Various exercises are given--for morning and evening, for the days of the week, and for the months of the year. Also included are numerous explanations that can deepen and enhance meditative work, including several articles on inner development and the obstacles one faces on the way to true self-awareness. This enlarged edition contains additional clarification of the exercises, descriptions of future world and human evolution, and advice that Steiner gave later in his life on the nature of breathing exercises and ancient and modern methods of initiation.
This is an invaluable resource for all those who are serious about inner development, regardless of one's chosen path. The Task of Spiritual Science. General Demands which Every Aspirant for Occult. Additional Rules in Continuation of. For the Months of the Year. Main Exercises Given Individually. Meditations which Express the Time Substance. Kristina added it Sep 27, Fintan added it Nov 08, Philip added it Dec 14, Darrell Wheeler marked it as to-read Jan 01, Robert DuPuy marked it as to-read Feb 25, Ravi Vincent marked it as to-read Apr 19, Chinel Gibson marked it as to-read Jun 10, Tania Ortega marked it as to-read Aug 10, Gigi Roberts marked it as to-read Aug 15, Cynthia marked it as to-read Sep 04, Alexandra Sullivan added it Dec 17, John added it Feb 16, Jonathon Scott marked it as to-read Feb 22, Michelle Robinson added it May 08, Sandy Littell added it Jul 07, Nibia Saavedra marked it as to-read Jul 13, Michael marked it as to-read Sep 01, Sin Soriano marked it as to-read Oct 09, Samsen marked it as to-read Jul 10, Lee Herman marked it as to-read Sep 01, Bogdan Vatkov marked it as to-read Nov 11, NobleBrightS marked it as to-read Nov 12, Lana marked it as to-read Jan 12, Jeff Kofsky is currently reading it Jan 25, What is a robot or an android, but a computerized machine which tries to assume life and then oppose its creator as Dr.
Frankenstein's monster did in Mary Shelley's prophetic horror story. That will show itself still clearer to the human being during the terrible epoch which will come upon us during Oriphiel's rulership, which I spoke to you about last time.
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When that time comes the human being will need to have learnt to stand firm! Our contemporary culture is itself creating those horrifying monsters which will threaten the human being on Jupiter. You need only look at the huge machines which human technology is today constructing so ingeniously. The human being is creating demons for himself which in the future will rage against him.
Everything that he builds today in the way of technical appliances and machines will assume life in the future and oppose him in terrible enmity. Everything that is created for mere utility, to satisfy individual or collective egoism, will be the human being's enemy in the future. We are today far too concerned with gaining useful advantage from what we do.
If we really wish to help advance evolution, we should not be concerned with the usefulness of something but with whether it is beautiful and noble. What can we begin to do about this situation today? Place our children in schools, such as Waldorf Schools, in which children are exposed to beauty and artworks and create such works to surround themselves with. Too long we have experimented with mechanical and material utility in our schools. One can read the inspiration for Waldorf Schools fermenting in Steiner's mind a full decade before the idea came to fruition at the Waldorf-Astoria Cigarette Factory in Stuttgart, Germany.
Everything created by the human being to satisfy his artistic needs, in pure love of beauty, will also assume life in the future and contribute to his higher evolution. It is terrible to see today how many thousands of human beings are forced, from earliest childhood on, to engage only in activities founded upon material utility; they are cut off all their lives from everything that is beautiful and artistic. In the poorest primary school there should hang the finest works of art; that would be an endless blessing for human evolution.
The human being is today building his future. One can gain an idea of how things will be on Jupiter if one is clear that today there is no absolute good or absolute evil. In every human being is mixed both good and bad. Whoever is good must recognize that he only has a little more good than bad in himself and is certainly not wholly good. But on Jupiter, good and bad will no longer be combined. Human beings will divide into those who are wholly good and those who are wholly bad. Everything beautiful and noble that we cultivate today leads to a strengthening of the good on Jupiter; everything that occurs as a result of egoism and utility leads to a strengthening of the bad.
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Clearly we will have more complicated computerized machinery, including robots and androids in coming decades and centuries, so what we can do about them? Take the Luddite approach and destroy them with sledgehammers and computer hackers? Or find a way to create beauty and morality with them? This process can be paralyzed if we transform instruments of utility into those which, besides their usefulness, above all also communicate beauty and godliness.
It is very good for us to know this. Otherwise such powers would one day tear the earth asunder. We can also see how enormously important it is in education to surround the child with artistic creations and impressions. Even the locomotive must one day be transformed into a beautiful machine.
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Our feelings of fear and anxiety nourish other evil beings. We must not allow ourselves to fall prey to such thoughts. On Jupiter such beings will surround us in far greater numbers than they do now. But there is no need for anyone to be alarmed who maintains a clear aura, so that no flies can swarm around the dirt.
In an essay written in , Rudolf Steiner offers his exegesis of the opening sentences of Light on the Path by Mabel Collins, a Theosophist. Here are the sentences:. Before the ear can hear it must have lost its sensitiveness. These words were not written for those who are steeped in "scientific truth. It is being , i. Science makes maps of what exists, and these maps can represent all the territory of what exists, but undaunted, scientists so believe in their maps that they call their maps reality!
This leap of faith by the very scientists who would scowl others' faith is glossed over and rarely mentioned 6. But Steiner points out that there is something equally important as being and that is becoming. Being is a finite truth which must be given life by a truth that is becoming. And only when one thinks of an object as both 'become' and 'becoming' does one realize that it is a member of the one life, the life where time is not outside, but within it.
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Thus finite truth is only something that has become; it must be called to life by a truth that is becoming. The former one grasps, the latter one 'heeds'. All merely scientific truth belongs to the former kind. Light on the Path has not been written for those who seek only this kind of truth.
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It is written for those who seek the truth which today is seed, in order tomorrow to be product, and who do not grasp the 'become' but heed the 'becoming'. When one cries over a situation, it is always the situation of being. Turn one's focus to becoming and notice how dramatically the situation can change. One begins to think of ways in which one can help and the tears are pressed into service to water the seeds of change for the better. Consume all thy tears in the will to help. Do not weep over someone stricken with poverty; get to know his situation and help him!
Do not grumble about what is bad; understand it and change it into good.
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Thy tears only dim the pure clarity of the light. Being sensitive means to allow our feelings to merge with and modify our perception of sound. Steiner points out that more delicate sensations can only be perceived if our feelings do not interfere with our hearing 7. Sound becomes clear to the ear if its clarity is not disturbed by encountering rapture or sympathetic feeling as it enters the ear. Put it another way, this means: Open your ear and not your nerve-endings.
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For these will tell you whether the tone is agreeable or not, while your open ear will tell you the tone's true nature. When you go to someone who is ill, let every fibre of his body speak to you, and deaden the impression he makes on you. Bestow your words on dumb 8 things so that they may speak through you. For they are not a summons to your pleasure, these dumb things, but a summons to your activity.
It is not what they have become without you that is there for you, but what they are to become through you. A phonograph needle rests in a groove laid down when the recording was made, and the variations in that groove as the needle moves along re-creates the sound present when the needle of the recording machine engraved the groove in the record. Our lower self 9 is like the needle of the recording machine in that it wishes to engrave itself upon the record of the world.
But, as Steiner says on page , "As long as it wants to do that, no Master will wish to hear its voice. If these needles are removed and the voice becomes soft and pliant, so that it lays itself round the mysteries of all things as a veiling garment, then it weaves itself into Spirit-raiment, and the Master's delicate tone takes it as vesture. With every thought which in the true sense of the word a man dedicates to the inner truth of things, he weaves a thread of the garment in which the Master who appears to him may wrap himself.
Our feet must carry us to where there is work to be done, if we are to become an emissary to the world, that is, "an organ through whom the depths of the world-riddle speaks". The Master will not stand in our presence when we, in our lower self , are enjoying pleasant things, only when our feet have taken us to where our work is to be done will the Master be present. This book is full of guidance in esoteric training, but one would be ill-advised to expect that merely doing the exercises suggested will be enough.
One likewise cannot excel in esoteric training by merely adding these exercises to their daily routine. One must strive to incorporate every aspect of one's current life, one's being , into the becoming which will result as one mixes the ingredients together and bakes over time. One would find then, however, that the progress made was not very considerable.
The aim of the esoteric pupil should far rather consist in resolving to bring into connection with his esoteric life all that meets him in everyday existence. In this way he creates a center in himself from which he directs the whole conduct of his life. The words of the exercises only form the garment which we wear as an antenna, ever ready to receive the beams from the spiritual world when our "thought is filled with the power of the Christ".
Close the book now and let the blood of your heart wash the soles of your feet as they carry you into the world where the needle of your lower self becomes dedicated only to reading being and not to engraving becoming , where your ears will hear your voice with such sensitivity that your voice will flow as a garment over those who hear it, warming their hearts and attracting the beams of the spiritual world to them, where the tears in your eyes will dissolve and add brilliance to the rays which streams into them.
