely as the pre-existing light created the eye whereby the
light is seen....”(p 18). “[T]he perception of light called forth the eye. The
light itself built the eye and maintains it.”—p 276
“What the Akasha Chronicle [Memory of Nature] shows with respect
to this raising of [Lemurian] children surpasses everything contemporary man
can picture to himself in his boldest imagining. The bearing of heat, even of a
searing fire, the piercing of the body with pointed objects were quite common
procedures....[The men] could lift enormous loads merely by using their
will....The female...was directed toward developing a strong imagination. For
example she was exposed to the storm....She had to witness the combats of the
men.”—Cosmic Memory, 1904, pp 73-74
The Lemurian methods of education seem shocking to our more
refined sensibilities....The education of the boys was designed especially to
develop the quality of Will. They were made to fight one another, and these
fights were extremely brutal. They were impaled upon spits. They learned...to
carry immense burdens by the exercise of the Will. The education of the girls
was intended to promote the development of the imaginative faculty...They were
put out in the great forests...to listen to the furious outbursts of flood and
tempest....and to perceive...the grandeur of the warring elements.”—p 279
“They took the forces of nature into themselves, where they had an
after effect in the soul. Thus the germs of memory were formed. With memory was
also born the capacity to form the first and simplest moral concepts....It was
from the manner of life of the women that the first ideas of ‘good and evil’
arose.”—Cosmic Memory, 1904, p 78
“The above mentioned strenuous experiences were for the purpose of
developing memory....The education of the girls developed the first germinal,
flickering memory. The first idea of Good and Evil was formulated by them
because of their experiences, which worked chiefly on the imagination.”—p 280
The Lemurian “was—the expression should not be misinterpreted—a
born magician.”—CM, 1904, p 73
“The Lemurian was a born
magician.”—p 281
The institutions “which served for the cultivation of ‘divine wisdom
and divine art’...were educational and scientific. He who was found fit was
here initiated into the science of the universal laws....If the Lemurian was a
born magician, this talent was here developed into art and insight....Here one
learned to know and control the forces of nature through direct contemplation
of them....If one were to use an expression for these institutions...one could
call them ‘colleges of will power and of the clairvoyant power of the
imagination.’” —Cosmic Memory, 1904,
p 75
“[A]t the School of Initiation he was taught art, the laws of
Nature and facts relating to the physical universe....Thus the Temples of
Initiation in the Lemurian times were High Schools for the cultivation of
Will-power and Imagination, with ‘post-graduate courses’ in Art and Science.
Yet, though the Lemurian was a born magician...his forces were directed toward
the moulding of forms in the animal and the plant worlds.”— p 281
“Now that force by means of which one human being turns toward the
outside in order to act together with another is love. The superhuman beings
directed all their love outward in order to let universal wisdom flow into
their soul. ‘Man’ however can only direct a part of it outward. Man became
sensual, and therefore his love became sensual. He draws away from the outer
world that part of his nature which he directs toward his inner development.
And thus that arises which one calls selfishness....He became selfish. And his
action toward the outside became selfish; his striving after inner development
also became selfish. He loved because he desired, and likewise he thought
because he desired wisdom.” Cosmic Memory,
1904, p 99
“The force that goes outward for the purpose of creating another
being is Love. The Angels sent their whole love, without selfishness or desire,
and in return, Cosmic Wisdom flowed into them. Man sends out only part of his
love; the residue he selfishly keeps and uses to build his inner organs of
expression, to improve himself; thus does his love become selfish and sensual.
With one part of his creative soul-power he selfishly loves another being
because he desires co-operation in propagation. With the other part of his
creative soul-power he thinks (also for selfish reasons) because he desires knowledge.”—p
285
“By half-superhuman beings [Lucifers] man was brought to the point
of directing his inner nature toward the sensuous external world....Now he
began to follow the impulses and enticements of his conceptions. Therewith free
choice became possible for man. This was the beginning of ‘good and evil.’” Cosmic Memory, 1904, p 107
The Lucifers told man how he “could become his own master and [be]
like unto the gods, ‘Knowing good and evil.’ All of which knowledge was given
with the one purpose of turning his consciousness outward for the acquirement
of knowledge.”—p 287
“Without these Luciferic beings, everything would have come to man
as a gift from the gods. Man would have been wise, but not independent;
enlightened, but not free. Because of these beings...man not only became wise,
but could be fired with enthusiasm for wisdom and ideas.”—At the Gates of Spiritual Science, 1906, p 94
The Lucifers “brought him [mankind] the inestimable blessing of
emancipation from outside influence and guidance, thereby starting him on the
road to the evolution of his own spiritual powers—an evolution which will
eventually enable him to upbuild himself with wisdom such as that of the Angels
and other Beings who guided him before he first exercised free will.”—p 287
“Lucifer is the name given to the Moon Adepts; they are the
bestowers of human intellectuality....By the intervention of the Luciferic
principle human independence and spirituality were saved.”—FE, 1905, p 182
Man’s “brain-consciousness and independence...resulted from his
enlightenment by the Lucifer Spirits, the ‘light-givers,’ who opened the eyes
of his understanding...[T]hey are the instigators of all mental activity.”—p
288
“It was through the activity of this volcanic fire that the
destruction of the Lemurian land came about.”— Cosmic Memory, 1904, p 83
“Volcanic cataclysms
destroyed the greater part of the Lemurian continent.”—p 291
“In the old Atlantean the etheric head projected far out beyond
the physical head....Now we must think of a point in the physical brain in the
place between the eyebrows, only about a centimeter lower, and a second point
in the etheric head which would correspond to this. In the Atlantean these
points were still far apart and evolution consisted precisely in the fact that
they continually approached each other.”—Theosophy
of the Rosicrucian, 1907, p 131
“The higher vehicles of the early Atlanteans were not drawn into a
concentric position in relation to the dense body, as are ours....The head of
the vital body was outside of and held a position far above the physical head.
There is a point between the eyebrows and about half an inch below the surface
of the skin, which has a corresponding point in the vital body....It might be
called ‘the root of the nose.’ Finally, in the last third of the Atlantean
Epoch, the point in the vital body was united to the corresponding point in the
dense body.”—pp 292-294
“Just as the empty center of a flame appears blue when seen
through the light around it, so this empty space [‘shaped like a somewhat
elongated blue oval, situated at the base of the nose, behind the brow’]
appears blue because of the auric light streaming around it. This is the outer
form of expression of the ‘I’.”—At the
Gates of Spiritual Science, 1906, p 14
“When these two points in the dense and vital bodies come into
correspondence, as they do in man today, the trained clairvoyant sees them as a
black spot, or rather as a vacant space, like the invisible core of a gas
flame. This is the seat of the...indwelling human Ego whose home it is.”—p 293
“Today, man’s etheric head just fits the physical one. This is
still not so with the horse.”—Occult
Signs and Symbols, 1907, p 13
“The head of the horse’s
vital body is far outside the head of its dense body.”—p 293
“[T]he first subrace of the Atlanteans [was] that of the
Rmoahals...Colors [and]...sounds...had a long after-effect in the soul....The
Rmoahals developed feelings which their Lemurian ancestors did not yet
know....The Atlantean period, therefore, is the one in which the development of
language took place....They [the Rmoahals] not only named things, but in their
words was a power over things....For them language was something especially
sacred.” Cosmic Memory, 1904, pp
50-51
“The Rmoahals were the first of the Atlantean Races....They
remembered colors and tones, and thus to some extent they evolved Feeling. The
Lemurian had entirely lacked Feeling....The Rmoahals began to give names to
things....in their words was power over the things they named....To them
language was holy.”—pp 294-295
“[T]he second subrace, the so-called Tlavatli peoples...began to feel
their own personal value. Ambition...made itself felt among them....He demanded
that his works be preserved in memory. Based upon this memory of deeds, a group
of men who belonged together elected one as leader. A kind of regal rank
developed....The memory, the remembrance of the ancestors of those who had
acquired merit in life, developed. From this there emerged...religious
veneration of the deceased, an ancestor cult.”—Cosmic Memory, 1904, p 52
“The Tlavatlis were the second atlantean Race. Already they began
to feel their worth as separate human beings. They became ambitious, they
demanded that their works be remembered. Memory became a factor in the life of
the community. The remembrance of the deeds done by certain ones would cause a
group of people to chose as their leader one who had done great deeds. This was
the germ of royalty. This remembrance of the meritorious deeds of great men was
carried even beyond the time when such leaders died. Mankind began to honor the
memory of ancestors and to worship them and others who had show great merit.”—p
295
“This kind of social communal life became fully developed only
among the third subrace, the Toltecs....The deeds of the ancestors were not to
be forgotten by their whole line of descendants....[I]n those times men
actually had the power to transmit their gifts to their descendants....Through
such a system of education the capacities of the father were generally
transmitted to the son. Education, after all was calculated to mold the life through
vivid images....[T]he educator...did not sharpen the power of thought, but in
fact, developed those gifts which were of a more instinctive kind....In this
way initiated kings and leaders of the Atlantean came into being. Enormous
power was in their hands and they were greatly venerated....The greater the
power became, the more he wanted to exploit it for himself. The
ambition...turned into marked selfishness. Thus the misuse of powers arose.”—Cosmic Memory, 1904, p 53-54
“The Toltecs were the third Atlantean Race. They carried still
further the ideas of their predecessors, inaugurating Monarchy and Hereditary
Succession. The Toltecs originated the custom of honoring men for the deeds
done by their ancestors...The father had the power to bestow his qualities upon
his son....The education consisted of calling up before the soul of the child
pictures of the different phases of life....The instinct and not the reason was
appealed to and aroused....The Leaders of mankind initiated great Kings at that
time to rule the people, over whom they were given great power. The masses
honored these Kings with all the reverence due to those who were thus truly
Kings ‘by the grace of God’....[I]n time the Kings became intoxicated with
power....Ambition and selfishness ruled them.”—pp 296-297
“[T]he fourth subrace, the Primal Turanians...used them [their
powers over nature] in order to satisfy their selfish wishes and desires.” Cosmic Memory, 1904, p 55
“The Original Turanians were the fourth Atlantean Race. They were
especially vile in their abominable selfishness.”—p 297
“The origin of logical thinking must be sought among the fifth
subrace, the Primal Semites.”—CM,
1906 p 55
The Original Semites were the fifth and most important of the
seven Atlantean races, because in them we find the first germ of the corrective
quality of Thought.”—p 297
(1) “[T]he entire spiritual configuration of our planet Earth was
changed with the appearance of Jesus Christ.”—Lecture, “The World-Historical
Significance of the Blood that Flowed on the Cross,” 1907, p 79
(2) “A being who could observe the Earth from a distant star would
see the physical Earth permeated and surrounded by an etheric and an astral
body....would see a change in the colors at the moment when the blood flowed
from Christ’s wounds....the entire astral body of the Earth had been
changed.”—Lecture, 1907, p 260; both (1) and (2) from The Christian Mystery
“When the blood flowed [at the crucifixion, Christ] diffused His
own desire body over the planet....At that moment a tremendous wave or
spiritual sunlight flooded the Earth.”—406-407
“The fifth subrace therefore developed thought at the expense of
control of the life force....[It could] no longer give direct orders to
nature....[It] formed the germ of the fifth, the Aryan race, whose mission is
the complete development of the thinking faculty.”—Cosmic Memory, 1904, p 56
“[T]he Original Semitic Race became the ‘seed-race’ for the seven Races
of the present Aryan Epoch....This faculty of Thought and of forming Ideas was
gained by man at the expense of loss of control over the vital forces—i.e.,
power over Nature.”—p 298
“Jacob gains his inheritance by employing ruse and cunning...the
overcoming of physical force [Esau] through intelligence is here inaugurated.”—Foundations of Esotericism, 1905, p 259
“The Original Semites regulated their desires to some extent by
the mind, and instead of mere desire, came cunning and craftiness....They were
the first to discover that ‘brain’ is superior to ‘brawn.’”—p 299
“Most of the people [surviving Atlanteans] migrated eastward
toward Europe and Asia....The[ir] Leader was a high Initiate...[who] picked out
the best of them to accompany him to a distant part of Asia...now known as the
Gobi Desert.”—At the Gates of Spiritual
Science, 1906, p 96
“Under the guidance of a great Entity, the Original Semitic Race
was led eastward from the continent of Atlantis, over Europe, to the great
waste in Central Asia which is known as the
“Mighty were the words which again and again he impressed upon his
followers: ‘Until now you have seen those who led you; but there are higher
leaders whom you do not see. It is these leaders to whom you are subject...and
you shall obey one of whom you can make no image to yourselves.’”—Cosmic Memory, pp 64-65
“Their Leader therefore called the people together and delivered a
soul-stirring oration, which might be thus expressed: ‘Hitherto you have seen
Those who led you, but there are Leaders of varying grades of splendor, higher
than They, Whom you have not seen....Exalted above all these glorious Beings
stands the invisible God....This invisible God only, must you worship...and not
make any graven image of him, nor use any likeness to picture him.”—pp 301-2
“The men of the sixth subrace, the Akkadians, developed the
faculty of thought even further.”—CM,
p 56
“They [the Akkadians]
evolved the faculty of thought still further.”—p 303
“The Mongols...reached the conviction that what is oldest is also
what is most sensible and can best defend itself.”—Cosmic Memory, 1904, p 58
“The Chinese Mongolians maintain
to this day that the old ways are the best.”—p 303
1. “The human initiates, the sacred teachers, became leaders of
the rest of mankind in the beginning of the fifth root race [Aryan Epoch].”—Cosmic Memory, 1904, p 69
2. “The higher divine messengers retired from earth more and more
and left the leadership to these human initiates.”—Cosmic Memory, 1904, p 70
“The most advanced among humanity at the beginning of the Aryan
Epoch were given the higher Initiations, that they might take the place of the
messengers of God....Such human Initiates were from this time forth the only
mediators between God and man.”—p 304
“It is to the original Semite civilization that we owe everything
that has existed up till the present time. But now there begins a new impact
with the Slavonic Peoples which will lead into the future... This is working as
hidden spirituality out of the Russian peasantry.”—Foundations of Esotericism, 1905, p 250
“From the Slavs will descend a people which will form the last of
the seven Races of the Aryan Epoch.”—p 306
“Haeckel approached me. Two weeks later he wrote an article...in
which he publicly supported my point of view....[T]here is no better scientific
foundation to esotericism than Haeckel’s teaching.... Thinking in the 19th Century [one of Steiner’s early books]...is
dedicated to Haeckel. At present, German spiritual life really exists only in
Haeckel’s phylogeny [which incorporates the concept of epigenesis].”—Letter to
Edouard Schuré‚ 1907, Correspondence and
Documents, p 13
“Haeckel (that great and fearless student of nature as he sees it,
and very near to knowledge of the complete truth regarding evolution) says of
the Theoreia Generationis [Caspar Wolff’s 1759 treatise that advances the
evolutionary concept of epigenesis]...‘it is one of the most valuable works in
the whole literature of biology.’ Haeckel’s own views we find thus stated in
his Anthropogenie: ‘Nowadays we are hardly justified in calling Epigenesis an
hypothesis, as we have fully convinced ourselves of its being a FACT and are
able at any moment to demonstrate it...’”—p 339
“All our present mammals are relics of the Moon animal-men who
stayed behind...the present Ape species. They too, however, were never actual
ancestors of mankind, but beings which had degenerated.”—Theosophy of the Rosicrucian, 1907, p 122
“The lower monkeys, instead of being the progenitors of the higher
species, are stragglers occupying the most degenerated specimens of what was
once the human form. Instead of man having ascended from the anthropoids, the
reverse is true—the anthropoids have degenerated from man.”—p 342
“And because [prehistoric] man was possessed of this [picture]
consciousness...in naming himself he included in that name everyone belonging
to his ancestral line. Father, son, grandson, etc. designated by one name that
which passed through them all.” The
Occult Significance of the Blood, 1906, p 27
“[F]or ages he did not
think of himself primarily as an individual, but as belonging to a tribe or a
family. The affix ‘son’ to many present day surnames is a remnant of this
feeling.”—p 351
“A person could remember not only his own childhood, but his
ancestors’ lives, because they were contained in the pictures absorbed by his
blood....A son would feel at one with his father, and grandfather, as if they
were sharing the same ‘I.’ This was also the reason he did not give himself a
personal name but one that included past generations.”—Supersensible Knowledge, 1906, p 41
“When the same unmixed strain of blood flows in the veins of a
family for generations, the same mental pictures made by great-grandfather,
grandfather and father are reproduced in the son by the family-spirit....He
sees himself as the continuation of a long line of ancestors who live in him.
He sees all the events of the past lives of the family as though he had been
present.”—pp 353-54
“Endogamy preserves the blood of the generations....Exogamy
inoculates man with new blood, and this breaking down of the tribal principle,
this mixing of blood...signifies the birth of intellect.”—Occult Significance of the Blood, 1906, p 28
“The former ‘common’ consciousness, the involuntary
clairvoyance...caused him to feel most closely identified with the tribe or
family, was to be replaced for a time by a strictly individual consciousness
confined to the material world.”—p 355
“When, through marriage, blood is mingled with strange blood...the
result is the extinction of the original kind of clairvoyance and the birth in
evolution of a new consciousness....In the human kingdom strange blood kills
the hazy clairvoyance that is based on kindred blood.”—Supersensible Knowledge, 1906, p 44
“In order to accomplish this separation of nations into
individuals, laws were given which prohibited endo- gamy or marriage in the
family....Strange blood has thus been introduced into all the families of the
Earth and it has gradually wiped out the involuntary clairvoyance which
promoted the clannish feeling.”—p 355
“Modern science has discovered recently that if blood from one
animal is mixed with that of another not akin to it, the two types of blood
prove fatal to one another. This is something that has been known to spiritual
knowledge for a long time....Our modern intellectual life is entirely the
outcome of the mingling of blood.”—Supersensible
Knowledge, 1906, p 44
“Science has lately discovered that haemolysis results from the
inoculation of the blood of one individual into the veins of another of a
different species, causing the death of the lower of the two.”— p 356
“If you mingle the blood of human beings with that of the lower
apes, the result is destructive to the species, since the one is too far
removed from the other. Whereas, if you mingle the blood of man with that of
the higher apes, death does not ensue.”—Occult
Significance of the Blood, 1906, p 30
“When the blood of a higher animal is inoculated into the veins of
one from a lower species, the spirit in the blood of the higher animal is of
course stronger than the spirit of the less evolved; hence when it endeavors to
assert itself it kills the imprisoning form and liberates itself. When, on the
other hand, the blood of a lower species is inoculated into the veins of a
higher animal, the higher spirit is capable of ousting the less evolved spirit
in the strange blood and assimilating the blood to its own purposes, therefore
no visible catastrophe ensues.”—p 356
The first public use of the term “Mystery of Golgotha” was in
Steiner’s book Christianity as Mystical
Fact, 1902. Example: “The initiation of Lazarus was intended to prepare the
way for an understanding of the Mystery of Golgotha.”—p 142. For an in-depth
study of this Event the reader is directed to the book Building Stones for
Understanding the Mystery of Golgotha, ten lectures given in
See “the Great Mystery of
Golgotha”, p 374 and the section “The Mystery of Golgotha”, p 400
1. “We have designated the outstanding leader of these spirits
[Angels] as the ‘Holy Spirit’ or the ‘Holy Ghost,’ The Regent of the Fire
Spirits as the ‘Christ,’ that of Saturn as the ‘Father God.’ Thus the last who
had been at work with His hosts was the Spirit named in Christianity ‘the Holy
Spirit,’ the Regent of the Moon-evolution, the Spirit....Who now was Leader,
Jehovah.”—Theosophy of the Rosicrucian,
1907, p 124
2. “As the highest Regent of Saturn, the Ego Spirit appears to us
as the Father God, the highest God of the Sun, the Sun-God, as Christ, so will
the Regent of the Moon-stage of the Earth appear as the Holy Spirit with His
Hosts—the Angels.”—Theosophy of the
Rosicrucian, p 103
“The Father is the highest Initiate among the humanity of the
Saturn Period....The Son (Christ) is the highest Initiate of the Sun
Period....The Holy Spirit (Jehovah) is the highest Initiate of the Mood
Period.”—p 376
“Anatomy shows that in their structure the muscles of the human
body are of two kinds...smooth muscles [which] in general are those independent
of human volition...on the other hand, those muscles are striated which mediate
movements under the influence of human volition....The heart...constitutes an
exception....the heart is not subject to volition in its movements, yet it is a
‘transversely striated’ muscle.... It is on its way to becoming a voluntary
muscle. In the future it will execute movements which will be the effects of
the inner soul impulses of man.”—Cosmic
Memory, 1904, p 239
“We have previously spoken of the two kinds of muscles—voluntary
and involuntary. The latter are formed in lengthwise stripes and are connected
with functions not under the control of the will....The voluntary muscles are
those which are controlled by the will....[But] the heart is cross-striped like
a voluntary muscle....as the Ego [has] gained more and more control over the
heart, the cross-stripes have gradually developed. [A]s the altruistic
principles of love and brotherhood increase...these cross-stripes become more
numerous and more marked.”—p 396
“The death of Buddha corresponds with the transfiguration of
Jesus....Buddha’s earthly life ends at this point, but it is here that the most
important part of the life of Jesus begins—His suffering, death, and
resurrection.”—Christianity as Mystical
Fact, 1902, pp 112-113
“When death came Moses’ face shone and Buddha’s body became
alight. They all reached the stage when the spirit begins to shine from
within—but then they died. Christ Jesus reached that state on the Mount of
Transfiguration. It is of the very highest significance that His real work took
place subsequent to that event. He suffered; was killed—and resurrected.”—p 406
“Christian Esotericism knows that there was incarnated in the body
of flesh and blood of Christ-Jesus precisely such a Sun-Fire Spirit, and indeed
the highest, the Regent of the Sun Spirits....He forms thus the highest
planetary Spirit of the Earth. The Earth today is His Body.”—Theosophy of the Rosicrucian, 1907, p
100
“[Christ entered] the hampering conditions of [human] physical
existence; nor is His present limitation as Regent of the Earth much less
painful. True, He is also Regent of the Sun...yet the limitations set by the
crampingly slow vibrations of our dense planet must be almost unendurable.”—p
408
“In Scandinavia and
“The Druids of Ireland and the Trottes of Northern Russia were
esoteric schools through which the Master Jesus worked during the so-called
‘Dark Ages.’”—409
“Not much can be publicly communicated about the life on this
planet [Vulcan]....only the mystery students of the higher order, who may leave
their physical body and can acquire supersensible knowledge outside of it, can
learn something about Vulcan.” Cosmic
Memory, 1904, p 172
“Very little can be said about the high spiritual consciousness
which will be attained at the close of the Vulcan Period; it would be quite
beyond our present comprehension.”—p 420
“The days of the week are an image of planetary evolution. The
sequence of the planets is inscribed in a wonderful way in the days of the
week:
Saturn Samstag Saturday
Sun Sonntag Sunday
Moon Montag Monday
Mars (Tiu) Dienstag Tuesday,
Mardi
Mercury (Wotan) Mittwoch Wednesday,
Mercredi
Jupiter (Donar) Donnerstag Thursday,
Jeudi
Venus (Freya) Frietag Friday,
Vendredi
Vulcan (the octave of Saturn) Samstag Saturday”
—Foundations of Esotericism,
1905, pp 207-8
“The great creative Day of Manifestation is embodied in the names
of the days of the week....”—p 411
“There are thus seven planets, each going through seven Rounds [Revolutions]
and each Round through seven Form-conditions, expressed as 777 in occult
script. In that script, 7 in the unit position means globes, in the tens, the
Rounds, and in the hundreds, Planets [Periods]. We therefore have to multiply
the figures, and so we find that our planetary system has to pass through 7 by
7 by 7, or 343 transformations.”—At the
Gates of Spiritual Science, 1906, p 82
“Occult science teaches that there are 777 [actually 343]
incarnations, but that does not mean that the Earth undergoes 777
metamorphoses. It means that evolving life makes 7 Revolutions around the 7
Globes of the 7 World Periods.”—p 412; see also Diagram 8 on p 197 (“The 777
[343] Incarnations”)
1. “An even more important spiritual current than Rosicrucianism
was Manicheism.”—The Temple Legend,
1904-06, p 60
2 “The members of the Manichean Order are already learning how to
transform quite radically those who by nature are wholly evil.”—At the Gates of Spiritual Science, 1906,
p 73
“The Manichees, an Order of still higher spirituality than the
Rosicrucians, are at present studying that very problem [of how to deal with
evil]....evil...must be punished with good....and in this way the evil is in
time overcome. Hate which will not submit to hate, must succumb to Love.”—pp
418-19
“Not much can be publicly communicated about the life on this
planet [Vulcan]....only the mystery students of the higher order, who may leave
their physical body and can acquire supersensible knowledge outside of it, can
learn something about Vulcan.” Cosmic
Memory, 1904, p 172
“Very little can be said about the high spiritual consciousness
which will be attained at the close of the Vulcan Period; it would be quite
beyond our present comprehension.”—p 420
1.
Old Saturn Deep
trance-consciousness
2.
Old Sun Dreamless
sleep-consciousness
3.
Old Moon Dreaming
sleep or picture consciousness
4.
Earth Waking consciousness or awareness
of objects
5.
(Future) Jupiter Conscious picture consciousness
6.
(Future) Venus Super-conscious life consciousness
7.
(Future) Vulcan
Spiritual or self-conscious universal consciousness
—Foundations of Esotericism,
1905, p 194
Period Corresponding consciousness
Saturn.............................Unconsciousness
corresponding to deep trance
Sun.................................Unconsciousness resembling
dreamless sleep
Moon..............................Picture
consciousness corresponding to dream state
Earth...............................Waking, objective
consciousness
Jupiter.............................Self-conscious
picture consciousness
Venus..............................Objective, Self-consciousness,
Creative consciousness
Vulcan............................Highest
Spiritual Consciousness
“It is for man to make the Earth into a temple of truth, beauty
and goodness....Having transformed the mineral world, man will....be able to
create and give shape to plant life....At a still higher stage, he will give
form not only to living beings but to conscious beings. He will have power over
animal life. When he has reached the stage of being able to reproduce his like
by an act of conscious will, he will accomplish, at a higher level, what he
accomplishes today in the mineral world.”—An
Esoteric Cosmology, 1906, p 103
“Our present humanity...now ensouls the minerals....In the Jupiter
Period....we shall have the ability...to endow these [plant] forms with
vitality. In the Venus Period ...we shall be...giving them [animals] living and
feeling forms. Lastly, in the Vulcan Period, it will be our privilege to give
them a germinal mind, as the Lords of Mind did to us.”—pp 427-428
“What is right for Indian people is not right for
“In
“[T]here is one thing that must surely destroy the necessary link
between teacher and pupil. This happens if the pupil loses confidence in the
teacher.”—Higher Stages of Knowledge,
1905, p 31
“[U]nwavering confidence in the teacher is absolutely
necessary.”—p 440
“[I]t is absolutely essential that loyalty to the Teacher” follow
“indubitable proof of his superior knowledge and ability....[U]nless that faith
is there, there is no use in continuing.”—Mystery
of the Great Operas, pp 164-165
“The Stone of the Wise...is something which everyone holds in his
hands for part of almost every day, but without knowing it is the Philosopher’s
Stone.”—At the Gates of Spiritual Science,
1906, p 122
“The statement that the Rosicrucians were a society devoted to the
discovery and use of the formula for the making of the ‘Philosopher’s Stone’
was and is true. It is also true that most people have handled and do often
handle this wondrous stone.”—p 438
“The occultist calls milk: the Moon-food. Sons of the Moon are
those who nourish themselves on milk. The Moon [Period] brought about milk. It
has been verified that [original earth forces which]...brought mankind into
existence...must also be health bringing, so we ourselves gain the power to
further health when we only take milk.”—Foundations
of Esotericism, 1905, pp 243-44
“During the Moon Period man was fed on the milk of Nature.
Universal food was absorbed by him and the use of milk has a tendency to put
him in touch with the Cosmic forces and enable him to heal others.”—p 447
“There are certain muscles near the ear which nowadays seem
purposeless. Earlier they had their significance; they served to move the ears
at will; there are few persons who can do this today.”—TR, 1907, p 86
“[T]he muscles which animals use to move the ears are present in
man also, but as they are atrophying, few people can use them.”—p 473
“These two organs, the pineal gland and the pituitary gland as
active organs, must develop into the organ of vision (eye) and the organ of
warmth (heart).”—Foundations of Esotericism, 1905, p 36
“To regain contact with the inner Worlds, all that remains to be
done is the reawakening of the pituitary body and the pineal gland.”—p 477
“We must think of the Earth as consisting of a series of layers,
not completely separated from one another like the skins of an onion.”—At the Gates of Spiritual Science, 1906,
p 138
“To the trained clairvoyant sight...the Earth appears built in
strata, something like an onion.”—p 499
(1) “[W]hat makes the human being egoistic is incarnated in Judas
Iscariot”—Lecture,
(2) “Then he said, ‘one of you will betray me’ (John 13:21). The
betrayer is egoism, the lower desires.”—Lecture, “The Mystery of Golgotha,”
“Judas Iscariot is the
traitorous propensities of the lower nature of the neophyte.”—p 502
“What does the occultist say about the interior of the Earth?...
1)
[R]elated to the interior as an eggshell
is to the egg. This topmost layer is called the Mineral Earth.
2)
...the Fluid Earth....is not really like
any of the fluids we know....as soon as it is brought into contact with
something living, it strives to expel and destroy this life...
3)
The Air-Earth. This is a substance which
annuls feelings; for instance, if it is brought into contact with any pain, the
pain is converted into pleasure, and vice versa...
4)
The Water-Earth or Form Earth. “It
produces in the material realm the effects that occur spiritually in Devachan
[the Thought World]. Thus we have the negative pictures of physical things....
5)
The Fruit-Earth. This substance is full of
exuberant energy....It is the underlying life which serves the forms of the
layers above it.
6)
Fire-Earth. Its substance is essentially
feeling and will. It is sensitive to pain and would cry out if it were trodden
on. It consists, as it were, entirely of passions.
7)
Earth-mirror or Earth-reflector. This
layer...changes all the characteristics of the Earth into their opposites. A
polaric reflection arises, a reversal of the original....
8)
Divisive layer...[anything in] this layer
appears to be multiplied....
9)
Earth Core
—At the Gates of Spiritual Science, 1906,
pp 138-139
‘[T]he arrangement of the Earth’s strata....
1)
The Mineral Earth: This is the stony crust
of the Earth....
2)
The Fluid Stratum....It has the quality of
expansion....
3)
Vapor Stratum....in this stratum there is
an ever-flowing and pulsating life....
4)
Water Stratum....here are...the archetypal
forces of the minerals
5)
Seed Stratum....is the primordial fount of
life...that built all the forms on earth ....
6)
Fiery Stratum...is possessed of sensation.
Pleasure and pain, sympathy and antipathy have here their effect on the Earth.
7)
Refracting Stratum...[is] an exact
reflection of the existing moral status of mankind....
8)
Atomistic Stratum....It seems to have the
property of multiplying many fold the things in it....
9)
Material Expression of the Earth
Spirit....lemniscate currents....
10)
—pp 503-507
“Fire Earth...forces its way through channels in the upper layers
and even flows up into and violently shakes the solid earth: the result is an
earthquake. If this passion from the fire-earth thrusts up some of the Earth’s
substance, a volcano erupts. All this is closely connected with man...Through
their passions the Lemurian made the Fire-Earth rebellious...and they brought
the whole Lemurian continent to destruction.”—At the Gates of Spiritual Science, 1906, p 103
“When the Nature forces in the seventh stratum are unleashed so that
they can express themselves through a volcanic outburst, they set the (sixth)
fiery stratum in motion and the agitation spreads outward through the mouth of
the crater....[It] is the reflected immorality and anti-spiritual tendencies of
mankind which arouse the Nature-forces in the seventh stratum to destructive
activity.”—pp 507-08
“The Ptolemaic system holds good for the astral plane, the
Copernican for the physical.”—At the
Gates of Spiritual Science, 1906, p 103
“The Copernican theory is not altogether correct....The Ptolemaic
system is correct from the standpoint of the Desire World...”—p 514
(1) “Religion, art and science were united in the ancient
primordial drama; then came the division and three separate currents began to
flow out of the one source contained in the Greek mysteries. Each current owes
its development to the fact that it went its own separate way. In the course of
time a ‘religious’ element arose for the soul, an ‘artistic’ one for the sense,
and a ‘scientific’ one for the understanding. This was inevitable, for
perfection could be reached only if man unfolded every one of his capacities
separately until they attained the highest level of development....If religion
is led toward the highest form of Christianity, it is willing to become united
with art and science. Art...will reach the summit if it becomes permeated with
true religion. And science, which has reached its full development in the
modern period, has really given the impulse for the reunion of these three
currents.”—“Richard Wagner in the Light of Spiritual Science,” lecture in
(2) “[I]n ancient
“There was a time, even as late as
“[The] great Founder [of the Rosicrucians], who since its
inception has been constantly on the physical plane...to all appearances
[withdrew during]....the first half and also during a large part of the second
half of the nineteenth century.”—Theosophy
of the Rosicrucian, 1907, p 10, italics added
“That particular Ego [Christian Rosenkreutz] has also been in
continuous physical existence ever since [the thirteenth century], in one or
another of the European Countries.”—p. 518
“Everything published, written, or printed [about Rosicrucianism]
is nothing but fragments, lost through betrayal into public hands. Not only are
these fragments inaccurate, they have undergone all kinds of distortions
through charlatanry, fraud, incomprehension and sheer stupidity. As long as it
has existed, genuine Rosicrucianism has been passed on by word of mouth to
members sworn to secrecy. That is why nothing of great importance has found its
way into public literature.”—Supersensible
Knowledge, 1906, p 145
“In the past these [Rosicrucian Mysteries] have been kept secret
from all but a few Initiates, and even today they are among the most mysterious
and secret in the Western World. All so-called ‘discoveries’ of the past which
have professed to reveal the Rosicrucian secrets, have been either fraudulent,
or the result of treachery upon the part of some outsider who may, accidentally
or otherwise, have overheard fragments of conversation, unintelligible to all
but those who have the key.”—p 521
If “these lectures on Rosicrucian Theosophy....[have] been
understood, not only abstractly, but so that feelings have been evoked through
knowledge of the facts, then it can work directly into life. When this
knowledge flows into all our members, from head to heart and thence into the
hand, into all that we do and create, then we have grasped the foundation of
spiritual science”—Theosophy of the
Rosicrucian, 1907, pp 167-168
“But, and this is a very important “But,” the Rosicrucians do not
regard an intellectual understanding of God and the Universe as an end in
itself, far from it! The greater the intellect, the greater the danger of its
misuse. Therefore, this scientific, logical and exhaustive teaching is given in
order that man may believe in his heart that which his head has sanctioned and
start to live the religious life.”—p 530
“Those who belong to the [Esoteric] School complete their
probationary time and eventually arrive at direct intercourse with the exalted
ones themselves.”—Letter, 1905, History and
Contents, p 74
“When the Probationer has complied with the necessary requirements
and completed the term of probation, he may send request for individual
instruction by the Elder Brothers...”—p 532
“The link between the organ of speech and gender is sexuality.
Therefore the man changes when he reaches puberty. The change [of voice] is
nothing else than the expression of the former connection between the organs of
speech and of sexuality...only the male form of the larynx is in a position to
say, to know, what can be regained through the Lost Word.”—The Temple Legend, 1904-06, p 243
“[T]he present larynx was part of the creative organ....The
connection of the two is seen even today in the fact that the body...changes
his voice at puberty.”—p 536
“The organ that is already preparing to become the future organ of
generation is the human larynx. [I]n the future man’s inner being, his own
likeness, which today is in his word, will issue from the larynx ...man will
speak forth man.”—Theosophy of the
Rosicrucian, 1907, p 148
“Neither will he use his
present organs of generation, but the larynx will speak the creative word as
directed by the spirit through the coordinating mechanism of the brain.”—p 537
Collation of other Heindel books and
corresponding Steiner texts:
Rosicrucian Christianity Lectures:
Parallels between Max Heindel’s book of twenty lectures and
Steiner teachings made public and in
print no later than 1907
“The overpowering of a human being by means of hypnotism is a
still stronger killing [than killing animals to obtain power in black magic
rituals—intentional vivisection], for it destroys the will. The occultist
therefore never intrudes into a person’s freedom; he only relates facts.”—Foundations of Esotericism, 31 Lectures,
Rosicrucian Christianity
Lectures
“To control others by the exercise of will power is mental
assault, and is even more reprehensible than assault on the physical plane of
action. It is this mental assault which is called ‘hypnotism,” and it is graded
in its effect just as physical assault is.”—pp 68-69
Goethe “knew of the harmony of the spheres. He expressed it at the
beginning of Faust in words spoken by the Archangel Raphael:
The Sun makes music as of old
Amid the sister-spheres of heaven.
On its predestined circle rolls
With roar of thunder.
—Esoteric
Cosmology (EC), eighteen lectures,
Rosicrucian Christianity
Lectures
“Goethe was an initiate, and in his Faust emphasizes twice the
fact that in the heavenly realms all things are reducible to terms of sound.
The opening scene is laid in heaven, and the Archangel Raphael is represented
as saying:
“The sun intones his ancient song,
‘Mid rival chant of brother-spheres,
His prescribed course he speeds along,
In thunderous way throughout the years.
—p 102
“If iron filings are scattered on a piece of paper and a magnet is
moved about underneath, the filings arrange themselves into forms and lines,
following the forces of the magnet. In exactly the same way, the irregularly
distributed astral [desire] substance is attracted and arranged according to
the forces which are in the soul and correspond with what the soul has achieved
in the previous life. These astral beings in the making...appear to the eye of
the seer like bell-forms opening downward.”—Theosophy
of the Rosicrucian (TR), fourteen
lectures,
Rosicrucian Christianity
Lectures
“[T]he Ego...begins to draw to itself the material for a new mind,
as a magnet draws iron filings around its poles....So with the seed-atom, it
can attract in each region only such materials as it has affinity for, and only
a certain definite quantity. This material then forms itself into a great
bell-shaped thing, open at the bottom
and with the seed-atom at the top.”—p 114
“When the human being passes into his etheric body...he has a
prevision of his coming life...[With] an unhappy life in front of him, it may
happen...that he now gets a shock and is hesitant to enter into the physical
body. The result of this may be that he does not come right down into the
physical body and so the connection between the several bodies is not fully
established. This produces idiocy in the coming life...whereas in other circumstances
the etheric body extends only slightly beyond the physical body, in the case of
idiots portions of the etheric body are often to be seen as an etheric sheen
extending far beyond the head.”—Theosophy
of the Rosicrucian, 1907, pp 47-48
Rosicrucian Christianity
Lectures
“[T]he incoming Ego sees...again the panorama of the coming
life....and when a particularly hard life reveals itself to the vision of the
returning Ego at the moment of entering the womb, it sometimes happens that the
Ego is so startled and frightened that it seeks to rush out again....so that
instead of the vital body being concentric with the dense body, the head of the
vital body may be above the head of the dense body. Then we have the congenital
idiot.”—pp 115-116
“It is a false idea on the part of certain mystics to disparage
the value of the physical body It has just as much value as the astral [desire]
body; its mission is to become the temple of the soul.”—EC, 1906, p 33
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“[T]he dense body has had much the longest evolution, and is by
far the most perfect and valuable instrument we possess. When people who have
sometimes but recently come to a knowledge of the existence of higher vehicles
are constantly talking and thinking of how nice it would be to fly off in the
desire body and leave the ‘low’ and ‘vile’ physical, it shows that they have
not yet learned to appreciate the difference between ‘higher’ and ‘perfect.’
The dense body is a marvel of perfection.”—p 117
“Think of the marvelous structure of the femur, of the bone which
bears the whole body. Its construction is such that the maximum amount of
strength is produced with the minimum amount of substance. No engineer could
create such a wonder-structure.”—Esoteric
Cosmology, 1906, p 33
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“[T]ake for instance the large bone of the thigh, the femur, and
examine the thick ends. If we split it open we shall see that only a thin
outside shell is made of compact bone. This is stiffened by beams and cross-beams
of thin cancellated bone, making it of prodigious strength, coupled with a
lightness as far beyond the skill of the greatest living structural engineer as
differential calculus is beyond an ant.”—p 117
“At this age [up to seven] nothing is achieved by admonition;
commands and prohibitions have no effect whatever. But of the greatest
significance is the example...Thus it is vital that during these years the
educator is an exemplary example, that he or she only does what is worthy of
imitation.”—Supersensible Knowledge,
p 96
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“[W]e ought never to do anything in the presence of the child
which we would not be perfectly willing to have it imitate. It is no use to
teach it to mind, or to moralize at this period; example is the only teacher
the child needs or heeds.”—p 120
“The essential aspect of this period can be summed up in two
significant words: imitation and example.”—Supersensible
Knowledge, p 96
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“There are two magic words which denote the manner in which the
child comes into contact with the formative influences of its
environment—EXAMPLE and IMITATION.”—p 120
“The child should not be given toys that are too finished and perfect...A
doll made out of an old table napkin...is far better...because it stirs its
imagination, and that induces movement of the inner organs and produces in the
child a feeling of well-being.”—Supersensible
Knowledge, 1906, p 97
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“The child should be given playthings on which it may exercise its
imitative faculty....Never give them anything finished, where they have nothing
to do but look at it. That leaves the brain no chance for development, and it
must ever be the care and aim of the educator at this time to furnish the means
of developing the physical organs harmoniously.”—p 121
“Happiness and joy build sound organs, and lay the foundation for
future truth.”—SSK, 1906, p 97