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266III. From the Contents of Esoteric Classes III: 1913–1914: Esoteric Lesson 14 Jul 1914, Norrköping
Translator Unknown

That's why it's so important that spiritual science should enter our age, so that an understanding for the true Christ can become alive again. In her Secret Doctrine Blavatsky speaks of Jahve as a moon God, but because she mixed in her own feelings there are errors in there, and much of the bad karma that burdens the Theosophical Society arose from this. And since Jahve was understood so little it's not surprising that one understands the Christ being so little now. To correct this Lucifer and Ahriman had to be spoken of right at the beginning of our Movement, for one can only get a right estimation of Jahve through a knowledge of their nature and activities.
266I. Esoteric Lessons 1904–1909: First Lecture 08 Feb 1904, Berlin

I spoke of the vast amount of energy that could be used for humanity, but is lost through vanity. He understood so little the significance of what was said that he replied: “We are all vain anyway, and that is also the drive for success!”
They first had to be able to immerse themselves in every soul. They had to understand why a person does this and why he does that. Look around you in your world: one person does this, another that.
But this does not mean to send out scouts from the surrounding area, but to explore the souls of men in order to see if he can intervene himself. One must learn to “understand”, and in the higher sense this is what tolerance is. He who starts out pointedly and boldly from his own point of view will come to seership just as little as he who strives for success in impatient expectation.
266I. Esoteric Lessons 1904–1909: Second Lecture 15 Feb 1904, Berlin

If you cannot feel pain when you encounter illogical thinking, then you cannot develop right thinking. You must not only understand right thinking, but also love it. You must love a thought as you love a child. You have seen your child today, yesterday and the day before yesterday, and you still love it. That is how you must treat the world of thought. When you think you have understood a thought, you must not push it out of your consciousness, but keep dealing with it. When you can do that, then you are provided with a kind of thought armor, then what was there as a transitional stage stops: the fight against what was illogical; it stops when a thought is as much a fact to you as a chair, a table and so on.
We will then seemingly be no different on the outside, but we will lead life under different impulses. We will not live out of vanity, not out of ambition, not for the sake of sensual pleasure, for we will no longer be able to do so, but out of duty, because it must be done out of the highest insight.
266I. Esoteric Lessons 1904–1909: Third Lecture 15 Feb 1904, Berlin

He once said: We are not called upon to solve the question, but first to pose it and then to wait for the question to solve itself. Do not underestimate this way of solving questions! It is quite powerful. We try to ask ourselves the question very clearly, but we do not think about the answer, but about the means that are suitable for solving the question.
If you fail to do so, you will forget it again because you will be under completely different influences. The deafening noise of everyday life does not allow people to develop their higher mental abilities.
266I. Esoteric Lessons 1904–1909: Fourth Lecture 21 Feb 1904, Berlin

Berlin, March 14, 1904 I would like to begin by saying that you should not underestimate the mood in which one has to place oneself in order to have the right relationship with the universe.
The writer of “Light on the Path” wrote under the influence of a highly developed master. “Light on the Path” was inspired by an Occidental master who carefully dictated every single sentence to the pen, word for word.
Goethe also says at the height of his knowledge: “I praise only those who desire the unattainable.” It is not important to understand these sentences, to be able to make them clear to one's mind. It is much more important to start the day with three such sentences, no matter how you have understood them.
266I. Esoteric Lessons 1904–1909: Notes from Two Esoteric Lessons II 04 Oct 1905, Berlin

Never should they believe that they have already fully understood such a saying, but always assume that there is more to it than they have already found. Through such an attitude one acquires the feeling that in all true wisdom lies the key to the infinite, and through such an attitude one connects with this infinite.
266I. Esoteric Lessons 1904–1909: Introduction

What had been preserved as a cultural symbol from that time could only have been formed under the influence of a magical esotericism. Only a select few had access to it, and they were trained for it through tremendously hard and difficult trials. Often selected as young children, they had to undergo years of psychological and spiritual training to prepare them for the organic interaction of forces in their bodies, until they were able to experience the death of the mystic.
Rudolf Steiner wanted to characterize what he wanted to be understood by “esoteric” in today's world. On another occasion he said: “I would like to draw your attention to an esoteric book that, although it is right in front of everyone, is not understood as such by anyone, namely Fichte's ‘Wissenschaftslehre’ (The Theory of Knowledge).
266I. Esoteric Lessons 1904–1909: Main-Exercises

Never should they believe that they have already fully understood such a saying, but always assume that there is more to it than they have already found. Through such an attitude one acquires the feeling that in all true wisdom lies the key to the infinite, and through such an attitude one connects with this infinite.
270. Esoteric Instructions: First Lesson 15 Feb 1924, Dornach
Translated by John Riedel

The members of the school must absolutely, in the imparted presentations, in walking along the difficult paths, be expected to overcome hindrances and undermining tendencies. I have previously dealt with what has just been discussed in the member's newsletter, What is Happening in the Anthroposophical Society, in which I specifically undertook to distinguish between the General Anthroposophical Society and this school.
In every age people have had to overcome this and that, have had to lay aside this and that under the guidance of the earnest Guardian of the Threshold of the Spiritual World. But every era has its particular hindrances.
In English a threshold is the same, you enter a building over the threshold or you enter new inner territory when you cross a certain threshold of understanding. 17. schau is a combination of behold and show (with which it is cognate) and is active and willful.
270. Esoteric Instructions: Second Lesson 22 Feb 1924, Dornach
Translated by John Riedel

then it is also true that a person can find no answer, can find no satisfaction, if under the inscribed words "Know yourself!" he merely gazes at what is spread out before his senses in the context of the external world.
From waking in the morning until falling asleep at night, we are thinking under the guidance received in our normal schooling and in our normal living. We are thinking, but in such a way that our thinking is corpse-like.
Feelings do surge up in the soul, but who has it under control, as one has thinking under control? To whom is it clear, what lies in feelings, as clear as it is, what lies in thinking?

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