XVIII. Occultism and Esotericism

GA 111/1908-03-06/p016 ·1908-03-06 · English MediumMedium alignmentSome paragraph re-numbering between this translation and the German original — the locus may slip by a paragraph or two.
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In order to distinguish the state of beings in which the individual ego is active from beings that do not have the ability to express their individuality to the outside world, the speaker uses the occult terms 'sounding® and 'non-sounding (mute) beings. Those who have a sound to express their individual suffering and joy have something more than the soundless or dumb animals. The man in the moon phase did not yet possess an individual sound, an I-ness.

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