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Title: The Story of My Life: Chapter: I
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have been mingled for some time past statements and judgments about
He always looked back with the greatest affection upon this time in
he had no love for it. While I was still a boy, he would sometimes
business of the railway. At that time the trains passed in that region
village who could spare the time were generally gathered at the
stayed for a long time. He belonged to the liberal type of Catholic
long time. There was a row of acacia trees (Robinien) on each side of
a far more delicate aroma?” From that time on we often had in our
family, as opportunity offered from time to time, “baked acacia
As a very young child I showed a marked individuality. From the time
used only once; and so, every time that I was not watched, as soon as
condition for a long time. Among these toys those that had the
of their life by pulling the strings. Many a time have I sat by the
notions at that time, was a scamp. So I had this idea firmly fixed in
Then, the next time the teacher's family came to our house, he told
This was also the time when, with my inclination toward the
inflammable material. For a long time I was absorbed in the question
that could be reached in a short time from our family's new home.
filled with a special happiness because of the fact that at that time
all of these most-friendly persons. They always had time for a chat
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on foot, since there was no train at the right time. Neudörfl was in
Wiener-Neustadt did I often linger for a long time.
exist space and in space motion continuing for a long period of time.
2. Space and time are continuous, homogeneous masses; but matter
the paper over and over again; each time there was some improvement.
With still another teacher I came only after a long time into a more
So I had scarcely any time left for reading the Critique of Pure
was in reality reading from a book. Then from time to time we had to
lesson at that very time was “excellent.”
I read more than twenty times in succession. I wanted to reach a
religion. For this also at that time had the very strongest hold upon
also at this time during the vacation without a teacher.
deprive me at those times when the school left me free.
invite me from time to time to come to see him. Every time that I had
literature. For up to that time both at my home and also at school,
sources. In this manner I passed my time in the three upper classes of
a long time to read my papers. After the final examination, during the
celebration before the close of the session, when for the first time
time I found out what this was. He adhered to the philosophy of
translation. Then for the first time I began to regret once in a while
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Title: The Story of My Life: Chapter: III
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This took hold of me much less at that time
Kant's time and the succeeding epoch. I studied the dry, bald
Karl Julius Schröer gave at that time in the Hochschule on German
his glasses, looked once more for a long time without spectacles over
little time I did not spend in attendance at lectures or in tutoring I
library of the Hochschule. Then for the first time I read Goethe's
already preparing. This part also I read at that time.
In the library I spent my time on Herbart's metaphysics through
personality. He was a keen thinker and at the same time given to
I felt in duty bound at that time to seek through philosophy for the
And this is what happened to me always at that time in this manner of
ancient times who – quite unaffected by the civilization, science, and
It was no light matter for my mental life at that time that the
of this reflection was at that time a weighty part of my inner life.
it entered from without into men. And so for a long time Hegel was
interests had naturally to be cramped for time, it was fortunate for
myself constantly at that time, one carries over these perceptions and
A decisive experience came to me just at that time from the side of
of time. Might a conception be possible here also which would contain
conception caused a profound unrest over that of time. But there was
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critical significance. At that time there was proceeding in the most
time my friend very noticeably formed the habit of directing our
it many times discussing Wagner. I was so absorbed in our argument
at the time of our walk a charming girl. There was no relationship
almost every day, and at times was aware that a glance she let fall on
long time. A melancholy note of resignation marked his letters. That
played any way a great rôle in my mental life at that time. I strove
To this time belongs still another youthful friendship very
him, too, I spent a great deal of time in stimulating talk. He was
A real inward friendship I formed at this time also with a young man
time repeated jestingly about me among my acquaintances. But they made
much time together. He also felt himself to be a poet, and many a time
of his poems. In my spiritual strivings of that time he also showed a
This young man had boundless faith in me. For a long time he treated
really hard at times not to cause him bitter disappointment. This
these times from him. He was grieved because I seldom or never
to him at that time that I was able to mingle with many men. He liked
My youthful friendships in the time of which I am here speaking had in
been a schoolmate of mine at Wiener-Neustadt. During that time,
actually to form these ties into objective fact. At times he was close
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I COULD not at that time bring myself to reflections concerning public
this time. His own fate was closely bound up with that of German
did not become widely known. The sentiment that breathes through them
time when this occurred, his whole sentiment and life were directed
sentiments and ideas concerning literary phenomena, and he spoke these
strongly in the spirit and the work of Goethe that in every sentiment
Thus my experience at that time was strongly bound up with my
My relationship to natural science was not at this time of my life
These analogies became at that time an actual torment to my inner
circulation, and the like. At that time I found no one to whom I could
My external life was at that time not so ordered that I could
physical sciences of that time, I had ample opportunity of immersing
My activity as a tutor, which afforded me at that time the sole means

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minutes beyond a certain time allotted to instruction caused injury to
instruction in such a form that in the least time, and with the least
time he had made such progress that he no longer needed me. After
after beginning this tutoring, and thus I had time left for
about that my “play-time” came after my twentieth year. I
Until that time I had occupied myself as a writer with nothing more
theories of cognition ordinarily held at that time.

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World-Conception at a time when Fate had led me into a family
time been one whom I had come to hold very dear because of his gay and
It was at that same time that I once went to Schröer. He was
time professor of Christian philosophy in the theological faculty of
learned man when we went away from delle Grazie's at the same time. I
man who was at the same time a “true son of his Church.” I
Another time we discussed the question of repeated earth lives. The
actually torn in two. But it was just at this time that those thoughts
toward it, and this is enough. Not the existence in time, no, but the
At the very time during which I enjoyed such stimulating experiences
the spiritual life of the time. But all this was tinged with Austrian
“amiability.” Much was said about how the time had come in
for an indefinitely long time, and would continue to sit indefinitely
and one other acquaintance of his who had for a long time mingled with
sentiments. He was the child of poor people, and had passed his youth
considerable time the world knew very little of him. After the
only have been formed in the time from the beginning of the Christian
It was in the very time of my life which I am now describing that I
earth-lives of man. Before this time I was not far from the
During the time when concrete perceptions were more and more forming

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DURING this time – about 1888 – I felt within me, on the one hand, the
circumstance that such a withdrawal was possible. I could at that time
It was at this time that these interests were forced to turn to the
published. In this a mirror was held before the times in which were
civilization. I found in it a first warning to the time. But I had
the times. I looked back to the period when Goethe and those who
interest in the Homunculus happened at a time when I was thinking over
At that time, true knowledge, the manifestation of the spiritual in
This was in the year 1888, just at the time when I was introduced into
There from time to time appeared the widow of Friedrich Hebbel. Her
which had assembled at the home of Formey would from time to time
experience came during a time when the interrelationships between the
was then my daily care. And it had to be a care, for at that time I
it seemed to me the tragedy of the times that this question was

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It was at this time (1888) that I took my first journey into Germany.
My sojourn for some weeks in Goethe's city was a festival time in my
In my writings published up to that time I had conceived this form of
not live in the present; one was drawn back to the time of Goethe. At
More than anything else at that time I craved to know personally
life from the time when the suffering with his knee began. I saw
heart. It was something which affected me for a long time afterward.
direction seemed to me at that time especially enriching to my mental
the writings of Rosa Mayreder which since that time have justly made
time appeared. But what is revealed in these writings lived in Rosa
during the time about which I am here writing together with Rosa
which developed in me at the time, during which I owe to her some of
was the time when my Philosophy of Spiritual activity was taking more
whom I talked most concerning this form at the time when my book was

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Institute. The time that I spent in Vienna between the first journey
and lectures at that time I always expressed myself in such a way as
The sense of my conception at that time was as follows: While man is
In this field I was at that time less intent upon representing the

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THE time that I consumed in the setting forth of Goethe's
But at the same time, in this grasping of Goethe's knowledge of
During the time that I was working at my interpretation of Goethe, I
There was great significance for me at that time in my thorough-going
been set forth before the time of Goethe by seekers for the spiritual
fantasy, whereas they had until his time borne a less artistic

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JUST at this time my outward life was altogether happy. I was
often must I think over again the conversations, sometimes unending,
which occurred at that time in a well-known coffee house on
pieces. For the causes of this crumbling to pieces were at that time
ideals which manifest themselves at times of the ebbing tide are
things and yet at the same time repelled. I found it hard to get a
seemed to me one of the most tragic figures of that time. And this
friends of mine at that time and who have remained such in the most
heartfelt fashion. For a long time they have taken a leading part in
to deliver a lecture at Hermannstadt. It was Christmas time. I
there were all the nationalities to be found at that time in Hungary
thoroughly Siebenburger Saxondom. He was still dividing his time
between Vienna and Hermannstadt. At that time he owned a weekly paper
from that which the “spirit of the times” then praised as a
long time the mother of the boy whose instruction I had taken over
and at another time I taught this lady and her sister aesthetics.
artistic she possessed both talent and enthusiasm. At times she took
time when I had the greatest need to discuss with her everything which
absorbed everything. At the same time she maintained in reference to
The flame of anti-Semitism which had sprung up at that time had caused
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FOR an indeterminate length of time I again faced a task that was
highly because of his book, and whom I saw for the first time in
any definite time. To this question the only possible answer is a
appropriate manner into the spiritual life of the times. She naturally
was a collaborator in the most famous edition of Goethe of that time,
As to his post before this time, he had been teaching in a Gymnasium
in Berlin. At the same time he had undertaken the editing of Herder's
could take no part, and at times treated them from the view-point of
primitive times were walled up before the doors of sacred buildings to
Institute at the time of my entrance Julius Wahle. He was one of those
called by Erich Schmidt. Wahle and I were intimates from the time of
something which required a reckoning of duration of time, Loeper said:
personality so utterly free from pose, unsentimental, I might say
And when I was able to meet him for the first time in the Institute, I
heiress, Pauline, was full of warmth. I was able many times to
long time. Someone went to see where he was. He had fallen from the

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This occurred at the time when Haeckel had formulated his own monistic
But there was at that time another occasion for me to give thought to
of the being of nature in the dominant spiritual temper of that time,
usually remained at Suphan's the whole afternoon. So it was this time
time both significant and also interwoven deeply with the things they
the time literary adviser to the Cotta publishing house, and as such
almost all the leisure time we had. His chief work,
belonging to that time of losing the “scientific” ground
remained scarcely observed at all in the spiritual life of the time a
almost wholly without influence. Ludwig Laistner had at that time to
in his Weimar circle at that time
in the spiritual life of that time. What lived in the plays of Ibsen,
lose itself in sentimentality; but he himself could become sentimental
time he was making a beginning toward the artistic realization of

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something inexpressibly beautiful. Hans Olden said to me many times
relationships of that time. And many persons interested in such
forced to realize that even until that time I had really lived but
time the only trustworthy world for me had been the spiritual world,
intercourse. This made it seem to me as if each time that I entered
who often came at that time to Weimar as he was working
unspiritual views of the time.
Goethe at the Time of His Maturity.

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AT this time there was established in Germany a branch of the Ethical
recent times had created between that which occurs in nature and the
in moral activity has at the same time the power to embody itself as
the times. Unconsciously frivolous did any one seem to me who
Herman Grimm. So it was at that time for me. In all that pertained to
revealed itself to me in my spiritual surroundings at that time. It
was the time in which my Philosophy of Spiritual Activity,
of soul at that time. Through my experience of the spiritual world in
thirtieth and fortieth years of age. At that time fate placed me

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To this time belongs my entrance into that circle of spiritual
of his time; but a critic who was by his own criticism reduced to
in Goethe's World-Conception, the same sentiment is
ever uttered. My confidence in him continued from that time on ... I
time my deepest sympathy. I suffered inexpressibly by reason of the
reality, it must have occurred innumerable times in the past, and must
occur again innumerable times in future. Thus we should arrive at the
For a long time I was in frequent intercourse with the editor of
humanity had expressed itself in philosophy up to the time of Goethe,
whatever happened at any moment has already happened innumerable times
in precisely the same form, and will happen again innumerable times in
present innumerable times; it will return with all its details in
innumerable times.
countless times – this was what he dwelt upon instead of the
time Fritz Koegel gave me his collection of Nietzsche's aphorisms
opinions I formed at that time of this process of Nietzsche's thought
definitely my reactions at that time to Nietzsche and to natural
perpetual medium of space and time promises a limitlessness in
reflect that the evolution in time has but a single true tendency, and
forwards and backwards! Everything has been innumerable times insofar

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are on general principles no limits to knowledge. At one time this or
either space or time, to find the things which are there concerned.
At that time I did this as to the understanding of nature only in a
fantasy. This artist, then in the bloom of youth, was for some time in
of the pianist Bernhard Stavenhagen, who was also for a long time
representative artists of the time and their works to Weimar. One saw
harmony with those of other persons. But at the same time I was just
always showed that he felt himself a second time ennobled through the

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Eduard von der Hellen's interests for some time brought me into touch
with the political life of the times. Discontent with things
to absurd social forms,-much of this was to be seen at that time in
by trained and forceful leaders to believe that a new time must come
Hellen at that time. And one had to share in the experience through
conceptions – at that time accompanied by feelings quite unlike those
Weimar at that time Dr. Heinrich Fränkel, a liberal politician, an
those for him. He was working just at the time that I knew him at a
Deutsche Wochenschrift, which I had edited for a short time a
the “liberalism” of that time into a more national-liberal
time put an end to our friendship.
at that time would have repelled them, since they were forced to
habits of thought of the time, was demanded by the facts.
But this union with the materialism of the time remained wholly in the
a long time among the artists in this way of seeking to relate oneself
extended further. I spoke at that time of “moral fantasy” as
lived for much the greater part of the time that I remained in Weimar.
Fresenius showed this at that time in an example which took a strong
drama in which he had at that time more or less elaborated the
by the correct application of the philological method. At that time I
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received at the same time in friendly fashion in the home of the
Her sentiments, deeply rooted in the soul, shone with wonderful beauty
a short time; and each tenant would leave there many things which he
But there were also some things which had lain there for a long time
The interest I had conceived in this bust led from that time on to my
house for a long time past, but whether a “Hegel” bust was
still time to supplement the defective nose.
Stavenhagen. Before this time he had been engaged in a practical
pianist and as composer. During the time of our Weimar acquaintance he
Weimar; at the time of which I am here speaking, his soul was freed
Weimar, and so it came about that at the time when my Weimar work was
nearly the same time as I did to Berlin.
just at the time when he was a member of this circle, he lost his
Weimar of that time. The tone was different from that which I had
being, with which I ended my work at Weimar. Some time ago, when I was

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life. Whereas before this time the conditions had been such that large
this time the most intense mental experience, filling the hours in
– this mental experience in its strength came at that time out of my
observation a new world was given to me; from what had until this time
which for the first time the world partly experiences its existence
the same time. But, if one looks to what is vital beneath the surface
truly real. This is something which at that time became confirmed
importance for insight into the spiritual world. Even before this time
for a certain length of time in order then to metamorphose what has
something which was just at that time confirmed in me as perception,

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confronted me for a long time. But it was significant for me that the

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For a long time previously I had thought of bringing to bear upon my
to be brought before the public of that time. I would not be
time. The necessary funds and the connections essential to the
this task. Its activity thus defined fell at a time when a
and it took its colour for the time being from those who in one way or
of staying for months at a time in Italy. And, when he returned, there
absent in Italy for a long time. In this way there came to be a
At the time when I had to bind myself to him, an added circle of
what the hands felt. A spirit alien to the present time spoke from
completed. One saw at the same time that the “devotion to the
out what he had in his mind. It was just at that time that the

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vague blurred form of the mystic-presentimental. The less one could
time been adopted also in Germany in connection with individual plays.
important for me at that period. From that time on I myself wrote the
participant in the artistic life of the time, and not a
time inner satisfaction. Only, anyone who reads them now and thinks
brings matter into existence and thereby is at the same time matter,
time; they were not italicized in the Magazine. For these sentences

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in lectures at this time appear to be contrary to the expositions I
time, when I used the word “Christianity,” I had in mind the
test for me. The time between my departure from the Weimar task and
of nature – though this did not result at that time – the basis upon
theoretical thinking about them does not suffice. At that time I had
In this time of testing I succeeded in advancing farther only when in
time of testing had set before me stern battles of the soul, I had to
At the time when I made the statements concerning Christianity so

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lay beyond the range of vision of that time.
I saw how, with the time of Goethe and Hegel, everything disappeared
I dared not just at that time fall into one-sidedness. As I stood
considered in relation to their influence on their times. Certainly
My own consideration of Stirner was connected at that time with a
spoke world-experience. He had spent some time in both England and
of J. H. Mackay seemed to me at that time, and still seems, and what
only after a long time, when by spiritual ways a requisite revolution
of politics. Now at this time, about 1898, a sort of abyss had to be
time, however, which seem all too radical must be compared with others
forces of my soul, was at that time my inner experience.
short time the utter misery of living in a home of my own. My
Amid all the movement in my life at that time came now the continual

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AT this difficult time of my life the executive committee of the
history, and to show that in the most recent times these had grown
single souls said again and again: “A time must come in which the
movement its destructive forces. It was the time in which the
egoism spread abroad with it fierce competitive struggles – the time
of the time.

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So that time arrived which ought by its own nature to have evolved in
the direction of the spirit, but which belied its own being – the time
the first time it became possible with her help to work for the
on the evolution of the peoples from primitive times. Individual
spirit of the time; but, had Jacobowski lived longer, he would
Another friend with whom I came to be associated at that time was
like a philosophical hermit, in the idealism of the time of Hegel. He
Less intimate, but of constant significance for a long time
and spirit,” is really a creation of the most recent times, and
I must call attention to this paper because it belongs to a time
materialist. But at that time this materialist passed with many
This “ancient knowledge” was practised in remote times only
thus it has continued even to the present time. Of the persons
were inevitable in ancient times was an impossibility. We live in the
time which demands publicity wherever any sort of knowledge appears.
to point out the harmony in mood and, at the same time, the advance
So, after a certain point of time, it was quite clear to me that in

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longer or shorter time. All this Goethe knew through experience; he
This was the time when I was invited by Count and Countess Brockdorff
the first time. The theme proposed was an article about Nietzsche.
Berlin period up to that time only to let the spiritual shine through
Sievers, who was chosen by destiny at that time to take into strong
on Goethe's secret revelation, I gave at this time a lecture on
I was in direct opposition to the theosophical dogmatics of the time,
Thus the thing evolved up to the time of my first attendance at a
time had taken on.
rejoice greatly over the cultural content of the time. Our highest
spiritual needs strive for something which the time affords only in
contemporary culture, I glanced back to the time of scholasticism in
time. Otto Willmann has written a noteworthy book, his
Theosophical Society. When I had entered into the culture of the time
1897 to 1900 as upon something which at one time or another had to be
uttered in opposition to the way of thinking of the time; and on the
know where lay the forces of the time striving away from the spirit,
It was still before the time of my activity within the Theosophical
I had for a long time held all the substance of this book in my mind.
The real evolution of the organic from primeval times to the present
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the nineteenth century was published at that time by Hans Kraemer. It
and was throughout applicable to the time – the turning-point between the
If earlier still, in the time of H. P. Blavatsky, such incidents were

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suggested by the events of the times. But in these there was nothing
basic due to any intention of taking advantage of the mood of the time
before the “scientific” mode of thought of the time. That
sides for a long time that materialism was overcome. To those who
time with the spiritual Power whom I later designated as
patronage and in the presence of Mrs. Besant. At that time Mrs. Besant
title Luzifer-Gnosis. For a long time also Herr Rappaport had a
time. Nor did it “fail.” But the spread of anthroposophy in
a relatively short time took such a form that I was called upon to
numbers could not be issued any longer at the right time – often
In Lucifer-Gnosis I was able for the first time to publish what
renewed that which in primitive times was kept secret in the
There was at that time no other real content in the school except that
of the Theosophical Society. For within a brief time the Society had
upon the time I was privileged to spend in this home. The Brights were

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if I wished to be understood. But with the lapse of time and the
The years, approximately, from 1901 to 1907 or 1908 were a time in

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at all. From a certain point of view this situation was at that time
primeval dreamlike experience of spirit. At the time in human

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THE beginning of my anthroposophic activity belongs to a time when
as the time needed would not come forth. This should have been the
appeared to me to be a necessity of the time.
to say. In this group was Max Scheler, who was at that time a
meet – very seldom, unfortunately – the man who at that time became so
Such experiences were important for me. Every time that these occurred
more or less well made and which I, for lack of time, could not
about. If I had then had time to correct the reports, the restriction

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Once a person who had participated with us for the first time in a
these needs appeared with the passage of time.

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But up to the time of my anthroposophic work I had been able to study
speaks from the ancient times to the new age. We were able to submerge
these came before my soul for the first time at a mature age. But I
sentimentality. A spiritual movement is always exposed to these
the inner untruths derived from sentimentality which remain fixed in
against false sentimentality.
unsentimental element.
A lasting activity was needed against this inwardly untrue sentimental
spiritual world. They seek unconsciously in sentimentality a form of
At first the time up to my Paris cycle of lectures was to me something
at that time in Paris made the personal acquaintance of Edouard
with him for a long time, and who had been engaged in translating his
existence which just at that time had been much discussed. One need

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Society. I have come too close to the present time to avoid all too
At that time also Frau von Schewitsch had given to the public her book
the world whose interests at the time when I made these lectures at
objections, but always in such an amiable and at the same time
reached a time when the art of declamation and recitation developed by
time by exceedingly few, was the fact that the anthroposophic current
Theosophical Society up to that time. In this inner bearing lay the
chief emphasis upon the absurdities which in the course of time have

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For ours are the turning-points of time
And to the time of dead machinery

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There was no time left yesterday for what I should have liked to say
to our cause. For a long time I have known that you love the truth; it
these things again, no doubt, another time.

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