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• Title: The Story of My Life: Editorial Additions Not In Original Text
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  • thus create within him the inner strength not to go under.
• Title: The Story of My Life: Chapter: I
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  • connection conclusions have been drawn with regard to the origin of
  • This does not accord, I must confess, with my own inclinations. For it
  • result of such attention is something a man has to settle with
  • association with the seminary of the Premonstratensian Order at Geras.
  • He always looked back with the greatest affection upon this time in
  • father became acquainted with my mother. Then he gave up the work of
  • away from it. And so, when my father retired, after a life filled with
  • he found in keeping up with political developments. In these he took
  • days were filled with loving care of her children and of the little
  • quite witty, too; had many jokes to tell, and was pleased when he drew
  • what can we do with them?” “Wh-a-a-t?” said the priest.
  • since I handled my toys with the greatest care, and kept them in good
  • especially good. These were picture-books with figures that could be
  • associated little stories with these figures, to whom one gave a part
  • hour poring over the picture-books with my sister. Besides, I learned
  • with his wife and his little son, and this son, according to my
  • and making circles around them with dabs of ink. His father noticed
  • heard the commotion and came into the school-room with wild eyes,
  • them with the utmost bluntness that the friendship between us was
  • with his duties.
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• Title: The Story of My Life: Chapter: II
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  • indifference. Through what I observed around me and felt within me, I
  • came out of the examination with a “brilliant” record. There
  • me take lunch at her home without charge, and would welcome me there
  • at first without awakening any lively interest in my mind. In the
  • began at once with higher mathematics. Yet from some of the sentences
  • between molecules and atoms without reference to such
  • I had nothing within me which inclined me in any way whatever to
  • by him. It had to do with the law of probabilities and calculations in
  • however, for me was that the exactness with which my favourite teacher
  • With still another teacher I came only after a long time into a more
  • reality of being which is in natural phenomena.” With such
  • The reading of Kant met with every sort of obstacle in the
  • build up thought within myself that every thought should be completely
  • within myself a harmony between such thinking and the teachings of
  • I took with the utmost devotion the symbol and dogma, the description
  • It so happened that one of the employees who took turns with my father
  • also at this time during the vacation without a teacher.
  • intimate relationship with the doctor at Wiener Neustadt whom I have
  • The others we addressed with the title “Professor”; he,
  • The warmth with which Rotteck conceived and set forth historic events
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• Title: The Story of My Life: Chapter: III
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  • I had got so far with my reading
  • strive. Along with these I read also the
  • problem with the
  • while I was occupied with this inner work I sought to get my bearings
  • with reference to the roads which had been taken by the thinkers of
  • studies with reference to my future career. I decided to prepare to
  • placed in dramatic contrast with this Goethe's first appearance and
  • In connection with these lectures he had the habit of requiring
  • discussion dealt with Lessing's Laokoon. Then I undertook a
  • his actions a free being?” In connection with this paper I drew
  • high forehead and a long philosopher's beard. With him everything was
  • so because one felt: “With this man it is obviously natural to be
  • principles of Herbart. And yet one could entirely sympathize with all
  • his glasses, looked once more for a long time without spectacles over
  • the circle of auditors, and finally began to lecture, without
  • lectures I became better acquainted with Schröer. He then often took
  • gladly answered my questions, and sent me away with a book from his
  • which was written from Herbart's point of view. Together with this I
  • conception shaped themselves within me from these things.
  • For this reason he almost never lectured without manuscript. He needed
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• Title: The Story of My Life: Chapter: IV
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  • establish upon a firm foundation within me, music came to have a
  • friendships. In opinions I seldom agreed with these friends. This,
  • mutual stimulus in these friendships. One of these was with a young
  • man pre-eminently idealistic. With his blond hair and frank blue eyes
  • The debates with this friend stretched out endlessly. In long walks
  • “proofs” expressed in animated fashion, that only with
  • blessed with worldly goods, had soon after to take a petty
  • nearer tie with the girl. But neither was he strong enough to overcome
  • the existing relationship. I kept up a correspondence with him for a
  • Long after life had brought to an end my correspondence with this
  • circumstances, had in his own feelings severed his relation with his
  • In intercourse with this friend my anti-Wagnerism of that period came
  • with Wagnerism. My love for “pure music” increased with the
  • significant for me. This was with a young man who was in every way the
  • opposite of the fair-haired youth. He felt that he was a poet. With
  • I was with both these friends in the “practice in oral and
  • our minds and Schröer talked over everything with us and elevated our
  • would gladly have entered upon it. He was altogether taken up with his
  • with existence. At last he had to take a position quite unattractive
  • to him. With him also I continued my connection by means of letters.
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  • won my deeper interest I could find only in connection with Karl
  • Julius Schröer. I had the pleasure of being with him often just at
  • this time. His own fate was closely bound up with that of German
  • significant and received marked recognition within restricted circles,
  • be published in part without the author's name in German regions
  • in conducting a Seminar. He now became acquainted with the Christmas
  • the region of Presburg. There he was face to face with Germanism in a
  • the west into Hungary hundreds of years before had brought with them
  • dialect, which survived with a little fragment of German folk in
  • lived with his whole soul in the revelation of the folk-life, and
  • at first he was entrusted with the direction of the evangelical
  • privilege of knowing him and of becoming intimate with him. At the
  • out in frank, manly fashion without turning his eyes much at the
  • I was with him. I could sit by his side for hours. Out of his inspired
  • always had, in truth, when I sat there alone with Schröer, the feeling
  • I listened in a spiritual sense with the greatest possible sympathy to
  • Thus my experience at that time was strongly bound up with my
  • idealism” was in harmony with the knowledge of nature.
  • It was during the period of my most earnest intercourse with Schröer
  • with Schröer I came into close touch with Goethe's spiritual life. It
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• Title: The Story of My Life: Chapter: VI
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  • the soul within the body. I was thoroughly convinced that the boy
  • genuine understanding of man. I had to follow out with great care an
  • instruction in such a form that in the least time, and with the least
  • development in company with other children. I continued to be a tutor
  • glimpse of the working of business, and of much that is connected with
  • continued with him even to the
  • I had done for her boy, and who clung to this child of sorrow with the
  • A good portion of my youthful life was bound up with the task which
  • summer with the family of the children whom I had to tutor to the
  • Attersee in the Salzkammergut, and there became familiar with the
  • this I did with great enjoyment. To be sure, I think I have not played
  • It was during this period that I was occupied with the philosophy of
  • opposition was aroused within me. The opinion that the genuinely real
  • strengthening of mental life, dip down within the real. I was clear in
  • toward the goal of drawing up from within himself that with which life
  • congenial because in this his beyond standpoint withdraws
  • that was immensely stimulating. So it was also with the popular
  • writings of Eduard von Hartmann, which dealt with cultural historical,
  • many optimists. It was just in connection with him that I experienced
  • edit Goethe's scientific writings with an introduction and
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  • which made possible for me many happy hours within its circle, and a
  • little by little, with much which the man in the next room read,
  • had brought to the pass of dealing thenceforward only with the world
  • within himself, and of foregoing all human intercourse.
  • had had much intercourse with him.
  • naturalness together with a noble reserve, and this reserve of hers
  • altogether filled with an impression which he had just received. He
  • had become acquainted with the poems of Marie Eugenie delle Grazie.
  • the opportunity of a conversation with the poet which has often come
  • ruinous nature, empty of the ideal. She spoke with genuine inspiration
  • away from the poet profoundly shocked. The greatness with which she
  • world. But I was never inclined to withhold my interest or my
  • family. We listened to scenes of lofty poetic rhythm, but with a
  • withdrew. They had experienced a sort of convulsion. I could not agree
  • with Schröer, for he seemed to me to be wholly filled with the feeling
  • it from without that which ought to arise within.
  • Goethe's words: “Know thyself, and live at peace with the
  • I said regarding the human spirit overcoming from within itself the
  • correctness within certain limits; Schröer saw in every concession to
  • speaking with enthusiastic admiration of his broad and comprehensive
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• Title: The Story of My Life: Chapter: VIII
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  • DURING this time – about 1888 – I felt within me, on the one hand, the
  • brought me into intercourse with a wide circle of acquaintances.
  • transparently clear. This required an inward withdrawal from all that
  • circumstance that such a withdrawal was possible. I could at that time
  • sit in a coffee-house, with the greatest excitement all around me, and
  • yet be absolutely tranquil within, my thoughts concentrated upon the
  • were still intimately bound up with that world.
  • Persons with whom I was in frequent relation were devoting their
  • occupied with the social question. Still others were in the midst of a
  • worked with him had brought idealism to a height worthy of humanity. I
  • could therefore not maintain itself with the successors of these
  • begins with that which is perceptible to the senses, but he transforms
  • of spirit within the world of sense. The true artist yields himself
  • immediate unity with the primal being of the world. It is from this
  • then acting in harmony with the spiritual nature of the world, which
  • in his feeling for nature, enthusiastic, almost drunk with faith in
  • pastor entertaining her guests with such delightful charm. Into the
  • heart with an inner fascination, and completely captivated one's
  • whole room was permeated with the warmth of the soul. At these Formey
  • evenings I became acquainted also with the actress Wilborn. An
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  • with a number of Goethe specialists – chief among whom were Hermann
  • be combined with the unpublished remains.
  • My work in connection with this edition had given me a mental picture
  • material dealing with natural science was to be found in these
  • literary remains. With the greatest intensity I worked at this portion
  • stand always in relationship with the previous type. They likewise
  • while itself progressing, calls for perception without intending this,
  • as they do with the idea, they express thereby the unity of the whole,
  • and it is in a certain sense in accord with the facts of nature thus
  • to conform themselves with this idea.”
  • if he desires knowingly to unite with this being. During my sojourn in
  • Weimar the question arose within me in more and more decisive form:
  • stages of knowledge. When he stands thus with the lower knowledge in
  • he feels that he is in union with the being of things. To live
  • clear to my mind that satisfaction could come only with a grasp upon
  • forth from within itself something to add to the first pictures of
  • reality, can it then remain within a reality, or does it float out of
  • The hours after work I passed with those who were connected with the
  • from elsewhere for longer or shorter visits. I was received with
  • Eduard von Hartmann, with whom I had corresponded for years in regard
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  • conclusion within me that toward which the mind had been striving.
  • the sense-world did not pass with me as true reality. In my writings
  • thinking I conceived as that which places the soul within the
  • that, while man lives within this sense-free thinking, he really finds
  • me the rediscovery within the perceptual world of the spiritual
  • spiritually within himself the true reality, and for this reason could
  • The first consideration with me in advancing my own insight was the
  • reality is to be sought, not by such a breaking through from without,
  • through from without and then discovers that this is impossible – such
  • sense-perception man faces a world of illusion. But when from within
  • illusion is permeated with reality and ceases to be illusion.
  • Then the human spirit, living its own life within, meets the spirit of
  • sense-world, but weaves and breathes within the sense-world.
  • I now saw that the finding of the spirit within the sense-world is not
  • scientific writings is permeated with such views: “Whoever
  • with the fundamental existence of the world; what is at work without
  • enters into the spirit of man: he becomes one with objective reality
  • at its highest potency. Becoming aware of the idea within reality is
  • that my fate should bring me into conflict with the contemporary
  • formulators of theories of cognition. These conceived, to begin with,
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  • the Kabalists – it was only with the greatest difficulty that I, with
  • mystics. They desire living contact with the sources of human
  • which one experiences when one lives in association with ideas
  • always been like a personal intercourse with the spiritual world.
  • But if anyone enters into the interior of his own soul without taking
  • ideas with him, he thus arrives at the inner region of mere feeling.
  • With such a view a materialistic observer of nature can declare
  • spirit as a fantastic playing with words which signifies nothing real
  • While I held this before my mind the forces within my soul which stood
  • objected with all positiveness to mere feeling as a way into the
  • attitude toward the spiritual world. I sought association with the
  • mystic seeks this through association with the non-ideal. I also could
  • To achieve for this mental conflict within myself the clarification
  • to me impossible with the use of mystical forms; for these do not
  • experiences within man. My purpose was, not to describe human
  • become dominant within me, in spite of the fact that I perceived
  • itself in ideas must be of the same character within the soul as the
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  • the second phase of my life with the removal from Vienna to Weimar.
  • connection with the natural scientific and the mystical form of
  • refusal to be content with any sort of theoretically easily surveyed
  • thought-pictures as contrasted with the knowledge of the illimitable
  • they are images living in the form of thoughts within the mind.
  • – represented a true reflection within the human spirit of that which
  • standing within the spiritual. He feared that he would become abstract
  • if he proceeded further beyond this vital standing-within to a living
  • in thoughts concerning this standing-within. He desired the experience
  • of being within the spirit; but he did not desire to think himself
  • within the spirit.
  • understanding of him with the help of his own ideas. When I look back
  • the soul experiences itself as true spirit, it may then stand within
  • the spiritual of the world. But in this standing-within man first
  • union one with the other within the human soul.
  • Goethe work to me. I had to reduce to a harmony within my
  • consciousness with itself.” For I saw that man can understand
  • perceived this genuine reality within himself.
  • with itself.
  • which consists in the understanding of human consciousness with
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  • frequently with my old friends. Few as were the opportunities I had to
  • I frequently caused misunderstandings with these idealists when I
  • This had not been continued. The period of the natural sciences, with
  • which cannot be further advanced without first resorting to far more
  • It was in this mood that I first became acquainted with Nietzsche's
  • of the most profound problems without immersing himself in these with
  • that he said many things with which I stood in the closest intimacy in
  • than ordinary depth. I passed my last years in Vienna with such
  • had remained bound to me with rare loyalty through all these years,
  • extensive social relationships, I had also this with persons from
  • the Anthroposophical Society in Vienna. This human relationship with
  • down within themselves in an often profoundly inward music of the
  • world which may be viewed with the greatest interest from the point of
  • proud will which laid hold with all its might, which forced itself
  • through without cunning but with elemental mercilessness. I felt how
  • and Transylvania. The men were playing with a vehemence which
  • furs, and travelled with these old and new friends through icy-cold
  • It was with sad memories that I made the journey back to Vienna. There
  • this very phenomenon, of the great loneliness in which I stood with my
  • work” he could have thrown his slips of paper with these remarks
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  • “an understanding of human consciousness with itself.”
  • myself thoroughly in philosophy, but I was credited officially with a
  • connection with the examination.
  • almost as if I had spent much of my life with him. For the Seven
  • Stein is of the opinion that revelation gave content from without to
  • human strivings after a world-conception. There I could not agree with
  • understanding with himself in vital spiritual consciousness, can
  • Yet the book is one of those written with philosophical warmth, and
  • dealing with the relation of Platonism to Christianity, over and over
  • A personality serene in his whole bearing, in advanced age, with mild
  • within them; but if it is to attain to phenomenal existence the human
  • possibility of asking whether it is in keeping with the conception of
  • Goethe to identify the ‘archetypal plant’ or ‘archetypal animal’ with
  • Institute was Bernhard Suphan. With him also, I may say, I had a
  • Institute, was due to his friendship with Herman Grimm.
  • might know what was to be done with the Goethe literary remains.
  • administration, and thus stood in close relation with the Queen of
  • remains could best be administered, he had to turn to those with whom
  • he had become familiar as Goethe scholars through his own work with
  • art that Herman Grimm had become concerned with Goethe; as such he had
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  • Weimar phase of my life are associated for me with important memories.
  • described with Herman Grimm concerning his views on the history of the
  • physical reality and perceives the control within the sensible
  • which is concealed within the sense-existence does not appear, yet the
  • connect it with what is adapted to the ordinary consciousness. I was
  • Club. It dealt with the possibility of a monistic conception of the
  • reality “from without” and by means of his spiritual
  • awareness grasps its spiritual side “from within,” so that
  • Haeckel was at work a century later with the assertion that he could
  • I had at first no occasion to become personally acquainted with
  • Thus I became personally acquainted with Haeckel. He was a fascinating
  • for nature. The tendency of a previous earthly life, with a fanatical
  • In such contradictory fashion lived two beings in Haeckel. A man with
  • a shadowy being with incompletely thought-out, narrowly limited ideas
  • breathing out fanaticism. When Haeckel spoke, it was with difficulty
  • Others conversed with him by writing whatever they wished to say on a
  • about this without the development of a real conversation. He was
  • without having to reckon upon objections such as meet another when
  • impressed with the worth of what he himself thought.
  • world-phenomena. He could not judge things otherwise than with a
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  • with Gabrielle Reuter, with whom I had the privilege of intimate
  • within her profound quest of humanity, and who laid hold of them with
  • stood with her whole soul half-way between traditional prejudices and
  • life and by education is forced from without into subjection to this
  • serene and sagacious suffused with artistic feeling and marked by an
  • one could have with her while she was working at her book Of a Good
  • Family. As I reflect upon the past I see myself standing with her
  • indeed, was her feeling within, but it remained in the soul and did
  • acquainted with Otto Erich Hartleben. Why he was sitting there I could
  • chanced to be with him and others. The rest of us were “of
  • he means nothing for life.” Meanwhile he was looking at me with a
  • that I was then occupied with Schopenhauer. I said “Schopenhauer
  • and was really just as happy at midday in the Institute circle with
  • Suphan, with whom Hartleben had never become acquainted – since this
  • did not appeal to him – as I was in the evenings with Hartleben and
  • one with whom it was possible to converse about questions of the world
  • find its firm union with that life. To me the philosophies there
  • very little in touch with an external world. When I withdrew from some
  • which I saw in inner vision. With that world I could readily unite
  • This I experienced especially when in vital intercourse with men in
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  • determine also their moral relationships with respect to those who
  • with views of mine which I held to be most important. For I saw before
  • evolution of the world as being without moral or spiritual content.
  • endued with soul, that which is permeated with spirit in the form
  • finally with moral indifference likewise bury it.
  • an occurrence which attains to equal validity with an occurrence in
  • being with this reality, as the corpse of a man has lost its unity of
  • being with that in man which is endued with soul and with life. To me
  • more or less unconsciously the opinion that one can do nothing with
  • I took many a walk with Hans and Grete Olden through the Weimar parks,
  • this frivolity. “Whoever presses forward with his perception as
  • force. The article met with a distinctly unfriendly reception. How,
  • which revealed ethics as firmly rooted along with all other reality.
  • with the greatest possible friendliness. But it seemed to Herman Grimm
  • more or less acquainted with the majority of them; they are all quite
  • securely while it had to do only with that which lies immediately at
  • whose essential content I had long borne within me, was receiving its
  • He read it with close attention, for I soon received back his copy of
  • the book with his detailed marginal comments from beginning to end.
  • only so long as this embraces the phenomenon within consciousness.
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  • My first acquaintance with Nietzsche's writings belongs to the year
  • influence. I read what he had written with the feeling of being drawn
  • within: “What has this spiritual life to do with me? There must
  • health the content of his own life; and thus he sought with Richard
  • Wagner, with Schopenhauer, with modern positivism to dream as if he
  • discovered that he had only dreamed. Then he began with every power
  • out of these dreams realities of the inner man which, without that
  • floated within him in a mood of soul joyful but resting upon
  • Nietzsche without coming upon anything which strove to make the reader
  • without reserve his spiritual illumination; in this experience one
  • Later I got into a serious disagreement with Frau Elizabeth
  • darkness, with his beautiful forehead-artist's and thinker's forehead
  • shaping thoughts within, and which now would fain rest a while. An
  • underwent a change in sympathy with the genius whose gaze was directed
  • discover it; and yet chained to the body, which would have to do with
  • Nietzsche's soul was still there, but only from without could it hold
  • to the body, that body which so long as the soul remained within it
  • Nietzsche who bore within his body ideas drawn from widely extended
  • intimate friendship with Fritz Koegel. It was a beautiful task which
  • volume of Emerson's filled throughout with marginal comments showing
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  • silence within me as my world-conception, while my thoughts were
  • personalities with whom I felt myself united by bonds of friendship
  • with me into this life my full humanity in order by this means to lay
  • not desire to begin with the framing of hypotheses, but in perception,
  • behind the sense world, but within it.
  • the world puts to us and which cannot be answered with the means which
  • in this manner are only accidental, such as will vanish with the
  • our understanding. The atomic hypothesis is utterly without foundation
  • theatre, and the musical people associated with these.
  • intercourse with the Weimar artists for a spiritual conception of the
  • himself harmonized with my own evolution in the direction of artistic
  • the closest intimacy with me. Him also life has borne far away from
  • The young painter's name was Otto Fröhlich. He often sat with me in my
  • was with me, he was always painting “in the spirit.” In his
  • picture, but rather that which light and colour reveal from within
  • instinctively within him as his experience that which I was seeking
  • wished to deal with the characteristically hateful; but I know that
  • colour-being out of its intercourse with the green snakes – this
  • myself where the artists, and all who felt socially bound up with
  • In this way I became acquainted with individual artists in other
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  • philologist accepted forthwith as “complete.” Only the
  • by anyone, whereas his own endeavour was to fill himself with inner
  • Goethe's letters; Julius Wahle, occupied with the journals; and I,
  • with the natural-scientific writings. But the very requirements of von
  • are bound up with Goethe always received their due. The notes written
  • life. But every word about art that one could exchange with her was a
  • purely human way. I seldom went away from such a conversation without
  • carrying with me in long continued reflection what Frau von der Hellen
  • with the political life of the times. Discontent with things
  • friendly personal interest in him led me also – although without
  • its genesis, associated with all the hopes of a working class taught
  • only in a worthy sort of conservatism bound up with a hope for
  • repugnance arose within me – which was not true in relation to von der
  • often look back with pleasure; for the man was, in his way,
  • activity. It occurred to him that I could do something along with him
  • family. This in turn brought me in touch with another family. And then
  • intimately associated with a family there, but in such a way that the
  • And now I entered into almost the same relationship with the head of
  • widow's life was filled with pious thoughts about her dead husband. It
  • then, and took up my residence with the family. There was the library
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  • acquainted with the owner of a book-shop. This book business had seen
  • carried sketchy articles dealing with contemporary spiritual life and
  • within the scope of my thinking or had a relation to this. Although
  • often to turn back in later years. The narrow limits within which my
  • Most important of all, however, were the relationships with men which
  • I became acquainted with the actor Neuffer while he was still engaged
  • Her sentiments, deeply rooted in the soul, shone with wonderful beauty
  • graciously. Every moment that I spent with the Neuffers I had the
  • and – as I was not in – left the request that I must without fail come
  • did not care to take with him.
  • He was already standing at the door with the lady. The maid-servant
  • interjected the maid: “Is this perhaps that head with the tip of
  • Forthwith the final act of the expedition was carried out, and Neuffer
  • So it was with the Neuffers. They spared no pains when they wished to
  • which felt elsewhere unsatisfied would turn up here. So it was with
  • those who made a permanent home there, but so also with those who
  • Weimar. The fine figure of a man with those wavy locks was often among
  • to talk with him about Goethe, Schiller, Byron. Then he spoke very
  • side with the official journal, the Weimarische Zeitung. Many other
  • touch with me.
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  • already begun in my mind. With my departure from Weimar this became a
  • union with the full content of what was experienced by the senses.
  • were appropriated by me without mental effort, and that
  • say, without man's interjecting himself into this by means of his
  • thought, or by some other soul-content arising within him.
  • senses with that which the mind experiences through the spirit and
  • its own character unmingled with the physical.
  • outside oneself; and just by reason of this one comes again, with an
  • that to stand thus with one's soul wholly within this opposition meant
  • the counterpart in mental experience in order to strike a balance with
  • omitted from the world without thereby leaving the world incomplete.
  • But this led also to an ever increasing clarity of understanding with
  • and compare this with the formulation of contents in
  • the world, of the riddle-becoming and riddle-solving within the truly
  • strives within these – that is, because, in the light of the
  • according to my view, submerge himself with knowing mind into the
  • within me as perception, although it had long before been vitally
  • present in my conceptual world. In connection with the revolution in my
  • world-conception. Now, however, there arose within me something which
  • experience through ideas – which, however, takes up within itself the
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  • WITH the mental revolution thus described must I bring to a close the
  • themselves in such directions as fell in line with the content of my
  • mind. At Weimar, as regards my work in connection with Goethe, there
  • to bring the tendencies coming from the outer world into harmony with
  • the idea of freedom in a form shining clearly within me, and thus to
  • The idea corresponds with an objective reality, and what one actually
  • With this view of the idea of freedom there was united the
  • world living within the mind to something which had now laid hold upon
  • A way in nature which gives access from without to the will cannot be
  • road from without penetrate to that place in the soul where the
  • within which man finds himself, even though these laws had their
  • within man by reason of the fact that he directs his will in
  • accordance with them, but only by reason of the fact that he himself,
  • these insights were linked up for me with the lofty comprehensive
  • without becoming aware that in reality he is in the presence of
  • in the soul merely that which man experiences within nature makes the
  • world an “illusion.” The intensity with which these ideas
  • suppresses within his mental life the more weighty elements of
  • whole sphere of knowledge within my mind – without changing anything
  • with what had hitherto been the case. In the Logos lives the human
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  • With this shaping of my mental life I then faced the necessity of
  • unity with those inner directive tendencies which came from my
  • intellectual life. Within certain limits it was able to do well in
  • in 1897, it was in close relationship with the strivings of the young
  • literature without having placed itself in strong opposition to what
  • But, in spite of all this, the situation was such in connection with
  • It was now a necessity of my status within the spiritual world that I
  • necessary for me to do, met with greater and greater opposition. One
  • spiritual world in working within this circle. For, even though many
  • persons who caused the question to arise with respect to that which I
  • vitally experienced within me: Must one be speechless?
  • until now come into near and friendly relations with me, I was
  • privileged to feel that, although they did not go along with me very
  • way of life, without further testing of me, after we had come into
  • payments were to be made to the former owner within the course of the
  • regarding which he was unable to say what effect it would have within
  • not have had it different. For one who stands within the spiritual
  • associated me for some years with Otto Erich Hartleben, but
  • certain lack of consistency in the Magazine. And, with all his
  • association with him; it was the product of that
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  • ASSOCIATED with the Magazine group was a free Dramatic Society. It did
  • not belong so intimately with the Magazine as did the Free Literary
  • succeed in the midst of so many dramatic attempts with the
  • stages. With these actors the play was given in the morning in a
  • exclusively the cause of art.” The activity associated with this
  • to me; most of all the part having to do with the staging of the
  • plays. Along with Otto Erich Hartleben I took part in the rehearsals.
  • arrangement of the scenes. And what one then does, without any logical
  • interfered with. To the experiences in this field which were then
  • mine, I had occasion afterwards again and again to look back with
  • Moreover, it became my task to precede the production with a brief
  • time been adopted also in Germany in connection with individual plays.
  • Not, of course, in the ordinary theatre, but in connection with such
  • purpose with which it was unfamiliar. The task of giving this brief
  • Being vitally within this dramatic art was, at all events, really
  • Such a vital working in unison with the living art I wished to have in
  • experience. If one seeks to bring them into effect with persons who
  • grown into him, that he cannot withdraw from this into another vitally
  • All this could not be given. It could be linked up only with
  • natural-scientific experience, not with natural-scientific thinking.
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  • without. Against this my view of spirit opposed itself, desiring to
  • proceed, not from without by way of precepts obeyed, but out of the
  • living reality within the world of spirit, such a sinking of himself
  • quite different. He is brought into contact with Beings in the world
  • to abstract error; there is a spiritual and living intercourse with a
  • concerning Christ that I had with the learned Cistercian who was a
  • within me as an inner phenomenon. About the turn of the century the
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  • With the experiences that came to me from my perspective of the future
  • I saw how, with the time of Goethe and Hegel, everything disappeared
  • broadening, becomes at last one with the thinking of the World-Spirit
  • completely within Hegelianism experiencing this in my soul as my own
  • Against the one-sidedness of endowing the World-Spirit merely with
  • I have always observed this rule with regard to such mental
  • world in which man with his inner creative powers has no part; and
  • wholly personal will with little feeling for the harmonious
  • My own consideration of Stirner was connected at that time with a
  • here considering. This was my friendship with the important Stirner
  • was brought in contact by Gabrielle Reuter with this personality, to
  • me likewise altogether congenial. He had occupied himself with those
  • chapters in my Philosophy of Spiritual Activity which deal with
  • that filled my soul when in company with him. He bore the
  • America. All this was suffused with a boundless amiability. I
  • thought the same name which his opponents had, only with another
  • ideas. He was in accord with the American, B. Tucker, who stood for
  • acquainted with the author. This is a noble work based upon faith in
  • the individual man. It describes penetratingly and with great
  • should have been completed within men. He therefore demanded for the
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  • Berlin Workers' School came to me with the request that I should take
  • But I obviously had to do with the mental character of the
  • with the forms of conception and judgment of these persons in order to
  • their minds. It was for this reason that Marxism, with its
  • with them. Marx maintained that the impelling forces in the historic
  • developing proletariat desired knowledge with the most intense
  • ideal-spiritual impulses in connection with the preceding periods of
  • weak in comparison with the material-economic impulses.
  • also for the workers. I connected my reflections with this third of
  • At the celebration of the Gutenberg jubilee I was entrusted with the
  • With this activity destiny had once more transplanted me into a piece
  • they elaborated with complete deliberation as a sort of economic
  • gospel. Later it became something with which the mass of the
  • with interest by a greater number of unprejudiced persons, and if the
  • proletariat had been dealt with understandingly, this movement would
  • egoism spread abroad with it fierce competitive struggles – the time
  • century was already being prepared. Side by side with this, the
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  • much later, within the Anthroposophical Society. Marie von Sievers
  • the first time it became possible with her help to work for the
  • To this period belongs my friendship with the young poet, now dead,
  • connection with this work rested upon Ludwig Jacobowski. And a sort of
  • Along with this he developed a fruitful activity in the field of
  • wholly original; and yet born of deeply human feeling and filled with
  • its fulness in the most divers fields. Yet he associated with many
  • and look back upon our brief association with an inner devotion to my
  • Another friend with whom I came to be associated at that time was
  • Only the title coincides with my Philosophie der Freiheit. The content
  • drawn. I was entrusted with the teaching of history. Bruno Wille took
  • inaugurated the Union with a very brilliant lecture based upon the
  • saying of Goethe: “Never matter without spirit.”
  • scholastic monism. Even though scholasticism withdrew from human
  • with the “misunderstood scholasticism.” In any case, they
  • materialist. But at that time this materialist passed with many
  • In accordance with the quite differently constituted temper of mind of
  • within the “mysteries.” It was imparted to those who had
  • restricted circles with men whom they had previously prepared. And
  • have encountered, I may select one who was active within the Viennese
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  • Since the 'eighties I had been occupied with imaginations which were
  • associated in my thought with this fairy-tale. I saw set forth in the
  • lectures there delivered had to do with all aspects of life and
  • persons with a great interest in the spiritual world. Therefore, when
  • founded by Blavatsky. What I had said in connection with Goethe's
  • who were associated with them. I explained, however, that I could
  • speak only about that which I vitally experienced within me as
  • acquainted with others. These acquaintance ships led me to write in
  • the Magazine the adverse review dealing with the theosophists in
  • connection with the appearance of a publication of Franz Hartmann.
  • possibility have linked my discussions with this literature.
  • So I then gave the lectures in which I established a connection with
  • after the beginning of my lecturing. Within this section I was then
  • which I dealt with the spiritual evolution of humanity, and to the
  • which was at first the only audience that entered without restriction
  • in comparison with the Buddha event, and how the evolution of
  • the thing itself; it was the name and the association with the Society
  • conclusion that a German section of the Society would be founded with
  • acquainted with important leaders of the Theosophical Society. I had
  • these leaders. We became great friends. I became acquainted with Mr.
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  • phenomena of the spiritual life without having recourse to the
  • at the point of view of the ordinary consciousness without bringing
  • experienced with original inwardness in intellectualism. Humanity in
  • Activity to set this forth with reference to knowledge and the
  • connection with Goethe's ideas is subject to discussion. It may be
  • would not at first be understood. Science was supposed to end with
  • for it a place within the general spiritual and educational life. She
  • talent a beautiful development. When I became acquainted with her in
  • with that which was once revealed as a spiritual content to the
  • spiritual centre with which one could worthily unite when one
  • Sievers and I counted, but chiefly those persons who were present with
  • This working within the existing branches of the Theosophical Society,
  • there was comprised within the branches of the Theosophical Society
  • remained as they then were, the withdrawal of my friend and myself
  • been formed officially within the Theosophical Society as a special
  • direction should have absolutely nothing to do with these things. The
  • bring to the centre what it held within itself; and I gave sharp
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  • has been done within this movement since its foundation that has not
  • I had a content of spiritual impressions within me. I gave the
  • is as far as possible out of harmony with anthroposophy to imagine
  • nothing was to be done in this matter within German territory. What I
  • not at once withdraw; for theosophy was their affair, and, if anything
  • of processes within the molecular structure; for spiritual processes
  • science, was something quite impossible even within that science; to
  • either in a purely mechanical or other activity in connection with
  • will be noted that in nature one has to do with colour and other
  • sense-qualities within which spirit is actually at work; but one does
  • which lives in a spiritual reality; and it is the same with recent
  • Therefore what now appears as a battle within theoretical materialism
  • from without.
  • time with the spiritual Power whom I later designated as
  • Although it was at first my intention to work in harmony with the
  • evolves out of its own germ without making itself in any way dependent
  • Gnosis, made an agreement with me to combine this with mine
  • editorship of Luzifer-Gnosis along with this lecturing; but the
  • that a periodical which was gaining new subscribers with every number
  • forming “esoteric schools” within the Theosophical Society.
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  • MY first work of lecturing within the circles which grew out of the
  • if I wished to be understood. But with the lapse of time and the
  • which I stood with all the forces of my soul under the impression of
  • remain always in touch with scientific knowledge.
  • With the expansion and deepening of spiritual experience, this
  • different ways bound up with that penetrating it from the beings of
  • ego, etc. In setting these forth I sought to connect them with the
  • I faced these difficulties in full consciousness. I battled with them.
  • which is linked up with the observation of the sense-world. To him the
  • of my Theosophy without the impression of inner experience, so
  • reject it. To him the truths appear to be assertions set up without
  • it should be an experiencing with inner commotions, tensions, and
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  • have its activity within this severed existence. It seems, therefore,
  • also alive within the Society. Spiritual knowledge as an experience
  • right if what we are concerned with is the “stimulation” of
  • in the ceremonies which found a place within the Anthroposophical
  • Munich along with the course of lectures on anthroposophy.
  • By reason of the fact that we were able to unfold art along with
  • for itself; it must again find itself united with this experience when
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  • there was a sense of dissatisfaction among many persons with the
  • with reality as one experiences reality through the senses. Thus the
  • situation continued to be such that men said: “With the means
  • confession: – With one's orientation towards the senses one penetrates
  • higher realms with the same orientation. The senses in man are
  • in beautiful memory within me a visit in Jena. I had to deliver
  • a lecture to a smaller group in Jena. After this I happened to be with
  • dominated in his striving after knowledge. It was with inner tolerance
  • till the present I have followed his way of knowledge with the deepest
  • these I explained myself in connection with all which is present in
  • Together with this purpose, however, of building up anthroposophy and
  • these courses. These were acquainted with the elementary information
  • writings are the result of what struggled and laboured within me; in
  • membership, and through my vital living within what I thus hear the
  • without hesitation – when accusations became too insistent in this
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  • A CERTAIN institution which arose within the Anthroposophical Society
  • connection with it does not really belong to the chapters of this
  • with the leadership of a society similar to others which have been
  • were employed in the institution were without historic dependence upon
  • activity without any historic connection.
  • was not dealing with any “order,” but that as participant in
  • The fact that this had nothing to do with the activity of any existing
  • Once a person who had participated with us for the first time in a
  • further with us in the symbolic exercises.
  • distinction that things were demonstrated among us without the
  • environment of an order which otherwise are given only within the
  • Even in this sphere we broke with the ancient traditions. Our work was
  • attestations which Marie von Sievers and I signed in linking up with
  • slanders, people treated the absurd with the grimace of the serious.
  • have been far more “discreet” not to link up with practices
  • which could later be used by slanderers. But I would remark with all
  • in the people with whom they have to do. Even spiritual perception did
  • men with whom one has to do in the same way as is any other person who
  • until one has experienced the opposite, or else to be filled with
  • sorrow as one views the entire world. A social co-operation with men
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  • When the journeys on behalf of anthroposophy were made, together with
  • Marie von Sievers, I came face to face with the treasures of the
  • and therefore during the fifth decade of my life, and together with
  • Everywhere by my side was Marie von Sievers, who, while entering with
  • conversations with Marie von Sievers, must, I think, be felt with
  • one requires mobility in ideal activity. Filling the mind with the
  • entrance of all those inner untruths associated with false
  • the hearers will be expelled. The artistic which is truly charged with
  • in the form of a closed evolutionary process within the soul. I
  • these lectures in connection with the exercises of the congress. I had
  • Schuré, together with Marie von Sievers, who had already corresponded
  • with him for a long time, and who had been engaged in translating his
  • In this cycle of lectures I gave what I felt to be ripe within me in
  • soul in its spiritual depths must remain together with this content,
  • the perception with which it has to deal. In the Paris cycle of
  • etheric body of a woman is male. Through this a light was cast within
  • his physical body man is bound up with the cosmos quite otherwise than
  • in his etheric body. Through his physical body man stands within the
  • forces of the earth; through his etheric body within the forces of the
  • connection with the mysteries of the cosmos.
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  • Society, had an association with my spiritual life, and not those who
  • have not brought such a connection with them into the Society. In
  • without tending in feeling or ideas to anything else than this. What
  • within this group in a manner which can truly be designated as very
  • The centre of another group was Frau von Schewitsch. She was an
  • anthroposophy than in becoming acquainted with it as one of the
  • At that time also Frau von Schewitsch had given to the public her book
  • Helene von Schewitsch was a notable part of history. She was the lady
  • for whom Ferdinand Lassalle came to an early end in a duel with a
  • theosophical problems were dealt with in lectures and discussions.
  • should correspond artistically with the mood that dominated the oral
  • programme. A connection with the nature of the ancient mysteries –
  • henceforth void of art within the Society. Marie von Sievers, who had
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  • was requited with unspeakable hostility; his way of knowledge was
  • spirit; permeated this understanding and united it with the spiritual
  • human deed he achieved. How could he escape being hated with all the
  • But he repaid with love the misunderstanding brought against him.
  • They hissed with hate and blocked his forward way.
  • They raged with venom and with flame;
  • And now with joy they brand his memory: –
  • With all those souls who give themselves to us,
  • With all those forces which obey our will.
  • Without their God, in weakness, vice, and error.
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  • WITH AN AFTERWORD
  • WITH AUTOGRAPHS AND FOUR PORTRAITS
  • January 1999 - December 10, 2000; with grateful acknowledgment to: