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266III. From the Contents of Esoteric Classes III: 1913–1914: Esoteric Lesson 02 Jan 1914, Leipzig
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But just consider that a significant impulse or idea takes 19 years to be inwardly well grasped and understood. If an esoteric thinks that after some exercising he'll soon be mature enough for entry into spiritual worlds, then it's as if a child who'd just learned to speak would say: It's boring to have to wait for years until I become a man.
266III. From the Contents of Esoteric Classes III: 1913–1914: Esoteric Lesson 11 Jan 1914, Bremen
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An inner warmth arises thereby, for it's the warmth ether—under light, sound and life ethers—that contracts. If one then pays attention to what one has outside one, one will perceive that it's something flowing, like a kind of religious devotion, like moral warmth in the world ether.
266III. From the Contents of Esoteric Classes III: 1913–1914: Esoteric Lesson 24 Jan 1914, Berlin
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But that's their own fault. A farmer would easily be able to understand Saturn, Sun and Moon evolution. People who don't understand it just don't want to accept it because they've never seen it.
If one feels united with the Son who is the God in a man's soul one can arrive at a deeper understanding of EDN, ICM and will later also come to a realization of PSSR.
266III. From the Contents of Esoteric Classes III: 1913–1914: Esoteric Lesson 05 Mar 1914, Stuttgart
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But to be able to rightly place ourselves into the new world we must transform our whole thinking through esoteric development so that we can understand and judge the things and facts of the spiritual world correctly. Because it's an entirely new world for us, but a world that's more real than the one we've known so far.
266III. From the Contents of Esoteric Classes III: 1913–1914: Esoteric Lesson 31 Mar 1914, Munich
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But one who takes in esoteric explanations rightly can understand how the spiritual world is experienced when the soul awakens. To get to this point one has to ask oneself the question: What is thinking really?
That's not true. Everyone can understand this existence if he uses his thinking properly. One who can't understand it is foolish, even if he's a philosopher.
There is a big secret connected with this. The same forces that underlie our bad thoughts were rayed out by hierarchical beings on old Moon, from angels up to Spirits of Form.
266III. From the Contents of Esoteric Classes III: 1913–1914: Esoteric Lesson 25 Apr 1914, Berlin
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Other elemental beings work at the word sense, that is, not on the spoken words that one can hear from others, but these beings stand behind the single consonants and vowels that make up a word; they work on the composition of letters and syllables. One who is outside of his body can't understand words that are spoken; he lacks the physical organ for this; but he watches elemental beings as they bring single letters together to form a word.
266III. From the Contents of Esoteric Classes III: 1913–1914: Esoteric Lesson 03 Jun 1914, Basel
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Lucifer has made his home in the heart, and that's where the burning of the imaginations, inspirations and intuitions that underlie sensory things takes place, for pictures of spiritual beings press into us with every breath, with every perception.
266III. From the Contents of Esoteric Classes III: 1913–1914: Esoteric Lesson 14 Jul 1914, Norrköping
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That's why it's so important that spiritual science should enter our age, so that an understanding for the true Christ can become alive again. In her Secret Doctrine Blavatsky speaks of Jahve as a moon God, but because she mixed in her own feelings there are errors in there, and much of the bad karma that burdens the Theosophical Society arose from this. And since Jahve was understood so little it's not surprising that one understands the Christ being so little now. To correct this Lucifer and Ahriman had to be spoken of right at the beginning of our Movement, for one can only get a right estimation of Jahve through a knowledge of their nature and activities.
266I. Esoteric Lessons 1904–1909: First Lecture 08 Feb 1904, Berlin

I spoke of the vast amount of energy that could be used for humanity, but is lost through vanity. He understood so little the significance of what was said that he replied: “We are all vain anyway, and that is also the drive for success!”
They first had to be able to immerse themselves in every soul. They had to understand why a person does this and why he does that. Look around you in your world: one person does this, another that.
But this does not mean to send out scouts from the surrounding area, but to explore the souls of men in order to see if he can intervene himself. One must learn to “understand”, and in the higher sense this is what tolerance is. He who starts out pointedly and boldly from his own point of view will come to seership just as little as he who strives for success in impatient expectation.
266I. Esoteric Lessons 1904–1909: Second Lecture 15 Feb 1904, Berlin

If you cannot feel pain when you encounter illogical thinking, then you cannot develop right thinking. You must not only understand right thinking, but also love it. You must love a thought as you love a child. You have seen your child today, yesterday and the day before yesterday, and you still love it. That is how you must treat the world of thought. When you think you have understood a thought, you must not push it out of your consciousness, but keep dealing with it. When you can do that, then you are provided with a kind of thought armor, then what was there as a transitional stage stops: the fight against what was illogical; it stops when a thought is as much a fact to you as a chair, a table and so on.
We will then seemingly be no different on the outside, but we will lead life under different impulses. We will not live out of vanity, not out of ambition, not for the sake of sensual pleasure, for we will no longer be able to do so, but out of duty, because it must be done out of the highest insight.

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