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• Title: At the Gates: Notes from Answers to Questions - Stuttgart, 2 September, 1906
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  • idea of this, the following may be said. Anything that is dead has the
  • tendency to remain in its three dimensions. Anything living extends all
  • the time beyond the third dimension. Anything that grows has, through its
  • movement, the fourth dimension within its three dimensions. If something
  • of things should be the aim.
  • in Devachan. You do not experience your own pains there. Pain is something
  • one's parents is generally something determined by karma.
  • One should not think about things which are not facts; human beings
  • In the world today there is a prevailing tendency to lead everything
  • “All things transient are but a parable.” “The
  • in himself; and then he hears the name that belongs to each thing. Later,
• Title: At the Gates: Notes from Answers to Questions - Stuttgart, 4 September, 1906
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  • The story of Jonah indicates the same thing. Jonah — man —
  • After death we see nothing
  • embraces everything physical; the oceanic realm, everything living;
  • It contains everything that has ever been thought. On the far side of
  • the Akasha Chronicle lies everything that has not yet become thought.
  • an invisible force, called magnetism. He replies: I want to know nothing
  • looking only at the things of the world, says that he affirms the world.
  • Christ Himself. Therefore Christ embraces everything previous to Him
• Title: At the Gates: References
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  • 110 “Everything that has been recounted from
  • 134. “All things transient are but a
• Title: At the Gates: Lecture I: The Being of Man
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  • day in the shop, where he was not allowed to sell anything himself.
  • might be about something, perhaps a request, which had nothing to do
  • science has always been to unravel the riddle of man. Everything said
  • they will contain nothing that is mere theory and cannot be put into
  • things which you can see and touch; every stone is after all a physical
  • possible. He must therefore possess something which enables him to use
  • there, while the second diverts his attention from something that is
  • involuntarily every day when we are wholly absorbed in something.
  • Theosophy will have nothing to do with conditions where consciousness is
  • The astral body is the seat of everything we know as desire, passion,
  • to the seer in a peculiar form. When he studies the astral body, everything
  • lowest level of culture. Actually there is nothing there but an empty
• Title: At the Gates: Lecture II: The Three Worlds
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  • feeling.” Only one thing could be given to her, deprived as she
  • to life. As its fruits it brings us two things we must have if we are
  • has true knowledge of the visible world unless he knows something also
  • not spatially separate. We are surrounded by the things of the physical
  • be bewildered, because there is really nothing in the physical world
  • characteristics of its own and he has to learn many new things. One
  • of the most perplexing aspects of this world is that all things appear
  • seeing everything in a new way. For instance, he has to learn to read
  • but in the astral world we have to read them backwards as 543. Everything
  • to higher things — in the field of morality, for instance. People
  • of the objects around you. Everything that comes out of you seems to
  • and we find that everything lives in music. Goethe, as an Initiate,
  • spectacle. We see everything in the negative, as though on a photographic
  • plate. Where a physical object exists, there is nothing; what is light
  • in the physical world appears dark, and vice versa. We see things, too,
  • more delicately organised, the archetypes of life are added: everything
  • are like solid foundations, the Continents, of Devachan. Everything
  • that has life forms its Ocean. Everything that pleasure and pain signify
  • everything that might still have existed even if there had been no mankind.
  • It includes all man's original thoughts which enable him to bring something
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• Title: At the Gates: Lecture III: Life of the Soul in Kamaloka
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  • When a man dies, things
  • Something like this can happen during life, in rare moments of great
  • At such moments everything that has been inscribed on the etheric body
  • depends entirely on his senses. Let us think away everything that comes
  • we are parted from all our physical organs, from everything that normally
  • fills our daytime consciousness and enlivens the soul, from everything
  • or instrument for satisfying it. It has to feel deprived of everything,
  • on the physical and material. He also relives everything he enjoyed in
  • of which he was so suddenly deprived. Nothing else bears comparison
  • meaning in Kamaloka. During his life a man does not merely do things
  • of karma, but from earthly things. A vivisectionist has a particularly
  • or a saint such as St. Francis of Assisi, things are quite different.
  • They denied themselves many things; they ennobled their desires and
  • of reincarnation is like a red rag to a bull; there is nothing he would
  • own astral corpse still in existence, containing everything that had
• Title: At the Gates: Lecture IV: Devachan
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  • immediate impression. But although the picture itself vanishes, something
  • important, something that may be called its fruit, survives. The total
  • quite new things and makes them his own.
  • something important was connected, for it meant that the Sun's rays
  • everything is seen as though in a photographic negative. Everything
  • or animal, and everything physical that still exists, appears as a
  • and to observe it as he observes physical things on Earth; and he gathers
  • concerned only with himself. Everything he does is done in full
  • everything to act on them from outside. Eye, ear and so on have to wait
  • discarded and nothing remains with the man except what he has acquired as
• Title: At the Gates: Lecture V: Human Tasks in the Higher Worlds
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  • it, a comparison with something that occurs on Earth will perhaps bring
  • continental, where everything physical is spread out in negative, but
  • sea; and a man sees this flow as something both external and internal.
  • in everything, can be truly practised; for the universal life, common
  • to all things, is seen in flow.
  • has something else to do there.
  • for instance, must things have been in northern Siberia when the mammoth,
  • How different things must have been here, when primeval forest still
  • the beings who live on the Earth. On the astral plane things are quite
  • not even any tools. Everything existed in the form given to it by gods,
• Title: At the Gates: Lecture VI: The Upbringing of Children. Karma.
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  • birth, things change; only then can the child receive impressions from
  • the etheric and astral bodies quite unmolested and to rely on everything
  • are significant, and everything a child sees or hears affects him in
  • The most important thing during the first seven years is to nourish
  • be much happier with a piece of wood, or with anything which gives his
  • habits, his memory, everything which will give his character a firm
  • before the child; these are the things which act on the etheric body.
  • the twenty-fourth year, when everything around him can teach a person
  • something, is the best time for learning from the world. That is the
  • which will show how from birth to the seventh year the essential thing
  • karma is not mere theory, or something that merely satisfies our curiosity.
  • to be found in this life; nothing immediate is responsible for it. The
  • it is true that nothing exists without a cause, so it is equally true
  • that nothing existing remains without its effects. I may be born in
  • us and cannot change it, the best thing is to do nothing. If I am lazy,
  • may have done in this life will have its effect, and so will everything
  • can do nothing about it. Just as the merchant is not hindered by his
  • couldn't do anything because it would mean interfering with the state
  • is nothing to prevent me from relieving any misery and poverty. On the
  • ascribes everything to self-redemption. You say a man must work out
• Title: At the Gates: Lecture VII: Workings of the Law of Karma in Human Life
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  • our physical body and on everything connected with it. Our external
  • anything about Theosophy; think of the new ideas you have acquired and
  • will engender in his astral body something which will become a
  • world will find in his next life that he cannot stick at anything. But
  • he will be born with a special predilection for everything that reminds
  • of this type does not like to display his toys; he is afraid something
  • will be taken away from him and would like to keep everything under
  • no real interest in anything; he is dreamy, inactive, lazy, and seeks
  • other hand, gets easily interested in anything but he does not stick to
  • anything else. If, however, a man has learnt a great deal from experience
  • but has also had something of a hard struggle, if he has encountered many
  • things and has not merely looked on at them, he will become a choleric.
  • or if he saw and passed by many things, but only as an onlooker, all
  • to influence our etheric body for the next life? Everything done to
  • of how things in the spiritual life are inter-related can be seen in
  • you in finding evidence for this, because it knows nothing of astral
  • Then there was a third stage: that of the people who took everything
  • everything literally because through his spiritual knowledge he can see
  • how things are interconnected.
  • environment but would receive from everything around them a sensation
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• Title: At the Gates: Lecture VIII: Good and Evil. Individual Karmic Questions.
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  • something comparable to what we call conscience. We find that in the
  • for it exists. The same thing is true of the early periods of other
  • and tried to convince him that it is not a good thing to eat another human
  • felt that there was something wrong about this, and the fruits of this
  • thought emerged: Here is something one should not do. Similarly, a savage
  • at a primitive stage would eat everything indiscriminately, but when he
  • things he could eat and some he could not. This kind of experience became
  • is something mankind has acquired through many incarnations. Only after
  • example of something which has developed out of experience into a permanent
  • sick in order to produce something precious. In the same way, physical
  • has within him something that later on will be outside — his karma,
  • worked itself out. With all this something of extraordinary interest
  • of man. Things such as this give us a glimpse into the secret of life.
  • surrounds us: this means that man at one time contained everything within
  • out their constituent parts. Thus when man looks at anything outside
  • further idea. Imagine that ancient condition of humanity when nothing
  • subjective. Everything had its origin in man. Our dreams are still a
  • We as human beings have made everything, and in the rest of creation
  • thing-in-itself as something unknowable by man. But in fact there are
  • no limits to knowledge, for man can find, in everything he sees around
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• Title: At the Gates: Lecture IX: Evolution of the Earth
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  • craves for things harmful to the heart. Coffee, tea, alcohol, are poisons
  • and in spite of everything it keeps going. It is constructed so durably
  • this law. The Earth, with everything that is on it, has passed through
  • man passed through the mineral kingdom; but to think of it as anything
  • as H.P.B. knew very well, is full of riddles. There is nothing there
  • In the meantime, however, man had gained the power to separate something
  • in everything, but it has to work its way up through these three stages;
  • Round also brought nothing new; it was a recapitulation of life on the
  • Sun. In the third Round there was something new: man acquired an astral
  • crust, had something like a living and inwardly growing peaty mass.
  • this breathing in of fire the warmth permeated their whole being; then
  • this in the image of the fire-breathing dragon; they knew that in ancient
  • and how the most ordinary everyday things are linked with the most
• Title: At the Gates: Lecture X: Progress of Mankind Up To Atlantean Times
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  • by air. This spirit-atmosphere contained everything which today constitutes
  • in the rarefied substance of the etheric globe, something rather denser
  • solid mineral forms appeared. Previously, everything had been etheric,
  • something like a fish-bird-animal. Most of the Earth was still watery
  • with air. As soon as he had reached the stage where the breathing of
  • heat was transformed into the breathing of air, that which Mars had
  • had come when something spiritual which had previously surrounded man
  • within himself. And with this something further of great importance
  • Luciferic beings, everything would have come to man as a gift from the
• Title: At the Gates: Lecture XI: The Post-Atlantean Culture-Epochs
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  • directions for a moral way of life, with everything laid down in the
  • He discerned something holy in nature as a keynote of the Divine; it
  • The Indian turned away from everything external and looked for the higher
  • the outer world confronted him as something he could not understand;
  • a great wisdom governing all natural processes; that everything happened
  • and thus to rediscover something which the ancient Atlanteans had known
  • something from within themselves; they discover divinely-ordained laws
  • its own task. Present-day man knows nothing of what the third and fourth
  • same thing happening in the world of the spirit and the world of the
  • need only remind ourselves that on the astral plane everything appears
  • taught only two things: that the Earth revolves on its own axis and
  • the future we shall hear something very different and stand in quite
  • everything else in the world. It is the form of the divine Spirit, but
  • understanding of things; we do not battle against people but seek to
• Title: At the Gates: Lecture XII: Occult Develpment
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  • anyone who aspires to occult development must among other things get
  • is it for me to hear about occult things from others when I cannot see
  • of dreamless sleep, sleep without consciousness, when nothing comes
  • with things which do not exist at all in the outside world and which
  • dreams you no longer see things which originate in the outer world or
  • just said, you will experience pictures of things which have no existence
  • something important. For instance, you may dream that a friend of yours
  • higher worlds, so that you experience something which does not exist
  • But he must always realise that everything there is symbolical.
  • always does stand for one thing, just as in the ordinary world one object
  • the same image. The important thing is to learn how to read the images
  • as fire. The ancient religious documents do not tell only of things
  • have to speak to us in pictures. Everything narrated from the Akashic
  • of Devachan, the Music of the Spheres. Everything speaks forth its own
  • name and its relation to other things. This comes in addition to astral
  • find something to replace these forces.
  • course in harmony with the laws of the world. Everything in the system
  • prejudice. This, the fourth characteristic, sees good in everything
  • and looks for the positive element in all things. Relevant to this is a
  • comes faith, which in its occult sense implies something rather different
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• Title: At the Gates: Lecture XIII: Oriental and Christian Training
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  • say that no occult school sees in its teaching and requirements anything
  • fulfil everything that the Christian religion prescribes for the laity
  • desire nothing.
  • it in a bank. You do nothing with it; you exploit no-one. But suppose
  • fact that he knew nothing about it makes no difference to his karma.
  • strive to need nothing. Even if you have great possessions, in so far as
  • nothing, is especially hard to carry out. It means that the pupil
  • must strive to have no needs, no desire for anything in the world, and
  • times and signify something very profound. An uneducated man will have
  • is breathing, yoga-breathing. It is an essential and detailed part of
  • What does breathing signify
  • “By breathing you are slowly, continually, killing your
  • this does not happen, for in plants the breathing process is the reverse
  • is something one has only to recognise, for every man has seen it. It is
  • something which everyone holds in his hand for part of almost every day,
  • deprive his breath of the capacity to kill, and must organise his breathing
  • is this to be accomplished? You have to bring rhythm into your breathing.
  • The teacher gives the necessary instructions. Breathing in, holding
  • your breath and breathing out again — this must be done rhythmically,
  • go, so that nothing is left in your consciousness. But you must not
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• Title: At the Gates: Lecture XIV: Rosicrucian Training - The Interior of the Earth - Earthquakes and Volcanoes
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  • that the highest knowledge of mundane things is thoroughly compatible
  • Rosicrucian pupil has to distinguish two things, not merely theoretically
  • yourself to speak neither too loudly nor too softly. Things such as this,
  • Self-knowledge is one of the hardest things to acquire, and it is
  • who want to achieve something cannot wait; they imagine they are already
  • fit to receive anything. This patience derives from strict self-training,
  • my higher self and to withdraw from the world; I want to know nothing
  • about anything material,” he entirely fails to understand that
  • which sees in everything a revelation of the Divine. Everything material
  • rejecting the Divine. The important thing is not to gaze into ourselves,
  • thing is not to comprehend its whole content, but to enter into the
  • nothing about planetary systems, we show great egoism. True wisdom
  • or Imaginative Knowledge is the second thing we have to attain. What
  • it in the light of Goethe's saying: “Everything transitory
  • into the life of the soul. Everything must become for us a symbol in
  • in this way, so that external things become symbolic pictures of moral
  • means one comes to see things surrounded by their astral element.
  • script, through which one can penetrate more deeply into things. An
  • which correspond with real things, and in the Rosicrucian training such
  • element is brought into breathing. It plays a less important part
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