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Vox Occulta reads a lecture by Rudolf Steiner on meditation. Daily life, he says, stays sunk inside the physical organism. Meditation is how a person meets beings he places in the cosmos, and its theme should be new, so habit and memory do not steer it. Whatever force the exercise uses must leave the physical organism and the etheric organism as they are. Once thought can hover in the etheric region, the student finds that the body was not touched by it. He begins by facing the etheric life one has already lived, from childhood on. That meeting, he says, is when a person first knows himself truly. A philosopher of this age, he claims, stays awake inside the state of a small child who has not yet found speech. Taking up that early state on purpose is, in this lecture, the making of a philosopher. Calling an older inner condition back, while fully awake, is the task he gives a cosmologist now.
Key points
- Vox Occulta reads Rudolf Steiner on a practice that deepens ordinary thought.
- The force of the exercise must leave the physical organism and the etheric organism as they are.
- Thought that hovers in the etheric region finds the body untouched.
- Facing the etheric life already lived is, he says, when a person first knows himself.
- Taking up a small child’s state on purpose is what he calls the making of a philosopher.
- Calling an older inner condition back, while fully awake, is the task he gives a cosmologist now.
Short quotes
he can look back in this thinking upon his unaltered physical body
Rudolf Steiner, Steiner on meditation
Once thought hovers in that region, he says, the body is found still untouched. Watch at 6:25
we learn to understand ourselves rightly for the first time
Rudolf Steiner, Steiner on meditation
Facing the etheric life already lived is, for him, the moment a person first knows himself. Watch at 11:45
consciously to become a child means to be a philosopher
Rudolf Steiner, Steiner on meditation
Taking up that early state on purpose is what this lecture calls the making of a philosopher. Watch at 27:11
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