posted September 17, 2008 06:23 PM         

Where shall we start?

posted September 20, 2008 08:12 AM         

I'm in the excited honey moon stage of discovery, getting familiar with his work and wearing out high lighters while bursting with astonishment. Sometimes I will find a little paragraph and feel the need to urgently express my enthusiasm because there's a little part of me that says "i know this so well"... a real distant memory, and it's all inside, returning.

quote:

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These findings of occult investigation throw remarkable light on an utterance Kant made as though instinctively. He said that the two things that inspired the greatest wonder in him were the starry heavens above and the moral law within. These are apparently two things, but in fact they are one and the same. Why does a feeling of grandeur, of reverent awe, come over us when we look up into the starry heavens? It is because without our knowing it the feeling of our soul's home awakens in us. The feeling awakens: Before you came down to earth to a new incarnation you yourself were in those stars and out of the stars have come the highest forces that are within you. Your moral law was imparted to you when you were dwelling in this world of stars. When you practice self-knowledge you can behold what the starry heaven bestowed upon you between death and a new birth — the best and finest powers of your soul. What we behold in the starry heavens is the moral law that is given us from the spiritual worlds, between death and a new birth — the best and finest powers of our soul. What we behold in the starry heavens is the moral law that is given us from the spiritual worlds, for between death and a new birth we live in these starry heavens. A man who longs to discover the source of the highest qualities he possesses should contemplate the starry heavens with feelings such as these. To one who has no desire to ask anything, but lives his life in a state of dull apathy — to him the stars will tell nothing. But if one asks oneself, “How does there enter into me that which is never connected with my bodily senses?” and then raises his eyes to the starry heaven, he will be filled with the feeling of reverence and will know that this is the memory of man's eternal home. Between death and rebirth we actually live in the starry heavens.

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posted September 28, 2008 02:18 PM         

I haven't read Outline of Occult Science yet, but I am very excited to hear about your inspiration! Steiner is one of the few rays of light that shines in the darknesses of conventional, materialist philosophy. The imagination still goes largely unquestioned and thus made generally impotent, despite its huge role even in modern thinking.

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”

-Albert Einstein

posted October 09, 2008 10:25 PM         

Your analogy really sparked a very keen image in my mind. This sounds strange but I used to feel like I was blind. Mind you, I have 20/20 vision and yet I always seemed to feel as if I suffered from a deep, inner blindness for a long time. It's difficult to explain. I always had an inclination towards the occult and esoteric knowledge and I think part of that hunger stemmed from this feeling of being blind. It's like I had a total faith in the idea that the world we perceive with our senses was limited and that other worlds existed beyond the limited sensitivities of our perceptions. It always just seemed so obvious to me, through deductive reasoning. I often referred to one of these worlds as "the cartoon" because of its similarities to cartoon-like characteristics. Reading Steiner, I now know that I've captured glimpses into the Astral Realm which is only the beginning in the unfolding of his erudite wisdom. I am still the person I was before reading him, but it feels wonderful to read words that were once spoken by someone whose energy was, and still is, a beacon of light that helps those who suffer from this inner blindness.

Your analogy just whisked me away.

Thanks for starting this thread. I've got so much to say when it comes to this topic and, yet, keeping it inside doesn't really bother me either. Although, it sure is nice to share it every now and then, when possible.

posted December 03, 2008 03:16 PM         

I was told that occult science is an initiation because its very hard to read, apparently the good juicy bits are toward the end! Im not in a patient mood right now, but soon however!

posted December 08, 2008 06:32 PM         

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"The pioneers of a warless world are the youth who refuse military service."

posted December 10, 2008 05:46 AM         

I think this was a WILL exercise... got through it ... captured my deeper interest toward the end.

Im on to 'Karmic Relationships Vol.2 'now.... the mechanics of the carousel!

The goal of anthroposophy in this modern age is bringing the understanding of Karma and reincarnation into mainstream belief.

Well now,let us get into a discussion about that with facts (unlike the superficial discussion already expressed in Oranges and Hyancinths)... I mean reality.... let's talk reincarnation! I will bring in some notes I have made on this subject tomorrow!!!

posted December 17, 2008 05:14 PM         

Here's a quote I highlighted from The Arts...:

"The Greeks still had a clear sense for the truth that thought lives in things...But the perception was superseded by a belief that thought originates in man. In this fashion he grew more & more into his physical body."