Spiritual training

The path of spiritual training is a path of knowledge which serves the spiritual development and leads the spiritual disciple step by step to initiation through suitable concentration and meditation exercises (soul exercises). He works on his etheric body after he has purified his astral body in preparation. Once he has completed this, he is an initiate.

„Everything that works only on the astral body is only preparation for the actual esoteric training, for the actual occult training. Occult training begins where we learn to work into the etheric or life body, where man is enabled, through the guidance given him by the occult teacher, to transform the temperaments, inclinations and habits, where man becomes another. With this comes only the insight into the real higher world, that man becomes another man.“ (Lit.:GA 96, p. 258f)

Literature

• Anton Kimpfler: Praktische Esoterik. Der Weg ins dritte Jahrtausend, Verlag am Goetheanum, Dornach 1999, ISBN 978-3723510629
• Christoph Hueck: Intuition - das Auge der Seele. Die Darstellung des intuitiven Erkennens im schriftlichen Werk Rudolf Steiners, Akanthos Akademie Edition, Books on Demand 2016, ISBN 978-3741298264; eBook ASIN B01N0H7HXN
• Christoph Hueck: Philosophie als Initiation: Die sieben philosophischen Schriften Rudolf Steiners als spiritueller Schulungsweg, Books on Demand 2017, ISBN 978-3746046785; eBookASIN B0788R72FS
• Rudolf Steiner: Die Stufen der höheren Erkenntnis, GA 12 (1993), ISBN 3-7274-0120-6; Tb 641, ISBN 978-3-7274-6410-2 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Ursprungsimpulse der Geisteswissenschaft, GA 96 (1989), ISBN 3-7274-0961-4 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Das christliche Mysterium, GA 97 (1998), ISBN 3-7274-0970-3 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Die Apokalypse des Johannes, GA 104 (1985), ISBN 3-7274-1040-X English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Die geistigen Wesenheiten in den Himmelskörpern und Naturreichen, GA 136 (1996), ISBN 3-7274-1361-1 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Das Sonnenmysterium und das Mysterium von Tod und Auferstehung, GA 211 (1986), ISBN 3-7274-2110-X English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org

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