{"id":2969,"date":"2023-10-21T21:48:12","date_gmt":"2023-10-21T21:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritual-science-research.com\/?page_id=2969"},"modified":"2026-02-08T08:53:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T08:53:33","slug":"spirit-self-lab","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/spiritual-science-research.com\/de\/spirit-self-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"Spirit Self Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Spirit Self Lab is an initiative dedicated to further Spirit Self research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rudolf Steiner, GA 100-5, The Gospel of St. John, 20 November 1907, Basel<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThose human beings who had brought the Spirit Self to birth within them, were called Children of God; in such men \u201cthe light shone into the Darkness and they received the light.\u201d Outwardly they were, men of flesh and blood, but they bore a higher man within them; the Spirit Self had been born within them out of the spiritual soul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The \u201cmother\u201d of such a spiritualised man is not a bodily mother, she lies within him; she is the purified and spiritualised spiritual soul; she is the principle who gives birth to the higher man. This spiritual birth, a birth in the highest sense, is described in St. John’s Gospel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Spirit Self or the Holy Spirit pours into the most highly purified Spiritual Soul. This is referred to in the words, \u201cI saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him.\u201d (John 1:32).\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rudolf Steiner, GA 100-5, The Gospel of St. John, 20 November 1907, Basel<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201eThe I may become so strong as to transform, by its very own power and strength<\/strong>, the Astral body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What the I then makes of the Astral Body is called \u2018Spirit-Self\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This transformation is based mainly on a process of learning<\/strong>, through an enriching of one’s inner life with higher ideas and perceptions<\/strong>.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rudolf Steiner, GA 34\u20134<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cA small part of the fifth root-race will forestall the course of evolution, it will spiritualise Manas and unfold the Spirit-Self. The majority, however, will reach the summit of selfishness. Only this nucleus of humanity, that develops the Spirit-Self, will become the seed of the sixth root-race, and the most advanced of these, the Masters, as we call them, who have grown out of mankind, will then be the leaders of humanity. The movement for spiritual knowledge strives towards this goal.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rudolf Steiner,, GA 97, 7 March 1907, D\u00fcsseldorf, Adept – School of the past<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThis is the characteristic of the spirit-self<\/strong> that it presupposes these<\/p>\n\n\n\n

three traits,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

of which I have spoken, in the human souls, as spiritual science says it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n