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270. Esoteric Instructions: The Lesson in Berne 17 Apr 1924, Bern
Translated by John Riedel

But truly there is no need to reach the teachings of the Third Degree of Initiation in order to understand this. Then comes a further degree in which the adept will be given the name Christ-Bearer.
Here feeling, touching, is an activity. [touch within was underlined.] In the third line touching has become a noun. [Touching's was underlined.] This repetition of that feeling, now metamorphosed, is what gives the mantra its mantric character.
O Man, feel inwardly in your living’s whole weave, Again, we have the experience as an activity [In the third line live was underlined.], and now life is a noun. [In the fifth line living’s was underlined.] We have ascended with constantly changing activity from the physical body, which is at work entirely in the earthly realm.
270. Esoteric Instructions: Eighth Lesson 18 Apr 1924, Dornach
Translated by John Riedel

And so the Executive Council in Dornach, as underscored since the Christmas Conference, is an initiative executive council. Understandably, governance must take place.
This is essential in this day and age. Under any other conditions, the leadership of the School of Spiritual Science cannot readily commit itself to working together with someone as a member.
And he begins to understand true magic, a magic that at first appears as thoughts, that lives through arms and hands, through legs and toes.
270. Esoteric Instructions: Ninth Lesson 22 Apr 1924, Dornach
Translated by John Riedel

Therefore, each and every one who wishes to understand things about the spiritual world ever more and more correctly, must also understand inwardly. Of course, with healthy human understanding one can understand all of Anthroposophy, but understanding inwardly means to carry this ever more and more into one's inner life.
[In the first mantric sentence "pillars" was underlined.] Here we have the plastic building forces. [In the second mantric sentence "sculptors" was underlined.]
But then, when this has in fact been undertaken to completion, when we finally arrive at reverence through such an exercise, then the world ceases being physical for us.
270. Esoteric Instructions: Tenth Lesson 25 Apr 1924, Dornach
Translated by John Riedel

And a picture of this should be developed, of what a person’s soul can undergo along the way from an experience of the world of physical sensation, the world known through the senses, to an experience of the spiritual world.
And one should really appreciate that attaining this common understanding is the beginning of esoteric pursuit. One should not overlook this point. When, by means of this attainment, one goes out and acts in accordance with this initiatory common understanding, which is given in this school, convened for this purpose, then one will be following the esoteric path ever more and more closely.
The meditation in its entirety progresses as a dialogue, line for line, with one in dark spiritual depths under the dominion of spiritual beings, standing there in the lines at the top of the verses, speaking to us.
270. Esoteric Instructions: Eleventh Lesson 02 May 1924, Dornach
Translated by John Riedel

[“am” and “live” were underlined.] So You’d stride in earthly-changes As human-creative-strength. Each one of us must come into familiarity with this verse in three parts.
[Limbs was underlined.] Human-action-streaming The “I will”: “I am”, “I live”, “I will” [“Will” was underlined.].
[The three words cited on the board were underlined.] Properly meditating, properly exercising the soul, lies not in theorizing or in intellectualizing about the content of a meditative verse.
270. Esoteric Instructions: Twelfth Lesson 11 May 1924, Dornach
Translated by John Riedel

Then try to sense this memory-thought, try to perceive it, and you will have the feeling that in perceiving it you localize it underneath speech, you perceive it therefore below, below the localization of speech [yellow]. And you will say to yourself something like, “When I speak, I experience it in the region of my organ of speech, when I think, I experience it over this in my head, but when I remember, I experience it underneath the thinking.”
First, we are to look to the radiant nature of our senses, then to thinking’s forceful affect working in us, then to that which lies deep underneath, to what lies underneath speech, to what lies in the constituting of memory, “Look to memory’s picture-forming.”
[The mantra was now written on the board and at the same time in the first line “thinking was underlined, and in each case the last lines of parts 1,2, and 3 were underlined.] Examine the field of thinking He speaks, who you the ways From earthly life to earthly life Will show in spirit light: Look to your senses’ radiant nature.
270. Esoteric Instructions: Thirteenth Lesson 17 May 1924, Dornach
Translated by John Riedel

While in the field of memory-thoughts it can be felt under the organ of speech. And when we say something to ourselves inwardly and full of life, either quietly or out loud, it can be sensed in the organ of speech itself.
[It was written on the board and “beings” was underlined.] clouds—Thrones—beings We gaze out upon the thunderbolts of lightning.
We should also have this sort of continuity if we once understand the force of meditation. We should certainly always feel this way, so that we can say to ourselves, our customary awareness has certainly, once meditated on, it has certainly once achieved an understanding of the penetrating power of meditation.
270. Esoteric Instructions: Fourteenth Lesson 31 May 1924, Dornach
Translated by John Riedel

We have been studying the position of the human being in relation to the Guardian of the Threshold, and have led the soul in progressive steps into an understanding of the relationship a person has with the Guardian of the Threshold along the path of knowledge.
Here on this side of the Threshold we stand upon the earth, upon the fixed elements of earth. The ground is under our feet. The ground supports us. The watery element is around us, that also takes part in the formation of our own body.
And so the Guardian of the Threshold must and does call out to him, “You may not do it. You may not fall under the sway of Lucifer. In the dissolution in earth, water, fire, and air you may not simply feel the solitary wonder of bliss.
270. Esoteric Instructions: Fifteenth Lesson 21 Jun 1924, Dornach
Translated by John Riedel

We have been advised, have had it pointed out to us, that we are already standing on the other side of the abyss, although still under the warning guidance of the Guardian of the Threshold. He directs certain words to us, in order that they should lead us to an understanding of our situation when we have over-flown the abyss and have entered the realm which for us is initially quite dark.
We feel ourselves to be human here in the sensory world under the sway of the beings of the three realms of nature. We must learn to feel in this way when remaining within the spiritual world under the sway of those beings with whom we exist in our human soul and spirit nature, just as we exist here with our physical and etheric nature among the beings of the three realms of external nature. Just as we learn to know ourselves as physical human beings under the sway of other physical human beings, just so we must learn to know ourselves as humans of soul and spirit under the sway of higher beings of soul and spirit.
270. Esoteric Instructions: Sixteenth Lesson 28 Jun 1924, Dornach
Translated by John Riedel

Our “I” answers the question, “Has your spirit understood.” The answer is neither haughty nor expectant. The answer is not “I have understood,” but rather, the “I” feels that divine existence penetrates into the innermost aspect of human nature, divine breath in man it is, that peacefully abides and prepares the way for understanding.
The Guardian: Has your spirit understood? “I”: The world-spirit in me Held his breath And its presence May illuminate my I.
Invoke in eternal being’s deeds the spirit-redeemer-powers. Has your spirit understood? The world-spirit in me Held his breath And its presence May illuminate my I. Has your soul accepted?

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