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261. Our Dead: Memorial address for Charlotte Ferreri and Edith Maryon 03 May 1924, Dornach

Rudolf Steiner
All this – it may be said, because Miss Maryon understood it perfectly – actually helps nothing within the Anthroposophical movement. Anyone who believes that it helps within the anthroposophical movement is on the wrong track.
The painter must contribute his abilities, and so on and so forth. You understand this, because otherwise I would have had to carry out the whole Goetheanum construction alone.
What I had to say today should culminate in showing how a quiet, self-sacrificing working life within the anthroposophical cause has been effective here, that it is irreplaceable, and that I am certain that those who understand what it actually means to work in a leading position within the anthroposophical movement, as I must do, will take what has been said in an understanding sense.
261. Our Dead: Eulogy at the Cremation of Edith Maryon 06 May 1924, Basel

Rudolf Steiner
And of Edith Maryon it can be said that her reliability was something absolutely true and faithful. If she undertook something that required her practical sense, it would be there in due course, even when the work to be done was quite remote from her actual professional activity.
She was cared for until her last hours, not only by the doctor, but also by the nurses who had become dear to her and cared for her, and it was under the care of these nurses that she often spent agonizing hours in the last days, but these could always be brightened in an extraordinarily beautiful and spiritual way.
261. Our Dead: Eulogy for Admiral Grafton 14 Sep 1924, Dornach

Rudolf Steiner
And so he repeatedly told me that the great satisfaction of his life was that, after a long search, he had finally come to an understanding of life through anthroposophy, although he had started from the opposite pole. And one always had the feeling that when this personality spoke about a connection with anthroposophy, it was not only from the depths of the heart, but there was also a wonderful, almost beautiful enthusiasm in this sense of connection, an enthusiasm that must truly appear as a particularly beautiful one when it is spoken from a heart that who had reached old age through a life of hard work.
Admiral Grafton was only able to listen because of his general enthusiasm for the spirituality of anthroposophy, as he did not understand German well enough to follow a lecture. He could only follow with his heart. He was only able to follow the general thrust of the matter.
And I am very grateful who could not be here in person at the funeral service for our dear friend, that the friends, especially our friend Heywood-Smith, have taken it upon themselves to say beautifully, devotedly, with a deep understanding of the personality of Admiral Grafton, what I would have liked to have said myself at the funeral service if I had not been detained in England out of duty.
265a. Lessons for the Participants of Cognitive-Cultic Work 1906–1924: Christmas, the Physical Body and Christ Consciousness 25 Dec 1908,

Rudolf Steiner
The blaze of desire, the highest of the four lower bodies of the sun spirits, is not the same as the state that man undergoes in Kamaloka, but their blaze of desire is directed towards the highest and purest. These sun spirits emerged from the earth (plus moon) with the sun because human development would otherwise have become so fast in 1908 that man would have been consumed; he could not yet endure fire and air at that time.
265a. Lessons for the Participants of Cognitive-Cultic Work 1906–1924: The Solomonic, Mosaic, Abrahamic Ages 05 Feb 1910, Kassel

Rudolf Steiner
Those who, through theosophy, have gained an understanding of this event here on earth will also feel Christ's presence near them there. For the others, it will pass without a trace there as well.
265a. Lessons for the Participants of Cognitive-Cultic Work 1906–1924: Overcoming Selfishness 01 May 1910, Hanover

Rudolf Steiner
Notes taken by Günther Wagner or Martina Limburger-von Hoffmann What we want to consider as an aid on the occult path during this meeting today is entirely the responsibility of those whom we call the “Sages of the East”. The words that are to be spoken are to be understood as an inspiration from this side. Let us dwell for a moment on what we call self-knowledge, not that self-knowledge which man imagines he finds by constantly brooding over himself, but self-knowledge which is of the greatest importance for esoteric striving, in order to make meditation and concentration effective and fruitful in our soul.
We will then come to realize, as is necessary for higher self-knowledge, know and understand our character traits – for that is the individual karma of the individual person – but we will come to recognize which souls influence us between death and a new birth, in whose company we lived during this time in Devachan, for it is by no means unimportant to know what we have absorbed through this association with these other souls.
265a. Lessons for the Participants of Cognitive-Cultic Work 1906–1924: What Leads Humankind Upwards 21 Jun 1910,

Rudolf Steiner
The human ego at first not an individual. Now still a people's assembly under suggestion or hypnosis - the egos mingle chaotically. I am still little individualized. Before that, all egos and totality - through descending into the physical bodies, individualization occurred.
265a. Lessons for the Participants of Cognitive-Cultic Work 1906–1924: Maya 16 Dec 1910, Berlin

Rudolf Steiner
Our body is Maya; anyone who wants to explore it to get to know the abilities of the human being will not achieve the same goal as someone who would examine the telegraph apparatus from an electrical engineering point of view in order to understand the messages that are sent with it. After the fall of Troy, news was transmitted from mountain to mountain from Asia Minor to Greece using fire signals.
265a. Lessons for the Participants of Cognitive-Cultic Work 1906–1924: Sign, Gesture and Word 29 Aug 1911, Munich

Rudolf Steiner
Ankle J A K I M Tubalcain Heart 2 B O A S Schibboleth =ears of corn Navel (under V) Makbena נָ Giblim Casting out the paw into the H v. hand in1st -root Adonai Jabulon Hand above thumb to the forehead resurrectus chapter mark
265a. Lessons for the Participants of Cognitive-Cultic Work 1906–1924: Wisdom, Beauty, Strength, Sign, Grip and Word 16 Dec 1911, Berlin

Rudolf Steiner
From the mystery schools, these symbols passed through students not sufficiently imbued with their value and meaning, ended up in secret societies, although they were secret to the outside world. However, none of the secret societies known under the general name of Freemasonry have been able to grasp and explain the true depth of the symbols, because the sacredness of the symbols themselves means that they cannot be properly understood outside the occult temple.
When our soul is open to admiration and devotion to the beauty that is around us, this beauty becomes for us the expression of spiritual beings who reveal their language with it and want to make themselves understood to us. Only heartfelt, true devotion can reveal true beauty to us. Because you all know that in the spiritual (astral) world, devils can show themselves in the form of angels under the mask of beauty.
If we place our hand on the larynx, with the thumb of the right hand by the ear and the flat of the hand under the chin at the level of the larynx, then we exclude the etheric currents of the head and shape the rest of the organism into an organ of knowledge.

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