The Holy Man's Trials 2
2. An inherent guilt at the very company and nature of this Double.
This is distinct from the above in that it goes on to become a generalized and all pervading gloom about oneself, infiltrating the self-esteem and blocking the will, inhibiting the ego. It is interesting that even the darkest of individuals will seek to shaft off their Double… imagine the pain of the self-conscious man who seeks betterment for himself and the world, trying to reconcile its existence!
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Rudolf Steiner & Errors
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Lecture of 8 May 1912:
"Let us assume, let us really assume, that in fifty years everything has
to be corrected, that no stone of our spiritual edifice, ...
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Faustus: Genealogy Discrepancy
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*Defendente Ferrari*
*12 year-old Jesus in the Temple *
*(1526, Detail)*
In his dispute with Augustine, Faustus states:
"FAUSTUS said: Do I believe in ...
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Reaching for the Stars: Weaknesses Transformed into Strengths
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*Characteristic Weaknesses Transformed into Strengths:*
Virtues are natural to Man, and when desired, when called upon, when prayed
for sincerely, delib...
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Augustine Asks the Big Questions
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Augustine in his Confessions 6:9 asks: tell me, O merciful One, in pity
tell a pitiful creature whether my infancy followed yet an earlier age of
my life t...
Esoteric Christianity Archive
"Edgar Allan Poe's story "William Wilson" describes the double with sinister, demonic qualities. George Gordon Byron used doppelgänger imagery to explore the duality of human nature.[4] Charles Williams Descent Into Hell (1939), has character Pauline Anstruther seeing her own doppelgänger all through her life.[5] Clive Barker's story "Human Remains" in his Books of Blood is a doppelgänger tale. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doppelg%C3%A4nger
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"From the standpoint of modern natural science it is easy to say that Mephistopheles does not exist; nevertheless, Lucifer and Ahriman live in human nature. Ahriman lives in the etheric body and Lucifer in the astral body of man."
-Rudolf Steiner
Within the Body of the Double is the primary body of our lesser elementals and thought-forms- it is "innocuous to good or to evil permutations". This primary body holds a group consciousness.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guardian_of_the_Threshold