6. Experiences of Initiation in the Northern Mysteries

GA 119/1910-03-26/p016 ·1910-03-26 · 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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Things in the everyday world are revealed to us in these states or conditions: solid, liquid, aeriform or gaseous, or as warmth. These, however, are always qualities of some external body, for an external body may be solid in the form of ice or also be liquid or gaseous when the ice melts. Warmth permeates all three states. So it is in the case of everything existing in the outer world of the senses.

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