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• Title: Truths and Errors: Lecture I: Spiritual Science and the Future of Humanity
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  • the human being can put to himself, to the questions of death
  • which can be done solely with the means of our soul itself. Our
  • opens himself to particular contents of thought and feeling, he
  • something else, and I let this symbol come to life in myself as
  • the only image to which I dedicate myself. This is not
  • where the soul positions itself quite different to the outside
  • evening, the whole human being does not exhaust himself in that
  • immediately suggests itself to regard such persons as
  • familiarise yourself with the results, because the logic and
  • can pursue it consciously. Every soul can familiarise itself in
  • ancient myths and legends, so that you often say to yourself,
  • Thus, spiritual science positions itself not as something
  • itself to spiritual science with complete impartiality, then it
• Title: Truths and Errors: Lecture II: How Does One Disprove Spiritual Science?
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  • asserts itself just with the various worldviews; everybody
  • get itself into understanding the opponent and his reasons. It
  • before he had darkness around himself, now the world of light,
  • of forms and colours presents itself to him. Thus, it is
  • he can perceive nothing around himself if the impressions of
  • not unconscious if he himself arbitrarily stops all outer
  • leads an inner conscious life. The soul orients itself, brings
  • being still has a fourth member for himself by which he is the
  • internalised himself so that he believes, even if he perceives
  • illusions, hallucinations? Does one not know self-deceptions?
  • Do not those swear who are subject to such self-deceptions and
  • him, you could convince yourself how bad it is for the
  • Briefly, you can see with Kepler himself that a neighbouring
  • himself had to fight with the crassest superstition of the
  • opponents of theosophy may say, science has positioned itself
  • wrong in itself, nevertheless, it led us just to the true.
  • laboratory to inform himself of the methods of biology and
  • difference explains itself.
  • in his essence. If you consider yourself responsible for an
  • reasons which the human essence, that is he himself, put in a
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• Title: Truths and Errors: Lecture III: How Does One Defend Spiritual Science?
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  • but they arise only if the human being submits himself to
  • himself. For one cannot prove this in the same way as those
  • sort out for himself what exceeds the outer research, because
  • being would have for himself as his subjective conviction, and
  • feeling that expresses itself in the tears even if we have
  • you let such a feeling meditation be active in yourself not
  • yourself really in such a way, as if you were full of inner
  • something so that you say to yourself, I live now with
  • everything with which I have secluded myself, otherwise, in
  • and many a thing that only is significant for himself if he
  • how difficult it is to separate himself from the world to which
  • yourself that truth is gained with entire isolation of the
  • However, if the human being faces himself and has learnt to
  • use this as tool from within on which it itself has worked in
  • human intelligence itself has not produced.
  • can almost say to yourself: therefore, it is the
  • physical. — You may still say to yourself, so we have to
  • observing and have to ask yourself then, is that
  • childish aura outwardly, which immerses itself in the inside to
  • human being learns as a child to say “I" to himself; that
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• Title: Truths and Errors: Lecture IV: Truths of Spiritual Research
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  • educates himself artificially for something that a pathological
  • for itself. One knows from the everyday life that it is easier
  • educate himself just by strong soul forces and willpower that
  • fact that he himself creates the Imagination.
  • from himself. One receives it again. As well as you put out
  • given yourself. Since the mental pictures which you have given
  • yourself were there only to practise.
  • pictures of this Imaginative world that you yourself have
  • completely has himself under control, while the medium becomes
  • himself in detail to the book The Mystery of Man by
  • fact, you must not deceive yourself: you yourself let your
  • regard that which you yourself create in the soul as nothing
  • can express himself after his passions, depending on what he
  • yourself plenty of time, until you really have the ability to
  • get. However, this knowledge restricts itself at the own soul
  • self-knowledge to the spiritual world in certain restricted
  • himself that he caused that which happens to him by former
  • If this self-knowledge is connected with the karma idea and
  • world who does not deceive himself and is not deceived by
  • outer life, life itself controls and corrects. If we think
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• Title: Truths and Errors: Lecture V: Errors of Spiritual Research - 1
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  • characterised means to itself — advances first to the
  • have already said that any self-education of the spiritual
  • medium. The medium can thereby reveal itself, but not as an
  • manifests itself by it. Hence, for more trivial investigations
  • the observation of that which makes known itself by the medium
  • itself by such a person what he/she thinks, what he/she has in
  • makes known itself. A trained view of such things belongs to
  • has made itself a tool by developing forces that are slumbering
  • yourself that it is never quite entitled, actually, to feel as
  • much freedom for himself to refrain from his approach and to
  • exert some self-knowledge, then he can ask himself, how has my
  • different viewpoints practise self-knowledge.
  • self-knowledge, by investigation of the way which one has done
  • obvious that self-knowledge is the way to approach truth
  • gradually, and that then the truth positions itself in the
  • This self-knowledge must take place to a much greater extent
  • self-knowledge in the area of the supersensible in the extreme.
  • say to himself, you yourself are the pictures in your soul;
  • supersensible world; you yourself are all that, projected onto
  • gives him the possibility of self-knowledge. Because you become
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• Title: Truths and Errors: Lecture VI: Errors of Spiritual Research - 2
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  • himself with which he penetrates into the spiritual worlds. The
  • that we appropriate by self-development outlined yesterday
  • gains to himself by self-development always depends on the
  • starting point which his soul takes. Self-development is based
  • value of a person on his seer's gift; he himself is not at all
  • the person concerned cannot orient himself properly in the
  • is a living proof of the work of the spirit. The spirit itself
  • not only if you yourself are a spiritual researcher but with
  • have also to figure out that the soul itself has do the step
  • this point with himself like a foreign being and looks back, if
  • he experiences all that, then he notices only how self-love
  • overcoming the self and the like; nevertheless, these are easy
  • about what he knows as self-love.
  • from self-love; when he has parted with himself this self-love
  • researcher does not come so far to remove his complete self. If
  • self-love is to be recognised really in such a way that now he
  • one normally does not recognise correctly. There some self-love
  • the spiritual researcher himself interprets that which lives
  • self-love from himself, he says to himself, you have removed
  • your self-love; what you find now in yourself is something else
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• Title: Truths and Errors: Lecture VII: The Questions of Life and the Riddle of Death - 1
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  • has exceptionally many prejudices against itself. Nevertheless,
  • regarded that as something morally higher than the selfish wish
  • self-knowledge a little, we recognise that that which the human
  • join the view that one can discover nothing in himself as
  • day life contains them in itself. Spiritual science considers
  • spiritual-mental of the human being is not aware of itself. For
  • apply to himself. He reaches this while he puts himself in a
  • supersensible being cannot experience itself in the usual
  • experienced itself, the movement of the limbs et cetera would
  • have to open yourself to many such images. Then particular
  • the word “self-love.” Why does the human being
  • believe in these images? Because of self-love; because he
  • himself has developed them; because the person cannot help to
  • identify himself with that which he is internal. A spiritual
  • will so that he says to himself, what I see is only a
  • can say, one prepares himself to get spiritual percepts. It
  • familiarised at first with the whole power of self-love. This
  • way to self-knowledge makes the forces that one knows only as
  • soul forces work like natural elements. You face yourself as a
  • mentally as an obstacle. You must prepare yourself to endure
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• Title: Truths and Errors: Lecture VIII: The Questions of Life and the Riddle of Death - 2
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  • “In particular it [theosophy] teaches self-redemption
  • has repeatedly to ask, how shall spiritual science place itself
  • right does it position itself to the big questions of life and
  • death. The knowledge has to assert itself that the outer
  • itself with microscope, telescope, and spectroscope — the
  • Just as a human being behaves who sees himself in the mirror,
  • researcher - to giving himself contents of thought arbitrarily
  • an inner soul experience that the human being himself has
  • forces; he becomes aware of himself as it were beyond the body.
  • stupefying inner things. You experience that you have your self
  • beyond yourself that you survey from without what you have
  • cause that I get a destiny in which I can transform myself.
  • he tears a part out of that force which expresses itself in the
  • Then he knows that he has a soul in himself, something that
  • theoretically, but one experiences it in himself, as well as
  • proves itself, while it says, yes, if the facts turn out to be
  • right in life, I can reveal myself to you. This also applies to
  • itself in the spiritual life of the present, it knows: it is
  • self-knowledge.
• Title: Truths and Errors: Lecture IX: Spiritual Science and Natural Sciences - their Relationship to the Riddles of Life - 1
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  • should completely devote himself to an activity has often to
  • himself, because of a historical necessity, to the outer
  • the brain. He had to devote himself completely to that
  • I say to myself thousand and thousand times:
  • Examine yourself above all,
  • the consideration of the spirit self-education of the soul is
  • something different of itself than it is in the usual life and
  • depths. Which development, which self-education has the soul to
  • Everything that reveals itself to the human being at summertime
  • namely this phenomenon appears in the human being himself.
  • human being. Self-knowledge of the human being for the usual
  • to look at the human being how he represents himself in sleep.
  • not suitable in winter to draw what reveals itself in the plant
  • that if the human being makes himself aware of the soul
  • himself to this mental picture and to rest on it for a while,
  • dedicates itself to a single mental picture some time. One has
  • dedicates itself to such exercises, one makes the discovery
  • self-education to forming his images and feelings gradually in
  • wakes up a soul springtime, a soul summertime in himself, how
  • nothing but the outflow of the soul itself. If the human being
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• Title: Truths and Errors: Lecture X: Spiritual Science and Natural Sciences - their Relationship to the Riddles of Life - 2
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  • cognitive abilities and forces in itself that exist neither in
  • science. However, we have to realise that the human soul itself
  • work has a purpose, you must exert yourself constantly to
  • self-consciously. One may say in a way that the consciousness
  • to stand no longer by yourself as it was the case before. Now
  • kind of moral courage to maintain yourself. The soul forces
  • know: unless you have prepared yourself, you would approach
  • self-love, or more precisely, self-sense, and a certain fear
  • world. Self-sense or self-love plays a big role in the usual
  • namely reinforced self-love. Only if you have also strengthened
  • the other soul force, you are able to decrease this self-sense.
  • just as little you are able to resist self-sense, to snatch it
  • picture enables you to recognise this self-sense in its true
  • that from myself if I want to develop that out of myself, which
  • get to know yourself as soul at this point of existence only.
  • You know now what it means to face yourself with true
  • self-knowledge; you know that you retain nothing of that for a
  • external. Facing yourself objectively, considering yourself as
  • self-sense. Someone who has not done this would experience
  • you defeat self-sense. Something else yet appears. If the human
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