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• Title: Lecture: Michaelmas-Soul: Lecture I
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  • domain of cognition by the intellectualistic development of
  • today one never tires of insisting that man cannot stop short at what
  • the dry, matter-of-fact intellect can comprehend. Nevertheless, when
  • opportunity of making any contact whatever with cosmic enigmas,
  • incorporation into the body of world events, into the cosmos, and his
  • case, even as late as the 18th Century. People of today have no
  • how great a proportion of what so-called clever people call fantastic
  • Nowadays, when a man reflects upon his development on the earth, a
  • gradually developed upward to the point where it experiences spirit.
  • Even as late as the 18th Century, when those who had not been infected
  • Incidentally, the earth did not even exist then. They beheld beings
  • develop who would be conscious of the feeling of freedom. The
  • the most enlightened spirits even as late as the 18th Century. I shall
  • which cosmic development of the human form was not yet possible; nor
  • being that had developed a refractory will. But in any case this form
  • development. And that is the story of “The Fall of the Dragon
  • existence with the earth. He encountered what had developed as
  • in him as nourishment, as the stimulus of breathing, and even in the
  • animal lust — as everything animalistic that rises out of the
  • is that sprouts in the innocent green of the plants and what is even
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• Title: Lecture: Michaelmas-Soul: Lecture II
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  • even so long ago. I repeatedly drew attention to the fact that in many
  • often he is even afraid, when he feels a deeper, more intimate contact
  • for the development of what we experience in the consciousness of
  • way back to spirit must be achieved by means of the strength that can
  • Michael Festival! My dear friends, if anthroposophy is to achieve its
  • in any anthroposophical undertakings; but rather, whatever may grow
  • way into the life of mankind, Christ Jesus had to be born; this event
  • transcendent event had to occur. And the Easter Festival? It could
  • never have had any meaning in the world had it not commemorated what
  • took place through the Mystery of Golgotha, had not this event
  • the Mystery of Golgotha. Under no conditions, however, must it be
  • — as were all events that led to the institution of festivals.
  • were led up to by outer events, in evolutionary objectivity, so a
  • a warm heart, a love of nature, love for every being. This human
  • reason of man's having become cosmically a hermit, this is even more
  • majestic plant; and if he is at all imaginative he may even achieve an
  • it, of something spiritual; we do not dream that every such plant
  • For in every plant there is concealed — under a spell, as it were
  • that of the development of freedom — man's attitude toward the
  • I said, we need not consider the lilies that are never seen by man but
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• Title: Lecture: Michaelmas-Soul: Lecture III
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  • autumn, I should like today to speak about several prerequisites
  • alternatively, outer events of our life may be symbolized, events that
  • development of a dream, on the other hand, is of the greatest import.
  • difficult climb and becomes ever more so, the higher he goes. Finally
  • circumstance of encountering even more insuperable obstacles. If we
  • and relaxation, hope and disappointment. Nevertheless, the dream
  • this. Dreams will not stand for it, so they rip events out of their
  • system of natural laws — in fact, men should learn that every
  • man of that type starts with the assumption that everything which is
  • everything that is ordinarily experienced by the ego, and the astral
  • never thought of. He wrote all sorts of things wholly foreign to the
  • was convinced that whatever was writing through him was lying, so he
  • Everything we can think, will, or feel in the physical sense-world is
  • means of the mental capacities developed in the course of the last
  • even penetrate into the system of physical nature laws, because
  • believes that a light shining at a given point in space will appear
  • laws diminish in a similar ratio and eventually, beyond a certain
  • candle. When spiritual science reveals the truth by means of such
  • analogies people think it is paradoxical. Nevertheless, in the state
  • has for present-day mankind in general. We will not even pass by the
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• Title: Lecture: Michaelmas-Soul: Lecture IV
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  • HE aim of everything we have been considering during the last three
  • body. In our civilization it never occurs to a man who is studying
  • of a rose at all — even if it fills us with delight to see this
  • calculation of everything in the modern science of geology that
  • Mark.} In spite of all this, however, the method employed for such
  • The indispensable factor in every domain of spiritual science is just
  • beings, but the relation of every being of the universe to the being
  • of the cosmos. Everywhere in the world matter contains spirit, for
  • matter is, of course, only the expression of spirit. At every point
  • man; for true vision reveals a multiplicity of earth spirituality, of
  • transformed into a relation to the cosmic environment. Everything in
  • seasons that we determine it not by earthly but by cosmic events: the
  • something that may be practical for a day, but never for a century. In
  • ever be able to point man to his inner life in conjunction with the
  • sensibility prevents men today from glimpsing the factors within
  • super-sensible cognition — the necessity to develop the inner
  • spiritual-scientific revelations entrust them with — this in
  • abstractly as you read other books — there is no point whatever
  • gleaning of other information. This is confirmed even by the fact that
  • those who today fancy themselves particularly clever consider
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• Title: Lecture: The Cycle of the Year: Lecture I
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  • it is good ever and again to bring before our inner eye, out of
  • look at the Earth and its events from such an aspect, we must only
  • changes its aspect in the course of the year, changes everything with
  • need only to think how almost everything related to weather
  • again in this March, 1923, at about the same point of development at
  • can even speak of a daily breathing of the Earth. But today we
  • the conditions are of course reversed on the opposite side of the
  • away from the revelations of the Moon and toward the revelations of
  • at the same time they said, “Some Earth event must enter in,
  • “The event that brings this about,” so they said to
  • nature of this extraordinary event yielded its secret to them through
  • “Everything must now be related to the Sun.” — But the
  • those times in which whatever was important on Earth was referred to
  • beginning of spring. Thus far everything is spatial, but we depart
  • physiognomy, with which she looks out into the universe, she reveals
  • solstice; instead, the Earth reveals on her surface the reflected
  • Ahrimanic forces, however, establish themselves firmly in this Earth
  • However, it is so, that in the present cycle of Earth evolution —
  • reveal Michael coming to the help of descending human souls. But they
  • earthly life again also in a spiritual sense, will eventually have to
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• Title: Lecture: The Cycle of the Year: Lecture II
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  • so united Himself with mankind that He could still give revelations to
  • spiritual world as such in order to understand events which do not
  • Resurrection thought must be regarded as such an event. Then it will
  • post-Atlantean epoch, in which the event of Golgotha took place.
  • changed by beholding the event of the Death and the Resurrection of
  • just as a man feels that he is changed by physical events in the
  • The human being is transformed at about the seventh year by the change
  • will never live in spiritual realities if we conceive the spiritual
  • events in a regular rhythm, as I indicated yesterday. After a year we
  • strength which a man had himself developed in his soul-spiritual
  • sort of revelation, said to them the following: “Certainly,
  • and not be able to develop further with the Earth to future higher
  • developing the particular spiritual force now accessible to mankind.
  • comprehensible how the Christ could converse with His disciples, even
  • Above all, this event must be regarded not from the earthly point of
  • should view this Christ Event also from the standpoint that the Christ
  • even in earlier times was called “hell.” But the efficacy of
  • spiritual beings worked upon man. The forces of man extend even into
  • alternative. It is, however, possible for a human being to let
  • the Earth; when what is developing on the Earth begins to be a symbol
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• Title: Lecture: The Cycle of the Year: Lecture III
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  • remembrance of the Event of Golgotha began to be celebrated which
  • between knowledge and revelation which was agreed upon by the
  • world can be acquired, whereas everything connected with the
  • super-sensible world has to be gained through revelation — this
  • revelation concerning the super-sensible to mere outer
  • revelation — that is, the super-sensible world — came to be
  • significance just such an event could have for men's whole
  • something can be achieved only by the mighty impact of a
  • of man on Earth which depends on the declining physical life. Whenever
  • In so doing, however, in permeating his will with spirituality, the
  • sprouting, burgeoning life, which causes everything to merge as in a
  • spiritual life today. Man wants everything to revert to a unity, to a
  • materialistic Monist. Everything is included in an indefinite unity.
  • The spring tends to weave everything together, to blend everything
  • everything appears — I might say — as a pantheistic mixture,
  • fancy that everything must be led back to a unity; thereby everything,
  • thought is not strong enough in even a small number of people for it
  • even only a few active members could be found, then it would become
  • And so it is everywhere. Who is interested today in anything that
  • would bring to revelation, let us say, that a systematic threefoldness
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• Title: Lecture: The Cycle of the Year: Lecture IV
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  • also in the spiritual events, people were all the more involved with
  • space-form. They had, however, an intense interest in what pertains to
  • nevertheless true that the priests of the ancient Mysteries arranged
  • the dream-consciousness. You know that even in a person's dreams
  • the Mysteries. For everything the people did in performing their
  • tradition, if one simply develops further what manifests itself. One
  • dominated everything, they have forgotten the connection of singing
  • with the whole universe. Even someone who is musically inspired, who
  • sets the art of music high above the commonplace, even such a man,
  • however, would never say such a thing. He would never say: “The
  • course not all of them send out song; but something similar even
  • humanized form, as a further development of what the animals send out
  • everywhere plants are coming out of the Earth.
  • The people then had a subtle feeling awareness of what is developing
  • everything became poetic — although it had been thoroughly
  • plunged into this musical-poetic element. The people believed that
  • time everything was steeped in the musical-poetic, in the dance
  • element, now in the depths of winter everything was first prepared in
  • time, because everything was so very different from what is done now.
  • world. When the harvest had been gathered in, however, and his limbs
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• Title: Lecture: The Cycle of the Year: Lecture V
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  • of the Mysteries, and to go into what was believed in those times with
  • external events is just as much the expression of a living being
  • These people believed that by means of the ceremonies I have
  • other three-quarters of the year nothing was revealed to them of what
  • world in which it revealed itself was by no means regarded in such a
  • neutral, indifferent — one may even say phlegmatic — way as
  • nature. We cannot really say that modern man even feels the
  • the world. Men did not expect great secrets of Nature to be revealed
  • himself as moral impulse what is revealed at this time of midsummer
  • should be revealed out of the heavens in all seriousness what they
  • messengers remain behind and reveal themselves in their own way.”
  • evenings. And what they felt then seemed to them to be a kind of
  • dream by which they were convinced that every phenomenon of Nature was
  • of elemental beings were also active there who revealed themselves to
  • the soul-spiritual level. This then, in all particulars, was taken to
  • be a divine-spiritual moral revelation of the cosmos to man.
  • midsummer the divine-spiritual world revealed itself through moral
  • were reached toward him at this season. Everything that man believed
  • to be divine-spiritual within him he ascribed to the revelations of
  • mineralized. Everything inclined in a certain way towards the death of
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