I have elsewhere mentioned that if a Christian sage were to be compared with the Buddhist one, he would have spoken differently to King Milinda. The Buddhist said to the King: ‘Consider the carriage, wheels, shaft, and so on; they are parts of the carriage, and beyond these parts carriage is only a name and form. With the ... read more...
In this introduction to mysticism, the "mystical sense", the mystical organ of perception as the inner sense organ, is described as the observation of one's own total inner content, completely free of all nature and senses, so that one's own soul is embedded in the world content and thus becomes one with it. In this way theConsc... read more...
There are people who can be so immersed in their -associative or searching - thoughts that they would not notice, as it were, if a tumult of any kind were to break out right next to them. Something similar must be deliberately pursued in meditation, but in active pure thinking, in which the whole life of feeling and all initiati... read more...
The mind turns outward and meets the beauty there. Then from the distances the life force comes into the body and thus unites the being of the mind and the human existence... read more...
The turnaround is coming, the workings are turning from outside to inside. The increasing wealth from outside comes through the senses into the inner being of the human being. In the looking eye, the spirit of the world meets itself. But this human eye draws the strength to create itself time and again especially from the spirit... read more...
Now the lust for growth, the germination and growth strength of the world existence wants to enter into the self of the human being . In this way the magic in which the spirit of the world lies is broken, and this development becomes accessible to the self.... read more...
Last week it was love that was awakened in the heart by the certainty of worldly thinking. Now the inner life offers the rays of hope to the coming world day. We now feel the power of being, and the clarity of thought expresses this, while it is aware of the growth of the mind, as it took place in the outwardly dark wintertime.... read more...
The powerful thinking described last week now comes to us as light from the heights of the world, as a certainty of world thought. The mighty rays of light bundle together to awaken love in the heart of the human being. True love is born out of the thinking of the human being that turns outwards from itself to thinking of the wo... read more...
In nature now the germ and growth force comes up and gives the impressions of the senses that always shine, more life. This natural lust for becoming needs the thinking power that corresponds to it, and is strengthened in autumn and winter by the divine forces in the human inner self.... read more...
In this week the highlight of the winter period turns to the world of the senses, not yet as a full activity, but in interlacing the senses with the power of thought. It is the first reverence of thinking to the sense-world: bringing the senses to full clarity.... read more...