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265a. Lessons for the Participants of Cognitive-Cultic Work 1906–1924: Letter of Invitation from Arthur Rösel and Horst von Henning

Rudolf Steiner of Berlin, will give a public lecture on “Our World Situation” in the hall of the “Amalia” lodge at eight o'clock on Tuesday the 23rd of the month, to which we, the undersigned, would like to extend a very special invitation. After the lecture, Dr. Steiner will answer any questions addressed to him, and this will give you the opportunity to find out more about the teachings of the school of thought known as “Theosophy”, which you may not be fully familiar with, and which you, as a Freemason striving for the broadest possible knowledge, should not miss.
265a. Lessons for the Participants of Cognitive-Cultic Work 1906–1924: Letter from Baron Ferdinand Georg Friedrich von Wrangell

If, in the presence of the teacher, one of the students makes false assertions without being refuted, serious damage can result. I understand very well the motives for which you, with regard to the lectures of your students (and these are all members of the Anthroposophical Society), pay homage to the principle “the more, the better”; but as a seminar leader who is concerned about the development of his students, seeks to involve all of them in the preparation of presentations, but only with the proviso that the mistakes made are corrected in the presence of those present, for their benefit and edification.
265a. Lessons for the Participants of Cognitive-Cultic Work 1906–1924: Letter from Elisabeth Winkler to Johanna and Lina Arnold

The conclusion was magnificent: as I said elsewhere, they said that we would be hated in the future, not only out in the world, but also among the pseudo-theosophists, so vigilance would be in order. And if one could understand our striving in the spiritual world as prayer, then one should not forget to precede the “pray” with the “watch”: “Watch and pray!”
265a. Lessons for the Participants of Cognitive-Cultic Work 1906–1924: Mystica Aeternis meeting in Oslo in May 1923

(This referred to the Jesuits and the occult brotherhoods, at least that's how I understood it.) And further he spoke about the fact that in the same hall where the new cult was given to the theologians, the fire was ignited that destroyed the Goetheanum.
265a. Lessons for the Participants of Cognitive-Cultic Work 1906–1924: Paracelsus Munich

In “Faust” one notices the influence of Paracelsus. In life, we often do not understand many things if we do not know the context. So there are now two directions in the outer world: 1) Rationalism or, as it is also called, modern monism.
266I. From the Contents of Esoteric Classes I: 1904–1909: Notes From a Private Lesson 31 Dec 1903, Berlin
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The fact that the Christian religion is understandable to every stage of consciousness is clear through the history of its development. It must be the task of spiritual science in general to show that this religion invites one to penetrate the deepest teachings of wisdom that mankind has. Theosophy is not a religion but an instrument for understanding religions. It's related to religion in about the same way that our mathematical theory is related to ancient math books. One can understand mathematics out of one's own intellectual forces and the laws of space without referring to Euclid's geometry book.
266I. From the Contents of Esoteric Classes I: 1904–1909: Esoteric Lesson 31 Dec 1903, Berlin
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The fact that the Christian religion is understandable to every stage of consciousness is clear through the history of its development. It must be the task of spiritual science in general to show that this religion invites one to penetrate the deepest teachings of wisdom that mankind has. Theosophy is not a religion but an instrument for understanding religions. It's related to religion in about the same way that our mathematical theory is related to ancient math books. One can understand mathematics out of one's own intellectual forces and the laws of space without referring to Euclid's geometry book.
266I. From the Contents of Esoteric Classes I: 1904–1909: Esoteric Lesson 03 Mar 1906, Hamburg
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What serves men can only be produced and made through the wisdom that men put into it. One who doesn't understand this and who sins against it even slightly, sins against the social thinking of the present time.
266I. From the Contents of Esoteric Classes I: 1904–1909: Esoteric Lesson 18 Dec 1906, Berlin
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Our first Logos who only arises in the future sounds along like a quiet, humming undertone as a dully consonantic M. Thus we have the sound of the most sublime powers expressed in AUM.
Later on a man will be able to place the pictures of the outer world he receives via his eyes outside again as forms via his pineal gland and blood that he'll then have under control. He'll generate oxygen himself and convert the blue blood that goes to the heart into red blood without the use of outside air.
266I. From the Contents of Esoteric Classes I: 1904–1909: Esoteric Lesson 29 Jan 1907, Berlin
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Spoken in German, practically the only thing that's effective is the underlying thought. The Latin Pater noster has a better effect, but the whole power and fullness only come to expression in the original Aramaic.
And if he develops himself into the future like this his eyes will also be opened about the past, and then the present becomes understandable out of the future and past. Thereby past, present and future become harmoniously united. The great masters put this into the sacred syllable AUM.

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