Six Basic Exercises

[ecosophia]

I've been pleased to see quite a bit more life of late in circles associated with Anthroposophy, the system of esoteric philosophy and training created in the early 20th century by Rudolf Steiner. Maybe it's because plenty of people just now have heard of Steiner's predictions involving vaccines and collective madness, maybe it's something else, but the discussions on certain Anthroposophical forums I follow have become much more lively and much less dogmatic than in the past.

One consequence is that things from Steiner's instructional lectures and writings that are useful for beginners are all over the place just now. One of those strikes me as worth sharing here. It's a set of six basic exercises exploring the human powers of thinking, willing, and feeling, entirely suitable to complete beginners, and also entirely suitable to students of the occult in any tradition. Here they are, compiled by Anthroposophist Tom van Gelder and made freely available:

https://tomvangelder.antrovista.com/pdf/basic.pdf

Give 'em a read and consider whether they might be worth adding to your occult practices.

Comments

[transcriberb]

Thank you.

[(Anonymous)]

Hi JMG,
Do have links to some of those anthroposophy forums? I am very curious about them
Greetings

[ecosophia]

One I particularly recommend, if you can handle Reddit, is https://old.reddit.com/r/Anthroposophy/ .

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you for this. I’ve been studying How To Know Higher Worlds closely for the past couple of months and this will be helpful in putting it into action.

[ecosophia]

That's a fine book -- one of my favorites of Steiner's work.

[frittermywig]

I'm definitely more interested in Steiner since learning about his vaccine predictions. The current discussion about Thomas Mayer in Open Post on Covid #97 has further increased my interest in Anthroposophy, so thank you for this.

[ecosophia]

A lot of people seem to be thinking along the same lines, I'm glad to say.

Q

[(Anonymous)]

Would this be a 9th or 8th house question for divination?

[jruss]

I’m very sure the answer is yes but I assume these are suitable for children to do correct?

[ecosophia]

Yes. As these are NOT RITUAL MAGIC they are entirely safe.

(Sigh...)

[jruss]

Yes sometimes I can be so… Dumb that I actually drain IQs around me, that’s why today you may suddenly start thinking the vax is a good idea.

Just get a bacon cheeseburger and milkshake that’ll clear it up.

In all seriousness thanks for the patience and answers.

[weilong]

Since nobody has brought it up yet, I'll ask the obvious question.
Where is the exercise to combine thinking and willing?

[(Anonymous)]

Did you read through all of the exercises?