t a perception; in intellectuality, one thinks of the
actual possibility of forming this knowledge through inward
activity. In German the expression "emotional soul" only coincides
as it should with the second member of the soul when the inward
activity is kept in view.

4 No hard and fast line can be drawn between the changes which are
accomplished in the astral body through the activity of the ego and
those taking place in the etheric body. The one merges into the
other. When a man learns something, and thereby gains a certain
capacity for judgment, a change takes place in his astral body; but
when this judgment changes his natural disposition, so that he
habituates himself to _feel_ differently, in consequence of his
learning, from what he did before, this means a change in his
etheric body. Everything that becomes so much a man's own that he
can always recall it, is based on the transformation of the etheric
body. That which little by little becomes an abiding possession of
the memory has its foundation in the transmission to the etheric
body of the work of the astral body.

5 As a matter of fact, it is always very profitable for any one who is
taking up the study of occult science to acquaint himself with the
statements of those who regard this science as merely fanciful. Such
statements cannot be so easily branded as due to partiality on the
part of the observer. Let occultists learn as much as possible from
those who regard their efforts as nonsense. They need not be
disturbed if in this respect their love is not reciprocated. Occult
observation assuredly does not require such things for the
verification of its results, nor are these allusions intended as
proofs but as illustrations.

6 In current theosophical literature, the condition of the ego from
death to the end of purification is called "Kamaloca."

7 The assertion that a man's personal talents, if governed purely by
the law of "heredity," must show themselves at the beginning of a
line of descent, not at its end, might of course easily be
misunderstood. It might be said, indeed, that they could not show
themselves then, for they must first be developed. But this is no
objection; for if we wish to prove that something has been inherited
from an ance