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Rudolf Steiner – Anthroposophy
  • Daily
    • Morning Routine
    • During the Day
    • Evening Routine
  • Practice
    • Evening Retrospect
    • Four Breathes
    • Four Thoughts
    • Subsidiary Exercises
    • Remember Small Details
    • Days Of The Week Exercises
    • Twelve Virtues
    • Yearly Retrospect
  • Meditate
    • How to Meditate on a text
    • The Foundation Stone Meditation
    • The Rose Cross Meditation
    • In pure ray of light
    • Light on the Path
    • More Radiant than the Sun
    • Ever-radiant forms of Light
    • O Godly Spirit, abide in me
    • Michael!
    • Inner Quiet
    • Rest
    • Daily Verses
    • The Esoteric Lord’s Prayer
    • The Lord’s Prayer
    • St. Augustine’s Prayer to the Holy Spirit
    • John, Chapter 1, Verse 1 – 5
    • In the Primal Beginning – 5
    • Verses for accompanying the dead
  • Study
    • The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity (Stebbing)
    • Theosophy (Cotterell translation)
    • Knowledge of the Higher Worlds And Its Attainment
    • Occult Science — an Outline
    • Outline of Esoteric Science Chapter 5
    • The Etherisation of the Blood (with German text)
      • The Etherisation of the Blood
      • Die Ätherisation des Blutes
  • Timelines
    • Anthroposophy after Steiner
    • Rudolf Steiner’s Timeline
    • Christian Community
    • Timelines of the cosmos
      • Integral Timeline
      • Planets
      • Civilizations on Earth​
      • Post-Atlantean Civilization
      • Two Recent Civilizations

Evening Routine

Prefatory

In the evening, before retiring.

(optional) Begin with relaxing your body.

Study Esoteric Literature ==>
  1. The Philosophy Of Spiritual Activity (Stebbing Translation)
  2. Theosophy (Cotterell Translation)
  3. Knowledge of the Higher Worlds And Its Attainment
  4. Occult Science — an Outline
  5. Outline of Esoteric Science — Chapter 5
Meditate and Pray ==>

For instance:

  • The Foundation Stone Meditation
  • In pure ray of light
  • Light on the Path
  • Ever-radiant forms of Light
  • More Radiant than the Sun
  • Michael!
  • O Godly Spirit, abide in me
  • Daily Verses
  • St. Augustine’s Prayer to the Holy Spirit
  • The Lord’s Prayer
  • John, Chapter 1, Verse 1 – 5
Practice and Exercise ==>
  • Subsidiary Exercises
    1. Control of Thought
    2. Initiative in Actions
    3. Overcoming Pleasure and Pain
    4. Positivity
    5. Openness
    6. Harmony of the Five Steps
  • Day of the Week Exercises
  • Twelve Virtues Exercise
Evening Retrospect
Steps
  1. Review the scenes of the day in reverse order.
    Examine the events of:
    1. the evening
    2. the afternoon
    3. the forenoon
    4. the morning
  2. Picture to yourself — as faithfully as possible — each scene and all that took place in each pictured scene.
  3. Review your moral attitude in relation to each scene:
    1. How do you judge your actions?
    2. Did you do it right; could you have done it better?
    3. Conveyed your words the meaning you intended or did your words give a false impression?
    4. In relating experiences to others, did you overstate or understate them?
  4. Regarding the wrongs you have done.
    1. Take full responsibility
    2. Think:
      I couldn’t do otherwise back then, but now I can do it better and I will do it better in future.
  5. Regarding the good you have done
    1. Approve — impersonally — of the good you have done.
    2. Determine to do still better.
Four thoughts
I am

At the same time,

  • Experience,
    Out of the Spirit-World my self flows down to me.
  • Place your awareness on the center between the eyebrows.
  • Direct toward it the words:

    I am

Four thoughts
It thinks

At the same time,

  • Experience,
    The Spirit-World ensouls the silent World.
  • Place your awareness on the larynx.
  • Direct toward it the words:

    It thinks

Four thoughts
She feels

At the same time,

  • Experience,
    The Spirit-World creates its own wisdom.
  • Place your awareness on the heart, arms and hands.
  • Direct toward it the words:

    She feels

Four thoughts
He wills

At the same time,

  • Experience
    In me the Spirit-World comes to the realization of itself.
  • Place your awareness on the aura.
    (The aura can be taught of as enclosing the body in an oval sheath.)
  • Direct toward this region the words:

    He wills

Keep your inner quiet after the actual meditation
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  • Remain absolutely quiet for a while – Only accept the fact of your existence
  • Eliminate all other thoughts about your own existence
  • Feel bodiless and as if empty
Enter the Spiritual World

At night, as you enter sleep, say,

“Now I am entering the spiritual world.”

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