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• Title: Lecture: Michaelmas-Soul: Lecture I
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  • this intellect. On the other hand, it is constantly being emphasized
  • present-day man who is able to experience his own being in an inner,
  • prehistoric mankind, they looked upon their ancestors not as beings
  • less human than themselves but as beings more spiritual. They beheld
  • beings in whom spirituality was so inherent that they did not assume
  • Incidentally, the earth did not even exist then. They beheld beings
  • sphere one did not assign beings like present-day men but more exalted
  • ones — beings having at most an etheric body, not a physical one.
  • the kingdom embracing only beings with at most an etheric body. What I
  • as beings of the
  • These beings — Angeloi, Archangeloi, and Archai — in the
  • beings in the sense in which today we speak of freedom in connection
  • with man. The will of these beings was not experienced by them in such
  • to desire something arbitrarily. These beings desired nothing
  • arbitrarily; they willed what flowed into their being as divine will;
  • divine beings ranking above them and signifying, in their
  • beings willed, in a sense, through the lower spirits — archangels
  • ancient epoch the time had not yet arrived in which beings could
  • the divine spirits, there arose a number of beings that wanted to
  • will. In superhuman pride, certain beings revolted because they
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• Title: Lecture: Michaelmas-Soul: Lecture II
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  • a psycho-spiritual being before his earth life. — That is one
  • in which the human being may find the way back to spirit, which after
  • all underlies all things and beings. And precisely this finding the
  • Did the Christmas or Easter Festival come into being because a few
  • radical transformation must take place in the inner being of mankind
  • inner being through anthroposophy. In our soul life we distinguish, as
  • a warm heart, a love of nature, love for every being. This human
  • whole being of man. And while it may sometimes seem — in view of
  • his being will inevitably suffer in some way. And if such a man's soul
  • will gnaw at his whole being in some other form: it will eat right
  • not in the least sense the presence of an elemental being dwelling in
  • — an elemental spiritual being; and really only he observes a
  • of a spiritual being enchanted in it — a relatively insignificant
  • being, to be sure, in the great scale of cosmic interrelationship, but
  • still a being intimately related to man.
  • The human being is really so closely linked to the world that he
  • things and beings that surround him.
  • relationship of the Gemüt which the human being can enter
  • will go on to say that in the human being there dwells the force I
  • animal-like form, yet is really a super-sensible being; that on account
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• Title: Lecture: Michaelmas-Soul: Lecture III
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  • forth from the depths of the human being. These depths we can only
  • being, are all the feelings and conceptions of the extraterrestrial
  • human beings the dream remains an experience that does not pass over
  • knowledge that came into being in the pastoral life of primitive
  • be as abstract as all that in the inner being of our soul: everything
  • into the astral element, they persist longer, being more deeply
  • bothering about it: it lives and has its being in tradition and seeks
  • being nourished by the transformed foodstuffs, perceives the
  • upper portion of the human being.
  • being, appealing in the main to the capacity for feeling. And just as
  • ability to make his entire being into an organ of perception, to
  • bull. And the human being proper, in all his frailty, is mounted above
  • way the human being experienced himself as a higher being,
  • older writings on the relation of the moon to other cosmic beings you
  • instinctive wisdom of which I have spoken: they had beings as teachers
  • who never descended into physical bodies — higher beings who
  • People knew of the existence of these higher beings, just as we know
  • beings surrounded them in a strictly spiritual state. Everything
  • back to the teaching of these higher spiritual beings. That wisdom,
  • being in us: or again, breathing and the circulation seem like
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• Title: Lecture: Michaelmas-Soul: Lecture IV
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  • being can once more be converted, as it were, from an earth citizen to
  • consciousness as manifestations of spiritual beings. In this
  • — cannot come into being of itself. So if we imagine the flower
  • produced substantial plants, animals, human beings? That is all part
  • beings, but the relation of every being of the universe to the being
  • earth differs from that of the human being, if I may so express it. In
  • being: I notice how he walks, I hear how he speaks, I see his
  • psycho-spiritual principle in the self-enclosed human being, so
  • spiritual beings, as it were, that dwell in the kingdoms of nature.
  • But these spiritual beings are passing through a life: they are in a
  • beings, of the plants, so to speak, are received back into the earth.
  • winter mean in a spiritual sense? It means that those spiritual beings
  • whom we call elemental spiritual beings — beings that constitute
  • as it were, its spiritual elemental beings and shelters them there. In
  • permeated by its elemental spirit beings.
  • elemental spirit-beings of earth life themselves may dwell. With the
  • coming of spring the relation of these beings to the earth is
  • these beings that during the winter had produced a close relationship
  • spring: the elemental beings seek to escape out of the earth; and
  • universe in letting its elemental beings flow out into it. In winter
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• Title: Lecture: The Cycle of the Year: Lecture I
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  • brings forth the plants, the animals and the physical being of man out
  • You know that the Earth, with all the beings belonging to it —
  • being inhaled and exhaled. At the end of December it is holding these
  • and Egyptian cultures, when a wish arose to know what that Being who
  • represents the lofty Sun-Being had to say to earthly humanity, an idea
  • words, the ancient initiates sought what that Being Who was later
  • being held. If Jesus is born at this time, He is born at a time when
  • when the Earth with its being has entirely withdrawn into itself.
  • Sun. At this time the Earth has not offered its soul-being to the
  • cosmos; it has withdrawn its soul being into itself, has sucked it in.
  • being returns once more with the forces which he has taken up into his
  • soul-element into itself, the Earth has taken its soul-being into
  • full out-going breath man rises up with his soul-being into the cosmic
  • his own soul-being, but he depends upon Michael's standing by him, so
  • Being of Michael, at the right hand of Christ Jesus. For while the
• Title: Lecture: The Cycle of the Year: Lecture II
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  • truth of the Easter thought depend? The truth depends on a man's being
  • able to link with this thought a mental image showing the Christ Being
  • pictured the grave of Christ and, rising out of the grave, that Being
  • The human being is transformed at about the seventh year by the change
  • Divine Being is degraded when He is represented as having created the
  • Therefore esoteric wisdom has always recognized the essential being of
  • to know how the Earth, by being permeated and saturated by her
  • spirit-soul-being, becomes especially receptive in her inner being to
  • danger for the human being. A man said to himself: “When anyone
  • being, in the strength to break the opposition of these forces, did he
  • thought really portray? The Christ Being descended from spiritual
  • Being brought into the earthly sphere were from the time of the
  • Human beings saw the Christ arise in their realm. The Gods saw the
  • men the Christ appeared; for certain spiritual beings He vanished.
  • certain extraterrestrial spiritual beings, now shining out to them
  • into the spiritual world. Spiritual beings mark the Mystery of
  • these spiritual beings stopped short at the gates of hell. These
  • spiritual beings worked upon man. The forces of man extend even into
  • of these Ahrimanic forces in the spring. The divine spiritual beings
  • origin; as to his soul-being he will die away, as it were, in the
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• Title: Lecture: The Cycle of the Year: Lecture III
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  • being. They experienced the course of the year as an organic life
  • process, just as in the human being when he is a child we relate the
  • “nuance” through being complemented by the Michael thought.
  • It means that certain elemental beings which are just as much in the
  • — that these unite their own being with the out-breathed Earth
  • soul in those regions in which it is spring. These beings float and
  • general earthly soul element. We see countless elemental beings in
  • elemental beings are within the soul element of the Earth, where they
  • individuality, flying and floating about as individual beings. During
  • by so doing these elemental beings lose their consciousness to a
  • animals sleep in the winter; these elemental beings sleep in summer.
  • them already as separate beings again.
  • Man needs these elemental beings... This is not in his consciousness,
  • beings with himself, if at a certain festival time — it would
  • a perceptive feeling for the spirit — ensoul the human being in
  • “being-ness” with Nature's spiritual “being-ness”
  • human being becomes an associate of the Michael activity on earth. And
  • beings can so unite ourselves with the cosmic course that we are in a
  • in the world rests on a real quality of being, and this quality must
  • three-in-one, one-in-three, and learns to know how the human being can
• Title: Lecture: The Cycle of the Year: Lecture IV
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  • certain way as being alongside the weaving and being of the plants and
  • form of his being, lies outside of human consciousness.”
  • forces, with what man experienced in his own being, he could not
  • festival, if I may call it by the modern name. Human beings sent this
  • inwardly by the human being, which expressed itself for example as I
  • human being found the answers to his questions of the Earth.
  • the being of man. On the one side the environment of the Earth
  • his being, how he actually felt himself, was not acquired simply by
  • being man, but by living together with the course of the year; that in
  • human being was inwardly intimately linked with the course of the
  • felt that he was not only an earth-being but that his essential being
  • cosmos. Indeed he felt himself so little to be an earth-being that he
• Title: Lecture: The Cycle of the Year: Lecture V
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  • external events is just as much the expression of a living being
  • manifestations of a being, of the human soul itself.
  • they thought of themselves as dwelling in their beings altogether in
  • its high point at St. John's, did the essential being of their own ego
  • being alone with his bodily and soul nature, or as we would say today,
  • with his physical-etheric-astral being. In that period man felt the
  • and live spiritual messengers through whom the higher divine beings
  • impulses. But at night, when the higher spiritual beings withdraw, the
  • of elemental beings were also active there who revealed themselves to
  • In being thus interwoven with what was becoming mineral on the Earth
  • pondered in his mind about how he experienced his being woven-together
  • human being experienced the transition from summer to autumn in such a
  • The human being began to reflect about Nature. At this time also he
  • began to take into account the fact that he was a creature, a being
  • within which the human being's own “I” shone.
  • being in midsummer felt himself lifted out above himself to the
  • something that united itself with his own being. In contrast to the
  • during autumn the intellect is consolidated. The human being
  • being, the Temptation on the part of Evil. Thus he was aware of
  • summer man was in a sense torn out of himself, his soul-nature being
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