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• Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 1: The Driving Force Behind Europe's War
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  • increasing; how does this relate to the idea of repeated
  • develop notions and ideas of the world of the spirit. This is
  • the body during the night and have no idea of anything in the
  • idea of the world of the spirit that is all around us.
  • and ideas that are wholly derived from the physical world. It
  • make it true. The most completely and utterly wrong idea
  • without even a notion of the thoughts and ideas that point to
  • in spiritual thoughts and ideas before they went through the
  • knows the history of ideas of the last decades of the
  • enter into the ideas that apply in the world of politics
  • cannot say that the judgments, ideas and notions to be found
  • remember that the idea of the state as we know it today has
  • history. The present-day idea of a state is no more than four
  • whether it is a good idea to skate on ice when it is only one
  • is to get an idea, a feeling, an inner impulse for the need
  • smash. Finally the adults have an idea as to how they can
• Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 2: Humanity's Struggle for Morality
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  • idea of this — of which we can say that much will have
  • Parliament being the great ideal in the present day and age,
• Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 3: The Search for a Perfect World
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  • to realize this, for illusory ideas are a major element in
  • the world and of life have constructed their own ideal of the
  • physical world around them, the only ideal they can possibly
  • can they gain an idea of what Jesus Christ meant when he
  • You can easily put forward ideas of exactly this kind; people
  • ‘Wilsonianism’. For Wilson's ideas are typical of
  • ideas of ‘Wilsonianism’ which make such an
  • implemented. If we were able to implement Wilsonian ideas,
  • Wilson's ideas were to conquer the world we would be able to
  • live according to our ideals.
  • century a peculiar ideal arose, which was to make the world
  • into a perfect image of philistine, or bourgeois, ideals.
  • Wilson's ideas will be analysed one day and presented as
  • have not only small but also big examples of illusory ideas
  • in our time. These illusions and unreal ideas are held not by
  • am Jewish in origin — I have no idea why. This does not
  • clear idea of the seriousness of our work. But again and
• Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 4: The Elemental Spirits of Birth and Death
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  • in insights and ideas.
  • used to the idea that the world is not made as people would
  • before now, if people had been given an idea of these
  • were able to have the idea, theoretically and on the basis of experiments,
  • endeavour. I think you can easily see that the ideal for the
  • more and more Edisons. This really is the ideal of modern
  • do not want to know, especially if they are modern idealists
  • of ideals are represented by societies today. Programmes are
  • perfect?’ And ‘What better ideal can there be but
  • harmful than belief in absolute ideals, for they are at odds
  • illustrate — is to use certain ideas. And to some
  • extent, ideas from the physical sciences can be used as
  • symbols to illustrate non-physical ideas. Imagine we have a
  • not to consider such ideas today. Just imagine trying to
  • society which is to serve certain ideals: You are now setting
  • up an ideal, but in making it part of the process of
  • are not only no idealist, but a real devil. Why should the
  • ideas based on reality instead of ideas that are one-sided
  • abstractions. Yet they will have to learn to have such ideas,
  • to become used to the idea that progress in civilization will
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• Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 5: Changes in Humanity's Spiritual Make-up
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  • genius, etc. Franz Brentano creates an idea of genius which
  • differs a great deal from the usual idea. We have to admit
  • that our usual idea of genius tends to be pretty vague, like
  • all the stereotyped ideas people have today. In general terms
  • not agree with the idea of a genius as it has existed until
  • themselves on the primitive ideas of modern science.
  • form an idea; they have to base their ideas on the things
  • ideas like these will be particularly vital in everything
  • especially also the sphere of education. Ideas coming from
  • meetings, or individuals, with old ideas running on like
  • no idea of the demands of our time, but their automatic minds
  • names for anything which is particularly stupid. The ideas
  • really beginning to think in this way. The ideal of the
  • soul; ideas rumbling about which had reality in the Atlantean
  • rumblings in brains emptied of soul are the reason why ideas
  • also reveals the rumblings of outdated ideas, ideas which can
  • future. The institutions and ideas, especially the social
  • ideas people have today, are abstract and crude; they are
  • And because people are not able to have ideas or concepts
  • and ideas to match the complexity of the situation.
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• Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 6: The New Spirituality
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  • means that we are able to form ideas. For the moment we need
  • not reflect on where these ideas come from. The life of
  • find it easiest to get an idea of this if you look at it like
  • the right idea of how your own thoughts relate to the
  • living thoughts when we develop ideas on the basis of what
  • thought corpses which we call our thoughts and ideas. This is
  • unaccustomed idea. Imagine you are lying in bed and it is
  • touch of the idea: I am going to get up now. To repeat, many
  • idea of the true nature of the human being. Apart from the
  • will not achieve this. Today the idea is that we only arrive
  • at our thoughts by reflection. Today the idea is: If human
  • thinking about them. Today the idea is that individuals are
  • something we have to realize, that real and appropriate ideas
  • way of political principles, social structures and ideas will
  • joke. The point is that some ideas mean one thing in the
  • ideas concerning social structures, if one wants to have
  • real, effective political ideas, these must not merely be
  • his book, Saint-Martin presents not merely ideas concerning
  • progress, but also quite specific political ideas. Today,
  • would call them ideas on the political state. His discussions
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• Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 7: Working from Spiritual Reality
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  • time do not have a real idea of the true reality, even though
  • body and the blood, for there were definite ideas connected
  • have a real idea of the spirit which lives there. We can see
  • based on truth — though of course it is not a good idea
  • aim is to develop well-regulated ideas of how one should
  • educate. People love the idea of the regulative ideal. They
  • would like to have the image of the ideal teacher and then
  • how to behave if we are constantly aware of the idea of
  • education, people lived with the idea: You are now showing
  • make it the ideal to inculcate the elemental intellect which
  • difficult than working with mere corpses of ideas. Humanity
  • done, unless you consider this. People have no idea today of
• Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 8: Abstraction and Reality
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  • can therefore have as many wrong ideas as they like. This
  • weight. Widely used ideas today are ‘the
  • it cannot be decided by using generalized abstract ideas of
  • compared this with the idea that the best way of making sure
  • ideas. And what did he say? Believe it or not, he said:
  • Fundamentally speaking, such ideas are part of the
  • most abstract of abstract ideas which, however, can only be
  • apply such ideas not only to the sphere of life, but also to
  • superior way, juggling with ideas like eternity and
  • enlightened today are often working with old ideas, without
  • good example of the inappropriate ideas people have in the
  • the ideas current in our time to grasp anything that needs to
  • inappropriate idea on which the book is based. This is the
  • incontrovertible ideas will not do if we want to take hold of
  • inappropriate idea? Well, you see, the reason is that the
  • regard to Kjellen's idea, you will always find that it cannot
  • full of concepts and ideas. It is really true what I said
  • is full of concepts and ideas. I also said that abstract
  • ideas are mere corpses of ideas. It can happen that people
  • who only like corpses of ideas will speak and think in them,
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• Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 9: The Battle between Michael and 'The Dragon'
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  • have considered all kinds of ideas which may explain the
  • therefore acquired a number of ideas concerning present
  • the autumn of 1879. To have the right idea about these
  • strengthening this idea, especially if you want to make it
  • dressed up as idealism, to say: ‘In terms of eternity,
  • the idea in our minds by using concepts from the material
  • They also develop ideas as to the
  • idea with the other ideas we have characterized today. A time
  • ideas to such an extent that we can progress to a more
  • much admired brilliant ideas and moral impulses —
  • professor who some years ago had an idea that it was not
  • revision of ideas which carried the greatest weight at the
  • of it again. And unless people realize that the old ideas
  • will not get us out of it and that new ideas are needed, the
  • this with the old ideas is barking up the wrong tree. The
  • effort must be made to gain new ideas, and this is only
  • They would not say this, but they will have ideas about
• Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 10: The Influence of the Backward Angels
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  • no ideals. On the contrary, it has a great many ideals which,
  • less how it is with the beautiful ideals people talk about so
  • indeed ideals of great value. But the people of today are not
  • kinds of ideals, and yet nothing comes of it. There were
  • certainly plenty of societies with ideals at the beginning of
  • three years have brought those ideals to realization. People
  • some people have not the least idea of the fact that they are
  • to people who have no idea of this and do not want to know of
  • radical ideas are presented in beautiful, poetic language in
  • certain views and ideas which were taking root in people's
  • societies. The ideas entered into the social sphere and
  • perhaps not the book itself, but the ideas on which it was
  • spread ideas like these in such a way in the eighteenth
  • important that the idea that animals were devils should exist
  • in many minds by the time Darwinism came along and the idea
  • numbers of other people had the idea that animals were
  • receiver of an air pump. In the same way, ideas and ideals
  • ideal of many people is to study science and then apply
  • things of the spirit. If this ideal were to be achieved by a
  • had fully achieved his ideal, which was to
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• Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 11: Recognizing the Inner Human Being
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  • like it to be. Their ideas are not incorrect; yet ideas which
  • confusion than completely wrong ideas. They assume simple
  • ideas, so that we can tell many stories about the life shared
  • children with living ideas so that the mysterious hidden
  • people will increasingly have the idea, especially with
  • impoverishment of concepts and ideas have led to the
  • and economic structure and they formed the idea on that
  • basis. Their ideas of this kind did not relate to reality,
  • arrived at such an idea on the basis of their own scientific
  • calamities which result when people's ideas are divorced from
  • regulate according to law, because their ideas are too
  • those ideas.
  • specific consequences. People's limited ideas make them
  • ideas are too limited to encompass the reality of life. As a
  • With his limited ideas he says that the Reformation had
  • experience. But you see, his limited ideas cannot encompass
  • for the same ideas have to be used for quite different
  • things, and there is such a paucity of ideas.
  • political life and other forms of culture, and how our ideas
  • can really come alive and the life of ideas be enriched, how
• Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 12: The Spirits of Light and the Spirits of Darkness
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  • the ideal way of defining the human being, but it is the
  • may give a general idea of the spirits of darkness, but it
  • beings to develop independent ideas, feelings and impulses
  • then began to instil ideas in human minds that affairs should
  • take control of these habitual ideas. We therefore see
  • is considered idealistic, when in reality it is an early sign
  • of the ideals of race and nation would have been speaking in
  • someone who speaks of the ideal of race and nation and of
  • to be progressive ideals to present to humanity, this is an
  • decline than the propagation of ideals of race, nation and
  • proclamations of national ideals belonging to earlier
  • ahrimanic powers. The true ideal must arise from what we find
  • ‘ideals’ proclaimed by people today. In earlier
  • old ideals can live on is no more intelligent than to think
  • and people would believe it to be highly idealistic. We must
  • experience — it is an idea.’ Goethe's reply was:
  • ‘In that case I have my idea in front of my eyes!’
  • prejudices as new ideals.
• Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 13: The Fallen Spirits' Influence in the World
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  • — you will find that at no other time were ideas so
  • would have been according to the ideal of the spirits of
  • encounter them and gain a real idea of where they are to be
  • the inclination towards spiritual ideas to develop and all
  • concepts and ideas inside out. This is a serious thing and
  • was the ideal of the spirits of darkness before 1879, and has
  • far-sightedness to ideas which have arisen in a brain as
  • sound too much in opposition to the ideas which have been
  • and not apply to them the concepts and ideas which people have
  • inadequacy and indeed the utter uselessness of the ideas
  • the very ideas which have led to present events when those
  • they have a real idea of the radical difference in the way
• Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 14: Into the Future
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  • we find in all these things the ideas belonging to the end of
  • will moves much more slowly in human evolution than do ideas.
  • theoretical, based on ideas, set people going and made them
  • have never had the least idea that history is still so young
  • is needed to give even people of more mature years an idea of
  • these terms and ideas, but tell the story in such a way that
  • people go on to accept ideas presented to them as they are,
  • instance, their idea of democracy will be like the definition
  • conservative ideas; no, these will not be things of the past,