
Guidance in Esoteric Training

Feelings, thoughts, clothe themselves in symbols that are spiritually palpable realities, and from out of the nimbus of these spiritually palpable realities the voice of the Master sounds, his form is fashioned. The higher intercourse has begun for us. We begin to be no longer merely co-actors in the world but are messengers for it (Angelos).
Rudolf Steiner • Guidance in Esoteric Training
co-worker in cosmic events.
Rudolf Steiner • Guidance in Esoteric Training
Therefore during this brief time, acting entirely out of his own free will, he must empty the soul of the ordinary, everyday courses of thoughts and by his own initiative place one single thought at the centre of his soul. The
Rudolf Steiner • Guidance in Esoteric Training
The higher a man ascends in evolution, the more will his action bear an individual stamp.
Rudolf Steiner • Guidance in Esoteric Training
The act of meditating represents a middle state by which the one-sided luciferic and ahrimanic elements may be overcome. Luciferic enticement lies in solitary thinking and brooding. The ahrimanic temptation lies in perception one-sidedly directed towards the external world. Now a middle condition can be developed in one’s soul by making one’s
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In ‘He wills’, the ‘He’ signfies God, within whose will we instate our whole being.
Rudolf Steiner • Guidance in Esoteric Training
guide this feeling to the heart and from there to let it stream into the eyes, and thence out into the space in front of and around oneself.
Rudolf Steiner • Guidance in Esoteric Training
By setting thinking free from the breath we let it stream, as it were, into the rhythm of the external world.
Rudolf Steiner • Guidance in Esoteric Training
In order to read the ancient writings such as the Bhagavadgita with understanding one must be conscious of what speaks through them. The soul, with enhanced feeling of selfhood, is transported into its past in the spiritual world and is relating what Krishna and other ancient initiates had experienced there through their heightened
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