10. Occult Signs and Symbols of the Astral World
GA 246/1908-01-12/p022
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If we follow the path even higher, beyond the astral world, we come to the so-called spiritual world. The astral world, especially in its middle stage, shows stillness, flooding light with wonderful light phenomena, but soon the noise of the physical world falls silent. After this silence, the spiritual world resounds, which sound in this [spiritual] world was called “music of the spheres” by the student of occultism of Pythagoras. Goethe meant the same thing when he said in the beginning of “Faust”:
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