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• Title: Book: Contemporary Civilization in the Mirror of the Science of the Spirit (1904)
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  • creed possible to one familiar with the then recent results of
  • research. The blunt saying of that time has become famous:
  • “Thoughts stand in about the same relationship to the brain as
  • the mechanism of the nervous system and of the brain in the same
  • Ludwig Buechner's Kraft und Stoff (Force and Matter) became a
  • sort of gospel among wide circles of the educated. One may well say
  • that excellent, independently thinking minds came to such convictions
  • same laws which still operate today. Darwinism promised to explain
  • time ago, all this became quite different. It is true that stragglers
  • our race amounted to an antiquated superstition from the infancy of
  • The historians of culture came to the aid of those
  • literature and art. When I follow the plot of a great drama or, under
  • Congress of Scientists in Leipzig (1876), has become famous. Du
  • satisfied with doing this. But he emphasized at the same time that in
  • hypnotism, suggestion, somnambulism. It became apparent that in the
  • for a truly thinking person. The facts with which one became
  • To this was added something else. It became more
  • the Darwinists, namely that animal and plant forms change only
  • trained with impunity amidst purely materialistic ideas. What they
  • clearly, for example, in the work of Verworn quoted above. He says:
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• Title: Book: From the Akasha Chronicle
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  • discovered. One need but compare the descriptions of one and the same
  • has been so complete that the conformity existing among external
  • initiates describe essentially the same things at all times
  • Continent still existed between America and Europe. This part of our
  • While he describes more the outer, the external events among our
  • of what today is Asia, Africa, Europe, and America. What took place
  • Today I am still obliged to remain silent
• Title: Book: Our Atlantean Ancestors
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  • totally absent among the first Atlanteans. On the other hand, they
  • most prominent mental faculties. For example, the Atlantean did not
  • different from what it became later. It was not calculated to furnish
  • and again in the same way. The faithful memory did not allow anything
  • among the Atlanteans (especially the earlier ones), in their highly
  • One familiar with the idea that the Atlanteans
  • development the greatest part of them declined. These became stunted
  • one. While, for example, the Atlanteans especially developed memory
  • potential. The faculty of memory appeared only in its rudiments among
  • lived in a certain civilization, that, for example, he had tools,
  • know. For example, the attachment to what has been experienced in the
  • possible for the faculty of naming what had been seen and heard to
  • make use of a name which has been given to something. The Atlantean
  • world. A new bond is also formed among men by communications through
  • youthful form among the Rmoahals, but nevertheless it distinguished
  • only named things, but in their words was a power over
  • the growth of plants, tame the rage of animals, and perform other
  • similar functions. All this progressively decreased in force among
  • This changed among the second subrace, the
  • own personal value. Ambition, a quality unknown to the Rmoahals, made
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• Title: Book: Transition of the Fourth into the Fifth Root Race
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  • only in preparation among the Atlanteans. It was not their own
  • The one who familiarizes himself with the thought
  • among their human brothers, the “divine messengers” could
  • belonged among their fellow humans only in a certain respect. They
  • among their governmental institutions, were guessed at rather than
  • of humanity, among which the faculty of thought was in a dull
  • therefore of whom none was to be made. Of this great fundamental
  • were at first devoid of religious character. They came to man in such
  • . . . To such knowledge belongs for example that of the use of
  • example, the domination over the life force was given to him without
  • this new spirit assumed a different character among the various
  • variety of new cultures and civilizations came into being.
  • bore the stamp of a divine origin. Thus the messengers of the
  • among men. But they remain in relation with the higher worlds, and
  • The human initiates, the sacred teachers, became
  • history, but rather in the world of legend, belong among these
  • capable of knowledge, will the greatest among the initiates be able
• Title: Book: The Lemurian Race
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  • careful examination.
  • developed among this race. While men could have ideas of
  • of lifeless objects in the same way. When he built something he did
  • of his arm by a simple effort of the will. For example, he could lift
  • her developing a strong imagination. For example, she was
  • Thereby propensities for dreaming and for fantasy developed in the
  • propensities could not degenerate. The dream or fantasy conceptions
  • own fantasy and dreaming which were put into the female soul.
  • same purpose, or in order to be used for certain activities. The
  • art” became more and more imposing and ornate. These
  • for they were educational and scientific institutions at the same
  • not use the word “instinct” in the same sense in which
  • became rulers of the others. Today it is difficult to give in words a
  • crust of our earth today was not yet as hard as it later became. The
  • amphibians, the birds, and the lower mammals, and as far as vegetable
  • mammals did not exist. On the other hand a great part of humanity was
  • from the lower mammals, which resembled them in form in certain
  • alliance with nature, became the basis for a higher development of
  • The development of the will among the male element
  • the seeds for a life of law, for a kind of morals, came from this
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• Title: Book: The Division into Sexes
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  • made of the body an impression of its own nature. But when [it] became
  • instead gave it qualities which embraced both at the same time. For
  • other hand, bears the stamp of imagination. Thus it comes about that
  • mankind forms a thinking brain for itself is the same by which man
  • and so on. His consciousness was dreamlike; he lived in
  • But there were other beings among these men. These
  • until a brain existed which became the mediator with the spirit.
  • It would have remained arrested at the stage of dreamlike
  • consciousness. This was different among the superhuman beings
  • was not dreamlike, but inwardly clear. Their acquisition of knowledge
  • externally — in what took place in it as a dreamlike life
  • “Man” became sensual, and thereby his love became
  • which one calls selfishness. When he became man or woman in
  • from the world around him. He became selfish. And his action toward
  • the outside became selfish; his striving after inner development also
  • became selfish. He loved because he desired, and likewise he
  • The soul, which among these beings does not reside
  • because it was still at an inferior stage, that of dream
  • of the soul in a male or female body. Sensual love became the force
  • became ripe for a contact with the spirit only at that stage of
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• Title: Book: The Last Periods before the Division into Sexes
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  • quite undeveloped. The most advanced among them were the organs of
  • perception of light lagged far behind. Man came into the world with
  • example, in accordance with the course of the sun and the moon. But
  • into his own activity. He lived among such tonal movements and
  • soul. One can compare this only with the flowing dream impressions of
  • dream consciousness. For the most part, colored images filled this
  • Among those who had developed into a kind of superhuman beings, (cf.
  • For example, the average man experienced fear, and an ugly, dark
  • When the time came in which the sexes separated,
  • character comes from later times, when men became more independent
  • also arose among the images of their souls. The truly superhuman
  • different among the half superhuman entities. They felt the impulse
  • would at first have had to continue a sort of dream existence if the
  • world. He became a being which was conscious of itself in the world
  • of the senses. Thereby it came about that man could consciously
  • choice became possible for man. This was the beginning of “good
  • the same stage of development as he. According to current ideas one
  • would include them among the reptiles. Apart from them, lower forms
  • soon. Some species of these became extinct, others have perpetuated
  • process had by no means come to an end. Among the men with a dull
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• Title: Book: The Hyperborean and the Polarean Epoch
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  • which has not been carefully examined with the means provided by the
  • the Nineteenth Century), where I think I have shown that I am able to
  • substances which later became solid were previously in a fluid, still
  • earlier, in a vaporous and steam-like, and in an even more remote
  • quite dull and dreamlike. It was not a self-conscious
  • the form from which it had sprung, and in it the same processes took
  • the same condition in which the whole body was before. In the
  • same time these descendants are endowed with a surplus of
  • bodily fluids now became warm blood. With this he attained a much
  • possessed before. The whole inner life became more active. Perception
  • literature is called Kama — the body of wishes —
  • became connected with earthly man. The objects of the senses could
  • now become objects of desire. Through his body of wishes man became
  • common heavenly body. Thereby it became impossible for the soul
  • developed. The temperature conditions of earth became such that
  • strove toward it. At the same time his soul life proper still
  • continued in dreamlike pictures. In this life, colored images which
  • outside became connected with such an image. The soul began to see
  • more the soul became the mirror of the external world. The outside
  • sexes. On one side, the human body became receptive only to
• Title: Book: Beginning of the Present Earth  Extrusion of the Sun
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  • in the new year it rises again in the same form. Thus everything
  • took place among groups of terrestrial beings which previously had
  • upon them from the outside. Thus the plants came under the influence
  • had developed under this irradiation. Now they also came under the
  • increase temperature. With this, the earth became an entity which
  • developed heat within itself. All its beings came under the influence
  • With this, the examination of the Akasha Chronicle
• Title: Book: Extrusion of the Moon
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  • what man became later, however, one must imagine him at this stage as
  • could embody themselves in it, but that at the same time higher
  • were penetrating downward through the same stage, toward an
  • personal understanding develop in man; through the same forces,
  • the lower nature — now came under the rationally formative
  • namely, the higher, more noble divine forces have an affinity with
  • leadership of those entities which are summed up under the name
  • “Lucifer,” the name of their regent. The Luciferic gods
  • attain this level. At the same time they give man the predisposition
  • toward the things of earth. Thereby for men they became the teachers
  • It now becomes clear whence the name Lucifer, that
• Title: Book: Some Necessary Points of View
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  • planetary developmental stages. The names used in mystery science
  • with the heavenly bodies of today which bear these names in physical
  • became “earth,” the earth with all the beings which
  • a day dreaming in terms of mere concepts, but on actual spiritual
  • example, one will see how completely the question concerning the
  • certain insight. Pride and arrogance finally become names for human
  • the realm of fantasy and dreams — he will understand this
  • there. The same is true of the seeing into higher worlds.
  • or were conscious. An artist, for example, knows why a
  • before were on the right, are now on the left. The same is true of
  • of consciousness here by means of examples.
  • distribution of tasks among the several categories can only be
  • of the beehive or the ant society is not to be found in the same
  • must be sought directly in another world. The same conscious mind
  • do this. Thus, in the examples given above, we are confronted by
  • man. In a certain manner it has already taken place among the seers
  • this anticipatory development. Just as among the bees three
  • examples would have to be given in order to show clearly how
• Title: Book: On the Origin of the Earth
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  • the formation of the earth took place and before this sphere became
  • which contemporary science connects with the names
  • with these names no other significance than that directly given to
  • takes place became “earth,” it had had three other forms
  • to pass through. In mystery science these have been named Jupiter,
  • transported back into it, so that he perceives in the same way in
  • dreamless sleep of his present life, man has a condition of
  • and a sleep filled with dreams. It must be explicitly stated that
  • images such as appear in dreams, but these images correspond to the
  • certain image — similar to a dream image — to arise as it
  • only a dreamlike, dim consciousness. The images appearing
  • The development of this dreamlike consciousness
• Title: Book: The Earth and Its Future
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  • perceives in a dreamlike manner the images which arise in his soul
  • stages of repetition on earth, there arose for example, a colored
  • image in his soul when a particular object came near him. All of
  • discussions which are to follow this description will be amplified
  • restriction. The clairvoyant, for example, is developing a seeing in
  • prepared in the spiritual and mental ones of today. For example, what
  • senses (thus for example, the aura). A view into the future is
  • dreams; instead he will evoke them in full self-consciousness,
  • place. For this is not the same on all the planets. Life proceeds
  • attained. The last planet which can still be counted among the series
  • full cycle of humanity this amounts to seven times forty-nine or
• Title: Book: The Life of Saturn
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  • to old age. One can extend this comparison further. As among
  • Flames.” Because the substance of which this body consisted had
  • same time work on the human body in such a way that a “wise
  • (Dynamis). (In theosophical literature, the expression
  • Christian esoteric teaching names them “Powers”
  • dreamlike. But it is through them that the activity of the
  • exalted beings from among those four ranks of which it has been said
  • when he is in a deep, dreamless sleep. These beings are the
  • body, namely in the
• Title: Book: The Life of the Sun
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  • character which stands in the same relation to the subsequently to be
  • sinks during a calm and dreamless sleep. This condition, which
  • became the earth, after it in turn had detached from its substance
  • two bodies thus existed in place of the former planetary Sun, namely,
  • separate bodies (Sun and Moon) became united and together passed
  • beginning of the Sun cycle. But here it does not remain in the same
  • Lives” or “Flames” (in Christian esoteric science,
  • Motion” (Dynamis in Christianity. Mahat in
  • It thus again becomes mobile. In the same way the “Spirits of
  • substance out of themselves just as the “Flames” poured
  • At the same time the “Sons of Fire”
  • dreamlike condition, enjoy the power of reproduction of this body,
  • the Sun. It became a human plant; man passed through the realm of
  • special mineral realm came into being. It can be seen that man
  • fundamental law of development.
  • condition of consciousness, that of dreamless sleep. The physical
• Title: Book: Life on the Moon
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  • that of dreamless sleep. The Sun consciousness, however, can be
  • compared to this condition of dreamless sleep, or to the present
  • similarity, namely with that of dream-filled sleep. Man attains the
  • that in the Moon consciousness as well as in dream consciousness,
  • The dream images are echoes of the experiences of the day, or
  • symbolical expressions for events in the dreamer's environment, or
  • for what is taking place in the interior of the dreaming person.
  • Examples of these three types of dream experiences are easy to give.
  • First, everyone knows those dreams which are nothing but confused
  • images of more or less remote daily experiences. An example of the
  • second type would be if the dreamer thinks he perceives a passing
  • the watch lying beside him which was perceptible in this dream image.
  • An example of the third kind is that it seems to someone that he is
  • awaking from this dream he realizes that it was his own headache
  • Moon consciousness on the basis of such confused dream images, one
  • even less similarity than the dream images to the objects to which
  • the floating and the symbolical in common with dreams of today, but
  • are distinguished from these dreams by their completely regular
  • on Saturn and on the Sun. That which repeats itself, namely the
  • development of a physical body and of an ether body, at the same time
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• Title: Book: The Life of Earth
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  • even to that of dreamless sleep of the present, although for man of
  • dreamless sleep. With the formation of the astral body a dim image
  • with the one man at present ascribes to himself while he is dreaming.
  • At the same time, something else was taking place
  • resume approximately the same forms of existence which they already
  • describe as the real ancestor of man. It is the same power entity
  • — for example, mathematical and moral ideals — are woven
  • which the conceptions of the dreamlike image consciousness are woven.
  • dreamlike image consciousness. They form the second elementary realm.
  • For beings which are endowed with a dreamlike image consciousness, or
  • matters of nomenclature. Indeed, it is not names which are important,
  • names. These must after all always be incorrect in a certain sense.
  • For to facts of the spiritual world one must give names which have
  • heavenly body we have described, also leave at the same time. Their
  • themselves in the same way. But this is by no means the case. That
  • “races” first came into being. This event was brought
  • fact that, at the same time at which earth and moon separated, the
  • former came into the sphere of influence of other heavenly bodies.
  • The same course of development will be described
  • one looks at the same thing from the most diverse aspects, the
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• Title: Book: The Fourfold Man of Earth
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  • has begun only among the initiates — those trained in the
  • composed of the same substances and forces which exist in the wider
  • This is not an amorphous massing of substance, but rather is joined
  • together in the most artful manner, out of diminutive beams which run
  • arrangement of the small beams, the necessary carrying capacity for
  • the support of the human torso can be attained with the least amount
  • of substance. The least amount of matter is used in order to achieve
  • example the astral body has attained at the present stage of
  • namely, of Sun, Moon, and earth. Therefore only in a future period of
  • Of the present natural realms, namely the mineral
  • had only the last-named. What one knows today as animals, plants, and
  • mineral. The other realms came into existence because not all beings
  • thereby developed to a higher level of perfection. They became a kind
  • Saturn. Thus on the Sun another natural realm came into being in
  • the same way that “lifeless crystals” now form on earth;
  • were thereby brought into the life process. They became
  • to be compared with the dream images of present-day human
  • present-day dream images are mere echoes of daily life or are
  • Through this it came about that another separation took place after
  • heavenly bodies it became possible that into the tripartite human
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• Title: Book: Answers to Questions
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  • from its storehouse, &$151; how is it to be explained that in
  • new capacity. Among the Atlanteans for instance, it was the faculty
  • among the Atlanteans. But each previously acquired power of the soul
  • example, if the beaver were suddenly to become a thinking being, it
  • The Atlanteans also had for example, the capacity
  • among them. The life-mastering power of the Atlanteans first appeared
  • among the members of our race under the mask of mythology. In this
  • race. The great inventors among us are incarnations of
  • among the Atlanteans were manifested in a magnificent breeding of
  • wisdom. Our knowledge of nature, for example, does lead to ideas
  • Today mankind needs the same truths in a rational form. The world
  • scientist of the spirit at the same time. But, however, one must be
• Title: Book: Prejudices Arising from Alleged Science (1904)
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  • among themselves and their gradual changes in form, today draws the
  • springs only from day-dreams and unscientific superstition. In the
  • organisms which can be considered among the oldest of the plant world
  • are of a kind which also develop without direct sunlight. Thus, among
  • direction which in the future will cause it to join the stream which
  • quite naturally forced upon man in the same way in which one thinks
  • worlds. The religious feeling, for example, fear and love of the
  • day-dreaming because one makes religious feeling the creator of
  • example, in the above-mentioned work of Forel the sentence appears,
  • cold and nebulous fata morgana of a hypothetical heaven among the
  • who claim to know something of them are dreamers and visionaries. The
  • they cannot find their way among the forms in which great truths are
  • back to mankind. It shows for example how the Days of Creation of the
  • who still ramble on about the contradiction between these Days of
  • itself the same character as natural science. And only where the
  • established themselves in wide circles. But at the same time, today
  • interrelationships of sensory facts. The one who familiarizes himself
• Title: Book: Cover: Cosmic Memory
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  • HARPER & ROW, PUBLISHERS
  • FIRST HARPER & ROW PAPERBACK EDITION PUBLISHED IN 1981
• Title: Book: Cosmic Memory: Back Cover
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  • “Rudolf Steiner shows that the insoluble link between man and cosmos is the fundamental basis of evolution. As man has participated in the development of the world we know today, so his achievements are directly connected with the ultimate destiny of the universe. In his hands rests the freedom to shape the future course of creation. Knowledge of his exalted origins and of the path he followed is indispensable if man is to evolve a future worthy of a responsible human being ... Through a study of Steiner's writings one can come to a clear, reasonable, comprehensive understanding of the human being and his place in the universe.”
• Title: Book: Introduction: Cosmic Memory
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  • In these years Steiner came into the circle of
  • Ein Kampfer gegen seine Zeit (Friedrich Nietzsche, a Fighter
  • embraces such fundamental questions as the being of man, the nature
  • among those who have studied and have found value in Steiner's work,
  • another example of the well-known hallmark of genius.
  • women in Berlin, he had ample opportunity to gain first-hand
  • problems of education and of social life. Some of the fundamental
  • Canada, Mexico, and South America.
  • supervision. Intended as the building in which Steiner's four dramas
  • would be performed, the Goetheanum also became the center of the
  • dramas, of Goethe's Faust (Parts I and II in their entirety),
  • Among activities springing from the work of Rudolf
  • Steiner are Bio-Dynamic Farming and Gardening, which aims at improved
  • Sculpture, Music Therapy, Drama, Speech Formation, Astronomy,
  • which Steiner gave the name, the science of the spirit, or
  • from a book of this kind. For example, while the word
  • bringing re-examination of knowledge previously shunned by
  • time in America, just a century after Darwin's Origin of the
  • between man and cosmos is the fundamental basis of evolution. As man
• Title: Book: Preface: Preface by the Editor of the German Edition (1939)
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  • through the literature of the Theosophical Society. The exotic names