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• Title: Lecture: Michaelmas-Soul: Lecture I
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  • who dwells in the visible world, yet is himself invisible: it beholds
  • say to himself — though in dim consciousness: all this the Gods
  • from whom I myself sprang by a different way. — And all our inner
  • nature into himself — takes it in through nourishment, through
  • he finds in nature. That he takes into himself; and by being received
  • variety of animal forms, and finally the human physical form itself.
  • perceives when he looks into himself: he sees it arising in him as
  • taking outer nature into himself through nourishment, breathing, and
  • perception, man creates within himself a sphere of action for the
  • behold the later time: man comes to earth, he takes into himself outer
  • intellect a man can isolate himself from the world, for everyone has
  • it is not Michael himself who wages the battle, but human devotion and
  • within himself: he can now feel in his Gemüt the Conqueror
  • drag me down below myself. But in the spirit I see the luminous
• Title: Lecture: Michaelmas-Soul: Lecture II
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  • self-consciousness, at the inner strength that permits the ego to rise
  • this fact in itself should lead to a revived intensification of them
  • man only if his behavior toward ourself and the world is not merely
  • himself to Gemütlessness — the process
  • lily is really expecting something. It says to itself: Men will pass
  • creep about, frightening plants and minerals in order to gorge himself
  • saturating himself, as it were, with elemental beings in human nature,
  • right thing to do in a given situation; but we cannot bring our self
  • from experiencing the potency of the spirit within himself.
  • conviction: I have received a spiritual impulse, I give myself up to
  • only when we can say to our self, My hundred failures can at most
  • passive prayer, but only through man's making himself the instrument
  • this confidence. If a man will saturate himself more and more with
  • permeated himself with the powerful strength of Michael will he be
  • expand in their being because their free individuality can pour itself
  • but it can be enkindled only by each within himself. What everyone
• Title: Lecture: Michaelmas-Soul: Lecture III
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  • conditions: he must learn to feel himself not only as an earth citizen
  • equipped with all such sky-wisdom, feels himself a hermit on what he
  • presents itself in pictures, and we must ask, How do these arise? They
  • occupy himself with dreams as such but with so-called mediumistic
  • him, so he set about making himself into a sort of medium. He dreamt
  • about all sorts of things that concerned himself, and once they went
  • of mind to have been such as to make him label himself a muttonhead.
  • that an imagination presents itself to us. It is different from
  • ground plan would have presented itself — there is something
  • inner exaltation, shutting itself off and concentrating within itself
  • oneself back to conditions such as I have described as prevailing
  • perceive the course of the seasons within himself by means of his
  • manifests itself in the course of the seasons, was known only to those
  • way the human being experienced himself as a higher being,
  • man feels himself to be active in such a way that into his activity
  • of men on earth, thereby knowing ourself to be one with the divine in
  • presents itself as a sort of fortress in the cosmos. From the outside,
  • simply knew himself to be knowledgeable. Just as today a child gets
  • exert himself particularly!
  • the act of exposing ourself in the ordinary way to the world in
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• Title: Lecture: Michaelmas-Soul: Lecture IV
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  • world as part of ourself, in the same way as we do all that takes
  • Yet a saline crystal is a self-contained reality bounded within
  • itself, while a rose is not. A rose can have no existence other than
  • — cannot come into being of itself. So if we imagine the flower
  • oneself with such refutations: what we need is a realistic way of
  • psycho-spiritual principle in the self-enclosed human being, so
  • into itself. In addition to the familiar burgeoning life of spring and
  • into the earth itself and become intimately connected with it. Such is
  • with the earth itself becomes related to the cosmic environment in
  • with an earth that had drawn all its spirituality into itself. But for
  • — the time when the whole earth opens itself to the cosmos. One
  • himself to cosmic reaches.
  • fancies itself practical. A suggestion such as the one just mentioned
  • itself will sharpen and refine their capacity for sentient
  • us, instead of occupying ourself only with the little living beings;
  • and self-consciousness proper which thrives in the fall and winter.
  • self” and by “becoming one with outer nature.” Truly,
  • during the spring and summertime, he prepares himself to live in
  • But man must not die: he must not let himself be overpowered. He
  • his true self-consciousness, will come to life within him; and by sharing
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• Title: Lecture: The Cycle of the Year: Lecture I
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  • himself, that is, when he is holding his breath within him. In the
  • in herself the forces of which I just spoke. She has entirely sucked
  • man who has inhaled holds the air entirely in himself.
  • of the Sun itself, to the streaming moonlight. From the way in which
  • the very Earth itself, no longer to regard the Moon as the regent, so
  • to speak, of celestial phenomena, but rather the Sun itself.—
  • when the Earth with its being has entirely withdrawn into itself.
  • cosmos; it has withdrawn its soul being into itself, has sucked it in.
  • itself, is isolated as it were from the cosmos.
  • space, must be met now by the force of the sunlight itself. And the
  • sensitive to such things would have to say to himself with regard to
  • the Easter time: “If I have united myself with the Christ force,
  • out of cosmic space into time, which itself was no longer related to
  • itself with the forces of the Sun and the stars. The Christ, Who is
  • Earth, which has filled herself with springing and sprouting plants,
  • bear in our human souls the original force itself.”
  • itself with our soul force through the Christ Impulse — this we
  • Earth itself, contends with the Dragon, Ahriman.
  • Ahrimanic forces, must unite itself, from September into December,
  • soul-element into itself, the Earth has taken its soul-being into
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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
  • something other than itself out of itself. In the early Christian
  • in-and-out-breathing by the Earth itself of soul-spiritual elements.
  • immerse himself in something into which he could not submerge
  • physically. He immersed himself in the soul-spiritual element, and
  • she draws her soul-spiritual element into herself.
  • if I may express myself in the modern sense — as the Christmas
  • danger for the human being. A man said to himself: “When anyone
  • inwardly fortified himself, in order to withstand the attack from all
  • strength which a man had himself developed in his soul-spiritual
  • growing and sprouting, permeates also man himself; namely, what the
  • united Himself with mankind, and since then He lives, not only in the
  • descended to the Earth, had Himself become man, He could descend into
  • that the Christ remained on Earth. For Christ had so united Himself
  • think about this festival in such a way that he can say to himself:
  • thyself, O Man; thou descendest out of the super-earthly worlds; thou
  • inner force of his soul, he can no longer, of himself, find anything
  • its perceiving, but to its will. “Take into thyself the
• Title: Lecture: The Cycle of the Year: Lecture III
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  • himself as earthly man in the universe. Thus we can say that in
  • Scholastics. That out of man himself, only knowledge of the sensible
  • to dead nature; it considers itself incapable of rising above dead
  • between this living-oneself-into the course of the year and what men
  • this could “live itself into” the whole social structure of
  • that the Easter thought itself can only attain its new
  • but man needs them nonetheless, in order to unite them with himself,
  • beings with himself, if at a certain festival time — it would
  • special inner soul-filled liveliness how Nature herself changes toward
  • autumn! Then he would prepare himself in the right way precisely for
  • the thought in one's self, the gleaming up of the idea in the human
  • interwoven with this: spirit self, life spirit, spirit man —
  • place himself in this cosmic activity: three to one, one to three.
  • the cosmos, to unite itself with cosmic worlds, if once the Michael
• Title: Lecture: The Cycle of the Year: Lecture IV
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  • tradition, if one simply develops further what manifests itself. One
  • manifested itself to man as ego-power. And the people had a
  • put his hands to the plough; he had to adapt himself to the outer
  • inwardly by the human being, which expressed itself for example as I
  • noticed in the outer world what sort of form he himself had as man.
  • At midsummer man learned to know himself inwardly, in relation to his
  • ego; in the depth of winter he learned to feel himself outwardly, in
  • his being, how he actually felt himself, was not acquired simply by
  • year, so intimately linked that he had to say to himself: “I know
  • I allow myself to be lifted up to the heavens in summer, when I let
  • myself sink down in winter into the Earth mysteries, into the secrets
  • cosmos. Indeed he felt himself so little to be an earth-being that he
  • modern constitution, if he applies himself once more to the spiritual.
  • man must be learning to understand the cosmos, acquire for himself
  • felt himself within this form in such a way that he felt only the
  • to perceive as far as the skin itself (red in drawing); he did
  • himself; he must learn to know the etheric and astral elements outside
  • himself. This he can do only through the deepening of spiritual
• Title: Lecture: The Cycle of the Year: Lecture V
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  • manifestations of a being, of the human soul itself.
  • manifest itself to them as through a window opening out of the divine
  • world in which it revealed itself was by no means regarded in such a
  • himself as moral impulse what is revealed at this time of midsummer
  • warm, luminous, satisfied in itself. And he felt that this warming,
  • night time. Only he made a distinction, saying to himself:
  • midsummer the divine-spiritual world revealed itself through moral
  • time, man knew that he was lifted up above himself as he then was into
  • again from man.” He notices how he is directed back to himself;
  • and around the Earth, man felt that he himself was becoming woven
  • what man felt within himself to be connected of itself with this year.
  • being in midsummer felt himself lifted out above himself to the
  • divine-spiritual existence of the cosmos, so he felt himself in
  • midwinter to be unfolding downward below himself. He felt as if the
  • something that united itself with his own being. In contrast to the
  • And he said to himself — again I have to describe it in more
  • modern words — man said to himself: “During the height of
  • revealed itself as we have indicated, man could experience in a
  • fitting way resistance to evil: he was to become self-controlled
  • through this guarding of oneself against evil, men would come to a
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