Extract Introductory words Introduction We humans are spiritual beings. Before birth, our earth incarnation is worked out by the highest spiritual beings of the angel hierarchies according to our ego development, our previous earth incarnations and the resulting fate, taking into account the present and future cultural, ethnic and civilisation lives as well as the interpersonal relationships. We are a spiritual being in development. After our death we live as spiritual beings in the spiritual world until the next rebirth. Man, if he develops accordingly, should in future become a tenth hierarchy of angels, in addition to the nine known hierarchies of angels. A spiritual being with the excellent qualities of love and freedom. In order to make freedom possible for man, opponents of the good, justified development of mankind had to appear, which first created a space for freedom. These adversaries are also generalized and inaccurately called the devil. … Thinking from the heart Our thinking brings the sensually perceived thing into a truthful context through its power of judgement in connection with the hidden thing seen through spiritual intuition, which is hidden behind the perceived thing, and can thus recognize the total, because sensual and spiritual reality. Our thinking today has become accustomed to think sensual thoughts with its physical brain alone and is conditioned to misjudgements by constant mass media untruths. What we have to practice is the thinking of thoughts that come from the spiritual world alone and the ability to make true self-conscious judgements. If we look at the spiritual truths hidden behind things and recognize them, if we feel them to be true, then we are powerful in heart thinking. We practise bodiless thinking by holding on to and meditating on spiritual sayings (mantras) that have been given to us by spiritual teachers for a longer period of time without being influenced or disturbed. And we form truthful judgement through the truths that are expressed through them. Reading sample mantras by Rudolf Steiner Sun powers sprouted, Shining, world-giving Powers of the mind: To Michael's ray child Are you predestined From thinking of the gods, He, the Christ messenger, Know in yourselves human-bearing, Holy World Wills. You, the bright Etherworld entities, Does the word of Christ To humans. This is how Michael appears, The Christ scout, In waiting, thirsting Souls. It seems to them... Light word In spirit-man world-time. You, the spirit-knowing student Take Michael's wise counsel, Take a word of love for the will of the world In the souls of high places Effective on. (Rudolf Steiner, GA238, 28.9.1924) Extract People-Love-Days Through the workings of evil man could not to be on earth a complete being. Thus God created man and woman so that she could be in loving Create togetherness on the new world order. What in the loving human hearts blossoms, creates new worlds, new unprecedented luminous being. In the loving club the hearts find each other born out of sheer pain. When two loving human souls connect and merge two are one in a whole being aspire to life loving beauty, Good World-Future-Beginning ...to make it. Extract For meditation Every human being can practice his abilities of thinking, feeling and willing and his higher perceptive faculties in such a way and train them to such an extent that they can gain knowledge of the higher worlds. It is mediation that makes a significant contribution to this. An important step are the so-called secondary exercises1: thought control, initiative of action, calmness/equanimity, understanding of every being, inner harmony/balance, in order to strengthen both the thinking and the inner harmony as described on the previous pages. For meditation, it is helpful to choose regularly, for example daily one or more times, in order to be able to devote oneself to an activity that is undisturbed if possible, an outwardly calm, but inwardly active activity...
