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90c. Theosophy and Occultism: Secrets and Secrecy 01 Sep 1903, Berlin

Rudolf Steiner
Man is not capable of assimilating the deepest truths of his time in any age. Nor is man of today capable of understanding the deepest secret of his race. He must first mature for the understanding. The basic secret was always only in the possession of the adepts.
In “Lucifer”, which is now being published, the subject under discussion here will be touched upon. Only at the end of the fifth [root] race will it become known and understood by a larger number of people.
The person being initiated was introduced to a world that is more real, more powerful and more directive, to a world that underlies our world but cannot be perceived by our senses.
90c. Theosophy and Occultism: Rosicrucians, Count St. Germain, French Revolution 11 Sep 1903, Berlin

Rudolf Steiner
It is generally assumed that a truth is easy to grasp. But is that really so? The intellect can understand everything, but otherwise it is the most powerless to really intervene in inner events. The intellect can never grasp from within. The intellect only ever understands things on the outside. What happens in research today? Animals and plants are chemically examined.
It will be necessary for us to become clear about the founding of Christianity. I will try to make Christianity understandable in the form it took on at that time.
90c. Theosophy and Occultism: Embryology, Sexual Reproduction 18 Sep 1903, Berlin

Rudolf Steiner
So we have a “physical prana”, then a second prana under the direction of the astral, which is active in the sympathetic nervous system and builds up the brain so that the actual self can move into the prepared brain.
Thus we have recognized the actual purpose of reproduction by the sexes. Sexual reproduction is not to be understood as a cause, but as an end. The next question would now be about the conditions after death.
90c. Theosophy and Occultism: The Symbol of the Bee, Evolution on Earth, Kamaloka – Devachan, Immortality 25 Sep 1903, Berlin

Rudolf Steiner
The bee is the symbol of man in general. If you understand this correctly, you will also understand immortality. The bee flies from flower to flower and carries what it needs into the hive.
By teaching this higher reality, Theosophy not only helps people to understand a reality after death. We live with the physical things on our earth. Our existence is linked to these things.
Master K[oot] H[oomi] told us that a person can become immortal if he only wants to. He did not say that he is immortal under all circumstances, but that he can achieve immortality. Man does this by sucking the honey out of the world and taking it with him into the spiritual worlds.
90c. Theosophy and Occultism: Origin and Meaning of Human Suffering, Hereditary Diseases 02 Oct 1903, Berlin

Rudolf Steiner
That is why hardly any doctor today can understand Paracelsus. Paracelsus healed in a completely different way than is done today. He did not heal with physical means, as is done today for the most part.
Today's materialistic direction almost does not understand at all when one speaks in this way. The reason for this is that we descend with our astral body [...] into the physical nature.
In a spirit air that is materialistic, the soul can no longer develop the flight. Then the soul gasps under the burden of physical circumstances. A soul in our age is quite powerless against the physical composition of the body.
90c. Theosophy and Occultism: Succession of Incarnations, Re-embodiment in Case of Child Death, Rebirth of High Individuals 09 Oct 1903, Berlin

Rudolf Steiner
Chelas, on the other hand, those who have already acquired the right to the championship, can do without Devachan. They do not undergo Devachan. Therefore, they can re-incarnate immediately after death to continue serving humanity.
90c. Theosophy and Occultism: On the Origin of Evil 13 Oct 1903, Berlin

Rudolf Steiner
When higher spirituality misuses the lower nature, evil arises. Now we understand Paul when he says: Before the law was, there was no sin. Another rough example: can any sexual excess in animals be called evil?
90c. Theosophy and Occultism: World Justice, a Wisdom-Filled Plan for the World, the Symbol of the Whitsun 16 Oct 1903, Berlin

Rudolf Steiner
It is an eternal development. What we do not yet understand today, we may understand tomorrow. Why do we easily find the law in the external inanimate nature?
The further the development has progressed, the deeper is the law and the more difficult it is to understand. I have shown you examples of planned laws. I showed you this at the beaver lodge. Beavers do not have human minds.
(A genuine hierarchy is naturally established.) We can only recognize and understand a law as far as we are developed. That world wisdom exists is clear from today's reflection. But if this is there, then we must strive to do everything that lies in the sense of this world wisdom.
90c. Theosophy and Occultism: On Good and Evil 20 Oct 1903, Berlin

Rudolf Steiner
Now this wisdom must be used as a means to achieve love. All those who have undergone regular development in the Lemurian epoch enter the earthly epoch, sacrificing physical, pranic, and kamic life. But there are also beings who are unable to make this sacrifice. These have not undergone a completely regular development. They have descended too deeply into the physical-pranic-camic of the Lemurian epoch.
An intimate brotherhood arose from this. These entities have undergone too extensive a development. They have delved too deeply into the physical sphere. Therefore, in the earthly epoch, they do not have the ability to start where they need to start in order to undergo regular earthly development.
90c. Theosophy and Occultism: The Three Logoi and Man, the Seven Stages of Consciousness 30 Oct 1903, Berlin

Rudolf Steiner
[That is all this little creature would see; but it cannot] form a concept of what underlies this movement. This little creature would also have no idea of the human soul and would only see and describe the expressions of his strength.
The first stage of consciousness that man has undergone can be called “deepest trance consciousness”. The second stage of consciousness that man has undergone is still found in plants, the “deep sleep consciousness”.
A great deal depends on the ability to read this number 7x 7x7 =343. All form states are what is understood by the third logos. The forty-nine life states are the second logos. The seven states of consciousness are the first logos.

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