Philosophical Speculations

I would phrase it differently and say the Lucifer temptation was fundamentally a burning desire (in the soul body) to live separated from Cosmic spirituality, to cultivate an inner life that feels to be a reality-in-itself (inner life including sensations). In other words, the core spirit no longer...

It can get confusing because it is often spoken how we need to liberate thinking from the body for higher cognitive development. That is absolutely true. But the main purpose of that liberation is to draw on moral intuitions that can provide holistic insight and purify the soul body . If the latter...

Hi Ashvin, Reading goes slowly - I've had less free time than usual this week, been reading small bits, often having the read them again the next day. Now in the middle of Chapter III, Sleep and Death. I feel I absolutely need this reading, and feel called to come back to it every time I can, but s...

... Thanks, Ashvin, this clarifies the thing. With what you have added, it seems to me he means that memories are not stored and picked up again at will, like books from a library shelf (by pure introspection). Rather, what is stored is an etheric-bodily mirror-image of any percept that remains ava...

Oh man, it appears our concerns about PoF-reduced via GPT have been realized.

https://chat.openai.com/g/g-3qNcmtS3U-p ... m-chat-bot

It requires a paid version so I haven't tested it out yet.

This paragraph right in the middle of Chapter II is not clear to me: If we say that man is aware of his memory by looking into his own inner life — a method he obviously cannot apply to the animal — we make a fatal mistake. Man is of course aware of his own faculty of memory, but he can not derive ...

Now coming to animals: To attribute memory to animals is an error still easier to fall into than the mistake of ascribing consciousness to plants. It is natural enough to think of memory when a dog recognizes its master, whom it may not have seen for some time past. Yet in reality the recognition d...

Brief note to give an example of what you said on the other thread: In planar thinking , we try to click the concepts of Saturn, Sun, Moon, and so forth only between themselves , to figure out some abstract system in which they seem to all make sense quite independently of our own inner ideal conte...

The task of Steiner has been extraordinarily difficult. In this book he had to disclose some of the secrets of Initiatic science to the general consciousness of the time, which could hardly conceive of anything other than substances and forces. We can only imagine how painful it must have felt to t...

Here is also an interesting lecture passage from Steiner to contemplate: Today's thought of the day also speaks of this: As the physical eye must be acquired in the pre-earthly life, so must the eye, for the perception of the spiritual world, be acquired here on earth through spiritual science, act...