KNOWLEDGE OF THE HIGHER WORLDS – HOW IS IT ACHIEVED?

PREPARATION:

Preparation consists of a very definite cultivation of the life of feeling and of thought, through which the body of soul and spirit is equipped with higher instruments of sense and organs of activity, in the same way that forces of nature have equipped the physical body with organs moulded out of indeterminate matter.

Step one: fix the attention intently and consciously upon such happenings as, on the one hand, life that is budding, growing, thriving, and, on the other, all phenomena of fading, decay, and withering. He must shut himself off from the rest of the outer world and follow only what his soul has to say about the phenomena of blossoming and thriving…………….RESULT: thoughts and feelings of a new character, unknown before, will be noticed rising up in the soul and built the organs of clairvoyance…..growing, blossoming and thriving will feel something remotely similar to the experience of sunrise. And the process of fading and dying will evoke an experience comparable in the same way to the slow rising of the moon over the horizon……..the soul-world, the astral plane, begins to dawn before him. Growth and decay form themselves into spiritual lines and figures of which he had previously know nothing. A blossoming flower, a growing animal or a dying tree will each conjure up a very definite form before his soul and the astral plane will slowly broaden out before him…..two pupils who have reached the appropriate stage of development will always see the same lines and figures in connection with the same phenomena…..if the pupil has progressed so far that he can perceive the spiritual forms of phenomena which are also physically visible to his outer sight, he will not be far from seeing things which have no physical existence at all….he should not try through intellectual speculation to determine what the things mean, but should rather allow the things themselves to tell him.
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