Steiner’s Thought-Forms

The importance of the way we think is a key feature of Rudolf Steiner’s small classic 1918 publication, Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and their Attainment.

Steiner emphasises that moving towards a more spiritual lifestyle, and developing the soul, requires “transformation in a person’s innermost self, in their thought-life”.

Steiner went on:

“There can be no progress however on the path to higher knowledge unless we guard our thoughts and feelings in just the same way we guard our steps in the physical world. If we see a wall before us, we do not attempt to dash right through it, but turn aside. In other words, we guide ourselves by the laws of the physical world. There are such laws too, for the soul and thought world, only they cannot impose themselves on us from without. They must flow out of the life of the soul itself. This can be attained if we forbid ourselves to harbour wrong thoughts and feelings”. 

Of course, Steiner says, we have to reach the point in our spiritual training where we unquestioningly understand that thoughts are real things, that thought creates. Noetic scientists have long maintained that thought has a ‘mass’, just like physical things.

In Lynne McTaggart’s 2007 publication, The Intention Experiment, she takes this concept further and states that if thought is an actual thing, a measurable mass and measurable entity, then it must have gravity just like physical things, enabling it to pull things towards it. So, in theory, we could change the world if enough people had the same thought, as ‘mass thought’ has a big gravitational pull, enabling actual physical change to occur.

The concept that ‘thought creates’ is also a key point made by Jonathan Black in his well-researched book on secret societies, The Secret History of the World, published in 2007. In this book, Black discusses the secret societies that have passed down to their initiates the true meaning of life, and Black summarises much of what key esoteric figures across history passed down to initiates.

Black says that the real secret is that mind preceded matter. Before the big bang there was nothing, no objects in space, no time. It was thought that generated physical events, which all started from the “point of singularity”.

And as the secret societies understand all too well, thought continues to be the key to creation and existence. For those who want to rule the world, therefore, thought must be contained, manipulated and controlled.

The non-physical world, of which thought is a key part, is far more important than most people understand. Eliminating negative thoughts can literally transform one’s life.

1 November 2022

[Book review: Rudolf Steiner – “Knowledge of Higher Worlds and their Attainment”]