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264. The History of the Esoteric School 1904–1914, Volume One: To Alfred Meebold in Heidenheim on the Brenz 31 Dec 1906, Berlin

Rudolf Steiner
I only touched on the question of the master implicitly by pointing out that “I” does not mean “I” when I say “I”. I knew that you would understand me correctly because I have the highest regard for the experiences you have had in life and therefore spoke to you with complete trust.
I am particularly pleased with those of my students who are learning to understand my relationship to occultism no differently than a mathematician's to mathematics. This also completely resolves the vexed question of authority.
264. The History of the Esoteric School 1904–1914, Volume One: General Rules of the Esoteric School N/A

Rudolf Steiner
2Regional groups, led by a so-called “Sub-Warden”, also existed under Rudolf Steiner. For example, in Nuremberg under Michael Bauer (see Rudolf Steiner's letter to him dated August 4, 1907), and in Stuttgart under Adolf Arenson, who, according to his certificate from Rudolf Steiner, was appointed in 1906 and also held meetings.
They do not belong to the actual meditation, but should be cultivated outside of it. The matter is to be understood in such a way that esoteric training is only justified if these demands are made of the student at the same time.
264. The History of the Esoteric School 1904–1914, Volume One: Individually Given Exercises N/A

Rudolf Steiner
Dreamless sleep experiences are always hearing experiences and, if they are to be of any value, articulated hearing experiences, e.g. words. Sometimes you don't even need to understand the words. Because they can appear in the reminiscence as in a language that is not understood by us.
Man becomes greater when he becomes simpler. ad. 29. It is important to understand that sensitivity is not the same as sensitivity. It therefore means: Before the ear is able to hear, it must replace sensitivity with a simplified perception.
The various planets are connected with the various parts of the currents as indicated. The planets are to be understood more as principles that actually always work on all globes, only on the individual in an outstanding way.
264. The History of the Esoteric School 1904–1914, Volume One: The Twelve-membered Essence of the Masters 29 May 1915, Dornach

Rudolf Steiner
The relevant passage reads:The nature of a Mahatma is difficult to grasp correctly and would hardly be understandable without reference to later sections of this book, so that it seems appropriate to go into it in more detail now.
When I wrote the foregoing portion of this book, I was under the impression that a supreme head, standing on a still higher plane, ruled over these five Chohans; but now the thought suggests itself to me that this personality is more likely to be a sixth chohan, the head of the sixth fundamental form of the Mahatmas; and this supposition leads immediately to the further conclusion that, to complete the recognized correspondences or relationships, there must be a seventh Chohan.
However, pondering this brings little more benefit than greater clarity with regard to the above-mentioned thought that the Mahatmas must not be understood as merely extraordinary people of great spiritual sublimity, but as necessary phenomena in nature, without which a progressive development of humanity can hardly be imagined.
264. The History of the Esoteric School 1904–1914, Volume One: Diagram of the Cultural and Historical Influence of the Masters Leipzig

Rudolf Steiner
But how the physical immortality of adepts is to be understood in reality is explained in the lecture Berlin, December 16, 1904 as follows: “It is not a matter of physical death, but of the following. The physical death of the one who has recognized the Philosopher's Stone for himself and has understood how to extract it is only an apparent event for him. For other people, however, it is a real event that marks a major stage in his life. For the one who [...] understands how to use the Philosopher's Stone, death is only an apparent event. It does not even constitute a particularly important stage in life; it is something that only exists for others, who may observe the adept and say that he is dying.
264. The History of the Esoteric School 1904–1914, Volume One: The Nature and Work of the Masters II 14 Jul 1904, Berlin

Rudolf Steiner
Within us lie the powers in germinal form, which have come to full bloom in the Masters. 10. To understand development, we can observe the development from plant to animal to human. 11. This symbol is shown to us as a symbol for the development of the plant: ⊥ 1 12.
264. The History of the Esoteric School 1904–1914, Volume One: The Nature and Work of the Masters III 11 Nov 1905, Munich

Rudolf Steiner
Memorial notes by Eugenie von Bredow Necessity for the esotericist to understand the plan that humanity is unconsciously working out under the guidance of the white lodge. The humanity of the earth is its center, that which is important in this world.
People will draw out the forces in the flowing water and make them useful to themselves, they will catch the powerful forces that lie in the sun's rays through powerful mirrors and know how to make them useful to themselves; they will learn to control the forces in the earth's interior that are now being triggered by volcanic eruptions and that originate from a powerful spiritual being in the earth's interior; the most marvelous machines will be devised by men to put all these triggered forces at the service of mankind, indeed they will get the magnetic power of the whole earth under their control, for the earth is but a great magnet whose south pole is at the north pole and whose north pole is at the south pole.
264. The History of the Esoteric School 1904–1914, Volume One: The Nature and Work of the Masters IV 13 Dec 1905, Berlin

Rudolf Steiner
He spoke about the Dalai Lama and his election from among children born under special natural phenomena. He spoke about the spirits of the fire mist, whose disciples were our masters; he spoke about the development of man into such a powerful being.
264. The History of the Esoteric School 1904–1914, Volume One: The Nature and Work of the Masters IX 23 Nov 1907, Basel

Rudolf Steiner
He was called “of the Oberland” because he came from the upper world. It was Jesus of Nazareth who lived and worked under the name “the great unknown of the Oberland” in the 13th or 14th century. Johannes Tauler was taught by him.
264. The History of the Esoteric School 1904–1914, Volume One: The Nature and Work of the Masters X 15 Nov 1909, Düsseldorf

Rudolf Steiner
I will speak of that which is the first and greatest in the world, of that which he has revealed to me, the great spirit, which is Ahura Mazdao. But he who does not hear my words, as I understand and grasp them, will experience evil when the earth's course has come to an end in his age.“ 13

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