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• Title: Lecture: The Coming Experience of Christ
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  • from that of the animal world. The ability to keep man himself in
  • himself becomes comprehensible. There is no place for man in the
  • riddle to himself. Only a very few people are aware of this, and
  • so to speak, as regards his perception of self. And yet we hear the
  • basis of what he is in himself. This stands out clearly as a
  • — demands that man should be able to raise himself to an
  • oneself in the purely inherited characteristics will lie like a
  • to give man an understanding of himself shows itself in all its
  • poverty man no longer feels himself to be a child of the spiritual
  • appear spirit-self, life-spirit and the true spirit-man; today these
  • germs of spirit-self, life-spirit and spirit-man can unfold. We shall
  • you will see that spirit-self is the transmutation of the astral body
  • nature. He will have to say to himself: “It is true that I
  • cannot during earth-existence attain spirit-self in my astral body,
  • And by developing the consciousness-soul now, I am preparing myself
  • to take spirit-self into it in the next, the sixth, culture-epoch. I
  • know that I cannot yet bring spirit-self into my entire astral body,
  • next condition. I must prepare myself in germ inwardly, so that in
  • growing into spirit-self, as I have often explained he is growing
  • as earthly man, he cannot achieve this. He has to say to himself that
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• Title: i Spirituality: Lecture 1: Historical Symptomology, the Year 790, Alcuin, Greeks, Platonism, Aristotelianism, East, West, Middle, Ego
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  • something which otherwise is at work everywhere, but which does not show itself in such a
  • not manifest itself in such a significant way in the time before and after as it did here. If one
  • reality, death itself is not real and, therefore, the ransom money could not have been paid to
  • isn't real I won't wear a winter coat in winter because I'm not going to protect myself against
  • it is indeed quite noticeable that it is not the concept of redemption itself that is discussed.
  • Areopagite and of that which the oriental spoke of as something self-evident to him? This fades
  • be something there when one has debts. The debts that one has oneself may still seem a very
  • then arose what occidental civilization gave itself up to under the leadership of Rome —
  • death. And the constitution of soul which occupies itself primarily with the human being's
  • transforms itself through births and deaths. There was that which lives in
  • philosophy with the categorical imperative which is supposed to manifest itself out of
  • this `thing in itself' as he called it — but the important thing for him was to prove. Sure
  • myself over it!'
  • What mattered for them was to have a clean, self-contained system of proof, in
  • awoke him, as Kant himself says, out of
  • The 'I' is indeed present, and is present not dimly, but bores itself into
  • the Central region of the earth's culture still set itself against this with all force in Fichte,
  • human being can bring towards the spiritual investigator if he really opens himself to healthy
  • the individual must find completely within himself the source of what he has to find and which he
  • threefold social impulse that can come from spiritual science and that which throws itself
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• Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 2: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 1
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  • consciousness-soul is, as it were, giving itself contour, becoming integrated in itself —
  • character of the East. But here again it expressed itself in another form. Economic in the West;
  • This arises because the Bolshevism making itself felt there is in fact a foreign
  • its terrible aspect will show itself throughout all Asia, because it works with all the fervour
  • finds expression in the East. This shows itself so strongly that one must say: It is natural for
  • element could be destroyed — North America freed itself and the political connection no
  • that set themselves the task within their sphere of action of suppressing consciousness of self,
  • itself as its special task: to prevent the human being from coming to individual
  • to give itself new form — all spirituality of the civilized world is, in actual fact, a
  • only in ancient times. And today the Eastern human being, even in Russia, finds himself in a
  • East, who fancifully attribute to themselves all possible selflessness — a selflessness
  • which, however, is in fact a particularly subtle form of self-seeking, a particulary subtle
  • unegoistic egoism, an egoism arising from an imagined selflessness.
  • idea of how one must equip oneself in order that the opposing powers — whether from the
• Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 3: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 2
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  • and at everything in the physical-sense world that expresses itself out of these spiritual
  • what happens here on earth. This shows itself most strongly in Anglo-Saxon Puritanism, in which a
  • faith, completely estranged from the world, has secured itself a place alongside worldly
  • of the Latin, of the Roman, element to assert itself beyond the purely human in the course of
  • to any sort of significance to save himself from the embodiment of the spirits of the West on the
  • And look at the living Goethe himself, who grows
  • as a young man, comforts himself with what after all also contains a great deal of the West: the
  • sum of abstractions of what lives in the human being himself; and you find what is supposed to be
  • West where a new element of economics establishes itself as something especially appropriate for
  • language as though in himself. This is why the human being of the West could adopt the
  • such that we can say: There is a tendency here to take into oneself everything that is accessible
  • Reason, bound to body and soul, is what is asserting itself here.
  • century as the German Empire took into itself just this fading element of ancient Rome and fell
  • therefore take up neither an economic life nor a spiritual life truly alive in itself and arising
  • the native spirituality that was already in a state of decadence, expressing itself in
• Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 4: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 3
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  • being cannot come to freedom. For if he has completely surrendered himself to the world of the
  • is unfree. But he is also unfree when he surrenders himself completely to the necessity of
  • instincts to such a degree that he can give himself up to them without their dragging him down,
  • which, in the West, expressed itself tumultuously as a large political movement orientated
  • he sought to answer the question: What must the human being do in himself in order to become a
  • that the human being can become free? Schiller asked: What must the human being become in himself
  • Kant and tried to answer such questions for himself in a Kantian way
  • to him. Anyone who, like myself, has seen how Goethe's own copy of Kant's
  • a certain way — even though Goethe had not himself yet done so — how the Golden King
  • disintegrates, represents the 'Uniform State' which can have no permanence in itself.
  • an experience of the whole human being, forming for himself the ideal of a human constitution of
  • human element and the social life, did simply present itself in such pictures. But he was allowed
  • Schiller had managed to work himself clear of this even though he allowed himself to be taught by
  • remain within firm contours. He did not go off into wild fantasy or ecstasies. He gave himself a
  • blossoming of oriental culture; in Greek art as he construed this for himself from Italian works
  • of overcoming mere revelations. In Rome he did not become a Catholic but raised himself up to his
  • manage it, the economic life itself would cause it to circulate. Destruction would inevitably
  • course, destroys itself. This is how we must look at things. Thus we must see how at the end of
  • the eighteenth century there stood Goethe and Schiller. Schiller said to himself: I must pull
  • take hold with any effect on life itself. I would leave the economic life below me like something
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• Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 5: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 4
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  • evolution itself.
  • relationship to the spirit world itself. Certainly, longing for knowledge has been spoken about a
  • clairvoyance — though not the old clairvoyance itself — were still present even in
  • spiritual in the manifestations of nature, the concept of knowledge itself also fell more or less
  • not just there for knowing. This is the greatest error to which the human being can give himself:
  • intellect. Nature remains spiritless. The human being will lift himself up to a condition where
  • could no longer take part himself in distant campaigns of war. Thus this dialectical-legal
  • taken out to the land. What has arisen in the cities will transplant itself into the country.
  • establish itself at all in the same way as it did in occidental civilization. But that is a time
  • only in the economic sphere. But he will notice more and more in what he himself creates that it
  • the intellect itself can no longer comprehend it. Perhaps people today can barely form a clear
  • bring forth everywhere destructive, demonic forces out of itself. It would not work because the
  • what he himself produces in the economic life. For the time being these demons, which human
  • nature or with machines but only with the human being himself. When the human being develops
  • intelligence, he can appropriate freedom to himself in the course of cultural development. It is
  • element of the intellect. But precisely in the human being himself there could develop, as the
  • in the letter-patent of nobility or similar documents, something that is already showing itself
  • things an individual has saved for himself will simply be taken away. There is no other way to
  • spiritual itself and, on the other hand, to find in the economic element what people in earlier
  • patent. For, the economic life would grow above the human being's head if he did not show himself
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• Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 6: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 5
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  • late period of his life, a clairvoyant state through which he could convince himself of the
  • Intellect itself, however, was not able to penetrate the Mystery of Golgotha.
  • oriental direct perception clothed itself, spread out over Europe.
  • ecclesiastical element, and that which tried more or less to free itself from it, produced
  • the time had not yet come. In fact, one could only give onself up to the illusion that one
  • has nothing more of the Christ. Jesuitism already contains in itself a complete rebellion against
  • knew full well that the way the Church itself presented the Mystery of Golgotha was
  • try sometime to hold in mind for yourself everything that people accept nowadays as being true,
  • without a belief in Rome itself, is the mentality of our universities today. It is also the
  • clothed itself. People begin to debate, for example, the significance of the Last Supper. But as
  • Golgotha itself. And preparation must be made so that this Mystery of Golgotha may shine forth
  • growing out of this principle and is growing into that principle which begins to show itself
  • it will be necessary to develop in himself something which cannot be developed of itself. The
  • withdrawl from the authority-principle asserted itself — the principle of individual
  • and which he cannot receive through authority but must really draw out of himself. And in order
  • that he may draw it out of himself rightly we must take care that the child has the right
  • human consciousness in the idealistic philosophy of Central Europe asserted itself, as it were,
  • still entirely restricted to the earthly economic, human reason that wishes to occupy itself only
  • itself, as here in the
• Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 7: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 6
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  • differs from that of the animal world. The ability to keep man himself in view has been
  • point where man himself becomes comprehensible. There is no place for the human being in the
  • scientific thought of today and thus he presents an ever-greater riddle to himself. Only a very
  • complete void in man, so to speak, as regards his perception of self. And yet, on the other hand,
  • man be able to raise himself to an existence worthy of the human being: that he should be able to
  • experiences before. his life on earth. On the contrary he feels in himself the characteristics
  • humanity. This experiencing of oneself in the purely inherited characteristics will lie like a
  • of himself shows itself in all its poverty; the human being no longer feels himself to be a child
  • what today is indicated in the human being only in germ — spirit-self, life-spirit and
  • of spirit-self, life-spirit and spirit-man will be able to evolve; for we shall have to wait for
  • spirit-self is the transformation of the astral body into a higher stage, that life-spirit is the
  • to say to himself: 'It is true that, during earth-existence, I cannot attain spirit-self in my
  • now I am preparing myself to take spirit-self into it in the next, the sixth, culture-epoch. I
  • know that I cannot yet bring spirit-self into my entire astral body, but I have to bring it into
  • still in earthly existence. I must prepare myself, in germ, inwardly so that in the future I
  • here. The human being is already growing into spirit-self, as I have often explained. The human
  • to himself: 'I must pass through the rest of earth-evolution continually feeling that I am
  • preparing myself inwardly for conditions of being I cannot yet develop'. In future it will have
  • sense, to feel myself as a dwarf compared with what the human being really is.' And out of
  • proceed. The human being will say to himself: The being of man that lights up inwardly for me is
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