Astral world

In the astral world (also called astral plan, world-astrality, soul world, astral light or imaginative world; the lower regions of the astral world, which overlap with the etheric world, are also called the elementary world), desire and suffering, affection and hatred, urges and desires are just as really present as the outer material objects are in the physical world. One can rightly speak of an independent soul substance - only the term substance must not be misunderstood in the physical-material sense. The world of the soul necessarily remains hidden from the physical senses; it only opens up to the imaginative gaze of the soul. Sympathy and antipathy are the two poles between which the soul forces dynamically unfold.

Literature

• Rudolf Steiner: Theosophie. Einführung in die übersinnliche Welterkenntnis und Menschenbestimmung, GA 9 (1904), Kapitel Die Seelenwelt Template:Schriften
• Rudolf Steiner: Über die astrale Welt und das Devachan, GA 88 (1999), ISBN 3-7274-0880-4 Template:Vorträge
• Rudolf Steiner: Grundelemente der Esoterik, GA 93a (1987) Template:Vorträge
• Rudolf Steiner: Vor dem Tore der Theosophie, GA 95 (1978), Zweiter Vortrag, Stuttgart, 23. August 1906 Template:Vorträge
• Rudolf Steiner: Menschheits-Entwickelung und Christus-Erkenntnis, GA 100 (1981), Vierter Vortrag, Kassel, 19. Juni 1907 Template:Vorträge
• Rudolf Steiner: Mythen und Sagen. Okkulte Zeichen und Symbole, GA 101 (1992), ISBN 3-7274-1010-8 Template:Vorträge
• Rudolf Steiner: Geisteswissenschaftliche Menschenkunde, GA 107 (1988), ISBN 3-7274-1070-1 Template:Vorträge
• Rudolf Steiner: Die Beantwortung von Welt- und Lebensfragen durch Anthroposophie, GA 108 (1986), ISBN 3-7274-1081-7 Template:Vorträge
• Rudolf Steiner: Das Leben zwischen dem Tode und der neuen Geburt im Verhältnis zu den kosmischen Tatsachen, GA 141 (1997), ISBN 3-7274-1410-3 Template:Vorträge

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