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• Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 1
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  • first and foremost thing to be observed in this School must of
  • have gone into these things in our weekly periodical, What
  • cast us back to our nothingness.
  • know that the first thing to come from the darkness that must
  • through human self-knowledge. Everything man needs in sickness
  • clearly realize that everything that is not acquired in this
  • to think — everything is reeled out and all one has to do
  • nowadays can be compared to someone who wants to pick something
  • pockets and thinks he can pick the thing up that way. But he
  • want to grasp something from the floor. We must activate our
• Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 2
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  • directed towards something else, something beyond the exterior
  • That is the second thing that we have within us - which plants
  • banal things which cause us to realize that life is serious and
  • number of our friends were to undertake something in this
  • is good if it relates to something which exerts a strong
  • something I can do - now that the Anthroposophical Society has
  • introduce something new into my life as an anthroposophist?
  • something new?
  • In esoteric life only the truth works, nothing else. You may
  • color something because of vanity, but what has been colored
  • deeply rooted with our humanity is everything which hinders us
  • things of the outside world and doesn't realize that such
  • thinks about the external things of the world. It is a corpse.
  • everything. And the dead thinking of the nineteenth century
  • to karma is measured. But he knows nothing about it. It is all
• Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 3
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  • observations - when man uses the things that he encounters in
  • looks for it. When he is expected to believe something, he
  • something in ordinary life which is not proven by this or that
  • know whether something that confronts you is truth or illusion.
  • could not differentiate between something happening to you
  • something which should be borne in mind especially by those who
  • forces, which can be the result of any number of things, such
  • illusion. Therefore the first thing one must learn in order to
  • which have nothing to do with your willing; but these thoughts
  • are illusions. You can have feelings which have nothing to do
  • That is the essential thing, that when a person approaches the
  • really something which comes very close to the threshold of the
  • spiritual world. Let's say you experienced something ten years
  • in time, back to your previous earth lives. That is something
  • depths, everything you are capable of perpetrating. But the
  • Also, one judges people not only because they have something
  • opinion of others. But that is the least of things. He who
  • that we eat and drink , that we see and hear, must something be
  • that his breathing awakens life. He commits himself to this
  • breathing, blood circulation and the movement of the members
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• Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 4
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  • with the Guardian of the Threshold is the first thing one
  • be clear to you that I am thus appealing to everything in your
  • only meant for earthly things, and not for godly things. So,
  • renewed for what is to be received. Everything should be new
  • remember nothing of what is said to you today. But you should
  • things you experienced with him or her have been retained in
  • with her these things lead you to certain actions in your
  • something about her and your memory is stimulated. If you had
  • is recalled. If you had wanted to undertake something together
  • so in real life. At the moment when something derived from the
  • esoteric things, they are so strongly present within the
  • potatoes and let everything pass over us with indifference, we
  • then we will understand something else. Yes, my dear friends,
  • holiness-preserving silence is connected with something else,
  • grasp earthly things with these thoughts.
  • these things, the desired goal will be achieved. For the
  • causes in us, we should remember: something exists in us,
  • describes our humanity within a circle. Thus, something begins
  • earth. We consider breath and light as things that have no
  • world, so today we must recognize how the esoteric things which
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• Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 5
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  • which has nothing to do with morality. We don't ask the
  • powerless. Our thoughts are at first things we own which allow
  • external objects take on something foreign to their nature.
  • Something truly great happens to a person when he becomes aware
  • of the abyss which exists between himself and nature: something
  • great. Something which has been expressed since ancient times
  • We can become aware of how an irregularity in our breathing
  • What is closer to man is his breathing process, which is
  • dependent upon the air. So it is from the breathing process
  • breathing process contains the air element, in which we
  • abnormalities in the breathing process. When the breathing
  • Today we want to approach these things esoterically. So it may
  • air as something external, natural. He also feels warmth as
  • something that touches him from without, and he also feels that
  • is enclosed within his skin - something which is no more than a
  • things theoretically. It is not particularly profound
  • elements of the earth's being. This is something which must be
  • real. And then something occurs to the person which makes him
  • temptingly. And we first realize that there is something
  • which sustains our breathing. One does not suspect how closely
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• Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 6
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  • may not simply continue to see things as first glances provide;
  • what is revealed between the things. We see the three kingdoms
  • necessary to be fully conscious of such things.
  • us, something which normal consciousness isn't very aware
  • cosmos. But nowadays we have no training in such things. In a
  • vegetable kingdom. There is something in you that is as sleepy
  • the mineral element within him. He feels something filling him
  • there is something else. One feels fear of one's self. This is
  • - is nothing other than a refined breathing. Thinking is
  • refined breathing. The thoughts in which we live are absolutely
  • a refined breathing process. On one side, the breathing-in
  • stream, holding the breath, and breathing out act, in a more
  • world; sublimated breathing is thinking.
  • closed concepts arise, closed ideas. If it encloses something
  • a refined breathing process which weaves and waves within us
  • inner language of breathing which acts as representations in
  • thinking. When breathing, completely refined, strikes the sense
  • refined-to-thinking breathing process is like an organized
  • breathing in the human head is tantamount to the capture of the
  • This is an unconscious process. Every time we will something,
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• Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 7
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  • everything which passes through the Anthroposophical Society as
  • principle of openness, not be able to demand anything more from
  • entity. This is not generally understood. So something must be
  • presently reigning spiritual powers; something which has been
  • alone. Therefore, anything which indicates that a member is not
  • saying something like the following. Certain influential
  • Roman Church will do everything in their power to make the
  • something to what has already been considered.
  • within the physical body, the only things he can perceive in
  • nothing with the ears, perceive nothing and have darkness
  • threshold everything is different from the sensory world. In
  • willing, something which is also perceptible for normal
  • now we see that willing is something quite different from what
  • well. Now we see that everything the eye experiences as
• Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 8
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  • through the Anthroposophical Society and to do everything
  • is a minor thing, but I must emphasize it: every member is
  • if it's an abstract thing, the personal relationship is at
  • obtained. In the same sense, when something comes from the
  • Goetheanum and is then used as something esoteric, the use is
  • Goetheanum. This means that nothing by way of formulations and
  • possible, only concrete ones. Anything said to come from the
  • able to participate in the work of the School. Things will
  • Something else to be mentioned is that the School must be
  • Vorstand or they cannot include things which originate in the
  • include anything which originated in this School. Relations
  • the Christmas Conference something real has happened and for
  • something else, this will be accepted readily and gladly. Those
  • our senses, through everything in us, that enters into us and
  • Everything we call knowledge which is neither investigated in
  • the grand, powerful, sublime, wise, beautiful things his senses
  • clouds, that is a tree, a stream. We identify these things as
  • those things we indicated as: that is the sun, that is the
  • must not pretend to understand these things with the intellect,
  • the heart is, streaming through something which from the cosmos
• Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 9
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  • experience things so intimately in order to enter into the
  • everything that happens in its environment as though its whole
  • body were a sense organ. That's why he imitates everything,
  • because everything continues to vibrate within him; and in the
  • grasp something, my dear sisters and brothers. It presses on
  • be constituted as something continually crumbling away. The
  • inwardly. When we feel our breathing, for example, we will
  • breathing and of the air. We would be helpless children if we
  • weren't continually nurtured by the forces of breathing flowing
  • which lives in everything air-forming within us. For only
  • Everything in these eight lines can be summarized by letting
  • to the stars, something of feeling and willing; to feeling,
  • which is circling with the planets, communicate something of
  • something of thinking and feeling. This something we indeed can
• Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 10
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  • understand everything offered by anthroposophy, if it exerts
  • instinctive clairvoyance. But we can do something else. With
  • still in Plato's time one felt something special about the
  • seeing as follows: When I look at a person something leaves my
  • something streams out of the eye and encompasses the object.
  • grasp something I know that I am connected to my hand until
  • clairvoyance people knew that something etheric goes out from
  • the eye and encompasses the thing looked at. Today people
  • illusion ceases to be illusion. It cannot be a nothing if we
  • it's like when in the physical world someone writes something
  • you receive it as something which you can revere, which you can
  • necessary that such a thing be deeply interiorized. And even
  • as best we can, something powerful takes place in the
  • Everything I
  • the way we experience these things, our esoteric striving is
  • conclusion I would like to say one more thing. It should not
  • permission may these things be passed on from one to another or
• Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 11
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  • — although it is something long expected and which
  • which real knowledge of spiritual things can be realized. Of
  • hinders achieving everything which is otherwise within one's
  • Here in this Free School for Spiritual Science everything
  • the appropriate form. And once these things have been thought
  • the rhythm of breathing which by its very nature reveals that
  • represented by the sun — in our breathing, in our blood
  • circulation, in everything which is movement in our
  • That is the second thing: stillness in comparison to the loud
  • other planets in our breathing and in our blood circulation
  • we do not merely have something vague in our thoughts, but
  • to make meditation something in which we don't merely think,
  • around us, and from all this something steps back into the
  • our meditation is not something that only lives in us, in our
  • What do I sense arching over me? It is something; it is
  • nothing. I sense walls, I don't see them.
  • clouds, everything which before was visible. A new visibility
• Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 12
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  • wants something different than really standing within the
  • spiritual world. One wants something which is similar to the
  • therefor not lead to envisioning something similar to what is
  • something, due to someone talking to me or some other event
  • really feel it, then you have grasped something spiritual,
  • people, where nothing can bother me, where I will have absolute
  • as described in the mantras, then these things will be able to
  • Basically, we should even avoid thinking about such things
  • to feel that human self-knowledge is something solemn, earnest
  • and holy and that these things should only be spoken internally
  • that so much is spoken about these things in a cliquish manner,
  • don't realize then that in esoteric life everything depends on
  • prevail – can do nothing in esoteric life; that one
  • cannot merely speak of the truth and then regard things as one
  • things the object of idle gossip.
  • path. And we must necessarily bring together everything related
  • English, which seems the correct thing to do.
• Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 13
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  • something innerly and intensely in a low voice, or even out
  • feeling sphere – breathing and blood circulation
  • created between everything in our humanity and the beings of
  • know anything about this force – streams into the legs.
  • is true is unknown – that almost everything normal
  • needs to feel something like resistance when it comes into
  • Now I must indicate something to you, my dear sisters
  • and brothers, something you all know, for normal
  • other things. And the waves of Cherubim life interweave in
  • Nothing in such verses is mere empty phrase: rather
  • containing everything pertaining to the conscience. However,
  • our destiny basically lives in our breathing – the
  • breathing, but because breathing has been formed by earlier
  • Something else is necessary which must be taken into
  • feel something similar when we have been embraced by the
  • in it. By feeling that meditation makes us into something
  • is a serious thing, and that the world of great illusions,
• Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 14
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  • to us, how the hierarchies speak to us, how at first everything
  • something of the reality of the spiritual world, he must do
  • thing which interpenetrates everything.
  • And air: it ceases being the formative breathing force in us.
  • Observe, my dear sisters and brothers, how everything in
  • spiritual world, as I said at the beginning. Everything given
  • are nothing other than differentiated breathing organs. Eye,
  • ear — all are refined breathing organs. Breathing
  • the senses and back from the senses to the breathing process
  • already feels the air element in his soul: he finds breathing
  • breathing difficulty, angst. Warmth is something in which the
• Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 15
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  • things which, only for the sake of coherence, are necessary
  • Regarding what we inhale through our breathing, the
  • We must let such things resonate in our souls so that
  • essence of animality in our astrality, in our breathing
  • about everything in us which is solid; everything that is
  • everything in us which is airy, the inhaled air. The Guardian
  • – as when we grasp something – the Angeloi live
  • from the hierarchy of the Angeloi feels something. The
  • Angeloi touch something when you think. When you are feeling,
  • something. When you are willing, while your willing is
  • something. Human thinking, human feeling, human willing, are
  • The earth's ground is gone. Everything solid is gone. The
  • into nothingness in our willing if we did not have the
  • that we stand within the cosmic process, and that everything,
  • breathing system, to the rhythm that allows day to change
  • ourselves to be complete and enclosed. We do not feel everything
• Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 16
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  • So nothing more is expected from the members of
  • recall it to our souls too often. We see before us everything
  • and the waves, the thunder and lightning. We see everything
  • nothing other than intimately relate to the sense-perceptible
  • thoughts lead us to a wide field in which everything earthly
  • when the Guardian asks us what becomes of our breathing, of
  • everything: in the solid earth element, which supports us, is
  • everything which happened to us during earthly life is
  • us to where we now feel something like a mild weaving, moving
  • life a person is whispering something confidential
• Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 17
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  • other, about the element of warmth, which penetrates everything
  • imagination, something tremendously majestic which the person,
  • flood of colors that fill the bowl. They are breathing the colors
  • beyond the rainbow, at first breathing in the cosmic bowl's
  • Breathing the colors of life
  • Breathing the colors of life
  • third hierarchy are visible to us in this breathing of
  • The nothingness of matter
  • the nothingness of matter
  • with the spirit's eye something else taking place. We have
  • Breathing the colors of life
  • The nothingness of matter
  • closed our spirit-eyes and we saw nothing for a moment, despite
  • that we do not see the spiritual light around us, something
  • My dear friends, I must remind you of something I said upon the
  • Conference. It cannot be assumed that things which have been
  • something else, my dear friends, which is especially grave now
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  • Breathing the colors of life
  • The nothingness of matter
  • is outside this red is nothing. This is placed before our souls.
  • spirit is, Is something.
  • word Nichts (nothing) in various places between the read
  • nothing. We are profoundly impressed by this truth:
  • Everywhere where spirit is, is something, and where there is no
  • spirit, is nothing. And now we wonder: How did all this
  • here in red. What remains there then? Nothing. Over there
  • we see Nothing, call it minerals, one kind of
  • Nothing; call it plants, a second kind of Nothing; call it
  • animals, a third kind of Nothing, and so forth.
  • We see Nothing because we are too weak to see
  • Something. And we call the Nothings the kingdoms of nature. That
  • variations of the Nothing are visible when we look out from the
  • and give names to what is fundamentally Nothing, that it is the
  • great illusion. And what is Nothing, and what we give names to
  • Nothingness. For in their reality all beings are only present in
  • Nothing we have wasted on the non-existent. And beings —
  • which we have wasted on the Nothings. And they keep these names
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• Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 19
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  • through our souls which can bring to mind how everything
  • Breathing the colors of life
  • The nothingness of matter
  • hierarchies. They form and shape everything in the kingdoms
  • beings and cosmic events, everything which is evolves from
  • For body is not dead, it is not something finished. Body
  • is something which is active at every moment, mobile, alert,
  • something that “bodies” [“leibt”].
  • absorb everything that takes place in the physical-sensory
  • and the mountains, everywhere from the things and events
• Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XX (recapitulation)
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  • something else: it means an acquaintance with the beginning of
  • noted in everything undertaken within the Anthroposophical
  • entrust those who wanted to try something, to let them try. In
  • possesses the spiritual force of the sun in everything he does
  • lives in the way characterized in everything which is spiritual
  • is being said here — when you are aware that nothing else
  • openness. Therefore, nothing is demanded of members of the
  • the human being when he objectively observes everything in the
  • work for each individual. And the first thing is to understand
  • us. We must look around at all the little things we have been
  • given, at all the great things we have been given. We observe
  • in imaginations. We direct our gaze to the distance. Something
  • something in our heart tells us: Not here, where the sun
  • is, admonishing us as to how everything is beautiful in our
  • departure. There exists everything before the soul that all
• Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXI (recapitulation)
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  • unbiased hearts and minds [Gemüte]. Everything in the
  • from all the things of the world and from all the events of the
  • We heard him speaking: for everything spoken here resounds from
  • the things of the spiritual world beyond.
  • this thinking by which we acquire the things and events of the
  • world is something abstract, something shadowy, something
  • the world. It can be nothing of itself. It can only be the
  • long as we consider thinking as something living, we are not
  • continually consumes and kills something in us, how in fact it
  • human beings on the earth we see anything else but seeming.
  • One can do nothing else but submerge into the seeming of
  • something unclear in it, and it is also never firm: seeming and
  • measure, but means that everything in our anthroposophical
  • anyone has written down something other than the verses
• Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXII (recapitulation)
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  • definite place. Within us everything is interwoven. But we do
  • be light in our feeling. Then something goes through our
  • You can your Self constrict to nothing.
  • anyone should write down anything else but the verses, he is
  • must be understood, so that these things are not thought to be
• Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXIII (recapitulation)
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  • You may constrict the Self to nothing.
  • You may constrict the Self to nothing.
  • finger: it is the element of water, of fluid. For everything
  • which is in the human being — something also known by
  • everything is of a fluid nature. Our own formative forces are
  • serves to fill an empty space. Everything coincides with its
  • — that nothing else streams through this School than what
  • should even the hint of bureaucracy exist. Everything must be
  • rule. In esoterica, everything is determined from true occult
• Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXIV (recapitulation)
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  • — all that offers nothing to clarify the being of our own
  • death in order to understand the things of the physical-sensory
  • nothingness; that we must find willing in the Middle Way.
  • that we have nothing in willing except what our normal memory
  • arrives at something like a memory-wall, then it returns again
  • occult school that a real action precedes something like this.
  • Whoever copies something other than the mantras may keep it for
  • it. This has nothing to do with power or arbitrary measures. It
  • is all based on occult laws. Because if anything falls into the
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  • our human earthly existence. If we want to carry out something
  • itself rests in deep sleep, as do the things in our soul rest
  • then we see something further down. We have the feeling —
  • we can do something else, recalling the Guardian of the
  • things perceived by our senses, whereas they came to us
  • willing becomes something different)
  • next thing the Guardian of the Threshold points to is the
  • cannot bring anything except feeling into the heart, that is,
  • multi-forming heaven-weave”, so feeling becomes something
  • third thing to which the Guardian of the Threshold points is
  • Everything which has been said in this Michael School shall
  • someone makes notes of something else, other than the verses,
  • esoteric things fall into the wrong hands, then, my dear
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  • this esoteric school be the body for something which flows out
  • of spiritual life, so that everything that occurs in such a
  • nineteenth century has been guiding human affairs - something
  •    And everything connected with the Christmas
  • himself. Therefore, everything communicated here is not to be
  • only need to mention a few things to show how little the
  • amazing things happen as a result of this lack of earnestness.
  • Even with things that in everyday life are taken seriously, at
  • These are things which must be considered in connection with
  • things must be said, because if they are not observed, one
  • these things must live in the members' hearts. And worthiness,
  • these things are not arbitrary rules, but they relate to the
  • these things lightly, for esoteric rules are strict; and when
  • clairvoyantly, he certainly can do nothing about it.
  • involved, and how these things are being read from the
  • apply. Nothing is arbitrary in what occurs in a rightly
  • for the anthroposophical movement. But when something is done
  • pretend otherwise. There's nothing wrong with coming to Dornach
  • behalf of Michael. And everything he said was to prepare us for
  • what has this thinking accomplished? It has created everything
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