“These feelings that we do not wish to recognize clearly, and generally interpret wrongly, are just those connected with sympathies and antipathies. We have to free ourselve from them in quite another way if we really mean to carry out spiritual exercises. In fact, we do not free ourselves from them. That is why we stop doing the exercises (ie. such as in Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and its Attainment). Though we say we want to break free of these conflicting emotions and feelings, we do not. When a person is really in earnest about doing spiritual exercises, the effect they can have is seen very soon. His sympathies and antipathies toward life change a little. I must say this does not happen very often. When it does happen the change is of very great significance because it means we are struggling against the very forces that allow the images from our everyday life to arise in our dreams. They can no longer find their way in if we have to come so far as to alter our sympathies and antipathies (likes and dislikes) in any sphere of life, no matter which.
This alternation in the forces of sympathy need not occur in a high realm of life, but in some domain it must be carried out, perhaps in the most common everyday affair. There are people who say they do their exercises every day, morning and evening, and for hours at a time, and cannot go even one step into the spiritual worlds. Sometimes it is difficcult to explain to them how easily one can understand that. In many cases they only need to realize this fact, that they are still grumbling about the same things they were grumbling about twenty, even thirty years ago, although they have been doing exercises all the time. The very language of their grumbling is still the same.
Then there are those who try to apply etermal means that can have certain effects in occultism or spiritual science. For example, they become vegetarians. In spite of all their endeavors to break away from a liking for meat, however, they attain no results from continued exercises. They may ascribe it to quite other reasons, thinking for instance that they need meat for their body, their brain, and therefore return occasionally to the flesh-pots of Egypt. Let us not imagine that it is an easy thing to transform one’s sympathies and antipathies. To quote a passage from Faust, ‘Easy it is, yet is the easy hard.’ This is an apt experssion of the situation of the evolving soul that is trying to rise into higher worlds.
It is not a question of changing this or that particular sympathy or antipathy but of changing ANY whatsoever. If we do, then after certain exercises we can enter the domain of dream life in such a way that we bring nothing into it of our everyday sense experiences. Thereby in a certain sense new experiences have room to enter.” -Rudolf Steiner, from The Occult Significance of the Bhagavad Gita
Tibetan Buddhism, the purest wisdom to survive Atlantis according to Steiner, teaches emptiness as a way of creating room to move, space to learn and grow. Gelek Rinpoche’s statement, “I know nothing.” says this same thing. HPB stated in her Voice of the Silence to make the astral body (the desire/fear body), a cipher, a zero, a no-thing. It is the Christ within us, our Spirit Self, if you will, that allows us this trinity of experiencing and knowing the self, the world, and having the right mind to handle it all, awaken to it all, be co-creative with it all. Halloween then, needs to be seen in light of the whole cycle of the year and its esoteric festivals. -robert of mayflower

The true memory of another person is the memory their Spiritual Soul. Realizing one’s own, and the other’s struggle of the soul seeking freedom from suffering, wholeness and well being. The Cosmic Memory perceives the Reincarnating Ego, the Pilgrim Soul, the angel in the becoming, and not only the past but the divine plan of the future as outlined in Rudolf Steiner’s Theosophy of the Rosicrucian. Cosmic Memory includes the spiritual future.
-Trebore Tau Bodhi

“Through morality, every person their own thousand-year kingdom. This thousand-year kingdom continually reigns in our midst.” -Novalis

To see the real person past, present, and future, look from and to the HEART. -Aria Fairchild

“The memory carrie out prophetic – musical calculus.” -Novalis

Memory very well may be whoever remembers best; but spiritually speaking it’s about remembering our original intention; whether we are a rose or a thorn to ourself and others. -Aria Fairchild

“Holy Light
Christos Sun Soul
Enkindle
Our hearts
Enliven
Our heads
That good/true/beautiful may move us to become
What we
From hearts love enflamed found
What we
From Spirt enlivened heads
Direct with single Will.

—paraphrased or inspired from
Steiner’s Foundation Stone Meditation
-A.F.