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• Title: Mysteries of the East: Lecture 1
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  • of humanity. First, by way of introduction, we must come to an
  • able to account for this “why”. But first he will have to
  • transformed. In the first place there will be a quite new mode of
  • first always accompanied by conditions of fear. And because the whole
  • first can be called “Coming into contact with the Experience of
  • vault of heaven at all. This means that the first moment in the
  • detail on this point; but first we want to make still clearer what is
  • small at first, but it becomes ever greater and greater and spreads
  • something different. But at first these experiences will be felt to be
  • of the physical plane the thing is always there, and one first gets a
  • recognise them. They must first infiltrate our own soul-substance
  • confronts us unless we first place our own soul-substance at its
  • higher worlds as though on a platter. He had first to develop himself
  • To-morrow we will go further, by describing first of all what the
• Title: Mysteries of the East: Lecture 2
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  • interests us in the animal kingdom, first of all, is its conformity to
  • first the impression that in the spiritual world these souls — of
  • first in full force when persons who in this sense are the children of
  • stellar influences, all have effects on the plant world. At first,
  • cultivated as a real and immediate experience, first in the Mysteries
  • important and necessary that one should first gain acquaintance with
• Title: Mysteries of the East: Lecture 3
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  • first, though not permanently. Something like a remembrance may arise
  • at the same time within this Being. And the first impression that the
  • remains silent. The aspirant must first have stood for a while before
  • her. And this “Cosmic Word” is in the first place the
• Title: Mysteries of the East: Lecture 4
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  • The Being formerly known spiritually as the Creative Word first became
  • step in the stages of Initiation, for in the first lecture we
  • days first became manifest in physical life when Moses heard in the
  • regions to which he could first attain he felt the Creative Word
  • the duality of human nature lays hold, in the first place, of the