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  • Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 1: The Driving Force Behind Europe's War
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    • day, people who are not fully awake to what is going on
    • a time may well come, sooner than we may expect, when people
    • anthroposophy. People have not yet reached the point where
    • and to challenge people to reflect. For we need to reflect on
    • be to rouse people and make them really wake up. Merely
    • sense. Humanity is only fully awake when people are able to
    • when we take note of what people think, or rather pretend to
    • one realizes that people's perfectly justifiable aims,
    • People do not realize that these terrible events with their
    • on the character of the Russian people and the difference
    • between the Russians and the peoples of Western and Central
    • Russian people, but those of Europe and the whole world, will
    • The people in
    • seem to people today — not to you but to the ordinary,
    • ordinary, average people of today — the present age is
    • more than any other age demanding the one thing people least
    • people of today — order will not be created from the
    • of people are prepared to recognize the truths of that
    • If people
    • — let them talk. They are the people who love maya and
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  • Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 2: Humanity's Struggle for Morality
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    • to change in the way people think, feel and use their will.
    • can have a profound and truly significant effect on people to
    • hand, we should not forget that the number of people who have
    • human evolution is beginning to puzzle people. They say to
    • many people call the realm of science today; it provides the
    • for murder! People will also begin to consider other things
    • destructive. Many people are beginning to notice that the
    • the point where it is fully evident that modern people simply
    • universe are all mixed up in people's minds.
    • up. People do not make the distinction in modern science. How
    • not. People do not enquire into these things today because
    • difficult for people to discover this for themselves when
    • again does not have moral laws. People who think it would
    • are very much mistaken; for in that case people could never
    • aware of the riddles, as I have said, but people do not want
    • view. So it seems we can now understand why people who have
    • People do not
    • The work was written in the early seventeenth century. People
    • area where people find it particularly difficult to
    • outward positions people hold in social life their true
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  • Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 3: The Search for a Perfect World
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    • expected, therefore, that people will consider these truths
    • so, for people are tremendously intolerant in their hearts
    • immediate future, people will feel more strongly than ever
    • closely guarded by small groups of people, with strict
    • with, I must speak cf some of the ways in which people will
    • react to truths today and in the immediate future. People
    • never reach perfection. Yet people who think
    • People's
    • party politics and so on. People who take a liberal view of
    • examine the programmes put forward by people who see
    • the only people, of course, who have such views and opinions.
    • such endeavours must seem sheer madness to people. The way
    • things are today, people simply must consider anyone who does
    • evil-minded. One can understand people feeling this way. Yet
    • people will simply have to face such a truth boldly and not
    • inclination to think materialistically. However much people
    • because people are unable to see the connections between the
    • the physical world by giving people something which is not of
    • possible sense, and this creates an unhealthy climate. People
    • You can easily put forward ideas of exactly this kind; people
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  • Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 4: The Elemental Spirits of Birth and Death
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    • spiritual background to the physical world. If people are not
    • these truths, some of which are liable to shock people. They
    • Mysteries, as you know, so that people in the surrounding
    • truths that prevents people from accepting them. Those who
    • it is, people have grown tense and fearful in recent times,
    • their strict duty not to speak to people in general of these
    • red-hot coals to people, for this is how humanity has
    • another analogy. If people get to know more about the
    • used to the idea that the world is not made as people would
    • If this had been made known to people outside the Mysteries
    • before now, if people had been given an idea of these
    • people who are quite unable to deal with their instincts and
    • people had felt the desire to be destructive in some sphere
    • no steam locomotives, when people did not yet use electricity
    • Modern people
    • people do not know about it. Modern materialists imagine that
    • constructed merely on the basis of what people produce by the
    • sweat of their brow. Everything people do in this respect is
    • involved and helping us in this. People are not taking the
    • reached its fourth period, people again began to rule the
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  • Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 5: Changes in Humanity's Spiritual Make-up
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    • beginning of the fifth post-Atlantean period, people perceive
    • whole book. Modern people think thoughts. The Greeks did not
    • all the stereotyped ideas people have today. In general terms
    • people were geniuses because their souls still had the power,
    • sees the world with the eye of the spirit sees many people
    • be confused with something else. People might well believe
    • not the case, and people had to depend entirely on being like
    • continue unchanged, people would no longer find anything to
    • more mysteries than people would like to think when they base
    • could not be understood, however, and people often did not
    • Calvin, that some people were destined to be blessed, others
    • day. If you have a number of people you may say — but
    • way people appear on the outside today we get one image.
    • less as time goes on. It is really necessary for people today
    • and social theories we have today. People want to base their
    • People have
    • They are lumbering behind. They have been people of the fifth
    • think like people of the fourth post-Atlantean age. That was
    • People want to limit themselves to the outer aspect. And so
    • people putting their heads together, in a meeting, let us say
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  • Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 6: The New Spirituality
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    • nor the kind of nebulous ether people sometimes like to
    • am now going to get up. There are people, however, who get
    • people do not make the distinction, but it can be made in the
    • general terms we might say people would look like spectres,
    • Mysteries, people who were not as facetious, cynical and
    • narrow-minded as people are today. Certain symbols taken from
    • we are not to be facetious. Modern people slip easily into
    • see, people fabricate the thoughts they have in their heads.
    • Greece and Rome and after, right into the Middle Ages, people
    • this did continue well into the Middle Ages. Some people
    • still had it for a long time afterwards. Those earlier people
    • essential nature still extended into it. People were aware of
    • but people will say: ‘Chance willed it.’ This is one
    • of many examples. People imagine that the inner life has
    • people still had the ability to live in waking dreams, and
    • this intellect to reflect on social phenomena. People believe
    • — indicates that in those days people appealed to the gods
    • people; if you have lots of them, they're beasts!’
    • concerning social structures will only come when people
    • must be made again. Otherwise, everything people produce by
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  • Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 7: Working from Spiritual Reality
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    • little bit of spiritual science and who learns what people,
    • are not very many people who feel like this, though I have
    • a number of people when it comes to the historical writings
    • one particular field, people whom I respect highly,
    • reason for this? It is that people who are merely equipped
    • People are infinitely far away from the true reality today
    • would arise between the people of the fifth post-Atlantean
    • people who had lived in the fourth postAtlantean age. Hence
    • eye as it had done for the people of the fourth
    • them. People of the fifth post-Atlantean age are
    • twelfth century, you will always find that people understood
    • fourth post-Atlantean age, church people were well able to
    • of the most erudite people to cardboard weights. And even if
    • questions arise for people in the present-day state of
    • did the spiritual world demand that these people should have
    • people are presented, and periods when the weight, the
    • to what really lives in the east of Europe today, the people
    • neither do the people who actually live in eastern Europe
    • statements people make today, however erudite, then you have
    • weight. The way people talk today you would really think they
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  • Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 8: Abstraction and Reality
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    • defect and deficiency in our time is that people are
    • structure which is always self-contradictory. People are
    • the connection between the inner life of people who lived in
    • reality is in many ways seen in an abstract way. People look
    • is their poverty. People like to take things easy today
    • world, which is the only thing modern people want to
    • ‘particular’, and so on. People like bandying
    • peculiar situation with regard to reality. People no longer
    • found, as many people find, that it does not matter if the
    • conclusion reached by people who say the war must continue
    • itself to reality. And we have to draw people's attention to
    • apply only to the inorganic world, but people are all the
    • against the grain with many people today. But try and
    • rehashed over and over again. People have built in the
    • speaking, the people who are considered to be most
    • good example of the inappropriate ideas people have in the
    • organism. This is the kind of thing people do when they use
    • a State. People like to use such comparisons in areas which
    • some people experience as a harsh destiny in the days of
    • aspect of war does matter, at least to a lot of people.
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  • Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 9: The Battle between Michael and 'The Dragon'
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    • the spiritual development of the peoples of Europe and
    • has profound significance. The people of the nineteenth
    • tremendously important. There always is the danger of people
    • overcome. The people who do not turn away from the ahrimanic,
    • nothing but foolishness, even though people have been utterly
    • people christen everything ‘moral impulse’‘
    • reasons for saying that the people who had a part in the
    • understand a great deal of the inner life of these people,
    • affairs. People do not like to speak of events in human
    • present time. It is not at all uncommon to find people today
    • from the spiritual world. People are influenced by the
    • are not being said to worry people or put strange notions in
    • Yesterday I spoke of the way in which the people in Eastern
    • time. Western people did not bother much with his philosophy.
    • people did in 1914, but that they get themselves out of this
    • of it again. And unless people realize that the old ideas
    • people who believe in pantheism and similar philosophies
  • Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 10: The Influence of the Backward Angels
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    • less how it is with the beautiful ideals people talk about so
    • indeed ideals of great value. But the people of today are not
    • three years have brought those ideals to realization. People
    • some people have not the least idea of the fact that they are
    • of people who have naturally come together and become
    • of other, similar ones, whilst many other people do not know
    • people were to decide to use the power they are able to gain
    • to people who have no idea of this and do not want to know of
    • today. A certain group of people knew of the facts of which I
    • than ever, people are much given up to illusion. Just
    • consider the way in which many people keep saying today: ‘lt
    • this brings people together! Everybody hears about everybody
    • earlier times.’ You will recall all the things people tend to
    • together, people like Spielhagen,
    • how many people in this room do not know of the existence of
    • Wilhelm Weber's Dreizehnlinden? You see how people live
    • minds of thousands of people.
    • mass of people to know nothing of radically new developments
    • these individuals must nevertheless know three or four people
    • who have read it. The barriers separating people are such
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  • Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 11: Recognizing the Inner Human Being
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    • how people today and in the near future are moving into a
    • many instances, go hand in hand with people becoming more
    • will be more spiritual. It may well be that people do not
    • have told you, many people probably do not want to give it
    • people we see do not show their true nature in what we see on
    • People even wanted to establish a kind of rational religion
    • The way people
    • people in education and training has entirely come out of
    • present-day civilized world, where people consider themselves
    • When people
    • will be the source for a healthy inner life. People will be
    • circumstances I have spoken of in recent times, people of our
    • between human beings and the universe. People today believe
    • and so on, but it is also what makes people different from
    • disastrous if people were to fail to note that part of their
    • all kinds of abstractions. People will need this science for
    • laws of nature which people need to know will become an
    • inner life which is less arid and infertile and people who
    • is that people interested in education should enter into the
    • people will increasingly have the idea, especially with
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  • Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 12: The Spirits of Light and the Spirits of Darkness
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    • phenomena. At the present time people generally give validity
    • seriously people are in error if they base themselves only on
    • have meant that people would have become spiritual very
    • laws of heredity here on earth. People had to learn to live
    • places to take account of blood relationships, of people
    • the bonds of blood relationship and help people to be free of
    • basis on which people can be independent individuals. And it
    • make people aware of their tribal, blood and hereditary bonds
    • simply are the truth, though it is a truth which people today
    • ‘ideals’ proclaimed by people today. In earlier
    • people should continue to learn their letters throughout the
    • people in the future to speak of a social structure for the
    • still enough people, even today, who simply do not want to
    • of people free of all blood prejudices who are able to
    • and people would believe it to be highly idealistic. We must
    • Darwinism. Some people were foolish enough to think I had
    • reasons; and the people who say such things only need to
    • fact that people want to follow one or the other rather than
    • through the gate of death. People who relate only to the body
    • people must gain the power of youth which lies in
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  • Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 13: The Fallen Spirits' Influence in the World
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    • 70s, much more so than people imagine today — future
    • blood bonds. They brought people together in families,
    • With their feeling for those blood bonds people then also had
    • what it actually has become in people born after 1879.
    • point in time. It would have been the means by which people's
    • aspect. On the other hand, people far and wide would have
    • spiritual influences to a far greater extent than people
    • People often
    • impulse to be creative. Ask people who have started journals
    • other areas, but people will not admit to it, for they think
    • we know so little about what really goes on among people
    • become the general human persuasion; people will not grow so
    • towards spirituality out of people's souls when they are
    • field is that people have also sought to understand Jesus
    • about in Palestine as Jesus Christ and infected people with
    • their lives people will believe only in the physical world
    • people are now vaccinated against consumption, and in
    • must be to throw people's views into confusion, turning their
    • people can believe that this war, which is not a war of the
    • events appear to be in accord with the notions some people
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  • Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 14: Into the Future
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    • people do and achieve here on earth are connected with the
    • spirits which are at work in them. People tend to imagine
    • the fifteenth century. Strange as it may seem to many people
    • strange way, and people began to make the whole world their
    • does, of course, sound peculiar to people who think in crude
    • people have become as clever as I have said. All this
    • back to ancient India, we find that people remained young and
    • even less, until into Graeco-Latin times people were only
    • in our fifth post-Atlantean age people are naturally capable
    • Something which evolves in the human blood until people reach
    • their twenty-eighth year is to enter more into people's
    • rebelled against this. They wanted people to take an active
    • want to push people out into public life at an earlier time.
    • People do, of
    • by people. This has come to an end, however, and people will
    • they have to be thought of, rather than people wanting to
    • people are asleep to what goes on in the spirit. They can
    • people enter consciously into the spiritual impulses that are
    • the world today serves the purpose of rocking people to sleep
    • presented to people to deflect them from truths they could
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