,,the ,,way ,,of ,,initiation     ,,by  
,,the ,,same ,,author    ,,initiation   
,,and ,,its ,,results    a sequel to the
    ,,way ,,of ,,initiation    ,by      
,,rudolf ,,steiner1 ,ph4,d4             
,translated from the ,german by         
,clifford ,bax   ,,contents        ,a   
,,foreword    ,i4 ,,the ,,astral        
,,centers 7,,chakras7   ,,ii4 ,,the     
,,constitution ,,of ,,the ,,etheric     
,,body  ,,iii4 ,,dream ,,life   ,,iv4   
,,the ,,three ,,states ,,of             
,,consciousness    ,v4 ,,the            
,,dissociation ,,of ,,human             
,,personality ,,during ,,initiation     
,,vi4 ,,the ,,first ,,guardian ,,of     
,,the ,,threshold  ,,vii4 ,,the ,,second
 ,,guardian ,,of ,,the ,,threshold      
,,selected ,,list ,,of ,,occult ,,works 
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,,the ,,higher ,,worlds    ,,by ,,rudolf
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,,german   ,,by   ,,max ,,gysi    ,,with
 ,,some ,,biographical ,,notes ,,of     
,,the ,,author ,,by   ,,edouard ,,schure
    ,,first ,,americanized ,,edition    
,,macoy ,,publishing ,,and ,,masonic    
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,,page  ,the ,personality of ,rudolf    
,steiner and ,his ,development          
#g     ,i4 ,the ,superphysical ,world   
and ,its ,gnosis                 #cc    
,,ii4 ,how to ,attain ,knowledge of the 
,higher ,worlds           #ej   ,,iii4  
,the ,path of ,discipleship             
#fe    ,,iv4 ,probation                 
#ha     ,v4 ,enlightenment              
#ic    ,,vi4 ,initiation                
#aag   ,,vii4 ,the ,higher ,education of
 the ,soul                      #ace    
,,viii4 ,the ,conditions of             
,discipleship                           

#adi  ,list of ,occult and ,kindred     
,books                            #afe  
,transcriber's ,note3 ,words printed in 
bold are noted with tildes2 bold4 ,there
 is no corresponding anchor for footnote
 number #e4     ,,translator',s ,,note4 
7,,for ,,the ,,english ,,edition47      
,being deeply interested in ,dr4        
,steiner's work and teachings1 and      
desirous of sharing with my             
,english-speaking friends the many      
invaluable glimpses of ,truth which are 
to be found therein1 ,i decided upon the
 translation of the present volume4 ,it 
is due to the kind co-operation of      
several friends who prefer to be        
anonymous that this task has been       
accomplished1 and ,i wish to express my 
hearty thanks for the literary          
assistance rendered by them--also to    
thank ,dr4 ,peipers of ,munich for      
permission to reproduce his excellent   
photograph of the author4  ,the special 
value of this volume consists1 ,i think1
 in the fact that no advice is given and

 no statement made which is not based on
 the personal experience of the author1 
who is1 in the truest sense1 both a     
mystic and an occultist4  ,if the       
present volume should meet with a       
reception justifying a further venture1 
we propose translating and issuing      
during the coming year a further series 
of articles by ,dr4 ,steiner in         
continuation of the same subject1 and a 
third volume will consist of the        
articles now appearing in the pages of  
,the ,theosophist1 entitled ,the        
,education of ,children4  ,,max ,,gysi4 
,,publisher',s ,,note4   ,while the     
pleasant ,german vernacular is still    
discernable in the text of this work1 we
 wish to state that it has been         
,americanized in spelling1 phraseology1 
and definition1 to make plainer to the  
,western mind the wonderful truths      
experienced by its distinguished author4
  ,the readers1 especially ,occult1     
,theosophic1 ,masonic1 and ,new ,thought
 students1 we believe1 will appreciate  

the clearness with which his teachings  
lead to the simple rich ,harmony of     
,life4  ,,macoy ,,pub4  ,,masonic ,,sup4
 ,,co4     ,,the ,,personality ,,of     
,,rudolf ,,steiner ,,and ,,his          
,,development  ,,by ,,edouard ,,schure#a
   ,many of even the most cultivated men
 of our time have a very mistaken idea  
of what is a true mystic and a true     
occultist4 ,they know these two forms of
 human mentality only by their imperfect
 or degenerate types1 of which recent   
times have afforded but too many        
examples4 ,to the intellectual man of   
the day1 the mystic is a kind of fool   
and visionary who takes his fancies for 
facts2 the occultist is a dreamer or a  
charlatan who abuses public credulity in
 order to boast of an imaginary science 
and of pretended powers4 ,be it         
remarked1 to begin with1 that this      
definition of mysticism1 though deserved
 by some1 would be as unjust as         
erroneous if one sought to apply it to  
such personalities as ,joachim del      

,fiore of the thirteenth century1 ,jacob
 ,boehme of the sixteenth1 or ,st4      
,martin1 who is called the unknown      
philosopher1 of the eighteenth century4 
,no less unjust and false would be the  
current definition of the occultist if  
one saw in it the slightest connection  
with such earnest seekers as            
,paracelsus1 ,mesmer1 or ,fabre         
d',olivet in the past1 as ,william      
,crookes1 de ,rochat1 or ,camille       
,flammarion in the present4 ,think what 
we may of these bold investigators1 it  
is undeniable that they have opened out 
regions unknown to science1 and         
furnished the mind with new ideas4      
#a ,translated by kind permission of the
 author from the           introduction 
to ,le ,mystere ,chretien et les        
,mysteres           ,antiques4 ,traduit 
de l'allemand par ,edouard ,schure1     
,librairie academique1 ,perrin  ,co41   
#aijh1 ,paris4  ,no1 these fanciful     
definitions can at most satisfy that    
scientific dilettantism which hides its 

feebleness under a supercilious mask to 
screen its indolence1 or the worldly    
scepticism which ridicules all that     
threatens to upset its indifference4    
,but enough of these superficial        
opinions4 ,let us study history1 the    
sacred and profane books of all nations1
 and the last results of experimental   
science2 let us subject all these facts 
to impartial criticism1 inferring       
similar effects from identical causes1  
and we shall be forced to give quite    
another definition of the mystic and the
 occultist4  ,the true mystic is a man  
who enters into full possession of his  
inner life1 and who1 having become      
cognizant of his sub-consciousness1     
finds in it1 through concentrated       
meditation and steady discipline1 new   
faculties and enlightenment4 ,these new 
faculties and this enlightenment        
instruct him as to the innermost nature 
of his soul and his relations with that 
impalpable element which underlies all1 
with that eternal and supreme reality   

which religion calls ,god1 and poetry   
the ,divine4 ,the occultist1 akin to the
 mystic1 but differing from him as a    
younger from an elder brother1 is a man 
endowed with intuition and with         
synthesis1 who seeks to penetrate the   
hidden depths and foundations of ,nature
 by the methods of science and          
philosophy3 that is to say1 by          
observation and reason1 methods         
invariable in principle1 but modified in
 application by being adapted to the    
descending kingdoms of ,spirit or the   
ascending kingdoms of ,nature1 according
 to the vast hierarchy of beings and the
 alchemy of the creative ,word4  ,the   
mystic1 then1 is one who seeks for truth
 and the ,divine directly within        
himself1 by a gradual detachment and a  
veritable birth of his higher soul4 ,if 
he attains it after prolonged effort1 he
 plunges into his own glowing centre4   
,then he immerses himself1 and          
identifies himself with that ocean of   
life which is the primordial ,force4    

,the occultist1 on the other hand1      
discovers1 studies1 and contemplates    
this same ,divine outpouring given forth
 in diverse portions1 endowed with      
force1 and multiplied to infinity in    
,nature and in ,humanity4 ,according to 
the profound saying of ,paracelsus3 he  
sees in all beings the letters of an    
alphabet1 which1 united in man1 form the
 complete and conscious ,word of life4  
,the detailed analysis that he makes of 
them1 the syntheses that he constructs  
with them1 are to him as so many images 
and forecastings of this central        
,divine1 of this ,sun of ,beauty1 of    
,truth and of ,life1 which he sees not1 
but which is reflected and bursts upon  
his vision in countless mirrors4  ,the  
weapons of the mystic are concentration 
and inner vision2 the weapons of the    
occultist are intuition and synthesis4  
,each corresponds to the other2 they    
complete and presuppose each other4     
,these two human types are blended in   
the ,adept1 in the higher ,initiate4 ,no

 doubt one or the other1 and often both1
 are met with in the founders of great  
religions and the loftiest philosophies4
 ,no doubt also they are to be found    
again1 in a less1 but still very        
remarkable degree1 among a certain      
number of personages who have played a  
great part in history as reformers1     
thinkers1 poets1 artists1 statesmen4    
,why1 then1 should these two types of   
mind1 which represent the highest human 
faculties1 and were formerly the object 
of universal veneration1 usually appear 
to us now as merely deformed and        
travestied8 ,why have they become       
obliterated8 ,why should they have      
fallen into such discredit8  ,that is   
the result of a profound cause existing 
in an inevitable necessity of human     
evolution4  ,during the last two        
thousand years1 but especially since the
 sixteenth century1 humanity has        
achieved a tremendous work1 namely1 the 
conquest of the globe and the           
constitution of experimental science1 in

 what concerns the material and visible 
world4  ,that this gigantic and         
herculean task should be successfully   
accomplished1 it was necessary that     
there should be a temporary eclipse of  
man's transcendental faculties1 so that 
his whole power of observation might be 
concentrated on the outer world4 ,these 
faculties1 however1 have never been     
extinct or even inactive4 ,they lay     
dormant in the mass of men2 they        
remained active in the elect1 far from  
the gaze of the vulgar4  ,now1 they are 
showing themselves openly under new     
forms4 ,before long they will assume a  
leading and directing importance in     
human destinies4 ,i would add that at no
 period of history1 whether among the   
nations of the ancient ,aryan cycle1 or 
in the ,semitic civilizations of ,asia  
and ,africa--whether in the             
,graeco-,latin world1 or in the middle  
ages and in modern times1 have these    
royal faculties1 for which positivism   
would substitute its dreary             

nomenclature1 ever ceased to operate at 
the beginning and in the background of  
all great human creations and of all    
fruitful work4 ,for how can we imagine a
 thinker1 a poet1 an inventor1 a hero1 a
 master of science or of art1 a genius  
of any kind1 without a mighty ray of    
those two master-faculties which make   
the mystic and the occultist--the inner 
vision and the sovereign intuition4     
99       99       99       99       99  
,rudolf ,steiner is both a mystic and an
 occultist4 ,these two natures appear in
 him in perfect harmony4 ,one could not 
say which of the two predominates over  
the other4 ,in intermingling and        
blending1 they have become one          
homogeneous force4 ,hence a special     
development in which outward events play
 but a secondary part4  ,dr4 ,steiner   
was born in ,upper ,austria in #ahfa4   
,his earliest years were passed in a    
little town situated on the ,leytha1 on 
the borders of ,styria1 the             
,carpathians1 and ,hungary4 ,from       

childhood his character was serious and 
concentrated4 ,this was followed by a   
youth inwardly illuminated by the most  
marvellous intuitions1 a young manhood  
encountering terrible trials1 and a ripe
 age crowned by a mission which he had  
dimly foreseen from his earliest years1 
but which was only gradually formulated 
in the struggle for truth and life4     
,this youth1 passed in a mountainous and
 secluded region1 was happy in its way1 
thanks to the exceptional faculties that
 he discovered in himself4 ,he was      
employed in a ,catholic church as a     
choir boy4 ,the poetry of the worship1  
the profundity of the symbolism1 had a  
mysterious attraction for him2 but1 as  
he possessed the innate gift of seeing  
souls1 one thing terrified him4 ,this   
was the secret unbelief of the priests1 
entirely engrossed in the ritual and the
 material part of the service4 ,there   
was another peculiarity3 no one1 either 
then or later1 allowed himself to talk  
of any gross superstition in his        

presence1 or to utter any blasphemy1 as 
if those calm and penetrating eyes      
compelled the speaker to serious        
thought4 ,in this child1 almost always  
silent1 there grew up a quiet and       
inflexible will1 to master things       
through understanding4 ,that was easier 
for him than for others1 for he         
possessed from the first that           
self-mastery1 so rare even in the adult1
 which gives the mastery over others4   
,to this firm will was added a warm1    
deep and almost painful sympathy2 a kind
 of pitiful tenderness to all beings and
 even to inanimate nature4 ,it seemed to
 him that all souls had in them         
something divine4 ,but in what a stony  
crust is hidden the shining gold6 ,in   
what hard rock1 in what dark gloom lay  
dormant the precious essence6 ,vaguely  
as yet did this idea stir within him--he
 was to develop it later--that the      
divine soul is present in all men1 but  
in a latent state4 ,it is a sleeping    
captive that has to be awakened from    

enchantment4  ,to the sight of this     
young thinker1 human souls became       
transparent1 with their troubles1 their 
desires1 their paroxysms of hatred or of
 love4 ,and it was probably owing to the
 terrible things he saw1 that he spoke  
so little4 ,and yet1 what delights1     
unknown to the world1 sprang from this  
involuntary clairvoyance6 ,among the    
remarkable inner revelations of this    
youth1 ,i will instance only one which  
was extremely characteristic4  ,the vast
 plains of ,hungary1 the wild           
,carpathian forests1 the old churches of
 those mountains in which the monstrance
 glows brightly as a sun in the darkness
 of the sanctuary1 were not there for   
nothing1 but they were helpful to       
meditation and contemplation4  ,at      
fifteen years of age1 ,steiner became   
acquainted with a herbalist at that time
 staying in his country4 ,the remarkable
 thing about this man was that he knew  
not only the species1 families1 and life
 of plants in their minutest details1   

but also their secret virtues4 ,one     
would have said that he had spent his   
life in conversing with the unconscious 
and fluid soul of herbs and flowers4 ,he
 had the gift of seeing the vital       
principle of plants1 their etheric body1
 and what ,occultism calls the          
elementals of the vegetable world4 ,he  
talked of it as of a quite ordinary and 
natural thing4 ,the calm and coolly     
scientific tone of his conversation     
still further excited the curiosity and 
admiration of the youth4 ,later on1     
,steiner knew that this strange man was 
a messenger from the ,master1 whom as   
yet he knew not1 but who was to be his  
real initiator1 and who was already     
watching over him from afar4  ,what the 
curious1 double-sighted botanist told   
him1 young ,steiner found to be in      
accordance with the logic of things4    
,that confirmed an inner feeling of long
 standing1 and which more and more      
forced itself on his mind as the        
fundamental ,law1 and as the basis of   

the ,great ,all4 ,that is to say3 the   
two-fold current which constitutes the  
very movement of the world1 and which   
might be called the flux and reflux of  
the universal life4  ,we are all        
witnesses and are conscious of the      
outward current of evolution1 which     
urges onward all beings of heaven and of
 earth--stars1 plants1 animals and      
humanity--and causes them to move       
forward towards an infinite future1     
without our perceiving the initial force
 which impels them and makes them go on 
without pause or rest4 ,but there is in 
the universe an inverse current1 which  
interposes itself and perpetually breaks
 in on the other4 ,it is that of        
involution1 by which the principles1    
forces1 entities and souls which come   
from the invisible world and the kingdom
 of the ,eternal infiltrate and         
ceaselessly intermingle with the visible
 reality4 ,no evolution of matter would 
be comprehensible without this occult   
and astral current1 which is the great  

propeller of life1 with its hierarchy of
 powers4 ,thus the ,spirit1 which       
contains the future in germ1 involves   
itself in matter2 thus matter1 which    
receives the ,spirit1 evolves towards   
the future4 ,while1 then1 we are moving 
on blindly towards the unknown future1  
this future is approaching us           
consciously1 infusing itself in the     
current of the world and man who        
elaborate it4 ,such is the two-fold     
movement of time1 the out-breathing and 
the in-breathing of the soul of the     
world1 which comes from the ,eternal and
 returns thither4  ,from the age of     
eighteen1 young ,steiner possessed the  
spontaneous consciousness of this       
two-fold current--a consciousness which 
is the condition of all spiritual       
vision4 ,this vital axiom was forced    
upon him by a direct and involuntary    
seeing of things4 ,thenceforth he had   
the unmistakable sensation of occult    
powers which were working behind and    
through him for his guidance4 ,he gave  

heed to this force and obeyed its       
admonitions1 for he felt in profound    
accordance with it4  ,this kind of      
perception1 however1 formed a separate  
category in his intellectual life4 ,this
 class of truths seemed to him something
 so profound1 so mysterious1 and so     
sacred1 that he never imagined it       
possible to express it in words4 ,he fed
 his soul thereon1 as from a divine     
fountain1 but to have scattered a drop  
of it beyond would have seemed to him a 
profanation4  ,beside this inner and    
contemplative life1 his rational and    
philosophic mind was powerfully         
developing4 ,from sixteen to seventeen  
years of age1 ,rudolf ,steiner plunged  
deeply into the study of ,kant1 ,fichte 
and ,schelling4 ,when he came to ,vienna
 some years after1 he became an ardent  
admirer of ,hegel1 whose transcendental 
idealism borders on ,occultism2 but     
speculative philosophy did not satisfy  
him4 ,his positive mind demanded the    
solid basis of the sciences of          

observation4 ,so he deeply studied      
mathematics1 chemistry1 mineralogy1     
botany and zoology4 ,these studies1 he  
said afford a surer basis for the       
construction of a spiritual system of   
the universe than history and           
literature4 ,the latter1 wanting in     
exact methods1 would then throw no      
side-lights on the vast domain of       
,german science4 ,inquiring into        
everything1 enamored of high art1 and an
 enthusiast for poetry1 ,steiner        
nevertheless did not neglect literary   
studies4 ,as a guide therein he found an
 excellent professor in the person of   
,julius ,schroeer1 a distinguished      
scholar of the school of the brothers   
,grimm1 who strove to develop in his    
pupils the art of oratory and of        
composition4 ,to this distinguished man 
the young student owed his great and    
refined literary culture4 ,in the desert
 of prevailing materialism1 says        
,steiner1 his house was to me an oasis  
of idealism4  ,but this was not yet the 

,master whom he sought4 ,amidst these   
varied studies and deep meditations1 he 
could as yet discern the building of the
 universe but in a fragmentary way2 his 
inborn intuition prevented any doubt of 
the divine origin of things and of a    
spiritual ,beyond4 ,a distinctive mark  
of this extraordinary man was that he   
never knew any of those crises of doubt 
and despair which usually accompany the 
transition to a definite conviction in  
the life of mystics and of thinkers4    
,nevertheless1 he felt that the central 
light which illumines and penetrates the
 whole was still lacking in him4 ,he had
 reached young manhood1 with its        
terrible problems4 ,what was he going to
 do with his life8 ,the sphinx of       
destiny was facing him4 ,how should he  
solve its problem8  ,it was at the age  
of nineteen that the aspirant to the    
mysteries met with his guide--the       
,master--so long anticipated4  ,it is an
 undoubted fact1 admitted by occult     
tradition and confirmed by experience1  

that those who seek the higher truth    
from an impersonal motive find a master 
to initiate them at the right moment3   
that is to say1 when they are ripe for  
its reception4 ,knock1 and it shall be  
opened to you1 said ,jesus4 ,that is    
true with regard to everything1 but     
above all with regard to truth4 ,only1  
the desire must be ardent as a flame1 in
 a soul pure as crystal4  ,the ,master  
of ,rudolf ,steiner was one of those men
 of power who live1 unknown to the      
world1 under cover of some civil state1 
to carry out a mission unsuspected by   
any but their fellows in the            
,brotherhood of self-sacrificing        
,masters4 ,they take no ostensible part 
in human events4 ,to remain unknown is  
the condition of their power1 but their 
action is only the more efficacious4    
,for they inspire1 prepare and direct   
those who will act in the sight of all4 
,in the present instance the ,master had
 no difficulty in completing the first  
and spontaneous initiation of his       

disciple4 ,he had only1 so to speak1 to 
point out to him his own nature1 to arm 
him with his needful weapons4 ,clearly  
did he show him the connection between  
the official and the secret sciences2   
between the religious and the spiritual 
forces which are now contending for the 
guidance of humanity2 the antiquity of  
the occult tradition which holds the    
hidden threads of history1 which mingles
 them1 separates1 and re-unites them in 
the course of ages4  ,swiftly he made   
him clear the successive stages of inner
 discipline1 in order to attain         
conscious and intelligent clairvoyance4 
,in a few months the disciple learned   
from oral teaching the depth and        
incomparable splendor of the esoteric   
synthesis4 ,rudolf ,steiner had already 
sketched for himself his intellectual   
mission3 ,to re-unite ,science and      
,religion4 ,to bring back ,god into     
,science1 and ,nature into ,religion4   
,thus to re-fertilize both ,art and     
,life4 ,but how to set about this vast  

and daring undertaking8 ,how conquer1 or
 rather1 how tame and transform the     
great enemy1 the materialistic science  
of the day1 which is like a terrible    
dragon covered with its carapace and    
couched on its huge treasure8 ,how      
master this dragon of modern science and
 yoke it to the car of spiritual truth8 
,and1 above all1 how conquer the bull of
 public opinion8  ,rudolf ,steiner's    
,master was not in the least like       
himself4 ,he had not that extreme and   
feminine sensibility which1 though not  
excluding energy1 makes every contact an
 emotion and instantly turns the        
suffering of others into a personal     
pain4 ,he was masculine in spirit1 a    
born ruler of men1 looking only at the  
species1 and for whom individuals hardly
 existed4 ,he spared not himself1 and he
 did not spare others4 ,his will was    
like a ball which1 once shot from the   
cannon's mouth1 goes straight to its    
mark1 sweeping off everything in its    
way4 ,to the anxious questioning of his 

disciple he replied in substance3  ,if  
thou wouldst fight the enemy1 begin by  
understanding him4 ,thou wilt conquer   
the dragon only by penetrating his skin4
 ,as to the bull1 thou must seize him by
 the horns4 ,it is in the extremity of  
distress that thou wilt find thy weapons
 and thy brothers in the fight4 ,i have 
shown thee who thou art1 now go--and be 
thyself6  ,rudolf ,steiner knew the     
language of the ,masters well enough to 
understand the rough path that he was   
thus commanded to tread2 but he also    
understood that this was the only way to
 attain the end4 ,he obeyed1 and set    
forth4                   99       99    
99       99       99  ,from #ahhj the   
life of ,rudolf ,steiner becomes divided
 into three quite distinct periods3 from
 twenty to thirty years of age          
7#ahha-ahia71 the ,viennese period1 a   
time of study and of preparation2 from  
thirty to forty 7#ahia-aija71 the       
,weimar period1 a time of struggle and  
combat2 from forty to forty-six         

7#aija-aijg71 the ,berlin period1 a time
 of action and of organization1 in which
 his thought crystallized into a living 
work4  ,i pass rapidly over the ,vienna 
period1 in which ,steiner took the      
degree of ,doctor of ,philosophy4 ,he   
afterwards wrote a series of scientific 
articles on zoology1 geology1 and the   
theory of colors1 in which theosophical 
ideas appear in an idealist clothing4   
,while acting as tutor in several       
families1 with the same conscientious   
devotion that he gave to everything1 he 
conducted as chief editor a weekly      
,viennese paper1 the ,deutsche          
,wochenschrift4 ,his friendship with the
 ,austrian poetess1 ,marie ,eugenie     
delle ,grazie1 cast1 as it were1 into   
this period of heavy work a warm ray of 
sunshine1 with a smile of grace and     
poetry4  ,in #ahij ,steiner was summoned
 to collaborate in the archives of      
,goethe and ,schiller at ,weimar1 to    
superintend the re-editing of ,goethe's 
scientific works4 ,shortly after1 he    

published two important works1 ,truth   
and ,science and ,the ,philosophy of    
,liberty4 ,the occult powers that guided
 me1 he says1 forced me to introduce    
spiritualistic ideas imperceptibly into 
the current literature of the time4 ,but
 in these various tasks he was but      
studying his ground while trying his    
strength4 ,so distant was the goal that 
he did not dream of being able to reach 
it as yet4 ,to travel round the world in
 a sailing vessel1 to cross the         
,atlantic1 the ,pacific and the ,indian 
,ocean1 in order to return to a         
,european port1 would have seemed easier
 to him4 ,while awaiting the events that
 would allow him to equip his ship and  
to launch it on the open sea1 he came   
into touch with two illustrious         
personalities who helped to determine   
his intellectual position in the        
contemporary world4  ,these two persons 
were the celebrated philosopher1        
,friedrich ,nietzsche1 and the no less  
famous naturalist1 ,ernst ,haeckel4     

,rudolf ,steiner had just written an    
impartial treatise on the author of     
,zarathustra4 ,in consequence of this1  
,nietzsche's sister begged the          
sympathetic critic to come and see her  
at ,naumburg1 where her unhappy brother 
was slowly dying4 ,madame ,foerster took
 the visitor to the door of the         
apartment where ,nietzsche was lying on 
a couch in a comatose condition1 inert1 
stupified4 ,to ,steiner there was       
something very significant in this      
melancholy sight4 ,in it he saw the     
final act in the tragedy of the would-be
 superman4  ,nietzsche1 the author of   
,beyond ,good and ,evil1 had not1 like  
the realists of ,bismarckian            
imperialism1 renounced idealism1 for he 
was naturally intuitive2 but in his     
individualistic pride he sought to cut  
off the spiritual world from the        
universe1 and the divine from human     
consciousness4 ,instead of placing the  
superman1 of whom he had a poetic       
vision1 in the spiritual kingdom1 which 

is his true sphere1 he strove to force  
him into the material world1 which alone
 was real in his eyes4 ,hence1 in that  
splendid intellect arose a chaos of     
ideas and a wild struggle which finally 
brought on softening of the brain4 ,to  
explain this particular case1 it is     
needless to bring in atavism or the     
theory of degeneracy4 ,the frenzied     
combat of ideas and of contradictory    
sentiments1 of which this brain was the 
battlefield1 was enough4 ,steiner had   
done justice to all the genius that     
marked the innovating ideas of          
,nietzsche1 but this victim of pride1   
self-destroyed by negation1 was to him  
none the less a tragic instance of the  
ruin of a mighty intellect which madly  
destroys itself in breaking away from   
spiritual intelligence4  ,madame        
,foerster did her utmost to enrol ,dr4  
,steiner under her brother's flag4 ,for 
this she used all her skill1 making     
repeated offers to the young publicist  
to become editor and commentator of     

,nietzsche's works4 ,steiner withstood  
her insistence as best he could1 and    
ended by taking himself off altogether1 
for which ,madame ,foerster never       
forgave him4 ,she did not know that     
,rudolf ,steiner bore within him the    
consciousness of a work no less great   
and more valuable than that of her      
brother4  ,nietzsche had been merely an 
interesting episode in the life of the  
esoteric thinker on the threshold of his
 battlefield4 ,his meeting with the     
celebrated naturalist1 ,ernst ,haeckel1 
on the contrary1 marks a most important 
phase in the development of his thought4
 ,was not the successor of ,darwin      
apparently the most formidable adversary
 of the spiritualism of this young      
initiate1 of that philosophy which to   
him was the very essence of his being   
and the breath of his thought8 ,indeed1 
since the broken link between man and   
animal has been re-joined1 since man can
 no longer believe in a special and     
supernatural origin1 he has begun       

altogether to doubt his divine origin   
and destiny4 ,he no longer sees himself 
as anything but one phenomenon among so 
many phenomena1 a passing form amidst so
 many forms1 a frail and chance link in 
a blind evolution4 ,steiner1 then1 is   
right in saying3 ,the mentality deduced 
from natural sciences is the greatest   
power of modern times4 ,on the other    
hand1 he knew that this system merely   
reproduces a succession of external     
forms among living beings1 and not the  
inner and acting forces of life4 ,he    
knew it from personal initiation1 and a 
deeper and vaster view of the universe4 
,so also he could exclaim with more     
assurance than most of our timid        
spiritualists and startled theologians3 
,is the human soul then to rise on the  
wings of enthusiasm to the summits of   
the ,true1 the ,beautiful and the ,good1
 only to be swept away into nothingness1
 like a bubble of the brain8 ,yes1      
,haeckel was the ,adversary4 ,it was    
materialism in arms1 the dragon with all

 his scales1 his claws1 and his teeth4  
,steiner's desire to understand this    
man1 and to do him justice as to all    
that was great in him1 to fathom his    
theory so far as it was logical and     
plausible1 was only the more intense4   
,in this fact one sees all the loyalty  
and all the greatness of his            
comprehensive mind4  ,the materialistic 
conclusions of ,haeckel could have no   
influence on his own ideas which came to
 him from a different science2 but he   
had a presentment that in the           
indisputable discoveries of the         
naturalist he should find the surest    
basis of an evolutionary spiritualism   
and a rational theosophy4  ,he began1   
then1 to study eagerly the ,history of  
,natural ,creation4 ,in it ,haeckel     
gives a fascinating picture of the      
evolution of species1 from the amoeba to
 man4 ,in it he shows the successive    
growth of organs1 and the physiological 
process by which living beings have     
raised themselves to organisms more and 

more complex and more and more perfect4 
,but in this stupendous transformation1 
which implies millions and millions of  
years1 he never explains the initial    
force of this universal ascent1 nor the 
series of special impulses which cause  
beings to rise step by step4 ,to these  
primordial questions1 ,haeckel has never
 been able to reply except by admitting 
spontaneous generation1#b which is      
tantamount to a miracle as great as the 
creation of man by ,god from a clod of  
earth4 ,to a theosophist like ,steiner1 
on the other hand1 the cosmic force     
which elaborates the world comprises in 
its spheres1 fitted one into another1   
the myriads of souls which crystallize  
and incarnate ceaselessly in all beings4
 ,he1 who saw the underside of creation1
 could but recognize and admire the     
extent of the all-round gaze with which 
,haeckel surveyed his above4 ,it was in 
vain that the naturalist would deny the 
divine ,author of the universal scheme3 
he proved it in spite of himself1 in so 

well describing ,his work4 ,as to the   
theosophist1 he greeted1 in the surging 
of species and in the breath which urges
 them onward--,man in the making1 the   
very thought of ,god1 the visible       
expression of the planetary ,word4#c    
#b ,a speech delivered in ,paris1 #bhth 
,august #ahgh4 ,see also                
,haeckel's ,history of ,natural         
,creation1 #acth lecture4            #c 
,this is how ,dr4 ,steiner himself      
describes the famous           ,german  
naturalist3 ,haeckel's personality is   
captivating4 ,it           is the most  
complete contrast to the tone of his    
writings4           ,if ,haeckel had but
 made a slight study of the philosophy  
of           which he speaks1 not even  
as a dilettante1 but like a child1      
he would have drawn the most lofty      
spiritual conclusions from           his
 phylogenetic studies4 ,haeckel's       
doctrine is grand1 but                  
,haeckel himself is the worst of        
commentators on his doctrine4           

,it is not by showing our contemporaries
 the weak points in           ,haeckel's
 doctrine that we can promote           
intellectual progress1           but by 
pointing out to them the grandeur of his
 phylogenetic           thought4        
,steiner has developed these ideas in   
two works3           ,welt und          
,lebensanschauungen im #aiten           
,jahrhundert 7,theories           of the
 ,universe and of ,life in the          
,nineteenth ,century71 and              
,haeckel und seine ,gegner 7,haeckel and
 his ,opponents74  ,while thus pursuing 
his studies1 ,rudolf ,steiner recalled  
the saying of his ,master3 ,to conquer  
the dragon1 his skin must be penetrated4
 ,while stealing within the carapace of 
present-day materialism1 he had seized  
his weapons4 ,henceforth he was ready   
for the combat4 ,he needed but a field  
of action to give battle1 and a powerful
 aid to uphold him therein4 ,he was to  
find his field in the ,theosophical     
,society1 and his aid in a remarkable   

woman4  ,in #ahig ,rudolf ,steiner went 
to ,berlin to conduct a literary        
magazine and to give lectures there4    
,on his arrival1 he found there a branch
 of the ,theosophical ,society4 ,the    
,german branch of this ,society was     
always noted for its great independence1
 which is natural in a country of       
transcendental philosophy and of        
fastidious criticism4 ,it had already   
made a considerable contribution to     
occult literature through the           
interesting periodical1 ,the ,sphinx1   
conducted by ,dr4 ,huebbe-,schleiden1   
and ,dr4 ,carl du ,prel's               
book--,philosophie der ,mystik4 ,but1   
the leaders having retired1 it was      
almost over with the group4 ,great      
discussions and petty wranglings divided
 the theosophists beyond the ,rhine4    
,should ,rudolf ,steiner enter the      
,theosophical ,society8 ,this question  
forced itself urgently upon him1 and it 
was of the utmost gravity1 both for     
himself and for his cause4  ,through his

 first ,master1 through the brotherhood 
with which he was associated1 and by his
 own innermost nature1 ,steiner belongs 
to another school of ,occultism1 ,i mean
 to the esoteric ,christianity of the   
,west1 and most especially to the       
,rosicrucian initiation4  ,after mature 
consideration he resolved to join the   
,theosophical ,society of which he      
became a member in #aijb4 ,he did not1  
however1 enter it as a pupil of the     
,eastern tradition1 but as an initiate  
of ,rosicrucian esotericism who gladly  
recognized the profound depth of the    
,hindu ,wisdom and offered it a         
brotherly hand to make a magnetic link  
between the two4 ,he understood that the
 two traditions were not meant to       
contend with each other1 but to act in  
concert1 with complete independence1 and
 thus to work for the common good of    
civilization4 ,the ,hindu tradition1 in 
fact1 contains the greatest treasure of 
occult science as regards cosmogony and 
the prehistoric periods of humanity1    

while the tradition of ,christian and   
,western esotericism looks from its     
immeasurable height upon the far-off    
future and the final destinies of our   
race4 ,for the past contains and        
prepares the future1 as the future      
issues from the past and completes it4  
,rudolf ,steiner was assisted in his    
work by a powerful recruit and one of   
inestimable value in the propagandist   
work that he was about to undertake4    
,mlle4 ,marie von ,sivers1 a ,russian by
 birth1 and of an unusually varied      
cosmopolitan education 7she writes and  
speaks ,russian1 ,french1 ,german1 and  
,english equally well71 had herself also
 reached ,theosophy by other roads1     
after long seeking for the truth which  
illumines all because it illumines the  
very depths of our own being4 ,the      
extreme refinement of her aristocratic  
nature1 at once modest and proud1 her   
great and delicate sensitiveness1 the   
extent and balance of her intelligence1 
her artistic and mental endowments1 all 

made her wonderfully fitted for the part
 of an agent and an apostle4 ,the       
,oriental theosophy had attracted and   
delighted her without altogether        
convincing her4 ,the lectures of ,dr4   
,steiner gave her the light which       
convinces by casting its beams on all   
sides1 as from a transplendent centre4  
,independent and free1 she1 like many   
,russians in good society1 sought for   
some ideal work to which she could      
devote all her energies4 ,she had found 
it4 ,dr4 ,steiner having been appointed 
,general ,secretary of the ,german      
,section of the ,theosophical ,society1 
,mlle4 ,marie von ,sivers became his    
assistant4 ,from that time1 in spreading
 the work throughout ,germany and the   
adjacent countries1 she displayed a real
 genius for organization1 maintained    
with unwearied activity4  ,as for       
,rudolf ,steiner1 he had already given  
ample proof of his profound thought and 
his eloquence4 ,he knew himself1 and he 
was master of himself4 ,but such faith1 

such devotion must have increased his   
energy a hundredfold1 and given wings to
 his words4 ,his writings on esoteric   
questions followed one another in rapid 
succession4#d            #d ,die        
,mystik1 im ,aufgange des neuzeitlichen 
,geisteslebens           7#aija72 ,das  
,christentum als mystische ,tatsache    
7#aijb72           ,theosophie 7#aijd74 
,he is now preparing an important book1 
which will no doubt be his chief work1  
and which is to be           called     
,geheimwissenschaft 7,occult ,science74 
,he delivered lectures in ,berlin1      
,leipzig1 ,cassel1 ,munich1 ,stuttgart1 
,vienna1 ,budapest1 etc4 ,all his books 
are of a high standard4 ,he is equally  
skilled in the deduction of ideas in    
philosophical order1 and in rigorous    
analysis of scientific facts4 ,and when 
he so chooses1 he can give a poetical   
form to his thought1 in original and    
striking imagery4 ,but his whole self is
 shown only by his presence and his     
speech1 private or public4 ,the         

characteristic of his eloquence is a    
singular force1 always gentle in        
expression1 resulting undoubtedly from  
perfect serenity of soul combined with  
wonderful clearness of mind4 ,added to  
this at times is an inner and mysterious
 vibration which makes itself felt by   
the listener from the very first words4 
,never a word that could shock or jar4  
,from argument to argument1 from analogy
 to analogy1 he leads you on from the   
known to the unknown4 ,whether following
 up the comparative development of the  
earth and of man1 according to occult   
tradition1 through the ,lemurian1       
,atlantean1 ,asiatic and ,european      
periods2 whether explaining the         
physiological and psychic constitution  
of man as he now is2 whether enumerating
 the stages of ,rosicrucian initiation1 
or commenting on the ,gospel of ,st4    
,john and the ,apocalypse1 or applying  
his root-ideas to mythology1 history and
 literature1 that which dominates and   
guides his discourse is ever this power 

of synthesis1 which co-ordinates facts  
under one ruling idea and gathers them  
together in one harmonious vision4 ,and 
it is ever this inward and contagious   
fervor1 this secret music of the soul1  
which is1 as it were1 a subtle melody in
 harmony with the ,universal ,soul4     
,such1 at least1 is what ,i felt on     
first meeting him and listening to him  
two years ago4 ,i could not better      
describe this undefinable feeling than  
by recalling the saying of a poet-friend
 to whom ,i was showing the portrait of 
the ,german theosophist4 ,standing      
before those deep and clear-seeing eyes1
 before that countenance1 hollowed by   
inward struggles1 moulded by a lofty    
spirit which has proved its balance on  
the heights and its calm in the depths1 
my friend exclaimed3 ,behold a master of
 himself and of life6     ,,the ,,way   
,,of ,,initiation     ,i  ,,the         
,,superphysical ,,world ,,and ,,its     
,,gnosis   ,in this practical age and   
because of the many various claims of   

the day1 it is but natural that people1 
who hear of transcendentalism should at 
once ask the question3 ,how may we for  
ourselves know the truth of such        
statements8 ,indeed1 it is noticeable1  
as a characteristic of the majority1    
that they will accept nothing on faith1 
or mere authority1 but wish rather to   
rely entirely upon their own judgment4  
,therefore1 when a mystic undertakes to 
explain something of the superphysical  
nature of man1 and of the destiny of the
 human soul and spirit before birth and 
after death1 he is at once confronted   
with that fundamental demand4 ,such     
doctrine1 they seem to think is         
important only when you have shown them 
the way by which they may convince      
themselves of its truth4            #e  
,translated from ,lusifer-,gnosis 7,may 
to ,dec4 #aijd71 a                      
theosophical magazine1 published by ,m4 
,altmann1 ,leipzig1 and           edited
 by ,dr4 ,rudolph ,steiner 7#ag         
,motzstrasse1 ,berlin1 ,w474            

,this translation appeared first in the 
,theosophist 7,october                  
#aijg-;,june #aijh71 a magazine of      
,brotherhood1 of ,comparative           
,religion1 ,philosophy and ,science1 and
 of ,occultism4 ,edited by              
,annie ,besant1 ,president of the       
,theosophical ,society1 ,adyar1         
,madras4  ,this critical inquiry is     
quite justified2 and no true mystic or  
occultist will dispute its fairness1 yet
 it is unfortunate that with many who   
make the demand1 there exists a feeling 
of skepticism or antagonism toward the  
mystic or any attempt on his part to    
explain anything occult4 ,this feeling  
becomes especially marked when the      
mystic intimates how the truths which he
 has described may be attained4 ,for    
they say1 ,whatever is true may be      
demonstrated2 therefore1 prove to us    
what you assert4 ,they demand that the  
truth must be something clear and       
simple1 something which an ordinary     
intellect may comprehend4 ,surely1 they 

add1 this knowledge cannot be the       
possession of a chosen few1 to whom it  
is given by a special revelation4 ,and  
in this way the real messenger of       
transcendental truth is frequently      
confronted with people who reject him1  
because--unlike the scientist1 for      
example1 he can produce no proofs for   
his assertions1 of such a nature as they
 are able to understand4 ,again1 there  
are those who cautiously reject any     
information pertaining to the           
superphysical because to them it does   
not seem reasonable4 ,thereupon they    
partially satisfy themselves1 by        
claiming that we cannot know anything of
 what lies beyond birth or death1 or of 
anything which cannot be perceived      
through our five ordinary physical      
senses4  ,these are but a few of the    
arguments and criticisms with which     
to-day the messenger of a spiritual     
philosophy is confronted2 but they are  
similar to all those which compose the  
key-note of our time1 and he who puts   

himself at the service of a spiritual   
movement must recognize this condition  
quite clearly4  ,for his own part1 the  
mystic is aware that his knowledge rests
 upon superphysical facts2 which to him 
are just as tangible1 for example1 as   
those that form the foundation of the   
experiences and observations described  
by a traveller in ,africa or any strange
 land4 ,to the mystic applies what      
,annie ,besant has said in her manual1  
,death and ,after8      ,a seasoned     
,african explorer would care but little 
for the     criticisms passed on his    
report by persons who had never been    
there2 he might tell what he saw1       
describe the animals whose habits     he
 had studied1 sketch the country he had 
traversed1 sum up its     products and  
its characteristics4 ,if he was         
contradicted1 laughed     at1 set right1
 by untravelled critics1 he would be    
neither ruffled     nor distressed1 but 
would merely leave them alone4          
,ignorance cannot     convince knowledge

 by repeated asseveration of its        
nescience4 ,the     opinion of a hundred
 persons on a subject of which they are 
wholly     ignorant is of no more weight
 than the opinion of one such person4   
,evidence is strengthened by many       
consenting witnesses1 testifying        
each to his knowledge of a fact1 but    
nothing multiplied a thousand     times 
remains nothing4  ,here is expressed the
 mystic's view of his own situation4 ,he
 hears the objections which are raised  
on every side1 yet he knows that for    
himself he has no need to dispute them4 
,he realizes that his certain knowledge 
is being criticized by those who have   
not had his experience1 that he is in   
the position of a mathematician who has 
discovered a truth which can lose no    
value though a thousand voices are      
raised in opposition4  ,then again will 
arise the objection of the skeptics3    
,mathematical truths may be proven to   
anyone1 they will say1 and though       
perhaps you have really found something1

 we shall accept it only when we have   
learned of its truth through our own    
investigation4 ,such then have reason to
 consider themselves to be in the right1
 because it is clear to them that anyone
 who acquires the necessary knowledge   
can prove a mathematical truth1 while   
the experiences professed by the mystic 
if true depend upon the special         
faculties of a few elect mystics1 in    
whom they assume they are expected to   
blindly believe4  ,for him1 who rightly 
considers this objection1 all           
justification for the doubt immediately 
vanishes2 and mystics can here use the  
very logical reasoning of the skeptics  
themselves1 by emphasizing the truth    
that the way to ,higher ,knowledge is   
open to anyone who will acquire for     
himself the faculties by which he may   
prove the spiritual truths herein       
claimed4 ,the mystic asserts nothing    
which his opponents would not also be   
compelled to assert1 if they did but    
fully comprehend their own statements4  

,they1 however1 in making an assertion1 
often formulate a claim which           
constitutes a direct contradiction of   
that assertion4  ,skeptics are seldom   
willing to acquire the necessary        
faculties to test the assertions of the 
mystic1 but prefer to judge him offhand1
 without regard to their own lack of    
qualification4 ,the sincere mystic says 
to them3 ,i do not claim to be 'chosen' 
in the sense that you mean4 ,i have     
merely developed within myself1 some of 
man's additional senses in order to     
acquire the faculties through which it  
is possible to speak of glimpses into   
superphysical regions4 ,these senses are
 dormant within you and every other     
person1 until they are developed1 7as is
 necessary with the usual senses and    
faculties more noticeable in the growth 
of a child74 ,yet his opponents answer3 
,you must prove your truths to us as we 
now are6 ,this at once appears a        
difficult task1 for they have not       
complied with the necessity of          

developing the dormant powers within    
them1 they are still unwilling to do so1
 and yet they insist that he shall give 
them proofs2 nor do they see that this  
is exactly as if a peasant at his plough
 should demand of the mathematician the 
proof of a complicated problem1 without 
his undergoing the trouble of learning  
mathematics4  ,this mixed mental        
condition appears to be so general and  
its solution so simple that one almost  
hesitates to speak of it4 ,and yet it   
indicates a delusion under which        
millions of people continue living at   
the present time4 ,when explained to    
them they always agree in theory1 since 
it is quite as plain as1 that two and   
two make four2 yet in practice they     
continually act in contradiction4 ,the  
mistake has grown to be second nature   
with many2 they indulge it without      
realizing that they do so without       
desiring to be convinced of its error2  
just as they set themselves against     
other laws which they should and would  

at all times recognize as embodying a   
principle of the simplest nature1 if    
they but gave it an unbiased            
consideration4 ,it matters not whether  
the mystic of to-day moves among        
thinking artisans1 or in a more educated
 circle1 wherever he goes he meets with 
the same prejudice1 the same            
self-contradiction4 ,one finds it in    
popular lectures1 in the newspapers and 
magazines1 and even in the more learned 
works or treatises4  ,here we must      
recognize quite clearly that we are     
dealing with a consensus of opinion that
 amounts to a sign of the times1 which  
we may not simply pronounce as          
incompetent1 nor deal with as possibly a
 correct but unjust criticism4 ,we must 
understand that this prejudice against  
the higher truths1 lies deep in the very
 being of our age4 ,we must understand  
clearly that the great successes1 the   
immense advance marking our time1       
necessarily encourages this condition4  
,the nineteenth century especially had  

in the above respect a dark side to its 
wonderful excellences4 ,its greatness   
rests upon discoveries in the external  
world1 and conquest of natural forces   
for technical and industrial purposes4  
,these successes could have been        
attained only by the employment of the  
mind directed toward material results4  
,the civilization of the present day is 
the result of the training of our       
senses1 and of that part of our mind    
which is occupied with the world of     
sense4 ,almost every step we take in the
 busy marts of to-day shows us how much 
we owe to this kind of training4 ,and it
 is under the influence of these        
blessings of civilization that the      
habits of thought1 prevalent among our  
fellow-men1 have been developed4 ,they  
continue to abide by the senses and the 
mind1 because it is by means of these   
that they have grown great4 ,people were
 taught to train themselves to admit    
nothing as true except those things that
 were presented to them by the senses or

 the intellect4 ,and nothing is more apt
 to claim for itself the only valid     
testimony1 the only absolute authority1 
than the mind or the senses4 ,if a man  
has acquired by means of them a certain 
degree of culture1 he thenceforth       
accustoms himself to submit everything  
to their consideration1 everything to   
their criticism4 ,and again in another  
sphere1 in the domain of ,social ,life1 
we find a similar trait4 ,the man of the
 nineteenth century insisted1 in the    
fullest sense of the word1 upon the     
absolute freedom of personality1 and    
repudiated any authority in the ,social 
,commonwealth4 ,he endeavored to        
construct the community in such a way   
that the full independence1 the         
self-chosen vocation of each individual1
 should1 without interference1 be       
assured4 ,in this way it became habitual
 for him to consider everything from the
 standpoint of the average individual4  
,this same individuality is also helpful
 in the search of knowledge on the      

spiritual plane1 for the higher powers  
which lie dormant in the soul may be    
developed by one person in this         
direction by another in that4 ,one will 
make more progress1 another less4 ,but  
when they develop those powers1 and     
attach value to them1 men begin to      
differentiate themselves4 ,and then one 
must allow1 to the advanced student1    
more right to speak on the subject1 or  
to act in a certain way1 than to another
 who is less advanced4 ,this is more    
essential in matters of the higher realm
 than on the plane of the senses and the
 mind1 where experiences are more nearly
 the same4  ,it is also noticeable that 
the present formation of the ,social    
,commonwealth has helped to bring about 
a revolt against the higher powers of   
man4 ,according to the mystic1          
civilization during the nineteenth      
century has moved altogether along      
physical lines2 and people have         
accustomed themselves to move on the    
physical plane alone1 and to feel at    

home there4 ,the higher powers are      
developed only on planes higher than the
 physical1 and the knowledge which these
 faculties bring is1 therefore1 unknown 
to the physical man4 ,it is only        
necessary to attend mass-meetings1 if   
one wishes to be convinced of the fact  
that the speakers there are totally     
unable to think any thoughts but those  
which refer to the physical plane1 the  
world of sense4 ,this can also be seen  
through the leading journalists of our  
papers and magazines2 and1 indeed1 on   
all sides one may observe the haughtiest
 and most complete denial of everything 
that cannot be seen with the eyes1 or   
felt with the hands1 or comprehended by 
the average mind4 ,we do not condemn    
this attitude for it denotes a necessary
 stage in the development of humanity4  
,without the pride and prejudices of    
mind and sense1 we should never have    
achieved our great conquests over       
material life1 nor have been able to    
impart to the personality a certain     

measure of elasticity3 neither can we   
hope that many ideals1 which must be    
founded on man's desire for freedom and 
the assertion of personality1 may yet be
 realized4  ,but this dark side of a    
purely materialistic civilization has   
deeply affected the whole being of the  
modern man4 ,for proof it is not        
necessary to refer to the obvious facts 
already named2 it would be easy to      
demonstrate1 by certain examples 7which 
are greatly underrated1 especially      
to-day71 how deeply rooted in the mind  
of the modern man is this adhesion to   
the testimony of the senses1 or the     
average intelligence4 ,and it is just   
these things that indicate the need for 
the renewal of spiritual life4  ,the    
strong response evoked by ,professor    
,friedrich ,delitzsch's ,babel and      
,bible ,theory fully justifies a        
reference to its author's method of     
thinking1 as a sign of the time4        
,professor ,delitzsch has demonstrated  
the relationship of certain traditions  

in the ,old ,testament1 to the          
,babylonian accounts of the ,creation1  
and this fact1 coming from such a source
 and in such a form1 has been realized  
by many who would otherwise have ignored
 such questions4 ,it has led many to    
reconsider the so-called idea of        
,revelation4 ,they ask themselves3 ,how 
is it possible to accept the idea that  
the contents of the ,old ,testament were
 revealed by ,god1 when we find very    
similar conceptions among decidedly     
heathen nations8 ,this problem cannot   
here be further discussed4 ,delitzsch   
found many opponents who feared that    
through his exposition1 the very        
foundations of ,religion had been       
shaken4 ,he has defended himself in a   
pamphlet1 ,babel and ,bible1 a          
,retrospect and a ,forecast4 ,here we   
shall only refer to a single statement  
in the pamphlet4 ,one of importance1    
because it reveals the view of an       
eminent scientist regarding the position
 of man with respect to transcendental  

truths4 ,and to-day innumerable other   
people think and feel just like         
,delitzsch4 ,the statement affords an   
excellent opportunity for us to find out
 what is the innermost conviction of our
 contemporaries1 expressed quite freely 
and1 therefore1 in its truest form4     
,delitzsch turns to those who reproach  
him with a somewhat liberal use of the  
term ,revelation1 and who would fain    
regard it as a kind of old priestly     
wisdom which has nothing at all to do   
with the layman1 making this reply4     
,for my part1 ,i am of opinion that     
while our children or ourselves     are 
instructed in school or at church as    
regards ,revelation1 not     only are we
 within our right1 but it is our duty1  
to think     independently concerning   
these deep questions1 possessing also1  
as     they do1 an eminently practical  
side1 were it only that we might        
avoid giving our children 'evasive'     
answers4 ,for this very reason     it   
will be gratifying to many searchers    

after ,truth when the dogma     of a    
special 'choosing' of ,israel shall have
 been brought forward     into the light
 of a wider historical outlook1 through 
the union of     ,babylonian1 ,assyrian1
 and ,old ,testament research4444 ,a few
 pages     earlier we are shown the     
direction of such thoughts4 ,for the    
rest1     it would seem to me that the  
only logical thing is for ,church and   
,school to be satisfied as regards the  
whole past history of the     world and 
of humanity1 with the belief in ,one    
,almighty ,creator of     ,heaven and   
,earth1 and that these tales of the ,old
 ,testament should     be classified by 
themselves under some such title as     
',old ,hebraic     ,myths4'  7,it may be
 taken as a matter of course1 we        
suppose1 that no one will see in the    
following remarks an attack on the      
investigator ,delitzsch47 ,what1 then1  
is here averred in naive simplicity8    
,nothing less than that the mind which  
is engaged upon physical investigation  

may assert the right of judging         
experiences of superphysical nature4    
,there is no thought that this mind     
without further development may perhaps 
be unfit to reflect upon the teachings  
of these ,revelations4 ,when one wishes 
to understand that which appears as a   
,revelation1 one must employ the kind of
 knowledge or forces through which the  
,revelation1 itself has come to us4  ,he
 who develops within himself the        
mystical power of perception soon       
observes that in certain stories of the 
,old ,testament which by ,delitzsch were
 called ,old ,hebraic ,myths1 there are 
revealed to him truths of a higher      
nature than those which may be          
comprehended by the intellect1 which is 
only concerned with the things of sense4
 ,his own experiences will lead him to  
see that these ,myths have proceeded out
 of a mystic perception of              
transcendental truths4 ,and then1 in one
 illuminative moment1 his whole point of
 view is changed4  ,as little as one may

 demonstrate the fallacy of a           
mathematical problem by discovering who 
solved it first1 or even that several   
people have solved it1 just so little   
may one impugn the truth of a biblical  
narrative by the discovery of a similar 
story elsewhere4 ,instead of demanding  
that everyone should insist upon his    
right1 or even his duty1 to think       
independently on the so-called          
,revelations1 we ought rather to        
consider that only he who has developed 
in himself those latent powers which    
make it possible for him to relive that 
which was once realized by those very   
mystics1 who proclaimed the             
supersensuous revelations1 has a right  
to decide anything about the matter4    
,here we have an excellent example of   
how the average intellect1 qualified for
 the highest triumphs in practical      
sense-knowledge1 sets itself up1 in     
naive pride1 as a judge in domains1 the 
existence of which it does not even care
 to know4 ,for purely historical        

investigation is also carried on by     
nothing but the experience of the       
senses4  ,in just the same way has the  
investigation of the ,new ,testament led
 us into a blind alley4 ,at any costs   
the method of the ,newer ,historical    
,investigation had to be directed upon  
the ,gospels4 ,these documents have been
 compared with each other1 and brought  
into relation with all sorts of records1
 in order that we might find out what   
really happened in ,palestine from the  
year #a to the year #cc2 how the        
historical personality of whom they tell
 really lived1 and what ,he may really  
have said4  ,angelus ,selesius1 of the  
seventeenth century1 has already        
expressed the whole of the critical     
attitude toward this kind of            
investigation3      ,though ,christ were
 yearly born in ,bethlehem1 and never   
,had birth     in you yourself1 then    
were you lost for ever2 ,and if within  
yourself it is not reared again1 ,the   
,cross at ,golgotha can save you     not

 from pain4  ,nor are these the words of
 one who doubted1 but those of a        
,christian1 strong in his belief4 ,and  
his equally fervent predecessor1        
,meister ,eckhart1 said in the          
thirteenth century3      ,there are some
 who desire to see ,god with their eyes1
 as they look     at a cow2 and just as 
they love a cow1 so they desire to love 
,god4444 ,simple-minded people imagine  
that ,god may be seen as if ,he         
stood there and they stood here4 ,but   
this is not so3 in that     perception1 
,god and ,i are one4  ,these words must 
not be understood as directed against   
the investigation of historical truth4  
,yet no one can rightly understand the  
historic truth of such documents as the 
,gospels1 unless he has first           
experienced within himself the mystical 
meaning which they contain4 ,all such   
comparisons and analyses are quite      
worthless1 for no one can discover who  
was born in ,bethlehem but he who has   
mystically experienced the ,christ      

within himself2 neither can anyone in   
whom it has not already been erected1   
decide how it is that the ,cross at     
,golgotha can deliver us from pain4     
,purely historical investigation can    
discover no more concerning the mystic  
reality than the dismembering anatomist1
 perhaps1 can discover the secret of a  
great poetical genius4 7,see my book1   
,das ,christentum als mystische         
,tatsache1 ,berlin1 ,c4 ,a4 ,schwetschke
 und ,sohn1 #aijb1 or its ,french       
translation1 mentioned on page #a47  ,he
 who can see clearly in these matters is
 aware how deeply rooted1 at the present
 time1 is the pride of the intellect1   
which only concerns itself with the     
facts of sense4 ,it says3 ,i do not wish
 to develop faculties in order that ,i  
may reach the higher truths2 ,i wish to 
form my decisions concerning them with  
the powers that ,i now possess4  ,in a  
well-meant pamphlet1 which is written1  
however1 entirely in that spirit of the 
age which we have already indicated     

7,what do we know about ,jesus8 by ,a4  
,kalthoff1 ,berlin1 #aijd71 we read as  
follows3      ,christ1 who symbolizes   
the life of the ,community1 may be      
discerned     within himself by the man 
of to-day3 out of his own soul the man  
of     to-day can create ,christ just as
 well as the author of a gospel         
created him2 as a man he may put himself
 in the same position as     the        
gospel-writers1 because he can reinstate
 himself into the same                  
soul-processes1 can himself speak or    
write ,gospel4  ,these words might be   
true1 but they may also be entirely     
erroneous4 ,they are true when          
understood in the sense of ,angelus     
,silesius1 or of ,meister ,eckhart1 that
 is when they refer to the development  
of powers dormant in every human soul1  
which1 from some such idea1 endeavors to
 experience within itself the ,christ of
 the ,gospels4 ,they are altogether     
wrong1 if a more or less shallow ideal  
of the ,christ is thus created out of   

the spirit of an age that acknowledges  
the truth of no perceptions other than  
those of the senses4  ,the life of the  
,spirit can be understood only when we  
do not presume to criticize it with the 
lower mind1 but rather when we develop  
it reverently within ourselves4 ,no one 
can hope to learn anything of the higher
 truths if he demands that they shall be
 lowered to the average understanding4  
,this statement provokes the question3  
,why1 then1 do you mystics proclaim     
these truths to people who1 you declare1
 cannot as yet understand them8 ,why    
should there be ,movements in the       
furtherance of certain teachings1 when  
the powers which render men able to     
conceive of these teachings are still   
undeveloped8  ,it is the task of this   
book to elucidate this apparent         
contradiction4 ,it will show that the   
spiritual currents of our day originate 
from a different source1 in a different 
manner1 from the science which relies   
entirely on the lower intellect4 ,yet1  

in spite of this1 these spiritual       
currents are not to be considered as    
less scientific than the science which  
is based upon physical facts alone4     
,rather do they extend the field of     
scientific investigation into the       
superphysical4 ,we must close this      
chapter with one more question1 which is
 likely to arise3 ,how may one attain to
 superphysical truths1 and1 of what help
 are spiritual movements towards this   
attainment8     ,,ii  ,,how ,,to        
,,attain ,,knowledge ,,of ,,the ,,higher
 ,,worlds   ,in every man there are     
latent faculties by means of which he   
may acquire for himself knowledge of the
 higher worlds4 ,the mystic1 master1    
theosophist1 or gnostic speaks of a     
soul-world and a spirit-world1 which    
are1 for him1 just as real as the world 
which we see with our physical eyes1 or 
touch with our physical hands4 ,and     
those who wish to develop the spiritual 
senses1 which unfold psychic knowledge1 
should understand that safe advice can  

be given only by those who have already 
developed such power within themselves4 
,as long as the human race has existed1 
there have been lodges and schools in   
which those who possessed these higher  
faculties have given instruction to     
those who were in search of them4 ,such 
are called occult schools1 and the      
instruction which is imparted therein is
 called esoteric science1 or occult     
teaching4 ,this designation sometimes   
leads to misunderstanding4 ,he who hears
 it may be very easily misled into the  
belief that those who work in these     
schools desire to represent a special1  
privileged class1 which arbitrarily     
withholds its knowledge from its        
fellow-creatures4 ,indeed1 he may even  
think that perhaps there is nothing     
really important behind such knowledge4 
,for he is tempted to think that1 if it 
were a true knowledge1 there would be no
 need of making a secret of it3 one     
might then communicate it publicly to   
the advantage of all men4  ,those who   

have been initiated into occult         
knowledge are not in the least surprised
 that the uninitiated should so think4  
,only he who has to a certain degree    
experienced this initiation into the    
higher knowledge of being can understand
 the secret of that initiation4 ,but it 
may be asked3 ,how1 then1 shall the     
uninitiated1 considering the            
circumstances1 develop any interest at  
all in this so-called mystic knowledge8 
,how and why ought they to search for   
something of the nature of which they   
can form no idea8 ,such a question is   
based upon an entirely erroneous        
conception of the real nature of occult 
knowledge4 ,there is1 in truth1 no      
fundamental difference between occult   
knowledge and all the rest of man's     
knowledge and capacity4 ,this mystic    
knowledge is no more a secret for the   
average man than writing is a secret to 
him who has never learned to read4 ,and 
just as everyone who chooses the correct
 method may learn to write1 so too can  

everyone who searches after the right   
way become a disciple1 and even a       
teacher4 ,in only one respect are the   
conditions here different from those    
that apply to external                  
thought-activities4 ,the possibility of 
acquiring the art of writing may be     
withheld from someone through poverty1  
or through the state of civilization    
into which he has been born2 but for the
 attainment of knowledge in the higher  
worlds there is no obstacle for him who 
sincerely searches for it4  ,many       
believe that it is necessary to find1   
here or there1 the ,masters of the      
higher knowledge1 in order to receive   
enlightenment from them4 ,in the first  
place1 he who strives earnestly after   
the higher knowledge need not be afraid 
of any difficulty or obstacle in his    
search for an ,initiate who shall be    
able to lead him into the profounder    
secrets of the world4 ,everyone1 on the 
contrary1 may be certain that an        
,initiate will find him1 under any      

circumstances1 if there is in him an    
earnest and worthy endeavor to attain   
this knowledge4 ,for it is a strict law 
with all ,initiates to withhold from no 
man the knowledge that is due him4 ,but 
there is an equally strict law which    
insists that no one shall receive any   
occult knowledge until he is worthy and 
well prepared4 ,and the more strictly he
 observes these two laws1 the more      
perfect is an ,initiate4 ,the order     
which embraces all ,initiates is        
surrounded1 as it were1 by a wall1 and  
the two laws here mentioned form two    
strong principles by which the          
constituents of this wall are held      
together4 ,you may live in close        
friendship with an ,initiate1 yet this  
wall will separate him from you just as 
long as you have not become an ,initiate
 yourself4 ,you may enjoy in the fullest
 sense the heart1 the love of an        
,initiate1 yet he will only impart to   
you his secret when you yourself are    
ready for it4 ,you may flatter him2 you 

may torture him2 nothing will induce him
 to divulge to you anything which he    
knows ought not be disclosed1 inasmuch  
as you1 at the present stage of your    
evolution1 do not understand rightly how
 to receive the secret into your soul4  
,the ways which prepare a man for the   
reception of such a secret are clearly  
prescribed4 ,they are indicated by the  
unfading1 everlasting letters within the
 temples where the ,initiates guard the 
higher secrets4 ,in ancient times1      
anterior to history1 these temples were 
outwardly visible2 to-day1 because our  
lives have become so unspiritual1 they  
are mostly quite invisible to external  
sight4 ,yet they are present everywhere1
 and all who seek may find them4  ,only 
within his soul may a man discover the  
means which will open for him the lips  
of the ,initiate4 ,to a certain high    
degree he must develop within himself   
special faculties1 and then the greatest
 treasures of the ,spirit become his    
own4  ,he must begin with a certain     

fundamental attitude of the soul3 the   
student of ,occultism calls it the ,path
 of ,devotion1 of ,veneration4 ,only he 
who maintains this attitude can1 in     
,occultism1 become a disciple4 ,and he  
who has experience in these things is   
able to perceive even in the child the  
signs of approaching discipleship4      
,there are children who look up with    
religious awe to those whom they        
venerate4 ,for such people they have a  
respect which forbids them to admit1    
even in the innermost sanctuary of the  
heart1 any thought of criticism or      
opposition4 ,these children grow up into
 young men and maidens who feel happy   
when they are able to look up to        
anything venerable4 ,from the ranks of  
such children are recruited many        
disciples4  ,have you ever paused       
outside the door of some venerated man1 
and have you1 on this your first visit1 
felt a religious awe as you pressed the 
handle1 in order to enter the room which
 for you is a holy place8 ,then there   

has been manifested in you an emotion   
which may be the germ of your future    
discipleship4 ,it is a blessing for     
every developing person to have such    
emotions upon which to build4 ,only it  
must not be thought that such qualities 
contain the germ of submissiveness and  
slavery4 ,experience teaches us that    
those can best hold their heads erect   
who have learned to venerate where      
veneration is due4 ,and veneration is   
always in its own place when it rises   
from the depths of the heart4  ,if we do
 not develop within ourselves this      
deeply-rooted feeling that there is     
something higher than ourselves1 we     
shall never find enough strength to     
evolve to something higher4 ,the        
,initiate has only acquired the power of
 lifting his intellect to the heights of
 knowledge by guiding his heart into the
 depths of veneration and devotion4 ,the
 heights of the ,spirit can only be     
reached by passing through the portals  
of humility4 ,man can certainly have the

 right to gaze upon the ,reality1 but he
 must first earn this right4 ,you can   
only acquire right knowledge when you   
are ready to esteem it4 ,there are laws 
in the spiritual life1 as in the        
physical life4 ,rub a glass rod with an 
appropriate material and it will become 
electric1 that is to say1 it will       
acquire the power of attracting small   
bodies4 ,this exemplifies natural law4  
7,and if one has learned even a little  
of physics1 one knows this47 ,similarly1
 if one is acquainted with the first    
principles of ,occultism1 one knows that
 every feeling of true devotion aids in 
developing qualities1 which sooner or   
later1 lead to the ,path of ,knowledge4 
,he who possesses within himself this   
feeling of devotion1 or who is fortunate
 enough to receive it from his          
education1 brings a great deal along    
with him1 when1 later in life1 he seeks 
an entrance to the higher knowledge4    
,but he who has had no such preparation 
will find himself confronted with       

difficulties1 even upon the first step  
of the ,path of ,knowledge1 unless he   
undertakes1 by rigorous self-education1 
to create the devotional mood within    
himself4 ,in our time it is especially  
important that full attention be given  
to this point4 ,our civilization tends  
much more toward criticism1 the giving  
of judgments1 and so forth1 than toward 
devotion1 and a selfless veneration4    
,our children criticize much more than  
they worship4 ,but every judgment1 every
 carping criticism1 frustrates the      
powers of the soul for the attainment of
 the higher knowledge1 in the same      
measure that all heartfelt devotion     
develops them4 ,in this we do not wish  
to say anything against our civilization
 nor pass judgment upon it4 ,for it is  
to this critical faculty1 this          
self-conscious human discernment1 this  
prove all things and hold fast to the   
good1 that we owe the greatness of our  
civilization4 ,we could never have      
attained the science1 the commerce1 the 

industry1 the law of our time1 had we   
not exercised our critical faculty      
everywhere1 had we not everywhere       
applied the standard of our judgment4   
,but what we have thereby gained in     
external culture we have had to pay for 
with a corresponding loss of the higher 
knowledge1 of the spiritual life4  ,now 
the important thing that everyone must  
clearly understand is that1 for him who 
is right in the midst of the objective  
civilization of our time1 it is very    
difficult to advance to the knowledge of
 the higher worlds4 ,he can do so only  
if he work energetically within himself4
 ,at a time when the conditions of      
outward life were simpler1 spiritual    
exaltation was easier of attainment4    
,that which ought to be venerated1 that 
which should be kept holy1 stood out in 
better relief from the ordinary things  
of the world4 ,in a period of criticism 
these ideals are much lowered2 other    
emotions take the place of awe1         
veneration1 respect1 and prayer4 ,our   

own age continually pushes these better 
emotions further and further back1 so   
that in the daily life of the people    
they play but a very small part4 ,he who
 seeks for higher knowledge must create 
it within himself2 he himself must      
instil it into his soul4 ,it cannot be  
done by study2 it can only be done      
through living4 ,he who wishes to become
 a disciple must therefore assiduously  
cultivate the devotional mood4          
,everywhere in his environment he must  
look for that which demands of him      
admiration and homage4 ,whenever his    
duties or circumstances permit1 he      
should try to abstain entirely from all 
criticism or judgment4 ,if ,i meet a    
brother and blame him for his weakness1 
,i rob myself of power to win the higher
 knowledge2 but if ,i try to enter      
lovingly into his merits1 ,i then gather
 such power4 ,the disciple should seek  
to benefit both himself and others4     
,experienced occultists are aware how   
much they owe to the continual searching

 for the good in all things1 and the    
withholding of all harsh criticism4     
,this must be not only an external rule 
of life2 but it must take possession of 
the innermost part of our souls4 ,we    
have it in our power to perfect         
ourselves1 and by and by to transform   
ourselves completely4 ,but this         
transformation must take place in the   
innermost self1 in the mental life4 ,it 
is not enough that ,i show respect only 
in my outward bearing toward a person2  
,i must have this respect in my thought4
 ,the disciple must begin by drawing    
this devotion into his thought-life4 ,he
 must altogether banish from his        
consciousness all thoughts of           
disrespect1 of criticism1 and he must   
endeavor straightway to cultivate       
thoughts of devotion4  ,every moment1 in
 which we set ourselves to banish from  
our consciousness whatever remains in it
 of disparaging1 suspicious judgment of 
our fellow-men1 brings us nearer to the 
knowledge of higher things4 ,and we rise

 rapidly when1 in such moments1 we fill 
our consciousness with only those       
thoughts that evoke admiration1 respect1
 and veneration for men and things4 ,he 
who has experience in these matters will
 know that in every such moment powers  
are awakened in man which otherwise     
would remain dormant4 ,in this way the  
spiritual eyes of a man are opened4 ,he 
begins to see things around him which   
hitherto he was unable to perceive4 ,he 
begins to understand that hitherto he   
had seen only a part of the world around
 him4 ,the man with whom he comes in    
contact now shows him quite a different 
aspect from that which he showed before4
 ,of course1 through this single rule of
 life1 he will not yet be able to see   
what has elsewhere been described as the
 human aura1 because1 for that1 a still 
higher training is necessary4 ,but he   
may rise to that higher development if  
he has previously had a thorough        
training in devotion4#f            #f   
,in the last chapter of the book        

entitled ,theosophie           7,berlin1
 ,c4 ,a4 ,schwetschke und ,sohn71 ,dr4  
,rudolf ,steiner           fully        
describes this ,path of ,knowledge2 here
 it is only           intended to give  
some practical details4  ,noiseless and 
unnoticed by the outer world is the     
following of the ,path of ,discipleship4
 ,it is not necessary that anyone should
 observe a change in the disciple4 ,he  
performs his duties as hitherto2 he     
attends to his business as usual4 ,the  
transformation goes on only in the inner
 part of the soul1 hidden from outward  
sight4 ,at first the entire soul-life of
 a man is flooded by this fundamental   
spring of devotion for everything which 
is truly venerable4 ,his entire         
soul-life finds in this devotional mood 
its pivot4 ,just as the sun1 through its
 rays1 will vivify everything living1 so
 in the life of the disciple this       
reverence vivifies all the perceptions  
of the soul4  ,at first it is not easy  
for people to believe that feelings like

 reverence1 respect1 and so forth1 have 
anything to do with their perceptions4  
,this comes from the fact that one is   
inclined to think of perception as a    
faculty quite by itself1 one that stands
 in no relation to what otherwise       
happens in the soul4 ,in so thinking1 we
 do not remember that it is the soul    
which perceives4 ,and feelings are for  
the soul what food is for the body4 ,if 
we give the body stones in place of     
bread its activity will cease4 ,it is   
the same with the soul4 ,veneration1    
homage1 devotion1 are as nutriment which
 makes it healthy and strong1 especially
 strong for the activity of perception4 
,disrespect1 antipathy1 and             
under-estimation1 bring about the       
starvation and the withering of this    
activity4 ,for the occultist this fact  
is visible in the aura4 ,a soul which   
harbors the feelings of devotion and    
reverence1 brings about a change in its 
aura4 ,certain yellowish-red or         
brown-red tints will vanish1 and tints  

of bluish-red will replace them4 ,and   
then the organ of perception opens4 ,it 
receives information of facts in its    
environment of which it hitherto had no 
knowledge4 ,reverence awakens a         
sympathetic power in the soul1 and      
through this we attract similar         
qualities in the beings which surround  
us1 that would otherwise remain hidden4 
,more effective still is that power     
which can be obtained by devotion when  
another feeling is added4 ,one learns to
 give up oneself less and less to the   
impressions of the outer world1 and to  
develop in its place a vivid inward     
life4 ,he who darts from one impression 
of the outer world to another1 who      
constantly seeks dissipations1 cannot   
find the way to ,occultism4 ,neither    
should the disciple blunt himself to the
 outer world2 but let his rich inner    
life point out the direction in which he
 ought to lend himself to its           
impressions4 ,when passing through a    
beautiful mountain district1 the man    

with depth of soul and richness of      
emotion has different experiences from  
the man with few emotions4 ,only what we
 experience within ourselves reveals the
 beauties of the outer world4 ,one man  
sails across the ocean1 and only a few  
inward experiences pass through his     
soul2 but another will then hear the    
eternal language of the world-spirit1   
and for him are unveiled the mysteries  
of creation4  ,one must have learned to 
control one's own feelings and ideas if 
one wishes to develop any intimate      
relationship with the outer world4      
,every phenomenon in that outer world is
 full of divine splendor1 but one must  
have felt the ,divine within oneself    
before one may hope to discover it      
without4 ,the disciple is told to set   
apart certain moments of his daily life 
during which to withdraw into himself1  
quietly and alone4 ,at such times he    
ought not to occupy himself with his own
 personal affairs1 for this would bring 
about the contrary of that at which he  

is aiming4 ,during these moments he     
ought rather to listen in complete      
silence to the echoes of what he has    
experienced1 of what the outward world  
has told him4 ,then1 in these periods of
 quiet1 every flower1 every animal1     
every action will unveil to him secrets 
undreamed of1 and thus will he prepare  
himself to receive new impressions of   
the external world1 as if he viewed it  
with different eyes4 ,for he who merely 
desires to enjoy impression after       
impression1 only stultifies the         
perceptive faculty1 while he who lets   
the enjoyment afterwards reveal         
something to him1 thus enlarges and     
educates it4 ,he must be careful not    
merely to let the enjoyment reverberate1
 as it were2 but1 renouncing any further
 emotions of joy1 begin to work upon his
 pleasurable experiences with an inward 
activity4 ,the danger at this point is  
very great4 ,instead of working within  
one-self1 it is easy to fall into the   
opposite habit of afterward trying to   

completely exhaust the enjoyment4 ,let  
us not undervalue the unforeseen sources
 of error which here confront the       
disciple4 ,he must of necessity pass    
through a host of temptations1 each of  
which tends only to harden his ,ego and 
to imprison it within itself4 ,he ought 
to open it wide for the whole world4 ,it
 is necessary that he should seek       
enjoyment1 for in this way only can the 
outward world get at him2 and if he     
blunts himself to enjoyment he becomes  
as a plant which cannot longer draw     
nourishment from its environment4 ,yet1 
if he stops at the enjoyment1 he is then
 shut up within himself1 and will only  
be something to himself and nothing to  
the world4 ,however much he may live    
within himself1 however intensely he may
 cultivate his ,ego1 the world will     
exclude him4 ,he is dead to the world4  
,the disciple considers enjoyment only  
as a means of ennobling himself for the 
world4 ,pleasure to him is as a scout   
who informs him concerning the world1   

and after having been taught by pleasure
 he passes on to work4 ,he does not     
learn in order that he may accumulate   
wisdom as his own treasure1 but in order
 that he may put his learning at the    
service of the world4  ,in all forms of 
,occultism there is a fundamental       
principle which must not be             
transgressed1 if any goal at all is to  
be reached4 ,all occult teachers must   
impress upon their pupils that1 ,every  
branch of knowledge which you seek only 
to enrich your own learning1 only to    
accumulate treasure for yourself1 leads 
you away from the ,path2 but all        
knowledge which you seek for working in 
the service of humanity and for the     
uplifting of the world brings you a step
 forward4 ,this law must be rigidly     
observed2 nor is one a genuine disciple 
until he has adopted it as the guide for
 his whole life4 ,in many occult schools
 this truth is expressed in the         
following short sentence3 ,every idea   
which does not become an ideal for you1 

slays a power within your soul3 every   
idea which becomes an ideal creates     
within you a vital force4     ,,iii     
,,the ,,path ,,of ,,discipleship   ,at  
the very beginning of his course the    
student is directed to the ,path of     
,reverence1 and the development of the  
inner life4 ,the occult teaching also   
gives practical instructions by the     
observance of which he may learn to     
follow that ,path and develop that inner
 life4 ,these practical directions have 
no arbitrary basis4 ,they rest on       
ancient experience and ancient wisdom1  
and wheresoever the ways to higher      
knowledge are marked out1 they are of   
the same nature4 ,all genuine teachers  
of ,occultism agree as to the essential 
character of these rules1 although they 
do not always express them in the same  
words4 ,this difference of expression is
 of a minor character1 more seeming than
 real1 and is due to circumstances which
 need not be mentioned here4  ,no       
teacher wishes1 by means of such rules1 

to establish an ascendency over other   
persons4 ,he would not tamper with      
individual independence4 ,indeed1 no one
 respects and cherishes human           
individuality more than the teachers of 
,occultism4 ,it was said1 in the first  
part of this book1 that the order which 
embraces all ,initiates was surrounded  
by a wall1 and that two laws formed the 
principles by which it was upheld4      
,whenever the ,initiate leaves this     
enclosure and steps forth into the      
world1 he must submit to a third        
inviolable law4 ,it is this3 ,keep watch
 over each of your actions and each of  
your words1 in order that you may not   
hinder the free-will of any human being4
 ,those who recognize that genuine      
occult teachers are thoroughly permeated
 with this principle will understand    
that they can add to their independence 
by the practical directions which they  
are advised to follow4  ,one of the     
first of these rules may be thus        
expressed in our language3 ,provide for 

yourself moments of inward calm1 and in 
these moments learn to distinguish      
between the real and the unreal4 ,i say 
advisedly expressed in our language1    
because originally all rules and        
teachings of occult science were        
expressed in a symbolical sign-language4
 ,those who desire to master its whole  
scope and meaning must first obtain     
permission to learn this symbolical     
language1 and before such permission may
 be obtained1 it is necessary to have   
taken the first steps in occult         
knowledge4 ,this may be achieved by the 
careful observance of such rules as are 
here given4 ,the ,path is open to all   
who earnestly will to enter it4         
,simple1 in truth and easy to follow1 is
 the rule concerning moments of inner   
calm2 but it leads to the goal only when
 the pursuit is as earnest and strict as
 the way is simple4 ,it will1 therefore1
 be stated here1 without further        
preamble1 the method in which this rule 
should be observed4  ,the student must  

mark off a small part of his daily life 
in which to occupy himself with         
something quite different from the      
avocations of his ordinary life1 and the
 way in which he occupies himself at    
such a time must also differ from the   
way in which he performs the rest of his
 duties4 ,but this does not mean that   
what he does in the time thus set apart 
has no connection with his daily work4  
,on the contrary1 the man who seeks such
 moments in the right way will soon find
 that it is just this which gives him   
full power to do his daily task4 ,nor   
must it be supposed that the observance 
of this rule really deprives anyone of  
time needed for the performance of his  
duties4 ,if any person really has no    
more time at his disposal1 five minutes 
a day will suffice4 ,the real point is  
the manner in which these five minutes  
are spent4  ,at these periods a man     
should raise himself completely above   
his work-a-day life4 ,his thoughts and  
feelings must take on a different       

coloring4 ,his joys and sorrows1 his    
cares1 experiences1 and actions1 must   
pass in review before his soul4 ,and he 
must cultivate a frame of mind which    
enables him to regard all his other     
experiences from a higher point of view4
 ,we need only bear in mind how         
different is the point of view from     
which in ordinary life we regard the    
experiences and actions of another1 and 
that from which we judge our own4 ,this 
is inevitable1 for we are interwoven    
with our own actions and experiences1   
while we only contemplate those of      
another4 ,our aim1 in moments of        
retirement1 must be to contemplate and  
judge our own experiences and actions1  
as though it were not ourselves but some
 other person to whom they applied4     
,suppose1 for example1 that a certain   
misfortune has befallen someone4 ,what a
 different attitude that person takes   
towards it as compared with an identical
 misfortune that has befallen his       
neighbor6 ,no one can blame this        

attitude as unjustifiable2 it is a part 
of human nature4 ,and just as it is in  
exceptional circumstances1 so it is also
 in the daily affairs of life4 ,the     
student must endeavor to attain the     
power of regarding himself at certain   
times as he would regard a stranger4 ,he
 must contemplate himself with the      
inward calm of the critic4 ,when this is
 attained1 our own experiences present  
themselves in a new light4 ,as long as  
we are interwoven with them and are1 as 
it were1 within them1 we are as closely 
connected with the unreal as with the   
real4 ,when we attain to a calm survey1 
the real is separated from the unreal4  
,sorrow and joy1 every thought1 every   
resolve1 appear changed when we         
contemplate ourselves in this way4 ,it  
is as though we had spent the whole day 
in a place where we saw the smallest    
objects at the same range of vision as  
the largest ones1 and in the evening    
climbed a neighboring hill and surveyed 
the whole scene at once4 ,then the parts

 of the place take on proportions       
different from those they bore when seen
 from within4 ,the value of such calm   
inward contemplation depends less on the
 actual thing we contemplate than on the
 power which such inward calm develops  
in us4  ,for in every human being there 
is1 besides what we call the work-a-day 
man1 a higher being4 ,this higher being 
remains concealed until it is awakened4 
,and each of us can only awaken it for  
himself4 ,but as long as this higher    
being is not awakened1 the higher       
faculties that might lead to            
supersensual knowledge1 must lie dormant
 or remain hidden in every man4 ,this   
power which leads to inward calm is a   
magic force that sets free certain      
higher faculties4 ,until a seeker feels 
this magic force within him1 he must    
continue to follow strictly and         
earnestly the rules given4 ,to every man
 who thus perseveres1 the day will come 
when a spiritual light is revealed to   
him1 and a whole new world1 whose       

existence was hitherto unsuspected1 is  
discerned by an eye within him4         
,because he begins to follow this rule1 
there is no need for any outward change 
in the life of the student4 ,he performs
 his duties as before1 and at first he  
endures the same sorrows and experiences
 the same joys as of old4 ,in no way    
does it estrange him from life1 rather  
is he enabled to devote himself to it   
the more completely1 because in the     
moments set apart he has a ,higher ,life
 of his own4 ,gradually this ,higher    
,life will make its influence felt on   
the ordinary life4 ,the calm of the     
moments set apart will influence his    
ordinary existence as well4 ,the whole  
man will grow calmer1 will attain       
serenity in all his actions1 and will   
cease to be perturbed by all manner of  
incidents4 ,gradually a student who thus
 advances will guide himself more and   
more1 and be less governed by           
circumstances and external influences4  
,such a man will soon discover how great

 a source of strength lies for him in   
these periods of contemplation4 ,he will
 cease to be annoyed by things that     
formerly worried him2 and countless     
matters that once filled him with fear  
will now cease to alarm him4 ,he        
acquires a new outlook on life4         
,formerly he may have taken up this or  
that task with a sense of timidity4 ,he 
would say3 ,i lack the power to do this 
as well as ,i could wish4 ,now he no    
longer admits such a thought but1       
instead forms one quite different4 ,he  
says to himself3 ,i will summon all my  
strength in order to do my work as well 
as ,i possibly can4 ,and he suppresses  
the thought which encourages timidity2  
for he knows that this very timidity    
might spoil his undertaking1 and that in
 any event it can contribute nothing to 
the improvement of his labor4 ,and thus 
one thought after another1 each fraught 
with advantage to his whole life1 begins
 to penetrate the student's outlook4    
,they take the place of those which gave

 a hampering and weakening effect4 ,he  
begins to steer his own ship1 on a firm1
 secure course1 among the waves of life1
 which formerly tossed it helplessly to 
and fro4  ,and this calm and serenity   
react on the whole being4 ,they assist  
the growth of the inner man1 and of     
those inner faculties which lead to     
higher knowledge4 ,for it is by his     
progress in this direction that the     
student gradually attains to a state in 
which he himself determines the manner  
in which the impressions of the external
 world shall affect him4 ,thus1 he may  
hear a word1 spoken with the object of  
wounding or vexing him4 ,before he began
 his occult studies it would indeed have
 been painful or irritating4 ,but now   
that he is in the ,path of              
,discipleship1 he is able to take from  
it the sting or the power to hurt1 even 
before it enters his consciousness4     
,take another example3 we naturally grow
 impatient when we are kept waiting1 but
 the student is so permeated1 in his    

moments of calm1 with the realization of
 the uselessness of impatience1 that    
this calmness is present with him on    
every occasion4 ,the impatience which   
would naturally overcome him vanishes1  
and an interval which would otherwise   
have been wasted in the expression of   
impatience may be utilized by making    
some profitable observation during the  
period of waiting4  ,now we must realize
 the significance of these facts4 ,we   
must remember that the ,higher ,being in
 a man is in constant development1 and  
only the state of calm and serenity here
 described renders an orderly           
development possible4 ,the waves of     
outward life press in upon the inner man
 from all sides1 if1 instead of         
controlling this outward life1 he is    
controlled by it4 ,such a man is like a 
plant which tries to expand in a cleft  
in the rock1 and is stunted in its      
growth until new space is given it4 ,no 
outward forces can supply space for the 
inner man2 it can only be supplied by   

the inner calm which he may give to his 
soul4 ,outward circumstances can only   
alter the course of his outward life2   
they can never awaken the spiritual     
inner man4 ,the student must himself    
give birth to the new and higher man    
within him4  ,the higher man becomes the
 inner ,ruler1 who directs the          
circumstances of the outer man with sure
 guidance4 ,as long as the latter has   
the upper hand1 this inner man is       
enslaved1 and cannot therefore develop  
his powers4 ,if another than myself has 
the power to make me angry1 ,i am not   
master of myself1 or1 to put it better1 
,i have not yet found the ,ruler within 
me4 ,i must develop the power within1 of
 letting the impressions of the outer   
world approach me only in the way in    
which ,i myself choose2 then only do ,i 
really become an occult student4 ,and   
only by earnestly striving after this   
power can a student reach the goal4 ,it 
is not of so much importance to achieve 
a great deal in a given time1 as to be  

earnest in the search4 ,many have       
striven for years without noticing any  
marked advance2 but many of those who   
did not despair1 and struggled on       
undaunted1 have sometimes quite suddenly
 achieved the inner victory4  ,in many  
situations it requires a good deal of   
effort to achieve these moments of      
inward calm4 ,but the greater the effort
 needed1 the more important is the      
achievement4 ,in esoteric studies1      
everything depends on the energy1 inward
 truthfulness1 and uncompromising       
sincerity with which we contemplate     
ourselves and our actions from the      
standpoint of complete strangers4  ,but 
only one side of the student's inner    
activity is characterized by this birth 
of his own higher being4 ,something else
 in addition is needed4 ,even if a man  
regards himself as a stranger1 it is    
only himself that he contemplates2 he   
looks at those experiences and actions1 
with which he is connected1 through his 
particular mode of life1 while it is    

necessary for him to rise above this1   
and attain to a purely human point of   
view1 to be no longer connected with his
 own individual circumstances4 ,he must 
pass on to the contemplation of those   
things which concern him as a human     
being1 even though he dwell in a        
different condition and different       
circumstances4 ,in this way something is
 brought to birth within him which rises
 beyond the personal point of view4     
,thus his gaze is directed to higher    
worlds than those he knows in every-day 
life4 ,and then he begins to feel and   
realize that he belongs to these higher 
worlds about which his senses and his   
daily occupations can tell him nothing4 
,in this way he shifts the central point
 of his being to the inner part of his  
nature4 ,he listens to the voices within
 him which speak to him in his moments  
of calm2 and inwardly he cultivates an  
intercourse with the spiritual world1   
which removes him from the every-day    
world1 whose voices he no longer hears4 

,around him there is silence4 ,he puts  
away from him all his external          
surroundings1 and everything which even 
reminds him of such external            
impressions4 ,his entire soul is filled 
with calm1 inward contemplation and     
converse with the purely spiritual      
world4 ,this calm contemplation must    
become a necessity to the student4 ,he  
is plunged completely into a world of   
thought1 and must develop an earnest    
desire for calm thinking4 ,he must learn
 to love the in-pouring of the spirit4  
,then he will learn to regard this      
thought-world and its thought-forms as  
more real than the every-day things     
which surround him1 and he begins to    
deal with thoughts as with things       
existing in space4 ,and then the moment 
is at hand when the revelations of his  
quiet thinking begin to seem much higher
 and more real than the things existing 
in space4 ,he discovers that this       
thought-world is an expression of life1 
and realizes that thoughts are not mere 

phantoms1 but that through them1 beings1
 who were hidden before1 now speak to   
him4 ,he begins to hear voices through  
the silence4 ,formerly his ear was the  
only organ of hearing2 now he can listen
 with his soul4 ,an inner language and  
an inner voice are revealed to him4 ,it 
is a moment of supremest ecstasy to the 
student when this experience first comes
 to him4 ,an inner light floods the     
whole external world for him1 and he is 
born anew4 ,through his being passes a  
current from a divine world1 bringing   
with it divine bliss4  ,this            
thought-life of the soul1 which is      
gradually widened into a life of        
spiritual being1 is designated by the   
,gnosis and by ,theosophy as meditation 
7contemplative thought74 ,this          
meditation is the means by which        
supersensual knowledge is attained4 ,but
 during such moments the student must   
not be content to give himself up to the
 luxury of sensation4 ,he must not      
permit undefined feelings to take       

possession of his soul4 ,that would only
 hinder him from attaining true         
spiritual knowledge4 ,his thoughts must 
be clearly and sharply defined1 and he  
will be helped in this by not allowing  
himself to be carried away blindly by   
the thoughts that spring up within him4 
,rather must he permeate his mind with  
the lofty ideas which originated with   
advanced students to whom inspiration   
has already come4 ,let him first of all 
study the wisdom which originated in    
such moments of meditation4 ,the student
 will find such in the mystical1        
gnostic1 and theosophical literature of 
our time1 and will there gain the       
material for his meditation4 ,wise men  
have inscribed in these books the       
thoughts of divine science1 or have     
proclaimed them to the world through    
their agents4  ,such meditation produces
 a complete transformation in the       
student4 ,he begins to form entirely new
 conceptions of ,reality4 ,all things   
acquire fresh values in his eyes4 ,and  

it cannot be declared too often that    
this transformation does not estrange   
him from the world nor keep him from his
 daily round of duties4 ,for he begins  
to realize that his most insignificant  
actions or experiences are in close     
connection with the great cosmic beings 
and events4 ,when once this connection  
is revealed to him in his moments of    
contemplation1 he is endowed with       
fresher and fuller power for his daily  
duties4 ,for then he knows that his     
labor and his suffering are given and   
endured for the sake of a great         
spiritual cosmic whole4 ,thus1 instead  
of weariness1 his meditation gives him  
strength to live4  ,with firm step the  
student advances in life4 ,no matter    
what it may bring him1 he goes forward  
erect4 ,in the past he knew not why he  
worked and suffered1 but now he knows4  
,it is obvious that such meditation is  
more likely to lead to the goal1 if     
conducted under the direction of        
experienced persons1 who know actually  

how everything may best be done4 ,we    
should1 therefore1 seek the advice and  
direction of such experienced guides    
7they are called ,gurus in certain      
schools of thought74 ,what would        
otherwise be mere uncertain groping is  
transformed by such direction into work 
that is sure of its goal4 ,those who    
apply to the teachers having such       
knowledge and experience will never     
apply in vain4 ,they must1 however1 be  
quite sure that it is the advice of a   
friend they desire1 not the domination  
of a would-be ruler4 ,those who really  
know are always the most modest of men1 
and nothing is further from their nature
 than what is called the passion for    
power4  ,those who1 by means of         
meditation1 rise to that which unites   
man with spirit1 are bringing to life   
within them the eternal element which is
 not limited by birth nor death4 ,only  
those who have had no experience for    
themselves can doubt the existence of   
this eternal element4 ,thus meditation  

becomes the way by which man also       
attains to the recognition and          
contemplation of his eternal1           
indestructible1 essential being4 ,and   
only through meditation can one attain  
to such a view of life4 ,gnosis and     
,theosophy tell of the eternal nature of
 this essential being1 and of its       
reincarnation4 ,the question is often   
asked3 ,why does a man know nothing of  
those experiences which lie beyond the  
borders of birth and death8 ,not thus   
should we ask1 but rather3 ,how may we  
attain to such knowledge8 ,the entrance 
to the ,path is opened by right         
meditation4 ,this alone can revive the  
memory of events that lie beyond the    
borders of birth and death4 ,everyone   
can attain to this knowledge2 in each of
 us is the faculty of recognizing and   
contemplating for ourselves the truths  
of ,mysticism1 ,theosophy1 and ,gnosis2 
but the right means must be chosen4     
,only a being with ears and eyes can    
perceive tones and colors1 nor can the  

eye perceive without the light by which 
things are made visible4 ,occult science
 gives the means of developing the      
spiritual ears and eyes1 and kindling   
the spiritual light4 ,there are1        
according to esoteric teachers1 three   
steps by which the goal may be attained3
 #a4 ,probation4 ,this develops the     
spiritual senses4 #b4 ,enlightenment4   
,this kindles the spiritual light4 #c4  
,initiation4 ,this establishes          
intercourse with the higher spiritual   
beings4  ,the following teachings       
proceed from a secret tradition1 but    
precise information concerning its      
nature and its name cannot be given at  
present4 ,they refer to the three steps 
which1 in the school of this tradition1 
lead to a certain degree of initiation4 
,but here we shall find only so much of 
this tradition as may be openly         
declared4 ,these teachings are extracted
 from a much deeper and more secret     
doctrine4 ,in the occult schools        
themselves a definite course of         

instruction is followed1 and in addition
 to this there are certain practices    
which enable the souls of men to attain 
a conscious intercourse with the        
spiritual world4 ,these practices bear  
about the same relation to what will be 
imparted in the following pages1 as the 
teaching which is given in a            
well-disciplined school bears to the    
instruction that may be received        
occasionally during a walk4 ,and yet the
 ardent and persevering search for what 
is here hinted at will lead to the way  
by which one obtains access to a genuine
 occult school4 ,but1 of course1 an     
impatient perusal1 devoid of sincerity  
and perseverance1 can lead to nothing at
 all4 ,he who believes himself to be    
ready for more must apply to an occult  
teacher4 ,the study of these things can 
only be successful if the student will  
observe what has already been written in
 previous chapters4  ,the stages which  
the above-mentioned tradition specifies 
are the following three3        ,i4     

,probation1      ,,ii4 ,enlightenment1  
,,iii4 ,initiation4  ,it is not         
altogether necessary that these three   
stages should be so taken that one must 
have quite completed the first before   
beginning the second1 nor this in its   
turn before commencing the third4 ,with 
respect to certain things one can       
partake of ,enlightenment1 and even of  
,initiation1 while with others one is   
still in the probationary stage4 ,yet it
 will be necessary to spend a certain   
time in this stage of ,probation before 
any ,enlightenment at all can commence1 
and at least to some degree one must be 
enlightened before it is possible even  
to enter upon the stage of ,initiation4 
,in giving an account of them1 however1 
it is necessary1 for the sake of        
clearness1 that the three stages follow1
 one after another4     ,,iv            
,,probation   ,probation consists of a  
strict cultivation of the emotional and 
mental life4 ,through this cultivation  
the spiritual body becomes equipped with

 new instruments of perception and new  
organs of activity1 just as1 out of     
indeterminate living matter1 the natural
 forces have fitted the physical body   
with the various organs so well known to
 the physical senses4  ,the beginning of
 this cultivation is made by directing  
the attention of the soul to certain    
events in the world that surrounds us4  
,such events are the germinating1       
expanding1 and flourishing of life in   
its myriad forms on the one hand1 and1  
on the other1 the fading1 decaying1 and 
passing out of life from all things so  
far as perceptible to the ordinary      
senses4 ,wherever we turn our eyes we   
can observe these things happening      
simultaneously1 and everywhere they     
naturally evoke in men thoughts and     
feelings4 ,but under ordinary           
circumstances a man fails to grasp the  
importance of these sensations4 ,he     
hurries on too quickly from impression  
to impression4 ,what is necessary1      
therefore1 is that he should fix his    

attention intently and quite consciously
 upon these phenomena4 ,wherever he     
observes expansion and flourishing of a 
certain kind1 he must banish everything 
else from his soul1 and entirely        
surrender himself for a short time to   
this one impression4 ,he will soon      
convince himself that a sensation which 
heretofore in a similar case would have 
merely flitted through his soul1 is now 
so magnified that it becomes of a       
powerful and energetic nature4 ,he      
should at once allow this thought-form  
to reverberate throughout his whole     
being1 yet quietly within himself1 and  
to do so he must become inwardly quite  
still4 ,he should draw himself away from
 the outward world1 and follow only that
 which his soul tells him4  ,yet it must
 not be thought that we can make much   
progress if we blunt our senses to the  
world4 ,for1 one must first contemplate 
these objects as keenly and precisely as
 possible1 and then give up to the      
sensations that result1 and the thoughts

 that arise within the soul4 ,what is   
most important is1 that one should      
direct the attention1 with perfect inner
 balance1 upon both of these phenomena4 
,if one obtains the necessary quiet and 
surrenders himself to that which arises 
in the soul1 he will1 in due time1      
experience many wonderful thoughts and  
feelings1 unknown to him before4        
,indeed1 the more one fixes the         
attention in such a way1 alternately    
upon something growing1 expanding1 and  
flourishing1 and upon something else    
that is fading and decaying1 the more   
vivid will these feelings become4 ,and  
just as natural forces evolve the       
physical eyes and ears of the physical  
body1 out of living matter1 so will the 
organs of clairvoyance evolve themselves
 from the spiritual feelings which are  
thus evoked4 ,a definite thought-form   
unites itself with the germinating and  
expanding object1 and another1 equally  
definite1 with that which is fading and 
decaying4 ,but this will only take place

 if the cultivation of these feelings be
 striven for in the way described4  ,it 
is possible to describe only            
approximately what these feelings are   
like4 ,indeed1 everyone must arrive at  
his own conception of them as he passes 
through these inward experiences4 ,he   
who has frequently fixes his attention  
on the phenomena of germinating1        
expanding1 and flourishing1 will feel   
something remotely allied to the        
sensation caused by witnessing a        
sunrise2 and the phenomena of fading and
 decaying will produce in him an        
experience comparable1 in the same way1 
to the gradual uprising of the moon on  
the horizon4 ,both these feelings are   
forces which1 when carefully cultivated1
 with a continually increasing          
improvement1 will lead to the greatest  
occult results4 ,to him who again and   
again1 systematically and with design1  
surrenders himself to such feelings1 a  
new world is opened4 ,the ,spiritual    
world1 the so-called ,astral plane1     

begins to dawn upon him4 ,blooming and  
fading are facts which no longer make   
indefinite impressions on him1 as of    
old1 but instead they form themselves   
into spiritual lines and figures of     
which he had previously suspected       
nothing4 ,and these lines and figures   
have for the different phenomena        
different forms4 ,a blooming flower1 an 
animal growing1 a decaying tree1 evoke  
in his soul definite lines4 ,the astral 
plane slowly broadens out before him4   
,its forms are not in any sense         
arbitrary4 ,for two students who find   
themselves at the same stage of         
development will always see the same    
lines and figures under the same        
conditions4 ,just as certainly as a     
round table will be seen as round by two
 normal persons1 not as round by the one
 and square by the other2 so1 too1      
before the perception of two souls a    
blooming flower will present the same   
spiritual form4 ,and just as the shapes 
of animals and plants are described in  

ordinary natural history1 so1 too1 the  
teacher in an occult school describes   
and delineates the spiritual forms of   
growing and decaying processes after    
their nature and species4  ,if the      
student has progressed so far that he   
can see such aspects of phenomena which 
are also physically observable with his 
external eyes1 he will then be not far  
from the condition which will enable him
 to behold things that have no physical 
existence1 and must therefore remain    
entirely hidden to those who have       
undergone no training in an occult      
school4  ,it should be emphasized that  
the occult explorer ought never to lose 
himself in speculation on the meaning of
 this or that4 ,by such                 
intellectualizing he only directs       
himself away from the right road4 ,he   
ought to look out on the sense-world    
freshly1 with healthy senses and        
quickened observation1 and then to give 
himself up to his own sensations4 ,he   
ought not to wish1 in a speculative     

manner1 to make out what this or that   
means1 but rather to allow the things   
themselves to inform him4#g             
#g ,it should be remarked that artistic 
perception1 when           coupled with 
a quiet introspective nature1 forms the 
best           foundation for the       
development of occult faculties4 ,it    
pierces through the superficial aspect  
of things and in so           doing     
touches their secrets4  ,a further point
 of importance is that which is called  
in occult science orientation in the    
higher worlds4 ,this point is attained  
when one realizes with complete         
consciousness that feelings and thoughts
 are veritable realities1 just as much  
as are tables and chairs in the world of
 the physical senses4 ,feelings and     
thoughts act upon each other in the     
astral-world and in the thought 7or     
mental7 world1 just as objects of sense 
act upon each other in the physical     
world4 ,as long as anyone is not truly  
permeated with this realization1 he will

 not believe that an evil thought       
projected from his mind may have as     
devastating an effect upon other thought
 forms as that wrought upon physical    
objects by a bullet shot at random4     
,such a one will perhaps never allow    
himself to perform a physically visible 
action which he considers to be wrong1  
yet he will not shrink from harboring   
evil thoughts or feelings1 for these do 
not appear to him to be dangerous to the
 rest of the world4 ,nevertheless we can
 advance in occult science only when we 
guard our thoughts and feelings in just 
the same way as a man would guard the   
steps he takes in the physical world4   
,if anyone sees a wall before him he    
does not attempt to dash right through  
it1 but directs his course alongside2 in
 other words1 he guides himself by the  
laws of the physical world4  ,there are 
such laws also in the world of thought  
and feeling1 but there they cannot      
impose themselves upon us from without4 
,they must flow out of the life of the  

soul itself4 ,we arrive at such a       
condition when we forbid ourselves1 at  
all times1 to foster wrong thoughts or  
feelings4 ,all arbitrary goings         
to-and-fro1 all idle fancies1 all       
accidental ups-and-downs of emotion must
 be forbidden in the same way4 ,but1 in 
so doing1 let it not be thought that we 
bring about a deficiency of emotion4 ,on
 the contrary1 if we regulate our inner 
life in this manner1 we shall speedily  
find ourselves rich in feelings and in  
genuine creative imagination4 ,in place 
of a mere chaos of petty feelings and   
fantastic trains of thought1 there      
appear significant emotions1 and        
thoughts that are fruitful1 and it is   
emotions and thoughts of this kind that 
lead a man to orientation in the higher 
world4 ,he has entered into the right   
condition for the things of that world1 
and they entail for him definite        
consequences4 ,just as a physical man   
finds his way between physical things1  
so1 too1 his path now leads him straight

 between the growing and the fading1    
which he has already come to know in the
 way described above4 ,for he follows   
all processes of growing and            
flourishing1 7and1 on the other hand1 of
 withering and decaying7 that is        
necessary for his own and the world's   
prosperity4  ,the occult student has    
also to bestow a further care on the    
world of sound4 ,he must discriminate   
between the tones which are produced    
from the so-called inert 7lifeless7     
bodies 7for example1 a bell1 a musical  
instrument1 or a falling mass71 and     
those which proceed from a living       
creature 7an animal or a person74 ,he   
who hears the striking of a bell will   
receive the sound and attach to it a    
certain sensation1 but he who hears the 
cry of an animal will1 in addition to   
this sensation1 become aware that the   
sound reveals also an inward experience 
of the animal1 either of pain or of     
pleasure4 ,the student is concerned with
 the latter aspect of the sound4 ,he    

must concentrate his whole attention    
upon it1 so that the sound reveals to   
him something that lies outside of his  
own soul1 and1 more than this1 must     
merge himself in this exterior thing4   
,he must closely connect his own emotion
 with the pleasure or pain communicated 
to him by means of the sound1 and must  
care nothing whether the sound be       
pleasant or unpleasant to him1 welcome  
or not2 his soul must be filled with    
only that which proceeds from the       
creature out of whom the sound has come4
 ,he who systematically and deliberately
 performs such exercises will develop   
within himself the faculty of           
intermingling1 as it were1 with the     
creature from which the sound proceeded4
 ,a person sensitive to music will find 
it easier to cultivate his spiritual    
life in this respect than one who is    
unmusical1 but no one should think that 
a mere sense of music will take the     
place of this culture4  ,as an occult   
student1 one must learn to contemplate  

the whole of nature in this way4 ,by so 
doing a new faculty is developed in the 
world of thought and feeling4 ,through  
her manifold sounds the whole of ,nature
 begins to whisper secrets to the       
student4 ,what hitherto was merely      
incomprehensible noise to his soul will 
become by this means a coherent language
 of ,nature4 ,and whereas1 hitherto1 he 
heard sound only from the resonance of  
so-called inanimate objects1 he now     
understands a new speech of the soul4   
,should he advance in this culture of   
the soul1 he will soon learn that he can
 hear what hitherto he did not even     
surmise4 ,he begins to hear with the    
soul4  ,one thing more must be added    
before we can reach the topmost point in
 this direction4 ,what is of special    
importance in the development of the    
student is the way in which he hears the
 speech of other men4 ,he must accustom 
himself to do this in such a way that   
while doing so his inner self is        
absolutely still4 ,if someone expresses 

an opinion and another hears it1 the    
inner self of the latter will be        
stirring in general assent or           
contradiction4 ,many people in such a   
case feel themselves urged to an        
expression of their assent1 or1 more    
especially1 of their contradiction4 ,all
 such assent or contradiction must1 in  
the occult student1 be silenced4 ,it is 
not imperative that he should1          
therefore1 quite suddenly begin to make 
his life entirely different1 in order   
that he may attain to this inward and   
fundamental calm4 ,he might1 therefore1 
begin by doing so in special cases1     
deliberately selected by himself4 ,thus 
quite slowly and by degrees will this   
new way of listening creep into his     
habits1 as of itself3 ,in the occult    
schools these things are systematically 
practiced4 ,for the sake of practice the
 student is obliged to listen for a     
certain period to the most contradictory
 thoughts1 and at the same time to      
suppress all assent1 and more especially

 all adverse criticism4 ,the point is   
that in such a way not only all         
intellectual judgment is silenced1 but  
also all sense of displeasure1 denial1  
or even acceptance4 ,the student must be
 particularly watchful that such        
feelings1 even if they are not upon the 
surface1 do not still remain lurking in 
the innermost recesses of his soul4 ,he 
must listen1 for example1 to the        
statements of people who in some        
respects are far beneath him1 and1 while
 so doing1 suppress every feeling of    
greater knowledge or of superiority4 ,it
 is useful for everyone to listen in    
this way to children1 for even the      
wisest may learn very much from         
children4 ,so does it come about that we
 hear the words of others impersonally1 
completely divested of our own          
personality with its opinions and       
feelings4 ,he who thus makes a practice 
of listening uncritically1 even when a  
completely contradictory opinion is     
advanced1 learns again and again to     

blend himself1 to become identified1    
with the being of another4 ,he then     
hears1 as it were1 through the words and
 into the souls of others4 ,through     
continual exercise of this kind only1   
sound becomes the right medium for the  
revelation of the spirit and the soul4  
,of course1 it implies the strictest    
self-discipline1 but it leads to a high 
goal4 ,when these practices are         
undertaken in connection with those that
 deal with the sounds of ,nature1 the   
soul develops a new sense of hearing4   
,it is enabled to receive demonstrations
 from the spiritual world which do not  
find their expression in outward sounds 
apprehensible by the physical ear4 ,the 
perception of the inner word awakens4   
,gradually truths from the spiritual    
world reveal themselves to the student1 
and he hears them expressed in a        
spiritual way4#h            #h ,only to 
him1 who listens disinterestedly1 comes 
the           ability to perceive really
 from within1 silently1 and without     

emotion arising from personal opinion or
 personal taste1--to           such only
 can the ,great ,souls1 who are known in
 ,occultism as           the ,masters   
speak4 ,as long as our opinions and     
feelings are           in a state of    
vehement opposition to the              
communications from           the       
,masters1 ,they remain silent4  ,all    
high truths are attained through such   
inner encouragement1 and what we hear   
from the lips of a genuine occult       
teacher has been experienced in this    
manner4 ,in so saying it must not be    
supposed that it is useless to acquaint 
oneself with the writings on occult     
science1 before one can actually gain   
this inner encouragement4 ,on the       
contrary1 the reading of such writings1 
and the listening to eminent teachers of
 occult lore1 are themselves the means  
of attaining a personal knowledge4      
,every sentence of the esoteric wisdom  
which one hears is adapted to direct the
 senses to that point which must be     

attained before the soul can experience 
a real advance4 ,to the practice of all 
that has been indicated1 must be added  
an ardent study of what the occult      
teacher gives out to the world4 ,in all 
occult schools such a study belongs to  
the probationary period1 and he who     
would employ other methods will attain  
no goal if he omits the instructions of 
the occult teacher1 for inasmuch as     
these instructions proceed from an      
actual inner word1 an actual            
encouragement1 they possess in          
themselves a spiritual vitality4 ,they  
are not mere words2 they are living     
powers2 and while you follow the words  
of an occultist1 while you read a book  
which comes from a genuine inner        
experience1 powers are at work in your  
soul which make you clairvoyant1 just as
 natural forces have created out of     
living matter your eyes and ears4     ,v
  ,,enlightenment4   ,enlightenment is  
the result of very simple processes4    
,here1 too1 it is a matter of developing

 certain feelings and thoughts which are
 dormant within all men1 but must be    
awakened4 ,only he who carries out these
 simple processes with complete         
patience1 continuously and strenuously1 
can be led by them to the reception of  
inner illumination4 ,the primary step is
 taken by observing in a particular way 
different natural objects--a transparent
 stone of beautiful form 7a crystal71 a 
plant1 and an animal4 ,one should       
endeavor at first to direct one's whole 
attention to a comparison of the stone  
with the animal1 as follows3 ,the       
thoughts which1 accompanied by strong   
emotions1 are thus induced1 must pass   
through the soul1 and no other emotions 
or thoughts must be mixed with them1 or 
disturb the intense contemplation4 ,one 
then says to oneself3 ,the stone has a  
form and the animal also has a form4    
,the stone remains motionless in its    
place1 but the animal is able to move   
about4 ,it is impulse 7desire7 which    
causes the animal to change its place1  

and it is these impulses to which the   
form of the animal is of use4 ,its      
organs and instruments are the          
expression of these impulses4 ,the form 
of the stone1 on the contrary1 is       
fashioned1 not in accordance with       
impulses1 but in accordance with an     
impulseless force4#i            #i ,the 
fact here mentioned1 in its bearing on  
the           contemplation of crystals1
 is in many ways distorted by those     
who have only heard of it in an outward 
7exoteric7 manner1           and in this
 way such practises as crystal-gazing   
have their           origin4            
,misrepresentations of such a kind are  
the outcome of                          
misunderstanding4 ,they have been       
described in many books1 but            
they never form the subject of genuine  
7esoteric7 teaching4  ,if one sinks     
deeply into such thoughts1 and while so 
doing observes the stone and the animal 
with fixed attention1 then there arise  
in the soul two separate kinds of       

emotion4 ,from the stone into the soul  
there streams one kind of emotion1 and  
from the animal1 another4 ,probably in  
the beginning the experiment will not   
succeed1 but little by little1 with     
genuine and patient practice1 these     
emotions become manifest4 ,again and    
again one should practice4 ,at first the
 emotions last only as long as the      
contemplation4 ,later on1 they work     
afterwards1 and then they grow to       
something which remains alive in the    
soul4 ,one then needs only to reflect1  
and both emotions invariably arise1     
apart from all contemplation of an      
external object4  ,out of these         
emotions1 and the thoughts which are    
bound up with them1 clairvoyant organs  
are formed4 ,should the plant be added  
to the contemplation1 one will notice   
that the feeling outflowing from it1    
both in its quality and in its degree1  
lies between that which emanates from   
the stone and that from the animal4 ,the
 organs which are so formed are         

spiritual eyes4 ,we learn by degrees and
 through their means to see both astral 
and mental colors4 ,as long as one has  
attained only the condition described as
 ,probation1 the spiritual world with   
its lines and figures remains dark1 but 
through ,enlightenment it will become   
clear4 ,it must be noted here that the  
words dark and light1 as well as the    
other common expressions1 only          
approximately describe what is really   
meant2 for language as usually          
understood is constructed to suit       
physical conditions alone4  ,occult     
science describes what emanates from the
 stone and is seen by clairvoyant eyes1 
as blue or bluish-red1 and that which is
 observed as coming from the animal is  
described as red or reddish-yellow4 ,in 
reality they are colors of a spiritual  
kind which are discerned4 ,the color    
proceeding from the plant is green4     
,plants are just those natural phenomena
 whose qualities in the higher worlds   
are similar to their qualities in the   

physical world1 but it is not so with   
stones and animals4 ,it must now be     
clearly understood that the             
above-mentioned colors only suggest the 
prevailing shades of the stone1 the     
plant1 or the animal4 ,in reality1 all  
possible overtones exist1 for every     
animal1 every stone1 every plant has its
 own peculiar shade of color4 ,in       
addition to these there are the         
creatures of the higher worlds1 who     
always incorporate themselves with      
colors not their own1 often marvellous1 
often horrible4 ,in short1 the variety  
of colors in these higher worlds is     
immeasurably greater than in the        
physical world4  ,if a man has once     
acquired the faculty of seeing with     
spiritual eyes1 he sooner or later1     
meets with the beings here mentioned1   
some of them higher1 some lower than man
 himself2 beings who never entered into 
physical existence4  ,when he has       
advanced thus far1 the way to a great   
deal lies open before him2 but it is    

inadvisable to proceed further without  
an experienced guide4 ,indeed1 for all  
that has here been described1 such      
experienced guidance is desirable1 and  
he who has the endurance to fulfil the  
elementary conditions of enlightenment1 
will assuredly seek and discover his    
guide4  ,under all circumstances it is  
important to give warning1 and he who   
will not heed it had better leave       
untrodden all the steps of occult       
science4 ,it is necessary that he who   
would become an occult student should   
lose none of his attributes as a good   
and noble man1 and one susceptible to   
all physical truths4 ,indeed1 throughout
 his apprenticeship he must continually 
increase his moral strength1 his inner  
purity1 and his powers of observation4  
,let us give an example3 ,during the    
preliminary practices of ,enlightenment1
 the student must be careful always to  
be enlarging his sympathy with the      
animal and human worlds1 and his sense  
of nature's beauty4 ,if he is not       

careful to do this he continually dulls 
both sense and feeling2 his heart grows 
cold and his sympathies dwarfed2 which  
lead to perilous results4  ,how         
enlightenment proceeds1 in the sense of 
the foregoing practices1 if one rises   
from the stone1 the plant1 and the      
animal1 up to man1 and how1 after       
enlightenment1 under all circumstances1 
the gentle hand of the ,pilot comes on a
 certain day1 and leads to              
,initiation--of these things the next   
chapter will deal in so far as it can   
and may do so4  ,in our time1 the path  
to occult science is sought after by    
many4 ,it is sought in various ways1 and
 many dangerous and even objectionable  
modes are practiced4 ,therefore it is   
that those who know of the truth and    
dangers concerning these things have    
allowed a greater portion of the occult 
training and the necessary warning to be
 published4 ,only so much is here       
imparted as this permission allows1 and 
it is necessary that something of the   

truth should be known in order that it  
may counteract the great danger of these
 errors4 ,if nothing be forced1 there is
 no danger for him who follows the way  
already described2 only one thing should
 be noted3 no one ought to spend more   
time or power upon such practices than  
is at his disposal with due regard to   
his circumstances and his duties4 ,no   
one ought suddenly to change anything in
 the external conditions of his life4   
,if one desires genuine results1 one    
must have patience2 one should be able  
to cease the practice after a few       
minutes1 and then peacefully to continue
 one's daily work1 and no thought of    
these practices ought to be mingled with
 the work of the day4 ,he who has not   
learned to wait1 in the best and highest
 sense of the word1 is of no use as an  
occult student1 nor will he ever attain 
results of much real value4  ,he who is 
in search of occult knowledge1 by the   
means indicated in the foregoing pages1 
must fortify himself throughout the     

whole course of his efforts by the      
understanding that after persevering for
 some time he may have made suitable    
progress without becoming conscious of  
it in the precise way which he had      
expected4 ,he who does not remember this
 is likely to lose heart1 and in a      
little while to abandon his efforts     
altogether4 ,the mental powers and      
faculties about to be developed are at  
first of the most subtle kind1 and their
 nature differs entirely from the       
conceptions of them which may be formed 
in the student's mind4 ,he has been     
accustomed to occupy himself with the   
physical world alone1 and the mental and
 astral worlds seem to elude his gaze1  
and baffle his conceptions4 ,it is1     
therefore1 not remarkable if1 at first1 
he fails to realize the new forces1     
mental and astral1 which are developing 
in his own being4 ,this is why it is    
dangerous to enter the path leading to  
occult knowledge without experienced    
guidance4 ,the teacher can see the      

progress made by the pupil1 long before 
the latter becomes conscious of it for  
himself4 ,he sees the delicate organs of
 spiritual vision beginning to form     
themselves1 before the pupil is aware of
 their existence1 and a great part of   
the duties of the teacher consists in   
perpetual watchfulness1 lest the        
disciple lose confidence1 patience1 and 
perseverance1 before he becomes         
conscious of his own progress4 ,the     
teacher1 as we know1 can confer upon the
 student no powers which are not already
 latent within him1 and his sole        
function is to assist in the awakening  
of slumbering faculties4 ,but he may be 
a pillar of strength to him who strives 
to penetrate through darkness into the  
light4  ,there are many who leave the   
occult path soon after setting foot upon
 it1 because they are not immediately   
conscious of their own progress4 ,and   
even when higher experiences begin to   
dawn upon the seeker1 he is apt to      
regard them as illusions1 because he had

 anticipated them quite differently4 ,he
 loses courage1 either because he       
regards these first experiences as of no
 value1 or because they appear so       
insignificant that he has no hope of    
their leading to any appreciable results
 within a measurable time4 ,courage and 
self-confidence are the two lamps which 
must never be allowed to burn themselves
 out on the pathway to the occult4 ,he  
who cannot patiently repeat an exercise 
which has failed for an apparently      
unlimited number of times1 will never   
travel far4  ,long before one is aware  
of any distinct perception of progress1 
comes an inarticulate mental impression 
that the right road has been found4     
,this is a feeling to be welcomed1 and  
to be encouraged1 since it may evolve   
into a trustworthy guide4 ,above all1 it
 is imperative to extirpate the idea    
that any fantastic1 mysterious practices
 are required for the attainment of     
higher experiences4 ,it must be clearly 
realized that ordinary every-day human  

feelings and thoughts must form the     
basis from which the start is to be     
made1 and that it is only needful to    
give these thoughts and feelings a new  
direction4 ,everyone must say to        
himself3 ,in my own sphere of thoughts  
and sensations lie enfolded the deepest 
mysteries1 but hitherto ,i have been    
unable to perceive them4 ,in the end it 
all resolves itself into the fact that  
man1 ordinarily1 carries body1 soul and 
spirit about with him1 yet is conscious 
only of the body1 not of the soul and   
spirit1 and that the student in due time
 attains to a similar consciousness of  
soul and spirit4  ,hence it is highly   
important to give the proper direction  
to thoughts and feelings1 in order that 
one may develop the perception of that  
which is invisible to a person living   
the ordinary life4 ,one of the ways by  
which this development may be carried   
out will now be indicated4 ,again1 like 
almost everything else we have explained
 so far1 it is quite a simple matter4   

,yet the results are of the greatest    
consequence1 if the experiment is       
carried out with perseverance1 and in   
the right frame of mind4  ,place before 
you the small seed of a plant4 ,it is   
then necessary1 while contemplating this
 significant object1 to create with     
intensity the right kind of thoughts1   
and through these thoughts to develop   
certain feelings4 ,in the first place1  
let the student clearly grasp what is   
really presented to his vision4 ,let him
 describe to himself the shape1 color1  
and all other qualities of the grain of 
seed4 ,then let his mind dwell upon the 
following train of thought3 ,this grain 
of seed1 if planted in the soil1 will   
grow into a plant of complex structure4 
,let him clearly picture this plant to  
himself4 ,let him build it up in his    
imagination4 ,and then let him reflect  
that the object now existing only in his
 imagination will presently be brought  
into actual physical existence by the   
forces of the earth and of light4 ,if   

the thing contemplated by him were an   
artificially-made object1 though such a 
close imitation of nature that no       
external difference could be detected by
 human eyesight1 no forces inherent in  
the earth or light could avail to       
produce from it a plant4 ,he who        
thoroughly grasps this thought and      
inwardly assimilates it will also be    
able to form the following idea with the
 right feeling4 ,he will reasons thus3  
,that which is ultimately to grow out of
 this seed is already1 as a force1 now  
secretly enfolded within it4 ,the       
artificial duplicate of the seed        
contains no such force4 ,and yet both   
appear to be alike to my eyes4 ,the real
 seed1 therefore1 contains something    
invisible which is not present in the   
imitation4 ,it is this invisible        
something on which thought and feeling  
are now to be concentrated4#aj ,let the 
student fully realize that this         
invisible something will later on       
translate itself into a visible plant1  

perceptible by him in shape and color4  
,let him dwell upon the thought3 ,the   
invisible will become visible4 ,if ,i   
could not think1 then ,i could not now  
realize1 that which will become visible 
later on4            #aj ,anyone who    
might object that a microscopical       
examination           would reveal the  
difference between the two would only   
show           that he has failed to    
grasp the intention of the experiment4  
,the intention is not to investigate the
 physical structure of           the    
object1 but to use it as a means for the
 development of           psychic force4
  ,particular stress must be laid on the
 importance of feeling with intensity   
that which one thinks4 ,in calmness of  
mind a single thought must be vitally   
experienced within oneself to the       
exclusion of all disturbing influences4 
,sufficient time must be taken to allow 
the thought1 and the state of feeling   
connected therewith1 to become1 as it   
were1 imbedded in the soul4 ,if that is 

accomplished in the right way--possibly 
not until after numerous attempts--an   
inward force will make itself felt4 ,and
 this force will create new powers of   
perception4 ,the grain of seed will     
appear as if enclosed in a small        
luminous cloud4 ,the spiritualized      
vision of the student perceives it as a 
kind of flame4 ,this flame is of a lilac
 color in the centre1 blue at the edges4
 ,then appears that which one could not 
see before1 and which was created by the
 power of thought and feeling brought   
into life within oneself4 ,that which   
was physically invisible 7the plant     
which will not become visible until     
later on7 has there revealed itself to  
the spiritual eye4  ,it is pardonable   
if1 to many men1 all this appears to be 
mere illusion4 ,many will say3 ,what is 
the value of such visions or such       
hallucinations8 ,and many will thus fall
 away1 and no longer continue to tread  
the path4 ,but this is precisely the    
important point--not to confuse1 at this

 difficult stage of human evolution1    
spiritual reality with the mere         
creations of phantasy1 and to have the  
courage to press manfully onward1       
instead of growing timorous and         
faint-hearted4 ,on the other hand1      
however1 it is necessary to insist on   
the necessity of maintaining unimpaired1
 and of perpetually cultivating1 the    
healthy attitude of mind which is       
required for the distinguishing of truth
 from illusion4 ,never during all these 
exercises must the student surrender the
 fully conscious control of himself4 ,he
 must continue to think as soundly and  
sanely in these spiritual conditions as 
he does with regard to the things and   
occurrences of ordinary life4 ,it would 
be unfortunate if he lapses into        
reveries4 ,he must at every moment be   
clear-headed and sober-minded and it    
would be the greatest mistake if the    
student1 through such practices1 lost   
his mental equilibrium1 or if he were   
prevented from judging as sanely and    

clearly as before1 the matters of       
work-a-day life4 ,the disciple should1  
therefore1 examine himself again and    
again to find out whether he has        
remained unaltered in relation to the   
circumstances among which he lives1 or  
whether perchance he has lost his mental
 balance4 ,he must ever maintain a calm 
repose within his own individuality1 and
 an open mind for everything1 being     
careful at the same time not to drift   
into vague reveries or to experiment    
with all sorts of exercises4  ,the lines
 for development here indicated1 belong 
to those which have been followed1 and  
whose efficacy has been demonstrated in 
the schools of occultism from the       
earliest ages1 and none but such will   
here be given4 ,anyone attempting to    
employ methods of meditation devised by 
himself1 or which he may have come      
across in the course of promiscuous     
reading will inevitably be led astray1  
and will lose himself in a boundless    
morass of incoherent phantasies4  ,a    

further exercise which may succeed the  
one described above1 is the following3  
,let the disciple place himself in front
 of a plant which has attained the stage
 of full development4 ,now let his mind 
be absorbed by the reflection that the  
time is near at hand when this plant    
will wither and die4 ,nothing1 he should
 say to himself1 nothing of what ,i now 
see before me will endure4 ,but this    
plant will have evolved seeds which in  
their turn will grow into new plants4   
,again ,i become aware that in what ,i  
see something lies concealed which ,i   
cannot see4 ,i will fill my mind wholly 
with the thought that this plant-form   
with its colors will cease to be4 ,but  
the reflection that the plant has       
produced seeds teaches me that it will  
not disappear into nothing4 ,that which 
will prevent this disappearance1 ,i can 
at present no more see with my eyes than
 ,i could originally discern the plant  
in the grain of seed4 ,the plant1       
therefore1 contains something which my  

eyes are unable to see4 ,if this thought
 fully lives in me1 and combines with   
the corresponding state of feeling1     
then1 in due time1 there will again     
develop a force in my soul which will   
ripen into a new kind of perception4    
,out of the plant there grows once more 
a flame-like appearance1 which is1 of   
course1 correspondingly larger than that
 which was previously described4 ,this  
flame is greenish at the centre1 and is 
tinged with yellow at the outer edge4   
,he who has won this vision has gained  
greatly1 inasmuch as he sees things1 not
 only in their present state of being1  
but also in their development and decay4
 ,he begins to see in all things the    
spirit1 of which the bodily organs of   
sight have no perception1 and he has    
taken the initial steps on that road1   
which will gradually lead him to the    
solution1 by direct vision1 of the      
secret of birth and death4 ,to the outer
 senses1 a being begins to exist at its 
birth1 and ceases to exist at its death4

 ,this1 however1 only appears to be so1 
because these senses are unable to      
apprehend the concealed spirit4 ,birth  
and death are only1 for this spirit1    
transformations1 just as the unfolding  
of the flower from the bud is a         
transformation enacted before our       
physical eyes4 ,but if one desires to   
attain to direct perception of these    
facts1 one must first awaken the        
spiritual vision by the means here      
indicated4  ,in order to meet an        
objection which may be raised by certain
 people already possessed of some       
psychical experience1 let it be at once 
admitted that there are shorter ways    
than this1 and that there are persons   
who have direct perception of the       
actualities of birth and death1 without 
having had to pass through all the      
stages of discipline here set forth4    
,there are also human beings endowed    
with high psychical faculties1 to whom  
only a slight impulse is necessary for  
the developing of these powers4 ,but    

they are exceptional1 and the methods   
described above are safer1 and are      
capable of general application4         
,similarly1 it is possible to gain some 
knowledge of chemistry by special       
methods2 but in order to make safer the 
science of chemistry1 the recognized1   
reliable course must be followed4  ,an  
error fraught with serious consequences 
would result from the assumption that   
the goal could be reached more simply by
 allowing the mind to dwell merely on an
 imaginary plant or a grain of seed4 ,it
 may be possible by such means to evoke 
a force which would enable the soul to  
attain the inner vision4 ,but this      
vision will be1 in most cases1 a mere   
figment of the imagination1 for the main
 object is not to create arbitrarily a  
mental vision1 but to allow the         
veritable nature of things to form an   
image within one's mind4 ,the truth must
 come up from the depth of one's own    
soul1 not at the call of one's ordinary 
self1 but rather must the objects of    

one's perception themselves exercise    
their magical power1 if one is to       
perceive their inner reality4  ,after   
the disciple has evolved1 by such means1
 the rudiments of spiritual vision1 he  
may proceed to the contemplation of     
human nature itself4 ,simple appearances
 of ordinary life must be chosen first4 
,but before making any attempts in this 
direction1 it is imperative for the     
student to strive after an absolute     
sincerity of moral character4 ,he must  
banish all thoughts of ever using the   
insight to be attained in these ways for
 his own selfish ends4 ,he must be      
absolutely determined that under no     
circumstances will he avail himself1 in 
an evil sense1 of any power which he may
 gain over his fellow-creatures4 ,this  
is the reason why everyone who desires  
to gain direct insight into the secrets 
of human nature must follow the golden  
rule of true ,occultism4 ,and the golden
 rule is this3 ,for every one step that 
you take in the pursuit of the hidden   

knowledge1 take three steps in the      
perfecting of your own character4 ,he   
who obeys this rule can perform such    
exercises as that which is now to be    
explained4  ,begin by observing a person
 filled with a desire for some object4  
,direct your attention to this desire4  
,it is best to choose a time when this  
desire is at its height1 and when it is 
not yet certain whether the object of   
the desire will be attained or not4     
,then surrender yourself entirely to the
 contemplation of that which you        
observe1 but maintain the utmost inner  
tranquility of soul4 ,make every        
endeavor to be deaf and blind to        
everything that may be going on around  
you at the same time1 and bear in mind  
particularly that this contemplation is 
to evoke a state of feeling in your     
soul4 ,allow this state of feeling to   
arise in your soul1 like a cloud rising 
on an otherwise cloudless horizon4 ,it  
is to be expected1 of course1 that your 
observation will be interrupted1 because

 the person on whom it is directed will 
not remain in this particular state of  
mind for a sufficient length of time4   
,presumably you will fail in your       
experiment hundreds and hundreds of     
times4 ,it is simply a question of not  
losing patience4 ,after many attempts   
you will ultimately realize the state of
 feeling spoken of above as fast as the 
corresponding mental phenomena pass     
through the soul of the person under    
observation4 ,after a time you will     
begin to notice that this feeling in    
your own soul is evoking the power of   
spiritual vision into the psychical     
condition of the other4 ,a luminous     
image will appear in your field of      
vision4 ,and this luminous image is the 
so-called astral manifestation evoked by
 the desire-state when under            
observation4 ,again we may describe this
 image as flame-like in appearance4 ,it 
is yellowish red in the centre and      
reddish-blue or lilac at the edges4     
,much depends upon treating such        

experiences of the inner vision with    
great delicacy4 ,it will be best for you
 at first to talk of them to nobody     
except your teacher1 if you have one4   
,the attempt to describe such           
appearances in appropriate words usually
 leads to gross self-deception4 ,one    
employs ordinary terms not applicable to
 such purposes1 and therefore much too  
gross and clumsy4 ,the consequence is   
that one's own attempt to clothe this   
vision in words unconsciously leads one 
to blend the actual experience with an  
alloy of imaginary details4 ,it is1     
therefore1 another important law for the
 occult inquirer that he should know how
 to observe silence concerning his inner
 visions4 ,observe silence even towards 
yourself4 ,do not endeavor to express in
 words that which you see1 or to fathom 
it with reasoning faculties that are    
inadequate4 ,freely surrender yourself  
to these spiritual impressions without  
any mental reservations1 and without    
disturbing them by thinking about them  

too much4 ,for you must remember that   
your reasoning faculties were1 at first1
 by no means equal to your faculties of 
observation4 ,you have acquired these   
reasoning faculties through experiences 
hitherto confined exclusively to the    
world as apprehended by your physical   
senses1 and the faculties you are now   
acquiring transcend these experiences4  
,do not1 therefore1 try to measure your 
new and higher perceptions by the old   
standard4 ,only he who has already      
gained some certainty in his observation
 of inner experiences ought to speak    
about them with the idea of thereby     
stimulating his fellow-beings4  ,as a   
supplementary exercise the following may
 be set forth4 ,direct your observation 
in the same way upon a fellow-being to  
whom the fulfilment of some wish1 the   
gratification of some desire has just   
been granted4 ,if the same rules and    
precautions are adopted as in the       
previous instance1 you will once more   
attain to spiritual perception4 ,you    

will distinguish a flame-like appearance
 which is yellow in the centre and      
greenish at the edges4 ,by such         
observations of one's fellow-creatures  
one may easily be led into a moral      
fault--one may become uncharitable4 ,all
 conceivable means must be taken to     
fight against this tendency4 ,anyone    
exercising such powers of observation   
should have risen to the level on which 
one is absolutely convinced that        
thoughts are actual things4 ,he may then
 no longer allow himself to admit       
thoughts incompatible with the highest  
reverence for the dignity of human life 
and of human liberty4 ,not for one      
moment must he entertain the idea of    
regarding a human being as a mere object
 for observation4 ,it must be the aim of
 self-education to see that the         
faculties for a psychic observation of  
human nature go hand in hand with a full
 recognition of the rights of each      
individual4 ,that which dwells in each  
human being must be regarded as         

something holy1 and to be held inviolate
 by us even in our thoughts and         
feelings4 ,we must be possessed by a    
feeling of reverential awe for all that 
is human4  ,for the present1 only these 
two examples can be given as to the     
methods by which an insight into human  
nature may be achieved1 but they will at
 least serve to point out the way which 
must be followed4 ,he who has gained the
 inner tranquility and repose which are 
indispensable for such observations1    
will by so doing1 already have undergone
 a great transformation4 ,this will soon
 reach the point at which the increase  
of his spiritual worth will manifest    
itself in the confidence and composure  
of his outward demeanor4 ,again1 this   
alteration in his demeanor will react   
favorably on his inner condition1 and   
thus he will be able to help himself    
further along the road4 ,he will find   
ways of penetrating further and further 
into those secrets of human nature1     
those hidden from our external senses1  

and will then become qualified for a    
deeper insight into the mysterious      
correlations between the nature of man1 
and all else that exists in the         
universe4 ,by following this path1 the  
disciple will approach closer and closer
 to the day on which he will be deemed  
worthy of taking the first steps of     
initiation2 but before these can be     
taken it is necessary to assure oneself 
of unflinching courage4 ,at first it may
 not be at all apparent to the student  
why it should be necessary1 but he      
cannot fail to be convinced of it in the
 end4  ,the quality which is            
indispensable to him who would be       
initiated is a certain measure of       
courage and fearlessness4 ,he must      
absolutely go out of his way to find    
opportunities for developing these      
virtues4 ,in the occult schools they are
 cultivated quite systematically2 but   
life in this respect is itself an       
excellent school of occultism1 nay1     
possibly the best4 ,to face danger      

calmly1 to try to overcome difficulties 
unswervingly1 this is what the student  
must learn to do2 for instance1 in the  
presence of some peril1 he must rise at 
once to the conception that fears are   
altogether useless1 and ought not to be 
entertained for one moment1 but that the
 mind ought simply to be concentrated on
 what is to be done4 ,he must reach a   
point where it has become impossible for
 him ever again to feel afraid or to    
lose his courage4 ,by self-discipline in
 this direction he will develop within  
himself distinct qualities which he     
needs if he is to be initiated into the 
higher mysteries4 ,just as man in his   
physical being requires nervous force in
 order to use his physical senses1 so   
also1 in his psychic nature1 he requires
 the force which is only produced in the
 courageous and the fearless4 ,for in   
penetrating to the higher mysteries he  
will see things not yet revealed to the 
physical eyesight nor to any other of   
the human senses4 ,the latter1 by hiding

 from our gaze1 the higher verities     
7things which we could not bear to      
behold7 are in reality our benefactors1 
since they prevent us from perceiving   
that which1 if realized without due     
preparation1 would throw us into        
unutterable consternation4 ,the disciple
 must be prepared to endure this sight1 
although he has lost certain supports in
 the outer world by a realization of the
 very illusions that encompassed him4   
,it is truly and literally as if his    
attention were suddenly drawn to a      
certain danger by which for some time he
 had been unconsciously threatened4 ,he 
was not afraid hitherto1 but now that he
 sees his peril1 he is overcome by      
terror1 even though the danger has not  
been rendered any greater by his        
knowledge thereof4  ,the forces at work 
in the world are both destructive and   
creative4 ,the destiny of manifested    
beings is birth and death4 ,the         
,initiate is to behold this march of    
destiny4 ,the veil1 which in the        

ordinary course of life clouds the      
spiritual eyes1 is to be uplifted1 and  
the man is to see himself as one        
interwoven with these forces1 with this 
destiny4 ,his own nature contains       
destructive and creative powers4 ,as    
undisguisedly as the other objects of   
his vision are revealed to the eye of   
the seer1 his own soul is bared to his  
gaze4 ,in the face of this              
self-knowledge1 the disciple must not   
suffer himself to droop1 and in this he 
will succeed only if he has brought with
 him an excess of the necessary         
strength4 ,in order that this may be the
 case he must learn to maintain inner   
calm and confidence in the most         
difficult circumstances2 he must nourish
 within himself a firm faith in the     
beneficent forces of existence4 ,he must
 be prepared to find that many motives  
which have actuated him hitherto will   
actuate him no longer4 ,he must needs   
perceive that he has hitherto often     
thought or acted in a certain manner1   

because he was still in the toils of    
ignorance4 ,reasons which formerly      
influenced him will now disappear4 ,he  
has done many things out of personal    
vanity2 he will now perceive how utterly
 futile all such vanity is in the eyes  
of the ,initiate4 ,he has done much from
 motives of avarice2 he will now be     
aware of the destructive effect of all  
avariciousness4 ,he will have to develop
 entirely new springs for his thought   
and action1 and it is for this that     
courage and fearlessness are required4  
,it is especially a matter of           
cultivating this courage and this       
fearlessness in the inmost depths of the
 mental life4 ,the disciple must learn  
never to despair4 ,he must always be    
equal to the thought3 ,i will forget    
that ,i have again failed in this       
matter4 ,i will try once more1 as though
 nothing at all had happened4 ,thus he  
will fight his way on to the firm       
conviction that the universe contains   
inexhaustible fountains of strength from

 which he may drink4 ,he must aspire    
again and again to the ,divine which    
will uplift and support him1 however    
feeble and impotent the mortal part of  
his being may prove4 ,he must be capable
 of pressing on towards the future1     
undismayed by any experiences of the    
past4 ,every teacher of ,occultism will 
carefully ascertain how far the         
disciple1 aspiring to ,initiation into  
the higher mysteries1 has advanced on   
the road of spiritual preparation4 ,if  
he fulfil these conditions to a certain 
degree1 he is then worthy to hear       
uttered those ,names of things which    
form the key that unlocks the higher    
knowledge4 ,for ,initiation consists in 
this very act of learning to know the   
things of the universe by those ,names  
which they bear in the spirit of their  
,divine ,author4 ,and the mystery of    
things lies in these ,names4 ,therefore 
it is that the ,initiate speaks another 
language than that of the uninitiate1   
for he knows the ,names by which things 

were called into existence4     ,,vi    
,,initiation   ,the highest degree in   
,occultism1 of which it is possible to  
speak in a book for general readers1 is 
,initiation4 ,one cannot give public    
information concerning all that lies    
beyond1 though the way to it can always 
be found by one who has previously      
pressed forward and penetrated the lower
 secrets and mysteries4  ,the knowledge 
and power which are conferred upon a man
 through ,initiation could not be       
obtained in any other manner except in  
some far distant future1 after many     
incarnations1 on quite another road and 
in quite another form4 ,he who is       
initiated to-day experiences something  
which he would otherwise have to        
experience at a much later period and   
under quite different circumstances4    
,it is right that a person should learn 
only so much of the secrets of nature as
 correspond to his own degree of        
development1 and for this reason alone  
do obstacles bar his way to complete    

knowledge and power4 ,people should not 
be trusted with the use of fire-arms    
until they have had enough experience to
 make it certain that they will not use 
them mischievously or without care4 ,if 
a person1 without the necessary         
preparation1 were initiated to-day1 he  
would still lack those experiences      
which1 in the normal course of his      
development1 would come to him in the   
future during other incarnations and    
would then bring with them the          
corresponding secrets4 ,at the door of  
,initiation these experiences must1     
therefore1 be supplied in some other    
way1 and in their place the candidate   
has to undergo the preliminary teaching4
 ,these are so-called trials which have 
to be passed4 ,these trials are now     
being discussed in various books and    
magazines1 but1 owing to the very nature
 of such discussion1 it is not          
surprising that quite false impressions 
are received concerning them4 ,for those
 who have not already gone through the  

periods of ,probation and ,enlightenment
 know nothing of these trials1 and      
consequently cannot appropriately       
describe them4  ,certain matters or     
subjects connected with the higher      
worlds are produced before the          
candidate1 but he is able to see and    
hear these only when he can perceive    
clearly the figures1 tones1 and colors1 
for which he has been prepared by the   
teachings on ,probation and             
,enlightenment4  ,the first trial       
consists in obtaining a clearer         
comprehension of the corporeal          
attributes of what seem to be lifeless  
things1 then of plants1 of animals1 of  
human beings 7in the way that the       
average person possesses them74 ,this   
does not mean what is commonly called   
scientific knowledge2 with that it has  
no connection1 but it has to do with    
intuition4 ,what usually occurs is that 
the ,initiate discloses to the candidate
 how the objects of nature and the      
essence of living things reveal         

themselves to the spiritual and mental  
hearing and sight4 ,in a certain way    
these things then lie                   
revealed--naked--before the beholder4   
,attributes and qualities which are     
concealed from physical eyes and ears   
can then be seen and heard4 ,heretofore 
they have been enwrapped as in a veil1  
and the falling away of this veil for   
the candidate1 occurs at what is called 
the ,process of ,purification by ,fire4 
,the first trial is therefore known as  
the ,fire-,trial1 which will briefly be 
explained thus3  ,for some people the   
every day ordinary life is a more or    
less unconscious process of initiation  
by means of the ,fire-,trial4 ,these    
persons are those who have passed       
through a wealth of developing          
experiences1 and who find that their    
self-confidence1 courage1 and fortitude 
have been greatly augmented in a normal 
way--who have learned to bear sorrow and
 disappointment1 from the failure of    
their undertakings1 with greatness of   

mind1 and especially with quiet and     
unbroken strength4 ,those who have gone 
through such experiences are often      
initiates1 without knowing it1 and it   
needs but little to open for them the   
spiritual hearing and sight--to make    
them clairvoyant4 ,for it must be noted 
that a genuine ,fire-,trial is not      
merely intended to satisfy the curiosity
 of the candidate4 ,he would learn1     
undoubtedly1 many unusual things1 of    
which others1 devoid of such            
experiences1 can have no idea2 but yet  
this knowledge is not the end nor aim1  
but merely the path to the end4 ,the    
real aim and object is this--that the   
candidate shall acquire for himself1    
through this knowledge of the higher    
worlds1 a greater and truer             
self-confidence1 a higher and nobler    
courage1 and a perseverance1 an attitude
 of mind1 altogether different from what
 he could have obtained in the lower    
world4  ,after the ,fire-,trial a       
candidate may turn from the school2 but 

because he has gone thus far he will    
accomplish his ordinary life work1      
greatly strengthened in all his         
spiritual and physical relations1 and in
 his next incarnation he will continue  
to seek further initiation and          
advancement4 ,in his present life1 at   
all events1 he will prove himself a more
 useful member of society1 will be of   
greater service to humanity than he was 
before1 and in whatever position he may 
find himself1 his firmness1 prudence1   
and favorable influence over his fellows
 will have greatly increased4  ,after   
coming out of the ,fire-,trial1 if he   
should wish to continue in the occult   
school1 he then has to be instructed in 
a certain writing-system which is used  
by those in the school4 ,occult         
teachings are written in this occult    
writing-system1 because what is really  
occult can neither be perfectly spoken  
of in words of our ordinary speech1 nor 
set forth in the ordinary ways of       
writing4 ,those who have learned much   

from the ,initiates can but partially   
translate the teachings of ,occultism   
into terms of ordinary speech4  ,the    
symbols or signs of the secret script   
are not arbitrarily invented or         
imagined1 but correspond to powers which
 are active and efficacious in nature4  
,it is through these symbols or signs   
that one learns the language of such    
matters4 ,the candidate immediately sees
 for himself that these symbols         
correspond to the figures1 tones and    
colors which he has learned to perceive 
during the periods of ,probation and    
,enlightenment4 ,he now understands that
 all which went before was like learning
 how to spell1 and that only now does he
 begin to read in the higher worlds4    
,all that appeared to him before as     
separate figures1 tones and colors1 is  
now revealed to him as a perfect unity1 
a coherent harmony1 and here1 for the   
first time1 he attains a real certainty 
in observing and following the higher   
knowledge4 ,hitherto it was not possible

 for him to be sure that what he saw had
 been clearly or correctly perceived4   
,now1 at last1 it is possible that a    
correct understanding between the       
candidate and the ,initiate begin to    
arise concerning the spheres of the     
higher worlds4 ,for no matter how close 
the connection between the two may be1  
no matter what form their intercourse   
may take in ordinary life1 the ,initiate
 can only communicate to the candidate1 
on these planes1 in the direct form or  
figures of the secret alphabet4         
,through this occult speech the student 
also learns certain rules of conduct for
 life1 certain duties and obligations1  
of which1 previously1 he knew nothing   
whatever4 ,when he learns to know these 
rules1 he is able to perform actions    
which have a significance and a meaning 
such as the actions of another who is   
not initiated can never possess4 ,the   
only point of view from which he is now 
able to look upon things2 the only plane
 from which he can now make manifest his

 deeds1 is that of the higher worlds and
 the instructions concerning such deeds 
can only be read1 or understood1 in the 
secret script4  ,yet it must be clearly 
understood and emphasized that there are
 persons who1 unconsciously1 have the   
ability or faculty of performing these  
actions1 notwithstanding they have never
 been in an occult school4 ,such helpers
 of humanity and the world proceed      
blessedly and beneficently through life4
 ,there are certain fundamental reasons1
 which cannot be here discussed1 why    
they are in possession of seemingly     
supernatural gifts4 ,the only difference
 between these persons and the pupils of
 an occult school is that the former act
 unconsciously1 while the latter work   
with a full knowledge1 insight1         
judgment1 and understanding of the      
entire matter in hand4 ,often the       
candidate has to win by training that   
which has been bestowed by a ,higher    
,power upon his fellow1 for the good of 
humanity4 ,one should freely and openly 

honor these favored ones of ,god2 but he
 should not1 on their account1 consider 
the work of the occult schools          
unnecessary or superfluous4  ,now that  
the student has learned the ,mystery    
language1 there awaits him yet another  
trial4 ,by this he must prove whether he
 can move with freedom and certainty in 
the higher worlds4 ,in ordinary life a  
man will be impelled to actions by      
outward motives and conditions4 ,he     
works at this or that because certain   
duties are imposed upon him by outward  
circumstances4 ,it need hardly be       
mentioned that the occult student must  
in no way neglect any of the duties     
connected with his ordinary life because
 he is a student in an occult school and
 in the higher worlds4 ,none of his     
duties there can constrain him to treat 
with inattention or carelessness any one
 of his duties in the lower world4 ,the 
father will remain just as good a father
 to his family1 the mother just as good 
a mother2 and neither the officer nor   

the soldier1 nor anyone else1 will be   
detained from their necessary duties    
because they are students in ,occultism4
 ,on the contrary1 all the qualities    
which make capable men are increased to 
a degree of which the uninitiated can   
form no idea4 ,that this may not always 
appear to be the case is due merely to  
the fact that they have not always the  
ability to correctly judge or criticize 
the ,initiate4 ,the deeds of the latter 
are not always entirely intelligible to 
the former4 ,but1 as we have said       
before1 this only happens in certain    
cases4  ,for him who has arrived at the 
so-called ,steps of ,initiation1 there  
are new duties to be performed to which 
no outer stimulus is given4 ,he will be 
moved to do these things by no external 
pressure1 but by those rules of conduct 
which have been communicated to him in  
the mystery-language4 ,in this second   
trial he must prove that1 led by such   
rules of conduct1 he can act from inner 
promptings just as firmly as an officer 

performs his obligatory duties4 ,for    
this purpose the teacher will set before
 the pupil certain definite tasks4 ,the 
latter now has to perform some deed in  
consequence of observations made from   
the total of what he learned during     
,probation and ,enlightenment4 ,he has  
to find the way to what he is now to    
perform1 by means of the                
mystery-language1 which by this time is 
familiar to him4 ,if he discerns his    
duty and executes it correctly1 he has  
endured the trial1 and he recognizes the
 success1 which attends the fulfilment  
of the task1 by the changed manner with 
which the spiritual eyes and ears now   
apprehend the figures1 tones and colors4
 ,the occult teacher tells him          
distinctly how these must appear after  
the consummation of the trial1 and the  
candidate must know how he can effect   
this change4 ,this trial is known as the
 ,water-,trial1 because1 in consequence 
of its performance taking place on the  
higher planes1 that support1 which would

 otherwise have been received from      
outward conditions1 is now taken away4  
,one's movements are like those which   
are made in water by someone learning to
 swim1 and his feelings are those of one
 having no support except his own       
efforts4 ,this practice must be often   
repeated until the candidate attains    
absolute poise and assurance4  ,these   
trials are also dependent upon a quality
 which is produced by his experiences in
 the higher worlds4 ,the candidate      
cultivates this quality to an extent    
which he could not possibly reach in so 
short a time while developing in the    
ordinary way1 but could attain only     
after many incarnations4 ,in order to   
bring about the change here mentioned1  
the following condition is necessary3   
,the candidate must be guided altogether
 by what has been proven to him by the  
cultivation of his higher faculties1 by 
the results of his reading in the secret
 symbols4  ,should he1 during these     
experiences1 attempt to introduce any of

 his own opinions or desires1 or should 
he diverge for one moment from the laws 
and rules which he has proved to be     
right1 something quite other than that  
which is expected will occur4 ,in such  
cases the candidate loses sight of the  
goal for which these matters are        
undertaken1 and the result is confusion4
 ,he has1 therefore1 manifold           
opportunities1 during these trials1 for 
the development of self-control1 and    
this1 indeed1 is the principal quality  
needed4 ,these trials are1 therefore1   
much more easily endured by those who1  
before initiation1 have gone through a  
life which has enabled them to acquire  
command of themselves4 ,those who have  
developed the characteristic of         
following their higher principles and   
ideals without thought of personal honor
 or desire1 who always discern the duty 
to be fulfilled1 even though the        
inclinations and sympathies are too     
often ready to lead them another way1   
are already unconscious initiates in the

 midst of every day life4 ,they need but
 little to enable them to succeed in the
 prescribed trials4 ,indeed1 one may say
 that a certain measure of initiation1  
thus unconsciously acquired in life1    
will be absolutely necessary before     
entering upon the second trial4 ,for    
even as many who during youth have not  
learned to write or spell1 find much    
difficulty in learning to do so in later
 years1 so is it also difficult to      
develop1 merely from a knowledge of the 
higher worlds1 the necessary degree of  
self-control1 if one has not already    
acquired a certain measure of it in the 
course of ordinary life4  ,the things of
 the physical world do not alter by     
merely desiring them to do so1 but in   
the higher worlds our wishes1           
inclinations and desires are causes that
 produce effects4 ,if we wish to bring  
about particular changes in these       
worlds1 we must hold ourselves in       
absolute control1 we must follow the    
right principle1 must entirely subdue   

the personal will4  ,there is an        
attribute which at this stage of        
initiation has to be especially         
considered1--a really healthy and sure  
faculty of judgment4 ,attention must be 
directed to the education of this       
faculty during all the previous stages1 
and in the course of them it must be    
proven whether the candidate has        
developed this quality sufficiently to  
make him fit to tread the path of true  
knowledge1 for1 further progress is now 
possible only if he is able to          
distinguish illusion1 superstition1     
unsubstantial fancies1 and all manner of
 such things1 from the true realities4  
,at first1 this is much more difficult  
to accomplish upon the higher stages of 
existence than upon the lower4 ,every   
prejudice1 every cherished opinion      
regarding these matters1 in whatever    
connection1 must be banished4 ,truth    
alone must guide4 ,there must be perfect
 readiness to surrender at once any     
existing opinion1 idea1 or inclination1 

when the logical idea demands it4       
,absolute certainty in the higher worlds
 can be obtained only when one does not 
obtrude his own opinions4  ,people whose
 mode of thought inclines them to       
phantasy1 prejudice and so forth1 can   
make no progress on the occult way4 ,yet
 be not dismayed--there is1 in truth1 a 
glorious treasure that the persistent   
occult student shall attain4 ,all doubt 
as to the higher worlds will be taken   
away from him4 ,in all their law they   
will reveal themselves to his gaze1 but 
so long as he is blindfolded he cannot  
see these heights and compensations4 ,it
 is1 indeed1 unfortunate for him if     
illusions and fallacies ran away with   
his intellect and reason4 ,dreamers and 
people inclined to phantasies1 are as   
unfit for the occult path as are        
superstitious people2 for in dreams1    
illusions and superstitions lurk the    
most dangerous enemies on the road to   
knowledge4 ,because the candidate has   
already seen upon the portals that      

opened to him the first trial1 the      
words1 ,without a normal common-sense   
all your efforts are in vain2 and upon  
the gateway1 which leads to the second  
trial1 ,all prejudices must fall away1  
it is not necessary to think that the   
capacity for inspiration and enthusiasm1
 and all the poetry of life1 is lost to 
the student of ,occultism4  ,if he be   
now sufficiently advanced1 a third trial
 awaits the candidate4 ,no aim1 no      
boundary lines1 are here set for him4   
,all is left entirely in his own hands4 
,he finds himself in a condition where  
nothing external impels or induces him  
to act4 ,he must find the way of his own
 accord and from within himself4        
,conditions or people who might have    
stimulated him to action are no longer  
there4 ,nothing and nobody but he       
himself alone can give the strength     
which he now needs4 ,if he should not   
find this strength within he will very  
soon be standing where he was before2   
but it should be stated that very few of

 those who have endured the previous    
trials will fail at this point in       
finding the necessary strength4 ,if they
 have come so far they will endure at   
this point also4 ,the only thing        
necessary is the ability to make a      
resolution quickly4 ,for here1 in the   
truest meaning of the phrase1 one must  
find oneself4 ,in all matters one must  
instantly resolve to hear the           
suggestions1 the inspirations of the    
spirit4 ,one has no time for doubt or   
delay4 ,every moment of hesitation would
 add to the proof that one was not yet  
ready4 ,all that hinders one from       
hearing the voice of the spirit must be 
boldly conquered4 ,it is entirely a     
matter of proving one's presence of     
mind1 and it is this attribute to which 
attention must be paid during all the   
foregoing stages of development4 ,all   
temptations to act1 or even to think1   
which hitherto assailed a man1 must here
 cease2 but in order that he may not    
slip into inaction1 he must not lose his

 hold upon himself4 ,for only in himself
 can he find that one sure centre-point 
on which he can depend4 ,no one should  
feel an antipathy to this principle of  
self-rejection4 ,for him who has endured
 the trials already described1 it       
indicates the most perfect felicity4    
,in this1 as in the other stages before 
mentioned1 every day life itself can1   
for many people1 be an occult school4   
,those who have reached the point of    
being able to act without delay or      
personal consideration and can make     
prompt resolutions when suddenly        
confronted with some task or problem    
demanding immediate action1 have1       
indeed1 undergone their occult schooling
 in daily life4 ,the situation which one
 wishes to suggest is one in which a    
successful action is impossible unless  
the person concerned grasps the whole   
matter and acts at once4 ,he is quick to
 act when misfortune is in sight1 while 
a moment's hesitation might lead to a   
catastrophe2 and he who possesses the   

qualities which can be developed into a 
permanent attribute of such a kind1 has 
already evolved1 unknown to himself1 the
 degree of ripeness necessary for the   
third trial4 ,for1 as already remarked1 
at this stage all depends upon the      
development of presence of mind4  ,in   
the occult schools this trial is known  
as the ,air-,trial1 because while       
undergoing it1 the candidate cannot     
support himself either upon the firm    
ground1 or any external cause1 or that  
which he has learned in ,probation and  
,enlightenment--from the figures and    
tones and colors1 but solely upon       
himself4  ,if the occult student has    
endured these trials1 he is then        
permitted to enter the ,temple of the   
,higher ,wisdom4 ,all that can be said  
further upon this subject can be given  
out only in the smallest hints and      
suggestions4 ,the responsibility of the 
next step has so often been illy        
expressed by words1 that many say the   
pupil has here to take an oath1         

promising to betray nothing that comes  
from the teacher4 ,however1 these       
expressions1 oath and betrayal1 are in  
no way appropriate1 and are misleading4 
,it is no oath1 in the ordinary sense of
 the word1 but is rather an experience  
that comes at this stage4 ,here the     
candidate appreciates the true value of 
the occult teachers1 and their place in 
the service of humanity4 ,at last he    
begins to understand the world          
correctly4 ,it is not so much a matter  
of withholding the higher truths already
 learned1 but much more of upholding    
them in the right way and with the      
necessary tact4 ,that concerning which  
one learns to keep silence is something 
quite different4 ,one gains possession  
of this fine attribute in regard to many
 things of which one had previously     
spoken1 and especially in regard to the 
manner in which one has spoken of them4 
,yet he would be a poor ,initiate who   
did not place all his mystical          
experiences1 as adequately and as       

far-reachingly as possible1 at the      
service of humanity4 ,the sole obstacle 
in such matters is the misunderstanding 
of the person who receives the          
communication4 ,above all1 the higher or
 occult secrets are not allowed to be   
spoken of promiscuously1 but no one who 
has passed the steps of development     
above described1 is it actually         
forbidden to speak of these matters4 ,no
 one is asked for a negative oath1 but  
everything is entrusted to the judgment1
 integrity and sense of responsibility  
of the candidate for ,initiation4 ,what 
one really learns is to find out1 within
 oneself1 what should be done under all 
circumstances1 and the oath means       
nothing more than this1 that one is     
found qualified to be entrusted with    
matters of such importance4  ,if the    
candidate is found fit1 he is then given
 what is called1 symbolically1 the      
draught of forgetfulness4 ,this means   
that he will be initiated into the      
secret knowledge enabling him to act    

without being continually disturbed by  
the lower memory4 ,this is absolutely   
necessary for the ,initiate1 for he must
 possess full faith in the immediate    
present4 ,he must be able to destroy    
that veil of memory which extends itself
 round humanity more and more thickly   
with every moment of life4  ,if one     
judges things which happen to-day1 by   
the experiences of yesterday1 he is     
subjected to a multitude of errors4 ,of 
course1 it is not intended that the     
reader should renounce all the          
experience acquired in life4 ,he ought  
always to keep it in mind as firmly as  
possible4 ,but1 as an ,initiate1 one    
should acquire the ability to judge     
every fresh experience irrespective of  
oneself1 unclouded by all bygone        
experiences4 ,one must be prepared1 at  
every moment1 that a new thing or being 
shall bring to one a new revelation4 ,if
 one judges the new by the standard of  
the old1 he necessarily falls into      
error4 ,the memory of past experiences  

is very useful1 however1 for it makes   
one better able to perceive the new4 ,if
 one had not gone through a certain     
experience1 he probably would not have  
seen the attributes of this or that     
being or thing2 but having had such     
experiences he ought to be enabled to   
discern the new1 without judging it by  
the old4 ,in this way the ,initiate     
obtains certain definite qualities1 and 
by means of these many things are       
revealed to him1 while they remain      
concealed from the uninitiated4  ,the   
second draught which is given to the    
,initiate is the draught of remembrance4
 ,by receiving this he becomes capable  
of keeping the higher secrets ever      
present in the soul4 ,ordinary memory   
would not be sufficient to ensure this2 
he must be absolutely at one with the   
higher truths4 ,he must not merely know 
them1 but be able1 as a matter of       
course1 to manifest and administer them 
in living actions1 even as an ordinary  
man eats and drinks4 ,they must become  

one's practice1 one's inclinations1     
one's habits4 ,it must be unnecessary to
 recall them to mind 7in the usual sense
 of the term72 they must become a part  
of oneself and express themselves       
through one's very being2 they must flow
 through one1 just as the life-currents 
run through one's bodily organism4 ,so  
must we make ourselves as perfect in a  
spiritual sense as nature has made us in
 a physical4     ,,vii  ,,the ,,higher  
,,education ,,of ,,the ,,soul   ,if a   
man carries out the culture of his      
thoughts and feelings and emotions in   
the way already described in the        
chapters on ,probation1 ,enlightenment1 
and ,initiation1 he then effects a      
change in his soul such as ,nature has  
effected in his body4 ,before this      
training1 soul and spirit are           
undifferentiated masses4 ,in such a     
state the clairvoyant will perceive them
 as interlacing clouds1 rotating        
spirally1 and having usually a dull     
glimmer of reddish or reddish-brown     

color1 or1 perhaps1 of reddish-yellow2  
but after this growth they begin to     
assume a brilliant yellowish-green or   
yellow-blue hue1 and become of a regular
 structure4 ,a man attains such         
regularity of structure1 and at the same
 time the higher knowledge1 when he     
brings into the realm of his thoughts1  
feelings and emotions1 an order1 such as
 ,nature has brought into his bodily    
organs1 by means of which he can see1   
hear1 digest1 breathe1 speak and so     
forth4 ,gradually the student learns1 as
 it were1 to breathe1 to see with the   
soul1 and to speak and hear with the    
spirit4  ,in the following pages a few  
of the practical points pertaining to   
the higher education of the soul and    
spirit will be more fully treated4 ,they
 are such as may be practically attained
 by anyone without additional           
instruction1 and by means of which a    
further step in occult science may be   
taken4  ,a particular kind of discipline
 must be patiently attempted such as to 

avoid every emotion of impatience1 for  
it produces a paralyzing1 yea1 even a   
deadening1 effect on the higher         
faculties within us4 ,one must not      
expect immeasurable glimpses of the     
higher worlds to open out before one    
from day to day1 for assuredly1 as a    
rule1 this does not occur4 ,contentment 
with the smallest progress1 repose and  
tranquility must more and more possess  
the soul4 ,it is conceivable1 of course1
 that the learner may impatiently expect
 results1 but he will attain nothing so 
long as he fails to master this         
impatience4 ,nor is it of any use to    
struggle against this impatience in the 
ordinary way1 for then it will only     
become stronger than ever4 ,it is thus  
that men deceive themselves1 for in such
 a case it embeds itself all the more   
firmly in the depths of the soul4 ,it is
 only by repeatedly surrendering oneself
 to a single definite thought1 and by   
making it absolutely one's own1 that    
anything is really attained4 ,one should

 think3 ,i must certainly do everything 
possible for the culture of soul and    
spirit1 but ,i will work tranquilly     
until1 by higher powers1 ,i shall be    
found worthy of definite illumination4  
,when this thought has become so        
powerful in a man that it is an actual  
trait in his character1 he is treading  
the right path4 ,this trait will then   
express itself even in external affairs4
 ,the gaze of the eye becomes tranquil2 
the movements of the body become sure2  
the resolutions defined2 and all that we
 call nervous susceptibility gradually  
disappears4 ,rules that seem trifling   
and insignificant must be taken into    
account4 ,for example1 suppose that     
someone affronts us4 ,before we receive 
this occult education1 we would have    
directed our resentment against the     
wrong-doer2 there would have been an    
uprush of anger within us4 ,but in such 
a case the occult student will think to 
himself3 ,an affront of this kind can   
make no difference to my worth1 and     

whatever must be done to meet the       
affront1 he accomplishes with calm and  
composure1 not with passion4 ,to him it 
is not a matter of how an affront is to 
be borne1 but without hesitation he is  
led to ignore or punish the affront to  
his own person in exactly the same way  
as if it had been offered to another1 in
 which case one has the right to resent 
or disregard it4 ,it must always be     
remembered1 however1 that the occult    
training is perfected not by coarse     
external processes1 but by subtle1      
silent alterations in the life of       
thought and emotion4  ,patience has an  
attractive1 while impatience has a      
repellent1 effect on the treasures of   
the higher knowledge4 ,in the higher    
regions of being1 nothing can be        
attained by haste and restlessness4     
,desire and longing for immediate       
results must be silenced1 for these are 
qualities of the soul before which all  
higher knowledge recedes4 ,however      
precious this knowledge may be          

accounted1 one must not desire to       
anticipate the time of its coming4 ,and1
 furthermore1 he who wishes to have it  
for his own sake alone will never attain
 it4 ,it is absolutely demanded that one
 should be true to himself in his       
innermost soul4 ,one must not there be  
deceived by anything2 he must encounter1
 face to face and with absolute         
truthfulness1 his own faults1 failings1 
and unfitness4 ,the moment you try to   
excuse to yourself any one of your      
weaknesses1 you place an obstacle in the
 way which leads upward4 ,there is one  
way only by which to get rid of such    
obstacles4 ,our faults and weaknesses   
can be removed only by                  
self-illumination1 and that is by       
correctly understanding them4 ,all that 
is needed lies latent in the human soul 
and can be evoked4 ,a man immediately   
improves his understanding and his      
reason when in repose he makes it clear 
to himself why he is weak in any        
respect4 ,self-knowledge of this kind is

 naturally difficult1 for the temptation
 to deceive oneself is immeasurably     
great4 ,he who is accustomed to be      
truthful with himself has opened the    
portals into a deeper insight4  ,all    
curiosity must fall away from the       
student4 ,he must wean himself as much  
as possible from inquiries into matters 
of which he wishes to know only for the 
gratification of his personal thirst for
 superficial information4 ,he must ask  
himself only what things will assist him
 in the perfection of his innermost     
being for the service of the general    
evolution4 ,nevertheless1 his delight in
 knowledge and his devotion to it must  
in no degree become relaxed4 ,he must   
listen devoutly to all that contributes 
to such an end1 and should seek every   
opportunity of doing so4  ,for this     
interior culture it is especially       
necessary that the desire-life should be
 carefully educated4 ,one must not      
become wholly destitute of desire1 for  
if we are to accomplish something it is 

necessary that we should desire it1 and 
a desire will always be fulfilled if a  
certain special force is behind it4     
,this particular force results from a   
right knowledge3 ,do not desire at all  
until you know the true conditions of   
any sphere4 ,that is one of the golden  
rules for the occult student4 ,the wise 
man first ascertains the laws of the    
world1 and then his desires become      
powers which realize themselves4 ,let us
 consider an example in which the effect
 is evident4 ,there are certainly many  
who would like to learn from their own  
intuition something about their life    
before birth4 ,such a desire is         
altogether aimless1 and leads to no     
result so long as the person in question
 has not acquired a knowledge of the    
laws that govern the nature of the      
,eternal1 and a knowledge of them in    
their subtlest and most intimate        
character4 ,but if he has actually      
acquired this knowledge and then wishes 
to pass onward1 he is able to do so by  

his elevated and purified desire4       
,moreover1 it is of no use to say to    
oneself3 ,yes1 ,i will forthwith examine
 my previous life1 and study with that  
aim in view4 ,one must rather be ready  
to abandon such desire1 to eliminate it 
altogether1 and first of all1 learn1    
without consideration of this aim4 ,one 
should cultivate devotion to knowledge  
without regard to desires4 ,it is only  
then that one enters into possession of 
the desire which we are considering1 in 
a way that leads to its own fulfilment4 
,from one's anger or vexation arises an 
adverse condition in the spiritual      
world1 so that those forces which would 
open the eyes of the soul are turned    
away4 ,for example1 if someone should   
annoy me1 he sends forth a current into 
the world of the soul4 ,so long as ,i   
allow myself to be annoyed1 ,i cannot   
see this current4 ,my own annoyance     
clouds it4 ,but from this it must not be
 supposed that when ,i no longer feel   
annoyed ,i will see the astral vision4  

,to see an astral vision it is          
indispensable that the eye of the soul  
should already be developed2 but the    
capacity for sight of this kind is      
latent in everyone4 ,and again it is    
true that during the development1 so    
long as one can be annoyed the sight    
remains inactive2 nor does it present   
itself immediately1 when one has        
overcome to a small extent this feeling 
of annoyance4 ,one must continually     
persevere in the struggle with such a   
feeling1 and patiently make progress3   
then1 some day1 he will find that this  
eye of the soul has become fully        
developed4 ,of course annoyance is not  
the only quality with which we have to  
struggle before attaining this end4     
,many people grow impatient or          
sceptical1 because they have for years  
cultivated certain qualities of the soul
 and yet clairvoyance has not ensued4   
,they have developed only a few         
qualities and have allowed others to run
 wild4 ,the gift of clairvoyance first  

manifests itself when all those         
qualities which do not permit the       
development of the latent faculties are 
suppressed4 ,undoubtedly the beginnings 
of such hearing and seeing may appear at
 an earlier period1 but these are only  
young and tender shoots which are       
subject to all possible error1 and      
which1 if they be not carefully         
fostered1 may quickly die4  ,the        
qualities which have to be combated1 in 
addition to anger and vexation1 are such
 as ambition1 timidity1 curiosity1      
superstition1 conceit1 the disease of   
prejudice1 idle love of gossip1 and the 
making of distinctions in regard to     
human beings according to the merely    
outward marks of rank1 sex1 race1 and so
 forth4 ,in our time it is difficult for
 people to comprehend that the combating
 of such qualities can have any         
connection with an increase of capacity 
for knowledge4 ,but every devotee of    
,occultism is aware that much more      
depends upon such matters than upon the 

expansion of the intellect or the       
employment of artificial practices4 ,it 
is particularly easy for a              
misunderstanding of this point to arise1
 inasmuch as many believe that one      
should cultivate foolhardiness because  
one must be fearless1 and that one      
should ignore altogether the differences
 in men because one has to combat the   
prejudices of race1 rank1 and so forth4 
,rather should one first learn to       
appreciate these differences correctly1 
then one is no longer entangled in      
prejudice4 ,even in the usual sense it  
is true that a fear of any phenomenon   
hinders one from estimating it rightly2 
that a race-prejudice prevents one from 
looking into a man's soul4 ,the student 
of ,occultism must bring his            
common-sense to perfection in all its   
exactitude and subtlety4  ,even         
everything that a man says without      
having clearly thought it out will place
 an obstacle in the path of his occult  
education4 ,at the same time we must    

here consider one point which can only  
be elucidated by giving an example4     
,thus1 if anyone should say something to
 which another must reply1 the one      
replying should be careful to consider  
the intention1 the feelings1 even the   
prejudices of this other person1 rather 
than what he has to say at the moment on
 the subject under discussion4 ,in other
 words1 the student must apply himself  
keenly to the cultivation of a certain  
fine tact4 ,he must learn to judge how  
much it may mean to this other person if
 his opinion be opposed4 ,it must not be
 imagined for a moment that he ought for
 this reason1 to withhold his own       
opinion4 ,one must give to the          
questioner as careful a hearing as      
possible1 and from what one has heard1  
formulate one's own reply4 ,in such     
cases there is a certain thought which  
will constantly recur to the student1   
and he is treading the true path if this
 thought becomes so vital within him    
that it grows into a trait of his       

character4 ,the thought is as follows3  
,it matters little whether my view be   
different from his1 the vital point is  
whether he will discover the right view 
for himself if ,i am able to contribute 
something towards it4 ,by thoughts of   
such a kind1 the mode of action and the 
character of the student will become    
permeated with gentleness1 one of the   
most essential qualities for the        
reception of occult teaching4 ,harshness
 obscures that internal image which     
ought to be evoked by the eye of the    
soul1 while by gentleness many obstacles
 are cleared from the way1 and the inner
 organs opened4  ,along with this       
gentleness another trait will presently 
be developed in the soul4 ,he will make 
a quiet estimate of all the subtleties  
in the soul-life around him1 without    
considering the emotions of his own     
soul4 ,and if this condition has been   
attained1 the soul-emotions in the      
environment of others will have such an 
effect on him that the soul within him  

grows1 and1 growing1 becomes organized1 
as a plant expands in the sunlight4     
,gentleness1 quiet reserve1 and true    
patience1 open the soul to the world of 
souls1 and the spirit to the realm of   
spirits4 ,persevere in repose and       
retirement2 close the senses to that    
which they brought you before you began 
your training2 bring into utter         
stillness all those thoughts which1 in  
accordance with your previous habits1   
were tossed up and down within you2     
become quite still and silent within1   
wait in patience1 and then the tranquil 
higher worlds will begin to develop the 
sight of your soul and the hearing of   
your spirit4 ,do not suppose that you   
will immediately see and hear in the    
worlds of soul and spirit1 for all that 
you are doing does but help the         
development of your higher senses1 and  
you will not be able to see with the    
soul and to hear with the spirit before 
you have to some degree acquired those  
senses4 ,when you have persevered for a 

time in repose and retirement1 then go  
about your daily affairs1 having first  
impressed upon your mind the thought3   
,some day1 when ,i am ready1 ,i shall   
attain what ,i am to attain4 ,finally3  
,make no attempt whatever to attract any
 of these higher powers to yourself by  
an effort of the will4 ,these are       
instructions which every occult student 
receives from his teacher at the        
entrance of the way4 ,if he observes    
them1 he then improves himself2 and if  
he does not observe them1 all his labor 
is in vain2 but they are difficult of   
achievement for him only who has not    
patience and perseverance4 ,no other    
obstacles exist save those which one    
places for oneself1 and these may be    
avoided by anyone if he really wills it4
 ,it is necessary to continually insist 
upon this point1 because many people    
form an altogether wrong conception of  
the difficulty that lies in the path of 
,occultism4 ,in a certain sense1 it is  
easier to accomplish the earlier steps  

of the occult way1 than it is for one   
who has received no instruction1 to get 
rid of the difficulties of one's        
every-day life4 ,in addition to this1 it
 must be understood that only such      
things are here imparted as are attended
 by no danger to the health of soul or  
body4 ,there are certain other ways     
which lead more quickly to the goal1 but
 it is not well to treat of them        
publicly1 because they may sometimes    
have certain effects on a man which     
would necessitate the immediate         
intervention of an experienced teacher1 
and in any case would require his       
continual supervision4 ,now1 as         
something about these quicker ways      
frequently forces itself into publicity1
 it becomes necessary to give express   
warning against entering upon them      
without personal guidance4 ,for reasons 
which only the initiated can understand1
 it will never be possible to give      
public instruction concerning these     
other ways in their true form1 and the  

fragments which here and there make     
their appearance can never lead to      
anything profitable1 but may easily     
result in the undermining of health1    
fortune and peace of mind4 ,he who does 
not wish to put himself in the power of 
certain dark forces1 of whose nature and
 origin he may know nothing1 had far    
better avoid meddling in such matters4  
,something may here be added concerning 
the environment in which the practices  
of occult instruction ought to be       
undertaken4 ,this is of great           
importance1 although for almost every   
man the case is different4 ,he who      
practices in an environment which is    
only filled with selfish interests1 as  
for example1 the modern struggle for    
existence1 ought to be sure that these  
interests are without influence upon the
 development of his spiritual organs4   
,it is true that the inner laws of these
 organs are so powerful that this       
influence cannot be fatally injurious4  
,just as a lily1 however inappropriate  

the environment in which it may be      
placed1 can never become a thistle1 so  
the eye of the soul can never grow to   
anything but its destined end1 even     
though it be subjected to all the modern
 reverse influences4 ,but it is well if1
 under all circumstances1 the student   
should now and then seek for his        
environment the quietude1 the inner     
dignity1 the sweetness of ,nature       
herself4 ,especially fortunate are the  
conditions of him who is able to pursue 
his occult studies in the green world of
 plants1 or among the sunny mountains or
 the delightful interplay of simple     
things4 ,this develops the inner organs 
in a degree of harmony which is         
difficult to obtain amid the noise and  
commercialism of a modern city4 ,he also
 is more favorably situated than the    
mere townsman1 who1 during his childhood
 at least1 was able to breathe the      
perfume of the pines1 to gaze on the    
snowy peaks1 or observe the silent      
activity of woodland creatures and      

insects4 ,yet no one who is obliged to  
live in a city should fail to give his  
evolving soul and spirit the nurture    
that comes from the inspired utterances 
of the mighty teachers of man4 ,he who  
cannot every springtime follow day by   
day the unfolding of the greenwood1     
ought in its place to draw into his     
heart the sublime doctrines of the      
,bhagavad ,gita1 or of ,st4 ,john's     
,gospel1 or of ,thomas a ,kempis4 ,there
 are various paths to the summit of     
insight1 but a right selection is       
invaluable4  ,the adept in ,occultism   
could1 indeed1 say much concerning these
 paths--much that might seem strange to 
an uninitiated hearer4 ,for example1    
suppose that someone has advanced far   
along the occult path1 and wholly       
unaware of his nearness1 may be standing
 at the entrance to the sight of the    
soul and the hearing of the spirit1 and 
then he has the good fortune to pass    
peacefully into its very presence1 and a
 bandage falls away from the eyes of his

 soul4 ,suddenly he can see--his vision 
is attained6 ,another1 it may be1 has   
advanced so far that this bandage needs 
only to be loosened1 and by some stroke 
of destiny this occurs4 ,for another one
 this very stroke might actually have   
the effect of paralyzing his powers and 
undermining his energy1 but for the     
occult student it becomes the occasion  
of his enlightenment4 ,perhaps a third  
has patiently persevered for years1 and 
without any marked result4 ,suddenly1   
while tranquilly seated in his quiet    
chamber1 light envelops him1 the walls  
become transparent1 they vanish away1   
and a new world expands before his      
opened eyes1 or is audible to his       
awakened spirit4     ,,viii  ,,the      
,,conditions ,,of ,,discipleship   ,the 
conditions of entrance into an occult   
school are not of a nature to be        
formulated in an arbitrary way by       
anyone4 ,they are the natural outcome of
 occult knowledge4 ,just as a man will  
never become a painter if he does not   

choose to handle a paintbrush1 so can no
 one receive occult training if he is   
unwilling to fulfil the claims which are
 put forward by the occult teacher4 ,in 
fact1 the teacher can give nothing but  
advice1 and it is as such that          
everything he states ought to be        
considered4 ,he has already trodden the 
probationary path which leads to the    
knowledge of higher worlds4 ,from       
experience he knows what is necessary1  
and it all depends on the free will of  
each particular person whether he       
chooses to follow the same path or not4 
,if anyone1 without intending to satisfy
 the conditions1 should demand occult   
training from a teacher1 such a demand  
would be equivalent to saying3 ,teach me
 to paint1 but do not ask me to handle a
 brush4 ,the occult teacher never goes a
 step further1 unless it be in accord   
with the free will of the recipient4 ,it
 must be emphasized that a general wish 
for higher knowledge is not sufficient1 
yet many will probably have but such a  

weak desire4 ,for him who has merely    
this vague idea1 and is not prepared to 
accept the special conditions of the    
occult teacher1 the latter1 for the     
present1 can do nothing4 ,this ought to 
be kept in mind by those who complain   
that occult teachers do not meet them   
half way4 ,he who cannot1 or will not1  
fulfil the severe conditions necessary1 
must for the time abandon occult        
training4 ,it is true that the          
conditions are1 indeed1 hard1 and yet   
they are not severe since their         
fulfilment not only ought to be1 but    
must be1 an altogether voluntary deed4  
,to him who does not remember this it is
 easy for the claims of the occult      
teacher to seem a coercion of the soul  
or the conscience2 for the training here
 mentioned is founded on a development  
of the inner life1 and it is the work of
 the teacher to give advice concerning  
it4 ,and yet1 if something be demanded  
as the result of free choice1 it cannot 
be considered as a fetter4 ,if anyone   

says to the teacher3 ,give me your      
secrets1 but leave me my customary      
feelings and thoughts1 he is then making
 an impossible demand4 ,such an one     
desires no more than to satisfy his     
curiosity and thirst for sensations1 so 
that by one who takes an attitude like  
this1 occult knowledge can never be     
obtained4  ,let us now consider in their
 right order the conditions of          
discipleship4 ,it should be emphasized  
that the complete fulfilment of any one 
of these conditions is by no means      
demanded1 but only the effort to gain   
such fulfilment4 ,no one can at first   
reach these high ideals1 but the path   
which leads to their fulfilment may be  
entered by everyone4 ,it is the will    
that matters1 the attitude taken when   
entering the path4  #a4 ,the first      
condition is the directing of the       
attention to the advancement of bodily  
and spiritual health4 ,of course1       
discipleship does not in the first place
 depend on the health of a man1 but     

everyone can endeavor to improve in this
 respect1 and only from a healthy man   
may proceed a healthy perception4 ,no   
occult teacher would refuse a man who is
 not healthy1 but it is demanded that   
the pupils should have the desire for a 
healthy life4 ,in this respect he must  
attain the greatest possible            
independence4 ,the good counsels of     
others1 which1 though generally         
unsought1 are received by everybody1 are
 as a rule superfluous4 ,each must      
endeavor to take care of himself4 ,from 
the physical aspect it will be more a   
matter of warding off harmful influences
 than of anything else4 ,for in carrying
 out one's duty one has often to do     
things which are disadvantageous to     
health4 ,one must learn how1 at the     
right moment1 to place duty higher than 
the care of health2 but with a little   
good-will1 what is there that cannot be 
omitted8 ,duty must in many cases be    
accounted higher than health1 indeed1 if
 need be1 higher than life itself1 but  

the disciple must never put pleasure as 
high as either one of these4 ,pleasure  
for him can be only a means to health   
and life1 and in respect to this it is  
absolutely necessary that we should be  
quite honest and truthful with          
ourselves4 ,it is of no avail to lead an
 ascetic life so long as it is born of  
motives like those that give rise to    
other enjoyments4 ,there are people who 
find satisfaction in asceticism1 as do  
others in wine-bibbling1 but they must  
not imagine that asceticism of this kind
 will assist them to attain the higher  
knowledge4 ,many ascribe to their       
unfavorable circumstances everything    
which apparently prevents them from     
making progress in this direction4 ,they
 say that with their conditions of life 
they cannot develop themselves to any   
great extent4 ,for other reasons it may 
be desirable for many to change their   
conditions of life1 but no one need do  
so for the purpose of occult training4  
,for this it is only necessary that one 

should do for one's health so much as   
one finds possible in the position one  
holds4 ,every kind of work may serve the
 whole of humanity1 and it is a surer   
sign of greatness in the human soul to  
perceive clearly how necessary for the  
whole is a petty--perhaps even an       
unlovely--employment than to think3     
,this work is not good enough for me3 ,i
 am destined for something else4  ,it is
 especially important for the disciple  
to strive after complete spiritual      
health4 ,in any case1 an unhealthy      
emotional or thought-life leads one away
 from the path of higher knowledge4 ,the
 foundations here consist of clear1 calm
 thinking1 reliable conceptions1 and    
stable feelings4 ,nothing should be more
 alien to the disciple than an          
inclination toward a whimsical1         
excitable life1 toward nervousness1     
intoxication1 and fanaticism4 ,he should
 acquire a healthy outlook on all       
circumstances of life2 he should go     
through life steadily and should let    

things act on him and speak to him in   
all tranquillity4 ,wherever it is       
possible he should endeavor to do       
justice to life4 ,everything in his     
tastes and criticisms which is one-sided
 or extravagant ought to be avoided4 ,if
 this be not so1 the disciple will      
strand himself in a world of his own    
imagination1 instead of attaining the   
higher worlds1 and in place of truth his
 own favorite opinions will assert      
themselves4 ,it is better for the       
disciple to be matter-of-fact than      
overwrought and fanciful4  #b4 ,the     
second condition is that one should feel
 oneself as a link in the general life4 
,much is included in the fulfilment of  
this condition1 but each can only fulfil
 it after his own manner4 ,if ,i am a   
school teacher and my pupil does not    
answer what is desired of him1 ,i must  
first direct my feeling not against the 
pupil but to myself4 ,i ought to feel   
myself so much at one with my pupil that
 ,i ask myself3 ,may not that in the    

pupil which does not satisfy my demand  
be perhaps the result of my own faults8 
or if perchance it be his unconscious1  
or even vicious error1 as teacher1      
instead of directing my feelings against
 him1 ,i shall rather cogitate on the   
way in which ,i myself ought to behave1 
or in kindness show him what is right1  
so that he may in the future be better  
able to satisfy my demands4 ,from such a
 manner of thinking there will come     
gradually a change over the whole mental
 attitude4 ,this holds good for the     
smallest as well as for the greatest4   
,from this point of view ,i look on a   
criminal1 for instance1 altogether      
differently from the way ,i should have 
looked upon him of old4 ,i suspend my   
judgment and think to myself3 ,i am only
 a man as he is4 ,perhaps the education 
which1 owing to favorable circumstances1
 has been mine1 and nothing else1 has   
saved me from a similar fate4 ,i may    
even come to the conclusion that if the 
teachers who took pains with me had done

 the same for him1 this brother of mine 
would have been quite different4 ,i     
shall reflect on the fact that something
 which has been withheld from him has   
been given to me1 and that ,i may1      
perhaps1 owe my goodness to the fact    
that he has been thus deprived of it4   
,and then will it no longer be difficult
 to grasp the conception that ,i am a   
link in the whole of humanity1 and that 
consequently ,i1 too1 in part1 bear the 
responsibility for everything that      
happens4 ,by this it is not implied that
 such a thought should be translated    
immediately into external action4 ,it   
should be quietly cultivated in the     
soul4 ,it will then express itself      
gradually in the outward behavior of a  
person1 and in such matters each can    
begin only by reforming himself4 ,it    
were futile1 from such a standpoint1 to 
make general claims on all humanity4 ,it
 is easy to form an idea of what men    
ought to be1 but the disciple works1 not
 on the surface1 but in the depths4     

,and1 therefore1 it would be wrong if   
one should endeavor to bring these      
demands of the occult teacher into      
relation with any external or political 
claims4 ,as a rule1 political agitators 
know well what can be demanded of other 
people1 but they say little of demands  
on themselves4  #c4 ,now with these     
demands on ourselves the third condition
 for occult training is intimately      
connected4 ,the student must be able to 
realize the idea that his thoughts and  
feelings are as important for the world 
as his deeds4 ,it must be recognized    
that it is as pernicious to hate a      
fellow-being as to strike him4 ,one can 
then discern also that by perfecting    
oneself one accomplishes something not  
only for oneself but for the whole      
world4 ,the world profits by pure       
thoughts and feelings as much as by     
one's good behavior1 and so long as one 
cannot believe in this world-wide       
importance of the inner ,self1 one is   
not fit for discipleship4 ,one is       

permeated with a true conception of the 
soul's importance1 only when one works  
at this inner ,self as if it were at    
least as important as all external      
things4 ,it must be admitted that one's 
feelings produce an effect as much as   
the action of the hand4  #d4 ,in so     
saying we have already mentioned the    
fourth condition3 the idea that the real
 being of man does not lie in the       
exterior but in the interior4 ,he who   
regards himself as merely a product of  
the outer world1 a result of the        
physical world1 cannot succeed in this  
occult training4 ,but he who is able to 
realize this conception is then also    
able to distinguish between inner duty  
and external success4 ,he learns to     
recognize that the one cannot at once be
 measured by the other4 ,the student    
must learn for himself the right        
position between what is demanded by his
 external conditions and what he        
recognizes to be the right conduct for  
himself4 ,he ought not to force upon his

 environment anything for which it can  
have no appreciation1 but at the same   
time he must be altogether free from the
 desire to do merely what can be        
appreciated by those around him4 ,in his
 own sincere and wisdom-seeking soul1   
and only there1 must he look for the    
recognition of his truths4 ,but from his
 environment he must learn as much as he
 possibly can1 so that he may discern   
what those around him need1 and what is 
of use to them4 ,in this way he will    
develop within himself what is known in 
,occultism as the spiritual balance4 ,on
 one side of the scales there lies a    
heart open for the needs of the outward 
world1 and on the other lies an inner   
fortitude and an unfaltering endurance4 
#e4 ,and here1 again1 we have hinted at 
the fifth condition3 firmness in the    
carrying out of any resolution when once
 it has been made4 ,nothing should      
induce the disciple to deviate from any 
such resolution once it is formed1 save 
only the perception that he has made a  

mistake4 ,every resolution is a force1  
and even if such a force does not       
produce immediate effect on the point at
 which it was directed1 nevertheless it 
works in its own way4 ,success is of    
great importance only when an action    
arises from desire1 but all actions     
which are rooted in desire are worthless
 in relation to the higher worlds4      
,there the love expended on an action is
 alone of importance4 ,in this love1 all
 that impels the student to perform an  
action ought to be implanted4 ,thus he  
will never grow weary of again and again
 carrying out in action some resolution1
 even though he has repeatedly failed4  
,and in this way he arrives at the      
condition in which he does not first    
count on the external effect of his     
actions1 but is contented with the doing
 of them4 ,he will learn to sacrifice   
for the world his actions1 nay1 more1   
his whole being1 without caring at all  
how his sacrifice may be received4 ,he  
who wishes to become a disciple must    

declare himself ready for such a        
sacrifice1 such an offering4  #f4 ,a    
sixth condition is the development of a 
sense of gratitude with regard to       
everything which relates to ,man4 ,one  
must realize that one's existence is1 as
 it were1 a gift from the entire        
universe4 ,only consider all that is    
needed in order that each of us may     
receive and maintain his existence6     
,consider what we owe to ,nature and to 
others than ourselves6 ,those who desire
 an occult training must be inclined    
toward thoughts like these1 for he who  
cannot enter into such thoughts will be 
incapable of developing within himself  
that all-inclusive love which it is     
necessary to possess before one can     
attain to higher knowledge4 ,that which 
we do not love cannot manifest itself to
 us4 ,and every manifestation must fill 
us with gratitude1 or we ourselves are  
not the richer for it4  #g4 ,all the    
conditions here set forth must be united
 in a seventh3 to regard life           

continually in the manner demanded by   
these conditions4 ,the student thus     
makes it possible to give to his life   
the stamp of uniformity4 ,all his many  
modes of expression will1 in this way1  
be brought into harmony1 and cease to   
contradict each other4 ,and thus he will
 prepare himself for the peace which he 
must attain during the preliminary steps
 of his training4  ,if a person intend1 
earnestly and sincerely1 to fulfil the  
conditions mentioned above1 he may then 
address himself to a teacher of         
,occultism4 ,the latter will then be    
found ready to give the first words of  
counsel4 ,any external formality will   
consist of giving to these conditions a 
complete expression1 a knowledge of     
which can only be imparted orally to    
each individual candidate4 ,since       
everything interior must manifest itself
 in an exterior way1 they teach a very  
important lesson4 ,even as a picture    
cannot be said to be here1 when it      
exists only in the brain of the painter1

 so1 too1 there cannot be an occult     
training without an external expression4
  ,external forms are regarded as       
worthless by those only who do not know 
that the internal must find expression  
in the external4 ,it is true that it is 
the spirit and not the form that really 
matters2 but just as the form is void   
without the spirit1 so would the spirit 
remain inactive as long as it could not 
create a form4  ,the stipulated         
conditions are so designed that they may
 render the disciple strong enough to   
fulfil the further demands which the    
teacher must make4 ,if he be faulty in  
the fulfilment of these conditions1 then
 before each new demand he will stand   
hesitating4 ,without this fulfilment he 
will be lacking in that faith in man    
which it is necessary for him to        
possess2 for on faith in man and a      
genuine love for man1 all striving after
 truth must be founded4 ,and the love of
 man must be slowly widened out into a  
love for all living creatures1 nay1     

indeed1 for all existence4 ,he who fails
 to fulfil the conditions here given    
will not possess a perfect love for all 
up-building1 for all creation1 nor a    
tendency to abstain from all destruction
 and annihilation as such4 ,the disciple
 must so train himself that1 not in     
deeds only1 but also in words1 thoughts 
and feelings1 he will never destroy     
anything for the sake of destruction4   
,he must find his pleasure in the       
growing and creating aspect of things1  
and is only justified in assisting the  
apparent destruction of anything when1  
by such readjustment1 he is able to     
promote a greater life4 ,let it not be  
thought that1 in so saying1 it is       
implied that the disciple may allow the 
triumph of evil1 but rather that he must
 endeavor to find1 even in the bad1     
those aspects through which he may      
change it into good4 ,he will see more  
and more clearly that the best way to   
combat imperfection and evil is by the  
creation of the perfect and the good4   

,the student knows that nothing can come
 from nothing1 but also that the        
imperfect may be changed into the       
perfect4 ,he who develops in himself the
 tendency to create1 will soon find the 
capacity for facing the evil4  ,he who  
enters an occult school must be quite   
sure that his intention is to construct 
and not to destroy4 ,the student ought1 
therefore1 to bring with him the will   
for sincere and devoted work1 and to    
this end he ought to be capable of great
 devotion1 for one should be anxious to 
learn what one does not yet know2 he    
should look reverently on that which    
discloses itself4 ,work and             
devotion1--these are the fundamental    
attributes which must be claimed from   
the disciple4 ,some will have to        
discover that they do not make real     
progress in the school1 even if in their
 own opinion they are unceasingly       
active2 they have not grasped in the    
right manner the meaning of work and    
meditation4 ,that kind of learning which

 is undertaken without meditation will  
advance the student least1 and the work 
which is done for selfish returns will  
be the least successful4 ,in the love of
 work1 the love to do better work2 yes1 
the love to do perfect work1 is the     
quality which unfolds occult power2 and 
in qualifying for better things one need
 give little heed for greater returns4  
,if he who is learning seeks for        
wholesome thoughts and sound judgment1  
he need not spoil his devotion with     
doubts and suspicions4  ,the fact that  
one does not oppose some communication  
which has been made1 but gives to it due
 attention and even sympathy1 does not  
imply a lack of independent judgment4   
,those who have arrived at a somewhat   
advanced stage of knowledge are aware   
that they owe everything to a quiet     
attention and assimilation1 and not to a
 stubborn personal judgment4 ,one should
 always remember that he does not need  
to learn what he is already able to     
understand4 ,therefore1 if one desires  

only to judge1 he is apt to cease       
learning4 ,what is of importance in an  
occult school1 however1 is study3 one   
ought to desire1 with heart and soul1 to
 be a student3 if one cannot understand 
something it is far better not to judge1
 lest one wrongly condemn2 far wiser to 
wait for a true understanding4 ,the     
higher one climbs up the ladder of      
knowledge1 the more he requires this    
faculty of calm and devotional          
listening4 ,all perception of truths1   
all life and activity in the world of   
spirit1 become in these higher regions  
delicate and subtle in comparison with  
the activities of the ordinary mind1 and
 of life in the physical world4 ,the    
more the sphere of a man's activity     
widens out before him1 the more         
transcendent is the nature of the task  
to be accomplished by him4 ,it is for   
this reason that1 although there is in  
reality only one possible fact regarding
 the higher truths1 men come to look at 
them from such different points of view4

 ,it is possible to arrive at this one  
true standpoint if1 through work and    
devotion1 one has so risen that he can  
really behold the truth4 ,only he who   
judges in accordance with preconceived  
ideas and habitual ways of thought1     
rather than from sufficient preparation1
 can arrive at any opinion which differs
 from the true one4 ,just as there is   
only one correct opinion concerning a   
mathematical problem1 so also with      
regard to things of the higher worlds2  
but before one can arrive at this       
knowledge he must first prepare himself4
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history of ,egypt1 with a comprehensive 
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,symbols and ,doctrines of the ,druids1 
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,morality1 ,history of ,initiation in   

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the ,maya ,empire4 ,a beautiful ,poem   
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,rosicrucians1 ,the4 ,their ,teachings  
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,freemasonry in times anterior to the   
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,mayas and ,quiches #aa1ejj years ago1  
their relation to the ,sacred ,mysteries
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,india4 ,augustus ,le ,plongeon4 ,no4   
#bcief1 #b4ej  ,sermon on the ,mount1   
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#a4be  ,signs and ,symbols4 ,dr4 ,george
 ,oliver4 ,illustrated and explained in 
a series of twelve lectures on          
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 and ,seventh ,books of ,moses1 ,the4   
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,eighteenth ,century1 the ,design1      
,rites1 ,ceremonies and ,institutions of
 the ,ancients1 ,nature of the ,lodge1  
,furniture1 ,apparel and ,jewels of     
,masons1 ,temple at ,jerusalem          
,geometry1 ,master ,mason's ,order1     
,secrecy of ,masons1 ,charity1          
,brotherly ,love1 ,occupations1 and a   
,corollary2 followed by an ,appendix    
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 ,william ,hutchinson4 ,with copious    
notes1 critical and explanatory1 of     
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,oliver4 ,no4 #bdjba1 #a4ej  ,swedenborg
 ,rite1 and the ,great ,masonic ,leaders
 of the ,eighteenth ,century4 ,the      

,masonic career of ,swedenborg and his  
followers1 and the relation between the 
symbolic system of ,swedenborgianism and
 modern ,freemasonry4 ,samuel ,beswick4 
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showing the ,object and ,end of         
,freemasonry in a valedictory and       
thirteen lectures3 ,masonic ,science1   
,poetry and ,philosophy1 ,knowledge1    
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binding                        #a4jj    
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#a4be   #bcibe ,royal ,arch ,standard4  
,mc,gown1 limp cloth                    
4#ge   #bbiba    ,same in cloth and gilt
 binding                        #a4jj   
#bcibb    ,leather bound with flap      
#a4be   #bchie ,royal ,order of ,ogling 
,owls 7,burlesque71 #f cop4             
#c4jj   #bcicf ,rubaiyat of ,omar       
,khayram4 ,deckel edge                  
#a4be   #bcidj    ,watered ,silk        
#b4jj   #bcjcg    ,limp ,leather        
#b4jj   #bcica ,ruins of ,empires4      
,voleny                                 
4#ge   #bcibe    ,paper                 
4#ej   #bcihd    ,leather               
#d4jj   #bcief ,sacred ,mysteries4 ,a4  
,le ,plongeon                           
#b4ej   #bciha ,scarlet ,book of ,frmsy4
 ,redding                         #c4jj 

#bciea ,scientific ,demonstration of the
 ,future                   #a4ej        
#bdjca ,secret ,doctrine ,abridged      
#b4jj   #bdagf ,sermon on the ,mount4   
,pryse4 ,cloth                          
4#fj   #bciga ,sermons and ,addresses4  
#dhj pages4 7,shopworn7                 
4#ge   #bbiff ,servant in the ,house4   
,kennedy                          #a4be 
#bciia ,shibboleth1 ,k4,t4 ,monitor4    
,connor                       #a4be     
#bbjba ,sickles ,ahiman ,rezon1 ,general
                            #b4jj       
#bbjbd    ,genuine ,morocco             
#c4ej   #bbega ,sickles ,monitor        
#a4jj   #bbegb    ,leather              
#a4ej   #bcigf ,signet of ,k4,s41       
,freemason's ,daughter4 ,arnold         
#a4ej   #bcihf ,signs and ,symbols4     
,oliver                                 
#a4ej   #bciaf ,singular ,story of      
,freemasonry                            
4#ge   #bdjdj ,sixth and ,seventh ,book 
of ,moses                          #a4jj
   #bbcja ,smith's ,diagram of          

,parliamentary ,rules1 cloth            
4#ej   #bbcjd    ,leather1 parchment    
chart                              #a4jj
   #bdjbj ,smithsonian ,comedetta       
7,burlesque71 #d copies            #a4jj
   #bdjbf ,solomon's ,temple4 ,caldecott
                            #b4ej       
#bdjej ,sons of ,osirus 7,burlesque71 #f
 copies                   #c4ge   #bdjba
 ,spirit of ,freemasonry4 ,oliver1      
,hutchison             #a4ej   #bdjja   
,standard ,masonic ,monitor4            
,simons--,macoy               4#ge      
#bdjjb    ,same1 in leather and gilt    
#a4jj   #bdjaa ,standard ,monitor1      
,colorado1 cloth                        
4#ge   #bdjab    ,leather               
#a4jj   #bdjjf ,standard ,monitor1      
,florida1 cloth                         
4#ge   #bdjjg    ,leather               
#a4jj   #bbbaf ,standard ,monitor       
,illinois1 ,cook ,cloth                 
4#dj   #bbbag    ,leather               
4#fj   #bdjhe ,star ,chamber4           
,frazer--#f copies 7,burlesque7         

#e4jj   #bcifa ,story of the ,other     
,wise ,man4 ,cloth4 ,van ,dyke          
4#ej   #bcifb    ,limp ,leather         
#a4jj   #bdjea ,swedenborg ,rite4       
,beswick                                
#a4jj   #bdjga ,symbolism of            
,freemasonry4 ,oliver                   
#b4be   #bdjfa ,symbol of ,glory4       
,oliver                                 
#a4ej   #bdagf ,tabernacle4 ,caldecott  
#a4ge   #bdaia ,tactics1 ,k4 ,t4 ,grant 
#a4jj   #bdaib    ,leather              
#a4be   #bdaif ,tactics1 ,n4,y4         
,regulation                             
#a4aj   #bdaha ,tactics ,vest ,pocket   
4#be   #bdahd    ,morocco               
4#ge   #bdahb    ,leather               
4#ej   #bdbjf ,templar ,hand book       
#a4jj   #bdbja ,temple4 ,eidersheim4    
,cloth                                  
#a4ej   #bdbcf ,this ,mystical ,life of 
,ours4 ,trine                      #a4jj
   #bdbaf ,thoughts for the ,occasion   
#b4jj   #bdahf ,throne of ,eden4 ,w4 ,j4
 ,colville                         #a4jj

   #bdbda ,through ,silence to          
,realization4 ,wilson                   
#a4jj   #bdbac ,traditions1 ,origins1   
,early ,history4 ,pierson               
#b4ej   #bdbbe ,trial of ,jesus4 ,druker
                                  4#be  
#bdbcj ,twentieth ,century ,orient      
7,burlesque71 #f copies         #c4jj   
#bdbef ,universal ,spiritualism         
#a4jj   #bdbej ,van ,nest's ,burlesque  
,ritual1 #f copies                      
#c4ge   #bdbea ,vocal ,manual1 words    
only4 ,macoy                            
4#be   #bdbfe ,vocal ,star1 ,o4,e4,s4   
,paper                                  
4#be   #bdbff ,voice of the ,silence1   
,the4 ,blavastky4 ,cloth                
4#ej   #bdbhj    ,paper                 
#a4jj   #bdcja ,washington and ,his     
,masonic ,compeers                      
#b4ej   #bdbgf ,way of ,initiation4     
,rudolf ,steiner1 ,ph4,d4               
#a4jj   #bdbhj    ,paper                
4#ge   #bdbga ,way of ,peace1 ,the4 ,j4 
,allen4 ,cloth                      4#ej

   #bdbgb    ,leather                   
4#ge   #bdbgc    ,watered ,silk         
4#ge   #bdbgd    ,special ,gift ,edition
                                   4#ge 
#bdbge    ,paper                        
4#ae   #bbeja ,webb's ,monitor          
4#ge   #bbejb    ,leather               
#a4jj   #bdbhf ,what ,all the ,world's  
a-,seeking4 ,trine                      
#a4be   #bdcae ,wisdom of the ,ages     
7,burlesque71 #f copies                 
#e4jj   #bdbha ,witching ,hour4 ,thomas 
#a4ej   #bdcba ,worshipful ,master's    
,assistant4 ,macoy                      
#a4ej   #bdcbd    ,same1 in ,morocco and
 gilt                             #b4be 
#bddbe #cb ,degrees ,k4,p4 or ,ninety in
 the ,shade4 ,comic             4#be    
,exchanged if not satisfactory4         
,send for list containing a more        
complete description of all kinds     of
 ,masonic ,books1 ,rituals1 ,music1     
,charts1 ,engravings1 ,certificates     
and ,engrossing2 ,pins1 ,jewels1 ,charms
 in stock and to order2 ,blanks1        

,books1 ,aprons1 and ,general supplies  
for the ,lodge or members4              
,,circulating ,,library4  7,,free       
,,reading7        7,,home ,,reading7    
,for our many customers1 who1 having no 
room for a collection of books on       
,masonry1 yet wish to be conversant with
 its origin and history1 as well as     
proficient in all matters pertaining to 
the ,lodge and its welfare1 we have set 
aside several well-filled cases of rare1
 old and out-of-print                   
works--,constitutions1 ,histories1      
,proceedings1 etc41 also a fine lot of  
up-to-date ,monitors1 ,manuals1         
,jurisprudence1 ,worshipful ,master's   
,assistant and others4 7,see list on    
preceding pages47  ,we invite you to    
consult them freely at the office1      
without charge or to use them at your   
homes at the rate of ten per cent of    
their value for the first thirty days1  
and an additional five per cent for each
 month thereafter--which will cover the 
expense of wear1 tear1 wrapping1        

book-keeping1 etc4--,thus1 for a        
comparatively small item of cost you can
 add to your store of knowledge1 for    
greater usefulness and personal         
enjoyment4  ,as time and carfare is an  
important item1 you can order the books 
to be sent through the mail or express1 
by enclosing stamps or money order      
equaling their value1 which will be     
refunded1 less the percentage1 when the 
books are returned4  ,readers in any    
part of the ,united ,states can take    
advantage of the mail                   
rates--,books--#a_/h lb4 for one        
cent1--which we advance by prepaying    
them to your express or post office1    
deducting the same when refunding       
balance4  ,to secure books on the       
,circulating ,library ,plan1 order the  
books in the usual way1 send ,money     
,order equivalent to the value of the   
book and state that you wish them on the
 library plan4  ,trusting you will find 
it convenient to make use of the books  
at the office or try a selection from   

the list for your evenings at home1  ,we
 are1 yours fraternally1    ,macoy      
,publishing  ,masonic ,supply ,co4      
,new ,york1 ,u4,s4,a4