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• Title: Lecture: Michaelmas-Soul: Lecture I
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  • formerly: Anthroposophy and the Human Gemüt
  • formerly were intended to function as I have indicated. It is at the
  • perfect human form back to less perfect ones, farther and farther back
  • higher hierarchies would still be today, though in a different form,
  • form.
  • at freedom prematurely, if I may put it that way; for the forms
  • world evolution were such forms to come into being, namely, the human
  • form. — But all this is conceived as happening in a period in
  • which cosmic development of the human form was not yet possible; nor
  • were the higher animal forms possible — only the low ones I
  • Thus a form had to come into being that might be called cosmically
  • mold, so to speak. It could not be an animal form like those destined
  • to appear only later, nor could it be the form of an animal of that
  • an animal form differing from any that would be possible in the
  • cosmic contradiction. And the only form that could be evolved out of
  • what was possible at that time is the form of the Dragon. Naturally it
  • being that had developed a refractory will. But in any case this form
  • form that is supra-animalistic: super-sensible, but intolerable in the
  • Thus this form was transferred to the physical world, but as a
  • superphysical, super-sensible form. It lived thereafter in the realm
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• Title: Lecture: Michaelmas-Soul: Lecture II
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  • formerly: Anthroposophy and the Human Gemüt
  • former times, we find that at bottom man has become a veritable hermit
  • in former epochs of human evolution the lighting up of real memory, of
  • observes the outer forms of the stars and constellations, but he no
  • and in its true form, the form it must assume in our time.
  • radical transformation must take place in the inner being of mankind
  • thoughts take an abstract form, when we are unable to imbue them with
  • will gnaw at his whole being in some other form: it will eat right
  • things of the outer world: he perceives them, forms abstract thoughts
  • form such abstract mental pictures as we commonly do of plants today.
  • the flowers so abstractly, nor form such abstract mental pictures of
  • by forming concepts and ideas, whereas he should drink by uniting,
  • animal-like form, yet is really a super-sensible being; that on account
  • must advance to a higher form of spirituality, untold elemental
  • Dragon in such a way as really to become inwardly transformed, to feel
  • fantastic — they conform with no reality; and they reject them,
  • instance man has burned the bridges that formerly had communication
  • cannot be acquired through any form of passivity, not even through
  • growing older; they will sense the transformation of nature as part of
• Title: Lecture: Michaelmas-Soul: Lecture III
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  • formerly: Anthroposophy and the Human Gemüt
  • grown dim and shadowy. While in former periods of human evolution
  • conditions of the human organism and transform these into pictures
  • experiencing of an intention, in the increasingly formidable
  • many other forms.
  • Their conformation is entirely different from that of other
  • confronted men in former things through a primitive, but penetrating,
  • the mountain tops and finds stones arranged in such a way as to form a
  • In speaking of super-sensible things we cannot form thoughts in the
  • thoughts are formed, conclusions drawn, and so forth. But to be
  • shadow formations and by means of them determine accurately, this is
  • being nourished by the transformed foodstuffs, perceives the
  • passage of food transformed by digestion and taken into the blood. And
  • their professorial platforms took quite a different standpoint in the
  • liquid in the glass, while the sediment, as we may call it, formed
  • propagation. These forces did not exist in their present form at the
  • remembered that this kind of science, which formerly was rather of a
  • and all that forms around the vowels when the planets pass the
  • repeatedly and remarked how nice it is to perform this experiment for
  • state in the fall. In this way man will again be able to conform with
• Title: Lecture: Michaelmas-Soul: Lecture IV
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  • formerly: Anthroposophy and the Human Gemüt
  • knowledge of today are not very formidable obstacles because they can
  • reality in the stone formations offered us by geology — for it is
  • transformed into a relation to the cosmic environment. Everything in
  • therefore they felt it to be in conformity with earth existence to
  • that in former times had to tell men when Easter should be celebrated
  • under the influence of the cosmic planetary world; and in a former
  • epoch this was celebrated in the great and profound rites performed in
  • gleaning of other information. This is confirmed even by the fact that
  • being evolves: he transforms himself in the course of the seasons by
  • derive powers from the enlightenment transformed in it, precisely
• Title: Lecture: The Cycle of the Year: Lecture I
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  • of his message was formed, not by looking at the sunlight directly in
  • these initiates formed their judgment of the Mystery of Golgotha. But
  • that the fixing of the festivals had formerly been related to cosmic
  • recognized, Michaelmas will be more and more called upon to form a
• Title: Lecture: The Cycle of the Year: Lecture II
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  • those who had formerly been His disciples, to the Apostles. But the
  • forms the centermost of the three soul elements in Rudolf Steiner's
  • Christ. They felt that by this sight their souls were transformed,
  • The human being is transformed at about the seventh year by the change
  • onset of puberty. These are bodily transformations. In the
  • themselves transformed in their inner soul life. They felt themselves
  • When we form such visualizations, we transpose ourselves, so to speak,
  • modern forms of expression, but there were appropriate forms in the
  • is that this anthroposophical spiritual research points again to forms
  • this death to undertake something which His former divine companions
  • These former divine companions confronted, as an inimical world, what
  • divine heights and taking on the form of man, He became able actually
• Title: Lecture: The Cycle of the Year: Lecture III
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  • accomplished by all of today's organizations and plans for reform;
  • and form a common mass within the Earth soul (green). But
  • just as if we had in a container, first, a uniform fluid in which
  • now separated the two which were united, which had formed a unity.
  • differentiated within the uniform, and so forth. There you see always
  • forming of life. And it depends finally and only upon the introduction
  • be transformed once more into ascending forces.
  • ascent, to unite human souls with the original formative cosmic forces
  • formative impulse — can come forth from the depths of the
  • archetypal forms underlying all activity.
  • forming the first trinity. Then comes the trinity interwoven with it:
  • inwardly active principle, if we want to see the formative process, we
  • must see forming and shaping as associated with threefoldness, with
  • once introduced in the world when people had the force to form
  • other, but Nature permeated with spirit, and spirit forming and
  • forming. This can work religiously, artistically, cognitionally, and
• Title: Lecture: The Cycle of the Year: Lecture IV
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  • took place during the year formed a very significant part of their
  • ascribe a somewhat dreamy nature to this old form of consciousness.
  • on the form of myths and in fact became mythology.
  • humanity for the form of man in general. It is very difficult
  • space-form. They had, however, an intense interest in what pertains to
  • form. On the other hand, they were interested in the color of the
  • other, in the human form. There was an interest, as we have said, in
  • the outer form of man.
  • other hand, what makes man really man, his upright form, the space
  • form of his being, lies outside of human consciousness.”
  • Certain presentations and performances were filled with distinctive
  • it were, in the form of music, in song and dance.
  • simple, primitive, elemental form of music and poetry which was
  • the Mysteries. For everything the people did in performing their
  • But if those ancient people had been asked how they came to form such
  • can still learn today how to make use of instruments, how to form
  • thereby formed streams out into the cosmos, not through the air, but
  • the divine spiritual, which takes part in the forming, in the whole
  • singing and dancing as they could then perform at the St. John's
  • out into the cosmos, of course not now in animal form, but in
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• Title: Lecture: The Cycle of the Year: Lecture V
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  • cycle of Nature which was formed in ancient times under the influence
  • as “answer” to the performances of music, poetry and dancing
  • St. John's night dream, is what remained later of the wondrous forms
  • present Nature-knowledge in its existing form to man during the
  • what he perceived and felt then of earthly nature was in conformity in
  • transform nature-knowledge so that out of what the human being
  • the mother's body the human being passes through the animal forms one
  • animal forms. He overcame all this, separated it out, thrust it aside
  • manifest to him in its pure form.
  • different form. In order that man may be spurred toward the spirit,
  • form, however, that when man no longer had any true feeling for what
  • Fortitude, Temperance, Justice. What man had formerly received from
  • nature what was formerly outside. Man is no longer in such a
  • transformed sense, is again becoming necessary.
  • If the festivals were formerly festivals of giving by the
  • divine to the earthly, if man at the festivals formerly received the
  • * Feste der Erinnerungen (a plural form). Erinnerung has
  • livingly, must reform itself and not be allowed simply to remain as a