Rudolf Steiner - Mystics of the Renaissance (Paracelsus included), 1911

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INTRODUCTION tion.

And because

the individual

self

self -observation raises

up

to the Universal Self,

therefore free action

from the Universal

is

that which flows

The

Self.

troversy whether man's will ject to

47

is

old con-

free or sub-

a universal law, to an tmalterable

problem wrongly stated.

necessity, is a

AU action is bound which is done by a man as an individual; all action free which

is

accomplished after his spiritual

re-birth.

Man, therefore, is not, in general,

He

either free or bound.

He

is

both the one

bound before his re-birth and he can become free through this re-birth. The individual upward

and the

other.

is

;

development

man

of

transformation

of

consists

unfree

willing

will possessing the character of

The man who has

in

the into

freedom.

realised the law-abid-

ingness of his action as his own, has

overcome the constraint

of

this

law-


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