Examples of using Esoteric development in English and their translations into Norwegian
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This appears especially in writers who have undergone an esoteric development.
The physical sense organs thereby feel that during esoteric development they are condemned, as it were, to inactivity; they are disconnected.
And the sorrow at being obliged to find fault is something which can also act as a barometer of the esoteric development.
On the whole,it may be said that a great deal of esoteric development is necessary before attaining to this Paradise-Imagination.
Through his esoteric development he becomes more capable than other people of presenting external facts in an orderly and profound manner in their causative or historical connection.
It will be noticed that when undergoing a theosophical or esoteric development it is easy to forget things.
This end is best attained during esoteric development, by trying not to be disturbed during the time of meditation, by any feeling of heat.
Now we know that these sense organs must really be stripped off when the pupil undergoes an esoteric development; they must be silent, as it were.
When the choleric undergoes an esoteric development, his works, even in their external structure, one might say, bear the character of truth and reality.
A person having developed no interest in mankind in general, andyet wishing to undergo an esoteric development, would feel himself more and more as a burden.
In true esoteric development it is very important to know what takes place within man, and what is in front of him, when he goes through occult development. .
HE more the etheric body of the student alters under influence of his esoteric development, the more does he obtain what may be called a feeling for time.
If we turn our observations in this direction, we shall better understand the changes that take place, more particularly in the human astral body,when a person undergoes an esoteric development.
And very often a man who has gone through a certain esoteric development may have almost entirely lost his memory, yet he is none the worse for it, because he sees things in retrospect.
While in ordinary life one lives without being aware of the etheric body, in the retrospective view of one's own lifeit can be perceived, and this gradually rouses in the student an impulse to make greater efforts when he undergoes an esoteric development.
We may learn to compare milk, plants andanimals as nourishment when, through theosophical or esoteric development, we become more sensitive to the effects of these foods;
In the next lecture we shall try to illustrate what I am now explaining in words by a drawing of the etheric body on the blackboard; we shall then sketch, in addition,the changes in the etheric body through theosophical or esoteric development.
The student who takes care to acquire these qualities in the right way will find that he gains as much inner strength as he loses forces through esoteric development, so that he is able to keep under control his more mobile physical body.
It is very necessary that in an esoteric development self-knowledge should be carefully exercised, and that the student inclined to melancholy should exercise this introspection, which enables him to take this change quietly and calmly.
No, it may be quite justifiable to be stern against the wrongs done in the world; butin the case of one who undergoes an esoteric development every word of blame he utters or sets in motion pains him, and prepares more and more pain for him.
But, through wise self-knowledge, esoteric development can bring about a distinct feeling that the mischief occasioned by the predominating temperament can be repaired by bringing about changes in the other temperaments also, changes which will, as it were, balance the principal change in the predominating temperament.
And many other things could be pointed out in this realm which in external life would prove, or at least verify the fact,that when he undergoes an esoteric development the choleric renders himself specially capable of clearly representing the world in its reality, in its causative connections.
Through esoteric development, for instance, because this esoteric development must necessarily make the astral body somewhat free, those persons who take up a kind of Theosophy that is not very serious, without paying attention to all that true Theosophy wishes to give, will in the course of it specially call forth this quality of the astral body.
The phlegmatic person then has a very strong inclination to observe himself very carefully, andfor this reason the phlegmatic temperament to which this process gives the least pain is not a bad preliminary condition for an esoteric development when such can be entered upon, because it is practically adapted to a certain calm self-observation.
And, grotesque as it may sound,it is nevertheless true that a man who is undergoing an esoteric development may at a certain stage declare, even though he may not allow this consciousness to grow into pride and vanity, that all that lies before him on the earth in the way of spiritual creations must be enjoyed by him; it is there for his enjoyment- so it belongs to him.
Whole ages have occupied themselves with the question of the egoistic nature of the astral body, and in legendary stories and, indeed, even in history echoes the horror of man at its nature, and the human longing to solve the problem of this astral body in the right manner,in a manner corresponding to the wise guidance of the world, and to the esoteric development of the individual human soul.
Of course, this does not postulate the principle- this must be emphasised again and again- that we should pass over all the wrong that is done in the world without criticism, for that would be an injustice towards the world; butit postulates something else; whereas before esoteric development we may have felt a certain pleasure in finding fault with some human failing, this pleasure in finding fault with other people entirely ceases in the course of esoteric development.