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• Title: Lecture: The Alphabet
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  • he speaks as follows concerning the character of this privately printed
  • be necessary, however, to put up with the fact that erroneous matter
  • characteristic at this moment of the cosmic evolution of mankind. It
  • eminently concrete changes into abstraction. It might be said: as long
  • constituted the actual transition from everything belonging to Greece
  • the names of the alphabet consecutively, would not be the abstraction
  • talked about, there is no recognition that it is actually contained in the
  • poured out over the matter-of-factness of life. In speaking today, Man
  • penetrate Man's actual being beyond this recollection, this thought
  • waking state. It remains unconscious and essentially forms the actual
  • designated in accordance with their actual being we must say that they
  • result of the activity of his lower part, which is a consequence of
  • do with formative activity.) Thus when we speak, we bring to
  • letters of the alphabet are actually formed as images of what lives in
  • H is not actually a letter like the others, H imitates the rotational
  • speech what is abstractly expressed by the words: Man is made up of
  • in the abstract by saying: Man is composed first of physical body,
  • The first is abstraction, the second reality.
  • When you say ‘I’, what is that exactly? Now just imagine someone had
  • It is an actual fact that this name which Man gives himself is really
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• Title: Lecture: East and West in the Light of the Christmas Idea
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  • conceal the fact that this Christmas above all calls for other
  • meant to express in the language of the East the characteristic
  • illusion – apart from the fact of it being expressed more
  • know the characteristics of the life conceptions of the East,
  • wisdom of the ancient Egyptians consisted in the fact that people
  • characteristic of the Occident is that it gained the faculty of
  • merely human character which can also be recognized with the aid
  • light, but in an abstract way.
  • cold abstract knowledge which led us into the misery of the
• Title: Cosmic Forces in Man: Lecture I: Cosmic Forces in Man
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  • lines for counteracting the forces which were leading straight into
  • improved although it may perhaps be said that the senseless actions of
  • during the actual years of the war.
  • fact that my lectures on Folk-Psychology were ignored by one who held
  • a leading position during this period of senseless action, seemed to
  • the fact that man longs for immortality because his egotism makes the
  • us alive to the fact that the limb-structures too, still reveal
  • to-day speaks of the fact that the Sun rises in a particular
  • Neither is there any knowledge of the fact that these forces are
  • forces. The fact of being subject to the Aries forces makes it
  • remain intact. These are the constellations which in the instinctive
  • of the fact that the forces by which the limbs are given shape are
  • corresponding activity in his limbs, making him a hunter, received the
  • is bound up with activities of the limbs — the merchant or
  • way, via the earthly activities, through the influence upon man's
  • activities in life. Not until man's connection with the whole Cosmos
  • activities. And at the very outset the human form leads us to the
  • in his activities, through the limbs more particularly. Between these
  • dying we owe the fact that we can think and be conscious beings. The
  • acting with excessive strength in the head. On the one side, man is a
• Title: Cosmic Forces in Man: Lecture II: The Soul Life of Man ...
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  • activity manifests, as in a child, in whom thought is not yet
  • in our acts of sense-perception and when we work over them in
  • wake up. In our willing, in our actions, we are asleep, while in our
  • dream. What we experience during actual sleep is withdrawn from our
  • up, we should contact the world of the Angels, in the first place the
  • world we are in contact with animals, plants, and minerals.
  • forces which enable him to come into contact with his Angel. Whenever
  • through death. This activity which unfolds between the Angel and the
  • Archai his most important contact is with the world of the Archangels.
  • as a result, in their second contact with the realm of the Angels
  • spheres. As a spatial being, man draws the forces that are active in
  • inwardly unfree. There is no truly free life in the activities which
  • position to act freely, out of the depths of his soul-and-spirit, if
  • characteristic of modern men.
  • active in the life of soul, or operate automatically.
  • greatest interest towards what was active in man between death and a
  • free spiritual activity, to a really intimate, and natural relation to
  • thoughts. When man speaks to-day of his Spirit, he is actually
  • speaking only of his thoughts, of his more or less abstract thinking.
  • man will become more and more a dealer in abstractions, He will not be
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• Title: Cosmic Forces in Man: Lecture III: The Mission of the Scandanavian Peoples
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  • higher worlds should be carried into actual life, that we should know
  • how to bring it to expression in life. Abstract theories are really of
  • by the Spiritual. This knowledge is not acquired by studying abstract,
  • general principles. These abstract principles are often perfectly
  • correct, but they do not carry us very far in the world as it actually
  • as to those who actually live here. There was certainly a great
  • will only be a very gradual realisation that this is actually so. Most
  • people are living and thinking to-day exactly as they did in 1914. In
  • the life of Middle Europe which was in contact with Italy — you
  • — all this begins to take on a more superficial character. Men
  • with a kind of abstract feeling. Christianity makes its way from the
  • think more of the external character of the peoples.
  • remarkable and significant fact in the destiny of the peoples that the
  • Gods. But it takes on a peculiar character which is not fully
  • We need remind ourselves only of one fact — how the peoples of
  • activity, of strength, of enthusiasm, towards the South West. In this
  • is a stimulus to activity in the whole life of the peoples. This is
  • geographical conditions are also reflected in the character of the
  • now think of the remarkable character — and this applies even at
  • everywhere deflected. They do not become really active. They cannot
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• Title: Lecture: The Revelation of the Cosmic Christ
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  • century, for the first time actually in the year 354, in Rome, that
  • However many factors, both internal and external, have mitigated
  • therefore quite natural that those who came into contact with
  • to say, more or less at the time of the winter solstice. For actually
  • — a wisdom which then faded away into empty abstraction. Very little
  • Incarnation. The Roman Caesars were actually regarded as Gods in human
  • fact. Men looked back through birth and through conception, up into
  • of the substance of this festival has been lost is proved by the fact
  • Another factor, too, contributes to this lack of understanding of the
  • death was an actual experience of the Initiates in the Mysteries. In
  • pictures only would one day become an actual and single event in
  • And so we can read some thing from the fact that at midnight leading
  • fact when we know that the Mass is nothing more nor less than a
  • of man and of the fact that the revelation of the heavens is
• Title: Imaginative Cognition and Inspired Cognition
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  • we know conjures up in pictures, into everyday life, facts
  • What actually takes place when we perform the simplest act of
  • raise an arm or a leg, is in fact just as great a mystery to us
  • result of an act of will that the act itself enters our
  • that we learn the result of an act of will. But the actual
  • what concerns us here is that, when taken as a whole, the facts
  • consciousness, although perhaps, when given an abstract
  • carefully following up the facts in question we shall find what
  • Consciousness when developed is able to follow up these facts.
  • for us, however, to recall certain facts about ordinary
  • us then look at the actual life of thought — the
  • something added to the outer course taken by the facts. The
  • accompaniment of an inwardly experienced conception. The fact
  • such, is an actual fact. We experience ourselves as free human
  • reality. When the will is in action it brings about changes in
  • Through our will we make actual contact with the external
  • When from these facts — easily substantiated in ordinary
  • knowledge of man himself, then actually in two respects he
  • confronted by organs at rest and complete; there is active
  • characteristic of our study of the human being from the point
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