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• Title: Lecture: Michaelmas-Soul: Lecture I
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  • kingdoms of nature, up to the form of the physical-sensible human
  • being. But when the soul's eye is directed to what physical nature
  • other, with the physical-etheric part, he was to belong to that nature
  • which came into being as earth-nature, as a new cosmic body — the
  • external nature out of previous nature kingdoms, tending toward and
  • words, what we are accustomed to call extra-human nature. What was
  • his Gemüt, can look out upon external nature, upon the
  • nature in its condition of death, as it were; of not being alive. But
  • nature can be regarded as a further reflection of what originally
  • nature and may feel that this extra-human nature is a mirror of the
  • divine in the world. And after all, that is what nature is intended to
  • this or that manifestation of nature, feel inner jubilation and
  • enthusiasm when he experiences creative nature in its sprouting and
  • this enthusiasm, this overflowing joy in nature — that is what
  • Gemüt is so intimately related to this nature that he can
  • elation and joy in nature, all that rises in us as a feeling of
  • release when we participate vividly in the freshness of nature, all
  • human Gemüt and what lives out there in nature as a mirror
  • nature into himself — takes it in through nourishment, through
  • perceiving it with his senses. In these three ways external nature
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• Title: Lecture: Michaelmas-Soul: Lecture II
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  • If we observe our present relation to nature and to the whole world,
  • of the nature of the connection between his earthly existence and his
  • nature that surround him on earth — the manifold beauty of
  • with the great spaces of nature, lest he might lose his ingenuous
  • a warm heart, a love of nature, love for every being. This human
  • cannot take a step in the realm of nature without coming under the
  • that continually approach man out of the things of nature when he
  • through the elemental spirituality of nature. And it flows into him:
  • spirituality poured out over outer nature, which is a mirror of the
  • that he exists only in man, because outer nature cannot harbor him.
  • Outer nature, image of divine spirituality, has in its innocence
  • of nature and unites with them, with the result that man, instead of
  • with the Dragon in his lower nature. For everything in the world moves
  • nature, world evolution actually progressed in such a way that the
  • his very nature to hunger and thirst for these elemental beings: to
  • with the elemental beings of nature. For with them he wants to unite,
  • and with them to permeate his own being. In extrahuman nature he
  • cannot do this, but only in the inner nature of man, for only there is
  • saturating himself, as it were, with elemental beings in human nature,
  • purely material outer world, as assumed by nature research today; he
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• Title: Lecture: Michaelmas-Soul: Lecture III
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  • the nature of man the dream content as it pertains to the conception
  • etheric bodies. The nature of such super-sensible experiences is of
  • constraint of the laws of nature, exactly as does the world of dreams.
  • the laws of nature, but laws that bear an entirely different inner
  • impossibility of merely extending the laws of nature when we penetrate
  • even penetrate into the system of physical nature laws, because
  • of the distance, why should not the validity of the system of nature
  • our earthly research. The nature of our present-day education is such
  • where even in the spiritual life of nature there is so much that has a
  • different effect from that of nature elsewhere, what I have set forth
  • abstraction, for it lets outer nature go its way, so to speak, without
  • arrive at the solution one must know the nature of the training
  • say, Now the metabolism in my organism is of this nature, now it is of
  • the inner man — the whole course of outer nature.
  • knowledge! Man bears within him the animal nature, and truly he does
  • riding on his lower nature; and therefore it was fitting that
  • contrast is able to see clearly into the nature of the new impulses
  • by anthroposophy about the nature of the moon.
  • was simply wisdom of an entirely different nature, and what took place
  • was the sediment — meaning the present nature of the forces of
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• Title: Lecture: Michaelmas-Soul: Lecture IV
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  • true nature of the planets: that they are not the mere physical bodies
  • spiritual beings, as it were, that dwell in the kingdoms of nature.
  • earth. In winter he sought his kindred elemental nature-beings in the
  • from that of a lifeless thing, so nature, hitherto mute, will begin to
  • something very special will speak to us out of nature. One who has
  • gradually acquired the sensitive feeling for nature just described
  • between nature-consciousness, engendered during the spring and summer,
  • What is nature consciousness? When spring comes, the earth develops
  • I feel a true concord with nature and can say, my ego blooms in the
  • flower, my ego germinates in the plant. Nature-consciousness is
  • burgeoning and unfolding life of nature. To be able to germinate with
  • self” and by “becoming one with outer nature.” Truly,
  • and the bearing fruit, man develops this delicate feeling for nature
  • But then — if we have learned to feel with nature, to blossom
  • nature with our own being, we cannot help co-experiencing the essence
  • of the fall and winter as well. He who has learned to live with nature
  • in the spring learns also to die with nature in the autumn. Thus we
  • can live united with burgeoning, blossoming nature, and in doing so he
  • can develop his nature-consciousness; but when he experiences the dying
  • in nature the experience is a challenge to oppose this dying with the
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• Title: Lecture: The Cycle of the Year: Lecture I
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  • on the complementary nature of Christmas with Midsummer and Easter with
  • But now as the Mystery of Golgotha drew near, the whole nature of the
  • nature of this extraordinary event yielded its secret to them through
  • same nature. Only it is a reflection, a raying-back force, whereas we
  • cosmos in the summer, it is also opaque in its inner nature,
• Title: Lecture: The Cycle of the Year: Lecture II
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  • on the complementary nature of Christmas with Midsummer and Easter with
  • speak to you about how, when the course of Nature is permeated by
  • nature and what lives in the spirit. We bring together what is
  • earthly with its deeply concealed winter nature (orange), then
  • Earth nature begins to wither, when the mood of the grave is spreading
  • abroad in Earth nature, when the symbol of the grave can appear before
  • out of themselves to “speak” something into Nature that
  • “together with” the course of nature. It is not admissible
• Title: Lecture: The Cycle of the Year: Lecture III
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  • on the complementary nature of Christmas with Midsummer and Easter with
  • animals.” — People experienced along with Nature the gradual
  • experience with Nature in such a way — when their consciousness
  • the spiritual in the successive changes of outer nature, in growth and
  • to dead nature; it considers itself incapable of rising above dead
  • nature. This is a result of that inspiration which was stimulated by
  • relation to Nature. We must come to know the connection between this
  • special inner soul-filled liveliness how Nature herself changes toward
  • winter; how the plant leaves get their autumn coloring; how all Nature
  • world in Nature; to feel the kinship of man's spiritual
  • “being-ness” with Nature's spiritual “being-ness”
  • when man lives with Nature in this way as autumn approaches and brings
  • this living-with-Nature to expression in an appropriate festival
  • pantheistic unity. Man is surrendered to the unity of Nature, and to
  • monon; he is either a devotee of universal spirit or universal nature;
  • shall have an inspiration, a Nature/Spirit impulse, to introduce
  • “three,” and so on. But Nature does not take such a course.
  • woven together, as is the case with Nature in springtime — which
  • life: not abstract spirit on one hand and spirit-void nature on the
  • other, but Nature permeated with spirit, and spirit forming and
• Title: Lecture: The Cycle of the Year: Lecture IV
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  • on the complementary nature of Christmas with Midsummer and Easter with
  • ascribe a somewhat dreamy nature to this old form of consciousness.
  • just in the sensible workings of Nature, as is the case today, but
  • aspects of Nature in spring and in autumn. I have pointed to this just
  • dead nature, in the mineral nature.
  • example, the sprouting, burgeoning plant-life and plant-nature in
  • these take on something of the plant nature. Just consider what kind
  • a general feeling of nature, of which an after-echo is still retained
  • to plant nature (shaded in drawing). And when air and warmth
  • the magic saying contained, they were to apply to Nature, and thus
  • using any kind of pliant substance available in nature. People had an
  • activities that arose from the impelling force in Nature experienced
  • element that he drew out of the nature processes of the Earth, there
• Title: Lecture: The Cycle of the Year: Lecture V
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  • on the complementary nature of Christmas with Midsummer and Easter with
  • cycle of Nature which was formed in ancient times under the influence
  • cycle of Nature. You may have gathered from yesterday's lecture as
  • nature. We cannot really say that modern man even feels the
  • being alone with his bodily and soul nature, or as we would say today,
  • the world. Men did not expect great secrets of Nature to be revealed
  • to them at this season. To be sure, such Nature secrets were spoken
  • side. On the other side, man perceptively felt Nature, I might say, as
  • luminous Nature as it was during the daytime remained also into the
  • ruling and weaving of Nature in the summer nights, in the summer
  • dream by which they were convinced that every phenomenon of Nature was
  • he is in a certain sense growing out of the spiritual into Nature.
  • “living-out-from” the spiritual, as a living into Nature.
  • Nature's year.
  • together with Nature. For in that period man still stood closer in his
  • with Nature. His whole thinking took on this character. If we want to
  • Nature-knowledge (see diagram). Toward autumn man felt that he
  • of him that he should learn to know Nature. Thus at the autumn equinox
  • we have, instead of moral impulse, knowledge of Nature, coming
  • to know Nature.
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