New stable release (20150321) of CM12.0 for S3 Mini is available!
Is Call Drop Fixed ?
what is about the camera?
and what about the battery?
Still till major battery drain and memory leak.
Android allocates memory (RAM) without releasing it later on.
Thus, the longer the uptime the less memory is available.
You tried change your cpu governator? I use the new Zmoove with noop and cqf and work well for me.
My camera is good but my Root is gone when i installed it anyone have root apps?
i cant seem to done it right..
Can you please show us more details about the changelog, next time, please?
There is a newer version of android.
Please update to the newer one.
How can ı move apps to sd card?
Same here. Is this supposed to be very laggy (due to hardware limitation)? Or is it supposed to run smoothly?
why its taken so long for the camera to be fixed?
Really? Try do it yourself.
can you downgrade without a wipe?
It is possible that you need to replace battery.
I have the same problem. With CM 11, my device worked well.
When my battery is 1-5%, mobile data doesn't work and I got random reboots.
I thought the same but, I turn off the phone, wait like 5-10 mins and turn on again. It says "system has stopped" and then I have 30% again lol.
Had the same problem. Check if the battery is swollen . if so , buy a new one!
Settings=>Go to App's=> All Apps=> Media Storage=>Clear Data.
It worked fine at first but, next day (today lol) it started to say "music has stopped/Apollo has stopped" and now when I see the song list they are like 5times repeated. It only happens to me with cyanogenmod music apps. With google play music or any other from store works fine but I don't like any of them lol. So I have to clear data every day?
side buttons do not work in the s3 I8190L .
hey it is possible to have radio on this CM12 5.0.2?
Same problem here! This is a very annoying bug because battery keeps draining even when im not using my phone! If anyone knows a fix please share!
Thank you for this relase.
– Stock Calculator are freezing, bugging and low time to response on touch.
– a bit lagg on interface from call.
– 3G don't work on my operator (Vivo Brasil) and I tried to call for the operator the APN and nothing.
– ramdon reboots, it's isn't all time, but one time or other.
There was something with APN-s to be set manualy or something like that to have it working.
He need update the cm12 to a stable milestone release to work on carbon. Because, they have two rom to work is very hard.
Cm12 is not as fast as cm11 for now. For example, when i push to whatsapp on cm12, i wait 3 secs. for openin. Cm11 with art, the time is not even 1 sec.
It's WhatsApp's fault. First they didn't support ART, only after a few months, they bought an update to us!
Still can't install in f2fs file system. I formatted all partitions as f2fs but when installing it always reverts to ext4. Please enable full f2fs supports and I'm sure performance will improve.
can't install apps or move to sdcard? some help plz?
[BUG] bluetooth is super laggy,ml my phone is next to the speaker and its just impossible to listen to. There are sounddrops twice every second. I know it's not the speaker since I used it with someone else's phone and it worked perfectly.
Oh and the bug tracker doesn't work.
Awesome work guys, but BT is really important to me.
I tried few times listening music via BT and it worked very well to me – no lags.
hmm..what do you suggest i could do?
Guys, does any one know how to customize (Grid Size) the icons on the App drawer. All the icons are closed to each other. There is a setting to Grid size option for the application on home screen mode, but not for App drawer.
I'm using the daily version and it works pretty well.
Just a little bit laggy when i open or close some apps.
Is it possible to format /system to f2fs with this build?
I don't know how to install it on system partition.
Does anyone know why the "fix permissions" in recovery breaks everything?
How update from old CM12 to new release CM12? Lose my data?
Hi, i have problems with touch buttons, dont work, the led blink sometimes, but dont do nothing, what i can do?
Cannot find the Gapps on the thread , it shows that thread closed. Am I missing something.
I like how you are trying to get CM 12 on galaxy s3 mini, but can you PLEASE port it over to the refined version of the galaxy s3 mini (GT-I8200L GT-I8200 GT-I8200N and GT-I8200Q). This phone is very popular among the s3 mini user base.
I just have one question… Will I be able to move my installed apps to sd card?
Tried to update the latest version of cm12…21/3/2015 and after completing i boot up from twrp..
Just saw Samsung Logo and screen turns off.
I don't even have a nandroid back or any kind of app backup.
Hello Novafusion !! Where I can download the CyanogenMod 12.0 GoogleApps ?
– I see restart pattern on my device – problem occur when I am listening music via Spotify and want to navigate – when I turn on mobile network (3g) then GPS (device only) and start Yanosik music stops, once I click to play again device restarts. Today I've tested this again and result was the same – device restart.
Many thanks Nova and keep up this good work!
I can't record an audio on Whatsapp, does anyone know what to do? The phone recorder was working at the beginning but apparently it's not working anymore either, which is weird couse "Ok Google" works just fine.
No sevice always, I could not make it work. Going back to cm11.
After seeing comments i'n not 100% sure of update from cm11 to cm12 but im 100%SURE that I WANT TO HELP YOU GUYS!
i don't really know how, but I REALLY want to help you out!
Vpn doesn't work. Please fix.
Not sure if this can be considered a workaround for the offline charge but I "discovered" a weird thing while playing with my wife's i8190L.
The phone attempted to start recovery but for some reason while plugged it never did. However, while waiting for the recovery menu, I was able to see the white battery charging and then the screen turned into black. I released the buttons at that time and then just clicking the power button (short press) the screen showed the battery charging. The charging process appears to be longer than usual but at least it seems to be working.
Besides it reaches 100% while charging, once I restarted the phone it always shows 95~98%.
I tried the above at least 3 times to confirm if this workaround works… It worked for me… I hope it works for you.
DO NOT restart the phone while plugged. In my case the battery showed a weird value.
can you please share a link to Google apps 5.x for the S3 mini.
The link on your download page isn't working anymore.
Just another issue: Video Player in Chrome doesn't work.


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New book by Darko Dolinar on Slovenian literary studies
This November, Darko Dolinar published his new book, Slovenska literarna veda od Trubarja do druge svetovne vojne (Slovenian Literary Studies from Trubar to the Second World War). As volume 24 in the Studia litteraria series at the ZRC Publishing House, the book is a magnum opus for Dolinar, Comparative Literature professor, former head of the ZRC SAZU Institute of Slovenian Literature and Literary Studies and expert on the history and methodology of literary studies in Slovenia. His synthesis traces the development of scholarly treatment of Slovenian literature from the beginnings of the Reformation period through Baroque and the Enlightenment, to the nineteenth-century beginnings of Slovenian national literary history, the establishment of literary studies as a core university discipline in 1919 and the further development of its various orientations, including comparative literature, up to the outburst of the Second World War. Dolinar's book fills in a long-standing gap in Slovenian literary studies. In a time of a deep crisis in the humanities, Slovenian literary scholars, researchers, teachers and students of literature are in need of thoughtful responses based on historical knowledge of the concepts, developments and previous crises in their discipline. Dolinar's book provides one such response.
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I've had this book sat in a cupboard for about 2 years!! It was only by accident the other day that I stumbled upon it again...and decided enough was enough, we've eaten out at Wahaca a couple of times now, we like the food....why not have a go myself...As the wall menu says, we were going to have Guacamole and tortilla chips, Green Rice, Frijoles Refritos (or refried beans to you and I!), Mixed Mushroom Tacos and Courgette and Corn Tacos...(follow links to the other recipes!)...A Mexican pick n' mix Feast!!
Which turned the water a deep purple, because the beans themselves aren't actually black!!
...and popped into a large pan with a few bay leaves, an onion (that had been quartered), a couple sprigs of fresh thyme and 4 cloves of garlic (bashed to let the 'garliciness' out!!!)...The water has to be about 10cm deeper than the beans!!
They will look like this...and it is a pain to get all the bits out, I just got as much as I could out!!
...and there wasn't much left...they were so delicious, and tasted just like the ones we had at the restaurant...a dish I will definitely be making again!!!


There are phases and stages that people go through that can be good or bad depending on the way one views it. So it is important to have the best for oneself and those that one holds dear. The worst phase of any person is having a substance addiction of any sort and having to admit to the fact. This should not be viewed as a weakness but rather be lauded by all who know the person.
At an alcohol rehab center in Illinois, they know how vital it is to have taken that first step of admitting that one has a problem that needs to be addressed with urgency. The next step that follows is searching for a good and reputable rehab center that will address all the issues be they emotional, psychological or mental. For this reason, it is important to get an alcohol rehab center that deals with the particular addiction as there are many around the state.
A rehab center that tackles all issues that may be real or imagined has a higher rate of success than the one that just deals with the alcoholism only. An alcohol rehab center in Illinois values the addict as a human being who can amount to something if given a chance at life and at work. This is essential to the overall wholesome healing of the addict from the addiction. This is where we all err as we see the recovering alcoholic or addict as a lesser being who has no value on the face of the earth. That is why many just go on indulging in the vice waiting for death to take them in any form.
At an alcohol rehab center in Illinois there is a process that is known as detox that mainly tackles or deals with the cleaning up of the body from the harmful toxins. This process is tough on the system and this is where many who have tried to quit on their own have floundered. It is a process that needs to be done under the supervision of a qualified nurse and doctor. This is because the process means that one will suffer the effects of the substance leaving the body that is referred to as withdrawal.
After one has grown through the tough and strenuous process, one is put under a rigorous set of exercise that is geared to address the joints, muscles and other parts of the body that have lain waste for a long time. There are other alcohol rehab centers that provide a masseuse for the relaxing and soothing of the already aching body parts. The other step that invariably follows is nutritional training.
This is where all things concerning food are addressed. This is done for the body needs good food that is vital for both growth and cell rejuvenation. The one who is using and abusing alcohol does not have enough as the body is leeched off of the vital nutrients and minerals more so because the addict usually has little or no appetite. The training is done by a trained and recognized dietician who knows at what fraction and percentage a body needs certain nutrients.


International Women's Forum - Mongolia | The Right Honourable Kim Campbell, P.C.; C.C.; Q.C.
CLICK HERE to see a transcript of Secretary Clinton's remarks to the forum on July 9, 2012.
Ms. Campbell was happy to see Mongolian President Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj during the forum. Interesting note: the President actually took a class from Frmr PM Campbell when she was teaching at Harvard Kennedy School. What a coincidence!


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Above and Below (the prologue to Autumn: Purification)
Forty-seven days ago, more than ninety-nine per cent of the population had died within an impossibly short period of time. Right across the world, without any warning or explanation, the pattern was repeated as billions of lives were inexplicably ended: snuffed out and switched off with neither dignity nor malice, unimaginable numbers of innocent people discarded and abandoned and left to rot where they'd fallen. Just a handful of terrified survivors remained, none of them able to understand or even to begin to come to terms with what had happened to their friends, family, lovers, children…
Within forty-eight hours, almost a third of the dead rose again. The germ (or disease, or whatever it was that was responsible) had spared a key area of these creatures' brains. Somehow unaffected, a spark of primordial instinct had survived the infection, leaving the bodies physically dead, but still compelled to move; lifeless, but incessantly animated. And as the flesh which covered these stumbling aberrations had rotted and decayed, so the unaffected region of the brain had grown in strength, and had continued to drive them forward. First their most basic senses had slowly returned, then a degree of control. The corpses didn't know what, who, or where they were. They didn't know why they existed, nor what they wanted. They had no need to eat or drink, to rest or sleep, or even to blink or breathe… they just were. This combination of increasing self-awareness and decreasing self-control gradually manifested itself as anger and hostility. Sentenced to spend every minute of every day shuffling pointlessly through the empty world, even the slightest unexpected sound or movement was enough to attract their limited but deadly attention.
With the country (and the rest of the world) now otherwise almost completely silent, the mobile dead moved randomly from their supposedly final resting places, staggering in all directions on rotting, unsteady feet, away from the towns, cities and other centres of population where they'd died, spreading aimlessly across the land like a drop of ink slowly flowing outwards over blotting paper.
Except here.
Here, in apparently nondescript fields miles from anywhere of any perceived importance, for no immediately visible reason, thousands upon thousands of inquisitive, rancid bodies had arrived, cramming themselves into the space of just a few square miles: an endless mass of empty, skeletal husks which had once had individual identities and lives and reasons to exist, but were now nothing more than emotionless collections of tattered rags, grey-green greasy flesh, withered muscle and brittle bone.
At the outermost edge of one of the vast fields, the dishevelled carcase of what had once been an affluent investment banker lifted its head and looked up, barely able to focus its clouded eyes. Surrounded on all sides by scores of similarly bedraggled cadavers, the remains of the once-powerful, dignified and well-respected man shuffled awkwardly forward, slipping and sliding through churned mud, and clawed clumsily at those bodies which stood in its way.
This place was different to everywhere else. It didn't know what, but it knew there was something near here, and it had an instinctive, insatiable desire to get even closer to whatever it was. It didn't know why – it barely even knew what it was doing – but it couldn't stop.
Buried deep underground, far below the rotting crowds, almost three hundred survivors existed in the unnatural semi-darkness of a subterranean military base. It was impossible for them to exist there without revealing their location: The world was a silent, lifeless, empty place now, and the sounds made by the people underground, no matter how slight, echoed relentlessly. The heat they produced burned like a fire, and in the otherwise cold and vacant land, the corpses were attracted to them like moths towards the last light on Earth. What had begun as a few random corpses stumbling upon the underground military base by chance had now grown into a crowd of vast, almost incalculable proportions. The movement of the loathsome creatures inevitably attracted more and more of them from the surrounding area: a slow-motion chain reaction. Now, several days since any of the soldiers had been above ground, almost one hundred thousand bodies had gathered around the bunker, every last one of them fighting to get nearer to its impassable entrance.
The dead investment banker's way forward was blocked by more bodies. It lifted its emaciated arms again and then, with unexpected force, lashed out at the figure immediately in front. Soft, putrefying flesh was ripped from bone as the decaying banker tore the unsuspecting creature ahead of it apart. The sudden outburst of violence spread rapidly through the nearest cadavers on all sides, rippling out further into the enormous crowd in every direction before petering out again as quickly as it had begun. All across this massive, decomposing gathering the same thing was happening, time and again, each of the bodies interested only in getting closer to whatever it was that was different about this godforsaken place.
Apart from the wind blowing through the swaying branches of trees and the fighting and continual shuffling movement of the dead, the world around the buried base appeared frozen. Even birds had learnt not to fly too close, because of the reaction their fleeting appearances invariably caused. In spite of the fact that the corpses were individually weak and clumsy, what remained of the rest of the world instinctively feared them, and did all they could to keep their distance. And however individually weak, in such huge numbers as this the dead were unstoppable.
Deep underground in the military base, the living fared little better. Despite being relatively strong and still able to act rationally, they were afraid to move. It was obvious to all the lost and terrified souls buried in the concrete maze below the fields and hills that the sheer number of bodies on the surface would eventually be too much for them. Their options were desperately limited, and frighteningly bleak. They could either sit and wait (although no one knew what they were waiting for, or how long it would take) or they could go above ground and fight. But what would that achieve? What use was open space and fresh air to the military? The disease still hung heavy in the contaminated air, and every one of the soldiers, NCOs and their officers alike, knew that a single breath would, in all probability, be enough to kill them. Those survivors immune to the disease who also sheltered underground knew that they would fare no better from such a confrontation. Any attempt to clear the bodies from above the base might help in the short term, but the noise and movement such an act would inevitably cause would doubtless result in countless thousands more cadavers being drawn nearer to the shelter – and there were potentially millions more out there.
Below the surface, the survivors and the military were forced to remain apart. Designed to cope with the after-effects of chemical, nuclear or biological attack, the base was remarkably well-equipped and technologically advanced. The air being pumped through the complex was pure, and free from infection. The survivors who had taken shelter there, however, were not. Decontamination had been half-heartedly attempted at first, but the woefully under-prepared military scientists had known from the start that it would be a futile exercise. The germ could be washed away from equipment and from the soldiers' protective suits, but the survivors had been breathing contaminated air for more than a month, and they were riddled with the infection. Whilst the deadly contagion had no obvious effect on them, even the slightest exposure might be sufficient to contaminate the base and kill everyone in it.
The military occupied almost all of the complex (everything beyond the entrance to the decontamination chambers), leaving the thirty-seven survivors with the main hangar and a few adjacent storage, utility and maintenance rooms. Space, heat and light were severely limited. After fighting through the hell above ground to get here, however, the limitations of the military facility were readily accepted and hugely appreciated. The alternatives which awaited them back out on the surface were unthinkable.
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Wow all the way through that was pretty good!
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47. K'un / Oppression (Exhaustion) – The Dark Night of the Soul »
The following text extracts is from "Some Results of Initiation" from the book "Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and its Attainment" by Rudolf Steiner.
It's one of the best descriptions on the subject, on what each chakra is and does in us at our development, and how our life influences the chakras.
This is not an incentive to use some of the methods that are elsewhere in the book, most readers of this have no need for these methods, fate are giving us what we need, only one method may be of interest to all, and that is contemplation, but most will intuitively use it, as a 'remembrance' from earlier lives.
Lotus Flowers – Chakras
The further the student advances in his inner development, the greater will be the organic differentiation introduced into his astral body. The latter is confused and undifferentiated in the case of a person of undeveloped inner life; yet the clairvoyant can perceive even the unorganized astral body as a figure standing out distinctly from its environment. It extends from the centre of the head to the middle of the physical body, and appears like an independent body possessing certain organs.
These organs, now to be considered, are apparent to the clairvoyant near the following parts of the physical body:
the first between the eyes;
the second near the larynx;
the third in the region of the heart;
the fourth in the so-called pit of the stomach;
the fifth and sixth are situated in the abdomen.
These organs are technically known as wheels, chakrams or lotus flowers. They are so called on account of their likeness to wheels or flowers, but of course it should be clearly understood that such an expression is not to be applied more literally than when the lungs are called wings. Just as there is no question of wings in the case of lungs, so, too, in the case of the lotus flowers, the expression must be taken as a figurative comparison.
In undeveloped persons these lotus flowers are dark in colour, motionless and inert. In the clairvoyant, however, they are luminous, mobile, and of variegated colour. Something of this kind applies to the medium, though in a different way; but this question need not here be pursued.
Now when the student begins his exercises, the lotus flowers become brighter; later on they begin to revolve. When this occurs, clairvoyance begins. For these flowers are the sense organs of the soul, and their revolutions express the fact that the clairvoyant perceives supersensibly. No one can perceive the supersensible until he has developed his astral senses in this way.
Thanks to the spiritual organ situated in the vicinity of the larynx, it becomes possible to survey clairvoyantly the thoughts and mentality of other beings, and to obtain a deeper insight into the true laws of natural phenomena.
The organ situated near the heart permits of clairvoyant knowledge of the sentiments and disposition of other souls. When developed, this organ also makes it possible to observe certain deeper forces in animals and plants.
By means of the organ in the so-called pit of the stomach, knowledge is acquired of the talents and capacities of souls; by its means, too, the part played by animals, plants, stones, metals, atmospheric phenomena and so on in the household of Nature, becomes apparent.
Now certain activities of the soul are connected with the development of these organs, and anyone devoting himself to them in a certain definite way, contributes something to the development of the corresponding organs.
The Sixteen Petalled Lotus – The Throat Chakra
The 16-petalled Lotus
In the 16-petalled lotus, eight of its sixteen petals were developed during an earlier stage of human evolution, in a remote past. Man himself contributed nothing to this development; he received them as a gift from nature, at a time when his consciousness was in a dull, dreamy condition.
At that stage of human evolution, they were in active use, but the manner of their activity was only compatible with that dull state of consciousness. As consciousness became clearer and brighter, the petals became obscured and ceased their activity.
Man himself can now develop the remaining eight petals by conscious exercises, and thereby the whole lotus flower becomes luminous and mobile. The acquisition of certain faculties depends on the development of each one of the sixteen petals.
Yet, as already shown, only eight can be consciously developed; the remainder then appear of their own accord.
The development proceeds in the following manner. The student must first apply himself with care and attention to certain functions of the soul, hitherto exercised by him in a careless and inattentive manner. There are eight such functions:
– The first is the way in which ideas and conceptions are acquired. In this respect people usually allow themselves to be led by chance alone. They see or hear one thing or another and form their ideas accordingly. While this is the case, the sixteen petals of the lotus flower remain ineffective. It is only when the student begins to take his self-education in hand, in this respect, that the petals become effective. His ideas and conceptions must be guarded; each single idea should acquire significance for him; he should see in it a definite message instructing him concerning the things of the outer world, and he should derive no satisfaction from ideas devoid of such significance. He must govern his mental life so that it becomes a true mirror of the outer world, and direct his effort to the exclusion of incorrect ideas from his soul.
– The second of these functions is concerned with the control of resolutions. The student must not resolve upon even the most trifling act, without well-founded and thorough consideration. Thoughtless and meaningless actions should be foreign to his nature. He should have well-considered grounds for everything he does, and abstain from everything for which no significant motive is forthcoming.
– The third function concerns speech. The student should utter no word that is devoid of sense and meaning; all talking for the sake of talking draws him away from his path. He must avoid the usual kind of conversation, with its promiscuous discussion of indiscriminately varied topics. This does not imply his preclusion from intercourse with his fellows. It is precisely in such intercourse that his conversation should develop to significance. He is ready to converse with everyone, but he does so thoughtfully and with thorough deliberation. He never speaks without grounds for what he says. He seeks to use neither too many nor too few words.
– The fourth is the regulation of outward action. The student tries to adjust his actions in such a way that they harmonize with the actions of his fellow-men and with the events in his environment. He refrains from actions which are disturbing to others and antagonistic to his surroundings. He seeks to adjust his actions so that they combine harmoniously with his surroundings, with his position in life, etc. When an external motive causes him to act, he considers how he can best respond. When the impulse proceeds from himself he weighs with minute care the effects of his activity.
– The fifth function includes the management of the whole of life. The student endeavours to live in conformity with both Nature and spirit. Never over-hasty, he is also never indolent. Excessive activity and laziness are equally alien to him. He looks upon life as a means for work and disposes it accordingly. He regulates his habits, the care of his health, etc., in such a way that a harmonious whole is the outcome.
– The sixth is concerned with human endeavour. The student tests his capacities and proficiency, and conducts himself in the light of such self-knowledge, He attempts nothing that is beyond his powers, but seeks to omit nothing that is within their scope. On the other hand he sets before himself aims that coincide with the ideals and the great duties of a human being. He does not mechanically regard himself as a wheel in the vast machinery of mankind, but seeks to comprehend the tasks of his life, and to look out beyond the limit of the daily and trivial. He endeavours to fulfil his obligations ever better and more perfectly.
– The seventh deals with the effort to learn as much from life as possible. Nothing passes before the student without giving him occasion to accumulate experience which is of value to him for life. If he has performed anything wrongly or imperfectly, he lets this be an incentive for repeating the performance later on, but this time rightly and perfectly. When others act, he observes them with the same end in view. He tries to gather a rich store of experience, and ever to turn to it for counsel; nor indeed will he ever do anything without looking back on experiences from which he can derive help in his decisions and affairs.
– Finally, the eighth is that the student must, from time to time, glance introspectively into himself, sink back into himself, take himself carefully to task, form and test the fundamental principles of his life, run over, in his thoughts, the sum total of his knowledge, weigh his duties, reflect upon the content and aim of life and so on.
The better the student's thoughts and speech harmonize with the processes in the outer world, the more quickly will he develop this faculty. Whoever thinks and speaks what is contrary to truth destroys something in the bud of his 16-petalled lotus. Truthfulness, uprightness and honesty are in this connection creative forces, while mendacity, deceitfulness and dishonesty are destructive forces.
The student must realize, however, that actual deeds are needed, and not merely 'good intentions'. If I think or say anything that does not conform with reality, I kill something in my spiritual organs, even though I believe my intentions to be ever so good. It is here as with the child which needs must burn itself when it falls into the fire, even though it did so out of ignorance.
The regulation of the above activities of the soul in the manner described, causes the 16-petalled lotus to ray forth in glorious hues, and imparts to it a definite movement. Yet it must be noted that the faculty of clairvoyance cannot make its appearance before a definite degree of development has been attained. It cannot appear so long as it is irksome for the student to regulate his life in this manner. He is still unfit, so long as the activities described above are a matter of special pre-occupation for him. The first traces of clairvoyance only appear when he has reached the point of being able to live in the specified way, as a person habitually lives. These things must then no longer be irksome, but must have become a matter of course. There must be no need for him to be continually watching himself, and urging himself on to live in this way. It must all become a matter of habit.
Now this lotus flower may be made to develop in another way by following certain other instructions. But all such methods are rejected by true Spiritual Science, for they lead to the destruction of physical health and to moral ruin. They are easier to follow than those here described. The latter, though protracted and irksome, lead to the true goal and cannot but strengthen morally.
The distorted development of a lotus flower results not only in illusions and fantastic conceptions, should a certain degree of clairvoyance ensue, but also in errors and instability in ordinary life. Such a development may be the cause of timidity, envy, vanity, haughtiness, wilfulness and so on in a person who hitherto was free from these defects. It has already been explained that eight of the sixteen petals of this lotus flower were developed in a remote past, and that these will reappear of themselves, in the course of esoteric development.
Faulty training may easily result in the reappearance of the earlier petals alone, while the new petals remain stunted. This will ensue especially if too little logical, rational thinking is introduced into the instruction. It is of supreme importance that the student should be a rational and clear-thinking person, and of further importance that he should practice the greatest clarity of speech. People who begin to have some presentiment of supersensible things, are apt to wax talkative on this subject, thereby retarding their normal development. The less one talks about these matters the better. No one should speak about them until he has achieved a certain degree of clarity.
On premature judgment
Suppose I hear a piece of news and thereupon immediately form an opinion. Shortly afterwards I receive some further news which does not harmonize with the previous information. I am thereby obliged to reverse my previous judgment. The result is an unfavorable influence upon my 16-petalled lotus. Quite the contrary would have been the case had I, in the first place, suspended my judgment, and remained silent both inwardly in thought and outwardly in word, concerning the whole affair, until I had acquired reliable grounds for forming my judgment.
Caution in the formation and pronouncement of judgments becomes, by degrees, the special characteristic of the student. On the other hand his receptivity for impressions and experiences increases; he lets them pass over him silently, so as to collect and have the largest possible number of facts at his disposal, when the time comes to form his opinions. Bluish-red and reddish-pink shades colour the lotus flower as the result of such circumspection, whereas, in the opposite case, dark red and orange shades appear.
See also Buddhas Eightfold Path: The Eightfold Path
The Twelve Petalled Lotus – Heart Chakra
The 12-petalled lotus situated in the region of the heart, is developed in a similar way. Half its petals, too, were already existent and in active use, in a remote stage of human evolution. Thus these six petals need not now be especially developed in esoteric training; they appear of themselves, and begin to revolve when the student sets to work on the other six. Here again he learns to promote this development by consciously controlling and directing certain inner activities in a special way.
It must be clearly understood that the perceptions of each single spiritual organ bear a different character. The 12- and 16-petalled lotus flowers transmit quite different perceptions. The latter perceives forms. The thoughts and mentality of other beings and the laws governing natural phenomena become manifest, through the 16-petalled lotus, as figures, not rigid motionless figures, but mobile forms filled with life. The clairvoyant in whom this sense is developed, can distinguish, for every mode of thought and for every law of Nature, a form bearing their impression. A revengeful thought, for example, assumes an arrow-like, pronged form, while a kindly thought is often formed like an opening flower, and so on. Clear-cut, significant thoughts are regular and symmetrical in form, while confused thoughts have wavy outlines. Quite different perceptions are received through the 12-petalled lotus. These perceptions may be in a sense likened to warmth and cold, as applied to the soul. A clairvoyant equipped with this faculty feels this warmth and cold streaming out from the forms discerned by the 16-petalled lotus.
– The 12-petalled lotus, when developed, reveals to the clairvoyant a deep understanding of the processes of Nature. From every manifestation of growth and development there issue rays of soul-warmth, while everything that is encompassed by decay, destruction, ruin, presents an impression of cold.
The development of this sense may be furthered in the following manner:
To begin with, the student applies himself to regulating his sequence of thought (control of thought). Just as the 16-petalled lotus is developed by cultivating thoughts that conform with truth and are significant, so, too, the 12-petalled lotus is developed by inwardly controlling the trains of thought. Thoughts that dart to and fro like will-o'-the-wisps, and follow each other in no logical or rational sequence, but merely by pure chance, destroy its form. The latter is developed to ever-increasing perfection, the closer thought is made to follow upon thought, and the more strictly everything of illogical nature is avoided. If the student hears illogical thoughts, he immediately lets the right thoughts pass through his mind. He should not, however, withdraw in a loveless way from what is perhaps an illogical environment, in order to further his own development. Neither should he feel himself impelled to correct all the illogical thoughts expressed around him. He should rather co-ordinate silently the thoughts as they pour in upon him, in a way conforming with logic and sense, and himself endeavour, in every case, to retain this same method in his own thinking.
– An equal supervision in his actions forms the second requirement(control of actions). All inconstancy, all disharmony of action conduces to the destruction of the lotus flower here in question. When the student performs some action, he must see to it that his succeeding action follows in logical sequence, for if he acts from day to day with variable intent, he will never develop the faculty here considered.
– The third requirement is the cultivation of endurance.(perseverance). The student is impervious to all influences which would divert him from the goal he has set himself, so long as he can regard it as the right goal. For him, obstacles contain a challenge to surmount them, but are never a reason for restraining his progress.
– The fourth requirement is forbearance (tolerance) towards persons, creatures and also circumstances. The student suppresses all superfluous criticism of everything that is imperfect, evil and bad, and seeks rather to understand everything that comes under his notice. Even as the sun does not withdraw its light from the bad and the evil, so he, too, does not refuse them an intelligent sympathy. Should some trouble befall him, he does not proceed to condemn and criticize, but accepts what necessity has brought him, and endeavours to the best of his ability, to give the matter a turn for the best. He does not consider the opinions of others merely from his own standpoint, but seeks to put himself into the other's position.
– The fifth requirement is impartiality towards everything that life brings. In this connection we speak of faith and trust. The student encounters every human being and every creature with this trust, and lets it inspire his every action. Upon hearing some information, he never says to himself: 'I don't believe it; it contradicts my present opinions.' He is far rather ready to test and rectify his views and opinions. He ever remains receptive for everything that confronts him, and he trusts in the effectiveness of his undertakings. Timidity and scepticism are banished from his being. He harbours a faith in the power of his intentions. A hundred failures cannot rob him of his faith. This is the 'faith which can move mountains'.
– The sixth requirement is the cultivation of a certain inner balance (equanimity). The student endeavours to retain his composure in the face of joy and sorrow, and discards the tendency to fluctuate between the seventh heaven of joy and the depths of despair. Misfortune and danger, fortune and advancement alike find him ready armed.
The reader will recognize in the qualities here described, the 'six attributes', which the candidate for Initiation strives to acquire. The intention has been to show their connection with the spiritual organ known as the 12-petalled lotus flower. As before, special instructions can be given to bring this lotus flower to fruition, but here again, the perfect symmetry of its form depends on the development of the qualities mentioned, the neglect of which results in this organ being formed to a caricature of its proper shape. In this case, should a certain clairvoyance be attained, the qualities in question may take an evil instead of a good direction. A person may become intolerant, timid or contentious towards his environment; may, for instance, acquire some feeling for the sentiments of others, and for this reason shun them or hate them. This may even reach the point that, by reason of the inner coldness overwhelming him, he is unable to listen to repugnant opinions, or he may behave in an objectionable manner.
The Ten Petalled Lotus – The Solar Plexus Chakra
An inner training of a particularly intimate character is necessary for the development of the l0-petalled lotus flower, for it is now a question of learning consciously to control and dominate the sense-impressions themselves. This is of particular importance in the initial stages of clairvoyance, for it is only by this means that a source of countless illusions and fancies is avoided. People, as a rule, do not realize by what factors their sudden ideas and memories are dominated, and how they are produced.
Consider the following case. Someone is travelling by railway; his mind is busy with one thought; suddenly his thought diverges; he recollects an experience that befell him years ago, and interweaves it with his present thought. He did not notice that in looking through the window, he had caught sight of a person who resembled another intimately connected with the recollected experience. He remains conscious, not of what he saw, but of the effect it produced, and so believes that it all came to him 'of its own accord'. Now much in life occurs in such a way! How great is the part played in our life by things we hear and learn, without our consciously realizing the connection! Someone, for instance, cannot bear a certain colour, but does not realize that this is due to the fact that the school-teacher who used to worry him many years ago, wore a coat of that colour. Innumerable illusions are based upon such associations.
Many things leave their mark upon the soul, while remaining outside the pale of consciousness. The following may occur. Someone reads in the paper about the death of a well-known person, and forthwith claims to have had a 'presentiment' of it 'yesterday', although he neither heard nor saw anything that might have given rise to such a thought. And indeed it is quite true that the thought occurred to him 'yesterday', as though of its own accord, that this particular person would die; only one thing escaped his attention: two or three hours before this thought occurred to him yesterday, he went to visit an acquaintance; a newspaper lay on the table; he did not actually read it, but his eyes unconsciously fell on the announcement of the dangerous illness of the person in question. He remained unconscious of the impression he received, and yet this impression resulted in his 'presentiment'.
Reflection upon these matters will show how great a source of illusion and fantasy is contained in such associations. It is just this source which must be dammed up by all who seek to develop their l0-petalled lotus flower. Deeply hidden characteristics in other souls can he perceived by this organ, but their truth depends on the attainment of immunity from the above-mentioned illusions. For this purpose it is necessary that the student should control and dominate everything that seeks to influence him from outside. He should reach the point of really receiving no impressions beyond those he wishes to receive. This can only be achieved by the development of a powerful inner life; by an effort of the will he only allows such things to impress him to which his attention is directed, and he actually evades all impressions to which he does not voluntarily respond. If he sees something, it is because he wills to see it. And if he does not voluntarily take notice of something, it is actually non-existent for him. The greater the energy and inner activity devoted to this work, the more extensively will this faculty be attained.
– The student must avoid all vacuous gazing and mechanical listening. For him only those things exist to which he turns his eye or his ear. He must practise the power of hearing nothing, even in the greatest disturbance, if he does not will to hear; and he must make his eyes unimpressionable to things of which he does not particularly take notice. He must be shielded as by an inner armour against all unconscious impressions.
– In this connection, the student must devote special care to his thought-life. He singles out a particular thought and endeavours to link on to it only such other thoughts as he can himself consciously and voluntarily produce. He rejects all casual fancies, and does not connect this thought with another until he has investigated the origin of the latter.
– He goes still further. If, for instance, he feels a particular antipathy for something, he will combat it and endeavour to establish a conscious relation between himself and the thing in question. In this way the unconscious elements that intrude into his soul will become fewer and fewer. Only by such severe self-discipline can the l0-petalled lotus flower attain its proper form. The student's inner life must become a life of attention, and he must learn really to keep away from himself everything to which he should not or does not wish to direct his attention.
If this strict self-discipline be accompanied by meditation prescribed in esoteric training, the lotus flower in the region of the pit of the stomach comes to fruition in the right way, and light and colour of a spiritual kind are now added to the form and warmth perceptible to the organs described above.
The talents and faculties of other beings are thereby revealed, also the forces and the hidden attributes of Nature. The coloured aura of living creatures then becomes visible; all that is around us manifests its spiritual attributes.
It will be admitted that the very greatest care is necessary at this stage of development, for the play of unconscious memories is here exceedingly active. If this were not the case, many people would possess this inner sense, for it comes almost immediately into evidence, when the impressions delivered by the outer senses are held so completely under control, that they become dependent on nothing save attention or inattention. This inner sense remains ineffective so long as the powerful outer senses smother it and render it insensible.
The Six Petalled Lotus – The Sacral Chakra
The 6-petalled Lotus
Still greater difficulty attends the development of the 6-petalled lotus flower situated in the centre of the body, for it can only be achieved as the result of complete mastery and control of the whole personality through consciousness of self, so that body, soul and spirit form one harmonious whole. The functions of the body, the inclinations and passions of the soul, the thoughts and ideas of the spirit, must be tuned to perfect unison. The body must be so ennobled and purified that its organs are impelled to nothing that is not in the service of the soul and spirit. The soul must not be impelled, through the body, to lusts and passions which are antagonistic to pure and noble thought. The spirit, however, must not stand as a slave-driver over the soul, dominating it with laws and commandments; the soul must rather learn to follow these laws and duties out of its own free inclination.
The student must not feel duty to be an oppressive power to which he unwillingly submits, but rather something which he performs out of love. His task is to attain an equilibrium of soul between body and spirit, and he must perfect himself in this way, to the extent of being free to abandon himself to the functions of the senses, for these should be so purified that they lose the power to drag him down to their level. He must no longer require to curb his passions, inasmuch as they of their own accord follow the good.
The Heart Organ
When esoteric development has progressed so far that the lotus flowers begin to stir, much has already been achieved by the student which can result in the formation of certain quite definite currents and movements in his etheric body.
The object of this development is the formation of a kind of centre in the region of the physical heart, from which currents and movements, in the greatest variety of colours and forms, radiate. This centre is, in reality, not a mere point, but a most complicated structure, a most wonderful organ. It glows and shimmers with every shade of colour, and displays forms of great symmetry, capable of rapid transformation. Other forms and streams of colour radiate from this organ to the other parts of the body, and beyond it, to the astral body, which they completely permeate and illumine. The most important part of these currents flows to the lotus flowers. They permeate each petal and regulate its revolutions; then streaming out at the points of the petals, they lose themselves in outer space. The greater the development of a person, the greater the circumference to which these rays extend.
The 12-petalled lotus flower has a particularly close connection with this central organ. The currents flow directly into it and through it, proceeding, on the one side, to the 16- and the 2-petalled lotus flowers, and on the other, the lower side, to the flowers of eight, six and four petals. It is for this reason that the very greatest care must be devoted to the development of the 12-petalled lotus, for an imperfection in the latter would result in the irregular formation of the whole structure.
Continued practice enables the student to determine for himself the position of his etheric body. Hitherto this position depended upon the forces proceeding from without or from within the physical body. Through further development the student is able to direct his etheric body to all sides.
This faculty is effected by currents moving approximately along both hands, and centred in the 2-petalled lotus in the region of the eyes. All that is made possible through the radiations from the larynx assuming round forms, of which a number how to the 2-petalled lotus, and thence form undulating currents along the hands. As a further development these currents branch out and ramify in the most delicate manner, and become, as it were, a kind of web, which then encompasses the entire etheric body as though with a network.
Whereas hitherto the etheric body was not closed to the outer world, so that the life currents from the universal ocean of life flowed freely in and out, it now becomes necessary that these currents should pass through this membrane. Thus the individual becomes sensitive to these external streams; they become perceptible to him. And now the time has come to give the complete system of currents and movements its centre situated in the region of the heart.
This again is effected by persevering with the exercises in concentration and meditation; and at this point also the stage is reached when the student becomes gifted with the 'inner word.' All things now acquire a new significance for him. They become as it were spiritually audible in their innermost self, and speak to him of their essential being. The currents described above place him in touch with the inner being of the world to which he belongs. He begins to mingle his life with the life of his environment and can let it reverberate in the movements of his lotus flowers.
At this point the spiritual world is entered. If the student has advanced so far, he acquires a new understanding for all that the great teachers of humanity have uttered. The sayings of the Buddha and the Gospels, for instance, produce a new effect on him. They pervade him with a felicity of which he had not dreamed before. For the tone of their words follows the movements and rhythms which he has himself formed within himself. He can now have positive knowledge that a Buddha or the Evangelists did not utter their own personal revelations, but those which flowed into them from the innermost Being of all things.
To separate truth from opinions
In esoteric training, there is question of four attributes which must be acquired on the socalled probationary path for the attainment of higher knowledge.
The first is the faculty of discrimination in thoughts between truth and mere semblance or opinion.
The second attribute is the correct estimation of what is inwardly true and real, as against what is merely apparent.
The third rests in the practice of the six qualities already mentioned in the preceding pages: [see above] thought-control, control of actions, perseverance, tolerance, faith and equanimity.
The fourth attribute is the love of inner freedom.
A mere intellectual understanding of what is included in these attributes is of no value. They must become so incorporated into the soul that they form the basis of inner habits. Consider, for instance, the first of these attributes: the discrimination between truth and semblance.
The student must so train himself that he quite as a matter of course distinguishes, in everything that confronts him, between the non-essential elements and those that are significant and essential.
He will only succeed in this if, in his observation of the outer world, he quietly and patiently ever and again repeats the attempt. And at the end he will naturally single out the essential and the true at a glance, whereas formerly the nonessential, too, could content him. 'All things corruptible are but reflection' – is a truth which becomes an unquestionable conviction of the soul. The same applies to the remaining three of the four attributes mentioned.
The Great Initiates
It will be clear from the above that the instructions given in esoteric training exert a determining influence reaching the innermost depths of human nature. Such are the instructions regarding the four qualities mentioned above. They can be found in one form or another in all the great religions.
The founders of the great religions did not give mankind these teachings from some vague feeling. They gave them for the good reason that they were great Initiates. Out of their knowledge did they shape their moral teachings. They knew how these would react upon the finer nature of men, and desired that their followers should gradually achieve the development of this finer nature.
The founders of the great religions are therefore the great Initiates. Their teaching flows into the soul of men, and thus, with humanity, the whole world moves forward. Quite consciously did they work to further this evolutionary process of humanity. Their teachings can only be understood if it be remembered that they are the product of knowledge of the innermost depths of human nature. The great Initiates knew, and it is out of their knowledge that they shaped the ideals of humanity. Yet man approaches these great leaders when he uplifts himself, in his own development, to their heights.
The Guardian of the Threshold
Were the student to obtain an insight into these higher worlds without sufficient preparation regarding their nature, he would find himself confronted by the picture of his own soul as though by an enigma. There his own desires and passions confront him in animal or, more seldom, in human forms. It is true that the animal forms of this world are never quite similar to those of the physical world, yet they possess a remote resemblance. Inexpert observers often take them to be identical.
Now upon entering this world, an entirely new method of judgment must be acquired. For apart from the fact that things actually pertaining to inner nature appear as outer world, they also hear the character of mirrored reflections of what they really are. When, for instance, a number is perceived, it must be reversed, as a picture in a mirror; 265 would mean here in reality 562. A sphere is perceived as though from its centre. This inner perception must then be translated.
The qualities of the soul appear likewise as in a mirror. A wish directed towards an outer object appears as a form moving towards the person wishing.
Passions residing in the lower part of human nature can assume animal forms or similar shapes, that hurl themselves against the individual. In reality, these passions are struggling outward; they seek satisfaction in the outer world, but this search in an outward direction appears in the mirrored reflection as an attack on the individual from whom they proceed.
If the student, before attaining insight into higher worlds, has learnt by quiet and sincere self-observation to realize the qualities and defects of his own character, he will then, at the moment when his own inner self confronts him as a mirrored image, find strength and courage to conduct himself in the right way.
People who have failed to test themselves in this way, and are insufficiently acquainted with their own inner self, will not recognize themselves in their own mirrored image, and will mistake it for a reality foreign to themselves. Or they may become alarmed at the vision, and, because they cannot endure the sight, deceive themselves into believing the whole thing is nothing but an illusion which cannot lead them anywhere. In either case the person in question, through prematurely attaining a certain stage of inner development, would himself fatally obstruct his own progress.
The Two Petalled Lotus – The Third Eye
This is the moment when the 2-petalled lotus in the region of the eyes is required. If it now begins to stir, the student finds it possible to set his higher Ego in connection with higher spiritual beings. The currents from this lotus flower flow towards the higher entities in such a way that the movements in question are fully apparent to the individual.
Just as the light renders the physical objects visible, so, too, these currents disclose spiritual beings of higher worlds.
Through inward application to the fundamental truths derived from Spiritual Science, the student learns to set in motion, and then to direct the currents proceeding from the lotus flower between the eyes.
The Higher 'I'
It is at this stage of development especially that the value of sound judgment, and a training in clear and logical thought, is proved. The higher self which hitherto slumbered unconsciously, in an embryonic state, is now born into conscious existence. This is not a figurative, but a positive birth in the spiritual world, and the being now born, the higher self, if it is to be capable of life, must enter that world with all the necessary organs and aptitudes. Just as Nature must provide for a child being born into the world with suitable eyes and ears, so, too, the laws of self-development must provide for the necessary qualities, with which the higher self can enter existence.
These laws governing the development of the higher spiritual organs are none other than the laws of sound reason and morality of the physical world. The spiritual self matures in the physical self as a child in the mother's womb. The constitution of the spiritual self is similarly conditioned by the laws of common intelligence and reason that govern physical life. No one can give birth to a soundly constituted higher self, whose life in thought and feeling, in the physical world, is not sound and healthy.
Natural, rational life is the basis of all genuine spiritual development. Just as the child when still in the maternal womb, lives in accordance with natural forces to which it has access, after its birth, through its organs of sense, so, too, the human higher self lives in accordance with the laws of the spiritual world, even during physical existence. And even as the child, out of a dim life-instinct, acquires the requisite forces, so, too, can man acquire the powers of the spiritual world before his higher self is born. Indeed he must do this if the latter is to enter the world as a fully developed being. It would be quite wrong for anyone to say: 'I cannot accept the teachings of Spiritual Science until I myself become a seer,' for without inward application to the results of spiritual investigation, there is no chance whatever of attaining genuine higher knowledge. It would be as though a child, during gestation, were to refuse the forces coming to it through its mother, and proposed to wait until it could create them for itself. Just as the child in its incipient feeling for life, learns to appreciate what is offered to it, so can the non-seer appreciate the truth of the teachings of Spiritual Science.
An insight into these teachings, based on a deeply rooted feeling for truth, and a clear, sound, all-round critical and reasoning faculty, is possible, even before spiritual things are actually perceived. The esoteric knowledge must first be studied, so that this study becomes a preparation for clairvoyance. A person attaining clairvoyance without such preparation would resemble a child born with eyes and ears but without a brain. The entire world of sound and colour would display itself before him, but he would be helpless in it.
At this stage of his esoteric development, the student realizes, through personal inward experience, all that had previously appealed to his sense of truth, to his intellect and reason.
He has now direct knowledge of his higher self.
He learns how his higher self is connected with exalted spiritual beings, and forms with them a united whole.
He sees how the lower self originates in a higher world, and it is revealed to him how his higher nature outlasts his lower.
He can now distinguish the imperishable in himself from the perishable; that is, he learns, through personal insight, to understand the doctrine of the incarnation of the higher self in the lower.
It will become plain to him that he is involved in a great spiritual complex, and that his qualities and destiny are due to this connection.
He learns to recognize the law of his life, his Karma.
He realizes that his lower self, constituting his present existence, is only one of the forms which his higher being can adopt.
He discerns the possibility of working down from his higher self on to his lower self, so that he may perfect himself ever more and more.
Now, too, he can rightly distinguish the great differences between human beings, in regard to their level of perfection.
He becomes aware that there are others above him, who have already traversed the stages which still lie before him, and he realizes that the teachings and deeds of such men proceed from the inspiration of a higher world. He owes this knowledge to his first glimpse into this higher world. The so-called great Initiates of humanity now become vested with reality for him.
These, then, are the gifts which the student owes to his development at this stage: insight into his higher self; insight into the doctrine of the incarnation of this higher being into a lower; insight into the laws by which life in the physical world is regulated according to its spiritual connections, that is, the law of Karma; and finally, insight into the existence of the great Initiates.
From Belief to Knowledge
Thus it is said of a student who has reached this stage, that all doubt has vanished from him. His former faith, based on reason and sound thought, is now replaced by knowledge and insight which nothing can undermine. The various religious cults have presented, in their ceremonies, sacraments, and rites, externally visible pictures of the higher spiritual beings and events. None but those who have not penetrated to the depths of the great religious cults, can fail to recognize this fact. Personal insight into spiritual reality explains the great significance of these externally visible cults. Religious service, then, becomes for the seer an image of his own communion with the higher, spiritual world.
It has been shown how the student, by attaining this stage, becomes, in truth, a new being. He can now mature to still higher faculties, and, by means of the life-currents of his etheric body, control the higher and actual life-element, thus attaining independence, to a high degree, from the restrictions of the physical body.
There is more on the etheric body here: The Three Spiritual Principles of the Universe
On Alcohol, Meat and physical exercises
From From the Contents of Esoteric Classes
Although one can't eat one's way into the spiritual world, eating the wrong things can make spiritual development difficult or impossible.
Alcohol only arose after the Atlantean epoch to help men to become individualized. It closes man off from his higher capacities and encloses him in himself. That's why alcohol was used in the Dionysian mysteries. But now all civilized people have reached that stage so that alcohol is an unnecessary evil today.
Through its use one loses the ability to get along with others and to understand them. Alcohol is especially harmful for esoterics since its use changes all developed higher forces into forces of the personal ego, repeatedly locks it into itself, and tears the astral body apart through the opposing streams of the higher and lower I forces. The principle through which everyone can consciously attain his individualization was brought through the coming of Christ to the earth. That's why Christ Jesus says: I am the true vine.
By consuming alcohol one prepares a fertile soil for hosts of spiritual beings, just as a dirty room gets filled with flies.
The meat (but not milk and eggs) that we eat is permeated by the animal's astral body, and so our astral body has to work to digest it. This takes it away from its real task of creating pictures. Also at night it's held fast by the etheric body so that it can't leave it properly. This hinders it from its nightly task of restoring vital forces.
Vegetarian food that consists of physical and etheric things support the creation of large, comprehensive pictures and so gives a greater insight that lets one oversee things better without much deliberation. The greater force doesn't exhaust us, but summons spiritual forces.
Vegetarian food is excellent for doctors and lawyers who will find it easier to see through their patients or their clients' affairs, but it's not the right thing for bankers, industrialists, salesmen and others who have a lot of calculating, for one loses the ability to make physical combinations.
People who inherited a body that can't stand vegetarianism should not undertake an esoteric training.
The jogging, exercising and bathing that are often recommended are wrong for an esoteric; they pull him down into his physical body. He should try to move his limbs as little as possible.
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#1 by corinne247 on February 3, 2017 - 8:24 pm
This is an amazingly insightful post. I rather enjoyed it and the level of detail you were able to go into. Thank you. 🙂
#2 by Kim Graae Munch on February 3, 2017 - 8:27 pm
Thank you Corinne.
#3 by Marco Moschini on April 21, 2019 - 3:58 pm
first of all congratulations for your site and your research but this information regarding the jogging, bath and the exercise I find it to be equivocable.
Even Steiner says that being fit is one of the essential prerequisites for following a spiritual path obviously without exaggerating.
#4 by Kim Graae Munch on May 9, 2019 - 9:50 pm
Well, that is not what he say here for the esoteric, and I believe he is right. If your body is filled with hormones your body is in control, your soul is pressed out.
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In the heart of the Peak District National Park and surrounded by glorious Derbyshire scenery, Underleigh House has 5 Star Gold Award status (from both the AA and VisitEngland) as a Bed and Breakfast. Converted from a cottage and shippon (longhouse style) built in 1873, it is now the lovely home of Vivienne And Philip who are more than happy to share it with their guests. A genuine welcome and (if required) advice on what to see and where to go, is always on offer. Underleigh's Hope Valley location, near Edale, is as tranquil as it is stunning and appeals particularly to walkers wishing to explore Losehill, Mam Tor, Win Hill and even Kinder. For others there are the heritage attractions of Chatsworth House, Haddon Hall, Lyme Park and Hardwick Hall to consider, not forgetting the charms of Castleton (and its caves), Hathersage, Eyam (the 'Plague Village'), Tideswell, Bakewell, and Buxton.
As soon as you enter the stone-flagged breakfast room, with its cosy atmosphere, original beams and communal table, you sense that this is a place where you can relax and enjoy traditional English hospitality. Evident pride is reflected in Underleigh's memorable breakfast which has achieved both the AA and VisitEngland coveted breakfast awards. Homemade bread, Aga-cooked porridge, granola, muesli, compôtes and preserves, together with locally sourced premium produce, all contribute to a recipe for success. With its comfortable, homely and country house style, the guest lounge offers a spacious area in which to relax and take tea, whilst the colourful garden might serve a similar purpose in the summer. The en suite bedrooms - several with stunning views – are named after local hamlets: Aston, Townhead, Thornhill and Derwent. They are charmingly decorated and well equipped - showing great attention to detail - with three of them having their own sitting rooms for extra privacy.
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Aston 2 £105.00 per room per night for bed & breakfast The room may also be let at single occupancy at a discounted rate.
Derwent Suite 3 £125.00 per room per night for bed & breakfast In addition to the bedroom (which can be made up as either a twin or 6' king-sized double) and en suite shower room, the Derwent Suite has its own separate lounge in which to relax. A sofa bed in the lounge area can accommodate a third person at the additional cost of £20 per night. This room may also be let at single occupancy at a discounted rate.
Thornhill Suite 2 £125.00 per room per night for bed & breakfast As well as bedroom and en suite bathroom, the Thornhill Suite has its own separate lounge in which to relax. This room may also be let at single occupancy at a discounted rate.
Townhead Garden 3 £125.00 per room per night for bed & breakfast In addition to the bedroom and en suite shower room, the Townhead Garden Suite has its own separate lounge overlooking the garden in which to relax. This room may also be let at single occupancy at a discounted rate.
*As a guide, prices are per room per night for hotels, guest houses, B&Bs and serviced apartments and per week for self-catering accommodation.
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Packed lunches provided
Children welcome - Children welcome from age 12
Heating Facilities
Real log/coal fires - Woodburning stove in main guest lounge.
Ironing facilities - Ironing board and iron in each room.
Dogs/pets accepted by arrangement - Dogs accepted in Townhead Garden Suite only. Dogs not allowed in public areas (i.e. main guest lounge and dining area).
Lounge for residents' use
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Bath - In Thornhill Suite and Aston only
King-sized bed - King-sized bed in the Thornhill Suite, the Townhead Garden Suite and Aston. Super king-sized bed (which can be configured as twin beds) in the Derwent Suite.
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King-sized bed
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King-sized bed - 6ft wide super-king bed which can be divided into twin beds if required.
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Road Directions
Come into the village of Hope on the A6187 (formerly A625) to the Parish Church. Opposite the church (and with the 'Old Hall' pub on the corner), take the road to Edale for about 0.6 mile (past the 'Cheshire Cheese' pub and under bridge) until the de-restriction road sign which marks the end of the 30 mph zone. At this point, take the cul de sac - Lose Hill Lane - to the left of the facing house and continue for 0.3 mile, keeping to the right all the way. Lose Hill Lane is narrow, has some potholes and is also a footpath, so drive carefully! Underleigh is the first property on the right and the entrance to the car park is directly before the house.
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For those coming to Underleigh without a car, we will collect from Hope Station which is served by trains from both Manchester and from Sheffield. We can provide all the information needed to enjoy a 'car free' stay at Underleigh with details of local dining options, walks from the door, local cycle hire and public transport timetables to reach places of interest in the area.
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I am currently trying to create an inventory database that includes a form that will update the inventory numbers last updated in the database. Rather than having one row constantly being updated in the table, I would like to keep track of what has come in and out of the warehouse and when.
So far, I have the fields on my form and am able to update the next record by entering in numbers, but I'm not sure how to use what I enter into the fields (based on a dropdown of inbound/outbound) to either subtract from or add to the last updated record in the table.
Does this make sense? And can anyone help me learn how to do this?
Databases work a little differently from how you're used to I expect. That bit you didn't follow was fundamental to the difference and explains why your follow-on questions doesn't really work. Let me see if I can clarify the situation somewhat.
We'll start with a single product and a single location, which leaves us a single Stock record, then look at the Transactions afterwards and how we use those to maintain and view the results.
That's the concept. In some situations it's deemed politic to store dated values in a Stock level table, but in such cases great care must be taken to recognise which transactions are already incorporated into the total (hence the Stock value needs to be dated).
PS. Trying to update the data in the Stock table is not a normalised approach, and that can bring with it many unforeseen difficulties. For more on this see Database Normalisation and Table structures.
It doesn't make a lot of sense to be fair Amy, but I think I have a sort of understanding of where you're going with it (Forms don't have fields by the way. They have controls. Understanding this may save you future headaches).
Are you thinking about maintaining a transaction table rather than simply updating the inventory records directly?
Things can work that way, but the results would not generally be stored (The inventory wouldn't be a stored value as such). Instead, the item would be linked in a query to all the related transaction records, and the sums resulting would be the values displayed indicating the stock levels. Does that make sense?
Yes, that makes sense. Thank you for being gracious with my limited knowledge. A transaction table does sound more like what I need.
I don't understand: "Instead, the item would be linked in a query to all the related transaction records, and the sums resulting would be the values displayed indicating the stock levels."
What I need to know is how to create a new record on a table based on the last updated transaction record and the values entered into the controls on the form.
This makes much more sense, thank you.
Another question, I would like to create a form that allows users to enter in changes in transactions. Is there anyway the number they enter can automatically have a negative sign come before it? Or could I base the fact that there is a negative on the number on whether a drop-down box control has "inbound" or "outbound" selected?
As for the new question, such things can be done, but this needs to be posted in its own thread. Only one question per thread please.
I didn't point it out earlier, but for stock-take, where you go around your warehouse and check that the counts of each item matches the counts indicated by your system, you would enter only the deltas when you found anything that didn't match. Delta is a mathematical name (Greek letter.) for a difference. So, if an item's 3 short of the stock quantity indicated, then you'd add an adjustment of +3. If you actually have five more than expected you'd enter -5.
As a general rule you'd want to add a comment to the transaction to indicate this is from a stock-take. For this you'd need an extra field in [tblTransaction] called either [Comment] or [Reference] and you'd populate it with something meaningful when ordinary sale and purchase transactions are used.
Data grid current page number?
Datagrid current row number is the same as the dataset row number?


When prospecting, it's important to track the progress of leads. This is not only important to know where you are at with an individual lead, but also provides insight into your sales process as a whole and can even help automate and streamline your follow up. Blitz Lead Manager's custom status and milestone features allows businesses to customize their unique process and easily track results.
A common question that we receive is: "Why do we need both?" The answer is simple. You are tracking two completely different things. A status is meant to track the interest of the lead (hot, not interested, etc.), while a milestone is meant to track the sales process timeline (contacted, quoted, sold, etc.). You can't have one without the other. For example, you may have quoted 100 people (which would have a "Quoted" milestone), but some were interested, some were not, some weren't eligible, etc. This is where the status comes into play. Similarly, you may have 100 leads with a "Hot" status, but each is in a different stage of the sales process.
If you have an automated Workflow set up, emails and appointments are going to be automatically generated based on the lead's status and/or milestone. You do not want a lead nurturing email automatically sent to someone that told you they were not interested yesterday.
If you are using eAgent, leads are sent automatically from Blitz to eAgent based on a milestone.
When using an autodialer, or even when manually dialing out, it makes it easy to target only leads that you have not already contacted.
Administrators can easily see the overall progress of a particular user or lead vendor by the status/milestone breakdown on the My Blitz page.
It's also important to make sure the statuses and milestones in your account make sense for your business. Blitz does provide defaults, however they do not work for everyone. For best results, have an office meeting to discuss your sales process. Write down each stage of the process and how you would like to categorize your leads. This will give you a better idea what they should be changed to. To customize statuses or milestones, click on the Administration tab, and select either "Lead Statuses" or "Lead Milestones." Click +Add New Record to add a new one, the pencil to edit, and the trash can to delete.


The ages of naval battles had come to end long ago, but some Minecraft PE players miss them so much! As the result, we get the TNT Toss and it is pure fun!
We know that a lot of you watched the new Jack Sparrow movie several days ago, so if you want to take a part in real naval battle – we have got great news for you. TNT Toss is pretty strange mini-game. It requires at least two Minecraft PE players, but more friends = more fun.
There are two ships, each of them has cannons and throwable TNT blocks. Your main objective is to destroy blocks under the enemy team players and make them drop to water. If it will happen to all opponents, you will win. In addition, this game is pure fun, so do not waste your time, call your friend and start the battle.
You spent dozen hours playing Egg Wars, but you would like to be able to kill other Minecraft PE players? This map seems to be a goldmine for you!
Several layers, endless skies around the arena and the only one hero to stay alive. Isn't it the mini-game that all Minecraft PE players was looking for?
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It smells like fall in my apartment! I'm making my Fall orange soup and it smells delicious! This is my favorite time of year because the vegetables that I love the most are in season! Squash! They are grounding, earthy and they absolutely soothe my soul.
Here is the recipe for deliciousness in a bowl.
pinch of ground nutmeg – this is very floral tasting so go easy on it and only use a very small amount. You can always add more if needed.
Add ghee or olive oil into a soup pot and let it warm up. Slice onion and add into pot. Turn the flame to low and let the onions get soft and clear.
Chop butternut squash, peel and remove seeds. This is the hardest part of the whole recipe! Be careful! You can always cheat and buy chopped squash at the store.
Peel and chop sweet potato. Wash the carrots well, remove ends and chop the carrots into rounds.
Once onions are soft and clear, add the chopped veggies.
Add 5-6 cups of water – you want the veggies to be covered.
Place lid on the pot halfway so air is seeping in. Turn flame to medium-low and let cook until all the veggies are soft. Should take about one hour. Puree with your immersion blender, Vitamix or regular blender. Enjoy!
This will make quite a lot of soup, so plan to have it for the rest of the week. You can also freeze some to eat later.


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Q: How to make the extra keys on my Sun Type 7 keyboard work in kubuntu 18.04? I am asking and answering my own question here in case it is useful to someone else, as it has taken me a long time to come up with a solution!
I have a Sun Microsystems Type 7 keyboard that has a set of 11 extra keys on the right hand side, and I would like to be able to program them to do something useful in kubuntu. But when System Settings is waiting for a keypress of the key to program, nothing happens for most of the keys when I press them. The exception is Cut, Copy and Paste: these three I can assign Ctrl+X, Ctrl+C and Ctrl+C to, and they work generally in applications (and, when I press them in System Settings, the correct key name is even displayed).
So how to get the other special keys to be recognised?

A: First, I noticed that various Sun keyboards are listed in System Settings/Input Devices/Keyboard/keyboard model. So I chose mine, Type 7, with a UK layout.
Then I used xev and noticed that when I press any of the special keys, they are recognised and a keycode, the correct name and a keysym are displayed.
Also poking around the various X11 keyboard files it is clear that Sun keyboard support is definitely supposed to be there, at least in X.
After a lot of faffing around, in the end I used xmodmap to assign high-numbered function key values to the special keys. I put the commands in a script file I call sunkeys, which contains:
#!/bin/bash

# Assign F13 to F23 to the special extra Sun keyboard keys so that an action
# can be assigned to them. But Cut, Copy and Paste seem to work anyway.

if [[ -n "$1" ]]; then
  sleep "$1"
fi

setxkbmap -option ctrl:ralt_rctrl # Right Alt === Right Ctrl

xmodmap -e "keycode 146 = F13" # Help
xmodmap -e "keycode 136 = F14" # Stop
xmodmap -e "keycode 137 = F15" # Again
xmodmap -e "keycode 138 = F16" # Props
xmodmap -e "keycode 139 = F17" # Undo
xmodmap -e "keycode 140 = F18" # Front
#xmodmap -e "keycode 141 = F19" # Copy
xmodmap -e "keycode 142 = F20" # Open
#xmodmap -e "keycode 143 = F21" # Paste
xmodmap -e "keycode 144 = F22" # Find
#xmodmap -e "keycode 145 = F23" # Cut

(I'll come to the sleep bit in a moment.)
The function keys F13 to F23 are not on the keyboard but are in the X system and kubuntu System Settings knows about them, and when they are pressed it allows things to be assigned to them.
The setxkbmap line reprograms the right AltGraph key to be a right control key.
But although running sunkeys from the command line programs the keys ok, when I put sunkeys at the end of my ~/.profile file, the keys did not get programmed when I rebooted. It turns out for some reason there needs to be a delay before you run xmodmap, hence the sleep business in the script above. So at the end of my ~/.profile file I now have the line
~/bin/sunkeys 15 &

This makes the sunkeys script sleep for 15 seconds before it does the xmodmap commands. The & at the end of the sunkeys line tells the shell to continue booting while sunkeys sleeps. Without the &, you type your password when logging in and then the system then appears to hang for 15 seconds.
I now have all the extra keys doing the obvious useful functions. I assign Ctrl+S (= save in most applications) to the big Help key. And Ctrl++ and Ctrl+- for soom in and out to the unobvious Front and Props keys as they are next to each other.
As a bonus the Compose key actually does what it is supposed to with no further changes: to enter café I type c a f Compose e '.
Update: I did a quick test booting from a kubuntu 20.04 USB stick and it appears that System Settings sees most of the special keys, and displays their names correctly, with the exception of Front and Props. So when I eventually upgrade I will still use this technique.

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