By Rudolf Steiner
During this vintage account of the Western esoteric course of initiation, Steiner leads the scholar from the cultivation of reverence and internal tranquility to the improvement of internal lifestyles in the course of the levels of guidance, illumination, and initiation. useful workouts in internal and outer remark and ethical improvement are defined.
By patiently and repeatedly following those feedback, new "organs" of soul and spirit start to shape, revealing the contours of upper worlds that have been hid from us. the following, Rudolf Steiner is accessible as instructor, counselor, and good friend. His recommendation is useful, transparent, and strong
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Particularly important as we develop as occult pupils is that we also work on the way we listen to other people when they speak. On the path to higher knowledge this listening skill is extremely important. We must become accustomed to listening in such a way that we quiet our own inner life completely when we listen. For example, when someone expresses an opinion and another listens, agreement or disagreement usually stirs immediately within the listener. Often in such a situation we feel compelled to express our own opinion at once, especially if we disagree.
These processes 2chap Black 40 40 H OW T O K NOW H IGHER W ORLDS are life, as it buds, grows, and flourishes; and, on the other hand, all phenomena connected with withering, fading, and dying away. Wherever we turn our eyes, these two processes are present together. By their nature, they always evoke feelings and thoughts in us. Normally, however, we do not give ourselves sufficiently to these feelings and thoughts. We rush from one sense impression to the next. Now, however, we must consciously and intensively focus our full attention on them.
We begin to feel, to experience, that we belong to these higher worlds of which our senses and everyday activities can tell us nothing. The center of our being shifts inward. We listen to the voices that speak within us in our moments of serenity. Inwardly, we associate with the spiritual world. Removed from our daily round, we become deaf to its noise. Everything around us grows still. We put aside everything that reminds us of outer impressions. Quiet, inward contemplation and dialog with the purely spiritual world completely fill our soul.