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Title: Lecture: Mathematics and Occultism.
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Lecture: Mathematics and Occult
Mathematics and Occultism
Of course, it is only with difficulty that Man can emancipate himself
the undeveloped man. When he acquires for himself the faculty of
human perceptive faculties. Those, however, who may be considered as
true Occultists have in every age demanded from their disciples the
laws, then mayest thou become a student of Occult Science”
Gnostics and all Occultists conceive mathematical science as an
We must attain the faculty to speak of the realms of Life and Soul,
In this way important indications have been set for Occultism. Even
the mathematics of the infinitely small; nevertheless to the Occultist
No one can become an Occultist who is not able to accomplish within
from those who wished to become his disciples. But the Occultist who
has grasped what the advanced Occultist is able to perceive in higher
the words of the Occultist must at first seem devoid of all meaning.
for the Occultist who will raise himself to the higher worlds with
in a semi-conscious longing. The Occultist and the Mystic live in the
When the Occultist, who starts from a point of view like that of
thought was really tending towards true Occultism. This is known to
through this, that the gates of Mysticism and Occultism are thrown
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Title: Address: The Spiritual-Scientific Basis of Goethe's Work
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was the leading light of this age of culture, namely, Goethe. It is
difficult route, which every weaker spirit will take care to avoid.
difficulties, is that of Homunculus. Every passage, every word,
whereas with a non-occult forcible entry the individual
acquired the faculty of inward sight.
which are also full of occult references:
difficult task. She remembers her inner self penetrated, as it were,
of the world, through which its occult powers should be revealed.
Theosophical Society and occult, we have replaced these with the

Title: Article: Philosophy and Anthroposophy
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world, first develops in the soul faculties not yet evident in ordinary
consciousness and science. The development of these faculties renders this
unbiased, we cannot avoid finally encountering the difficulty experienced
devote all suitable faculties to the pursuit of Natural Science is a sound
faculty. Intuitive vision disappeared and the wisdom of the Mysteries was
through inner vision (if they still retained this faculty) or through
tradition, and applied to it the newly evolving faculty of rational
difficult nowadays to speak of these things purely objectively, than
Nature herself, instead of exercising the faculty of observation, it was
which it can only with difficulty extricate itself. This philosopher is
patience to advance from concept to concept, and above all things cultivate
to work at this point, if we cultivate our thought so that it shall bear
inner faculties strengthens the soul to such an extent that the struggle
which is only concerned with the transformed faculties of perceiving and
from the outer world; they must solely grasp what the transformed faculties
faculty of conceptual thought connected therewith. The knowledge of true
shrink from transforming the faculties which in ordinary consciousness are
difficult for contemporary philosophy, for the latter derives its origin

Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture II: The Psychological Foundations of Anthroposophy
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clear path to a cultivation of inner faculties for experiencing
again and again in the course of the cultural life of humanity, with
it is difficult to establish a relationship between what is
human culture. The last few centuries have led to the practice of
and Occult Science,. an Outline, are found to be, so it seems,
being of the soul. Before the faculty of spiritual vision, the
great difficulties for the inner soul life tower up on the path
Theosophy and Occult Science, an Outline.
difficulties in relation to spiritual research. It is, perhaps, not

Title: Mission of Spiritual Science and Its Building at Dornach
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this proved impossible, or, at any rate, extremely difficult, the
It is still difficult to
Only natural science does not know certain faculties in man, which are
It is again difficult to
speak of these faculties at the present time, for the reason that they
man's acquiring certain abnormal faculties, and the natural scientist
the spiritual investigator has to do to gain the faculty of looking
ordinary life in a certain sense as abnormal faculties have any special
active communion with them is cultivated in this way, if spiritual
versed in the culture of his time who could say that he found a
from the theological faculty, and who in his rectorial address, the
man's inner being in such a living, powerful way, that faculties
otherwise dormant in him — artistic faculties as well as others
birth or conception and as far as death with ordinary human faculties
with enlarged faculties, look out beyond the firmament of birth and
case difficult, apparently complicated views are not allowed to have
any value, and yet they are only difficult because the subject in hand
difficult.
said. It is difficult for people in general to reconcile ideas which

Title: Lecture: Human Life in the Light of Spiritual Science
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Yet of course it must appeal to faculties of cognition which are quite
different from faculties which are recognized today. I spoke about the
evolution of these super-sensible faculties of knowledge in the previous
faculties through which the spiritual world is manifested just as the
the spiritual world. Because he has developed certain faculties, the spiritual
that the results obtained by the developed faculties of the spiritual
faculties of erect posture, of speech, of thought and memory, and finally the
faculty of perceiving the super-sensible element acting in both man and
and after the fourteenth year of human life. This and similar difficulties can
development of our own faculties is something that concerns ourselves,

Title: Article: Knowledge of the State Between Death and a New Birth
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almost entirely rejected by the culture of our time. The aphoristic
by many who, from the well-founded habits of thought of the culture of
Attainment” and “Occult Science.” It is only intended to
things. In place of this a faculty of forming real images — a real
“Occult Science”).

Title: Lecture: Human Life in the Light of Spiritual Science
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Yet of course it must appeal to faculties of cognition which are quite
different from faculties which are recognized today. I spoke about the
evolution of these super-sensible faculties of knowledge in the previous
faculties through which the spiritual world is manifested just as the
the spiritual world. Because he has developed certain faculties, the spiritual
that the results obtained by the developed faculties of the spiritual
faculties of erect posture, of speech, of thought and memory, and finally the
faculty of perceiving the super-sensible element acting in both man and
and after the fourteenth year of human life. This and similar difficulties can
development of our own faculties is something that concerns ourselves,

Title: Article: Luciferic & Ahrimanic in their Relation to Man
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encounter an epistemological difficulty when it tries to comprehend
transposed into soul experiences. This difficulty cannot be overcome
cultivation of a proper attitude of soul to withdraw oneself from the

Title: Lecture: Mathematics and Occultism.
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Mathematics and Occultism
Of course, it is only with difficulty that Man can emancipate himself
the undeveloped man. When he acquires for himself the faculty of
human perceptive faculties. Those, however, who may be considered as
true Occultists have in every age demanded from their disciples the
laws, then mayest thou become a student of Occult Science”
Gnostics and all Occultists conceive mathematical science as an
We must attain the faculty to speak of the realms of Life and Soul,
In this way important indications have been set for Occultism. Even
the mathematics of the infinitely small; nevertheless to the Occultist
No one can become an Occultist who is not able to accomplish within
from those who wished to become his disciples. But the Occultist who
has grasped what the advanced Occultist is able to perceive in higher
the words of the Occultist must at first seem devoid of all meaning.
for the Occultist who will raise himself to the higher worlds with
in a semi-conscious longing. The Occultist and the Mystic live in the
When the Occultist, who starts from a point of view like that of
thought was really tending towards true Occultism. This is known to
through this, that the gates of Mysticism and Occultism are thrown
heights of sense-free perception. This is the Occultist. Just as the
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Title: Address: The Spiritual-Scientific Basis of Goethe's Work
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was the leading light of this age of culture, namely, Goethe. It is
difficult route, which every weaker spirit will take care to avoid.
difficulties, is that of Homunculus. Every passage, every word,
whereas with a non-occult forcible entry the individual
acquired the faculty of inward sight.
which are also full of occult references:
difficult task. She remembers her inner self penetrated, as it were,
of the world, through which its occult powers should be revealed.
Theosophical Society and occult, we have replaced these with the

Title: Article: Supersensible Knowledge
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his inner being. The faculty of Love is somehow rooted in the human
is capable of Love. He would have to tear the faculty of Love out of
senses the faculty of Love erects, as it were, an impenetrable
existence on the faculty of Love, so does the immediate consciousness
conditions whereon the faculties of Love and Memory within this
Thought which does not come into it from the faculty of Memory. It is
spiritualised faculty of Love. It is this faculty of Love which
Only by realising this essence of the supersensible faculty of
spiritual Being, Self-consciousness and the faculty of Love. Once he
turn round to look behind us. Again the ordinary faculty of Love is
permeate with the force of spiritual perception the faculty of Love
closed Societies, or Occult Schools, within which human beings
repression of supersensible faculties which the time is actually
would be the outcome. Or else the supersensible faculties-uncontrolled
difficulties of understanding, faculties of soul which would otherwise
call for it; it is but the banale, uncultured craving of persons

Title: Oswald Spengler: Article I: Spengler's "Perspectives of World History"
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culture in such a way that it can be evaluated?
increase and increase, on a scale that no other Culture ever
Culture reaches a degree of activity such that the earth
a future Culture, with other souls and other passions, will
expand our faculties of comprehension. In the cognition of the

Title: Oswald Spengler: Article II: The Flight From Thinking
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all professional thinkers — and in all cultures almost
the various cultures. And if one says that what appears
as the deeds of men in such cultures is a result of the
culture during recent centuries abstract thinking
men of our culture are fully awake in their thinking, but with
raised to a method of research. The various cultures are so

Title: Oswald Spengler: Article III: Spengler's Physiognomic View of History
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various cultures, so that each culture goes through
But within each culture there is formed a seed which blossoms
in the next culture and in this blossoming leads humanity
describing the physiognomies of the cultures. It cannot
see through the physiognomies into the souls of the cultures.
lies the seed which leads over from one culture into
himself to the physiognomies of cultures. “There are
various cultures.
the Arabian Culture” which Spengler placed at the center
other cults. It would be senseless to try to carry over to
outer forms which, in Greece and Rome, arose out of cults which
cases where an older alien culture lies so massively over the
land that a young culture, born in this land, cannot get its
mineral metaphor is not enough. The soul of a culture

Title: Oswald Spengler: Article IV: Spengler's Spirit-Deserted History
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early cultures is the inspirer of the deed-men and which, by
true history is not cultural; in the sense of anti-political,
describing the cultural-historic standpoint which derives its
when he says (rightly in his way:) “A Culture is Soul
what Spengler sees as history correctly portrays only those Cultures
[We capitalize Cultures and Civilizations because of
which are an expression of the blood-based deed-forming faculty of the
contemplates the past of the various Cultures in order to
humanity, in all significant Cultures and Civilizations,
his own individual inner faculties, what formerly was developed
moment, which is here despite all decline in the Cultures, and
on account of which just those Cultures which alone Spengler
The Bourgeoisie has definite limits; it belongs to the Culture;
Mass, which completely rejects the Culture and its
century B.C. (and ‘contemporaneously’ in other Cultures)
modern method of thought has found in the preceding cultures.
great political form of the Culture is irremediably in ruin
has placed in this Culture and at this moment of its

Title: Lecture Series: William Shakespeare
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by the preceding phase of cultural development; the Renaissance
would be difficult to trace a concept of guilt in this meaning in any
Shakespeare's case this is difficult to establish, because his
may have been on certain difficult questions. For it is not

Title: Lecture: William Shakespeare
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possible by the preceding phase of cultural development: the
difficult to find a concept of guilt in this sense in any of his
him. But in Shakespeare's case this is difficult to establish,
have been on certain difficult questions. For it is not

Title: History of the Middle Ages: Lecture I: Celts, Teutons, and Slavs
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difficult to point out, in History, the relation between cause and
as a requisite condition of culture. Yet, as early as the 3rd
chronological difference. Greek culture with its incomparable Art,
the assets of culture. Another result was the low value set upon
under. This culture of the Greeks, unrivalled in many points; was a
culture only possible among conquerors. The Roman Empire is a
Celtic and Slavonic element, influenced the whole culture of the
the far past we see a great and remarkable culture of the ancient
city-culture — but not from these new foundations — that
in them what had been developed in the days of city-culture. It is a

Title: History of the Middle Ages: Lecture II: Persians, Franks, and Goths
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hence it is very difficult for us to picture those races, to learn
culture of the Germani at this epoch was akin to the culture we meet
see later the development of a culture which in Germany has remained
culture of all these peoples was maintained in this form by the
to it, has attained a greater height of culture.
not cooperated in the advance of culture and civilisation which lay
force, the Goths were full of tolerance. The high level of culture
cultivation of feeling. The Goths had the greatest possible
victory, and the evolution of culture was essentially influenced by
evolution of culture. A radical change of legal conditions had
have not yet reached to a higher level of culture. Other races came
there. These fitted in to the higher stages of culture which had
primitive culture of the southern Germani was influenced from the
on, under what conditions the southern culture was spread among the

Title: History of the Middle Ages: Lecture III: The Impact of the Huns on the Germans
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east we find agriculture and cattle raising among the Germani; and
developed culture, had to defend themselves againse those peoples.
We find here a great difference in levels of culture. Among the
unknown to them. We see the clash of highly developed culture with
cultivated for themselves. For this work the conquered inhabitants
the population lived at a high level of culture, this mode of
interest of culture. The great men in the Empire of the Franks were
unimpeded in the cultivation of their racial character.
characteristic culture of this form of Christianity was developed.
Things happened differently in France: the culture there proved
there existed nothing better calculated to develop material culture
than Christianity; all sorts of culture forms received their stamp
process of time, however, spiritual and industrial culture were
purely material culture, the city-culture. From these industrial

Title: History of the Middle Ages: Lecture IV: Arabic Influence in Europe
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Frankish Christian culture, although it had efficiency, intellect
interest in the improvement of their simple agriculture, and never
special difficulties, such as, in Egypt, have led to the evolution
So European culture
Christianity once came, came now this new culture, from the Arabs.
were established there, and implanted their own culture in place of
new, of an entirely different nature, flowed into European culture.
The spirit of Arabism culture was not filled with dogma concerning
scientific work; we see here a culture which cannot fail to be
history of culture.” The Moorish intellectuals had width of
culture, started in Greece, continued its existence here, and with
invincible; and just as, once, Greek culture rose triumphant in
Rome, so Arab culture conquered the West, in opposition to the
the horizon of trade and world intercourse, when city culture,
how difficult it was for the man of the Middle Ages to combine these

Title: History of the Middle Ages: Lecture V: Charlemagne and the Church
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cultivate was assigned to the private family and became hereditary;
cultivation of these was in the hands of the bishops and abbots;
which were cultivated for the bishop by the conquered tribes. But
material culture developed more and more productively. Many Germanic
tribes had had no concern with agriculture before the folk
were developing agriculture more and more; especially were they
cultivating oats and barley, but also wheat, leeks, etc. These were
smith were the first crafts to be cultivated. Still less important
picture the material culture of these regions; and now we shall
understand why the spiritual culture also was bound to assume a
culture existed in these regions, either among the freemen or the
serfs. Hunting, war, agriculture, were the occupations of the
can read books. In all that secular culture catered for, there was
branch of it, or it was endeavouring to cultivate theology and the
One form of culture
Moorish-Arabian culture came to Europe, this science found
side by side: 1. Outside, material culture, absolutely without
science; 2. A finely chiseled culture, confined to a few within the
Church. Yet the culture of the cities was based on this strict
natural motive which gave rise to the culture of the cities.
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Title: History of the Middle Ages: Lecture VI: Culture of the Middle Ages
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a complete form of culture, such as Christianity is, was living a
and more the blossom of medieval culture — what we know as
learnt to know of Greek culture, nothing has remained but a few
allied with that other idealistic culture movement by which the
population knew nothing beyond agriculture and frequent military
expeditions. They had no notion of what we call culture today, no
extent uncultivated, they could develop their own particular
entirely dependent on these cultured ecclesiastics. The whole
on the land, a race entirely engaged in war and agriculture; whereas

Title: History of the Middle Ages: Lecture VII: France and Germany
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culture; and that the Church had soon acquired authority by itself
they were employed not only in agriculture, but as messengers,
permeated by an element of great importance, namely, the cult of the
in the cultivation of various fruits, were themselves the builders

Title: History of the Middle Ages: Lecture VIII: From the Middle Ages to the Renaissance
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difficult. In the Middle Ages, however, we see what is called
culture existed. Thus the political situation made it possible to
completely closed book; and great cultural treasures were preserved
was later called culture, was growing up in the cities. What was
rich cultural life made its appearance in the cities; nearly all
discoveries, we owe to this period of city culture. It was from such
a rich Italian city culture that Dante rose. In Germany, too, we
therefore declared heretics; life was made difficult for them in

Title: Schiller and Our Times: Lecture I: Schiller's Life and Characteristic Quality
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problems of our modern culture, how he has found the most
aesthetic culture as Schröer depicted to us for the
culture. But to-day, Tolstoi, who has created masterpieces in
dealing with the various problems of our times and our culture,
Schiller chose the faculty of medicine; and the way in which he
cultural history when we study the dramas of Schiller. Everyone

Title: Schiller and Our Times: Lecture III: Schiller and Goethe
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cultural and intellectual history, the relationship between
only find themselves with difficulty. And thus, at the

Title: Schiller and Our Times: Lecture IV: Schiller's Weltanschauung and his Wallenstein

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life; greater struggle through with difficulty. This is because

Title: Schiller and Our Times: Lecture V: Schiller, the Greek Drama and Nietzsche
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arisen, of the Mystery cults within which the world-drama of

Title: Schiller and Our Times: Lecture VII: Schiller's Influence during the Nineteenth Century
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importance. Our business is with the whole cultural life of the
difficult to decide what is Schiller's influence on individual
German culture of the first half of the Nineteenth Century. It
might bristle at the heights of aesthetic culture, Schiller has
classicists generally, held towards world culture. We cannot

Title: Schiller and Our Times: Lecture VIII: What can the present learn from Schiller
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our culture, is to become the great educator of the world.

Title: Schiller and Our Times: Lecture IX: Schiller and Idealism
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something which had a peculiar cultural value. Now a
difficult to understand what was meant by that; and
recreated for us the mystery drama. The dramatic cult-action
on an occult society, losing all moral stability. The novel was

Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course I: Lecture I: The Eternal and the Transient in the Human Being
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the culture. The development of our whole culture depends on it how
this question is answered. The standpoint of somebody to the cultural
One only regarded somebody as worthy who had developed his cultural

Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course I: Lecture II: The Origin of the Soul
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he goes into battle against culture, fashions, and moods.
them. Everybody likes to disregard the difficulties which bar his way,
difficulties which oppose the soul researcher today where everybody
cognitive faculties. The possibility of this development always existed.
faculties.
also more difficult to recognise and not so easily accessible and to

Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course I: Lecture III: The Nature of God from the Theosophical Standpoint
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faculty; it should show us the way which would lead us to get clearness,
human beings started from a lack of culture and from ignorance. We shall
to the sense of our life, gives the theosophist a renewal of this cultural
Our western cultural life
are not yet able to rise to a higher idea of God. Their culture does
cultural level achieved by us if he only wanted it, on what a low level
for the western culture as our criticism getting out of hand. Because
it is also so difficult to fulfil the wisdom which flows to us from

Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course II: Lecture I: The Epistemological Basis of Theosophy I
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and science it is much more difficult really to familiarise himself
cognitive faculties the centre of the physical world view. He really

Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course II: Lecture II: The Epistemological Basis of Theosophy II
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philosophy and its epistemology makes it difficult to its supporters to find
cultural life out of the purest motives, that is only relatively different everywhere

Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course II: Lecture III: The Epistemological Basis of Theosophy III
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our cognitive faculties and our powers of imagination with the world.

Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course I: Lecture IV: Theosophy and Christianity
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Culture.” They believe to raise Jesus if they show that already before
no other than this occult theosophical teaching. They should get to know this

Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course IV: Lecture I: Theosophy and Spiritism
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movement as a cultural-historical necessity this way, let us look a little at
occultist knows. Somebody who really studies history encounters such spiritual
with us. It is just that which contributed to inhibit the culture, the development
that the other method of spiritual research, cultivated by the theosophists,

Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course IV: Lecture II: Theosophy and Somnambulism
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like other spiritual attempts. Occult researches are to be carried out for the

Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course V: Lecture I: What Does the Modern Human Being Find in Theosophy?
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We see that the cultural scholars
of religions back to the ancestor worship, to the soul cult. We could still
eager to offer this foundation to the present humankind. Whereas the cultural
whom our whole cultural life is dependent who also have influenced the most
our sympathy and antipathy according to the demands of the cultural life, which
an occultist, learns something else. He knows not only how to reach these three
open eye of the occultist distinguishes the higher, brilliant light of the spirit
in higher spheres, and this radiant light of the spirit is for the occultist
is reflected at single things. In the same way the occultist distinguishes the
world, the soul-world and the world of figures, because they appear to the occultist
figure is for the occultist the emptiness, the darkness, what is basically nothing,

Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course III: Lecture I: Theosophical Teachings of the Soul. Part I: Body and Soul
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in former times the wisdom of the soul was cultivated unlike by Aristotle. We
understand how the wisdom of the soul was cultivated in the ancient Egyptian
wisdom, was cultivated in the ancient Veda wisdom. This, however, for later.
ways cultivated by modern natural sciences, by observing the single parts of

Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course III: Lecture III: Theosophical Teachings of the Soul. Part III: Soul and Mind
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because an immediate necessity of our cultural development is in this field
of our culture, therefore, it is the field of the educational ideals above all
God who has become a human being because you recognised and cultivated the divine

Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course V: Lecture II: What Do Our Scholars Know about Theosophy?
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that becomes obvious to the occultist only at the end of the things, on the
calls theosophy today is a small part of encompassing world wisdom, of occult
There are even today persons who regard it as wrong to deliver the occult profundities
Thus occult science is forced to

Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course IV: Lecture III: The History of Spiritism
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of this matter from an occultist — unless you are able and want to go
like to move on the topic which certainly has a tremendous cultural-historical
describe as very difficult. If the neophyte had developed such forces in him
priests, also the mystics, theosophists and occultists, those who talk in an
Christian culture spread over the countries of the Mediterranean Sea, it appeared
that the cult actions and the ceremonies of Christianity and also most of Christian
Thus we see occult brotherhoods
of higher intuitive forces. So that within such occult brotherhoods the way
give one example, the great representative of the occult science of the 16th
for it by developing inner forces in the occult brotherhoods.
on occult ways; everything had to be sensually shown.
You will not deny that that has a great cultural-historical significance. However,
behind the staging of the spiritistic phenomena. Behind the scenery deep occult
this occult director wanted to presuppose that these phenomena convinced the
movement and this went out from a man who stood in the European culture, from
has discovered wigs? — To somebody who works in occult fields the sentence
how to adapt himself to the most difficult circumstances, so that it was a relief
former times in the occult science and in the mysteries, but in such way that

Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course IV: Lecture IV: The History of Hypnotism and Somnambulism
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Today I have to speak to you about a chapter of the newer cultural
to show how difficult it is to bring certain great phenomena in the life of
only an occultist is able to have an overview of the preconditions which are
that knowledge of the hypnotic state has existed with the occultists of all
men. In the occult schools particular methods are given with which the person
also obtained other views about these phenomena, other intentions. Occult traditions

Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course V: Lecture III: Is Theosophy Unscientific?
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the cultural life developed slowly. If we go back to the spiritual life of the
If you study the ancient cultural
Scotus Eriugena, at Albertus Magnus, at those who cared for the cultural life
In the Greek culture then appears

Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course V: Lecture IV: Is Theosophy Buddhist Propaganda?
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absolutely from our European culture, from the Christian culture without pointing
It is difficult to get rid of prejudices
century and examines the words of that time finds that it is more difficult

Title: Origin and Destination of Humanity: Lecture I: What Does the Human Being Find in Theosophy?
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develop the relation of the theosophical movement to the big cultural
concerned himself with the cultural tasks of our time and is familiar
may be ever so far from the so-called cultures of our time, in front

Title: Origin and Destination of Humanity: Lecture II: The Nature of the Human Being
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be nothing else as a union where such world views are cultivated which
all cultures. However, only in the Indian Vedanta nothing is dirtied
goes far beyond the degree which the current culture offers. They are
of the German cultural development these lectures of Johann Gottlieb

Title: Origin and Destination of Humanity: Lecture III: Reincarnation and Karma
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it is difficult to get spiritually to the insight into the interrelation
form to a future culture full of life. Even if it is not that which
were nothing else than cult sites and schools of wisdom. Baptism was

Title: Origin and Destination of Humanity: Lecture IV: Theosophy and Darwin
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We find two important cultural
of human cultural activity, to the human ancestors in a bygone time,
to the so-called Atlanteans whose culture declined long ago and whose
descendants are the cultural creators of our present human race. If
because it regards it as of the same kind. It is also in the cultural
development that way. We have to observe an epoch of the cultural development
the individual mind. If we pursue the rudiments of cultural development
at that time the human cultural development had not yet created the
Hence, it signifies a necessary developmental phase of the human culture,
part of the beings existing around us. Any phase of the human cultural

Title: Lecture: Theosophy and Tolstoy
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Certain flashlights have now been thrown on the form-culture of the
West. In considering Darwinism we saw how this culture is bound up
culture which recognised by direct Vision that life is filled with
culture-epochs and then through Greco-Roman culture with its view
which comes forth from the seed. Our cultural life has become
all would it be fitting for theosophists to censure. Just as a culture
form-culture necessary for our age. In science we have the Darwinian
view, in art the naturalistic, and in sociology a culture of form.
judgment of Western culture we see the expression of a spirit who
mature, nay an over-mature culture manifesting in external forms. This
indicates the nature of Tolstoy's antagonism to Western culture. It is
The whole of Western culture is founded on the observation of form
sociologists in Western culture. But — says Tolstoy — this
does not take the ethical ideals, the cultural ideals, into himself
by culture and civilisation in the different centuries. And he awaits
European culture, of Western science. He declares that this science,
transformation of the external forms of life. Material culture itself
the evolution of culture has been the development of the most manifold
make this culture of form preeminent, you will actually produce an
that no renewal of moral end ethical culture can ever arise from any
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on Theosophy and Darwin in which manifold forms the human cultures and
the ancient Vedic culture of India. We have seen these forms changing
epoch, then in the Graeco-Latin culture and, finally, in the Christian
culture up to our time. However, this is just the significant of the
sidelights on the western culture of form. Considering Darwinism we
have seen how the form culture is directed to the external mechanical
Vedic culture, which imagined life ensouled as a result of immediate
observation, through the Persian, the Chaldean-Babylonian-Egyptian cultures,
then through the Graeco-Latin culture with its view that the whole nature
any sprout makes the plant beautiful. Our cultural life is externalised
spirit-imbued and life-imbued culture was necessary, the form culture
is necessary for our age. A form culture came into being in science,
regard this as the western ideal of the cultural development: subordination
not take up the ethical and cultural ideals from without, but allows
from the culture of the different centuries. He expects a time again,
of the various cultural forms of Western Europe; he becomes a strict
point. The material culture should induce the human being to get a higher
this is just the result of the cultural development that it developed
you develop this form culture highly that you really get to a higher
cultural ideal? You have to understand the human being where he gives
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occult ideas. We understand them as those ideas which refer to the super-sensible
in the occult philosophy, the soul would not get round to acting in
the real world of desires which the occultist calls the region of desires.
facts is that which the occultist calls the real soul-force, what fulfils
be sought. All true recognisers and occultists have said this at all

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It is difficult to design
a picture of this area of reality. You can imagine that this is difficult,

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to himself to describe the relation of the modern cultural life to the
(1844–1900). Like a big riddle Friedrich Nietzsche stands in the cultural
There the most works of Wagner and the deepest problems of the cultural
directly as a cultural-historical action which shines for centuries,
occultist says: the human being finds out the secrets of the world only
culture. He suspected that our time, which just passes, is lacking something.
and want to look at the rudiments of culture, from people to people,
new culture-epoch which we have to regard as that of form and figure.
that a future culture, which is not based only on reason, must come
had to argue against Socrates is that our culture had become one-sided
by his influence that it had split on the one hand in a culture of reason
and combats the Socratic culture, the culture of reason.
for as a new life that should arise from our culture. Now he himself
want to say that his illness has to do anything with the cultural life.

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highly than the occult teacher. The instructor of mystical and
word but in a spiritual sense. While the occult teacher need not know
occult teacher acquires this knowledge. They will be discussed in
level of inner development and require careful observation. The occult
is not without consequences and the occult teacher must know how to
Still a third aspect must be considered. No occult teacher will ever
awaken the slumbering soul faculties; let them arise out of the inner
times when, it must be understood, occult instruction was only taught
in occult schools. Such instruction is still being given out in occult
from the great book of occult schooling. A person who makes use of
important aspects of soul life, through commercial channels. Occult
confronts man. Precisely because so many so-called occult methods
undertakes occult training, his aura becomes increasingly definable.
difficult to cast aside in our civilization, namely, the urge to learn
difficult to attain an uncritical attitude, but understanding must
and everyone is required and this is what is meant with higher, occult
chance to gain occult powers. Every moment during which a person
three levels toward spiritual awakening. The three stages of occult
faculty of expressing himself in the spirit realm. What I have had to
say today might be considered as difficult to understand by some, and
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occult listening. If the human being persuades himself this way by firm
but to take in them silently, then he can receive occult forces. Every
efforts are to be done. The occultist can assess how the tender structures
to express himself in the spirit-land. It may appear as something difficult
to it that the easy is difficult.

Title: Origin and Destination of Humanity: Lecture X: Goethe's Gospel
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the help of some phenomena of our Central European cultural life. It

Title: Origin and Destination of Humanity: Lecture XI: Origin and Goal of the Human Being
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human being exist. It is somewhat difficult to make these ideas clear

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but that the human cognitive faculty can develop and that this soul
the developing cognitive faculty comply completely with the Goethean
a magazine in which the most beautiful products of German cultural life
his developing cognitive faculties if he wants to ascend from the earthly
our soul are dependent any time on our cognitive faculty, and that we
can develop this cognitive faculty higher and higher, so that we gradually
culture in which he lives. A man, young and nice, approaches the boy.
can collect knowledge. Gold is the occult symbol of knowledge. Gold

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have to regard the temple as a symbol of the great occult schools which
everything that happened from culture to culture by human beings; they
abysses of the earth. One had to join an occult school which deeply
it cultivates, and this is more.”

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now it serves to make the earth in all cultural works subject to the
appears then within a cultural world in a new body again, lives differently
in this cultural world than, for example, within a body that belongs

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difficult questions, as this is one, also from the theosophical point
that we deal with very difficult chapters and that it is exceptionally
difficult to find the appropriate means of expression within our language
riddle of the world. All occult schools have as a precondition that
in millions and millions of years. However, it is difficult to speak

Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture VII: The Great Initiates
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clear path to a cultivation of inner faculties for experiencing
possible to cultivate the human capacity for knowledge, to heighten
occult, mystic, or mystery teacher other than what the teacher has
cultivated his soul organs. Through this etheric body man is not
cultural world, have auras on which they themselves have helped to
totally different. A man who lives in outer culture, a refined man of
culture, works on his aura in the particular way that this culture
incorporate into his aura only what culture offers him, but must
But if we wish to cultivate
partly through man's cultural activity. In the future, however, this
experience is today being cultivated by those who seek in a conscious
lives in our present stage of culture in such a way that he is only
all times have given the great impulses to our culture. They were
culture. From medieval times there comes a beautiful myth that may be
the so-called civic culture — modern citizenship. The onward
of the soul to higher stages during the new period of culture that
men. And the Initiate who at that time provided the civic culture
culture — Hermes in Egypt, Krishna in India, Zarathustra in

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we cannot recognise certain matters; our cognitive faculties have limits
to the human cognitive faculties, but considers them in such a way that
his particular cognitive faculties, his point of cognition as something
decisive and says that we cannot go with our cognitive faculties beyond
or that. But it is possible to develop the human cognitive faculties
to increase these human cognitive faculties to a higher level, so that
of the human cognitive faculties and got to the highest knowledge, which
again due to the cultural work of the human being. However, in future
the names of all things. As the human being lives in our cultural stage,
which the great initiates have, those initiates who gave our culture
cultural foundations the great initiates gave the impulses. A nice myth
time the so-called urban culture, the modern bourgeoisie originated
that rise of the soul to higher stages during the new cultural stage
one called that person Lohengrin who provided the urban culture in those
to announce. Also those worked this way who founded the elementary culture

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I would like to talk of the present cultural life as it expresses itself

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to them for a big cultural progress; but on the other side that also
with them but is to be understood even more difficultly was that they
it. However, it is difficult to read, and, besides, one is easily

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culture and education. During these days, everybody who counts himself
(1712–1778). Rousseau had rejected the culture modern at that
himself by this culture, that he has torn out himself from nature. He
the principle that basically the culture diverts the human beings from
who did everything to support the cultural life. Körner's
Series of Letters. They are a jewel in our German cultural life. Only
and treated in the whole German cultural life. Kant had also brought
necessary of nature, but you search for it in the most difficult way,
together thoroughly with the aesthetic culture. The first word in it
we have to concede to us: he has to become a component of our cultural

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The Divinity Faculty and Theosophy
The transcript of the four “faculty” lectures are deficient.
has to really intervene in the whole modern culture, it cannot limit
cultural factors and elements in the present. Theosophy should be no
addressing the heart of the modern culture immediately intervenes where
of our culture, of our whole spiritual life, who work in the service
significant influence that the universities must have on the whole cultural
people about the highest cultural problems have to be determinative
the whole nation looks at that which the members of the faculties say
in any question. That's how it is. Nevertheless, in all our faculties
A university has four faculties:
the divinity (in Germany theological) faculty, the faculty
of law, the medical faculty and the arts (in Germany: philosophical)
faculty. Indeed, as well as the high educational system is today, we
deal with that faculty which in the first times, in the midst of the
one advanced to the science of theology. The medical faculty and that
conceive an idea how these faculties interrelate if we look at the matter
faculty considered and dealt with the big question: what is the primal
faculties consider that which is, which was, and which will be, on the
other side, the medical faculty and that of law consider the world in
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The Faculty of Law and Theosophy
of the four “faculty” lectures are deficient. It shows
Hence, the topic does not have the heading The Faculty of Law and
last talk on the divinity faculty and theosophy which could demonstrate
topic: the faculty of law and the theosophical movement. Who has dealt
with the faculty of law only in some degree knows the name Rudolf of
faculties without having acquired a real knowledge of the principles
study of law became a one-sided professional study. The other faculties
I will explain this in the talk on the arts faculty in detail. That
of that what is done in our faculty of law, a big part of mere knowledge

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The Medical Faculty and Theosophy
of the four “faculty” lectures are deficient. It shows
of culture big cyclic laws which refer also to the negative and to the
positive sides of culture. If also in the medical science so much is
present cultural nations, to the Hindus. The doctors of the Hindus apply
only one. It is difficult to reconcile what we call life with the concept
example, from occult investigations that vivisection works deeply damaging

Title: Origin and Destination of Humanity: Lecture XXIII: The Arts Faculty and Theosophy
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The Arts Faculty and Theosophy
of the four “faculty” lectures are deficient. It shows
is the fourth about theosophy and its relation to the arts faculty (in
Germany: faculty of philosophy). We have to consider the fact that
this is possibly of more significance to our education and culture than
the three other faculties, because the arts faculty encloses the scientific
has to direct his looks at it. The arts faculty has experienced big
a sophisticating one. It was once the arts faculty a very typical name
The faculty of philosophy
was called arts faculty in the Middle Ages. It was an artistic mastery
thoughts. Later on, the lower subjects of the arts faculty were assigned
for the high school. The modern arts faculty is unworthy of its name;
of the unity of the world has disappeared. The arts faculty should pursue
with the cultural life. Already Friedrich Schiller spoke in a talk at
Nowadays, the arts faculty is nothing else than a preparatory site for
decisive, the modern arts faculty originated. All the other sciences
the more he is capable to put something of himself into the culture
and this idealism would have to flow through the whole arts faculty.
Within the frame of our arts faculty all scientific disciplines can
of his development. The arts faculty should have the greatest say. It
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life it is fraught with difficulties, and that the statements I
striving towards the raising of human faculty.
faculties will make themselves apparent.”
applies occult methods of investigation this incapacity ceases,

Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture I: Haeckel, the Riddles of the World and Theosophy
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extraordinary difficulties to the explorer of the spiritual

Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture II: Our International Situation. War, Peace and Spiritual Science
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Ernst Haeckel, who has almost regarded war as a cultural lever,
able to eavesdrop on the human cultural development and
culture that the human beings become more and more individual,
culture. This priest culture gave our present race the first
impulses. It had come over from the Atlantean culture that was
difficulties and efforts of which no one has a right idea

Title: Lecture Series: The Situation of the World
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development of human culture and thought to discover in it the
man's super-culture, reveals everywhere harmony and peace. It
is man, with his arbitrariness and culture, who brought strife
themselves? ... It would be difficult to raise any objection if
culture of priests; It is this culture of priests which gave
Atlantean culture; this developed in a region which is now the
of slaves who carried out tasks so difficult and fatiguing that
of arbitration, but we must cultivate spiritual life, the

Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture III: Basic Concepts of Theosophy. Soul and Spirit of the Human Being
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entity of the soul is rather difficult. Today we have to be
requirement for the culture. Today all lessons intend to fill
caused the human culture if one believes only in the sense
state countless things of the German culture that would show

Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture VI: The Basic Concepts of Theosophy. Human Races
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highest cultural level, the other on the most primitive,
consciousness, our cultural consciousness developed. The
pantheistic view. Its religion is a belief in demons, a cult of
culture supported on memory. The fifth sub-race which we call
intellectual culture which spread then over Europe, southern
the Atlantean culture has remained, and this is the Chinese
culture. The structure of the Semitic-Egyptian languages
Primal Semitic culture. It is characterised by the first
culture. This culture preceded the Vedic culture. That is why
only an echo of the ancient visionary Indian culture. Then the
ancient Persian culture comes as the second race, that
external work. The ancient Indian culture has something
and the like. Hence, we see in this culture how there the
expresses itself in old cultural peoples. We find that
Greek starts erecting monuments and cultivating sculpture
action within this fourth sub-race or culture epoch is the rise
the task to bring the culture down to the physical plane. This
itself in our present cultural epoch. It has developed the

Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture VII: The Core of Wisdom in the Religions
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the loftiest human wisdom is cultivated. Who looks at the
point to such a central site. Our materialistic cultural
culture, Buddhism, even the religion that lived in the old
strange culture of the Chinese. I do not speak about the
the human beings of any cultural level.
necessary to produce external tools and external culture. He
culture to the Indians still found a lively view of

Title: Lecture: Brotherhood and the Fight for Survival
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this it has shown that it is one of those cultural streams, which
generalize. It is difficult to decide who should survive in the Fight
sign of a universal mutual help out of which a common culture
blossomed, the so-called culture of the cities, the middle of the
it greatly enhanced the development of the culture. Those who had
cultivated to a high degree in those organizations.
deepening of the mutual help principle. From a cultural/historical
mutual help developed under the influence of a materialistic culture.
In everything that appeared as the highest fruits of this culture we
garden.” If we don't attempt to develop all our faculties we
However, to develop our faculties requires a certain egoism, because
faculties are to appear, but those faculties are rooted in the world.

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besides other cultural aspirations — is intimately
culture blossomed. We are in the so-called urban civilisation
thereby developed, and it promoted culture in the extreme.
Comedy, we understand cultural-historically only if we
decidedly material culture and, therefore, everywhere we see
the material, the physical in this developing higher culture

Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture I: Inner Development
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clear path to a cultivation of inner faculties for experiencing
occultism is discussed the misunderstanding often arises that some
general fundamentals of the anthroposophic movement. Occultism
alone in cultivating occultism, nor is this its only task. It could
Society and to avoid occultism altogether.
the field of general ethics, is also this field of occultism, which
are these laws unrelated to everyday experience. “Occult”
be stressed over and over that occultism is a matter in which certain
encountered it, so is occultism incomprehensible to many people
today. Occultism ceases to be “occult,” however, when one
occultism cannot be fulfilled, and that they contradict the
general culture. No one is expected to fulfill these demands. But if
someone requests that he be given convictions provided by occultism
to the objection raised against the practice of occultism.
become an occultist; one must come to occultism of one's own
volition. Whoever says that we do not need occultism will not need to
occupy himself with it. At this time, occultism does not appeal to
mankind in general. In fact, it is extremely difficult in the present
culture to submit to those rules of conduct which will open the
totally lacking in our culture. One is isolation, what spiritual
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anybody who speaks of occultism establishes any general human
theosophical movement. Occultism is unlike theosophy. The
the task to maintain occultism. It could be even possible that
anybody who joins this Theosophical Society considers occultism
occultism, which encompasses the knowledge of those principles
everyday experience. “Occult” means: concealed,
mysterious. However, I emphasise again and again that occultism
who has never heard of it, it is occultism for many people of
However, occultism stops being occult if one has taken
occultism puts up could not be fulfilled, they would contradict
a general human culture. The fulfilment of it is required from
convictions which occultism conveys, but refuses to deal with
occultism, he is in the very same situation as the schoolchild
of occultism.
Nobody is asked to become occultist; everybody must come
voluntarily to occultism. Someone who objects that we do not
need occultism does not need to deal with it.
Occultism does not appeal to the general humanity today.
difficult to fulfil the demands of a life, which makes the
culture, the human beings lived in the exterior in this way as
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Title: Signs/Symbols: The Christmas Festival as a Symbol of the Sun Victory
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Those initiated into the second degree were called the “Occult Ones,”

Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture X: Christmas as Symbol of the Sun's Victory
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something that lived in the mysteries, in secret cult sites,
initiates of the second degree are the “occult.”

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by which the whole culture of Europe was created and from which
which are able to wake cultural hopes for the future.
abilities slumbering in the matter, the great spiritual culture
teachers of occultism, in the Eleusinian and other Greek
anthroposophy and of our lifestyle to introduce this cultural
need a spiritual culture with the same qualities. The human
the human science. The cultural body has three epochs. It needs
a soul. The fourth epoch has to bring cultural spirit. This is
the great basic idea, the big aim, which the big cultural

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thirty years in educated cultures, tries to solve the riddles
incarnation, from the cultured man up to the spiritually not
out with the child. Spiritual research, occultism gives you the
The so-called occultist says, with the man the spirit
These are the so-called occult differences between the male and
faculty of seeing withdraws, the animals become blind. What do
and when from a dullness a new intellectual culture emerged,
the human culture had another task as I have already

Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture XIII: Lucifer
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culture to it, our comfort and our advancement here within our
choice spirit of our own German culture expressed the unity and
What does he represent to the occultists, the explorers of the
they had omitted earlier. The secret doctrine, occultism
confessions, in all occult worldviews as the divine principle
the highest level in our cultural life in certain respects. The
virtue to gain the spiritual with it; the occultist rouses

Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture XIV: The Children of Lucifer
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spiritual life, even more, as deepening of our whole culture,
deepest. An extremely interesting fact of the modern cultural
view in the aurora of our western cultural life by the concepts
cult sites at the same time, which one called mysteries —
all know that also within the German cultural life in the last
element of the human cultural life, which is at one with the
currents are the starting point of our own culture.
city had a cult that was dedicated to the god Dionysus. These
entire human culture. Thus, we anticipate at the end of

Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture XV: Germanic and Indian Secret Doctrines
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European culture deeper teachings of wisdom form the basis of
within the Germanic-German folk culture an impact exists which
the basic teaching of all world cultures shows that certain
death. All religious cultures preserve this as a secret that
All deeper teachings of the world culture call these persons
basis of any culture.
cultures. What I have shown in great thoughts and outlines as
to know this more and more if you get involved with the occult
want to get involved with the depths of occult science. The
construction of the external world. The Indian cult is the
forms of cultural existence — the course of this world

Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture XVI: German Theosophists at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century
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difficult to obtain an understanding concerning the
can see one of these reasons concerning the German cultural
left an important impact on our German cultural life, a
of our cultural life and of that which around the turn of the
are rooted in the general German cultural life a hundred years
in the spiritual treasures of the West in the national culture,
human cognitive faculties are limited in the sense of Kant's
cognitive faculties in all directions. However, at the same
with his own words, because this would be too difficult here,
whole occultism reflected in certain ways. For someone who has
German-Swiss physician, occultist, 1493-1541) in the way usual
he used a lot of theosophy for its explanation. The occultist

Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture XVII: Siegfried and the Twilight of the Gods
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fields that belong to the deepest of occultism.
day consciousness of the normal human being by which culture
development of the spiritual culture is wonderfully expressed

Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture XVIII: Parzival and Lohengrin
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this affair Dionysus originates. The Greek culture arises from
legends. The mission of Christianity for the medieval culture

Title: Lecture: Easter
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to ancient Egypt with its Osiris-Isis-Horus cult expressing
of our surrounding world with our perceptive faculties and

Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture XIX: The Easter Festival
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the human being. We look at the ancient Egypt with her cult of

Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture XX: Inner Development
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only with difficulty.
occultism, which deals with the worlds unknown to the senses,
the single human being with certain difficulties, with
not possible to agitate for occultism. Only someone who really
also pledge himself to explain what occultism prescribes for
such high development. Hence, the real occult direction of
it. These matters were once the secret of the occult schools,
with the world. He has to learn this. The Eastern occultist
occultism calls dhyana, after he has thought through the

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physician, occultist) that he can give the human beings very
After bourgeoisie had emerged, the intellectual culture was
and intellectual culture of the church supported the priests.

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understand by occult means.
life depend on the official education and how difficult it is
This is the difficult in his writings that we have to come to

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cultural standpoint, from a spiritual-scientific standpoint, of the
our culture, for today this is simply a fact. There are opponents to
normal educational preparation this is really not to difficult, but
abilities, they have for the most part overcome all the difficulties.
cultural history and hold to what has always been said — that
cultures, or at primitive peoples, and one has only to follow the
which demands for them in the political and cultural context the same
the entire cultural progress that has been brought forth by this
culture. One looked at it differently in every way. This is not said
question is a product of our present culture and can be posed only
culture has become, in the greatest sense, a male culture
culture, and it is simply the quality and nature of this culture that
everything that was studied in the university faculties, there
time through the whole nature of our culture.
solve the questions of Life and co-operate in all the cultural
culture (Geisteskultur) has otherwise produced is but a trifle.
believe nothing of the so-called occult teachings, the so-called
areas of spiritual life, ancient culture, ancient religion; on all
testimony of those who have a higher faculty of perception, and who
certain latent faculties and who can thus see more than others. Their
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great cultural point of view, from the spiritual-scientific
difficulties in a large part not only with tremendous diligence
old cultural leftovers, or with primitive tribes, and one needs
political and cultural respect as the men have them. People
a mere nobody if one considers the whole cultural process which
great influence on the cultural process. One had other views in
that were done in the faculties, and a higher education was
and has to co-operate in all cultural currents and cultural
that the intellectual culture has otherwise produced is a
fields of the spiritual life, about ancient cultures, ancient
branch of the intellectual culture, but in the whole spiritual
those who have higher intuitive faculties who relate to the
other cultural means, namely the religious impulses of humanity
able to observe as practical occultist how an opera by Wagner
is the most difficult for the human being to learn to work into
particular the mystics, always felt this in our past cultural
culture epochs take turns, and that this one-sided male
culture has also pointed to the female character of the soul.
Just from the male culture the saying originated, “the
born the male culture the spiritual culture, which began in the
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difficulty for him is a fantastic, dreamlike stuff, and that
cultivation of the soil and one receives the products of the

Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture I: The Significance of Supersensible Knowledge Today
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to transplant it into a completely different culture. If
inherent possibility in our own culture must be widened and
certain culture and that it determines their thoughts and
ideals. But life is shared with people of different cultures
Theosophical Society and a Russian occultist.
cultures; they have been suitable for their particular epoch.
When a culture is no longer acceptable, for the people can no
there among the scientists of this modern Olympus of cultural
that a new cult arose in each, with special significance for
that particular time. The cult of Hermes arose in Egypt, in
Hebrews emerged the cult of Moses. In our time, it is Christ
These cultures became great because their exponents
materialistic culture stems originally from a person's
of a culture, is the last to disappear. When a civilization
that spring from our own culture.

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THE OCCULT SIGNIFICANCE OF BLOOD
occult science, that these legends and myths are the expressions of a
form what the occult investigation of today is revealing to us with
world. Thus the occultist, looking upon this world of the senses, sees
possessed of a soul, is what the occultist, or spiritual scientist,
And so it is that in wisdom occult science has ever recognized what
Occult investigation shows decisively that all the things which
of view taken by occultism, the things presented to us in the sense
occultist as are externally perceptible colors to the physical eye.
occultist merely something which he adds in thought to what is
acquire, the necessary faculties for the cognition of spiritual
In past times people were possessed of a clairvoyant faculty which is
the experiences of his ancestors by means of his inner faculty. He
changed. It came about through a cause well known to occult history.
of occult development regains this clairvoyance, and transmutes it
that of the other. This has been known to occultism for ages. If you

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in cultural life. However, our discussion will not be from a
cultural life.
was formerly the case. It arises when cultivated people are
to share their lives with uncultivated people. Certain
people to assimilate a strange culture? Can a savage become
right way of introducing a strange culture to a people if it
exists must conform to the faculties a person happens to
earlier cultural epochs, and still in the Hebrew religion,
once had a clairvoyant faculty that has been superseded.
history when a new phase of its culture began — the
the foreign culture can be assimilated. Take the case of a
culture will succeed. It is simply impossible, and is also

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latter is “The Occult Significance of Blood”.) it was
spiritual world. It was said that forces and faculties slumber in the

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sin. The modern materialistic outlook finds it difficult to
people would find it difficult to accept. But if you look
When a person's slumbering soul forces and faculties are

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Myth of Ormuzd and Ahriman. Occult science is the first to show how
higher occult development. In order to be able to feel the good, man
stands in the service of egotism. In pupils of occultism therefore

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someone who has developed the spiritual faculties that
child's bodily faculties develop; they become independent and
years is the time when the faculty of the critical intellect
The faculty most prominent at this time is imitation. The
understand what things mean is a faculty of the ether body,
harmful to exert any influence on the reasoning faculty
if demands are made upon the reasoning faculty before the
faculty, to the approval or disapproval of the critical
young people to judge issues or to have a say in cultural

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The man of culture in
touch here on ground where it is difficult for educated men of today
them. — In regions where medicine is founded on occultism, the
it is possible for anthroposophical truths derived from occultism to

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A cultivated
educated person finds difficulty in recognizing that many
In regions where medicine is still based on occult knowledge,

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until puberty is reached. The faculties of the ether body,
earlier cultural epochs.

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are hypotheses, doubt and conjecture. It is indeed difficult
the astral body, and are much more difficult to heal than the
difficult to cure; and it is sad that most parents punish

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is difficult indeed impossible, for materialists to get clarity
the astral body. They are much more difficult to cure than
is just this youthful imbecility that is most difficult of all

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to expression as cultural interest and courage. One could
faculties. A person's karma is particularly auspicious when

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centuries of German culture. Some say that it is impossible
difficult to see the need of all these alchemical inventions,
faculties slumbering in every human soul are awakened. These
faculties enable a person to look into the spiritual world
secrets: not, however, through the soul's ordinary faculties,
complete harmony with modern culture, and with modern
prevailing culture, while never losing sight of the much
Acquisition of the occult script
cultivated wherever a Rosicrucian training was pursued. A
is knowledge of the occult script. This is no ordinary
that the transition from the ancient Atlantean culture to the
first post-Atlantean culture was such a vortex. Natural
ancient culture vanished, and a new culture arose. The vortex
transition took place from the old culture to the new, the
cult of the bull Apis. But the transition from Atlantis to
experience their essence. While study schools the faculty of
knowledge of the occult script takes hold of the will. It is
occult script brings magic. It brings direct insight into the
many who make use of occult signs, even people like Eliphas

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mind that when a cultural phenomenon such as Richard Wagner
and other phenomena. When discussing issues, whether cultural
cultural phenomenon such as Richard Wagner.
but also all spiritual and cultural streams within various
root. Whether we go back to the ancient cultures of Greece,
everywhere we find primordial cultures where art and science
cultivation of wisdom, beauty and religious piety before
these became separated and cultivated in different
looked back to a very old culture in ancient Greece that
physical, would have the courage to take on a cultural
represented artists who one-sidedly cultivated the two arts
that especially traits in European culture can be traced back

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beings find it difficult to transport themselves into such a
are now criticized. It is difficult to believe that only very
initiate is someone who has attained spiritual faculties by
science, another's in the realm of human cultural development
cult to be initiated must live according to certain rules and

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The Mission of Occult Science in Our Time
Mission of Occult Science in Our Time
Someone who speaks about occult science
today, or even of the mission of occult science in our time,
“occult science” causes the opinion of our
to you, only such human beings use the term “occult
pronouncing the term “occult science” some
occult scientist who is aware of the progress of the so-called
followers, even among the apostles of the so-called occult
not? However, it is true. The term occult science has something
tempting for many people. The opponents reproach the occultist
occultist is very popular, and in certain sense, he counts on
dark instinct of the human nature to occult science. If then
the opponents of occult science see what such ostensible
judgement. If the occultist were afraid, one could maybe make
significance and mission of the so-called occult science in our
some talks, you read “occult” science, with other
I represent it here, is synonymous with occult science. Do not
understand the word “occult” in the composition of
occult science in such a way, as if with it anything secret and
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look back at the German cultural life for a short time. It
cultural life cannot misjudge that people oppose the assumption

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cultural life went through an interesting development
occultism that any intellectual learning, everything that he

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Babylonian, Egyptian, or Greek-Roman culture-epochs, if we go
exceptionally difficult to distinguish illusion from reality,
and culture for other fields than geometry is Goethe again. It
cognitive faculties as one can grasp this from the thinking
extrasensory has to cultivate his thinking.
cultures and about what we shall still speak you cannot see
develops by pictures, the will develops by the occult letters.
Pictures of Occult Seals and Columns,
these occult seals and columns once and give their meaning for
This is the way through the occult writing. One can state quite

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cultural calling, must step. Important things depend on this
force. What emerges in the course of cultural development is a
difficult life only if he allows spiritual science to work upon
him. Then he will find himself armed against the cultural
The facts speak loudly. Observe the animals that in our culture

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much difficulty that he managed to get four weeks' vacation,
of man, we would find everywhere primitive cultural conditions,
individual. Compare him with a man of more recent cultural
insight we gain concerning simple things into the cultural
of culture. Rather is it so that an ever more intense, stronger
are able to realize the meaning of this transforming cultural
During the cultural process, men are continually subject to
other conditions. This is the nature of culture. Otherwise,
impressions that storm in upon him from our culture. He is
he comes to higher cultures and always receives new
deepest illusory illness. So it is that the cultural process
the urge to shed this culture, to have done with this life.
something that enables us to forward the cultural process. If
but rather out of the expanse of a cultural view, so that joy
like to cultivate one kind of health for all human beings.

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It is not the only reproach against occult
the occult science entails. One has only the uncertain idea
this on which one should absolutely dwell: whether occult
occult science or this theosophy makes the human beings
he/she starts being interested in theosophy or in occult
against occult science and its working that it makes the human
in occult science has other sympathies and antipathies than
occult science attain this interest only within a
thinking flowing from occult science for the present must often
spiritual-scientific truth. Does occult science bear the blame
blame on occult science that is the light, but on the fact that
occult science is the means to find the way in our
civilisation into the cheerful and beatific air of occult
rather modern cultural feelings, and materialism is suitable
himself with the help of occult science, he educates himself
becomes, the more he is frightened at death. No occult science
they overcome it only gradually. Again, theosophy or occult
and occult science give simply into the usual trivial language.
acquaintance with the truth of occult science the human being
necessary that occult science can offer, its highest and its
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difficulties judging the animal and looking, so to speak, into

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suitable to intervene deeply in our entire cultural movement
difficult to find out those in a society who have not yet
conditions solely by wrong thoughts. It is not difficult to
impulse what any occult science knows since immemorial times.

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to their graves as burial objects of their culture that they
difficulties. For that, what has been stacked within the earth

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Persian culture where the realms of the good forces, of Ormuzd,
developed the higher forces underlying the today's culture.
difficult existence after death than someone who already sees
which all human faculties originate on earth can become an end
Nordic legend. The spiritual germ of the current culture has
arisen from Niflheim. It had to go through the old cultures,

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In an equally difficult position like
most difficult problems of life, while many people understand
German cultural life just in the last time. Of course, it is
how the human being settles in a world cultivating his world of
as a cultural stream to bring together these two spiritual
soul so that our culture experiences a spiritual rebirth that
spiritual culture that the light of wisdom develops from the

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first. This is very difficult. Today, people — driven by

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of nature, but on the most difficult road, from which indeed any
in 1792. It is difficult to rise to an understanding of Fichte's
peculiarity, it is difficult to penetrate to him, although everyone
difficult to reach with the understanding. He tries to create a
important for the education and cultivation of German
Schiller had some difficulty in understanding Goethe, we must

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in Jena in 1794. It is difficult to
difficult to penetrate him, although anybody who penetrates him
education and cultivation of the German cultural life:

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this cultivation of the feelings such a part of the essence, cannot
Now it will not be difficult to agree, after what
up the gold wherever they find it; they lack any inventive faculty,
cultivated it when he was insufficiently endowed with it, he would
faculty of soul, there would not be the means to open the Temple for
to a critical faculty which makes men learn everything indeed, but
subterranean for external culture, he points out that to a

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the human being considered his appetitive faculty as cognitive
faculty, so that he could say to the things, I want it, or: I
imaginative power, only by the intellectual faculty. This is
the present average human being the imaginative faculty, the
developed concerning the imaginative and reasoning faculties,
in himself in such an emotional culture cannot recognise the
the initiation into the cognitive faculties of the objective
initiation into the cognitive faculties of the will. At the
with his three cognitive faculties.
cognitive faculties, which face us in thinking, feeling, and
is no longer difficult now to admit that we have to see another
cultivate it, if it were bestowed on him insufficiently, he
real cognitive faculty. With the image of the
external culture, he also points to the fact that this secret
we can learn in the natural sciences, in the cultural science,

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There is in our culture certainly no document that has

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it is not difficult to say, who stood on the higher vantage

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of superstition. It is maybe difficult to realise these
occult effects, in telepathy. He said to himself, professor L.
who approach occult matters by inadequate means overstate the
universities. One university had a medical faculty in which one

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that a crank of the locomotive moves with difficulty. There
the crank has less difficulty to move; then the engineer can

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ability to amuse the others in the most difficult situations.
that dividing line in the cultural development of modern times,
we see how primitive the single cultures were in those days.
old cultures. This is typical for the whole thinking of

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and difficulty, lest his life become too easy.

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greatest nonsense, and at that time it was most difficult to
So Goethe comes before us with, on the one side, faculty
called theosophy, magic and the occult, came very near to being
consider Faust in this first form, we see what difficulties Goethe
connected with the next; and how one faculty helps another. Seek in

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books by Éliphas Lévy (1810–1875, French occultist)
time theosophy, magic, occultism approached fraud and
how Goethe himself has difficulties to show the connection of
all who linked to the culture of Zarathustra Ahriman became

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set him in occult-scientific symbols, in which he steeps himself,
can without difficulty recognize from what depths Goethe spoke. The
the rescued soul rises to heaven, was very difficult to do, and

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He's well supplied with mental faculties,

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this cultural trend, Nietzsche positioned himself. How did he
Nietzsche's destiny was this cultural trend. He was destined to
take joy and sorrow from this cultural trend because he was not
ancient Greece in the beginning of our culture. He had done
of that primeval culture which was the basis of the Greek and
even earlier cultures from which it had taken its force. An
expression of that primeval culture was also, what was
decline of Greek culture.
see Nietzsche's ideas crystallising from the cultural trend of

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cult we might find similar pictures.
initiate who had acquired the faculty of clairvoyance already in his

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faculties, which lead in a free self-conscious way into the

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these ancient clairvoyant faculties, man was able to perceive certain
clairvoyant faculties, but when we study them we find on the one hand
schools for the training of those faculties which enable the soul of
developing the faculty of fully conscious clairvoyance and the aim of
try to visualise what went on in the occult schools of Initiation and
how they influenced civilisation and culture in general. You have
faculty which will unite it again with its spiritual origin. Whether
for instance, may resolve to develop principally the thinking faculty,
killed out the clairvoyant faculties in man, who organised his
the old Initiates was a higher faculty than the innate, natural
European civilisation and culture in pre-Christian times. Now the
essential feature of European culture, namely, the development of a
culture. It was present in all Germanic lands, in a much stronger form
Mysteries. But it is difficult to discriminate in such study. The only
faculties live within his soul: thinking, feeling and willing. He has
whereas esoteric Christianity was cultivated in the Mysteries. And in
another cycle of legends and sagas, but it is difficult to speak of
its aim the cultivation of an understanding of the Christ Mystery in a
revive the dim clairvoyant faculties of the old Atlanteans, to higher

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secret schools and what was imparted to the common culture.
on the ancient European culture in different areas of France,
culture has originated in the pre-Christian age.
personality consciousness forms an undertone of all cultures in
in another mythology. However, it is very difficult to illumine
the external culture. For example, a connection exists between

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man into difficult situations or may even wreck his life. The significance of
physical and etheric bodies. When he is nearing sleep and the faculty that
required the most intensive play of his spirit into the physical, the faculty
into faculties. This whole process is carried through by the soul during
to merge into a faculty — in this
case the faculty of decision — he must show how these experiences have
work at and enhance our faculties; in later life we can acquire qualities of
capacity to transform experiences into faculties is limited by the fact that
earnestly striving for truth, shows how difficult the path to truth really
If education has not helped him in this way, he will find it difficult to
by working on them between birth and death, if the faculty for doing so has
chief outer expression. If a person finds it particularly difficult to bring

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cognitive faculties in so far as they are bound up with the
cognitive faculties that lie hidden or slumbering within them. Are there,
these faculties were by no means the same in ancient Greece as they have come
because of something added to those faculties which apply to the external
earth; these new faculties compelled men to think of the earth as going round
something evolves within man; the faculties for gaining exact knowledge of
course of time. Now they are fully awake, and it is these faculties which
inevitable that these inner faculties should remain as they are now, equipped
looking for the soul's hidden faculties, which could have given insight into
understand that the inner development of hidden faculties leads to
super-sensible faculty?
believe that super-sensible faculties within the soul could be developed so as
faculty to its smallest limit: it was impossible, he said, for men to
he employs faculties of knowledge which cannot be perceived by physical eyes,
then, does point to something super-sensible; the faculties used by the soul
faculty which could give direct experience of the spiritual world. But
a science which has its source in the development of hidden faculties in the
asked: Does this possibility of developing hidden faculties that slumber in
faculties slumbering within it; so that a healthy judgment, even where human
that there are hidden faculties of knowledge which by ascending order
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cultivation of truth is essential for the progress of the soul.
clear that by cultivating a sense of truth in his inner life man will be

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cultivating others, such as the sense of truth. After that, the
cultivating a sense of truth, the Ego is drawn gradually into the
while the bodily faculties and perceptions of the outer world are not
faculties of the soul, can express themselves most intensively.
unconscious reverence is never right. The cultivation of reverence must go
together with the cultivation of a healthy Ego-feeling.

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we have advanced a little in developing our spiritual faculties.
way, it shows how man can surpass the cognitive faculties that have been
not participated. In the first instance, these faculties are concerned only
with the spiritual world. When we awaken the forces and faculties which are
sleeping faculties of the soul. Of course, while we are still practising the
faculties required. In some circumstances this may last not merely for years,
develop faculties which will open up a new world.
strength to use the means I have described for developing higher faculties.
star for my endeavours to raise myself to the level of the faculties which
does try to develop these inner faculties, and makes use of such forms of
— in order to awaken the faculties
he must be competent to discipline his faculties and to establish the right
may do him great harm. A person can develop all sorts of faculties and powers
that these faculties will be strengthened and able to prevail over the body.
extremes as it were, and if we want to develop higher faculties we need pay
forces and faculties of the soul; they are indifferent towards gaining real
faculties and then to wait and see what comes of it. The best way of doing
ground of reality. Through it a person can develop his own faculties and
his highest ideal in relation to so serious a subject as our human faculties.
our faculties should work in the world.

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pledge themselves to cultivate selflessness and freedom from egoism in any
opposite, altruism, aims at placing human faculties at the service of others,
faculties have been in preparation for a very long time. The Ego has already
a human being from the time of his birth and see how his faculties gradually
world around us the forces which have produced in man the faculties which
twofold way. First, it can develop in the Sentient Soul those faculties which
are in harmony with the faculties and characteristics of the sentient body.
human society, some of its faculties would not develop. It would be deprived
would never have developed the faculties he now has. All that he finds so
environment the very faculties which now repudiate it.
various faculties of the human soul, we can ask, for example: How does egoism
own Self in the service of another, and strive to cultivate not only personal
the same impulse that plagues Wilhelm Meister with so many difficulties when
Monism; the latter, having first enriched his spiritual faculties and
like an occult society, which guides a human being while remaining invisible

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for example the Buddhistic — into western culture. For this
European culture — Christianity, or whether it be Buddhism.
western culture.
presenting things that spring from the culture that gave birth to
Buddhism, and the method that springs from that culture into which
culture, which has not been fertilised by the West, is
non-historical; whereas western culture is historical. That is the
the character of its cultural origin. It is non-historical for the
grafting of any oriental system upon our own culture would be of no
the Buddhistic element into western thought-culture: ‘I wait

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currents, especially that of Buddhism, into the culture of the West. Hence
European culture, on the one hand, and Buddhism on the other.
and from everything he could learn about it through his human faculties. Turn
characteristics of Western and Eastern culture. The fundamental difference
between them can be put quite simply. All genuine Eastern culture which has
culture is historical. And that is ultimately the difference between the
non-historical, quite in the sense of the cultural background out of which it
must remember that all the faculties of the human soul have a history; they
faculties: he will be able to look clairvoyantly into the spiritual world
for anyone to try to graft something Oriental into our culture, for it would
very difficult to manage. With such super-sensible, hardly imaginable things I

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faculties hidden in the soul can be called forth, and then, just as a man
faculties awake. He will break through into a spiritual world which is always
This continued cultivation of impressions received from the outer world is
remedying the defects of former lives and widening the faculties of his soul.
enough to enter on a new phase, while the old faculties possessed by men in
presence. It had to acquire certain definite faculties with which to educate
endows the Ego with faculties which enable it to become richer and richer.

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lecture I am to give today puts me in a difficult position. I want to
his perceptive and cognitive faculties towards the immediately real —
activities, which then become culturally assimilated, that they derive
body of man. In the far north we find that when elements of culture are
brought in from elsewhere, the soul has great difficulty in struggling with
and so on have strengthened the researcher's faculties to such a degree that
namely by faculties which are not dependent on the service rendered by the
clairvoyant faculty makes itself independent of these three bodies; it can
really not so difficult! Anyone who seeks to understand the song that

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which is really so simple, and yet so difficult to answer: how was it
then imitated the sound through the inner faculty of speech, like a
consciousness,’ the faculty by which man acquires a knowledge
could be transformed into an inner faculty, because it already had a
symbol-creating faculty, inheres, in the etheric body,
When we study the faculty of speech in the true sense we
which lies at the basis of man's faculty of expression in speech. And

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The question is quite simple, and yet it is so difficult to answer: why did
Desire was able to become a soul quality, an inner faculty, because it
creative faculty can grasp the secret of language, because only a creative
faculty as such can recreate. No learned abstraction can ever bring about

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the great Zarathustra, who became so immensely important for Eastern culture,
a difficult situation. Suppose the ego encounters some object or being it

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cultured scholar declare that Goethe should be numbered among the mystics,
earlier years, it is extraordinarily difficult for anything he says about his
subject gives difficulty because of the subtlety of its ideas, the best way
hidden, slumbering faculties of cognition, and that starting from them he can
not remain as he is today, with his existing faculties of knowledge. Just as
can develop faculties of knowledge higher than those he has now.
the old teachings of the Mysteries, by developing inner faculties of
because the development of higher faculties by the methods of spiritual
accomplished in the soul for higher faculties to arise? The way in which they
wants to educate a pupil in the higher faculties leading to Imagination would
banish the whole picture from our mind's eye. However difficult this
this new faculty not only brings the appearance of the little spark in our
world. This is difficult, but essential for rising to the stage of Intuition,

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be difficult for us to get a true understanding of it. If we

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we shall need first to cultivate and cherish the finest feelings and impulses
look at particular aspects of cultural life. Who can fail to recognise that

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the occult consciousness can see that the physical body and the ether body
personalities of ancient cultures wanted to speak of certain things by means

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Occult Science
making it clear to him that he must not merely cultivate the negative
that runs through the whole history of human culture. Even today we can see
human soul have never been cultivated on their own account. Why did Plato
spiritual science is in the highest sense competent to cultivate these

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situation is a much more difficult one. Then we enter more deeply those
states which verge on the pathological. Nevertheless, it is difficult to
intricate example will make clear how difficult it is to maintain the

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began by considering the character of cultural life in the time of Lessing,
which appeared in the cultural life of Lessing's time, he said:
Paul Ree, has developed in respect of all his faculties, and therefore in
those who regard conscience as a pure illusion, it is very difficult to reach
that the ego first came forth. The faculty that man in the future will acquire
conscience a faculty which comes to the fore by degrees and has to be
clairvoyantly aware of it — we find that even the highest culture of
of mankind, and in particular the transition from eastern to western culture,
culture first came to spring from the inner life.
culture: the concept of conscience embodied in Christianity.

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fairy-tales and legends, were born from a primeval faculty in the human soul.
difficult to discern how Homer was giving continued expression to the
clairvoyant faculties were less widely present. In the latter peoples, a
strong ego-feeling came to the fore while other soul-powers and faculties
peoples, in Italy and Sicily, a different faculty, arising from a
culture made possible a continuation from Homeric poetry, which we can locate
devotees cultivated the older form of ode, the hymn, addressed to the
of cultural life. At best, unmarried sons, who allowed themselves to visit

Title: Answers to Big Questions: Lecture I: The Nature of Spiritual Science and Its Significance for the Present
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one exceeds with the human cognitive faculties what presents
for the widest circles of our present cultural striving. It is
worldly cult compared with this immense progress, who could
is a quite unpopular thing. It is difficult by no means to
incorporated as something new to the cultural life like
difficult in relation to its various results at all. It is easy
changed and become very difficult compared with science. One
begun, so that nobody can lose what enters the culture. Thus,

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a cultural development. Therefore, natural science speaks of
human cultural life and will be more quickly accepted than
indeed, in the nature of the Spiritual culture of to-day that

Title: Lecture: The Human Soul and the Animal Soul
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in one respect more difficult than it is in modern science as we know
the faculties slumbering in his soul in such a way that he can
in the faculties and skill of the various animal species. One species
faculties — faculties which are innate in the animal, but which
that certain faculties of the animal come into evidence in a way
some faculty does not begin to function until a particular time is no
proof that it could have been acquired only after cultivation. The
his own efforts, so it is with certain faculties and abilities of the
animal. These faculties come into evidence only later, but for all
his descendants faculties which still remain to be developed. That is
the faculties upon which hereditary transmission depends. Therefore
faculties which remain capable of development after the time
uninhabited island, he could not develop this faculty at all. The
same applies to the faculty of forming concepts, and the development
does not belong to heredity, in faculties that remain capable of
individuality. And in the faculty of speech, in the
Insofar as man is a generic being, he has inherited all the faculties
its organism, how closely its faculties and skill, indeed all its

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Its sense faculty rises to tone. But beyond that no possibility is
foundation for what we are able to cultivate as actual contemplation
English: “The Occult significance of Blood”] is

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is quite exceptionally difficult to describe for the most human
senses, our cognitive faculties to an immeasurableness and
difficult to imagine with the concepts that we have already

Title: Lecture Series: The Secrets of Sleep
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“An Outline of Occult Science,”
the moral sense, the developed faculty for knowledge and
standpoint of occult experience and not from speculation

Title: Lecture: The Spirit in the Realm of Plants
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such a contemplation a person may feel himself in a rather difficult
difficult position if he has worked through to what should be said
all those who have not spoken directly from an occult, spiritual

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different cultural personalities generally in the course of the
cultural life connect something with the name Herman Grimm. You
spirits who are connected deeply with the cultural life of our
present faculties — to grasp a worldview and put it

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on a lonesome island after birth and cannot attain the faculty
faculty of speech, the memory of certain linguistic images is
in the consciousness soul. In the Occult Science or in
have to position ourselves in the big cultural tasks of the
printed and then accepted by the people. Then it is difficult

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consists in one faculty being acquired at the expense of another, and
thus as the epochs took their course, the faculty which man once
less. Our clear reasoning and cognitional faculties, our present
modern culture — these did not exist in those early
Clairvoyant consciousness will have to be cultivated again in the
faculty of intellectual logic. A rising and a falling can be traced
streams had, as it were, a different mission in human culture. The
culture.
become a single current of culture. When we speak to-day of the
in space. We find traces of them in ancient Indian culture, in the
that we so greatly admire in the old Indian culture — which
culture. One current derived its name from the mystical God Dionysus,
expressed in the cult of Apollo and the mystic doctrine of
contemplation in the cult of Dionysus in Greece. In ancient times,
Dionysian cults they were united and blended. If we, in our modern
culture, undergo a true spiritual training, we can re-experience them
had an inkling of the significant difference between the cults of
Apollonian and Dionysian cults of ancient Greece are represented on
world it is very difficult to make them realise that there must
ancient Persians as the LIVING UNITY, but it is difficult to
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so difficult to interpret and to understand. We might say that
it came about that from epoch to epoch, the faculty through which
forces of modern culture did not exist in the remote past. Such
faculties have been acquired during later periods at the expense
to regain and cultivate this long-lost power. Then in the future
stimulus to the advancement of culture and civilization. Such
great cultural progress of humanity. His influence has long ago
whole sphere of man’s culture.
of cultural progress. In primeval times man’s development
currents commingled, and became more and more one single cultural
proximity, but in divers ways, in the Indian culture which found
with such wonder in the ancient Indian culture, and which later
commingled and fostered in the Grecian culture — The Mystical
coming Grecian cults of Apollo and Dionysos, and thenceforward
they would continue as one; so that in our present cultural
and from this starting-point the whole of his gifts to culture
In this present age it is most difficult to make
point; a conception which present-day man finds most difficult to
various directions of cultural progress — only to lose its
rediscovered later, then will a fundamental chord in our culture
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vital and progressive culture from then to the present day.
difficult for the modern mind to understand. We can only
of the period of ancient Greek culture and, therefore, at the
transmitted by the Greek culture as ancient Science, and this
philosophic cult of Nature, became in Goethe a mood leading
Mausoleum. There was some difficulty in deciding which were

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as the remains of prehistoric organic beings. Nor is it difficult to
“Occult Science.”)

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greater significance to study the culture and civilisation of ancient
order to explain the culture of later Egyptian times of which certain
the prime of Egyptian culture must be dated at least seven thousand
reason for the great interest evinced to-day in Egyptian culture, but
ancient Egyptian culture that he could only express the keynote of
these ancient Egyptians themselves conceived of their whole culture,
Egyptians themselves felt but the way in which Egyptian culture was
only understand ancient centres of culture if we begin by
the Egyptians their ancient culture. Osiris had an enemy, for whom
longer limited to the human faculties pertaining to the outer world
enabled them to cultivate their land aright and provide for the needs
built up the alphabet, had taught men the principles of agriculture,
Thus all culture and civilisation came to be bound up with the name
power. We are now living in the fourth stage. Our culture has reached
culture belongs to the period of decadence and one can only surmise
strange animal cults. The Egyptians knew: The age when wisdom itself
only assumed a grotesque form when Egyptian culture entered upon its
period of decline. The imperfections of later Egyptian culture were
Primitive states of culture still in existence are to be regarded
does, the heights of modern culture, come into collision with this
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ancient Egyptian culture and spiritual life is of especial
past, in order to throw light upon later Egyptian culture;
related to the active cultural life of Egypt, which date back to
acceptable or not, that this ancient culture is in some singular
ancient Egyptian culture, that he could find no better way of
word and form, of the occult doctrines taught to the disciples
of what the Egyptians themselves felt regarding their culture,
centres of culture, when we accept that knowledge which Spiritual
such faculty to interpret the symbols presented in terms of those
developed clairvoyant faculties, could gaze far into the
Egyptian culture, when their priesthood could gaze both far and
gave to the Egyptians their ancient culture, even to the conduct
cultivate and to tend their land in such manner that it might
taught mankind the principles of Agriculture, Geometry and
ancient Egyptian culture is connected with an epoch of this
culture, it is clear that human frailty and imperfection were
culture had their inception under the most simple and primitive
uncultured.
have us believe that all culture had its inception under the most
life had its inception under cultural conditions directly
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for a moment of Goethe, who so powerfully influenced Western culture
culture we find that Lessing had a magnificent conception of the idea
clairvoyant faculties that were normal in the soul of prehistoric
deeply devotional mood of Indian culture — albeit a culture
my reasoning faculties.” But in an older age the constitution
future penetrate Christian culture more and more deeply as an occult
nineteenth century the different branches of culture yielded such
to coping with it. Man began to realise that his faculties of

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influence on Occidental culture, at the turn of the eighteenth
the clairvoyant faculty, but since then he has descended into the
culture which we must regard as being in the departing radiance
even while we possessed this faculty, we transgressed. If we
different conscious faculty, which faculty no longer exists, for
the advance of Christian culture, humanity will gradually be
every faculty, in order to give truth to the affirmation: —
different branches of human culture have yielded such great and
is still beyond the limits of man’s normal faculties of

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consideration difficult. One can realise this already in the
spiritual science. This makes it difficult again, so to speak,
we also have difficulties on the other side because of its kind
succession of cultures, but that a sense goes through the whole
in a certain culture later because the later has to add
embryonic in the Egyptian culture, but the Egyptian people as
culture.
perceptive faculties are cut off from the physical world.
culture, Pharaoh's daughter, directed life in a soul that is
wrapped in the outer cover of the Egyptian culture and
ancient Egyptian people to found a culture still with the old
clairvoyance. Everything that the Egyptian culture delivered to
What we regard as the most significant element of the cultural
a culture that should be founded upon self-consciousness, who
that should supersede the ancient Egyptian culture with which
culture can live. This is clearly shown in the way in which
intellectual culture he could only give to a people that
generations. The nature of the new culture was bound to this
culture for the future.
the ancient culture of the Egyptians to the culture of Moses,
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is therefore in a certain sense, less difficult to deal with this
features. But on the other hand there are certain difficulties
convince himself of this fact. The difficulty arose because the
Old Testament, and is particularly difficult in regard to those
another nature; and it is often with difficulty that we can
difficulties due to the curious way in which the account is
is here symbolical of Egyptian culture, guided the influx of
culture and mission.
than that which stimulates and influences the faculties of
consciousness which recognized that seven distinct faculties
adequate faculty, or organ, wherewith he may realize that many
mission of the ancient Egyptian nation was to found a culture
The most important element in human culture,
impulse enabling humanity through its reasoning faculties and
Egyptian civilization. The ancient culture had merely served to
personalities and difficult situations which it would be his lot
in whom the old clairvoyant Egyptian culture alone continued
culture, could only be instilled into a nation in which the blood
faculty.
future form the basis of an intellectual culture, that should
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cultural life and ideals of their time. For I do not want to
difficult, if one must not have such a lot of mathematical
prior knowledge and go into difficult physical processes, much
culture for which the human beings strives, all beauty and
we have the same difficulties, only that on the earth the
first, we have the difficulty that we must distinguish two
cultural life. This distinguishes the human being from the
what is shown more exactly in the Occult Science —
world edifice quite wonderfully. Take the Occult
the Occult Science that which points to this what looks

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difficult of comprehension to external history. We are about to
circumstances evinced a faculty in virtue of which the hidden
difficult to describe those inner experiences of the soul which
difficult because never once have those who have undergone an
less difficult than it had been for his teacher; since all that
drew his attention to the difficulties which he would encounter

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culture of the present time will be able to deny that the theme of
— not by means of modern habits of thought, but with faculties
subsequent culture — the Gnosis called the ‘Christ.’
it will be particularly difficult for modern man to understand is
spiritually by means of the inner faculties of soul.
prepared through the ancient Hebrew culture that which later should
This was also the case in Indian culture, in Buddhism. The God of

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fresh light upon all forms of human culture quickened by its
especially difficult for mankind in these modern times to realize
difficulties being experienced in quite another direction.

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knows the cultural development of the last years or decades has
to admit without further ado that the cultural development was
cultural life the need has grown up to turn the sight to the
world riddles that still say that the human cognitive faculties
thinking, from the Greek worldview and culture, which stood
is no blue vault of heaven, but you yourself whose faculty of
cognitive faculties are limited that he is unable to penetrate

Title: Human History: Lecture II: Death and Immortality
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already since more than one century from the Western cultural
with such men whose names are called less within the cultural

Title: Lecture: Prophecy -- Its Nature and Meaning
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— it is difficult to draw a clear line between genuine research
culture today, the greatest stumbling-block in these astrological
predictions is the difficulty of realising how the courses of the
not difficult to make objections. For example, a very distinguished
gets on quite well but after a few years, great inner difficulties
these difficulties, we cannot apply any general, abstract principles.
say, six years later — difficulties cropped up in his life of
things happened in his soul which actually explain the difficulties
itself into successive epochs of culture. Two of the epochs most
Assyrian-Egyptian-Chaldean civilisation and that of the later culture
Roman culture and its aftermaths, comes our present epoch. According
yet. There, then, we have three consecutive periods of culture.
of mankind. Hence, too, the curious fascinating of the culture of
fulcrum — lies the culture of Greece and Rome.
preceded by that of the most ancient Persian culture. According to
Egypto-Chaldean culture, so ancient Persian culture will re-emerge in
wind and weather, it is not difficult to assume that there are
after which new kinds of faculties are present. If we know how to
others (in their desire that all faculties shall be equal, people are
beings endowed with a faculty for prophecy today; and it was true in
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Title: Lecture: The Hidden Depths of Soul Life
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fetched him from Turin and took him to Basle in very difficult
anything that happened. He made no difficulty over allowing himself to
something especially difficult. Whereas normally the boy could copy a
faculties connected with his outer accomplishments. This central core
man's grasp of form, giving him the faculties needed to look at things
faculties — in this case a faculty for drawing. Only when a
newly-won faculties, the moment this central core rises to
working on his faculty for drawing, no progress being visible,
faculties in question. The dream proves each time that something has
produce the faculties in a crystallised form. But this stage having
been reached, and the body being now ready for the faculty, a
consciousness. So this faculty is always enhanced after being
faculties destined for conscious use. Thus we see how all life is open

Title: Lecture: Good Fortune Its Reality and Its Semblance
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under most difficult conditions, was able to think that at last some good

Title: Human History: Lecture VII: The Prophet Elijah
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difficulties of the way that he has to walk. He has to ascend

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one has ever so big difficulties in our days to see clearly in
culture will further the spiritual in the course of
what the human race produces as culture.
difficult to imagine the single forms of the living beings in
Occult Science. An Outline.
in the cultural processes on and on.
Occult Science.

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already somewhat difficult from the point of view of the ideas ruling
world. For, if on the one hand the difficulty results from the fact
a quite special difficulty must arise because according to the
the cultural life as likewise the sentence “living can only
results from my Occult Science that that which presents itself
animal world to the fact that man, in order to cultivate his
he is present he has to appropriate, at first, those faculties which

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cultural life cannot deny that the object of the today's
and lives in Jesus of Nazareth and has caused that all culture
become popular. One has only to look at the modern cultural
point of our Christian cultural life. However, this attempt to

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beginning of the modern cultural direction Lessing (Gotthold
was quite different within the pre-Greek cultures than it has
become later from the Greek culture on. It needs the
on the bottom of all cultures very soon if we go back to the
Occult Science. An Outline.
the today's cultural life only by logical conclusions.
Occult Science
present intellectual human attitude in the Greek-Roman culture.
culture of the Egyptians or Chaldeans than with the term
culture of revelation. Against it, we can characterise the
Greek-Roman culture in such a way that it experiences a kind of
gradual dusk of the old culture of revelation. Indeed, in the
intellectual culture dawned, and those things gradually
disappeared which originated from the old culture of
with his senses replaced it. The culture of perception appeared
In the old culture of revelation, one could
had advanced up to the culture of perception, to that what the
prompted the human being to produce an intellectual culture
even clearer if we think that, indeed, such a life in a culture
his ego. Only a people of the culture of perception could
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Copernicus as the biggest of the cultural revolutions which
the whole human education and culture in such relatively short
appearance of Copernicus in the cultural life, Aristotelism
culture of the Middle Ages that way, and if one sees him then
culture epochs. But they face us with Aristotle in a strange
of human cultures, a knowledge by Intuition, Inspiration, and
develop the intellectual culture.
cultures, mainly in the ancient Indian culture. It is
interesting to realise that in the Indian culture from the
ancient culture of humanity, which was able to behold in the
with Aristotle. In the Indian culture something arises at last
clairvoyance purely by itself. We realise that this old culture
ideas. With the Indian culture, we see the interesting fact
culture, the intellectual culture assuming another character
clairvoyance the culture of the thinking, the logic arises with
culture, we have to say: the Indian culture comes to a dead
turn back to the ancient culture and its clairvoyant
ancient culture ending, indeed, that, but the thought is so
away from the original, human culture that still knew something
he did not recognise that at his time the human culture had
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the merely vegetable in man. If, through the clairvoyant faculty, man
cultivate it in our physical body — we grow up in this element
before mankind: What is it in these will impulses which we cultivate

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The present cultural conditions and in
something whose execution causes big difficulties. Why this?
pupil at the same time. With it, a big life difficulty is
spiritual science is more difficult and more uncomfortable, but
rising and setting if he is cultivated, the human being does
puts to himself in such a way can lead to no real will culture.
Since he should get this will culture which the human being
also lead to a culture of the will, not directly, but
So we can say that will culture,
issues of the physical culture, whether that what is searched
life riddles, while we develop our cognitive faculties, while
intellectual culture does not really further our development,
of the will. Reason, intellectual culture cannot work on the
This is evidence of the fact that the culture of will depends
for our knowledge culture, for that what we want to get in the
concentration for the intellectual culture, the possibility to
Thus, the concept “will culture” must be corrected

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difficult to understand that these forces, brought about by
undefined features and faculties gradually take form. Finally
other. Buddhism is the last fruit of a primeval culture
recall our past experiences from the time before that faculty
its present stage, bringing men new faculties for new tasks,

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effect in the human culture in that which arises from the
cultures.
that the Christian culture with its ideas of equality and
materialist-monistic culture has done in the course of the
the human cultural life could arise only because this
development the intellectual culture
itself quite consciously in the present cultural life to serve
someone who understands the course of the human culture, will
supersensible research to the cultural life of our time, and
of those people who want the true progress of the cultural life

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Jacob Boehme. External influences are difficult to verify
modern man, who lives only in the cultural life of our time,
is difficult today with our current conceptions to
simplest spiritual culture on Central European soil. We find
difficult thing for us to comprehend today. We are not forcing

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proclaimed and of a tone-setting nature in the cultural life of
become aware that parallels can be drawn to modern cultural
represented by a prominent personality of modern cultural life,
development of German cultural life during the decades of the
his own “kingdom” within this German cultural
range of cultural life, a realm subdivided itself for Herman
cultural life, entering into this, it was always the essence of
evaluating everything in cultural life.
These were decades of struggle in German cultural life, decades
cultural life of Germany, while little was heard of Goethe. On
cultivate and carry over Goethe's ethos to a future time
Grimm stood somewhat apart in his relation to cultural matters.
the idea of viewing occidental cultural life as a whole in the
of western cultural life so as to reveal everywhere how human
However, something else has arisen in the cultural life of
transformed it artistically, who have utilized it for cultural
creative folk-phantasy at work in western culture — a
culture follow one upon the other, supersede each other —
cultures.
to that grandiose phenomenon of western cultural life, Homer's
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culture coincides in a certain sense with the founding of Christianity and
Then came Greek culture
in the world of sense. In Greek culture the balance is not between the
corporeality. In Greek culture the soul had freed itself to some extent
with the traditions of Greek culture are highly characteristic of the
evolutionary picture there enters on the one side Greek culture, where
symbol of the deep incision made by Christianity and Greek culture in
is difficult to understand in the sense of Natural Science according
of Greek culture which had for long centuries been buried under ruins
had reached a certain eminence, it absorbs the Greek culture which streams
but in the spiritual sense Greece conquers Rome. Greek culture lives
on within Roman culture; Greek art, to the extent to which it has been
by the essence of Greek culture. But why is it that this does not remain
It was because soon after Greek culture had streamed into the life of
how in the age of the Rise of the Empire, the influence of Greek culture
— we see on the one side the reappearance of this old Greek culture
the remnants of this free culture, the reappearance of the Greek spirit
the victory of Greek culture over the Roman world! The Greek culture
did not at first contain rising before his eyes in the resurrected culture
of Greek culture that were unearthed in the hidden manuscripts. Raphael's
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culture of the human spirit is founded. We would fain draw nearer to him,
themselves into cultural life as a whole, as into a great
all that is cultivated and achieved by the common spirit of
the development of the ancient Greek culture. What the Greeks
humanity. What precedes Greek culture, which is concurrent in a
human being in the time prior to Greek culture, we find that
culture of ancient Greece in which humanity holds the balance
turning point represented by Christianity and the culture of
is not difficult to imagine the tired atmosphere that lay over
see the ancient Greek culture, buried under rubble,
once again by Greek culture. For a spirit that had previously
moral-religious impressions, Greek culture may be said to have
integral to Raphael's innate faculties, what was not there in
Greek element. Doubly buried though Greek culture then was, it
Having been doubly buried, Greek culture waited, as it were, in
returning afterwards to the surface. This Greek culture was
resurrected Greek culture now brought it about that he was in a
higher culture of the human spirit is founded. We would fain

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of all, the subject is indeed difficult, for the source of what one
difficult this may be to discern, requiring as it does our finding
tragic drama. But far more difficult are the quite common human
who can help you to accomplish the most difficult tasks and give you
Occult Science
An Outline of Occult Science,
Occult Science,
Occult Science)
Occult Science,
Occult Science;
particular difficulty, while the fairy tales show us what is relevant
what is most difficult to understand is able to be put in the most

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the difficulty of the subject itself, since the sources
second difficulty is that, in regard to what is magical
since for the most part we penetrate only with difficulty
to human nature. After an intellectual culture had

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through the idea which had just been expressed with difficulty, but
himself! It was thus extraordinarily difficult to bring the picture

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difficult to bring the picture to a conclusion. But Leonardo

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through a certain inner cultivation, evolution, of his soul, can
not only have the described faculties but must be able, after the
itself. Such a cultivation of the will is accomplished only when the
one beholds the situation with a newly acquired, special faculty of
Only by having this meeting will one acquire the faculty to
in ecstasy are actually rooted in a false cultivation of the mystical
faculty of the human being. When man strives always to enter more and
spiritual substance that is cultivated in the human being through
spiritual investigator to cultivate one particular mood of soul,
that the spiritual investigator must cultivate allows him in the
An Outline of Occult Science
thinking reside faculties that stand in direct connection with the
the ordinary faculty of judgment vanishes in him if super-sensible
thinking, however, can cultivate this capacity in such a way that it
these results penetrate — through difficult hindrances of soul,

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enlightening cultural factor for the most different questions
cannot achieve anything against that what culture demands just
great cultural power of the modern scientific way of thinking
is meant here not as a summary of various cultural sciences for
cognitive faculties awake in him. However, these slumbering
cognitive faculties are in him, and he can wake them. However,
cognitive faculties are limited and he cannot penetrate into a
faculties are not able to penetrate into it. Others are more
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course of development has brought certain cultural processes,

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oddities, but because it is typical for the way of the cultural

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cultural life, of the last times of the nineteenth century can
need originated from that what one may call soul cult. The
worship, soul cult is the origin of the religious
unacceptable in our present cultural life, the assumption
cultural task in the world by the fact that these things are

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difficulties exist in the present concerning our topic.
I am not misunderstood if I say briefly why it is difficult

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cultural development. On the contrary, Lessing says at the end
my Occult Science. An
it becomes more and more tragic, more and more difficult, the
difficult to recognise them and you can succeed only using
the philosophers of the present have difficulty bringing

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lecture is to deal with a subject taken from the study of culture and
earliest youth he displayed the faculties necessary for this task,
faculties which he brought with him from the spiritual world. Our
scientific geneticists would have difficulty explaining the facts:
to be nights during which human faculties pass into a sort of rest
change and metamorphosis. But this rest period of the human faculties
other Christian motif, the reason for this lay in the culture within
them; and this whole stream of culture, the inmost essence of the
culture of the times of Michelangelo. A truly gigantic task; and we

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the soul to attain higher cognitive faculties. Such a thinker
faculties are limited; the human being cannot penetrate into
time to accept the human cognitive faculties in such a way as
We realise how difficult the concepts
physical one. Since why the human cognitive faculties of men
culture for the welfare of humanity.

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faculties of knowledge. Such a thinker was Jakob
obstacles on his/her path. The most difficult hindrances come
develop inner faculties because of the law which must be valid:
garden”; he/she could not develop those faculties that
difficult the concepts become, as we near the spiritual world.
alongside the physical world. Then why do the human faculties
should penetrate into cultural development for the salvation of

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morality is hard.” He means with it: it is difficult to
details in my Occult Science. An Outline or in the book

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which could participate in cultural blessings and
the ancient Egyptian and Chaldean cultures even today. The
later also the members of the Latin culture
What a time arose in the western culture since the fifteenth
expression of that what one searched in the English cultural
identical with a side of the cultural life of the eighteenth
Greek culture, for example. The scientific way of thinking
in which in any form of culture the affinity of the human soul
If one surveys the French cultural life at
against the cultural world surrounding him, an aversion that
looks at everything that France could produce as outer culture
dying cultural sphere. This is his tragedy. However, such
cultural spheres also have the possibility to develop maturity
of the cultural current. One can understand that this had to be
serve only to cause a consciousness of how difficult it is to

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makes certain conceptual difficulties to the present
ambitious of the topic still with the difficulty of finding
distance. I have drawn the attention in my Occult
my Occult Science

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exactly in my Occult Science. An
embodied and it does not lack mental faculties, but it lacks
faculties,
who “is well supplied with mental faculties,” but

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above all, that the human being unfolds his faculty of
handling of the faculty of judgement to further his soul to
emergence of spiritual science in the present culture, it is
because Kant proved that the faculty of the human being is not
limitations of the human cognitive faculties. However, does it
spiritual science as if the real of a fertile future culture

Title: Lecture Series: The Human Soul in Life and Death
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the nature of German spiritual culture as represented by its
to show that it is in the nature of this spiritual culture to
culture, and it shares it with science itself, which started in
what is it that springs from the thought? It is difficult to
consider scientifically if the progress of spiritual culture is
of the spiritual world must spring, if human culture is to go
cultivate consciousness, self-consciousness. That is the
it must. But in the course of human culture man must learn what
Precisely in the spiritual culture of Central Europe the stages

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country pastor. But it proved difficult. It was hard for him to
into all the intellectual life, so that all cultural activity
freely cultivate his spiritual aspirations; and it was intolerable
illustrate this self-renewing faculty of the Ego, how all mental
faculty within himself; and when he was attempting to illustrate
at first receiving any culture other than that which belongs to the
spirit through difficult phases; this spirit — whose ideal it
the back of all these difficulties we find a deep-seated incapacity
that it is not so difficult for an idealist such as
and the result was sometimes to place Fichte in difficult situations.
of universal culture.”
cultivation of the soul, not merely good but great men.

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Knowledge of Higher Worlds? and in my Occult Science. An
nice article On the Beholding Faculty of Judgement, he

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difficult for us in certain positions. We bring this

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can say that the development of the intellectual culture has
concept of the “beholding faculty of judgement.”
beholding faculty of judgement. I have explained in my book
human soul gets to this faculty of beholding judgement or to
this faculty of the beholding judgement will become obvious
it is somewhat more difficult in the area of spiritual science
resting soul. The mental picture is so difficult because it is
These are difficult mental pictures, but they are difficult

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With the today's talk I am in a somewhat difficult position,
no new ice age destroys our culture.”

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find myself in a somewhat difficult situation as far as today's
contradict them would be very difficult. Yet the question must
bones. This could be shown without difficulty if one would

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The Riddles of Soul and World in the German Cultural Life
The Riddles of Soul and World in the German Cultural Life
difficult, and one may say, the different thoughts that one has

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the last lecture I sought to show how in the spiritual culture
and culture, one has come ever more and more to a one-sided way
ether is an extraordinarily difficult one, and one can say: the
day and human beings, as a result, have great difficulty in
that one of the hindrances which make it difficult to find
difficulties — is that one makes so little effort to seek

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One can study the difficulties that oppose real results of
it becomes difficult to that who strives for knowledge of the
other difficulties are there. Hence, Brentano means that one
spirit. Since this is difficult, although it is possible if
time are bound to the human intuitive faculty, but he could
which exist just in the present mental culture.

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Goethe calls such a faculty of judgement that puts itself in
such a world the beholding faculty of judgement. Goethe
practised this beholding faculty of judgement perpetually in
apply the beholding faculty of judgement. Kant considered this
beholding faculty of judgement as something demoniacal that one
the use of this beholding faculty of judgement “the
Worlds?, in Occult Science. An Outline and in my
beholding faculty of judgement.
difficult to form a mental picture of it. That is also, why
understand just these talks difficultly. The talks are not
difficult in relation to the informed facts, but they are
difficult because they deal with something that does not exist
can characterise quite difficultly but that you can understand

Title: Eternal Human Soul: Lecture I: Aim and Being of Spiritual Research
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it as difficult so that something like this shyness and fear
that they are difficult. I have a form of spiritual research in
court. Today it has to appear with more difficult concepts, so
cultural life that is especially necessary to the recovery of
this cultural life.
since then who believe that the human cognitive faculties have
limits. The cognitive faculties that we apply to the usual life
faculties in such a way that we can penetrate to a certain

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Occult

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wanted to care about the agriculture in the Grand Duchy of
ascend from the usual faculty of judgement up to the
“beholding faculty of judgement.”
human being this beholding faculty of judgement. From this

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One Attain Knowledge of Higher Worlds?, Occult
thinking, your soul faculties become nimbler at first. Then the
cannot penetrate into the spiritual world with the faculty of
scientific methods that are developed with the faculty of
are coined for the usual life. This causes some difficulties
are not applicable to our western cultural development in the
often escapes from you. You have to do quite difficult and
cultural development how the spiritual researcher has to think
human body, the cultural development will also involve that the

Title: Eternal Human Soul: Lecture V: Nature and Her Riddles in the Light of Spiritual Science
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envisage the cultural-historically interesting of this fact

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how a cultural age changes into the
rest, he asks, which are the most significant cultural
significant cultural-historical moments that appear as
then the period of the Greek and Roman cultures comes when the
imagines as inner laws of cultural development if one looks
coloured especially by the influence of the Greek-Latin culture

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that the ordinary faculties of cognition — including
certain spiritual experience, the more difficult it is for
faculties is essential before the spirit can confront
realises how difficult it is to combat the general tendency
suitable for the cultivation of spiritual knowledge. The
not the faculty which in ordinary waking life enables man to
that in the dream we are snatched away from the faculty of
from any medieval or so-called oriental occult science, as
connected in any way with the faculty of cognition is
assimilating other cultural endowments, of entering into
of the cultural life, is transferred directly into the bodily
belonging to the cultural and moral life. But it penetrates
externally to cultural or moral life are expressing
course of cultural development brings constant blessing and
The Occult Movement in the 19th Century

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Concerning our discussion today I am in a somewhat difficult
these facts today — this is one objective difficulty. The
other difficulty is that I have this talk only, and that that
time. If you consider this, it will not be so difficult to find

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consciousness; one realises how difficult it is to get to real

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against it the usual research is difficult in medical centres

Title: Lecture: The Bible and Wisdom.
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It cannot he doubted that the influence of the Bible on Western Culture has
slumbering powers and faculties exist within him; that there are certain great
moments in life when these spiritual faculties awaken just as when a blind man
its environment what is otherwise concealed. The awakening of the faculties
magic word on many lips. It is not difficult to-day to perceive how the
faculties which lie in the soul of man by means of which he can become aware
laid down by Spiritual Science, man awakens his soul faculties, he sees into
means of which a man has to awaken these faculties. Let us proceed from
in such a way that the conception may precede the perception. This faculty is
of this Rose Cross upon the soul and its slumbering faculties is very real.
man, when he ascends into the spiritual world through his own faculties,
feel united with what streamed into spiritual culture through those who

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agricultural methods, artificial fertilizers and lengthy delays
fears aroused by our industrialized agriculture, the individual
Faculties, however, that enable him to be actively engaged in

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enables us to say that, while the old Roman culture developed among the upper
of earth's evolution, and in so doing absorbs from the various cultural

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cognitive faculties, but that these cognitive faculties are
— we can unfold higher cognitive faculties than those are
on the surface of life, it is exceptionally difficult to form
and its culture present themselves. One gets more and more
everything that humanity has as culture today goes back to
is constituted; his cognitive faculties can never be so highly
also those of faith, and for that, it required the culture of

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assertions and teachings. The difficulties that face someone
persons it is exceptionally difficult at first to familiarise
a spiritual researcher has to watch out for the difficulties
or those who cannot overcome the difficulties that our whole
them. It is difficult for some contemporaries to find the way
confront themselves once with such difficulties. Since also the

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difficulties. However, from it I feel justified to speak in
then a higher intuitive faculty appears in the soul. Then such
how difficult it is to separate himself from the world to which
Immense difficulties thereby arise. There many things happen in
put into the service of the intelligent human culture that the
cultural region, for example, one child has an artistic talent,
are given in our culture? That has developed beyond the child
this coherence, we have to go back in our culture to former
cultural life. Hence, it is comprehensible that the child must
within the culture for its ability. Hence, we cannot think

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depth one can fathom difficultly. This is love in its different
raised cognitive faculties; the soul life becomes more
difficultly. Important things can be already revealed there,
wisdom saying of occult science says, only that can gain real
interest clouds the real knowledge. It is a difficult inner
which goes from one life to the next. It is much more difficult
difficult that the seer can attain. The same fact may still
This is even a difficult task to find an expression of that
other book, Occult Science. An Outline, you find results

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consciousness. Then it is difficult to blank out this
in my Occult Science about the evolution of the
nothing as difficult for the human being as self-knowledge,
very difficult — it is important to know that you have to
Because self-knowledge is difficult, the risk of a substantial
difficult as possible to spread his truths and should impose
things which can be presented so difficultly. If one had

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wants to deliver to the general intellectual culture that there
are special methods to attain such cognitive faculties. To get
human intuitive faculty, the firmament of the soul life

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from common sense and healthy faculty of judgement to get
depends on the fact that he has a healthy faculty of judging
human beings, too — by his healthy faculty of judgement
It is often quite difficult to distinguish where the mystic
of mysticism is so difficult to study because one has to
my Occult Science, I have tried to take the starting
a part of our spiritual culture, as it has to be. Even if

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and Occult Science. An Outline. Here I can indicate the
soul winter, but that he cultivates his will. Since the

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described a certain faculty of judgement is necessary and a
faculty of judgement. You find the further details of this way
realise from it which difficulties even today exist to
these thoughts]; we realise that it is difficult to introduce
Occult Science. An Outline. If then this thought-image

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— Now I thought, there could be alluded to my Occult
one can observe with which difficulties spiritual science has
same quality, which assume that the human cognitive faculties,
because it is difficult to detach the thought process from the
cognitive faculties gave this border. Spiritual science shows

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repeatedly at all times to cultivate this field. But one must
anyone able to do this? Today it is difficult to bring home to
not more difficult than if we ask mockingly how the proteins in
occultism will work different on the social life; it will not

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There, however, big difficulties tower up for some people. One
difficulty arises there for many people. They say if one speaks
cultural life, it is necessary that people unite who intend and
strictly kept secret the knowledge that one cultivated in such
become an element of the modern cultural life — what has
cultural life.
the spiritual culture, it is likewise. Something must go on in
the spiritual culture, must be taken up in later times by those

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has influenced the whole cultural development more and more.
Occult Science. An Outline, in which I have shown what
or the second part of my Occult Science, can realise
have it once again, it is not easier but more difficult. One

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difficult to spiritual science than to the one-sided scientific
social ectoderm; that what works and practises agriculture from
Those who are the significant official bearers of the cultural

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the cultural life in such a way, as if one had not just
bring to the culture of the present and the future for
of Higher Worlds? and Occult Science.. An Outline.
This is much more difficult of course. Not before one has
Occult Science. An Outline. Everybody can carry out
a second and a third time, it is difficult and more and more
difficult, and then one has to make stronger efforts. There is
occultist has from the results of spiritual research, without
no spirit what is much more difficult after death. Hence, the
very own being, but it has them from its cultural surroundings,

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faculties which activate the soul quite different from the

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present cultural life only accepts scientifically established
life cultivates the thinking, the will must be cultivated on
independent from the bodily life, the cultivation of the will

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every spiritual researcher to cultivate such inner soul work
Attain Knowledge of Higher Worlds?, in my Occult

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If one sees back how before the rise of the modern cultural
difficult how one speaks about these things; others find it
cognitive faculties and the capacity for love.
decades ago how difficult it is to change this inner soul force
(As in the previous talk, Steiner tells how difficult it was

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That is why spiritual science especially cultivates that what
true that many people regard spiritual science as difficult
such a way: we can look back at the Greek culture that was
the connection with the religious founders by the cult, the

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difficult for us to follow, for conditions of thought are
extraordinarily difficult to-day to speak of these things in
seems so difficult
extraordinarily difficult for the modern philosopher.
difficult it has become for him thus to regard the whole of

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monism! Today it is exceptionally difficult to speak of the
Hence, people have difficulties to understand the beginning of
the end of the ancient Greek era. It is very difficult for the
writings of Augustine, one realises how exceptionally difficult

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as a matter of fact difficult to do this; for scarcely do we
extraordinarily difficult with our modern conceptions to
certain difficult position towards Nominalism; it was a

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ideas; the other was the bearer of the cultivated philosophical
the logical faculty of judgement.
difficult to develop this pure thinking. Since if one tries
It is exceptionally difficult to

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see the difficulties which European thought encountered in
when they are cursorily presented appear difficult, I should
then, caused the difficulty of Nominalism? What gave rise to

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One realises which difficulties the
theological faculty of the Vienna University, said something
In what way did the difficulty of

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culture which would lift him above this pain. These elements he found in

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lived a restrained, hidden plastic faculty which did not culminate in

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soul faculties in a direction opposite to the one the soul finds itself
Occult Science
towards the development of faculties for objective cognitive Imagination.
to come into the culture and civilization of man as it is developing
integrity, as a truly outstanding fact in cultural development. Haeckel
This is an utterly outstanding fact in the history of cultural development.

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Occult Science.
only be approached by training faculties of the soul that initially
The new faculty acquired is one that would be anything but welcome in
only appear like a realization of imaginative faculties initially and
behind the soul and spirit aspect. The organization of our present culture

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of our culture, is of such a nature that it already affects every

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life, a question that casts its shadow on the whole of cultural life, is
whole range of faculties in the human soul and spirit — we must
into cultural life it will be seen that because what is perceived in

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be the same as those used in the ancient Eastern and Greek cultures.
Occult Science — an Outline.
why it is necessary to enliven the faculties that normally fight their
and this in turn enlivens the other faculties of man. This is why the
genuinely artistic work, in a truly natural way. The art we cultivate
want to consider the issue in the light of cultural and contemporary
a faculty to people who have nothing in their lives that holds sufficient
of my Occult Science. You can look it up there, how the exercise should
to the cross I spoke of in my Occult Science. It could, for instance,
‘And — believe it or not — I do not even find it difficult

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well how difficult it is to make Spiritual Science to some extent
intelligible to modern civilisation and culture, and I know, too, how
whole mode of thinking, the faculty of cognition, the power of
human faculty of remembrance, of memory. The ordinary consciousness
faculties of cognition operating in ordinary life and ordinary
faculties slumbering in the soul of which the ordinary consciousness
higher worlds only when these faculties have undergone due
it takes its start from faculties of ordinary life, but transforms
The first faculty to which the attention of the bona fide spiritual
This faculty of remembrance enables us to call up, either
the exercise of the faculty of memory and recollection. Anthroposophy
sets out to develop a first, elementary faculty of higher knowledge
in this way, by means of certain exercises carried out by the faculty
faculty of thinking which comes to expression in ordinary memory, but
An Outline Of Occult Science,
for many years. The point of importance is that the faculty of
their faculties and their capacity for concentration.
can actually be crossed with the help of newly developed faculties.
strengthening and energising of the normal faculty of thinking which
the faculty of remembrance, the capacity to retain ideas and mental
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mathematical culture.
mathematical thinking. If such a “mathematizing” culture
of an Occult Science) and if we constantly practise them in a
difficult to penetrate, but I think you will be able to grasp what I
which is very difficult to understand, namely, a kind of turning
besides a mere activity of thought. Though it may be difficult to
which presents far greater difficulties.
to be cultivated within it — just as if the nut’s shell

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difficult it is, even in the case of people well grounded in
faculty can, so to speak, transcend space and time. This fact
this perceptive faculty, though in the great majority of cases
with modern culture. The writer remarks that in the light of
“Outline of Occult Science,”

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prove at the same time how very difficult it is, even in the
that this perceptive faculty can, so to speak, transcend space
time (mediums always possess this perceptive faculty, though in
comparison with the rest of modern culture. The writer remarks
the Higher Worlds and in my Outline of Occult
strengthening the soul-faculty of thinking, just as a muscle is

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question to-day is extremely difficult. In a short lecture one
highest expressions and revelations of the faculty of

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death in the ordinary way, acquire this faculty, though it is
the earth, where the connection with them is more difficult, but
modern culture.
whole spiritual culture, like all the other branches of science,

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portal of death in the ordinary way, acquire this faculty,
connection with them is more difficult, but when they follow us
to the acquisitions of modern culture.
something which must enter our whole spiritual culture, like

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The Renewal of Culture
CULTURE
this evening on The Necessity for a Renewal of Culture. During the past few
has to speak of the necessity for a renewal of culture, one only has the
culture, and believe in what may be called a renewal of culture. An
this subject of the necessity for a renewal of culture is in many respects
question: Where must we look for some kind of cultural renewal of our social
difficult, that these newly founded economic undertakings must first pass the
culture, which can now be heard plainly, is to be judged according to its
above all we cannot deal only with the characteristics of modern culture, but
find that the intellectual culture, the intellectual contemplation which
intimate details of life) that we now grow into a culture which deprives us
unconscious wisdom, than we can ever learn later on. Yet our modern culture
expression of our mature culture. But this fact exercises a great influence
souls." — This is why the call for a renewal of culture is to be heard
which may lead to a kind of renewal of culture in this sphere.
have given rise to the great achievements of modern culture, achievements
— though even the Oriental culture has now become decadent. It was a
one-sided culture, but our modern culture is also one-sided.
culture we see the physical world everywhere round about us, and we call it
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all kinds of occult and mystical endeavors are likely to spring
in this way, he has indeed higher faculties of soul.
becomes difficult to detach oneself from the object of this
with all our strength, a particular faculty of soul is acquired
the higher faculties that I have described. Through this
destructive character, for all human culture, of what has

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The Impulse for Renewal in Culture and Science
The Impulse for Renewal in Culture and Science, and published in German as,
contemporaries find the most difficult to understand, is this,

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The Impulse for Renewal in Culture and Science
The Impulse for Renewal in Culture and Science, and published in German as,

Title: for Renewal: Lecture III: Anthroposophy and Philosophy
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The Impulse for Renewal in Culture and Science
The Impulse for Renewal in Culture and Science, and published in German as,
dear venerated friends! It is always difficult when you have a
difficult to lift out of the depth of our consciousness if we
“Occult Science”

Title: for Renewal: Lecture IV: Anthroposophy and Pedagogy
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The Impulse for Renewal in Culture and Science
The Impulse for Renewal in Culture and Science, and published in German as,
bring them into present-day cultural conditions, into practical
cultural impulse, something which should only come into
expression in adults. As a result, because our entire cultural
When you go down from the general cultural point of view to the
dear friends, we don't want to be hostile to culture or become
itself could only lead to a definite decline of culture and

Title: for Renewal: Lecture V: Anthroposophy and Social Science
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The Impulse for Renewal in Culture and Science
The Impulse for Renewal in Culture and Science, and published in German as,
“Call to the German Nation and the Cultural World”
When we look back at ancient cultural development we find in
these old cultures, that factual thinking, in the sense as it
routine, cultivated out of the abstractions in these things,

Title: for Renewal: Lecture VI: Anthroposophy and Theology
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The Impulse for Renewal in Culture and Science
The Impulse for Renewal in Culture and Science, and published in German as,
Catholic church sacrament is difficult because those beliefs
Now it is difficult to say in only a few words what

Title: of Renewal: Lecture VII: Anthroposophy and the Science of Speech
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respect, Anthroposophy encounters difficulties when it would enter
understands how difficult it is for a man involved in scientific work
which in ordinary life may be called difficult but which are
“mystical” or “occult”. But to ascribe to
is not at all difficult, but trivial and elementary, to see that this
occultism, and the sole aim of attaining to the super-sensible worlds
confronts us in the culture of our age? This — that its thinking has
disposition of soul that man has to-day. He cultivates the scientific
(“Occult Science”)

Title: Lecture: Anthroposophy and the Visual Arts
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about its cultivation.

Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 1: Natural Science
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develop new mental faculties to bridge the gulf between matter and
spirit, faculties that will provide conscious social certainties to
him to semblance thinking it educates the man of our culture to
individuals through the cultivation of their own souls
into the general cultural consciousness, it became the
Today, then, we go straight to thinking, by cultivating
easy is difficult. One person takes weeks, another months, to
Outline of Occult Science,
faculty. Science today seeks exactness and feels particularly

Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 2: Psychology
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develop new mental faculties to bridge the gulf between matter and
spirit, faculties that will provide conscious social certainties to
Occult Science,
circumstances, a difficult task! In ordinary life,
forgetting is not particularly difficult, as our ordinary

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develop new mental faculties to bridge the gulf between matter and
spirit, faculties that will provide conscious social certainties to
if we look at the culture and civilization around us today, we

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develop new mental faculties to bridge the gulf between matter and
spirit, faculties that will provide conscious social certainties to

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develop new mental faculties to bridge the gulf between matter and
spirit, faculties that will provide conscious social certainties to
Occult Science,
Occult Science,
faculty and the capacities of the human psyche. They drew the
one-sided critique of the cognitive faculty can only lead to
cognitive faculty, by which he connects his concepts with
difficulty into the organic realm; if it could advance as far
senses, the intellect and the logical faculty) must call a halt
have developed our logical faculty to the point where it
operation the faculty that diffuses something more than
of spiritual world-rhythm and appearance); and, by cultivating
cultivate a disinterested approach to these matters, it is
What has followed from this for our entire cultural life?
can absorb as men, all our cultural values. We go on living for

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develop new mental faculties to bridge the gulf between matter and
spirit, faculties that will provide conscious social certainties to
philosophy of life I am advocating, prove a very difficult
Nowadays, this is made very difficult for mankind; for when we
What does this achieve? Well, it is difficult to describe life

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develop new mental faculties to bridge the gulf between matter and
spirit, faculties that will provide conscious social certainties to
and appropriate to the culture of the time, their leaders
was linked, is already a product of cultural decadence. The
to be cultivated here, there and everywhere, authorities that
years ago there in the Far East on quite different cultural
that cultivates ideas based on the relationship between
other cultural currents, evolve along their own lines, until
Perceiving this, we must also consider how the various cultural
social organization based principally on the cultivation
accordance with the nature of human agriculture, the theocratic
associated with agriculture. They are faintly aware of
land cultivation is not included in it. But land cultivation
cultivate thought, as the German does, we are confronted

Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 8: The Problem (Asia-Europe)
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develop new mental faculties to bridge the gulf between matter and
spirit, faculties that will provide conscious social certainties to
extraordinarily difficult situation that has gradually
to and capable of a high level of culture than were
which has since survived as a spiritual and cultural motto to
cult of mysteries sought to achieve, in institutions that were,
surviving remnants of this cult have been of enormous
the extent that Greek culture itself has influenced European
Everywhere in Europe we find evidence of the difficulty men
difficulty still faces us on every side today as an underlying
the difficulty of integrating the self into it, we are reminded
in popular culture in general, people saw something on a more

Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 9: Prospects of its Solution (Europe-America)
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develop new mental faculties to bridge the gulf between matter and
spirit, faculties that will provide conscious social certainties to
scale, who even in face of the grave difficulties of the
of disseminating intellectual culture, as a foundation for
more deeply for the causes of the difficulty. And here once
culture was at its height, something that must still be of
masses “primitive culture,” in which man is still a

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develop new mental faculties to bridge the gulf between matter and
spirit, faculties that will provide conscious social certainties to
faculty. Yet from the mutual intercourse of men's reasoning
faculties — if I may so put it — a true life of law
logical element of social life is cultivated — the

Title: Lecture Series: What was the Purpose of the Goetheanum
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all that is cultivated there as Anthroposophy.
presentation of these Mystery Plays, besides the cultivation of
that what was originally given by Goethe would be cultivated in
the human bodily conditions; difficulty in breathing, rapid
difficult to survey, such as one brought up from the depths of
“Knowledge of the Higher Worlds” and “Occult
it is difficult to dispel the representations we get by
we must acquire the faculty to extinguish in our consciousness
difficult, but this is relatively easy in comparison with the
the way indicated; the other is that he must cultivate a
in “Occult Science,” and the descriptions need only
certain perceptive faculty, with which one can look up into the
gifts of a mathematician. It is very difficult for most people
description that this is difficult. Yes, it is difficult] it is
appears so difficult to them, but judge according to the
This Anthroposophy, above all else, was to be cultivated at the
and with the paintings in it. What was cultivated within and

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have had no difficulty in following. To link up with my last
again be emphasised that it is by no means so very difficult to
And indeed this would by no means be so difficult an
transformed faculty of memory (where one pushes only as far as
things in modern cultural life. To some of you present here

Title: Spiritual Development: Lecture II: The Physical World and the Moral-Spiritual Impulses
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kind of thinking — which is by no means so difficult
gradually develops his perceptive faculty for that world from
is necessary not only to develop the faculty of living thinking
able to pass behind the faculty of audible speech to the
apprehension of the faculty of inaudible speech
thinking and an intensified faculty of speech projected

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Man's Faculty of Cognition in the Etheric World
Faculty of Cognition in theEtheric World
whenever we employ those human faculties of
sufficiently developed and strengthened our faculties when we
moves in waves. And by applying the faculties which
When our faculties of cognition are strong enough to rise to
products of modern spiritual life, which show the difficulties
“Occult Science:”
presents considerably more difficulties than It does to a
“Occult Science:”
becomes less difficult. There one could not

Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture III: Supersensible Knowledge: Anthroposophy as a Demand of the Age
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clear path to a cultivation of inner faculties for experiencing
especially cultivated in relationship to man's own self if he wishes
exact development of thinking in my books, Occult Science,

Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture I: Supersensible Knowledge: Anthroposophy as a Demand of the Age
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external research must be especially cultivated in relationship to
Occult Science: An Outline

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Occult Science — an Outline,

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I am aware that this involves the most difficult chapter of
is too difficult. Nevertheless, I have decided to do so, because I
I only need to point to one thing in order to show the difficulties
series of letters from a Mahatma. We see from this the difficulties in
desperate at the difficulty in understanding it. “Oh”, one
statement, the difficulty becomes apparent. Misunderstandings arise
century, which had a great influence on culture, this knowledge was in
European cultural scene and the last Rosenkreuz adepts withdrew to the
the European thinking ability, to such a point that difficulties arose
turns out that the occultists in Europe also protected knowledge that
entrusting it to books. The occultists could therefore assess what
but it is nevertheless difficult for the European occultist to come to
cosmology was possible, it is difficult to make the scholars
developed by every person. The initiate has cultivated these forces
Well, you will say: we are always told that such occult forces exist
result of a misunderstanding. The mystic, the occultist, does not
judge it. Our contemporaries, however, demand that the occultist prove
be able to understand it. The occultist, however, asserts nothing else
You could ask: why are occult truths reported today? The previous
This method is still used by the occultists of the “right”.
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occult knowledge, expressed his thoughts about this point as follows:
possesses growth and reproductive faculties, a nervous system and the

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formed themselves out of the mass of mist. For the occultist there is
dream-men. It is difficult to describe them. Another stage followed
3 “Race” in this sense is a theosophical term. Steiner later used the expression “cultural epoch” and similar ones.

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First we have what we call the physical. This has an occult connection
associate the liver. The liver has a specific occult connection with
Therefore there is an occult connection between Kama-Manas and the
occult connection between the lower Manas and the umbilical cord. If
occult connection with the human heart and with the blood.
Buddhi (Life-Spirit) has an occult connection with the larynx, and
These are the seven occult, relationships. In considering them we have
occult connections. A vulture gnaws at Prometheus's liver. The vulture
— thirdly, the occult significance, where again a literal
The Manu of the fifth root-race. In the English version of An Outline of Occult Science, this Being is called ‘the leader of the Christ-initiates’ or ‘the leader of the Christ-oracle’. (p. 177 in the 1949 edition).

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faculty, by suggesting away the physical body of the human being
In occult schools, three words are used to characterise the New Age,
The original Indian peoples brought the culture of Thought to
memory-culture in the worship of ancient heroes, where the memory of a
Culture, two aspects are apparent. On the one side we have the sublime
ideas of spiritual Divinities contained in ancient Vedic Culture, that
life fades into nothingness in the face of what ancient Indian Culture
books on ancient Indian Culture is a jumble of ideas of gods and

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stressed that the last three culture-periods of Atlantis saw the
culture-period man's memory was especially developed. The faculty of
intellectual combination, the calculating faculty, in short, all that
makes up our present-day culture, began in the fifth Atlantean period
in fact, since the fifth culture-epoch of Atlantis, a particular host
faculties which man had now attained were analogous to their own, to
human faculties. Up to this time men had not been Beings of
regards these Beings. If you think of the culture-epochs of our fifth
root-race — of the ancient Veda culture, then of the ancient
Persian culture, of the Chaldean-Egyptian culture, if you think even
of the time of the Druid culture, you will find that an objective,
the dawn of the fourth culture-epoch, which one can place in about the
mind. A Chaldean priest who cultivated astronomy still sought to
fully released in the fourth culture-epoch of the fifth root-race.
wisdom had now been lost, and had given place to a culture of external
process in its occult significance through the profound symbol of the
Mysteries were taught the occult meaning of this saga. They were
in them for the ancient culture which had obtained when the sun had
human culture; then it had been carried into distant Mystery-schools.
from the third to the fourth culture-epoch of our present root-race.
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Title: (On) Apocalyptic Writings - II
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those who stand at the heights of science, culture and education, as

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regions. In the north there still remained something from the culture
bearer of the elements of Atlantean culture into these parts.
Mysteries. He is the bearer of the spiritual culture of that time.
foundation of Christianity. Sieg had to lead this northern culture to
culture to its downfall. Its spiritual content declines and is
this that makes the possessor of these higher occult faculties
had these faculties. They originated in Atlantis, Atlantean initiates
harsh difficulties of the external world. It has both to possess
earlier stages of northern culture. Hagen kills him and thus
remnants of Atlantean culture. An earlier stage of culture has been
in the Atlantean culture are a hindrance to further development, they
culture. In. fact the historic Attila, who was called ‘the scourge of
who fought at the head of his people with quite outstanding occult
belonged to an earlier culture, and who were represented by Hagen, had
European culture. Here we have an indication of the dawn of
earlier culture avenges itself on the culture which has brought about
culture of preparation, which lasted until a higher initiation
evolved. And that is the important point. It was a culture that
culture has come so far that it has human initiates and the
progressive culture, here in the north we find a mood of suspense, of
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called the opening of a seal. In the language of occultism, the

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cultural community arose. Then we have the sub-race of the Flame,
that is the Persian cultural community. Then we have what we call
branch. The fourth cultural community is the one which produced Greece
that of the World, the culture within which we ourselves live,
the culture of the present stage of evolution, which will be replaced
by a cultural community coming from Asia.
rightly, except in cultural communities guided by priestly rulers.
Hence caste is only to be found in the authentic priestly cultures, in
divine inspiration. Hence in the Indian and Egyptian cultures we have
with agriculture. Little by little these castes are to attain

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which the science and culture of the physical world is being
culture and a new culture, to which the epochs I have enumerated
in this new mankind, but nothing has been preserved of the culture of
looked back to a primeval man, known in occult teachings as Adam
culture, precedes recorded history.
Cancer indicates the end of the Atlantean culture; the other, the
beginning of the Aryan culture. Our ancestors thus perceived in the
heavens the outward sign for the rise of the new Aryan culture. At a
with its veneration of the Bull in the Egyptian Apis cult, the
Babylonian cult of the Bull and its sacrifice, and the Mithraic cult
Mithraic cult now. The symbolic Bull became visible and the Mediator,
that, in the time of the Mithraic cult, found its symbolical
“Occult Ones,” the third, that of the “Warriors” or “Fighters” for the

Title: Richard Wagner: Lecture I
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Occult Truths in Old Myths and Sagas.
which must remain occult.
period which was still connected with the ancient spiritual culture.
occult way and inspire the intellect in its external form.

Title: Richard Wagner: Lecture II
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Occult Truths in Old Myths and Sagas.
Evil. This occult connection with the Moon-period also explains

Title: Richard Wagner: Lecture III
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Occult Truths in Old Myths and Sagas.

Title: Richard Wagner: Lecture IV
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Occult Truths in Old Myths and Sagas.
races. When the Roman culture began to flow off, our fifth sub-race
the desert of Gobi. Cultural influences went out from there to India,
impulse in the Moorish culture which penetrated into Spain, and
inhabitants underwent the influence of the stream of culture
century. This new culture penetrated into these regions like a
in darkness, who are cut away from education and culture, has never
deep, occult fact that life is strangely connected with knowledge,
occult truths. First of all to compassion. Parsifal at first passes

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What I wish to talk about today comes from an old occult
and one of the most difficult to understand. For Christian
so difficult to talk about it. Today I should like at least to touch
of that. But in our European culture, on the other hand, this has
He who has undergone occult
even by occult means. The Deva is an ensouled spirit. The impulses,
their body. The intuitive faculty of the Indian was concerned mainly
culture.
humanity struggling towards culture. He is the representative of
much of the material life within it. This materialistic culture of

Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 2: The Contrast Between Cain and Abel
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last time that a great number of occult secrets
behoves us to search for an occult meaning. If the Bible is not just
It consisted of being strong and robust in order to cultivate the
as the Creator has presented it. One does not cultivate the herds,
expressed here. He who has occult experience knows that the arts and
‘Rakshasas’ in occult language
occult mystery for the outside world for many centuries and will seem
that every occultist has often convinced himself of its truth through
Christianity. Something occurred at that time in occult spheres; it
occult striving of the Middle Ages was directed towards nullifying
This is no mere fact of cultural or historical interest, but it is the fact
I have described to you, which is well known to all occultists, namely, the
struggle against the Rakshasas. You see there is a deep and important occult

Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 3: The Mysteries of the Druids and the 'Drottes'
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which man finds difficult to comprehend without previous preparation.
That powerful occult forces are residing in these nature forces and
stage the occultist acquires a certain power, whereby he is enabled
of the whole of occultism.

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(The name ‘Manu’ comes from the Sanskrit root ‘man’ = ‘thinking.’ In Indian theosophical terminology this denotes high spiritual beings, who have the task of forming new cultNote 2)
(These seven principles and the organs with which they are occultNote 5)
we have the so-called physical principle. This stands in occult relationship
occultist ascribes the mineral-physical to this part of the anatomy.
ascribed to the liver, with which it stands in occult relationship.
physical basis given by nature. For this reason there is an occult
physical basis given by nature This occult connection is what exists
has an occult connection with the larynx, with the larynx and the
gullet. And Atma, or Spirit Man, has an occult connection with
the seven occult relationships. If you pay attention to these, then
lies one stage lower. That is an occult law: that when, on the one
will understand how profoundly these occult connections are
by occult science, who is still asexual,
within human nature; thirdly, the occult understanding, in which again

Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 5: The Mystery Known to Rosicrucians
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Post-Atlantean cultural epochs. The Temple is the Temple of the
Occult Societies, that is to say, what is being built up by the whole
of mankind belonging to the fourth and fifth cultural epochs. And the
Holy of Holies is the place where these Occult Societies have their
Post-Atlantean cultural epoch.
which was prepared during the fourth Post-Atlantean cultural epoch.
in the history of the fourth and fifth cultural
people of the fourth and fifth cultural epochs aware that everyone is
culture. Worldly powers, however, desired to gain freedom for
earthly culture, the great Temple of Solomon, has already been built,
cultural epochs and can be rendered in the following way:
with, Christianity is bound up with the purely materialistic culture
sixth cultural epoch, which will recognise the significance of the
content of the renewed Christianity of the sixth cultural epoch. That
karma. That is the new occult teaching which will be united again

Title: Lecture: The Manicheans
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the cultivation of Life but rather of the cultivation of the external

Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 6: Manicheism
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the cultivation of the inner life — for life will flow onwards
through other channels — but rather the cultivation of the external
cultivation of an inner mood of soul, this current would not achieve
currents born out of Western culture, that of Jesuitism (pertaining
initiation in the true occult Freemasonry are similar. The two run parallel

Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 7: The Essence and Task of Freemasonry from the Point of View of Spiritual Science - 1
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candidate into occult knowledge. I will now describe what happens to
kind as occult symbols ... [Gap] The Grip is a special kind of
degree, the initiation ceremony is somewhat more difficult. The main
enactment of ancient occult practices which once took place on the
intuitive faculties, not through rational
certain occult forces developed in him. He has to undergo a bodily
disposition living in our modern culture. This training teaches him
already in possession of occult powers. The extent to which the
when the fourth cultural epoch was still being developed. The fifth
no longer masons. Anybody can become a member. For occultists,
Freemasons say they have symbols which mean this or that. An occult
into the astral body. Inasmuch as our culture has become an
intellectual culture, Freemasonry has lost its meaning.

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manner of occult brotherhoods — they really represent something other
masonry consists of a graded instruction in occultism. As I said last
highest training of all, the most profound occult instruction, which
through masonic training but through other occult institutions, and
is indebted to the occult training of other schools.
‘Concerning the Secrets of the Higher Occult
occult training: no calling-up of spirits or spiritualistic
and rests solely in the possession of the higher occult degrees of
That is the practice in occult societies.
because the fifth cultural epoch is actually the epoch of
which plays into the future. This has been known to occultists since
The occultist knows
the world in the sixth cultural epoch, and through this Freemasonry
will also be regenerated. In Freemasonry the occultist has something
occultists discussed whether the occult doctrine could be made public

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about the eight-seventh degree onwards start the real occult degrees
undergone an occult Freemasonry training. But that is of no
nineteenth century historians, who have no idea of the difficult
situations an occultist can meet in life. This personality is the
however, he was successful in Lyons, forming an occult masonic lodge
Thus, Count Cagliostro at least had an important influence on occult
of the occultists, and if these currents were investigated further, they
Freemasonry, and is in possession of the real occult knowledge.
difficult to say at the moment what form the matter will take in
occultists are to take part in such things they must needs be active
occult laws of nature, through which quite definite effects are
will be filled with occult knowledge. Occult knowledge has to be cast
truths today, that are in primeval occult perceptions. If you read Blavatsky's
by all outward — but not occult — science until four or five years
The fact has been known to occultists for millenia. Now one is beginning
realise this elementary occult truth about thought, electricity and
moulds which have been prepared for it by occultists over millenia.
The occult investigator obtains his truth from the
have to keep silent, for it is known that by doing so an important faculty

Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 10: Evolution and Involution as they are Interpreted by Occult Societies [The Atom as Congealed Electricity]
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Evolution and Involution as they are Interpreted by Occult Societies
ARE INTERPRETED BY OCCULT SOCIETIES [THE ATOM AS CONGEALED ELECTRICITY]
series of lectures I have been speaking about occult schools and secret
connected with occult science have initiated their
immortality unless one is to some extent familiar with the occult
sciences. The fruits of occult science do, of
many different channels. A great deal of occult knowledge exists in
never been the aim of occult science to inculcate into man a dim
their living roots in the ancient wisdom and occult knowledge once in
persists and is cultivated as a tradition. Selfless activity is
It is a fact that all occult science consists of
difficult to understand this rule. However, you will now grasp that
the end of our present cultural epoch one will in fact have come so
when the occult truth, that thought and atom consist of the same
from the brink of destruction. The downfall of post-Atlantean culture
seventh post-Atlantean cultural epoch, to be precise, this War of All
and each of these epochs has seven sub-periods (cultural epochs) —
cultural epoch is a purely intellectual one, an epoch of egoism. We

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Involution as they are Interpreted by Occult Societies: Berlin,
The significance of occult knowledge in promoting conscious
IN a series of lectures I have been speaking about occult
connected with occult science have initiated their members. Somebody may
unless they are to some extent familiar with the occult sciences. The
fruits of occult science do, of course, find their way out into the world
along many channels. A great deal of occult knowledge exists in the various
has never been the aim of occult science to inculcate into men a dim
living roots in the ancient wisdom, and the occult knowledge once in their
and is cultivated as tradition. Selfless activity is, in very truth,
just so much consciousness goes with you into the other world. Occult
after all, involve this. It is difficult thoroughly to understand this rule
difficult for you to understand the following — Think of a child who
sight, remains. It will not be difficult for you to realise that in certain
of culture, science will have reached the stage where man will be able to
indicated will be within man's power when the occult truth that thought and
culture is a purely intellectual age, an age of egoism. The intellect is

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to occult science as the image or teaching of the lost temple which
why in occult science one starts from such images; today we shall see what
about the cultural epochs of our fifth Great Epoch. The first of
fourth and fifth cultural epochs were the first ones to be based on
great monument to the conquest of the old priestly culture by the
the old priestly culture, which held other views about truth and wisdom,
and about what should happen. It is the overcoming of the third cultural
Horse, by means of which the Trojan priestly culture was overthrown.
culture is described in the saga of Aeneas. The latter was one of the
belonged to the last priestly dynasty. A junior priestly culture
cleverness. History tells us no more about this priestly culture. The
veil which was spread over the priestly culture of the earliest Roman
of its culture, which was written down in books, called the Sibylline
introduced into Roman culture from the Etruscan culture as something
of rescuing, for the new culture, something of the great laws of the
life would expire in form. In occult science, that is called the
occult brotherhoods, the thought lived, that man has a task to

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Christianity rise in the fourth cultural epoch; it will develop
occult training, to embark on the ‘Path’. In this High
prefiguring of the future. Each individual cultural epoch, as it
that the time of transition from the third to the fourth cultural
for the Sanskrit culture. This epoch, in which the sun was in Cancer
Atlantis had been submerged and the first Sub-Race [cultural epoch]
the Crab. The next cultural epoch similarly begins with the
history leads us over into the culture of Asia Minor and Egypt, as
its course through the zodiac, the fourth cultural epoch begins,
traced the time from the first to the fourth-cultural epoch.
be in the sixth cultural epoch. Then man will understand spiritually

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outer world, cultivate the sciences and arts in particular. They are
God, who cultivate the true spiritual part of
Abel/Seth, who cultivated the divine aspect, until the two streams
deep affinity with it; its reproductive principle is occultly linked
food-stuffs are, occultly, the same as the plant. The Animal Kingdom
further cultivated by the Sons of God, [which expressed] that

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cultural epoch]. Four other Sub-Races have gone before. The first

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Atoms and the Logos in the Light of Occultism
AND THE LOGOS IN THE LIGHT OF OCCULTISM
something about occultism.
and female incarnation [together] are occultly reckoned as one
looks back occultly, the physical circumstances have fundamentally
still had a feeling for occultism knew something about the connection
the sun entered the constellation of the Ram, the cult of the Bull
[Persian] culture of that time [and its view] of Good and
the results of very ancient occult research, as they have been handed
down and worked upon specifically in the occult schools of Germany
Yet occult books give descriptions and pictures of the atom.
Where were these pictures obtained? How can one, as an occultist, now
be able to observe every single process in it. Only the occultist is
Electricity already points for us into the occult depths of
becomes an image of this plan. The occultist simply notes the plan

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The Relationship of Occultism to the Theosophical Movement
RELATIONSHIP OF OCCULTISM TO THE THEOSOPHICAL MOVEMENT
morning about certain contemporary occult questions connected with
Freemasonry. And that will take place, following an ancient occult
would like to speak about the relationship of occultism to the
occult movement, or whether it must be kept distinct from all
occultism.
Theosophical Society, cannot be an occult movement. An occult
expression in the Theosophical Society. There have been occult
generally about the tasks of such occult brotherhoods. The honoured
heard me speak about such things. Occult brotherhoods are the guiding
future is actually prepared in the occult brotherhoods.
as he imparted it to his pupils. Philosophers try to make the occult
but otherwise occult power that penetrates these great world thoughts
therefore, that what I have called occultism really has very much to
ancient culture of the Rishis. At that time there was of course no
occultist, investigates the difference finds that, in the ancient
can more easily attain to certain higher perceptions through occult
it to retain what we have impressed upon it. The occult task has
successive occult schools. The yoga system of the Indians is
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asked you to attend a short discussion on occult questions, because
this theosophical movement can lead. Now those occult streams which
particular respect, to earlier occult currents. The topic we mean to
recapitulated in our three cultural epochs in a specific higher
cultural epoch; this was pre-eminently a spiritual culture having two
‘agriculturalist’].
the third cultural epoch all the representatives of the Abel line
examined as to their occult meaning, for their deep significance to
the male semen. In male semen lives fire, in the occult sense.
possible on the basis of this [occult] fire. Hence he is the opponent
This refers to a far distant future. The old female culture will be
relieved by a male culture. The female, as a physical form, will die
occultist. Up to the eighteenth century it was known that things were
the proper occult basis has come about in Freemasonry, and that a new
occultism: Whoever is racially an Atlantean man, need not also be
with occult currents, and must take over where Freemasonry left off.
Therefore, as a preparation for this, the Cult of Mary resulted
engender the female in the male, while for the female the Cult of
Jesus served the parallel purpose. The Cult of Mary had its origin in

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taking to speak about these things to you. However, particular occult
women, because the occult brotherhood, whose task it was to nurture
This way was necessary, yes, occult Freemasonry was founded precisely
for this purpose. Therefore it was the custom to speak about occult
the beginning of the fourth Cultural Epoch of our present fifth
first Post-Atlantean epoch, in the [ancient] Indian culture,
culture, is, spiritually speaking, primarily connected, not with the
account rests on occult perceptions of the physical facts. Now, of
course, all occult wisdom presents a relationship between physical
developed the arts. Music, arts and sciences were cultivated by them.
occult tradition which is embodied in Freemasonry works to bring
is an occult connection between the power of speech and the power of
occult vanished from Freemasonry. The three Craft Masonry degrees are
about the balance. Only in theosophy can one speak about an occultism
indeed. This male ideal could not suffice for the occult current
a man; he had to think out the woman. The occultist who understood
woman. Thus did the Cult of Mary spring out of monasticism. This came
occultist sought the male principle in woman, to embody it in
Order] chose the ideal male in contrast to the Cult of Mary. It used
occult powers to erect something like a dam to hold back the whole
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The Relationship Between Occult Knowledge and Everyday Life
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN OCCULT KNOWLEDGE AND EVERYDAY LIFE
of occultism to theosophy, of esotericism to theosophy and so on; but
about how occult perception directly influences everyday living. Not
different explanation of everyday questions through occult concepts
occultism is something impractical, uncommonly far removed from
anyone who has not yet developed the faculty — which, however, every
only by occult observations; indeed, they cannot be so obtained until
cultivated by the way he feels and thinks and decides remain
with each other. One of them has cultivated rigid, fixed concepts,
difficult to convey theosophical life to academically trained people.
undecided, whether the message of occultism is true or false; but I
me what the occultist says in every individual case. And life will
not destroy these dispositions — on the contrary, he cultivates
they represent. In occultism, we learn to grasp life more earnestly,
occultism. He who knows what results in the invisible world as a
through the hidden, occult world. We are refining and correcting the
occultist one can make interesting observations if for instance, one
the same thing that was originally cultivated by Greek art in the
same thing that was cultivated as law, and later deepened into
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Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 20: The Royal Art in a New Form
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and that, at that time, following an ancient occult practice, I spoke
some theologians, from the theological faculty of the university in
of the public. Today, to be sure, it is not all that difficult to
deriving from ancient Egyptian culture is involved. At least the
now — contained the original seed for all later spiritual culture.
constitutes human culture today.
wish to understand present-day culture and immerse yourself in it,
extent of spiritual culture is in fact contained in these three
culture. They are the same as the three Kings in Goethe's fairy story
the time when this unity split itself up into three cultural
India, up to the time of the Egyptian cult,
place in culture during recent centuries has been largely
cultural impulses issued precisely from what Freemasonry should be.
cultural development.
time occultism, appearing under a variety of names, played a much
greater role in the contemporary culture than anyone could ever
Within that culture which we now have to consider, the
most closely related to cultural evolution. The rule of the priests
of the priestly culture. We must now, however, make clear, in the
right way, what is to be understood by priestly culture.
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Title: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture I
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of the Theosophical Society of Berlin. He presents a sweep of occult
find man described in old mystical and occult works. These

Title: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture II
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of the Theosophical Society of Berlin. He presents a sweep of occult
with the occult pupil who has perfected his development and who has
the difficulties of a too early incarnation, a sort of cosmic

Title: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture III
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of the Theosophical Society of Berlin. He presents a sweep of occult
man into a higher kingdom. The last faculty to be attained by man is
the faculty of speech. Again, speech is connected with the upright
This ‘I’ has its roots in the mental plane. Without the faculty

Title: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture IV
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of the Theosophical Society of Berlin. He presents a sweep of occult
An occult schooling is something completely different from our usual
of educational matter. In a strict occult schooling the pupil receives
one gains the faculty of transferring oneself into the community of
difficult, but it is everywhere, you meet it every day, are well

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of the Theosophical Society of Berlin. He presents a sweep of occult
It is always stressed that in order to progress in occult matters one
sphere of the occult. The occultist must not ask: Has the stone life?
the attitude of mind that must be cultivated.
because they are consciously opposed to West[ern] European culture and

Title: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture VI
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of the Theosophical Society of Berlin. He presents a sweep of occult
There is an important occult axiom: Every quality has two opposite
cuttlefish one can find an occult significance. Now we also have
later become the faculty of being creatively active. This will then

Title: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture VII
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of the Theosophical Society of Berlin. He presents a sweep of occult
development suffer a moral decline. In the case of western cultural
occultism therefore the Old Moon is also called the Cosmos of Wisdom.

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of the Theosophical Society of Berlin. He presents a sweep of occult
child he must learn to write. The stream of culture has meanwhile
progressed. One must distinguish between the stream of culture and the
ancient Vedic culture of the Indians, the culture of the Rishis
destruction; a new impulse broke in. In occultism this is called a
The second cultural epoch is named the constellation of the Twins. At
The third cultural epoch is that of the Sumerians in Asia Minor and of
The fourth culture is that of the Ram, or Lamb; Christ stands in the
As fifth culture the external materialistic civilisation follows, in
is the culture of the Fifth sub-race, the present time.
the Fishes. This is the time when materialistic culture reached its
spiritual culture, that of the Water-Man. Preparation has also to be
incarnated about twice in a sub-race. Occultly both incarnations are
actually approaches the culture dominated by the man. The present

Title: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture IX
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of the Theosophical Society of Berlin. He presents a sweep of occult
It is difficult to distinguish the pure physical body from what has

Title: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture X
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of the Theosophical Society of Berlin. He presents a sweep of occult
The occultist considers the etheric as actually being the lowest body.
more material form is called in occultism, for example in certain
difficult to study the deepest motives of the great initiates because

Title: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture XI
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of the Theosophical Society of Berlin. He presents a sweep of occult
Initiates. The occult student learns to know the wishes which are
objects. Culture and the education of wishes lead us to the Astral
occult student can already become a Master on the Astral Plane, but on
know it, he gains the faculty of carrying up into the Arupa Plane what
perceives realities. The occult pupil learns to perceive such

Title: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture XII
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of the Theosophical Society of Berlin. He presents a sweep of occult
investigation into occult anatomy. The work of the Deva-forces on the
one have what in occultism is called the physical body. In itself it
In occultism what we have now described is again called a spiral
known in quite another way. The occult investigator made his
The whole development of human culture is nothing other than the
The second stage of development, which follows that of the cultural,
body. The task of the Chela, the occult pupil, consists further in the
Here desires are cultivated by contact with external things. When a

Title: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture XIII
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of the Theosophical Society of Berlin. He presents a sweep of occult
At the present time it is very difficult to speak about the Gods or
person in the average cultural environment of our time — meets
using the faculties he has won for himself, he works over everything
It is certainly necessary to have some measure of occult powers in
famous occult faculties are connected with the fact that he was a
evolution. Through his contact with the outer world, faculties are

Title: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture XIV
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of the Theosophical Society of Berlin. He presents a sweep of occult
contained in the physical world, only it was then an occult world.
Everything that is occult has at some time to be discovered. The
What a person develops in his present life in the way of soul faculty
is why the Egyptian occult teaching in esoteric centres called the
In our time it is extraordinarily difficult to attain to a complete
occult streams deeply hidden in man.

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of the Theosophical Society of Berlin. He presents a sweep of occult
schooling of the Rosicrucian stream was a strictly occult one. With
such an occult training very little consideration was given to the
particular social position, but who carried on the occult stream of
seven real initiates at one time; the others were occult pupils of
within, the latter were the instruments of occult individualities.
Even Rousseau and Voltaire were such instruments of occult
individualities standing behind them. These occultists could not
right impulse to be given to these instruments of the occult
individuals. Up to the time of the French Revolution occult forces
The inner life remained in the background, in the occult schools. In
known as the main teachings of Theosophy. The occult brotherhoods gave
word of Theosophy. In the occult schools themselves value is only laid
on language in order to teach the outside world. The occult pupil
occult teaching are however present in the Eastern method, which is
everything in occult teachings that today is brought into the open was
could however be allowed to flow subconsciously into European culture.
was cultivated in India. It was in this sense that the western
occultist said to himself: ‘Thine ego is not only within thyself, but

Title: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture XVI
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of the Theosophical Society of Berlin. He presents a sweep of occult
called in occultism: Creation out of Nothing.
When he then does something one says in occultism: He acts out of
the hands are mostly so. The occultist says: What I do with my hands
When the Eastern occultist expounds such things he says: Our whole

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of the Theosophical Society of Berlin. He presents a sweep of occult
In occultism we differentiate in man firstly his actions, in so far as
speak, then he is a Chela, an occult pupil. To be a Master means: To
occult pupil does this in full consciousness, nevertheless in a way
our entire life of feeling: this is the case with the occult pupil.

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of the Theosophical Society of Berlin. He presents a sweep of occult
present stage of human culture and that this primitive man has evolved
it when he has become an occult pupil. This part of the etheric body

Title: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture XIX
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of the Theosophical Society of Berlin. He presents a sweep of occult
spiritual predecessors stand occultly bound up with the passions and
stronger killing, for it destroys the will. The occultist therefore

Title: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture XX
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of the Theosophical Society of Berlin. He presents a sweep of occult
Akasha-Chronicle. If someone has the faculty of reading, on the astral
long as the materialistic culture has not yet affected them. This is

Title: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture XXI
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of the Theosophical Society of Berlin. He presents a sweep of occult
holds good in the sphere of occultism. The counter-effect is not always
actually very difficult to transpose ourselves on to the Arupa plane
occultists an extraordinary magical power. Even in the plant world one
that is truly artistic, where this is conceived in its world-cultural
people everywhere wish to exercise their feeling and critical faculty
understood with great difficulty. In ‘Iphigenia’ and
have only such thoughts we should already have become Chelas, occult

Title: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture XXII
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of the Theosophical Society of Berlin. He presents a sweep of occult

Title: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture XXIII
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of the Theosophical Society of Berlin. He presents a sweep of occult
Prometheus however gives them fire, the faculty of developing ever

Title: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture XXIV
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of the Theosophical Society of Berlin. He presents a sweep of occult
culture from Zarathustra.
The later Zarathustrian cultures in
When someone has so far developed occult faculties that he sleeps
the faculty of observing what takes place between the Globes. As a

Title: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture XXV
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of the Theosophical Society of Berlin. He presents a sweep of occult
The first Elementary Kingdom is difficult to describe. Let us assume

Title: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture XXVI
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of the Theosophical Society of Berlin. He presents a sweep of occult
that time. It is iron that in all occult writings is brought into
there will arise the faculty of organising oneself from within

Title: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture XXVII
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of the Theosophical Society of Berlin. He presents a sweep of occult

Title: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture XXVIII
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of the Theosophical Society of Berlin. He presents a sweep of occult
an individualised being. This underlies the occult saying that,
The English-American civilisation consumes European culture. The sects

Title: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture XXIX
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of the Theosophical Society of Berlin. He presents a sweep of occult
destroy the people. The deep occult truths can therefore not be taught
inherent in the spreading of occult teachings, for no-one can be
to make people ill. Where occult teachings have penetrated more into

Title: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture XXX
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of the Theosophical Society of Berlin. He presents a sweep of occult
Occultists know how man is connected with Nature.
The occultist calls milk: the Moon-food. Sons of the Moon are those
and Cain the Sun race. This allegory is very profound. Occult teaching
connection cults emerged in which wine played a part (the cult of
way into ritual, into the Dionysos-Cult. The Fourth Sub-Race is the
Dionysian dramas. These first took wine into the sphere of the cult.
Dionysian Cult made its appearance. The human body had to be prepared
for materialism through the Dionysian cult; this was why a religion
dead to the living: Bread and Wine. In the occult sense, bread is what
certain culture is in process of destruction and a new one is being
the Old Culture, who are the bearers of what spirals within the
spirituality of the future culture of the East. This is a completely

Title: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture XXXI
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of the Theosophical Society of Berlin. He presents a sweep of occult
that it developed no real sense for material culture. It possessed
Think of the faculty which appeared in the later Kabbalistic teaching
intricacy, think of this faculty applied to lofty cosmic thoughts.
Kabbalistic teachings, it followed that the later Jewish occult
knowledge. In those lands where a skillful agriculture was pursued as
These separate cultural streams were distributed in Europe in the most
the North was the thought that their old form of culture would
the ascending curve of man's cultural development: therefore all the
found much that was related to the Southern culture. Irmin
human, in order to found the cult of the personality. This brought
The Graeco-Latin stream is a higher form of the Judaic; here the cult
beauty of the human culture of the Greeks and the greatness of the
human culture of the Romans. In the Odysseus Saga the ancient
develop, which in truth contains all the ancient cultures in itself
all the ancient forms of culture.
civilisation for as long as the Fifth Period of Culture was being
by Christianity. Our present time with its materialistic culture is
this new culture is symbolically presented in the Lohengrin Saga.
which leads up to a new cultural stage is symbolised by Elsa of
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Title: First Lecture: The Gospel of St. John
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with divine powers, with occult powers. He has healed the
occult language one describes what this ego inhabits —
occult language this union with the higher world is called
union. This can happen after three days. This is the occult

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initiation. Those who know other forms of occult training and
body, astral body and ego. What happens occultly, when a

Title: Third Lecture: The Gospel of St. John
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meaning on the gospel, but that by means of occult teaching
practised in the Persian Mithras cult. It was a form of
initiation that was cultivated in the whole of Asia Minor, in
possible to go through these stages even in the hidden cultic
second grade was that of the “Occult One”. This
important occult secrets.
so developed the occult life in himself that he could
represent the occult not only with words but with deeds.
the expression, “The Occult One”. What is a human
initiate of the second grade, an “Occult One”,
community; he made their interests his own. The occult entity
and where one also speaks in occult language. Then it is
and Jesus himself with them. What does this mean? In occult
intellectually, is difficult for the man of today to grasp
force of water in its occult sense.
one who has awakened his higher self, who governs the occult
forces of air. Jesus is the one who governs the occult forces
transfiguration seen occultly. If somebody goes through the
or to grow faster. He would have to acquire occult power, to

Title: Esoteric Cosmology: Lecture I: The Birth of the Intellect and the Mission of Christianity
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It is only of recent times that the truths of occultism have been the
period. Occult truths are beginning to be disclosed to the public. In
In the Middle Ages, occult truths were known in the Rosicrucian
the new development of man's intellectual faculties, of the Ego. There
is a temporary eclipse of the astral faculties of vision and the power
of reading directly in the astral and spiritual world — faculties
Let us now turn to Christianity. The brotherhood of man and the cult
very essence of all religion, of all cults, of all science.
faculties unite once more and become dynamic through the power of the

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The difference between Occult Brotherhoods before and after
was to form and mould the future. Occult science is not abstract and
Christian occultism is derived from the Manicheans whose founder,
the brow is lacking. Occultism, knowing that physical man is but an
time. Occult prophecies have always preceded authentic history.

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One of the fundamental tenets of occultism, founded on the law of
occult properties, known to the Druids who spoke of it as the most
The occultist sees in the man of today a being in the full swing of

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the verses of the Lord's Prayer in backward order. Occultism teaches
A law known to occultism is that with every new stage of evolution, an
element from the past makes its appearance. Ancient faculties,
which makes the dough rise. Man's present faculty of dreaming will

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Before embarking on this subject, we must realise that since occultism
given rise to mistaken ideas as to the real goal of occult science. It
error, contradicted by the science and practice of occultism.
Occultism does not disdain reality but seeks rather to understand and
instrument of the Spirit. Occultism is not a science which
secrecy by Occult Brotherhoods. A man had to belong to one of these
Brotherhoods before he could learn even the elements of occult
faculties and these in turn influence the spiritual and divine form of
The wisdom was occult doctrine but it bore the permanent and personal

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is good and necessary but has nothing directly to do with occult
The task of the occultist, of the true Initiate, is to change the
happy, equally sad. The occultist must bear the deepest joy and the
Second degree: the hidden Scholar, or the Occultist.

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Occultism has quite another conception of the Gospel of St. John.
the Rosicrucians. All were engaged in practical occultism and looked
magical power — a fact well known to occultists. By repeating these
Christ. To this the occultist will reply: ‘If there were no eye
Such is the profound background of the cult of Bacchus, the God of
common with the Rosicrucians, the occultist of our day teaches of the

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In certain respects the Christian initiation is more difficult of
renders initiation more difficult. That is why the Christian masters
of root and stem. What faculty was it that enabled Goethe to make these
rather the power of a momentary dissociation of three faculties which,
in man, are united: the faculties of willing, feeling and thinking.
faculties without the possibility of their re-union by dint of the
Earth, or in the words of oriental occultism the cessation of the
disciple must cultivate the idea that in the sum-total of things, his
hammer. At this stage the disciple is conscious of the occult powers

Title: Esoteric Cosmology: Lecture IX: The Astral World
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of which occultism speaks are as follows: —
with occult truths. If science would accept the truths of
occultism — merely as hypotheses to begin with — the very world would
It is for this reason that the Occult Brotherhoods decided to

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The occultist will never dream of imposing dogmas. He is one who tells
faculty of perception. Why are eight stages mentioned? Because the
seer knows that the faculties which may be transmuted into organs of
The astral organs of perception are called in occultism, the
balance of the faculties, optimism which enables a man always to see
religions. Divine wisdom speaks through the rites and cults which have
Initiate gives the foundations upon which the ritual of the outer cult
these same forces can be transformed into clairvoyant faculties. Here

Title: Esoteric Cosmology: Lecture XI: The Devachanic World (Heaven)
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When the master in occultism has reached the point of conscious
cults of the Egyptian Apis or the Mithras Bull in Persia. 2,160 years
occultist knows that the flora and fauna of Earth are shaped by forces

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Christians, the spiritual world of the occultists.
of training, the Initiate acquires, one by one, the faculties
world proper. This path was known to all the occult schools and even
occult script of the stars and the Initiate experiences the primal
develop what is always expressed in occultism by a female figure.

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Occult science leads us back beyond this Stone Age to the epoch of
possessed another faculty — a mighty power of will. Today, man
instinctively, without the help of intellect and the faculties of
the faculty of reflective thought and calculation unfolded in the men
of articulate sounds can only be a faculty of beings who stand
feelings of attraction or repulsion. He had no reasoning faculty and
occultism by these three signs: —

Title: Esoteric Cosmology: Lecture XIV: The Logos and Man
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In higher Devachan, beyond the fourth degree, referred to in occultism
faculties of thinking and feeling, a man becomes as pure and free from
A consciousness which repeats the third stage but retains the acquired quality of objectivity. Images have definite colours and are realised as being quite distinct from the perceiver. The subjective sense of attraction or repulsion vanishes. In this new imaginative consciousness, the faculty of reason that has been acquired in the physical world retains its own powers.

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have a physical body. When the occultist speaks of the mineral
organism is unable really to behold life. The occultist, on the other
is said in occult writings that the first Teachers of men were the

Title: Esoteric Cosmology: Lecture XVI: Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and Human Will
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man and animal. Thus occult knowledge reveals the forces that are at
At this time of evolution everything was pure solar life. Occultism

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spoken of outside the ranks of Occult Brotherhoods. Only in our age is
The mystery of Divine Bliss. (This mystery is the most occult).
in all true occult brotherhoods — namely that each individual

Title: Esoteric Cosmology: Lecture XVIII: The Apocalypse
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public. But it was practised in the Middle Ages, in the occult schools
Occultism in general is not concerned with the history of a single
evolution as a whole. True, occultism is at pains to discover the
beginning of Aryan culture.
a later transformation of the Graeco-Roman culture, brought about by
difficult task which is reaching its culminating point in our own day,
Occult Science and the Mysteries of antiquity. But in the sixth epoch,

Title: Reading Pictures of the Apocalypse: Appendix: Cosmogony
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represents the occult sign for the Intelligence of the Sun, the Christ,
the Apocalypse that can be made public only in our time. It was cultivated
in the Middle Ages in the occult schools of the Rosicrucians. At that
Occultism is not usually
only at the end of their culture. The successive post-Atlantean cultures
were: First, the pre-Vedantic culture in southern Asia, in India. That
was the beginning of the Aryan cultures; second, the epoch of Zarathustra,
including the culture of ancient Persia; third, the Egyptian culture,
cultures. The first seeds of Christianity were sown during this age
in the womb of the Hebrew peoples; fourth, the Greco-Latin cultural
Greco-Latin culture was taken over by the northern races: Celts, Germans,
slow transformation of the Greco-Latin cultural heritage brought about
East brought to Europe through the Arabs. The actual goal of this cultural
of occult science and the mysteries. But the two streams will be united
the end of these post-Atlantean cultures and will know completely different
The Aryan cultures encompass

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 1: Popular Occultism, Introtroduction
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Popular Occultism
Popular Occultism
Occultism, the wisdom of
the elementary part of occultism. To-day it is not possible to teach
more. The faculty of spiritual vision develops through an inner schooling.
fact. In the ancient Hebrew religion, the occult word “I”
was a solemn cultic moment. The whole congregation waited for the utterance

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 2: Man's Ascent into the Supersensible World
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Popular Occultism
Popular Occultism
In occultism we say: Upon
them. To speak of morality in the occult meaning, does not mean to preach
rightly said: It is easy to preach morals, but is difficult to establish

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 3: The Different Conditions of Man's Life After Death
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Popular Occultism
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from the astral body and the Ego. In the occult meaning we therefore
to his senses, his life in Kamaloca will be long and difficult. Ordinarily
of the senses. In the case of suicides this will be most difficult of all,
extent at least. This was a training Occult Schools. The whole trend
of life was changed in Occult Schools. The essential thing there was

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 4: The Devachanic World
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Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 5: Life Between Death and a New Birth
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occult disciple, or even of an initiate.

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 6: Man's Return to a New Earthly Life
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influence our next one by cultivating noble inclinations and feelings,

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 7: Effects of the Law of Karma
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transformed by the Ego is designated by the occultists with the Oriental
Far more difficult than
far more difficult to permeate it. This impermeable quality of the etheric
An occultist must not only know
the etheric body. The occult disciple transforms his etheric body consciously,
so that he acquires the faculty of exercising

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 8: The Evolution of Man and of the Solar System; the Atlantic Evolution
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Popular Occultism
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occult inner training, particularly with the difference between the
Occult research of man's
science. How does the occultist know of these long-past things? He knows
and was always known to occult investigation. It is important to bear
lived on the Atlantean continent, is a fact advanced by Occultism. Our
arbitrary). 4) From the occult standpoint, by taking the things described
to read the Bible literally and at the same time we gain an occultist's
had instead other highly developed faculties, for example the power
Nature than modern man and his culture was a higher one. There was a
still preserved in Occultism.

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 9: Lemurian Development
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Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 10: Paths of Occult Training
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Popular Occultism
PATHS OF OCCULT TRAINING
Popular Occultism
PATHS OF OCCULT TRAINING
of occult schooling.
further west. This second culture is the ancient Persian one, whose
still further west, namely the Egyptian-Chaldean-Babylonian culture. Man's
agriculture, and so forth. The genius of the Dog-star, Sirius, was the one
special constellation. A fourth epoch of culture is the Graeco-Latin one. It
epoch of culture, of the fifth root-race belonging to the fifth age of the
earth. This is the Germanic-English-American culture; its chief task is the
quite different perspectives. The sixth epoch of Culture still reposes as a
seed in the East of Europe; it will be the carrier of the spiritual culture
The indications on occult
The occult training of India

Title: At the Gates: Lecture I: The Being of Man
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knowledge of it was confined to circles of Initiates, to occult
of humanity owe their origin to impulses issuing from occultism. For
great treasure of occult knowledge of all ages to be made accessible
The purpose of occult
in these lectures will be from the standpoint of practical occultism;
senses have this faculty. These higher senses are no more than a higher
faculties as well. He can feel pleasure and pain, which the plant cannot
lowest level of culture. Actually there is nothing there but an empty
That is the most difficult task of all. In order to have an effect upon

Title: At the Gates: Lecture II: The Three Worlds
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is certainly one of the most cultured of her compatriots. She has studied
long will it take me to achieve this faculty of spiritual sight? To
to find a foundation for it, difficult.” But without a true
In occultism there is

Title: At the Gates: Lecture III: Life of the Soul in Kamaloka
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person's faculty of memory will be. While the etheric body is firmly
uneducated people it dissolves slowly; with cultivated people it
for example. But the material culture of modern times had to come, and
part behind. With savages and uncultivated people, a large part of the
difficulties to face if, when he is about to reincarnate, he finds his

Title: At the Gates: Lecture IV: Devachan
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reading, writing, and so on. Opportunities for the cultivation and
in Devachan between death and a new birth. Occultism has always recognised

Title: At the Gates: Lecture V: Human Tasks in the Higher Worlds
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and though it is difficult to give an idea of the bliss that goes with
returns to a new birth, and he will then face a difficult destiny. It

Title: At the Gates: Lecture VI: The Upbringing of Children. Karma.
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difficult after this age. It is at this time also that a feeling for
faculties so early. Our age sins greatly in this respect. Care must
cultural task for Theosophy opens up.
difficulties and asked a friend to lend him a thousand marks to help

Title: At the Gates: Lecture VII: Workings of the Law of Karma in Human Life
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before you any speculations or theories. I shall limit myself, as occultism
we can work for our next life: and in occult schools this is done with
ago the occult teacher had a quite different task. He had to concern
and more individual and independent; the occult teacher can no longer
was this that gave occult leaders their great power.
fourth stage: that of the occultist, who can once more understand
illness would never have appeared. The occult teacher knows that if this

Title: At the Gates: Lecture VIII: Good and Evil. Individual Karmic Questions.
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does occult science have to say about the origin of conscience?
is based on occult experience, and from it you can learn the mission
The extreme difficulty
rather more difficult. The shell of a snail or mussel is secreted out
From individual instances known to occult science we may come to the
An example known to occult

Title: At the Gates: Lecture IX: Evolution of the Earth
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time it was a planet called, in occult science, Saturn. Altogether there
Form-conditions, expressed as 777 in occult script. In that script, 7 in
The old occult science
in the blood. In fact, according to occult science the Earth is indebted
to it. Hence in occult science the terms Mars and Mercury
These seven stages of the Earth, as recorded in occult science, are
days of the week reflect the occult doctrine of the passage of the Earth

Title: At the Gates: Lecture X: Progress of Mankind Up To Atlantean Times
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as it then was, is called “water” in occult science.
day and night. When we read the Bible in the light of occult science,
each single human ancestor. And now a new faculty appeared: each human

Title: At the Gates: Lecture XI: The Post-Atlantean Culture-Epochs
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Lecture XI: The Post-Atlantean Culture-Epochs
POST-ATLANTEAN CULTURE-EPOCHS
Indian culture. No poetry or tradition tells us about this it is known
only through what has been handed down orally in the occult schools.
culture originated from the clear purpose of Manu. Long before the time
of Zarathustra, Persia had an ancient culture, of which only an oral
bearer of Graeco-Roman culture, was no longer directly influenced by
Manu, but came under the influence of other cultures. It had a different
plane from within. Only our own culture has gone so far as to operate
caves, while other faculties develop more powerfully, so do we find the
senses; if one faculty develops, another must fade away. The gift of
live with them. Modern humanity has cultivated individual freedom. From
is not achieved, all talk of occult development is empty.

Title: At the Gates: Lecture XII: Occult Development
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Lecture XII: Occult Development
OCCULT DEVELOPMENT
anyone who aspires to occult development must among other things get
is it for me to hear about occult things from others when I cannot see
occult development: the Eastern, the Christian-Gnostic and the
teacher. What, then, happens to a man who enters on occult development?
over into dreams. This is a very important bridge to higher occult
the reason is that to anyone who is occultly developed the wisdom of
lotus-flowers. When a man enters on occult development, he is thus really
occult principle. Most people today lead lives devoid of any regular
be exposed in the course of his occult development by the withdrawal
occult path will have to do this. Thus he should, for example, do certain
or his artistic sensibility can never go through occult development.
comes faith, which in its occult sense implies something rather different
from its ordinary meaning. During occult development you must never
The occultist must do this quite consciously. For instance, if someone
The occultist must always leave a way open to believe. He must go so
in a glass of water. Occult development sets going a process rather
all manner of excesses. Thus a man who has embarked on occult development,
but has not taken care to cultivate moral qualities, may manifest certain
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Title: At the Gates: Lecture XIII: Oriental and Christian Training
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by outlining the three methods of occult development: the Eastern, the
say that no occult school sees in its teaching and requirements anything
occult training. You can, for instance, be a very good Christian and
without undergoing a Christian occult training. It goes without saying
any occult training.
even of a flea, impedes occult development. Whether someone is obliged
money. In the occult sense you will be responsible for it, and the events
consideration if you are entering on a path of occult development.
are chiefly applied, a problem is solved which causes many difficulties
very elementary ideas about them; a more highly cultured man will have
the highest wisdom. No culture is possible without such formal observances;
culture must embody a certain pattern which will give expression to
in occult development? You can find the answer in the injunctions not
to kill and not to injure any living creature. The occult teacher says:
no further use of. The occult teacher is concerned to alter this. If there
change in the future, and since anyone who is undergoing occult training
occult schools, where it was called the finding of the Stone of the
to the nineteenth century a good deal of information about occult
Anyone undergoing occult
occultist knows that breath imbued with rhythm is life-promoting and
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Title: At the Gates: Lecture XIV: Rosicrucian Training - The Interior of the Earth - Earthquakes and Volcanoes
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occult schools came to higher knowledge. Today I will try to describe,
its polar opposite; you should cultivate its opposite and then try to
those you already have by cultivating their polar counterparts.
you must cultivate patience, in the occult sense of the word. Most people
essential being that is in us. If a man says: “I wish to cultivate
If, for instance, we are reading a difficult book, the most important
pupil should find no book too difficult; if he does, it means only that
called learning the occult script. There is in fact such a
letter M. Every letter of the alphabet can be traced back to an occult
studies are cultivated.
saying given by his occult teacher, he will be guided to that which
training are more inward, and call for a subtle cultivation of the higher
everything that the individual can achieve through occult training. But
way? There is a great difference between the Earth seen by the occultist
earthquake? What does the occultist say about the interior of the
The occult science of
The occultist is able to investigate this layer by pure concentration.
to everyone who has written out of a true knowledge of occultism. Dante
which have been occultly investigated. It has been found that persons
a man holds. In the course of occult development he must unavoidably
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Title: Lecture Series: Karma and Details of the Law of Karma
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training been acquired, but that this memory also becomes a quite different faculty which
A genuine occultist will never indulge in speculations on this subject. What I have put
occultism that individuals readily prone to infection from epidemics in the present life,
physical body already in the present life. A proof of this is afforded by occult
upon the etheric body. An individual who achieves occult development learns how to
occultist must change his habits in a comparatively short time. Genuine development
etheric body. In an occultist it penetrates even into the physical body. He learns to
shortened in the case of an occultist.
investigation today confirms in many ways what occultists have said for thousands of years,
occultism has nevertheless discovered through outer observation that an impression of pain
point of confirming ancient occult wisdom little by little. In the coming years this will
executed. Occult investigation of his destiny in the earlier incarnations brought to light
difficult to answer the following question: Which forces are at work in cases where a man's
in mind that what has been said consisted of selected cases, based upon actual occult

Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture VIII: The Path of Knowledge and Its Stages
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clear path to a cultivation of inner faculties for experiencing
culture spiritually by invisible threads since the fourteenth
with occult powers observes the great differences in human types, it
for some other men in our culture, is by no means the proper path for
remain within European culture, and can only be tread by those
occultism by European science. This was one of the main tasks of the
could travel this path and defend occult knowledge in the world. The
distinction is in the relationship of the pupil to the occult
exercises these occult influences correctly, then the real bond
occult trainings. This is the cultivation of clear and logical
races and cultures, or to study reincarnation and karma when I can't
measures that lead to the occult path. For the most part, people
wish to cultivate even sharper faculties of thinking and to undertake
in these symbols, but the advanced occult pupil will not lose himself
occult teacher's counsel must intervene, as the pupil could very
counsel of the occult teacher, who can tell him that it is not an
Rosicrucian training is to learn the occult script. What is this
occult script? There are certain pictures, symbols, which are formed
definite occult sign-language. Let us take the following as an
entwined itself in the other; for this reason, one has this occult
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Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture IX: Imaginative Knowledge and Artistic Imagination
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clear path to a cultivation of inner faculties for experiencing
however, that the pupil must strictly follow the occult teacher, for
the occult teacher can give the pupil the necessary steadiness which
expression of the human soul, so the occultist learns to look on the
material. But there is a future perspective to which the occult
nature, but an ideal stands before the occultist. He says to himself:
and the world is the macrocosm; occultism has demonstrated the actual
for the reasoning faculties was formed in the Atlantean age,
deal of the reasoning faculties. This special group in the socialist
ego-life, and occultists have always recognized this. It represents,
an occult knowledge. Therein lies the relationship of the onyx to the
organ of hearing. An occult relationship exists further between the
Occult symbols are drawn
deep out of real wisdom and if one only penetrates into occult
types for his occult personalities. There is also the poet, Ernst
echoes here of the occult relationships between the mineral
kingdom and man, and much too that indicates how occult powers take
external culture we were still met by what the soul had
the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The cultural history of the
cultural mission.

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Mithras-cult and in the Indian Mysteries of Brahman. Everywhere the
before the world the occult truths imparted to him in the temple. The

Title: Signs/Symbols: Signs and Symbols of the Christmas Festival
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Persian Mithras cult and the Indian Mysteries of Brahman. Everywhere
before the world to proclaim the occult truths that he was permitted
human culture, our ancestors lived on Atlantis, which was submerged by

Title: Lecture: The Lords Prayer
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It is a small but important aspect of the occult scientific basis of religions
course, is called spirit man in terms of spiritual or occult science. The
occult science of the different religions has thus simply taught what it

Title: Lecture Series: Easter and the Awakening to Cosmic Thought
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realised this and was referring to the turning-point when man acquired the faculty of sensory
astral light. Men were then endowed with a faculty of dim, shadowy clairvoyance. It was still
with a faculty of dim, hazy vision that they beheld the world of the Germanic Gods and formed
men already possess the faculty of astral vision which makes soul and spirit visible to them.
occultists call the astral light is born within him. Therefore, Easter is also the festival of

Title: Lecture: Parsifal
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the truths of occultism and of theosophy, relating what I
very large measure of occult power, is something that
Richard Wagner has for the occultist quite a unique
sun — all who have true occult knowledge learn to
occultist.
those times regulated out of an occult wisdom. It was known

Title: Lecture Series: The Mystery of Golgotha
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light upon the occult wisdom of thousands of years ago, an the
the occultist this question is a double one: For we must

Title: Lecture: The Structure of the Lords Prayer
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The occult science of the Hebrews called this “ I ” the ineffable
Godhead. You will have no difficulty in understanding this if you do
The training of the student in true occultism does not depend on what
Therefore you have done more for your real occult development if you
the vehicle of the faculty of memory, but not of memory as conscious
impossible for him to live with them: difficulties arise and he is

Title: Lecture: Adept-School of the Past
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be considered as one of the most important of cultural impulses. If we
that time! Generally speaking, this is difficult to realise and
ancient Atlantis, for man's faculties of thought and feeling were
possess a fine feeling for the inner, spiritual and occult power of words.
small number of men then prepared copies of the former culture and
of culture then journeyed out from this centre like rays, or
beams. First came the pre-Vedic Indian culture, which transformed for
The second culture which went
out from this ancient School of Adepts was the old Persian culture; the
third one, the Chaldean-Babylonian culture with its wonderful
star-wisdom, its lofty sacerdotal wisdom. The fourth culture to
the fifth culture, which is our present one. The sixth and seventh lie in
culture, and at the same time to develop egoism in its extremest
occult truths in Manas, in the purest element of thought. The
that it acquires something of an occult power is the task which has
taking up the cultural impulses as in earlier epochs, we should face
disintegration, a universal cult of the Ego and of egoism.
only the soul who passed through difficult probations could be

Title: Lecture: The Animal Soul
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with difficulty. We need merely to point out that many animals in our
themselves, which are difficult to imagine without a soul. One
example is the faithfulness of the dog. We can only with difficulty
are body noises. Occult science here makes a quite decisive

Title: Lecture: Man's Relationship with the Surrounding World
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those who view things from the standpoint of occultists, must also
in the sun. When an occultist looks into the sun and perceives the
through occultism to see the sun's rays coming towards us, also
trained occult vision, we can see the physical sun as a body,
the intellect; no occult training would suffice to feel the whole
Particularly through an occult study of

Title: Lecture: The Elementary Kingdoms
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precisely when we speak of such difficult matters, that we
difficult position if we were to apply to the astral plane
into steam it becomes Air. Occultism, here goes
— and here the cultist speaks of Warmth-Ether,
or Fire. For the occultist, Fire is something

Title: Lecture: The Mysteries (Die Geheimnisse)
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Title: Lecture: The Group Souls of Animals, Plants and Minerals
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on the physical plane, the more difficult its regeneration becomes.

Title: Ascension/Pentecost V: WHITSUN: The Festival of united Soul-Endeavour
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cultures in earlier times; they resembled the relationship which an
agriculture it is used as a basis to further plant growth. Things

Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture I: The New Form of Wisdom
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in the same body, as occultism puts it. The meaning of the expression
culture of Middle Europe; and thus we see flashing up in an exoteric
culture many things that are clothed, it is true, in an exoteric form,
outstanding grandeur in the man in whom European culture and, indeed
international culture, was reflected at the turn of the eighteenth
formulate its conclusion. The culture of the day was incapable of
into the general life of culture, it happened, in a manner of which I
it was necessary for Western culture during the nineteenth century to
allow it to flow into general culture. And if we think about this
culture we shall discover the reasons why this had to be.
Rosicrucian wisdom-which must not be identified with the occult form
spiritual hearing. These two faculties are the source of all knowledge
faculties in a fairly high degree can themselves discover a spiritual
depend upon the faculty of seership. Those who are incapable of
that is all. Anyone who has absorbed all that modern culture is able
to put the experiences gained from general culture to adequate use.
discovery, the highest achievements of Culture have been able to flow
understand them. So is it with all occult development in the
has already lived through the occult experiences and helps the pupil
spiritual wisdom to culture in general.
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Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture II: The Ninefold Constitution of Man
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which Rosicrucianism adopts to the human being and to culture in
spiritual faculties, nevertheless the Rosicrucian method is such that
knowledge itself is discovered by the seer with higher faculties, but
occultism, the physical body as we see it in front of us is actually
When the occultist speaks of higher worlds, he means worlds that are
A man whose development progresses acquires the faculty not only of
source of inner, occult powers, for this indicates that the ego is

Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture III: The Elemental World and the Heaven World. Waking Life, Sleep and Death.
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in art that is materialistic increases the difficulties of the

Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture IV: The Descent to a New Birth
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necessary faculties, they can see the Akasha Chronicle, although in
When the faculties of the seer develop, he often makes a striking

Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture V: Mans Communal Life Between Death and a New Birth. Birth into the Physical World.
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Occultism reveals that the human being in the spiritual world lives
hold good of a man in whom occult development began in a previous
Occult investigation reveals that the human being returns to
twelve constellations is known in occultism as a Cosmic Year.
culture passed away and a new culture arose. This was designated by a
particular occult sign, the vortex, which is the symbol of Cancer and
occult experience.
tuberculosis. This knowledge is yielded by occult investigation. It is
following — Occult observations have revealed that among the
occult investigation reveals that whole peoples stand under the

Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture VI: The Law of Destiny
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Therefore there is this occult law: Seen with the eyes of Spirit, a
for all beings, the cultivation of sympathy, gives rise to a physical
been known to the occultist, for the greatest wisdom of the world is
destiny. These forces or beings are not unknown to the occultist; they

Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture VII: The Technique of Karma
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remarkable feeling arises. It is really difficult to describe this
The event observed by occult sight of which I told you in the last
forefathers. When we observe the physical processes from the occult
the inner musical faculty but also a well-formed physical ear, a
is necessary to look very deeply, with occult powers. Although the
great musical faculties hundreds or thousands of years ago; he is
became Earth, it was what is called by occultism — not by
and all their beings, we should have the “occult Moon”
Earth was Moon, it was, as we say in Occultism, Sun, and this Sun was
Occultists know that a fixed star need not always have been a fixed
free, more and more independent. In occultism therefore, we speak of

Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture VIII: Human Consciousness in the Seven Planetary Conditions
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will ascend to higher stages. Now with the means supplied by occult
There is in fact a far truer division of animals in occultism than in

Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture IX: Planetary Evolution I
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occultist is a finer substance than gas it has the characteristic of
tends and cultivates a little garden. The Sun radiated back the
dark portions. Our occult wisdom discloses the hidden spiritual
what in occult science we call the Moon. In this we have to do with

Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture X: Planetary Evolution II
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Earth, called in occultism the Moon. If we had been able to observe

Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture XI: Evolution of Mankind on the Earth. I
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possess. To the occultist this is not so at all. What one calls the
hands. It is a scandalous book from the standpoint of the occultist, a
between the occult mode of thought and the present time. You can find
in it the exact opposite of all occult methods of thought, it is the
most amazing product of a dying cultural stream of the present day,

Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture XII: Evolution of Mankind on the Earth. II
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hand these men had the faculty of understanding the language of
you. As occultist a peculiar feeling emerges in your soul. You say
space. The memory of Saturn arises in the occultist when he beholds
occultist you see here a memory of the Sun-period, when the gaseous
Culture. From this centre civilisation radiated out; it proceeded from
had an echo of the culture attained in Atlantis. The ancient Indian
culture, but over in India another arose, that still showed
thus the character of this old Indian culture is shown in the desire
Persian civilisation. Whereas the Indian culture turns sharply away
Indian culture had in truth a knowledge of higher worlds, but not on
of cultural evolution.
the transition to the fourth stage of culture. The ancient
Rome had already foreordained the sevenfold Roman culture as it stands

Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture XIII: The Future of Man
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difficulties. Since ancient times philosophers have tormented
at the goal of a universal human love. Occultism is never of this
occult knowledge through the world. One may talk forever of Love and
brotherhood. Only those whose lives are grounded in universal occult
someone asserts this and another that in occult matters!” In
genuine occultism that is not so. It is the same in occult things as
occultism; it is only that people often have a bad habit of judging
occult matters before they have been understood.
The aim of the Sixth epoch of humanity will be to popularise occult
occult truth everywhere — right into life — and applying it
lies at the centre — occult truth.
of human life, from the standpoint of real occult wisdom. “But
said from clairvoyant vision, from occultism. Races have arisen, as
cultivated in those who would be the bearers of the future. For just
two things are interconnected. Thus occultism throws light again and
pump; that is a grotesquely fantastic idea. Occultism has never made
through a thinking trained in the occult and spiritual sense, will
the bad race or will ascend by spiritual culture to a good race.

Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture XIV: The Nature of Initiation
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the West. All that is connected with our culture and the life we lead
Christian way is somewhat difficult for modern man, hence the
3. Inspired knowledge, or reading the Occult Script.
The third stage is Reading in the Occult Script, that is, not
pictures work upon one. This becomes what is called occult script. One
proportions. Our script is a last decadent relic of this old occult
Occult development is now needed by mankind and must be implanted into

Title: Theosophy and Rosicrucianism: Lecture I: Theosophy and Rosicrucianism
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become a new impulse of culture in an encompassing way. For a
keeping with the intellectual and cultural stage of different
reincarnation to a smaller circle; they cultivated this
the bearers of culture they did not look upon the sun and the
of men, an occult school for the cultivation of wisdom, of
the wisdom of the Rosicrucians, cultivated for the first time

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way, have no difficulty in perceiving that this word
more difficult and slower work. The difference between the
things which the disciple of occult science learns. But even

Title: Theosophy and Rosicrucianism: Lecture IV: Man's Further Destinies in the Spiritual Worlds
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which is designated in Occult Science as the Akasha

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write. You would find it difficult, to remember all the
the shadow-space. This knowledge has been preserved in occult

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something which is more difficult to understand. During the
Christian meaning, as it was grasped in the Occult School of

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beginners they are difficult to understand. What we shall
Chaldean and Pythagorean schools and in every other occult
observations of occult science show that this is indeed the
foundation of the temple-cult of Apis in ancient Egypt, and
of the Persian Mithras-cult. 2,200 years earlier, the sun
in the ancient cultures of those times. The ancient Persian
religion, with its Ormuzd and Ahriman cult may be traced back
the occultist designates as Moon. But you should bear in mind
a state of existence which occultists designate as the Sun.
which occultists designate as Saturn. We can therefore
Mercury. This explains why occultism drops the designation
the development of the whole planetary system. In occult

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usually described in occultism. When speaking of the soul's
substance. When speaking of bodies in occultism, we speak of solid,
state”, designated in ancient occultism as “fire”,
air which you would thus obtain. Occultists always knew of the
fire-air”, this touches the depths of occultism. Fire-air

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of existence, as they are usually described in occultism.
bodies in occultism, we speak of solid, liquid and gaseous
designated in ancient occultism as “fire”; a
this fiery air which you would thus obtain. Occultists always
fire-air”, this touches the depths of occultism.

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the other a man who applied his faculties in order to perfect
by applying his faculties in the right way, while the other
clairvoyant faculty and, astrally speaking, would have become
science streams into human culture. We can see it flowing

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DIFFERENT CYCLES OF CULTURE
sepals and corollae. When a modern occultist observes a piece
In occultism,
with the most highly developed culture, existed in the
founded the first culture of the post-Atlantean epoch, the
first culture of our own age. The most advanced teachers who
we wish to discover traces of this culture we must go far
Hindoo nation represents the first cultural group after the
culture of ancient India preserved this through its highest
be a great disadvantage, indeed harmful, if modern culture
from this Indian culture to the next cultural epoch, i.e. the
cycle of culture. In addition to the earlier science of the
which taught the Egyptians how to treat and cultivate the
world appears to us in the Babylonian-Assyrian culture.
reached a point leading us to the fourth cultural cycle,
which we designate as the Graeco-Latin culture. The human
of culture is the one in which we now live, with our
whole development of the earth. In the light of occultism,
of our Post-Atlantean culture will bring still more
during the sixth epoch of culture. The theosophical

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and 15th century, particularly in the so-called Occult
it difficult to understand that it is possible to know
Appropriation of the Occult Writing;
specially cultivated among the pupils of the medieval
Learning of the Occult Writing.
indeed ba traced back to occult images but they are not by a
long way an occult writing. In occult writing we must
existed after the Atlantea epooh of culture; this epoch
culture; also this must be designated with two spirals. I
the Persien culture; when the sun rose in the sign of Gemini;
and the ancient Indian culture developed itself when the sun
in Nature. If we learn to know the occult signs we begin to
Acquisition of the Occult Writing.

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Knowledge of Occult Writing.
Penetration into the Occult Writing
difficult to find it, — but most people do not know
ages, occultism weaves all this into a wonderful legend. It
you to-day was imparted to the pupil of occultism in the form
blue blood filled with carbonic acid! The occult teacher of
occult teachers explained, was that he saw that which comes
the faculty through which the two trees intertwine within his
the faculty to contemplate the future state of being in the
cultures. The last stragglers along the path leading
Atlantean culture. They have not progressed; they remained
organ, occult science can tell you how it is connected with
modern occultist to know that the plant's blossom has another
The occultist
own” are not fit to be occult teachers. For if we judge
a teacher. The occult teacher chooses what is more suited to
those forms of thinking which now render it so difficult for
difficult for us to take in Christianity in its original
exercise a healing influence upon men. Occult science can

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Christian occult doctrine the world in which the egos of the
“Logos” speaks to him. In the same occult
etheric body. But the conscious work in occult training acts
consciously. The means for this are only given in the occult

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The occult
evolution. In the Christian occult school of Dionysius the
He who sent the Egos to the Earth, is called in the occult
would offer the light to all, were in the occult teaching

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Spiritual Science is very important. In Christian occult
fire-breathers. Occult Science looks upon all matter only as
temptation. But those who were instructed in the occult
Christian occult schools the true Light-bearer, the true

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the Gospel is called Christ had to step in. In the occult
the influences of art, religion and occult training.
occult schools in pre-Christian times, where pupils were
most hidden occult schools, and even they only at the actual
Christ,” or, in the occult schools, the “Virgin
the Christ could be born in Jesus of Nazareth. In the occult
two ravens. 2. The Occult. 3. The Warrior. In the occult
little more closely. In all the occult schools an initiate of

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significant mysteries in all occult schools, including that
can decipher the secret of Number can read an occult writing.
explaining occult writings, attach a certain value to the
were sent forth in various directions who spread the culture

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have reached a high level of culture there are children of
materialistic culture that he can no longer hear the voice of
Europeans have risen to their present stage of culture, while
chasteness. The occult investigator can also observe that the

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of the occult school; it ought to read: “Before Abraham
to which Jesus was nailed on Golgotha. In the Occult School
occult schools. There was a time when man did not yet possess
great future ideal of the occult schools, that man shall
from it again. Here we see a profound truth of occult

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ideas of occult teaching for some time. Hence, they may well wish to
What will be taken up in these lectures are the occult symbols and
this is not the concern of occultism. In order to understand what the
occultist says about the pentagram, we must at first call to mind the
know that the etheric body belongs to the sphere of the occult; it is
physical bony framework. Thus, when the occultist speaks of the
meaning of a symbol. All signs and symbols that we meet in occultism
place them before one's inner eye; then they lead to occult
based on occultism. Whenever a prophet or a founder of a religion
do because he considers it an ingenious picture. The occultist bases
ingenious, but truthful! As an occultist one must give up lawless
and the occultist expresses this relationship differently from the
Now occult astronomy has carried on exact investigations of this
one another that occult astronomy has determined. It proceeded from
seemingly resting motionless. In the sense of true occult research,

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understand something of occultism produced some object in the outer
buildings were adepts in occultism. They were, to a certain degree,
occultist, however, knows that this is only one of the lesser
conditions. First, there is the solid, called Earth in occultism;
then the fluid, called Water in occultism — not only the water
matter, called Air in occultism. There is one still finer condition,
occultist knows that Fire can be compared with Earth, Water and Air,
would come to Light. What we, in the occult sense, term Earth, Water,
small extent by egotism. The occultist says that the snake is the
occultist the fish is something that has been born out of the
the occultist the butterfly is the symbol for it. He designates it as
is the fire being for the occultist.
So, the occultist
considerations how deeply symbols and occult signs are connected with

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of numbers. When speaking of occult signs and symbols, it is
an idea of what is meant when it is said of the old occult
materialistic culture of our times it will appear as mere playfulness
numbers 1, 3, or 7. Real occult teaching knows nothing of witchcraft
say. In all occultism the One has always designated the indivisible
the number of revelation in occultism. This means that whatever
the Divinity revealing itself. There is a statement in occultism that
occultism that two is the number of revelation but not the number of
occultism by people who do not really know, that all development runs
this change had to be. There is an occult statement that says that
The occultist says
be passed before this happens. Such ancient occult principles are of
expression for this that holds good in all occult schools: 1 = (2-x)
- (1+x). [Ed: see Note 1]. This is an occult
arranged that the One results. It indicates that, as occultists, we

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by occultists of all times, is man himself. The human being has
contained in miniature in man. This may at first be difficult to
necessary to consider the development of the world from the occult
standpoint. The occultist knows, for example, that men would not have
nevertheless so for the occultist. You must not forget the fact that
daring, or, as the occultist says, the kingly traits of the human
by the occultist “the trumpet tones of the angels,” will
before your eyes in a few words. The occultist who has acquainted
creative word spoken into it. The occultist presents this space into

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(“Myths and Legends. Occult Signs and Symbols.” GA

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they acquire the faculty of a tremendous roaring, of uttering immensely
parts of the devachanic plane certain beings who are very difficult
It is more difficult to
for instance, to observe occultly what dissolute spirits insinuate themselves
path of occult development to ever higher stages of knowledge learns

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occult science we call a “Sun” is — like our present
known in occultism as “fire” — was the matter of Saturn.
evolutions in an age which, speaking in the sense of occult astronomy,
The occultist makes use of two words to indicate the difference between
why the occultists have called the constellation which was entered at

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in its way of thinking and feeling. This will make it more difficult
with their understanding, but it will become increasingly difficult
are not in the least so very difficult to comprehend, but the right
schoolmasters instruct the children and cultivate the land allotted
on the other hand the spiritual facts have been found by occult means,

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among our elements today, with “fire,” as one says in occultism.

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off within the earth-mass which is described in occultism as “ash.”
has been produced from coarse matter and that his spiritual faculties

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emphasized that as a rule in occultism one always goes wrong and can
make terrible mistakes unless one describes out of the occult facts
and with the Earth the blood was added. If one follows up the occult
planet. Hence in occultism we call the Moon the “Cosmos of Wisdom”
incarnations. That is expressed in occultism quite definitely by saying:
other-wise have rushed past so vehemently. One therefore says in occultism
things in the true sense as given by occultism, then they cannot be
from materiality but how it must recede because it has sought its culture
culture reaches its culmination and sinks into decadence. But a new
culture has fallen into decay, we go on further to the Greco-Latin culture,

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human culture. Christianity has the power in itself of transcending
the forms in which, in the cultural development of our day, we quite
Since that lecture, many significant expressions of cultural life
into the wider horizons of modern spiritual culture. One can discern
ancient Persian culture; the epoch of
Chaldean-Assyrian-Babylonian-Egyptian culture; the epoch of
Greco-Roman culture, and finally our own. These epochs of civilisation
cultivated in the Mysteries was preserved in the form of an ancient
became increasingly difficult to preserve for humanity the memories of
of a people, according to its particular faculties and powers of
was one and the same, whether cultivated by Pythagoras in his School,
spread over the earth as religious culture in the several epochs of

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look up to hierarchies — as they are called in occultism —
Genuine occultism, true spiritual science, cannot share the usual trivial
When one speaks in occultism
of the folk spirit one does not speak of an incomprehensible being difficult
the first culture-epoch of the Post-Atlantean Age, that of the ancient
found sciences, cultivate their fields — everything of human origin,

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spirit and soul. For the occult observer, however, still other beings
body and soul. In various occult teachings they are often called elemental
of these beings can be investigated by occult means just as in the case
and faculties. Thus man shares in creating both — his external
experience all sorts of crass cultural phenomena in the near future.

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time of the first third of the Atlantean culture epoch. There the life
and effaces nothing. It is difficult, however, to read in the Akashic
would see how those cultures were cast in the same mold — as,
aroused in acknowledging them would lead to many difficulties. For if
Faculties develop in the shepherd through which these elemental beings
and can definitely be observed through the methods which occult wisdom
eagle of Zeus so is it everywhere where symbolism goes back to occult

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have gone through various culture epochs: the old Indian, the ancient
and now we stand in the fifth culture-epoch of the Post-Atlantean age.
man if during his different incarnations in those culture-epochs he

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culture-epochs the soul brought back impulses with it that permeated
He had a premonition of what human cultural life will be when all that
that man has won in various realms will flow together into an All-culture,
a comprehensive culture. The arts in a certain way are the actual fore-runners
our culture if men will but turn their minds to true spirituality. Through
the outer, then there will be a culture again. There have indeed been
those who bore in their souls the dawn of a new culture were gathered
it would not meet us in what has become world culture. The theosophist
carries a future culture. Others may ask what he has already accomplished.
the winter. Let us so transform them that they shall work as culture

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his own spiritual faculty, and afterwards takes up the great
something very difficult for the theologians imbued with
caused great difficulties, for they say: We should have liked
“Logos.” So it was thought that in cultured
but that influenced by Greek culture, he re-coined the facts
have received this from his Greek culture and that St. Luke,
speaks of the “Logos” without this culture. Such

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occultism calls your attention to a divine-spiritual
after — as occultism describes it — it has gone
perhaps, very difficult to understand, as many may say. But

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standpoint of Spiritual Science what does occultism call our
of our Earth is the cultivation of the principle of love to

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naturally ask if, aside from occult knowledge, there exists,
that repudiates all previous occult points of view that the
”Occultist,” the third of the
initiate of the fifth degree was called in an occult sense, a
within the occult life. One who was of the third degree was
allowed to defend occult knowledge. The degree of the
who defends occult teaching, what the occult life has to
give. One who is a “Lion” embodies the occult
life within himself in such a way that he defends occultism,
been said that for the occultist there is no such thing as
expression of deeper spiritual processes. Occultism does not
extraordinary cultus arose; this was the worship of Dionysos.
spirit world. Hence the Dionysian worship which cultivated a
age, not in an absolute but in a cultural, educational sense.
certain way, were able to comprehend occult truths. In our
understood one another as initiates, so too a faculty of

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Occultism does not, like the present ordinary physics,
the densest state on Saturn. In occultism, we distinguish
means, in an occult sense, that he became a water-man. You
the faculty of a clear astral perception, because whenever he
existed. In occult language, the part remaining in bed is

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in occult terms, we must contemplate the moment of the
occultist, there is something very extraordinary in seeing,
dissolution to the occultist. A churchyard, spiritually

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with occultism, and then bit by bit learns to understand how
streams of culture flowed out into the various regions of the
cultural stream flowed down into India,
of that Indian culture of which we have only echoes in those
that can be known of this external culture, there existed a
much more glorious and more ancient culture, that of the
the people of this first post-Atlantean cultural stream. This
was the first really religious human culture. Those Atlantean
cultural periods which preceded this one were not religious
cultural epochs in the true sense of the word. Religion is,
whence he sent forth the first cultural colony into India,
artificially, who had gone artificially through an occult
back again into the spiritual world. And the cultural mood
the later Indian culture. It was this mood that gave rise to
the cultural mood itself — in accordance with the
is also a pre-historic cultural epoch which is named after
pre-historic culture.
It became more and more difficult to loosen the ether body
this second cultural stage, a step in the conquest of the
the third cultural stage. We are now approaching closer
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geometry, acquiring it by means of their own faculties from
has first learned geometry by means of his own faculties, he
first great post-Atlantean cultural epoch after the Atlantean
people — the initiates — whose inner faculties
Indian cultural period, Yoga was the process by which men
postAtlantean humanity, in the different cultural epochs,
Indian culture. All the wisdom of that period turned its gaze
upon illusion! If this was changed in the Indian cultural
Babylonian-Assyrian-Chaldaic-Egyptian culture and we have
third cultural epoch to feel themselves as individuals, yet,
races of the third cultural period. However, only to the
is very difficult to understand, especially for those who do
described yesterday. The first cultural period of the
our own present cultural epoch. Before the fourth epoch
cultural epoch. At that time the people had become conscious
cultural period was the most beautiful expression of the

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are considering. What we are considering are cultural periods
longer be used for the culture that will replace our own
are now in the 5th post-Atlantean cultural epoch and say to
of Hebrew culture in such a way that Christianity was born,
cultural epoch of the post-Atlantean period, the human being
to consider the further evolution of these cultural epochs in
general in giving special care and cultivation to the ether
proceed further. In the culture of the ancient Persian epoch,
personal and intellectual human culture. We of the present
themselves, first appeared in the fourth cultural epoch.
else. The human being then rises in the next cultural epoch,
Manas-Culture when more and more the sources of truth are
cultural epoch, that Spirit-Self draws into human beings, a
third cultural epoch. Out of the Hebrew people we see
matter. As it is expressed in occultism, it would have been
produce all that we call today an outer physical culture. It
fact. Never would these means of culture have arisen out of
culture became possible, and because it entered just at the
a materialistic culture as has gradually developed could not
fully understand this Gospel. The spiritual culture which
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through its special cultivation. This is the specifically
Thus the occult student experiences in the astral world what

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cultural epochs. The principal difference appears with the
— at least for our cultural epoch — is not only
is, in fact, exceedingly difficult to describe the principle
resurrected. She possessed this faculty. It may be asked:
among men in the sixth cultural epoch, in order that that may

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understood. He is doubtless difficult to understated and it
at every stage of culture and yet at the same time it
deep-lying spiritual forces and faculties slumbering within
It is not difficult for the student of Spiritual Science to
forces and faculties lie dormant. There is, or at least there
culture, but it can meet and satisfy the highest demands.”

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than the speaker to cultivate for a short period of time

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of humanity — a particular kind of will culture, the
body of a man who performs such, shall we say, occult
incarnations? It would be difficult to go back before Saturn
Occult Seals and Columns with introduction by

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into existence. He sees how cultural periods follow one
mountain-top. We all know these seven cultural ages. We know
Atlantean. We are now living in the age of cultural epochs.
forms the foundations on earth of a material world culture
where an ancient sacred priestly culture flourished;
culture, the culture of Rome was to proceed. We still see the
culture was sketched out in advance by the priests. The
consecutive cultural epochs according to the seven principles
living in the fifth age, when culture has descended even
culture. Spiritual culture has not yet been advanced very
the material culture and that which benefits the spiritual
life. Thus we have a decidedly descending path of culture, up
material culture, to develop a spiritual life and rise again
these cultural epochs. When he speaks of the community or
there is always something remaining from each cultural epoch.
in various streams of culture. We find something of this
cultural epoch what may be retained, and what no longer
consecutive cultural epochs. Let us try to understand what
cultural epoch — strange to external_ life, not filled
were cultivated; he indicates that the turning away from
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who cultivated the spiritualizing and ennobling of their
it waits on. It is sealed seven times. Each age of culture

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comes from occult traditions. This was forgotten when the
word “occultism” became something of which one was afraid,
have already heard much that is difficult to believe, you
culture of the physical world man must uplift himself to
“I”-consciousness and the faculty of sight in the
to use all his occult knowledge in order to explain the Event
of Golgotha. Whatever he could learn from occult science was

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further external culture. This has to be so. It would have
remember with difficulty what happened in his childhood, and
spiritual culture with the intellect; certain ideas are put
that which is to be the spiritually elevated culture of that

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conception of the “I” offers difficulty to many
case also when our culture originated. Let as think of the
our culture is taken from the fifth Atlantean race, for in
culture will be characterized by the lukewarm. This seventh
work of education such as exists to-day, but occult forces
understand how to set occult forces in motion. The good will
occult movements, but the deepest of all occult cosmic
scarcely call the first stage a civilization culture.
Occult Seals and Symbols.]
spirit rises, the more difficult it is for it to dwell in the

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(this is the most difficult work, because the physical body is
led beyond the great Atlantean flood to our new culture, from
difficult to express the words in ordinary language. Thus we

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occult experience, just as the scientist observes and counts
is difficult in our language to find words to express these
more easily, although it is extremely difficult to give an
elementary kingdom. It is difficult for our present qualities
the occult sense it is incorrect. For at the present time man
saying which has always been found in occult circles. Truly,
the great difficulty, for you must now say, if you wish to
called occult wisdom. As long as you build up a scaffolding

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Polarian human race. It is difficult to form any idea of this
Has man been asleep? In the occult sense humanity has been
let us, even if it be somewhat difficult, look a little
occult significance. What must the number 666 actually mean

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the occultist freedom is inseparably connected with the idea
systematic-ally cultivated; then you will see that you may
most difficult to overcome. To-day he still has to leave both
that, in a certain way, it will not be very difficult for
every occult work and exposition. You may be sure of one
certainly not based on an occult foundation. Nothing in
cultivating the earth, in the piercing of the earth, they
difficult to understand. Now I should like to say one thing

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represents the occult sign for the Intelligence of the Sun, the Christ,
Asia Minor. And neither was it difficult to prove the existence of locust
numbers are to be read but it was dripping with occultism. How does
time, the occult sign of the lamb. The lamb receives the book with the
In occult schools the
look into the past a little we see the Atlantean culture before the
calculated by occult wisdom, just as today one calculates time according

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represents the occult sign for the Intelligence of the Sun, the Christ,

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represents the occult sign for the Intelligence of the Sun, the Christ,
beings who were firmly anchored in our materialistic culture. Such a day
what this personality signifies within our cultural life. The nineteenth
Occidental culture, no one was found as suitable as Helena Petrovna
in occultism: the twelve goes into the seven, which means that the physical
the cultivation
the Atlantean. We are now living in the age of cultural epochs.

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represents the occult sign for the Intelligence of the Sun, the Christ,
cultivated. So you will find one aspect emphasized in one territory, and
What we refer to as the various peoples or folk groups cultivate particular
human being, another folk cultivates another aspect. But we have mentioned
another only the physical body, is cultivated. In our various incarnations
physical body is especially cultivated. The individual words characterize
Cultivating the astral body means, then, to work manas into the astral
body. As much as you have cultivated your astral body — to that
budhi is especially cultivated. What does that mean? If manas is especially
cultivated, and if the human being has become a knower, then what we
In the same way the entire Apocalypse is composed with occult signs.
the occult script.
in the occult language of signs. Theosophy must point out this language
of occult signs.
it wants to be a real influence on our modern culture.

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represents the occult sign for the Intelligence of the Sun, the Christ,
Old Testament and in ancient Jewish occult teaching there were, as in
the exercises prescribed in occult schools, a clairvoyant sees entirely
impressions of the day. Only the prescriptions from the occult school
body all that had been prepared in the astral through occult exercises.
post-Atlantean cultures. In the seven seals, he portrays the seven cultures
post-Atlantean. It consists of seven cultures of which we are now in
And in the seven trumpets, he portrays the seven cultures of the seventh
present-day culture we can see in the physical world. But what will

Title: Reading Pictures of the Apocalypse: Part 2: Lecture Two
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represents the occult sign for the Intelligence of the Sun, the Christ,
must go beyond our culture back to the Greco-Latin cultural epoch, the
age. Further back in the past we arrive at the Egypto-Chaldean cultural
back to the primal holy age of the ancient Indian culture. In this way
we finally arrive back at the time of the great Atlantean culture which
blossoming of the Atlantean culture, we find the modern human being's
abilities that our present-day culture has created; for example, they did
centers at that time. Our present-day mystery and occult schools work
were cultivated at the same time. The leaders of that time can be called
conscious vision of the spiritual world. Unlike our culture, which is
of Atlantis. Therefore, he had the task of seeing to it that the culture
all for the post-Atlantean cultures. These new cultures required the
a sunrise over the great post-Atlantean culture, they developed the
for present-day culture. This was necessary for the future.
is achieved through occult training; the etheric body is transformed
Persian culture. In place of the seven Indian teachers came the first
culture; his astral body was especially well developed. When he was
became one of the most important personalities of post-Atlantean culture
to become the greatest teacher of the fourth post-Atlantean cultural
cultures were inspired by the great sun oracle of ancient Atlantis, and
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represents the occult sign for the Intelligence of the Sun, the Christ,
for the seven representatives of the seven cultural epochs of the
and the human physical body was still very difficult to distinguish
physical nature the most. The occultist refers to them as the bull people.
with the view of an occultist sees this picture of the four human groups
post-Atlantean culture. This catastrophe will also have its mission, its
one another, a war of the classes. This future catastrophe is difficult
fall; and in the mysteries of the black occult schools these magical
consciousness of self. We will then have learned, in these seven cultures
to the first epoch of our culture, to the holy Rishis who pointed to
of black magic in the ancient Indian culture. We find the greatest misuse
In the occult schools

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represents the occult sign for the Intelligence of the Sun, the Christ,
John's overview. He came from a cultural era when much was still taken
these cultural epochs is presented with the seven stars in his hand.
Looking at the cultural epoch that saw the outer world as maya or illusion,
of the Atlantean cultural epoch he refers to what lives in their memories.
people of the second cultural epoch, the age of Zarathustra. He speaks to
world as the expression of the spirit. In this way the cultivation of
the earth's fields should be like a cultivation of the physical body
that existed parallel to the ancient Persian culture also looked up
remnants of the second cultural epoch remained. We know how mightily
each of the various cultural epochs; for souls always have something
During the Egyptian culture
that our culture now begins to climb upward to a spiritual understanding
cultural evolution has as its meaning the goal of leading humanity through
cultural epochs.
second letter because this letter refers to the second cultural epoch.
In all of occultism there are certain symbols that dominate
not yet place any value on knowledge; the culture of Zarathustra just as

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represents the occult sign for the Intelligence of the Sun, the Christ,
we begin to count our fifth age, the Germanic cultural epoch. The fourth
spiritual world. But Greek culture could, in the fullest sense, feel what
not yet exist in the earliest times of our culture. Only gradually
came into this stream. We find in Roman culture a complete skepticism
place in such a way that what was cultivated in the Egypto-Chaldean age
age must found a new culture after the war of all against all. The seventh
culture, will be perceptible on the earth in the seventh age. But these
the entire culture of earth has to offer. The seventh age will be such
over into a distant future. The key will be turned in the sixth cultural

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represents the occult sign for the Intelligence of the Sun, the Christ,
age are reflected in the first post-Atlantean culture, in the ancient
outside. This separation was reflected in the ancient Persian cultural
cultural epoch.
the ancient Egyptian culture. Hence, the religious life was a worship
culture. This era had an aspect of the world that had already presented
have nothing to repeat. We have seen how ancient cultures were always
An Outline of Occult Science

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represents the occult sign for the Intelligence of the Sun, the Christ,
a more occult
cultures had the task of reflecting in human souls the great cosmic
processes that had taken place in the course of time. In our cultural
the question: If only now, in the fifth post-Atlantean cultural epoch,
occult process taking place here. Christ lived, of course, for only
the fifth letter in the Apocalypse how the people of the fifth cultural
self-evident for the cultural epoch of the community of Philadelphia.
The wisdom of the fifth cultural age will blossom forth as a flower of
love in the sixth cultural age.

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represents the occult sign for the Intelligence of the Sun, the Christ,
second part of Faust, a very important book from the occult

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represents the occult sign for the Intelligence of the Sun, the Christ,
being externally. Just as seven successive cultural epochs can be listed
of spiritual culture will have overcome their lower nature. They will
Indian that the external world, material culture, appears as yet untouched
fruit of the third age, the Egypto-Chaldean culture, during which humankind
social laws did not exist among human beings in the Persian culture.
weighed. In this way, what will appear as the fruit of our seven cultures
In the Greco-Latin culture,
opposed to this is working, through a certain cultivation of the I,
much. But they will be the most important cultural force after the war
culture, as it were: on water and on earth. But humankind must take
clairvoyant through occult training can also experience what the writer

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represents the occult sign for the Intelligence of the Sun, the Christ,
in cabalistic sections of occultism, the custom of writing letters with
been explained in occult schools by real experts who do not explain

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represents the occult sign for the Intelligence of the Sun, the Christ,
unite with the sun. On this Jupiter-Earth all the great cultural ages

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represents the occult sign for the Intelligence of the Sun, the Christ,
culture the brain was entirely soft, more or less like that of a
In the cultural epochs
by the Yahweh-Christ principle in the next cultural epoch.
the I, in our culture, the I permeates the consciousness soul. In the
is characterized in occultism with a “0” or zero. Therefore,
of wisdom in the next age. What is exoteric culture today was mystery

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“Man” — a word we here wish to understand in its occult
own day. When we speak of Egyptian civilization in the occult sense we
their highly cultivated sense of beauty, and on the other hand in the
means of history and of occultism we can trace out that which took
place in ancient Egypt. We see how the threads of culture stretch from
When art still possessed occult traditions these mutually supporting
with stone; that which was already there occultly they filled with
mysterious occult currents are active also beneath, so that what is
— but your body held fast as a mummy. This fact had an occult
This ought to arouse a faint idea of the countless occult threads

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It is very difficult for the materialist thought of the present day to
principle of initiation it is very difficult nowadays to obtain
wisdom, more difficult than formerly, when the memory of ancient
is difficult; therefore we can understand that the sense-world seems

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milk. This is an absolutely occult fact. The sensation of the earth
abstraction. It is not so to the occult observer. To him the whole

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accordance with Rosicrucian occultism be called the Sons of Life

Title: Universe/Earth/Man: Lecture V: The sacrifice of substance by the Thrones, Kyriotetes, Dynamis, and Exusiai
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something which, considered occultly, is substantial — namely,
and final conditions. It would be very difficult to describe the early
(in the occult sense), and everything within the Sun passed through
When we examine closely the course of human development and culture,
Occult observation reveals that in the beginning, when ancient Saturn
foundations of the human physical body. One who can occultly observe

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occult perception on his environment can express his feeling
symbol of the fish is a token of that which was cultivated within the
man is unaffected by culture, when we realize that the feelings we
fear of snakes, but this is by culture; but the fundamental feeling of

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way to form a clear idea of what in Spiritual or Occult Science is
observed occultly we see it as a body inhabited by man on which he
realize that a world-being like our sun has developed occultly from a
whole matter to be considered occultly we should see that each planet
Let us now turn to man. It is not difficult to imagine man as a
When picture consciousness is acquired through occult development and
occult development, to inspired consciousness. This

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another sense it is they who bestow it. It is difficult to picture
streams up to them, which man has produced. It is not difficult to
through occult development could rise in full consciousness to the
culture was founded under the influence of Initiates by means of
colonies. This was the wonderful awe-inspiring pre-Vedic culture, the
physical plane and can cultivate it here.” They paid attention to

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ages of European culture; that there were some people who in certain

Title: Universe/Earth/Man: Lecture XI: The Reversing of Egyptian Remembrance by way of Arabism.
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place in one age of culture are by no means unconnected with the ages
Suppose that we represent here the seven consecutive cultural periods
relationship to the universe. In every realm of Greek culture we see
strengthened even more in these ideas by what occultism has to say
ancient Egypt, and had then occupied an important position in the cult
It is therefore very difficult for man at the present time to arrive
gained more material culture; but in order to gain this another
Taking the whole of modern culture, we have to see in it a memory of
Egyptian culture; Egyptian thought is reflected in it from its
The division in modern culture between science and belief did not
post-Atlantean culture was prepared for during the Atlantean epoch.
group of people, by whom the stream of culture was carried from West
passed into the Persian civilization. In the third cultural period,
the Old Testament, who had exactly that combination of faculties which
merely external faculty of judgment. Pure logical thought, mere human
human brain as its instrument; the cultivated brain makes logical
for external culture. It is only capable of comprehending what is
European culture has been gripped by materialism. We also see how the
striving, a mighty longing towards a cultural impulse? The Egyptians
culture will unite, a whole will be constructed, this time preferably

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the Culture-streams of Ancient
ancient Egypt during Egyptian cultural epoch, that the same souls are
cultural monuments that they see again today. The same souls that
changed. Before ancient Egypt there were still other cultures. By
means of occult research we can see much further back into the gray
We may assume that when quieter times set in, special cultural
a region of central Asia, and from that point cultural colonies were
and had its own culture. Paying due heed to what was already present,
these colonists founded the first post-Atlantean culture. This was
final echoes of a very early Indian culture that was directed by
culture of a unique kind, and we today can form only a feeble idea of
Indian culture.
After this culture there followed another, the second cultural epoch
flowed and the Persian culture arose. Long did the Indian culture
land of the Nile, the culture that is comprised under the four names,
culture arose in Asia Minor and northern Africa, and reached its
the other, in the Egyptian culture.
the Greco-Roman culture, which dawns with the songs of Homer and goes
the first period, that of the Indian culture, we will find that this
first culture later recrudesces in a new form in the seventh period.
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Title: Egyptian Myths: Lecture 2: The Reflection of Cosmic Events in the Religious Views of Men.
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first cultural epoch of this period will repeat itself in the last,
the seventh; how the Persian culture will repeat itself in the sixth;
and how the Egyptian culture, which will occupy us during the next few
period. Of the fourth culture, the Greco-Latin, we were able to say
connections in the cultures of the post-Atlantean time, which follows
seventh culture of the fifth epoch will find its conclusion. These are
approach to the repetitions. When in the realm of occultism we speak
of such repetitions, saying that the first cultural epoch repeats
If we wish to understand the cultural epochs more clearly, we must
unconsciousness. For the occultist, this is really not so much a lack
see him pass through the cultural epochs of the post-Atlantean time;
Egypto-Chaldean-Babylonian, the Greco-Latin culture, and our fifth
culture. What, above all things, had man lost? He had lost something
the etheric dust or points, and the five cultural periods of the
first post-Atlantean culture recapitulated in the spirit what had
Now let us look at the second cultural period. In the principles of
In the third cultural epoch, man had to say to himself, “In me
cultural periods. What took place during sleep in the Atlantean time
Yesterday we examined the relations of the single cultures of the
reflected in the religious views of these cultures.

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the holy pre-Vedic Indian culture, in its philosophical conceptions,
second cultural period, the old Persian, as a philosophic-religious
ancient Indian, Persian, and Egyptian cultures. If we want to form a
true picture of the religious experiences of these ancient cultures,
whole of Atlantean culture was destroyed immediately after the great
having retained a high degree of clairvoyant ability. This faculty did
his pupils deep into Asia and thence fructified the other cultures,
Asia, whence the great cultural streams could flow into the most
Northern India was the first country to receive its new cultural
little groups of cultural pioneers nowhere found un-populated
Egypt, whenever the different post-Atlantean cultures appeared,
religious ideas which for that age are less advanced, less cultivated;
described above, and into these images was poured the culture that was
In ancient India the Rishis guided the culture. We must try to
those who could develop their spiritual faculties learned to see more
deeply into the world-all, awakening the slumbering faculties so as to
proceeded the spiritual impulses of the various cultures. In order
is difficult. Thoughts can work on the etheric body today, and in the

Title: Egyptian Myths: Lecture 4: The Experiences of Initiation. The Mysteries of the Planets. The Descent of the Primeval Word.
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the ancient holy Indian culture. This was the fruit of the Greek's
of the ancient holy Indian culture and had Manu for their own teacher.
crept into the naming of the planets. In all occult nomenclature, what
of the solar system. We find hints of this in many ancient occult
feel something of what flowed into this culture at that time. When the
culture, were transmitted to the following epochs, and were
the fourth post-Atlantean period, in the Greco-Latin culture. These
person with occult training knows that when the physical body
In the Egyptian culture there still reigned that principle which, in
great teacher of that first sublime culture. In the first
post-Atlantean culture it was the Rishis who brought the sublime
of higher Devachan. In the succeeding cultural periods, what was seen

Title: Egyptian Myths: Lecture 5: The Genesis of the Trinity of Sun, Moon, and Earth. Osiris and Typhon.
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various cultural periods of the post-Atlantean time. The deepest
earth were reflected in the Persian and Egyptian cultures. What
ensouled, inspirited, by the force of love. This is difficult for the
occultists are the only exception. One who reads a description of the
hurled out. Mighty catastrophes shook the earth, and for the occultist

Title: Egyptian Myths: Lecture 6: The Influence of Osiris and Isis. Facts of Occult Anatomy and Physiology.
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Facts of Occult Anatomy and Physiology.
In this Egyptian occult teaching we have a chapter of occult anatomy
as this was cultivated in an Egyptian mystery-school, insofar as man

Title: Egyptian Myths: Lecture 7: Evolutionary Events in the Human Organism up to the Departure of the Moon. Osiris and Isis as Builders of the Upper Human Form.
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changes, this legend pervaded all the cults of Egypt as long as any
mysteries, but it is also accepted as true by the modern occultist of

Title: Egyptian Myths: Lecture 8: The Stages of Evolution of the Human Form The Expulsion of the Animal Beings. The Four Human Types.
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imagination, as some kind of goddess to whom a cult had been dedicated
here described was known in certain regions, the Nerthus cult existed.
way for real seeing is a symbol in the occult sense. A symbol is a

Title: Egyptian Myths: Lecture 9: The Influence of the Sun and Moon Spirits, of the Isis and Osiris Forces. The Change in Consciousness. The Conquest of the Physical Plane.
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which could be called “facts of occult anatomy and
between the whole Egyptian cultural period, and our own time.
clairvoyant perception, together with the faculty of seeing the gods
even into the post-Atlantean cultures. At the time when Christianity
consciousness for the people of the first post-Atlantean culture, whom
into the souls of the people of the Indian culture in general, in the
Indian culture the time was past when he could see into the spiritual
post-Atlantean culture entertained little interest for what occurred
cultural period, out of which arose Zarathustra, the great pupil of
between the Indian and Persian cultures, we may say that a member of
the Persian culture felt the physical to be not merely a burden, but a
was taken by the members of the Persian culture. They hoped that the
of the Indian culture, who did not plant his feet in this way, would
cultural epoch, in the Egyptian-Babylonian-Assyrian-Chaldean culture.
me by occult vision, by initiation. When the initiating priest endows
the third cultural period. Man had progressed so far that for the
by piece our post-Atlantean cultures embodied their impulses in human
In all of this we have somewhat characterized the first three cultural
achieved in the fourth cultural period.
Boecklin's colors,** but all occult
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Title: Egyptian Myths: Lecture 10: Old Myths as Pictures of Cosmic Facts. Darkening of Mans Spiritual Consciousness. The Initiation Principle of the Mysteries.
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good use, despite the assertion of modern cultural history that Greek
sloughed off all the cravings that he had cultivated through the
culture. Then we looked upon the gigantic pyramids and the other
culture, he felt himself more connected with physical matter, and he
continued, together with the acquisition of certain faculties with
such a view will never be able to give a cultural impulse. These are
present the real occult facts, and then try to understand the pictures
that have arisen out of the occult facts and have passed over into the
nothing to the occult facts, but leave this delicate embellishment to

Title: Egyptian Myths: Lecture 11: The Ancient Egyptian Doctrine of Evolution. The Cosmic View of the Organs and their Coarsening in Modern Times.
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culture. It has been stated that the Indian period will repeat itself
gods with animal heads. Therefore from an occult view it was quite
implanted the faculty of intelligence in men, and in portraying him they
patient. A great treasure of occult wisdom in the domain of medicine
one-sided way. The true occultist will never be one-sided. How often
can proceed from occultism. If there were no campaigns against the
fifth cultural periods.

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the present cultural epoch. We have seen how, in this Greco-Latin
culture, a marriage was achieved between spirit and matter in Greek
tragedy, sought to portray his own union with this epoch of culture.
If in the succeeding time the progress of culture had continued in the
but the spirit had not been lost. The normal course of culture would
culture thereafter. It showed the way to the overcoming of matter. It
Now the various cultures did not come to abrupt ends. The essence of
the Indian culture remained, although it underwent a change. It was
preserved alongside the following cultures. In the continuation of the
Indian culture that was contemporaneous with the Egyptian, something
accepts the standpoint of occultism.†
person. For the occultist spiritual experiences are entirely valid,
world, and cultivate in the physical world what he had inherited from

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understand a great part of the world. But human nature is difficult to
education, which the spiritual-scientific movement will have to cultivate

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gibberish!” But when one knows the difficulties, one will also wait
apparently most difficult reports given out by physical-sensible research.
For occult sight, we can
forces to pass through the astral element. Thus, the occult investigator
can be brought to light with the methods of occult research. You will
as the result of occult research in the astral field can be definitely
metamorphosed organs. These have none of the faculties of the other
an occultist? Here are the most varied structures astrally crowded
occult research: namely, that in the human being, too, the most diverse
There is a certain occult
occult principles of animal astrality. This is such an example, and
to seek to solve from the occult standpoint. We have seen an important
occult truth demonstrated externally in a relatively lower animal. Let
the water. But do not imagine that any occult insight will disturb these
reflections. When you shed light there with the facts of occult research

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History of the Physical Plane and Occult History
andOccult History
Spiritual Science you can gather that by means of occult
describe by means of occult science and which man has to live
comprehensive occult observation it is absolutely proved that
something regarding the chapter of “occult
— of which it is difficult for present day man to gain
plane. From this you see that everything related as occult
or a symbol. Occult investigation shows you that it is the
deceased. This is an occult truth. He could then tell them

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we must fulfill if we want to develop the forces and faculties slumbering
through occult exercises in the right proportion. The ascent into the
object of the occult exercises received by the student is to train feeling,
on the occult path through the development of feeling, one must not
feeling by way of occult exercises is a much more intimate and inward
before us in occult science is seen in pictures. The black cross with
stage that can be reached to a certain extent through occult training,
of the astral world. Even if such a one had been able through occult
in occult traditions so much weight is laid on the test carried out
whole life of feeling. And occult training has this sole purpose: that
of their feeling and will through occult methods, they attain to these
higher faculties.

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recognition of those occult forces which formed the brain. When the

Title: Lecture: Four Human Group Souls (Lion, Bull, Eagle, Man)
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which are drawn from the most advanced occult investigations, and
the second cultivated everything connected with the physical plane
more of the activity based on physical creation. Occultly regarded,

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it is only with the help of the facts of occult life that you can get
alter and improve the plant by means of all sorts of horticultural
presented great difficulties, because things go in through one ear
process of recovery meets with greater difficulties in the one than
forgetting the things that made Kamaloca so difficult for him.

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people who work out of occultism — and there again they only
being effected in the method based on occultism, or cares whether the
Occult Significance of the Blood, e.Ed]
out of occultism who have said this, but they have been called things
occult medicine these things are also described by applying the
of occultism — for which specific remedies are to be used. This
occult insight, these things have to be brought up to date and put in
knowledge or on materialism. Perhaps it is even more difficult

Title: Lecture: The Ten Commandments
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the people, if I were to describe what emanated from such a cult —
the Apis cult, for example — in the way of popular medicines for
depended upon the initiates in these cult centers to provide the
emphasized in all the following laws that occult powers stand behind
only to something abstract, but also to something by which occult
people engaged in agriculture. That is why — so conclude the scholars

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to someone who is specially deeply schooled in occultism. Two people
ancient times lived and felt with his environment. Man's faculty of
body independent, then it will be very difficult to help such a

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 4: Rhythm in the Bodies of Man
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certain processes, but they are still noticeable to occult
out something that occultism has always taught, but which will appear
to manage all their agriculture by observing the rules in such

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THE THEME OF THE lecture to-day is of a profoundly occult character,
occultism but that the same applies to the problem of earthquakes if
question of how far the poetic presentation tallies with the occult
by deeper, occult insight. The name itself suggests that Mephistopheles
epoch. If that had happened, man's faculties of perception and
mist and darkness around his faculties of perception that he makes no
Zarathustra was to instill culture into a people who, unlike the
world. Zarathustra's mission was to impart to his people a culture
the faculty, still possessed by man in the Atlantean epoch, to
Thus it was to Ahriman that the faculty of human cognition was
men, a Being of whom they had some knowledge through the culture
whom the Fifth Epoch of culture was to be born, an attitude of soul
certain wrongful training awakens occult forces whereby egoism is
precisely upon these occult forces, an influence that can soon become
order to attain occult knowledge a man is induced, for example, to
that can possibly be applied for the purpose of acquiring occult
physical body are taken as the starting-point for occult training.
at the same time he lends himself in any way to occult practices, then
the occult forces which are awakened penetrate into the etheric body
certain occult teachings the hosts of Ahriman are also called the
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difficult but which can nevertheless be understood, we can begin to

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man's life flows backwards. This is something that is difficult for
then onwards. This is difficult to imagine, as we are so very
life offered us to pass us by, so that other faculties have remained
medical science proper in the Egyptian Hermes cult, but only to the
Greek and Roman cult of Aesculapius.

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that human thinking is but a transformation of a faculty also
Thus to ‘cultivate’ spiritual science means to understand that the
mind finds great difficulty here.
the faculty of perception in the spiritual world; the preparation must
very truth — the faculty of being able to see in that world must be
of occultism fall to the ground. There can be no question of any such
opposition. There are not two occultisms, there is only one occultism;
eastern occultism is the same as western occultism, why is it that in
eastern occultism, Christ is not acknowledged? The right reply is that
upon us, for we fully acknowledge eastern occultism. If asked whether
we acknowledge what eastern occultism says about Brahma, about the
further? No indeed! We acknowledge what is said by eastern occultism,

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animal but out of the group soul. It is very difficult, of course, to
and actually regulates it was called in the occult teaching of the

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 8: The Manifestation of the Ego in the Different Races of Men
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though they had great clairvoyant faculties, and who looked out to
bring the right form of culture to each different shade of the
were the ones who cultivated what we might call inner brooding upon
from a civilisation of the visible towards a cultural epoch of the

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 9: Evolution, Involution and Creation out of Nothingness
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difficult concepts. But as we have been working for some years in
closely now, for we are coming to a most important and most difficult
we come to a difficult concept which shall be made clear by an
This is a difficult concept, but it will always be included in

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that Theosophy as a teaching is based on the greater occult
culture was connected to this time, the end of the eighteenth
established in the occult, in the spiritual worlds. To add to
How did it happen that the experiences of the occult world,
which we can reveal today in occult knowledge, rose so uniquely

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churches Mass was read according to the strictest Cult, giving
people the feeling that they couldn't live without the Cult.
his preaching was with great difficulty because he could only

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be difficult, it must be borne in mind, that in spiritual
culture remain wholly in inception, you may represent as a
that is quite as difficult as it is important. Many people,

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anthroposophic occult science of man, and they will remember
scientific or occult methods, we can build in ourselves a
and cultivate the connection between these worlds and our
difficult to imagine, because you have to think, that the very
appears as spiritual hearing. This is of course difficult to
This feeling is called, in occult science, the feeling of self

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occult themes namely getting a glimpse into the Higher Worlds.
expressed theoretically is that anthroposophic occult science
the occult scientific sense self-knowledge in relation to the
element we discuss to what could be called “occult
scientific” with constant consideration to the occult side.
have an opportunity in the occult scientific field to gaze at
self-knowledge which could be cultivated and recommended. For
which the anthroposophic occult scientist is familiar —
even more difficult area of self-knowledge. Although this which
I want to immediately link up to occult facts. We all know that
how difficult it is in the present human cycle to actually
only with difficulty measure the way to his Self, his
flowing into the theory of occult science. Opinions and points

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CHAPTER FROM OCCULT HISTORY:
the Indian culture.
During the second post Atlantic culture, the Persian, the first
to start with agriculture, grew fonder of the physical plane.
third culture, the Egyptian, indicated an ever larger love for
culmination point in cultivation on the physical plane is found
in the Greek-Latin culture. Here the marriage between spiritual
culture, but there is also something else. When a clairvoyant
This fourth Cultural epoch was the time in which the upward
What now — in contrast to the first four cultural epochs
themselves with occult knowledge of the Bible, the more will be
discoveries, are used to generate external cultural means
Christ appeared during the fourth Cultural Epoch, hence the

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the five cultural epochs - the Indian, Persian,
Chaldean-Egyptian-Judaic, the Greek-Roman and Germanic cultural
the cultural epochs continued. In the cultural epoch of
more we approach the later cultural epochs, the more the veil
cultural epoch onwards, a particular form of proclamation was
with all the occult arts of the Egyptian Initiates, was Moses;
later in the oriental culture symbols and images of God
During the Persian cultural epoch however, the students of
idols came at a much later time. The ancient Persian culture
we come to the third cultural epoch which we encounter mainly
what the Egyptian cultural leaders said to the people: when you
Persian culture in images of an astral presence, and in the
Egyptian culture, now single and alone beneath the non-sensory
culture made the supersensible clear to their people was
Let's place ourselves once more in the Egyptian culture. Much
of culture. Don't believe that these orders were given as they
in ancient India, out of the ether body in the Persian culture,
occult image. This has to be thought about or otherwise no real
an occult and medicinal indication. “If you acknowledge
in the genuine occult sense, when the human being forms the
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our attention to a certain chapter of occult history.
successive culture-epochs following it, but we go even
investigated, it is true, by occult means, but in a certain
also an occult history, and you will understand what this
souls beheld the creations of the old Indian culture, the
different cultures to life. It must here be borne in mind
spread new streams of culture. The first mission went from
and leaders of the first Post-Atlantean culture — that
Post-Atlantean culture therefore arose under the influence of
basic character of this culture. The pupils of the Rishis had
continued its course and the epoch of ancient Persian culture
the cultivation of the earth. The culture inspired by the
discover the means of promoting culture, to live more and
culture-epoch which was already in danger of falling prey to
cultivated the soil. — Man had now brought his spiritual
of belonging to Osiris gradually faded away. While culture
Greco-Roman age, the fourth Post-Atlantean culture-epoch. The
Greek culture stems from this marriage between the spiritual
So culture
of the Event of Golgotha brought before our souls by occult

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of his deep insight into occult truths, Novalis speaks of Christ as
it difficult to write a poem on the subject. But in
same extent as later on, but also because man's faculty of
had as yet no faculty for cognising the material world; he could neither
Egyptian culture founded by Hermes, the conditions heralded
He was not proclaimed, whenever one can speak of human culture and
establish one culture after another in the physical world. To
difficult for him during life between birth and death to gaze
were related to the spiritual world. It is difficult to

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good and noble as himself. It was difficult for him to find anyone
time the task is a little more difficult, but we shall manage it. I
things the occult origin of fairy tales — and the king's son

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difficult to enter with their thoughts into knowledge of
spiritual knowledge. Occult science offers us quite a different

Title: Lecture: Practical Training In Thought (1966)
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acquired the faculty of letting the new picture melt into the preceding one
He need not even choose so difficult a subject as this one. The point is not
at all to change one's mental process through difficult exercises, but to
difficult to overcome such a condition, it is extremely useful to do so. It
If he had cultivated correct habits of thinking, this man would have said
the parents of our thoughts. He who knows life knows how difficult it is
sound and wholesome subjects that are least affected by our culture.

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find it difficult to imagine that something may take place in the invisible
need not even be as difficult as the one I have just suggested. The point
is, not that you try to work upon your processes of thought by difficult
many people will become fidgety, and that is a difficult thing to
is more important that he should develop the faculty for seeing

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sensitive faculty by working with others in a branch. For we
their midst who should carry on cultural life when the
center of the post-Atlantean culture. After the group had
Atlantean culture and thus to lay the foundation for the
progression of a new culture. The sages living in the smaller
Indian culture.
ancient, holy culture of the pre-Vedic era originated from
proclaimed — those Vedas that are far too difficult, if
clairvoyant methods. It is for this reason that the occult
highest values of the Atlantean culture were saved and
Zarathustra's culture.
the prehistoric Persian culture through the teachings of
and astrology, agriculture, and other disciplines. All this
always preserved, and occult schools have always known the
with the help of occult methods, they have to exercise much
occultists make mistakes in this regard and imagine that they

Title: Lecture: Christianity in Human Evolution
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tribe of the Semites back to him as its ancestor. A genuinely occult
are able to carry on occult research into such things know the
human reflection was developed and impressed upon the culture of that
cultivated.
cultivating and disciplining our faculties, what has become of it? It

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Semites back to him as its ancestor. A genuinely occult
occult research into such things know the following about
culture of the time. Scholasticism accomplished this by an
a sign of ignorance. On the other hand, we should cultivate
cultivating and disciplining our mental faculties? Do you
sanctuary. Culture since the sixteenth century has become the
culture of egotism.

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of the Semites to Shem as its ancestor. A genuinely occult view
who are able to carry on occult research into such things know
upon the culture of the period. It was between the 13th and 15th
comprehend what is in question, should be cultivated.
its content, but as a means of cultivating and disciplining the
faculties? Do you know what became of it? It became modern

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and the soul-forces — indeed all the faculties —
Atlantean culture as the “Atlantean Oracles.”
what we have often discussed as the postAtlantean cultures.
cultures. To put it differently, the Great Initiate had to
for these cultural epochs.
of Atlantean culture? Certainly it was quite different from
later cultures. In ancient Atlantis, an individual belonging
to the highest level of cultural life — the levels at
possessed extraordinary clairvoyant faculties and who was
clairvoyant faculties and powers with which they could pierce
the pillars of Atlantean culture. We have already stressed
the leaders of the Atlantean culture were not the people who
not considered as belonging to the aristocracy of cultural
cultural life and who were the acknowledged masters of a
that humanity prepare itself for a new culture of the future,
culture imbued with spiritual capacities will arise, and it
at the highest levels of cultural life because they will not
were in a way destined to die out with their culture,
representatives of modern culture look contemptuously down at
prepare the dawn of a new culture whereas erudition of the
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peoples. The Atlantean culture was magnificent, and mankind
that now can be retrieved only with great difficulty. Just as
culture continued to develop was the area that later came to
world. It was therefore not difficult for their teachers

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to this time the human faculties, for example reason, were
hierarchies and thus he was able to solve the most difficult

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page in the book about the life of old cultures, which
element that pulsates through us is cultivated, there our
evolve who had only minor clairvoyant faculties, but
heavily mixed with water. Later, however, when their culture
to navigate the water, and this led the last cultural races
waters, success came during the time when Atlantean culture
They were the ones whose clairvoyant faculties, though
the post-Atlantean cultures possible.
what was subsequently developed by the various cultures, the
Persian, Egyptian, GraecoLatin, and our cultures, the earth
were attracted to a life in which the external faculties for
In a certain way, things today are more difficult for human
future cultures. The true theosophists in our time are
the pillars of external culture, active as inventors and
of culture and that unites its members with others in
go along with contemporary culture.” Oh yes, they do
external culture can exist without spiritual life.
anthroposophy can. Today's cultural leaders use the denial of
culture yearns for a new content, or in this environment
culture of his ego and astral body, but when he had made his
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Title: Principle/Economy: Lecture VII: The Macrocosmic and the Microcosmic Fire: The Spiritualization of Breath and Blood
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back one more time to the prophecies of ancient cultures. All

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faculty to draw from his own innermost being the forces that
members of his being, it was so difficult for him to overcome. All the
occult event taking place in the spiritual world. It is a strange

Title: Principle/Economy: Lecture VIII: The Event of Golgotha. The Brotherhood of the Holy Grail. The Spiritualized Fire.
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way we must gain a clear understanding about the difficulties
difficult for him to overcome them. What he had to go through
physical plane and became a believer only through an occult

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shall stress more the occult side of yesterday's
observation. The four post-Atlantean cultures somehow had to
cultural epoch, such a reflection no longer took place
existed that such etheric bodies, which had been cultivated
post-Atlantean cultural epoch, possible for us to develop an
thirteenth and fourteenth centuries? A mysterious, occult
the Apocalypse that the people in the fifth cultural epoch
obvious for the cultural period of the Philadelphia
community. The wisdom of the fifth cultural period will open

Title: Principle/Economy: Lecture X: The God of the Alpha and the God of the Omega
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culture if it was not to wither. Spiritual Science is a new
difficult to understand why the highest authorities have
traced its cultural epochs from the ancient Indian down to
only then were they able to cultivate it. At this time, human
themselves into the world and work on it with their faculties
that Zarathustra, the initiator of the Persian culture, felt
difficult to transmit this knowledge fully to human beings.
ancient Persian culture, human beings were still capable of
culture, such was less the case; the world between death and
that is the difficult and dark side of life in the spiritual
world. Cultural phenomena such as mummification are deeply
ancient Indian culture it was possible for human beings to
in ancient India, but in the Persian culture, they became the
cultivate and improve it. Ancient Persia formed, as it were,
name Zarathos, or Nazarathos. Within the Chaldaean culture he

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simply want to tell you what Spiritual Science or occultism
vantage point of Rosicrucian occultism.
details into them. Rosicrucian occultism presents one of the
great principles of occult theosophical investigation from
truth, for occult investigation can and must flow directly
to cultivate ancient wisdom and to preserve the treasures of
founded ancient Persian culture and who was the teacher in
the occult schools of that time. Skythianos was a highly
subsequent incarnations he led the occult schools of Central
character of Rosicrucian occultism more closely. Let us gain
Indian culture. If we went further back in human evolution to
culture in those ancient times, let us today be content to
culture and all spiritual life of those times emanated. Our
modern word, we can characterize the concept of those cultic
investigation and occult wisdom in ancient Atlantis, but
occult capacities were connected with special planets.
also the post-Atlantean culture proceeded from him. The
of the post-Atlantean culture from among the so-called
begun gradually to lose the clairvoyant faculty were chosen.
the sanctuary in Asia from which the postAtlantean culture
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considerable amount, of knowledge of occult science to make its way into
into olden times, for example into the ancient Egyptian culture, and
task of the Western world was so to shape external culture and gain
of the inner character of this ancient Chaldean culture. External means
culture.
age and the inflow of spiritual knowledge into our culture is needed
realize that for the Rosicrucians it was much more difficult than for
was cultivated in true Rosicrucianism is to be found in literature. The
deepest spiritual truths cultivated by the Rosicrucians were interpreted
its culture. There are egoists who withdraw from the tasks of the present
culture over the globe, needs methods of spiritual activity different
from those of earlier epochs. Occultists are aware of this. Modern
of theosophy. The role of Rosicrucian theosophy or occultism is to satisfy
the salon or for the hermit, but for the whole of human culture.

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with the principles of occult investigation may believe that it would
by a clairvoyant or by an occult school, cannot be investigated a second
It may be said that the divine beings fertilize a faculty of seership
the occult schools and been faithfully harbored by the Masters, and
to occult investigation. Why do we use this expression, “world
and we cannot struggle against the occult world with moral considerations.

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part of all, namely, his physical body. But the occultist knows that this
developed a certain faculty of clairvoyance has also acquired such mastery
explicable on the basis of this finding of occult investigation. Thus,
This inner work upon oneself is known in occultism as purification,
this is dependent upon occult training, is known as buddhi or life spirit.
Through occult training this can actually be brought about consciously
the so-called sacred quaternary that was revered in all occult schools

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that for an occultist, urges and desires are realities. What is contained
life of Devachan. It is encouraging when the occultist experiences these
correctly here. An occultist does not swear by any original record or
original records proves to be identical, the occultist will be in a
the methods by means of which it can be observed. It is difficult to
in external culture and through relationships of every kind. The soul does

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other. Recognition of loved ones is not particularly difficult there,
as it is said in occultism, he represents in the spiritual world. An
accordance with the earlier faculties. That the human being is an
who is coming into existence? If you study what occultly and spiritually
pre-vision of difficult circumstances in the future life.
is the bearer of the faculty of human judgment, of discrimination. The
opinion that the child ought to develop the faculty of independent judgment
divine-spiritual, to the cosmic All. The faculty of abstract judgment
are to be found in nature everywhere. The occultist knows that the imagery
he cultivated until the time comes for the training of the liberated
is an occult law that no individual before his thirty-fifth year is
in the field of occultism. The thirty-fifth year is particularly important.
Where occult tradition

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be remembered that the giving of names by the old occultists was by
body to which it is now possible to look back with occult sight; this
world, according to occultists. Ancient occultism distinguished the
coincide with what the occultist means by the word. The modern expression
by the occultist, “earthy” or “solid”; a quartz
“earth” for the occultist. Everything fluid, also fluid
for the occultist, the fourth element. I well know that modern science
human beings on Saturn. For the occultist, a celestial body is only
that in certain respects tallies with occult cosmology. The girl was
The occultist knows that such a consciousness, dull and comprehensive,
thanks. First, the faculty that alone enables an ego-bearer to find
but at the same time to cultivate selfishness, egoism. If I wanted to
more difficult sacrifice had been made by the Thrones. Had they not
An Outline of Occult Science,

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no such conditions. We may perhaps speak later on about what an occultist
myth it is necessary to know in which sphere of occult investigation
of such matters that is derived from occult knowledge. Later on, when
the sun a difficult, sombre period now began for the earth, in a certain
described is called in occultism the Lemurian epoch, the epoch of the
culture is the actual basis of our anthroposophical movement. Do not
human beings would be ready to receive the wisdom. In occultism this
occult investigation reveals their true origin and teaches us that while

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that the concept of race developed in ancient Atlantis. In occultism
we recognize once again the reflection of a profound, occult trend.
more of ancient Atlantean culture. In the earliest period man possessed
were destined to found the culture belonging to the earth; they were
at the height of Atlantean culture there were seers, clairvoyants and
rudiments of the faculties possessed by men today. They could emphatically
They possessed the elementary faculties of calculation, computation,
were also centers of culture and ritual — we will call them the
the cultural instructions for the other Oracles proceeded. As well as
the new faculties, even if only in a primitive form. It was from them
in the prevailing forms of culture, people who in their own way are
that time, in Atlantis, the representatives of culture, the old magicians,
had developed the new faculty, which was useless in ancient Atlantis.
people; today, too, the proud bearers of our culture look down upon
who are developing and preparing in themselves a faculty that to the
of cultural center in Asia. He drew these individuals to him in order
to make them capable of founding post-Atlantean culture. During the
cultures.
of soul prevailed in the second post-Atlantean epoch of culture, the
This became possible for the first time with the culture inaugurated
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cultural epochs — the ancient Indian, the epoch of the Holy Rishis;
the ancient Persian, epoch of the Zarathustrian culture; the
rights are hallmarks of this cultural epoch. The Roman felt at home
expression in the realm of earth to all their faculties, the more did the
It was an occult fact,
an occult event, by which Paul was converted, and it can justly be said
When the occult investigator

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cultural-epochs up to the Greco-Latin when Christ Jesus appeared on
study our own time, the fifth cultural epoch. Because men's intelligence
the other main epochs of culture. Materialism has led to a tremendous
for example, in the department store. The culture of the present age
subtlety hitherto unachieved. It is therefore clear to occultism why
is always in evidence when the level of culture declines. This can be
soul lost the ancient faculty of intuitive vision the intellectual analysis
and applied to it the intellectual faculty that was then developing.
branches of culture, must again be united and mutually enrich each other;
races will cease, will be overcome. In the sixth cultural epoch, human
spiritual basis. In the seventh cultural epoch, which will reflect that
something for their subsequent life that will be difficult for them
of occult development.

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and spiritual beings. He felt them. Through the culture of those
however, he only sees them as physical objects, and it is difficult
this kind are both so difficult and so rarely possible to observe
as the ancient Indian culture, which we call the age of the Seven
well be that those who stand at the apex of our present culture, the
of Roman culture — that ancient, imperial Rome, the ruins
you will enter into a new culture.

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one could speak more openly from the sources of Western occultism,
which is no other than the occultism of the East transplanted and
of occultism which have been faithfully treasured in the Mysteries of
into Western occultism and into the teaching and investigations of
can be called a difference — is that Western occultism has to
occultism, of that which has its derivation from the hidden Western
of that wisdom, could only understand it with great difficulty; it
difficulty. In ancient Atlantean times, before the great catastrophe,
of this the true primeval wisdom has always been cultivated and has
Let me show you an example of the difficulty there is in
greatest difficulty to all those who want to explain it within the

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occult schools and the mysteries, streams forth from now on to all
have had to show, by means of a comparatively difficult example, how

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Beings who surround it, and who acquired their faculties in earlier

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day culture in general. On a certain territory, (let us take Germany,

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difficulty for man consists in his fixed idea that a physical body
must necessarily have a definite outline. It is difficult for a man
astronomical Venus (Mercury in the occult sense of the Mysteries).
observe what is evolving up there on Venus. (Occult Mercury). There
(occult Mercury) in the fire flames, and the spirits of Mercury
(occult Venus) in the rushing wind as their executive. ‘And God

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feeing of opposition; but if one is firmly grounded in Occultism one
real Occultism that the consciousness of the true significance of the
every Occultist knows, and which may be explained some time in more
faculties and processes of the human being, was comprised, for
third epoch of the earth. Therefore Egyptian Occultism repeats in a
features of the Egyptian civilisation. Therefore the culture of Egypt
was closely related to the constellation of the Bull, and to the cult

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Another difficulty seems to have arisen because I said that the
varied elements of civilisation and of culture. This has all to reach

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The first observation I have to make is difficult, perhaps even
of force, but also fully conscious of facts known to every occultist
As we said before, all this is extremely difficult for the modern mind
difficult for men to understand, even for those who have advanced to
until he, Paul, had his own personal occult experience of the fact

Title: Gospel of St. John: Lecture I
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cultivated, since the fourteenth century, a spiritual, a genuinely

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culture in Europe and including the period before Christianity had become
within certain restricted circles of our cultural and spiritual life.

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of biblical evidence; only the results of occult investigation are
having completed his occult investigation, he turns to the traditional
occult investigation, as regards traditional documents, is one of
is a positive hindrance to occult research. When we have reached a
certain age, we are influenced in many ways by the culture of our day.
from conventional history, the seer finds it difficult to believe in
faculty had become a mere shadow of Atlantean and early post-Atlantean
latter. Spiritual science is thereby a cultural factor which ensures

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geology, biology, archeology, and the history of culture. All this actually
is difficult for him to have faith in the akashic picture;
cultural current capable of recapturing the religious documents; and

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Occult Science, an Outline,
Occult Science,

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capable of keeping pace with solar evolution. It is difficult to find

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it is difficult to find words in our prosaic language, hence it is occasionally
cultural epoch, certain higher beings said to themselves, Now we can

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old clairvoyant faculty. Human memory covered more than the
cultivate his individual Ego as against the common or group-Ego. Two
the mission to cultivate and develop the Ego, not to destroy it. The
possible for man to cultivate his own personality; it is possible that

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their attack. They learned how to cultivate the individual human ego,
with the mission to develop and cultivate the ego, not to destroy it.
teaching of the old initiates, and said: It is possible for man to cultivate
to the cultivation and fostering of the ego, which had proved an obstacle

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imitative faculty. Much was unconsciously transmitted from the teacher
now saw. It was difficult to understand that the consciousness of the
spiritual culture, and his feelings were fired by the declarations to
culture, had made the Earth something altogether remarkable, but the
increasingly difficult to survive the death-like condition for three

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imitative faculty. A great deal passed unconsciously from teacher to
in the culture we knew as the first post-Atlantean, which ran its course
action of spiritual beings. But initiation was difficult; and for those
human life gradually changed; and in the next cultural epoch, the Egypto-Chaldean,
and more difficult to preserve life for three and a half days in a cataleptic

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through the experiences associated with Hebraic occult investigation.
enters the school of Hebrew occultism. What he learnt here enabled him
of fear or terror. I may say at once that it would not be difficult to
nature and cultivate that part of himself which is not inherited, will
apparent difficulties, that his spirit be strengthened and fortified.

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through all that could result from Hebrew occult research. Let us suppose,
and the post-Atlantean cultural epochs. It tells us of the transformations
of the Earth and the life of man in the different cultural stages. It
of such a mystery should first work his way through all difficulties

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contemporary lack of understanding in respect of occult facts.
saying, purely from their own philosophy and quite without occultism.
the message of the facts of the spiritual world, occult knowledge,

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outer culture had its source.
the way of outer cult usages among the different peoples derived from
initiation that led to the Bull cult, we shall find truth in the old
Allowance was made for the lack of understanding, in our time, of occult
their philosophy, without benefit of occultism. If we devote some attention
the occult. That is what this spiritual-scientific Weltanschauung will

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human faculty. Men were once clairvoyant even at a time when their
am.’ The consciousness of himself (self-consciousness) was a faculty
feeling very difficult for modern man to share. A man saw that his

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difficult to share. What a man calls his own self, circumscribed by

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succeeding life, and had by degrees developed the faculty for the
all events presents the greatest difficulty? For this reason, what I
with the occult), inasmuch as certain communities symbolize death by
called the ‘Occult’, the third ‘Warrior’, the fourth ‘Lion’, the fifth
occultism; he becomes a ‘Warrior’; an initiate of the second degree
fifth degree can control the occult, magical forces inherent in the
the mother. It was familiar to all those who possessed occult
environment; above all, by the cultivation of the right attitude with
profound occult truth: ‘The eye is formed by the light for the light.’

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from the outset that it is necessarily difficult to comprehend. The
all must present the greatest difficulties? I shall presently make various
it was observed by anyone who had acquired the faculty of that sort
frequently associated with the occult. In certain circles it is customary
faculties. Man has control of his circulatory system only to a slight
life process, you will not find it difficult to understand that in an
with the mission of interceding for occult truths: he becomes a Warrior.
learned that a fifth-degree initiate commands the occult-magical forces
current flowed from the Son to the Mother. Everyone with occult knowledge
occult basis. I pointed out that Schopenhauer was quite right in saying

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shadowy clairvoyance. This faculty disappeared little by little. But
in what large measure the faculty of experiencing exceptional

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surmount all manner of difficulties in the course of our study and
clairvoyance, but not as yet the faculty of clear, distinct self- or
clairvoyant faculty of those times. As the fog fills the interval
heritage of the old faculty.
and the old faculty of clairvoyance was bound up therewith. The
the old faculty of wisdom which was handed down to them with the
in and out, endowed the Atlantean etheric body with the faculty of
the etheric body with the faculty of clairvoyance. Then the time came
from the influences which had bestowed upon it the faculty of
away and became ever scantier. As far as the faculties of the soul are

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we may expect to encounter various difficult passages in elucidating
time, which we may call the Central European cultural epoch, we can
so very different from ours; and that brings us to a period of cultural
faculty.
to etheric body, was very potent, and from it derived the old faculty
less fitted to transmit the old faculty of clairvoyance. It simply developed
out provided the faculty of clairvoyance in Atlantean times. So the
and for those endowed to a lesser degree with this faculty the reports

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which it is, as a rule, difficult for people to apply the truth; it is

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in ancient Persia by means of the clairvoyant faculty of Zarathustra It was
fitted to provide the faculty of seeing the outer world in its true
which it is especially difficult, as a rule, to apply the truth, to
faculties, of which we have spoken, we see the Father principle veiled

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occult teaching; he could know what Moses had seen in the burning bush
degrees the faculties enabling him to behold the spiritual world
conception which it is very difficult to grasp.
According to occult teaching, every body is composed of 12 members.
prepare ourselves, with the help of occult truths, to discern what is

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to Paul, so to speak; to acquire for himself the faculties that will
which is indeed difficult to grasp. The human being continues to learn
According to occult teaching,
to read into them; we must merely prepare ourselves, by means of occult

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sense is a very rare faculty in our present time it does exist, and
the faculty of seeing, knowing and experiencing without the help of
difficulties for the etheric body than for the astral body in this
are the result of spiritual labour in the mysteries, in the occult
and enrich him with the mysteries if he has cultivated his organs in
consider the result. It is not difficult to imagine, from what has
physical death? Only by cultivating certain feelings and shades of
to ascend into the higher worlds, cultivate the other side of our
something is connected which it is very difficult for man to bear. It
occult science. It is the same with that which we breathe. The moment

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passions, or cultivates thoughts of different nature according to the
super-sensible faculties of perception. Man then first learns to know

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culture, of whom history knows very little and the length of whose
wisdom-beings to be found today by occult research which we encounter

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high demands were made of the pupil of the Mysteries and of Occult
all the cultured life of today. Before the mighty catastrophe which
faculty for penetrating through the outer veils of the sense world to
stream of culture arises here or there and continually produces new
certain definite point of cultural evolution, a side influence must
wherein consists the difference between these two streams of culture?
This faculty, in the
aright. But where the two faculties of penetrating through the
of ancient Atlantean culture, preserved over the post Atlantean times
ancient Indian culture. But more to the north, in the region of
Zarathustrian culture. When we investigate this Zarathustrian culture
culture, attached less importance to inner, mystical absorption, and
world was developed in ancient Persian culture under the leadership
find in that wonderful Celtic culture which really underlies all
other European culture the remnant of what arose as a result of the
Zarathustrian culture in so far as the characteristics of their
kind of spiritual life and culture. Since the bodily organism is a
derived that spiritual culture which led finally to the mastery of
cultivating that which represents the light of Lucifer. In this way

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so-called Apollonian culture and mysteries were developed, and on the
other the culture and mysteries of Dionysos. Such a division is to be
kind of mystery cult was known as the Dionysian mystery and its
division in the spiritual culture of the Greeks. In more modern times
into the Apollonian and Dionysian mystery cults. These occurrences
according to their capacities. The man who has cultivated a rich
human life and was difficult of attainment even for those who had
difficult for an initiate of the ancient Hebraic world to find
faculty of penetrating through the forces of the soul life into the
humanity will transform its spiritual culture and the Christ will
is first understood by external occult faculties. And all the
descriptions of this first occult Christian school are of a kind that
the spiritual faculties that mature in the spirit of individual men
the other faculties through which we understand the world are
spiritual faculties are intensified and elaborated through
in Rosicrucian science it is Lucifer who gives us the faculty for
schools of initiation, wherein the spiritual faculties have been
intensification of spiritual forces and faculties, and to pour this
spiritual faculties illuminated by Lucifer, is the inner and
Bringer.’ No faculties for penetration into that region can
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culture we must clearly realise that the conditions were quite
paralysed. The faculty of seeing into the spiritual world was
faculty. It is very difficult indeed, even for those who have a
means of the spiritual faculty that is bound up with the physical
true that by means of occult research we can substantiate the fact
of their decadence clairvoyant consciousness was cultivated in these

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intellectual concepts of modern culture.
turning contemplation were, in people of a certain period of culture,
difficult for ordinary consciousness to transport itself into that
wonderful post-Atlantean culture and to identify itself with a soul
‘Outline of Occult Science,’
and the present cultural epochs; in the Graeco-Latin period came the
Christ Event. Our culture epoch will be followed by another and this
kind. Many such persons even if they have not advanced to occult
the Persian Mysteries which cultivated the inner life were the

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which are in a comparative sense the most difficult to master.
intellect, we must turn to occult science and ask what is that which
not at the moment imagine that this is very difficult to understand,
science, wherever it is truly cultivated that with Christ, something
European occult teaching not only knows the Bodhisattva, it also
word. This cultivation of occult knowledge in the West by means of
cultivating right feeling about the spiritual world and all that is
cultivate this right feeling we gradually make our spiritual forces

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means of his intellect and the other faculties of his soul. Beyond
The faculty of
co-operation. Each individual who had renounced the faculty of
definition in his own faculty and at certain periods this resulted in
see it, having no faculty of clairvoyance. There are many to-day who
you an idea of certain difficulties that may arise.
difficulties begin. When we have a human being physically before us,
difficulties at once begin. Suppose, for example, we wish to observe
of the difficulties in question.
difficulties become very considerable when spiritual beings —
matter of fact the difficulties are already great if a human being
difficult to establish and sustain if it is based only upon the

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faculties from the Akashic Chronicle. With opened eyes of spirit we
faculties possessed and developed by human beings in any particular
faculties possessed by man to-day were also present in primeval times
Man's faculties, everything he is able to accomplish and know, vary
from epoch to epoch. His faculties to-day are developed to the point
highly developed by virtue of their spiritual faculties and could
example, before men acquired the faculty of logical thinking by
themselves were not able to think logically through faculties
whose faculties enable him to commune with divine-spiritual
humanity ‘from above’ can become a faculty of man's own.
A human faculty to-day was once a faculty of divine-spiritual Beings
highest possible stage those faculties which hitherto had had to be
faculties in the fullest sense. When a Bodhisattva has succeeded
that it can itself evolve the faculties connected with his particular
elaborate the faculties acquired in full measure for the first time
whose human nature every faculty that previously flowed down from
the bestowal of these faculties from on high. But when evolution had
progressed so far that these faculties could be present in a single
esoteriscism, we must realize the following. The cognitive faculty of
faculties connected with the senses. Man was gradually to emerge
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inaccessible to men's ordinary faculty of vision in the immediate
inner nature and of the faculties belonging to this epoch.
develop certain faculties in later ages is not the same as to bring
Logical thinking is now one of the general faculties possessed by man
great Greek thinker, that this faculty first arose from a human soul.

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seven years old. Under these conditions the faculties of the human
a much stronger grasp of the subjects. His faculties would thus
not judge too precipitately. The occultist who presents facts of the
Occult Science
Occult Science
a difficult period occurred in the evolution of the Earth. Certain
culture needed to be inaugurated. Provision for this had to be
of Chaldean culture — all devoted their forces to the same end.
it was difficult to understand for it came from great spiritual
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advance for the next (Egyptian) stream of culture. Zarathustra had
culture and the culture of the ancient Hebrews that issued from
culture. It was necessary for him to re-unite with these forces, as
culture and civilization of Egypt, he had to gather to himself the
faculties are exerted to their utmost capacity. If considerable
cases too; it is a phenomenon known to every occultist. In the case

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from the occult schools of the initiates and
faculties through which he was to influence men. No such body
proceed in a straight line. The several streams of culture and
maturity by his twentieth year and has acquired definite faculties. But
acquired faculties are apt also to become shackles, hindrances. Such
faculties tend to become fixed at the stage they have actually reached
and because he has acquired only very few faculties by his twentieth
reach a higher level than the first man who acquired his faculties in
be the case. Faculties that a man has made his own possession may
become shackles later on; whereas faculties that are not so
the rudiments of certain faculties and elaborates them, while the
The one stream develops certain faculties to a suitable
degree — faculties which are then essentially part of this stream
and is eventually able to benefit from the faculties acquired by the
Hermes. Moses was thereby endowed with the faculty to perceive, as
culture of the Hebrew people, whereas the ideal contained in the
culture — if we like to call it so. Hence among the ancient
in conformity with the faculties available in the body in which he
incarnates, and he must take these faculties and their character into

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make full use of the faculties dependent upon the sentient (astral)
the twelfth year of life and elaborated the faculties of the soul to
Jesus; the faculties of this soul had been developed to the highest
fulfilled. Having instilled into the soul all the faculties he had
is not difficult to realize that there was a very deep connection
perpetual duty it was to cultivate the teachings of Christianity. He
with mature faculties they would have recognized the truth of what
The faculties of human cognition and perception were to come within
Jesus of Nazareth he could bring the faculties of the sentient
faculties present in the Nathan Jesus. This would not have been
and the ancient Hebrews, because of the faculties and attributes
be difficult for the feelings and perceptive faculties of men at the
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difficult at the present time for people to understand and freely
characteristic just mentioned, Egyptian culture was related to that
stream of culture in which the spiritual had maintained mastery over
Graeco-Latin culture these two streams came, in a sense, into
equilibrium. In that fourth post-Atlantean culture-epoch humanity had
these happenings and the findings of occult investigation concerning the
time of ancient Indian culture until well into the Graeco-Latin

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another of cultural life. It may happen that the representative of
from cultivating Antroposophy, because he recognizes it as a necessity
same extent as it emerged, all earlier outstanding faculties of the
beyond the range of their own faculties of
comprehension — faculties that have been unaffected by spiritual
the way of faculties attainable by man in order to penetrate to the
that streams into our own spiritual faculties. We should not only
Here is one of the instances where what is said in occultism must be
essential in occultism. When this enables us really to understand
now — this we learn from occultism — a considerable number of
But it is a different matter also to have acquired the faculty to
power — there lies the difference. This faculty proceeded from
will possess the faculty of letting the love stream out from the Ego
as a freely working faculty and power of the human soul; because love
a truth expressed in occultism by saying: The Bodhisattvas who become

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use faculties in the soul leading to knowledge of the teaching of
faculties that can be kindled by spiritual science will realize from
developed faculties able to accept such teaching; it was essential
mature enough to develop all the faculties that could lead to an
abstract doctrines, but feelings were cultivated through which human
with the limited faculties of human thought, you will find it stated
the conscious faculties of researchers are permeated by the spiritual
connection with the faculties of the human being since Christ came to
the Earth. Previously, the only faculties available to man were those
derived from the paternal and maternal seeds, for these faculties
through our physical, etheric and astral bodies such faculties as we
faculties originating from the line of descent and from the seed; and
faculties that have nothing to do with the seed arising from the
before Christ Jesus could speak to men only by using the faculties
as Bodhisattvas, were obliged to use faculties transmitted by way of the
with faculties derived from the kingdoms of Heaven — faculties
that have not been inherited. He points out how difficult it is for
can cultivate and nurture if they receive into themselves what
possible without the faculties designated by the sign of Solomon and
The results of all these processes have passed into the faculties
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to cultivate the capacities for such insights and places them
spiritual research and for bringing back spiritual truths difficult
to the ground; it fails to employ all the faculties at the
abodes where the higher spiritual life was cultivated, where the
give an idea of genuine occult physiology and anatomy, which
Occult physiology speaks of Sun and Moon elements of the

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to cultivate the capacities for such insights and places them
equilibrium. It is not difficult to carry such logic ad absurdum.

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to cultivate the capacities for such insights and places them
The next question is difficult but important. How does

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to cultivate the capacities for such insights and places them
development for them. They had a more difficult task than the Saturn
this faculty had to appear before the sense of visualization, before
visualization, when a higher faculty such as memory is to be
European peoples, who had postponed their cultural development, did
In such considerations we find the means for comprehending all cultural

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to cultivate the capacities for such insights and places them
how difficult it is to visualize a triangle un-symbolized,

Title: Wisdom of the Soul: II. Action and Interaction of the Human Soul Forces.
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to cultivate the capacities for such insights and places them

Title: Wisdom of the Soul: III. At the Portals of the Senses.
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to cultivate the capacities for such insights and places them

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to cultivate the capacities for such insights and places them
force that penetrates with difficulty into that other soul force that
reasoning we mean mental activity, the faculty that desires to
He will find it difficult to endow abstract concepts with sufficient
longer cope with the physical plane without the aid of occult
research. Science must inevitably err without occult science as a
approach. If the occultist will not only learn this but count it
with no knowledge of occultism whatever, approached the study of the
right had it not been for his complete ignorance of every occult
deal with the ego, with immortality. The stream of occult research,

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to cultivate the capacities for such insights and places them
Classification of the Faculties of the Human Soul, appearing
was achieved in its field by Western culture in the last centuries

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to cultivate the capacities for such insights and places them
of a certain self-cultivation, a certain self-education through
perceiving how difficult it is to prove anthroposophy as such. Truth
difficult to see how anywhere in the wide world any argument could be
Its Attainment and in my Occult Science I omitted the
Attainment, or in the second part of Occult Science, you
much more difficult for the occidental than, for example, for the
reason to inform ourselves concerning the difficulties encountered by
will meet with great difficulties. One of the tasks of anthroposophy
steeped in the occidental cultural life, would achieve recognition of

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to cultivate the capacities for such insights and places them
difficulty arises in our having but the one word in English: there is
Brentano classifies our psychic faculties as

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to cultivate the capacities for such insights and places them
some cases it will even be difficult to understand the context
difficulty in recognizing a fact that to us appears fundamental: that
the struggle with such difficulties, Frohschammer. Wrestling with
the imaginative world we have the whole cultural evolution of man,
course of the cultural evolution of the earth man must become,
of culture is the counterpart of imaginative man, so the world of
into himself throughout a long cultural evolution what he must so
such exalted regions that it would be extraordinarily difficult to

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the scene of action of the life of earthly culture. There have always
— as the chief factor in their culture, of course. What the
thought. It is very difficult for people of our day to imagine how
form inner faculties. Whereas in the time preceding this the chief
faculties, one who carried down a different stream of spiritual life
showing itself, in mankind to-day, as the faculty of logical thought.
for our intellectual faculties which only appear in the
faculties, he could not himself make any use of them. That would have
ancient culture among those peoples who had remained behind as regards
culture” — a time when not only the “Bards” were
(i.e., the Egyptian) there was a profound musical culture in
Teacher of primeval times, who put into the human soul the faculty
descend to the human stage and make use of all the faculties that are
faculties, he could not quite descend. For, in order to bring about
what I have described, he required faculties transcending those
not make any use of this superior and unusual faculty of soul. This
and the spiritual-soul in a particular way as inner faculties —
faculties which must draw into man from within. As we are now
the progressing and developing inner faculties of man with spiritual
being of man to develop this or that faculty within him, but He
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faculties. For we must always establish as a golden rule the fact that
soul-moods and the difficulties of life, if we were able to ask
occult conditions of the soul, to have been a teacher at some time.
to cultivate his taste, that he will ask for it of his own accord.
inherited tendencies is cultivated, and the spiritual conception of

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come about and pass unobserved if people do not cultivate the
to develop new capacities, those faculties which were lost in the dark
age. Slowly and gradually these are being prepared. These faculties
possess them as natural tendencies. These faculties will be seen in a
faculties which will be developed in the world of men. Anthroposophy

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Christianity would stand for nothing but a dead stream of culture. But
The centuries that lie behind us were fitted for cultivating to an
faculties by means of which the event of Damascus becomes a personal
materialistic thought that they have altogether lost the faculty of

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difficult to imagine as it may seem to the man of to-day, who is not
in an occult sense, with the polarity between man and woman. In so
would be nonsense. We must investigate the occult foundations of this
being of man; so that we cannot, in an occult sense, speak as our
difficult to manage than the more flexible forms of the female brain.
It is truly a more difficult matter to train a male brain for the
is more difficult for the male brain, being less pliable and obedient,
are to-day the leaders of culture and of the cultured ideas prevalent
a culture which has created its ideas with a densified brain, those
It is rather difficult to describe in a somewhat short time the
little understanding of the deep occult background of cometary life.
brings about a new birth in human inner life and culture. I can only
man in this century through his newly-awakened faculties, will bring
neglect to cultivate the new faculties by which it may find the way to

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soul-faculties and processes which man has developed in the course of
acquire these faculties with which we, as human souls, are acquainted,
Thus, during the Egyptian-Chaldean culture our souls acquired the
incarnated in the regions subject to this culture, who, more or less
teachings and lofty culture. The lofty culture of ancient Chaldea was
in the North, no such lofty culture was sunk into the soul. It
remained more or less uncultivated, but on the other hand, in this
it waited till the Sentient-Soul had absorbed a certain culture and
degree of culture, were able to emphasise their individual ego; they
Egyptian-Chaldean culture waited, holding back the ego for a later
time, while the European culture developed it prematurely; but the
Graeco-Latin culture in a sense kept the balance, for it developed a
Egyptian-Chaldean and of the Graeco-Latin culture, where it was
the Spiritual world given by the Egyptian and Chaldean cultures. But
the new life, it had also acquired other faculties, which served
certain symbols — who have in fact cultivated their Sentient-Soul
is weak. In Europe we find people who have received less culture
Therefore, the stream of culture flowed across from Asia, while the
Roman culture on the other side, where the strong ego-feeling was
in the Spiritual world. We see that in the culture of Greece there was
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the matter itself places us in a difficult position, for the
the old Gods, for example in the cult of Adonis or Tammuz, in that
Theosophical movement is able to cultivate and preserve the life of
not in the books someone may have written. Spirit should be cultivated
Man will begin to develop the faculty of seeing before him a picture
Such faculties as this are becoming more frequent; new capacities are
which he cultivates and perfects his conscience, the more he is doing
towards acquiring that higher faculty through which in the form of
faculties just described!’ It is very important that we should

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at Berlin in October of 1909. They deal with the occult knowledge of the two
culture. These three currents flowed together in a concrete event,
taught to him in the words of today. An entirely different faculty had to
individuality, similarly as in us the faculties of thinking, feeling and

Title: Buddha Jesus Boys: Lecture II: The Gospels, Buddha Two Boys of Jesus
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at Berlin in October of 1909. They deal with the occult knowledge of the two
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same faculties were always there, which gradually developed from primitive

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for no human faculty is capable of unifying what it has made separate and

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was necessary that from the whole of Post-Atlantean civilisation, faculties
means of these faculties, but by observing the phenomena of the
culture whose fruits are to this very day implicit in the whole of the
cultural life and civilisation of the West. Constructive reasoning and
to awaken in his soul the faculties of Imagination, Inspiration and
the faculty to grasp and comprehend the nature of Jahve. Abraham's bodily
deriving from the particular faculties possessed by the individual man
such faculties and qualities be transmitted.
the faculties necessary for comprehending the world according to number
Hebrew people progresses, these Abrahamitic faculties are transmitted
faculties of this nature and what was acquired by the ancient Hebrews
some measure this faculty of Imagination. Joseph was the appropriate
link because he still possessed this faculty.
was the faculty of mathematical logic — that is to say, they were
and to take appropriate measures, required a different faculty, which
the Egyptians did not possess. Because Joseph possessed this faculty
colour and substance from the inner faculty of Imagination possessed
through Moses, into the Hebrew people with their faculties of mathematical
for they were destined to inherit that new faculty which could
faculties that had been abandoned. — That is one side of the
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as to how he can develop those inner faculties which at present are
how they should develop the faculties dormant within their own souls;
say by those faculties which are accessible to him on the physical
he had the time and the necessary mental faculties (— I mean,
faculties of the physical plane). Let us even consider such difficult
incarnations of Zarathustra, such difficulties as, e.g. that
imagine that such difficult, far-reaching and significant subjects are
that are not so remote or difficult, things which are connected with
time with an energetic cultivation of the ordinary means of knowledge
It is indeed very difficult to make clear to the consciousness of the
the same time the physical powers of thought, those faculties of
different faculties of the human soul?
developed the faculties which are the faculties of the self, of the
ego. For the development of clairvoyant faculties in the general sense
development of the faculties of the ego, namely, the faculty of
thinking, the power of discrimination, which are the special faculties
set to work to acquire just these very faculties of genuine thought.
have mastered the faculty of logical thinking. That is not so! Why
only in human beings that they could cause faculties to develop which
quality of discrimination — this faculty can be developed only on
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able to see into the spiritual realm. But this faculty had to be replaced
other words, experience of the outer physical world. This faculty developed
epoch of culture, what was known to the pupils and followers of Zarathustra
faculties typical of later Post-Atlantean humanity would have been
the will to unfold logical thinking, to develop his earthly faculties
possessing the faculty of comprehending the outer physical world according
the old inherited faculties could not disappear all at once, but that
of the pre-Christian peoples. The development of the new faculties was
to be endowed with faculties of a special kind? All this had to take
Dionysos and were content that their faculties should rise up as it were
honey of wild bees — not cultivated bees — and other
faculties leading him outward into the world around, is represented in
the Edomites, in whom old, inherited faculties continued to be propagated.
of faculties which had been present in Abraham as rudiments only. We
of the Hebrew people and would have produced an abortive form of culture.
represents the specific Israelitish faculties, springs from Sarah. Hagar
highest faculties in Abraham, but from Hagar, from Sinai. Those, therefore,
how there were present in Abraham, faculties which developed in the

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often designated these five epochs of culture as the old Indian, old
Thus we can say of our own epoch of culture, of the fifth
come, i.e., to prepare the sixth period of culture as much as
sixth period of culture can only be understood by entering a little
faculties will exist in that incarnation which follows the present
one. As the faculties of man have changed during the five epochs of
culture, so they will also change into the sixth, and a great number
through their whole mood of soul, that their faculties have
we speak is only comprehensible to those faculties of our soul which
who knows occult perception, real spiritual perception, the method of
innermost being of man, through what we cultivate in a real sense in
of culture will be that these people will not be limited by single
This is the right cultivation of that soul-faculty of which we have
spoken. This soul-faculty so develops, that not only those just
faculty of remembering the previous ego. Humanity was once
— it is a matter of having cultivated the ego in this
incarnation, or not. If one has not cultivated it, it is not there as
now cultivate their individuality; those, however, who do not develop
human faculty of remembering backwards. It is only a question of our

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In our own cultural epoch,
what must come, namely, the sixth cultural period.
compare it with others. We know these cultural epochs are different
different faculties in their next incarnation. Human faculties have
changed during the past five cultural epochs, and they will change
at least people who want to be fully up to date culturally are busy
understood only by those soul faculties that are bound to the
those who know occult contemplation, true spiritual perception.
innermost core of a person through what we cultivate in
is the proper cultivation of that soul faculty we have spoken of
This soul faculty will be
we have cultivated our I in this incarnation or not. If we have not
cultivated it, the I will not be there as the innermost human
will belong to those who now cultivate their individualities. Those,

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attacks the Gospels, and for this it is truly not difficult to find
of culture. This Zarathustra was incarnated there, he was the teacher
of our era, to develop those faculties which he possessed, through
faculties which he possessed in soul and spirit, because the
faculties which come over from an earlier incarnation. And so, in the
understand what special faculties were imparted to him, then we must
human beings, but they still had the faculty to see the spirit which
intellectual culture.
various faculties are gradually acquired. Our present way of seeing,
from one individuality. Faculties which are to become common to a
Those faculties which relate especially to a combination turned away
number, and weight, these faculties which tend especially not to see
nothing called the discoverer of arithmetic, that means, that faculty
as a perfect instrument, that just that faculty which makes use of the
And now this faculty, which was laid as a seed from out the spiritual
of this faculty now occurred through the succeeding generations, while
the corresponding faculties, which were implanted as seed in Abraham,
themselves. This old clairvoyance was bound to faculties which came
faculties, according to their nature, by expressions derived from the
starry constellations. The last faculty which was given up, for the
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Chaldean-Babylonian culture and was the teacher of Pythagoras,
further the faculties he had acquired through ascending from
individuality cannot express his or her soul-spiritual faculties
certain kind of brain to express such faculties as Zarathustra
faculties. Thus, the Jesus child described in Saint Matthew's
that the Bible, not outer cultural history, is right. What cultural
look at ancient times, we find that people had other faculties of
intellectual culture.
of education through which the various faculties are gradually
individuality. Faculties that are to become common to a large number
of people must first appear in one person. Thus, the faculties having
world by measure, number, and weight — faculties that aim not
that the faculty using the brain as instrument could become
this faculty that had been given to Abraham in rudimentary form was
the physical brain was no exception. This faculty was developed
tribes of descendants of Abraham so that the faculties that were
civilizations. This clairvoyance was connected to faculties
for the constellations. The last faculty to be given up in
faculties for observation of the outer world. Nevertheless, every new
transmission of the new outer-directed faculties. Thus, the Hebrews
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employ our forces and faculties in the right way.
incarnation, then, the soul developed new faculties. Our souls were
souls were endowed with quite different faculties, and they lived
instead entirely different faculties, for example, what we have often
the physical plane, cultivated logical thinking, and felt himself as
grow up among humankind, because these faculties can be acquired only
beings, he would be unable to acquire the faculties of thinking and
that particular epoch has to offer, it is very difficult to make up
which human beings will slowly and gradually develop new faculties
slowly prepare humanity for new soul faculties.
The first signs of these new soul faculties will begin
be especially significant. Faculties that now are quite unusual for
entirely new faculties. Everything is changing, but the most
the soul faculties of man.
beginning to develop new faculties, faculties that — because
training, these clairvoyant faculties will be acquired much more
acquire the new faculty of perception in the etheric realm — a
these faculties increasingly. Human beings must not miss the
to make up the loss, in order ultimately to develop this faculty.
faculties, resulting in what may be described as etheric vision. And
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faculties.
of culture developed on Atlantis by the Atlantean races. And these
developed different faculties. Although during the Greco-Latin epoch
were equipped with faculties of another kind altogether in those
nature to-day, but instead of it they possessed faculties of quite
another kind — faculties we have often referred to as those of
form judgments or reason with the intellect. The latter faculty
sanctuaries for the cultivation of the spiritual life, in domains of
we grow up among human beings, for such faculties can be acquired
human beings, he would not develop the faculties of thinking and
to give, it is very difficult for the loss to be made good in later epochs.
slowly and by degrees the souls of men will change and new faculties
preparing men for new faculties of soul.
indications of these new faculties will be noticeable in isolated souls
particularly important. Very special faculties will then reveal
new faculties. Everything is changing — but the happening of
the faculties of the human soul.
over and the souls of men are now beginning to develop new faculties.
These faculties — because this is the purpose of the epoch —
training these clairvoyant faculties will be attained in a far better
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a new force and faculty as a new member within the divine plan
faculties from those they possess today. Those faculties by which
super-sensible faculties, dormant in the average human being today,
the “Akashic Chronicle,” that the normal faculties of the
of human culture. We are now living in one period of civilization
entirely different faculties of soul from ours, faculties that would
possessed different faculties. If we were able to look back, we
faculty for perception. The human being was compelled, therefore, to
said, is not one of the normal faculties of a human being of our day,
faculties of the human soul. Through the fact that human beings had
sensible world, they were also able to cultivate within this world
merely indulge in an abstract philosophy, or in the cultivation of
cultivation of the I and through the closing of the portal leading to
faculties, the old relationship with the spiritual worlds was lost
dispositions of soul, new soul faculties, are slowly being prepared
certain clairvoyant faculties will again evolve quite naturally.
will develop these faculties during the next few decades, spiritual
These faculties will develop relatively quickly in the
place for those human beings who will have acquired these faculties.
that human beings will advance to the faculty of beholding Christ in
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us countless forces, countless faculties which we dare not
wax that has hardened. It is difficult to make any impression
epoch when quite new forces and faculties will develop.
possess unusual faculties. From the end of Kali Yuga, from
the year 1899 onwards, a certain faculty of etheric sight
clairvoyance that will be an added faculty of the Ego. Those
higher faculties. The test will be whether Theosophy
evidences lose importance for men, the more will the faculty

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then will an occult anatomy exist in the real sense. As I have told
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spiritual science may at times feel it difficult that in this
stiff, resistant, and more difficult to manipulate than the feminine
history of culture, but one can hardly discuss them anywhere today
need only look around at the spiritual-cultural life of the period.

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feature of present human culture, is bound up with this Dark Age.
faculties and forces began to be cultivated that confine human
judgment to the world of the senses and yet that also cultivate human
self-consciousness has already been cultivated to a high degree. It
must cultivate itself further. It could never have entered human
without the ancient faculties. In spiritual science, therefore, we
connected with human faculties. Everything that humanity could
for human beings to acquire by means of these human faculties —
will appear as a natural human faculty, will become manifest
that such clairvoyant faculties, as natural faculties (we must
differentiate between cultivated clairvoyance and what will come into
qualities are not only to be cultivated in the secret schools of
Still other faculties will appear, for instance, a faculty that human
its course and because from epoch to epoch ever-new faculties appear
faculty is trampled to death, so to speak, if one who talks about
these faculties is locked up as a fool, it will prove disastrous for
Certainly, nothing will manifest itself if the necessary faculties
have been trampled to death. If these faculties do not become
further ado, experience an event such as Paul's; human faculties had
that through these faculties of which I have just spoken the Christ
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characteristics of present-day culture. Before this Dark Age, before
faculties of soul which on the one hand confine his power of judgment
without the old faculties. That is why in Spiritual Science we
physical instrument of the brain — a faculty that had developed
bound up with human faculties. Everything that humanity could acquire
through these faculties. But on the other hand, in the new
the first signs of a natural faculty of clairvoyance will become
first rudiments of a new faculty of clairvoyance that quite certainly
faculties of clairvoyance will arise in the future in a few people
of course, be made between cultivated and natural
world, then these incipient faculties will not be understood. It will
Then men will understand how to cultivate such faculties not only in the
physical man. But still other faculties will appear — for
example, a faculty that a man will notice in himself. After he has
and that from epoch to epoch new faculties appear in men. But if no
understanding is developed, if this particular faculty is stamped
out, if those who speak about faculties of this kind are put away as
physical man! Nothing will be apparent if the faculties for seeing it
are crushed out. But even if these faculties do not become evident in
young buds has been crushed. The faculties that have been described
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difficult conditions. We will be better able to understand why this is
faculties present during Kali Yuga man would now develop new spiritual
faculties. So we approach a period in which new natural capacities and
We study spiritual science so that these faculties, which are at first
prepare the conditions whereby these faculties can flourish and
believe in the progressive development of man's faculties, and we
now, when man with his more advanced faculties should be able to
etheric Christ are perhaps in a more difficult situation than those

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in time humanity is confronted by difficult events. We will be able
here dealing with an occult document. Christ has promised everything,
well cultivate the three members of the soul, but not until the
addition to the old faculties present during Kali Yuga, man would now
develop new spiritual faculties. We thus approach a period in which
new natural faculties and possibilities for looking into the
newly appearing faculties, which are at first barely perceptible, may
faculties, and we would have to say that events repeat themselves in
damage. Now, however, when one with more advanced faculties should be
more difficult situation than adherents to other religions, yet they

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soul's faculties today are not the same as in earlier times. Human
faculties have reached the point today at which human beings can
faculty for perception could no longer raise itself above the world
certain faculties of soul have slowly begun to develop that have not
ours, new faculties of the human soul will gradually evolve in a
will be possible to perceive the human etheric body. Another faculty
faculties that today can be acquired by means of initiation will in
the future be universal faculties of humanity. This condition of
that your own faculties open the spiritual world to you.”)
appearing before them in an etheric body. The faculties I have just
significance of these faculties. It will be impossible then to fall
aware of the faculties when they appear, and those who possess them
understanding of such faculties. Communicating the fundamental wisdom
spiritual senses. Those who will not have these faculties, who have

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into this occult science, but now there is unlimited opportunity for
delicate clairvoyant faculties even without special training. From
person in whom these faculties are found relates them to a friend who
these delicate faculties of soul. This danger exists when people will
themselves to them. Then the persons in whom these faculties appear
the new faculties of soul. Clever and enlightened persons in that era
that in our age there would be individuals with special faculties of
outer science and has been known for a long time to occult science.
has difficulty prevailing over his rigid material and more
spiritual, and occult science is able to indicate what lies behind
understanding these forces, we will develop the faculties that we
awakened faculties. There the soul will see what Paul once saw: the

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to awaken certain inner faculties slumbering in normal daily life, so
which our faculty of perception cannot penetrate.
world. But thereby he loses the faculty of healthy orientation in
feelings which lead to the faculty of orientation. He is enclosed
faculty of perception-whether physical or spiritual-is also
sleep the faculty of perception and the consciousness too, are
When the Ego spreads over the Macrocosm, it loses the faculty of
with it. If a man were to play a part in this difficult operation of
occult science that between life in the Microcosm and in the Macrocosm

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especially the instruments of speech, then the faculties of taste and

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When a man cultivates such feelings in his soul, the realisation comes
owe the faculty of perceiving the outer sense-world, dazzles us. Thus
faculty — however strange this may sound — the faculty of
developed the faculty of seeing the Sun no longer as the dazzling
what does man see at night with his ordinary Faculties when he looks
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original peoples of Northern Europe. The faculties enabling them to
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culture made it possible, in a different way, for one who ventured

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Faculties of the Human Soul and Their Development
FACULTIES OF THE HUMAN SOUL AND THEIR DEVELOPMENT
leads him beyond the initial stages of life when his faculties and
picture how these experiences are transformed into faculties, we must
transformed all these daily experiences into the faculty of writing is
transformed into faculties and the soul becomes more and more mature.
disposal in the form of faculties.
the faculty which can be observed in external manifestation when we
unfold his faculties that the right forces serve his outer existence.
Soul, it will eventually grow to be like it. My soul and its faculties
important to have acquired the faculty of grasping the true values of
embark upon genuine spiritual training without possessing the faculty

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A rather difficult task confronts us today but my listeners will be
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egoism and self-love and cultivate selflessness. He must make himself
was incarnated in preceding epochs of culture, for example in the

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these difficulties were, I want to add the following.-
We have heard that the difficulties are mainly due to the fact that on
strengthened one aspect of their Ego. Because they had cultivated one
physical senses, but intelligible to the higher senses, to the faculty
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but it becomes more and more difficult to convey any idea of these
worlds. The higher the ascent, the more difficult this becomes. If we
word still conveyed its original meaning. The faculty man unfolds here
spiritual faculty transcending the physical intellect. There is a
the methods by which, in line with modern culture, the forces from the

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World this distinction becomes essentially more difficult because, to
difficult. Most people in life always consider themselves in the
To be detached from a particular temperament is extremely difficult,
will find that it is exceedingly difficult to think, to feel or to
has grasped through his reason, through his ordinary, healthy faculty
finally coalesce into faculties. Whatever would it be like if every
life difficult, to something that he has entirely forgotten but is
acquiring faculties that will enable him to grow into the higher
overcome life's difficulties. But if, before entering into the
faculties and present state of development; and that when we have
faculties at that particular time.
Man in the Light of Occultism, Philosophy and Theosophy,
surprising to say that these qualities and faculties originate in
and Intuition and to show how in line with our modern culture, man can
Macrocosm with newly awakened faculties, new Beings and realities

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we can only have a brain and reasoning faculty by admitting into
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point is that we shall acquire a faculty of soul that is not
— these spiritual sense-organs can be cultivated by the patient
the faculty of clairvoyant vision can perceive these higher
something rather more difficult, to a higher stage of inner work and
difficult. We say to ourselves after having created a symbol: How did
realise how difficult this is; it is a longer process for it will
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apprehension. And just because it is necessary to have this faculty of
of a faculty that must be behind us when it has to be applied; it has
things from many angles — a faculty that is so necessary for
is communicated. There may be someone who finds difficulty in the
Science must acquire this faculty if he desires to help in spreading

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faculty of the heart is permeated with concepts, with ideas, in brief,
to look clairvoyantly into the higher worlds. Not only is the faculty
too will assume new forms when the faculty of thinking changes. When
the heart, do the other faculties of the soul change too? Let us
Memory, like thinking, is a faculty of the soul. The character of
higher faculties at every moment of ordinary life; he possesses these
faculties but puts them into operation only when he wishes to carry
evidence of the faculties of soul that have been described. When he
returns to the everyday world he has a memory and a faculty of
investigating the spiritual world through a faculty analogous to that
soul-faculty of memory, Time changes into Space as soon as we
Memory has become an essentially new faculty. We see something
the spiritual world it is much more difficult. The outer conditions of
faculties of the spiritual investigator and also of the worlds in
only thinkable, but there is actually a higher faculty — the
reverse side, and this applies also to the development of the faculty
of soul just referred to — the faculty of memory. The goal before anyone
become dangerous. He will have great difficulty if he has to recollect
Thus we see arising a new faculty of soul that is not like remembrance
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difficult intellectual path to which reference has been made. Hence
present not only faculties and powers which have been acquired through
perfection. One of these faculties is, of course, the intellect, but
Spiritual Science knows that it has no future. Other faculties,
undreamed of faculties will develop. The intellect has reached a
as such can reach no higher level. As well as the soul-faculties that
faculties that have been perfected today became apparent in
rudimentary beginnings long ages ago, faculties belonging to the
flower in the future. The faculty of acquiring knowledge through the
investigator turns to these faculties that are slumbering within men,
problems. These are people whose higher faculties say ‘Yes’
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breathing a faculty capable of the highest possible development. Hence

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his earliest childhood it will then perhaps be very difficult for him
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materialistic culture of the second half of the nineteenth century,

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recent culture, neither did Descartes hold this view, although in many

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of the difficulty by prescribing a thin solution of gum arabic, which
find a way out of the difficulty if in such a case we could isolate
explain why the modern trend of the medical faculty is to seek the
physics, the whole of our culture would have developed on entirely
rationally, we shall not find it difficult to discover Maya in our own
psychological culture today, however, these grotesque indications are
truly deep culture. That is why as a rule people hardly notice what

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it is more difficult to understand that the experiences and actions of
external events. Neither our faculty of sight nor our faculty of
forms of consciousness. If, for instance, we study ‘Occult
when we awake in the morning. Our faculties must be diverted to

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without having given heed to a special moral culture, he is the more
moral culture, he will be in great danger when penetrating his inner
power of judgement and our faculty for acute discrimination. This is
linked to the culture of our Ego. That is why during our development
our consciousness, our faculty of discrimination and discernment, and
discussion. It is even more difficult to get them to listen to reason
rational judgement. In many such cases it is extraordinarily difficult
difficult one; for they maintain that they are being deprived of that
be produced. Occult records are always in accord with the truths which
explanation of this or that passage from occult records before having
attained the required state in one's occult development. It is then
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discrimination between good and evil, the free faculty of

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things can go hand in hand, external material science and cultivation
period will be followed by a sixth and seventh cultural epoch. I have
Graeco-Latin culture stands by itself, but that the Egyptian-Chaldean
expression in a certain cult of cleanliness, and if in the interim we

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may well ease external life, but creates difficulties in our inner
incarnation. Occult teaching here shows that there is a connection
which lies outside the bounds of morality. For this reason occultism
correct when occultism says that ‘Woman is man's karma.’
conclusions arrived at by occultists through occult observation —

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or other refined love. These are ancient occult sayings, but they are

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treasures of Eastern culture which could then be transformed by means
eradicate the shadow-side of this culture — the impulse to press
Science relates to us of the great culture of the Indians, we then are
to preserve this treasure of human culture in those beautiful poetical
productions. But that which the Indian culture first gained flowed
created a new culture, which then in various indirect ways became
culture. Think of the accumulation of emotion and perceptions in
of this culture. Think how the individuals were united in the one
cultural impulse, so that through countless centuries of human
cultural impulses, each one lived its enthusiasms; but lived too in a
achievement of that culture to be not transitory but eternal. For that
not speak of our culture as necessarily everlasting.
many centuries and many thousands of years of human culture,
each single word in the true occult records.
of spiritual culture, who preach over and over again that this
ourselves to an Anthroposophical culture which will not be eternal
love, without which culture after culture could not be developed. We

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has been more or less avoided by occultists, mystics and
remember, that at a certain stage of mystic or occult development one
occult development is necessary, in order to have a liberal point of
Now in our age it will be peculiarly difficult to
do not exist, so to speak. It may perhaps not be so difficult for our
this conception, — is difficult to make clear to the man of our
like the Indian culture best,’ that may be his personal
any reality; it would be still more difficult for him to see a real
we wish to use the technical expressions of occultism — the
are to be inspired by them. It will not be difficult for you to

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occultists, mystics and theosophists, and has been eschewed for the
at a certain stage of mystic or occult development one is called a
mystical and occult development demands an unprejudiced attitude
in our age it is particularly difficult to admit the existence of
concentrated in a certain geographical area. It is difficult to
individual differences, we shall have no difficulty in understanding
cultures — the old Indian, the Persian, the Egypto-Chaldean,
the Graeco-Latin and our present culture which in the course of time
will pass over into the sixth cultural epoch. We also realize that
the old Indian culture is a matter of personal opinion. But he who is
choose to use the technical expression of occultism — the
post-Atlantean culture-epochs, are a repetition. The Graeco-Latin

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the difficulty, one must first learn to discriminate in the higher
occult knowledge and occult power of vision one goes from one people
belonging to the Indian culture rests also upon this agreement. In
people represented the first blossom of the culture of the
the constitution of the people. Hence it has become difficult for
persons who do not take the occult forces of human evolution into

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difficulty is that one must first learn to discriminate in the
occult knowledge and insight, we study the different peoples. We are
ancient Indian culture that these Beings were able to work in closest
effects upon culture, both in the past and in later epochs. This
characteristic of the Indian culture. In all other continents
refers only to the Indian culture of that epoch. Hence it is so
culture. And the language preserved its powerful influence because
constitution of a people. It is difficult, therefore, for those who
do not take into consideration the occult forces in the evolution of

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comprehension, and which will be a little more difficult than that
the culture of a people, his youth and his old age.
attention to the cultivation of the individualities. This has in
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which you will find rather more difficult to grasp than the central
and fall of a people's culture.
to cultivate them. Such is his individual destiny by virtue of which
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so long will it be difficult to obtain an unprejudiced understanding
the Music of the Spheres, of which the Pythagorean and other occult
and thus he can only hear it when he goes through a certain occult
Occult Science,
Now it is exceptionally difficult, as all conceptions
In occult symbolism this mission of the earth has always
forces, so that when the occultist looks at an equilateral triangle,
occultly in the words: ‘To make the Trinity into a Quaternary.’
who prematurely and in the wrong way entered the occult domain, has

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people, it will be difficult to reach an unprejudiced understanding
occult schools speak. That too is what Goethe describes when he
occult training and development. Whereas the light streams towards us
Occult Science,
extremely difficult to define what were the tasks of the Old Saturn,
occult symbolism this Earth-mission has always been expressed in a
forces, so that when the occultist looks at an equilateral triangle
make the Trinity into a Quaternary is therefore an occult formula for
occult realm prematurely or in the wrong way has had to pay dearly

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Occult Science,
from an occult standpoint, quite correct in describing what appears
In this way, if occultly you picture this matter more
could receive the corresponding racial cultivation. Hence in my
Occult Science
from its most occult background. In the Semites you have a
the Semitic people and its mission. In a certain deep occult sense
starting-points of occultism and it will show you that in those
principal starting-point, even in occult training, must be made where
this truly occult activity, if one observes how, even in the
great in the Atlantean culture. What was the greatest thing of all to

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Occult Science — an Outline
the abnormal Spirits of Form centred in Mercury) then from an occult
Thus if you look into the matter more closely from an occult
Occult Science,
occult explanation for the origin of the Semites. The Semitic people
its mission. In a profound occult sense the Biblical writer was able
occultism; it shows how, in those peoples who are subject to the
Venus forces, the initial steps in development, even in occult
forces and which was pre-ordained in the chart of the cultural
decline. One feels something of this truly occult activity if one
great in the Atlantean culture. What the Red Indian valued most

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Spirit of the Age guided the primal sacred culture of India and made
is of course exceedingly difficult to speak impartially of these
things, — difficult only for the reason that in certain
difficult for a guiding Spirit of the Age to arise for the fifth age
civilization, — streamed into our culture; and besides this,
culture, it has become possible for the many different kinds of
culture and the various Folk-souls to appear in our fifth age. It
occult sense, the Scandinavian mythology with other mythologies which

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civilization. Now this Time Spirit directed the sacred culture of
ancient India and made it the leading culture of the first
culture.
differentiated. It is of course extremely difficult to speak
difficult for a Time Spirit of the fifth epoch to arise who could
streamed into our culture the Christian Time Spirit united with a
because such a trifolium is at work in our whole culture it has been
possible for Folk Souls and cultural patterns of widely differing
configuration of Scandinavian mythology. If we compare in the occult

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East it would be particularly difficult to understand the Western
accept the Western material civilization, but the spiritual culture
Hœnir who gave the imaginative faculty, and Lœdur who gave that

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the great difficulty which the peoples of the East experienced in
West, but the spiritual culture of the West — unless they come
Christ one needed faculties belonging to a less lofty station of the
when it witnesses the cultivation of the subordinate forces of the

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lecture philosophically they might perhaps meet with difficulties,
apparent difficulties, and indeed for the reason that they will have
might possibly find it difficult to make this agree with what was
Indian culture in the post-Atlantean epoch, developed the ‘ I ’
culture represents a soul which reached a high degree of the
mythological culture. Over there in the East everything is
sun. To the occultist there is something which is still greater
occult background of the Saga of the Twilight of the Gods.

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lecture of yesterday might meet perhaps with difficulties, apparent
difficulties, because they will have heard in the course of earlier
power working into their souls. You may possibly find it difficult to
distinct. Those who had developed the mature Indian culture in the
it in philosophical terms: the Indian culture exhibits a soul which
cosmology from that prevailing in the mythological culture of Europe.
Sun seems to the occultist to betray a mind that is even more
occult background to the Saga of the Twilight of the Gods.

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post-Christian cultures of Europe that the task, the mission was
Eastern culture had already proceeded so far, that it was capable of
veiled and hidden. Occultly, however, Sif signifies the group-soul of
The collective culture of Europe is a gift of the
always the leaders of the collective culture of humanity. But at the
surface as was necessary to form a foundation for the whole culture
of Europe. Now out of this old culture, through intermingling with
After the old Greek culture had to a certain extent
Roman Empire and its various stages of culture. We have already
old Indian culture worked upon the human etheric body. Hence the
wonderfully wise, clairvoyant character of the old Indian culture,
— it was a culture that was in the human etheric body; so that
we may say, the ancient Indian culture is to be understood somewhat
body. The essential thing in the old Indian culture is that the
culture. That part of man which we describe as the Sentient Soul was
Egyptian-Chaldæan culture as working in the Sentient Soul. The
of reality. Whereas in the old Indian culture there was a more direct
Greek culture was one which we can only understand if we try to do so
from within, if we realize that in this culture what is important in
All the several shades of culture and the missions of
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The Mission of Individual Peoples and Cultures in the Past,
individual Peoples and Cultures in the Past, Present and Future.
Christian cultures of Europe in particular. In primitive times, as we
culture was already so far advanced that it was capable of gradually
kinship, although the relationship is veiled or concealed. Occultly,
whole of European culture is a legacy of the European Mysteries. The
culture of mankind as it unfolds. But at the time when these European
culture of Europe. Now the most diverse Folk Souls and Folk Spirits
were able to draw nourishment from this old culture by mingling with
the old Greek culture had to a certain extent reached its high point
various stages of culture. We have already mentioned that the several
follows: the old Indian culture worked upon the human etheric body.
Indian culture, because — after the development of special
human capacities — it was a culture reflected in the human
etheric body. We may envisage the ancient Indian Culture somewhat as
etheric body. The essential element in the ancient Indian culture is
with his highly developed, highly refined faculties of soul and
Egypto-Babylonian-Chaldean culture was again different. Here the
the Egypto-Chaldean culture was the ability to work in the Sentient
the form of cognition in the ancient Indian culture was directly
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be without its difficulties at the present time.
wonderfully the great occult truths are expressed in its pictures
Occult Science,
Occult Significance of Blood,
of mankind for this or the other truth. That is not ‘occultistic’.
What is ‘occultistic’ is, that the moment one recognizes
culture of the Holy Rishis in its true form; we lovingly accept the
Persian culture, and that which we know as the Egyptian-Chaldæan and
the Græco-Latin cultures, and with just the same objectivity we also
occultism will appear before mankind free and independent of every
collective human culture of the future, just what he is most fitted
bring to the progressive stream of culture. We must learn to

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how wonderfully the deepest occult truths are expressed in the
Occult Science — an Outline
The Occult Significance of Blood,
occult training is still a necessity. It always presents things in a
different light to those who have not undergone occult training. But
occult training will, by the transformation of the physical body,
the Mysteries and occult schools — the God who should await his
compatible with the teachings of occultism. What is compatible with
occult teachings is that the moment one recognizes that this Being
gratitude the surpassing grandeur of the primeval culture of the holy
culture, the Egypto-Chaldean and Graeco-Latin cultures, and with the
same objectivity we also accept the cultural heritage of Europe. We
occultism concerning the evolution of the future must be free and
of culture in the future what he is most fitted for in accordance
progressive development of culture. We must learn to understand this.

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and of human existence. In my book Occult Science I tried to describe

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Occult Science
the occult point of view one can say that the forces in this finer
Anthroposophist ought to cultivate when he approaches this ancient

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Occult Science
the occult point of view one can say that the forces in this finer
Anthroposophist ought to cultivate when he approaches this ancient

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Occult Science.
directing a faculty of clairvoyant perception towards that region of
Occult Science.

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Occult Science.
directing a faculty of clairvoyant perception towards that region of
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Occult Science, which may also help to satisfy those who are prompted
occultism. The modern physicist will of course say that there is
Elohim introduced into the elementary matter, is difficult to
which is what we should expect, if it really derives from occult
description I gave in my Occult Science of the coming into existence
faculties of seers who speak to us across thousands of years.
Occult Science,
centuries they have completely ignored what occult investigation has
will know what difficulty this point has caused the commentators.
The first difficulty

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Occult Science,
occultism. The modern physicist will of course say that there is
Elohim introduced into the elementary matter, is difficult to
which is what we should expect, if it really derives from occult
description I gave in my Occult Science of the coming into existence
faculties of seers who speak to us across thousands of years.
Occult Science,
centuries they have completely ignored what occult investigation has
will know what difficulty this point has caused the commentators.
The first difficulty

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Occult Science
Occult Science.
knowledge of occultism would perhaps equip them to understand the
very ancient occult truth, a truth to which even modern physiology
Occult Science,

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Occult Science
Occult Science.
knowledge of occultism would perhaps equip them to understand the
very ancient occult truth, a truth to which even modern physiology
Occult Science,

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itself primarily to our faculty of knowledge, is maya, or
Occult Science
necessary it is to have recourse to occult sources if one wishes to
figure.” Through being cut off from occult sources, the fruit

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itself primarily to our faculty of knowledge, is maya, or
Occult Science
necessary it is to have recourse to occult sources if one wishes to
figure.” Through being cut off from occult sources, the fruit

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at a lower, more dreamlike level, so that no faculty of
Thus what is actually to be seen is an inner faculty showing itself
for anyone who begins to hear voices to cultivate the greatest

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at a lower, more dreamlike level, so that no faculty of
Thus what is actually to be seen is an inner faculty showing itself
for anyone who begins to hear voices to cultivate the greatest

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Occult Science;
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Occult Science
Occult Science;
Occult Science
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Occult Science,
Occult Science.
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Occult Science,
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through Spiritual or Occult Science. This leads us to ask why the
hearers readily realise how difficult it is to reach the depths upon
further he probes the more numerous are the difficulties which
investigation, then the real difficulties begin to show themselves,

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through Spiritual or Occult Science. This leads us to ask why the
hearers readily realise how difficult it is to reach the depths upon
further he probes the more numerous are the difficulties which
investigation, then the real difficulties begin to show themselves,

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Outline of Occult Science,
clairvoyant faculty. The perception of what was good
Such people were not suited to raise the level of culture, to
conserve the gifts of Nature, or cultivate the earth.
culture of the physical world. This is perhaps the
culture; thus giving to those who had lost the Atlantean
of Irania, the protector of Zarathustra, of which occult

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John. That Gospel speaks more to our faculty of
and in the book Occult Science—an Outline.
Atlanteans themselves in the heyday of their culture.
prime of Atlantean culture, the strength of impulses for
gradual development of the faculty of sense-perception
faculties of ancient clairvoyance he perceived the
The dawning faculty of external perception was like the
the senses. This faculty was especially characteristic of
the external world; their faculties of observation and
be held between the faculty of the old spiritual
able to look into the spiritual world. This faculty of
culture, to transform the Earth.
furthering culture in the physical world.
establish any form of external culture. Because these
through the spiritual faculties of man to establish forms
of external culture and civilization.
faculties of men, wisdom capable of redeeming certain
faculties that had already become decadent and of imbuing
working to this clay in all the achievements of culture
to external culture. Zarathustra was to give new hopes,
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Occult Science.
occult investigation, one of these pupils, the one who had
documents which are really founded on occultism contain all
the secrets revealed through occult investigation. As Moses
There it was shown how unusually difficult it is to speak in
triviality of the newer culture in general that has been
difficulty with language. What the Hierophant had to say to
rising of a star at a certain time, the occultation of a
Occult Science), then that of Venus, and ultimately that
implanted in western culture had to develop according to the

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Occult Science — an Outline I referred to
Hermes. Occult investigation reveals that he was destined
Egyptian culture. The Egyptian Hermes therefore bore
that was great and significant in the culture and
teaching of Hermes and from this source the culture of
culture of a very special character. Think of what
chronicles that are genuinely based on occultism contain
occult investigation. To enable Moses, the reincarnated
be an Initiate to inaugurate an impulse in culture, but
the seed of future culture in the folk-soil suitable for
extraordinarily difficult it is to speak in terms of
Mercury in the terminology of occultism and the Mercury
of astronomy is Venus according to occultism.) On the way
stage. The wisdom inculcated by Moses into culture and
very remarkable came to pass in these people. Faculties
corrupt as the last phase of a faculty of clairvoyance
faculty did not come to expression as an outdated form of
perfection. The faculty that in the Turanian people had
in the right element. The faculty that had enabled the
degenerate residue of clairvoyance — this faculty
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accepting them altogether in the sense of Occult Science
Occult Science:
Occult Science,
because of this that mediaeval occultists named this
centres of occult science. Indeed, the possibility of this
accordance with occult science, we picture the earth after
cave. Occult investigation confirms this legend; it contains
upon by occult investigation. The men around him were neither

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occult science.
book Occult Science, the warmth-body of Saturn
with a faculty of clairvoyance enabling him to behold not
That is why medieval occultists too called this spiritual
induced. In Atlantean times, however, these faculties of
constitute the creative impulse in culture and
development of man's faculty of cognition was also a kind
where genuine spiritual science was cultivated, this
you develop higher organs, if you develop your faculty of
light of what is said in the book Occult Science we
Iranian culture. Then he bequeathed his astral body in
order to inaugurate a. new form of culture through
confirmed by occult investigation. Abraham's father
operating as the faculties of external clairvoyance
was the first man in whom the faculties of divine wisdom,
as occult investigation will always insist, the physical
is a deep and intimate connection between a faculty in
1. See Occult

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of Occult Science it would be inaccurate to describe the God
Occult Science,
those people who carried culture from the West to the East,
Indian culture. Though developed by artificial means, the
post-Indian culture was that what man gained through his
in the cosmos to the occultation of Leo by Mercury.
Hebrew people we can see what corresponds to the occultation
founded on occultism the trivialities usually seen there, but
based. It can be proved, not only by occult means, but by
Here, however, as we are concerned with Occult Science not Philology,
of occult investigation have still to be given, but the above
of culture was carried still further, were the Essaers or
Christ. He is well known to occultism and to the external
inflicted. This is an occult fact, and is also to be found in

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developing his inner faculties he could then acquire
Occult Science you can read that in ancient
post-Atlantean culture and civilization. This mighty
when their inner faculties had further developed, to give
Teachers of pre-Vedic, ancient Indian culture. Though
clairvoyant faculties, but they were distributed among
become the bearers of post-Atlantean culture. He imparted
his presence inwardly to physical faculties of cognition,
people, to the cosmic phenomenon of the occultation of
Leo by Mercury (Mercury in Leo). Such occultations are
so often placed upon records founded on occultism but
it is possible to prove, not only through occultism but
have yet to consider the findings of occult investigation
— he is well-known in occultism and also in
known in occultism as a herald of Christianity among
to the punishment the stigma of infamy. This is an occult

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Pandira it need only be stated that neither occult knowledge
nor any clairvoyant faculties are necessary to prove his
This is only possible by means of occult investigation; the
them is only possible with the aid of occult investigation;
forces that in the sense of occult science had their rise in

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or existence of Jeschu ben Pandira requires no occult
knowledge or clairvoyant faculty, because information
faculty of which I have spoken in the preceding lectures,
therewith a fundamental change in man's faculty of
to submit to severe discipline and to undergo difficult
who possesses the clairvoyant faculties here described

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corroborated by occult investigation. The generations were
culture of the Chaldean Mystery Schools. The name of their
culture of the Chaldean Mystery Schools. The name of their
faculties which were only attained by the Essene after the
long and difficult trials of his training. Concerning such a
continuation of a kind of occult training that had existed
cultivated the strictest abstinence from meat. By this, and
especially to the Netzer class), Boni, and Thona. Occult
and also with the later Netzerism, was cultivated and spread
teaching was cultivated, and Netzer's teaching was
little colony dwelt those who cultivated in fairly strict
had acquired the highest faculties possible to acquire
cultivated by means of the etheric body—were not to be
occult investigation. Salvation depends on the two becoming

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generations. This is also confirmed by occult
realise what the soul-faculties and characteristics of
in antiquity.) In those times when the faculty of memory
Nazareth — which were cultivated and studied in the
the Hermetic culture of Egypt, inasmuch as to this end he
the pupils of the occult schools of the Hebrews at the
him. The pupils of the Chaldean occult schools were then
traditions, rites and cults originating with Zarathustra
prerequisite for development of the faculties capable of
of occult training had existed in Judaism from times
The pupils who cultivated particularly this trend in
fairly well known to occultists — had a faithful
cultivated in each of them. The cultivation of Netzerism,
Such things do occur in life, difficult though it is for
sign of the boy's inner faculties. A faculty that
had naturally acquired all the faculties it is possible
occult reality of which I have told you. Salvation

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faculties are ever emerging and attaining ever higher degrees
history when certain human faculties had not yet developed.
faculties in man which have finally brought about our present
civilization; but before any entirely new faculty can appear,
conditions are necessary; it is necessary that this faculty
power to develop such faculties, but since then it has
these qualities of the eight-fold path possible as faculties
in a certain number of people these faculties are already
Such is the law of human evolution. A faculty destined for
faculties pass into mankind as a whole.
come to life and continue working as a special faculty to the
Parenthetically it may be stated that the great difficulty in
all world movements based on occult truths is that the
etheric bodies through his perceptive faculties being
cultivated by certain other peoples. While expansion into the
faculty will develop in humanity. By means of this faculty he
faculties by which he could gradually penetrate into the
the child Jesus every faculty it was possible for him to

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acquiring new faculties and reaching stages of greater
how in the course of time new faculties unfolded, finally
giving birth to modern civilization and culture. If,
however, a particular faculty is to awaken in human
faculty must appear somewhere for the first time in a
intrinsic faculties of his own, the attributes of this
years these faculties should be able to gradually to
Buddha. As have said, these faculties will, in fact,
the corresponding faculties.
faculty in men for the whole remaining period of
here in passing that the great difficulty to be faced in
all movements based upon occult truths is that people are
moment of waking his faculty of perception is immediately
physical and etheric bodies by the fact that his faculty
another form of Initiation was cultivated among certain
unfold in humanity a faculty making it possible for a man
developed all the faculties and qualities it was possible
faculties become one's own in the real sense only when
year, developing to further stages all the faculties it
These faculties were now enriched and supplemented by

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greatest difficulties of the first fourteen stages would be
ancient Hebrew occult teaching by three expressions which are
very difficult to translate; they are Gedulah,
Occult Science
difficult soul experiences, and that cannot be acquired in
difficult to translate this word. It represents, though but

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faculties of perception were diverted from the physical
processes in these bodies because his faculty of
become aware of its secrets, is not difficult to picture.
when using a different faculty of perception — that
Hebraic culture, for the renderings usually given in
of which arc extremely difficult to render in our modern
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ancient Hebraic and Greek culture. We then feel for such

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difficulties and dangers that always approach those who try
different, and it is exceedingly difficult to pass in the
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perforce to encounter all the difficulties and dangers
of Atlantis onwards. But the faculty that was still
possible, without difficulty, to enable a man to partake
Mind-Soul. Anyone who has studied the book Occult

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by occult investigation. The physical body at the beginning
culture, we are obliged to say that those who were strong of
Gospels. The results of occult investigation here put forward
Matthew desired to emphasize. Speaking out of occult
must recall by way of preparation certain facts of Occult
occult science. I may then be able to convey to you what is
the facts revealed by occult means, it is possible to avoid

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endowed with those faculties which in the ancient
be established by anatomy, but certainly by occult
impression on a more delicate faculty of perception. This
faculty that was right and proper in ancient times
occult sources.
speaking out of occult consciousness, I can say: The
certain knowledge of occult facts which we have acquired
faculty of listening with a certain measure of
these potential faculties that are already within you,
higher faculties of men. Before the end of the twentieth
faculties of Theodora; and those whose spiritual eyes are
develop their faculties to higher and higher stages they
faculties will unfold in men and that through them Christ
facts that occultism is able to impart, both these
the new faculties through a new Essene wisdom. We shall

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fourth age of post-Atlantean culture — the forces of
distinguished. We can understand what a difficult question

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body during the epoch of ancient Indian culture. During
faculty of the old clairvoyance for reaching the
comes down from above. But the difficulty of this
assimilate all this teaching. The faculties they had
Peter's normal spiritual faculties.
or through faculties acquired at stages leading to
conscious faculties is speaking, Christ must reprove him,
by faculties you have developed in yourself as a human
being; what these faculties have here produced is
faculties. Thus, for example, he is able to recognize the

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can, however, only be established with the help of occult
Occultists that names mean little, that it is the Being that

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possess faculties differing from those of ordinary human
different from that of the ordinary human faculties comes
established only through occult research.
by Zarathustra and how the qualities and faculties he had
starting-point: the destinies of the faculties that
descended, again he is more mindful of the faculties
These faculties and qualities were naturally still
later manifestations of qualities and faculties that were
astral body is also the bearer of creative faculties, of
cultivate a communal life where a man enters into
faculties derived from the physical body and etheric
occultists too, we are well aware that names in
advised to turn to Occult Science—an

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culture longs for a new understanding of the documents dealing with
he should understand concerning the education, culture, and spiritual
recent years, within what Western cultural development had to offer,
“Science is unable to investigate such matters, the faculties
within him, the way of spiritual science is the most difficult.
among you who consider some much discussed science difficult; who
more difficult than that leading to any other science. We say this
difficult of all the paths by which a man can enter the spiritual
what leads to the highest should also be the most difficult? Yet: we
must never allow ourselves to be frightened by the difficulties of
the path, nor hide from our souls the necessity of these difficulties
communications are necessary to the culture of the present time. If
universal conviction of all mankind that culture cannot advance but
describe as “immoral,” may certainly acquire faculties
dwell as vital impulse in all spiritual, in all occult movements.
group, so that from here it may pass out into the general culture of

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gathering but also the fact that contemporary culture needs a
intellectual difficulties about the events in Palestine but
also to translate into the language of present-day culture
Christ. If that were sufficient for the cultural needs of the
clear that modern culture needs a new understanding, a new
culture — was, as we all know, a man of titanic genius. Many
understanding of the Christ-problem more difficult, if
influence evolution. In Western culture there had for
of mankind can be fruitful for the civilisation and culture
years, in considering the fruits of Western culture, we have
senses but only by the faculties which belong to man as a
science cannot investigate them, that the necessary faculties
of the sciences to-day are very difficult, and you will
path of Spiritual Science is more difficult than that of any
an appeal. It may be the most difficult of all the paths
difficulties of the path of Spiritual Science.
reasoning faculties. Anyone endowed with genuine clairvoyant
differently: How much remains to a man who, by cultivating
culture. Even if this is not recognised to-day, in fifty or a
civilisation and culture can make no progress unless men
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aspects because, in striving after knowledge, we have ever cultivated
“Outline of Occult Science”
conception of, but at first he is far from the greater difficulties
how infinitely difficult it is to find a connection between what has
been seen is one of the most difficult in the work of spiritual
difficulties.
“Outline of Occult Science”
make his pupils realise how difficult it was to be sufficiently ripe
difficult to investigate anything where the investigator's own
personal” is exceedingly difficult, for frequently one thinks

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that these peoples are now at the stage of culture attained
Occult Science,
difficulties that lie ahead when he tries to make progress in
the progress he makes, the more he recognises how difficult
one of the most difficult tasks of Spiritual Science. There
are very great difficulties in making what has been observed
Occult Science,
how difficult it is to be mature enough to face the
it is extremely difficult for him to be quite sure of
add that this is extremely difficult to do: often enough when

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culture. In this respect human evolution from the Atlantean
use to-day appeared first in the course of post-Atlantean culture.
ancient Indian culture, the legacy of knowledge man had received
understood when so compared. The first period of Indian culture can
a comparison; we can compare it with the publishing of some occult
“Outline of Occult Science”
otherwise the work of occultism could not progress.
conceptions, it is possible for man to approach occult knowledge and
third period, the period of Egyptian culture. People now had
super-sensible ideas. This is difficult for the men of to-day. Try and
— the Egyptians in the art of surveying and agriculture, the
first done in the third cultural period.
Pre-Christian culture
from spiritual science. Our fifth period of culture is that in which
becomes fruitful through what occult investigation has to give. Our
will be still more difficult in the domain of chemistry, and in
everything connected with life. Here it will he still more difficult
post-Atlantean epoch we have a youthful upward striving cultural

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culture-epochs, for an idea of the future can be formed only
Occult Science,
the course of post-Atlantean culture. The knowledge possessed
cultural life of the first post-Atlantean epoch and must be
the decline of the Old Indian culture-epoch, knowledge
the Old Indian culture-epoch is comparable with the first
production nowadays of a book on occultism will help us to
Occult Science,
attempted nowadays, for otherwise no progress in occultism
possible to approach and also to assimilate occult knowledge.
clothe occult facts had first to be discovered and gradually
epoch, that of Egypto-Chaldean culture, concepts of
again is difficult for the modern mind to grasp. There was no
second culture-epoch were pupils of heavenly knowledge; now
to the art of land-surveying, also to agriculture, and by the
seen. In the third culture-epoch, then, men began for the
definite question until the fourth culture-epoch, after they
culture-epoch, but something new had nevertheless been
man had begun to develop a critical faculty, and to ask how
other impact. Similarly, pre-Christian culture tended to
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there will certainly be much in these lectures that will be difficult
Gospels. These men, through their own occult schooling, had some
the case. All the same it was still possible, without occult
with them into post-Atlantean culture a natural clairvoyance which
was able to put himself in touch with the faculties of the Angel, so
If anyone has made a little progress on the path of occult
non-being. On the path of occult development man reaches a point

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Science would find many things difficult to understand. He
occult training such men had some knowledge of the directives
have been possible, even without occult knowledge. What has
foundation for what occultism has to say about the
of post-Atlantean culture preceding our own, men were still
endowed, to some extent, with faculties of clairvoyance which
aware that they themselves possessed a faculty capable of
faculty of clairvoyance, and the ‘I’ within him
was able to place all his faculties and all he knew and felt
little progress on the path of occult knowledge we are likely
occult development a man reaches the point where he begins to

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as inspired occultists, wanted to represent this great event each from
human, occult and other aims, and beside this highest human principle,
it. Hence it is so infinitely difficult to squeeze into modern words
Here we come to an important occult idea, without which you cannot
understand at all the evolution of humanity in the sense of occultism.
man. But what is a man for occultism? Nothing but Maya! Really, as he
earth, there is nothing for the occultist. But forces are streaming
works at the plough in the old Persian agriculture. He looks like a

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authors were inspired occultists and each wanted to represent this
a revelation of the highest human and occult aims, as well as of the
is so infinitely difficult to squeeze the tremendous facts imparted
we arrive at an important occult concept that is indispensable to the
occult understanding of human evolution. It is naturally easy to say
human being to occultism? Nothing but Maya! He or she is about the
earth, there is nothing for the occultist. In fact, forces stream

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that their authors, writing as inspired occultists, each
why it is so extraordinarily difficult to put into modern
occultism. It is easy enough to say simply that everything is
this faculty was disappearing and darkness spreading within
acquired the faculty which enabled John the Baptist, for
from the human faculty connected with it, and not vice
is a man. But what does occultism take this ‘man’
forces in the heavens, in the Macrocosm. For the occultist,

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Gospels of St. Matthew, St. Mark and St. Luke. Occultists
human nature. In all occult writings Lucifer is pictured as a

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intended as a mere poetic image, but is an occult truth presented
post-Atlantean culture. The northern stream had leaders such as I
streams of culture (into which smaller contributory streams also
as a leader who belonged to the southern stream of culture, for the
the forms belonging to the northern culture, compelling them to
southern stream of culture a man sank down into the Microcosm, in the
northern stream of culture he poured himself forth into the

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great heights through the faculties of his own Individuality.
poetical presentation of an occult reality.
in him, make use of his brain, his faculties and his will. —
will be found to have feelings, faculties and forces of
firm enough foundation. Faculties in us which at night are
features of the two great streams of culture in the
culture. The Northern stream had leaders such as I have
of culture, for a figure such as Siegfried differs radically
Macrocosm. Whereas in the Southern cultures a man sinks into

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what was given to man as “culture,” what he had to learn
traditional and had been handed down as the external culture
of mankind in the second and third periods of post-Atlantean culture,
faculty of clairvoyance. Something infinitely fine and intimate in
post-Atlantean culture? He experienced in the first place that stage
gained through culture. Keep this man before you, and then think what

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because the human beings responsible for such culture would
through forms of external culture, the effect made by nature
pre-Christian Greek culture — certainly not the physical
the second and third post-Atlantean culture-epochs who became
Orpheus did, and he consequently lost the faculty of
post-Atlantean culture? In the first place he experienced the

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have difficulty in understanding certain things connected with the
difficulty. Eating and drinking are things that spring anew each day
difficult to connect with spiritual life. We have first done this as

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faculties. It may well be asked: How can any belief in or
with the greatest difficulty. We eat and drink every day by
fact, everyday things are more difficult than any others to
have no clairvoyant faculties but that in everyday life their

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another which they think necessary to introduce into our culture.
less distant future. In short it is very difficult for people to-day
to take place at fixed times. It is exceedingly difficult for present
artistic fact. Will an occultist who knows the laws put such an
the idea is quite a small one. The occultist knows that it appears
foolishness, even where culture is well advanced, when the ordered
this teaching instinctively. It will not be at all difficult to see
This will not be difficult, for scientific facts indicate that we

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introducing into our culture something they consider
future. In short, it is very difficult for a man today to
facts. An occultist, who knows the law, will not immediately
proclaim his unfamiliar idea to the world. An occultist knows
sincerely desire to work for cultural progress will for a
difficult in the future to see how a prototypal event in
difficult because scientific facts will themselves show that

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difficult to give, in a few words, the whole connection between these
such things from the occult point of view say: — If we call the
Greco-Latin period, which is reckoned by us in an occult sense as
science when the third period of culture celebrated its revival in
content of our culture. From causes which cannot be gone into to-day,
such an impulse to develop; so that the renewed moon-culture actually
“inexplicable,” but occultism says that, following the
the souls of men what the fourth period of post-Atlantean culture had
to give. The age of Greece threw up a following wave of culture
called the culture of the Renaissance, it enriched everything that
culture of the Renaissance.
— in which this wave of Greek culture has to a certain extent
sixhundred-year-long wave of culture) into which some-thing new is
the Christ-Impulse. After the Moon-cult had its revival in the
of an occult system.
the influx into our culture of a wave of a kind of Mercury-influence,
Christianity, and of the culture of the Renaissance; and we might
which is the direct stream of the culture of the future? The
purification through the culture of the Renaissance. At present we
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is difficult to summarise in a few words the vast aspects of
occultism will say: If we call the religion of Christ a
culture reappeared later in post-Christian times: something
the Graeco-Latin epoch which in the occult sense we reckon as
culture-epoch celebrated its resurrection in our own fifth
for our modern culture to come into being. For reasons which
Event the renewed Moon-cult of the Arabians appears,
century enriching the Christian culture which had received
every occultist, a new wave of culture arose in the East,
occultism knows that in this period, as though it were
men: the fruits of Greek culture constituted a following
culture which during the next centuries enriched everything
onset of the next six-hundred-year wave of culture, when
Moon-culture underwent its revival in the religion symbolised
influx of this new stream means to our own culture. All these
happenings are entirely in accordance with an occult plan —
we could also say, an occult purpose.
called the wave of Arabism a Moon-culture, so we might say
form of Mercury-culture.
understand the way in which culture and civilisation have
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as if the expected advance in culture of the nineteenth century had
really desires is often difficult to discover from the older
without which true culture would never have taken place. When we
feeling in man; neither spiritual life nor external culture.
theosophical life as cultivated by us is founded in Rosicrucianism,
the other form of instruction, the form cultivated in spiritual
half of the nineteenth century materialistic culture arose, and all
culture they demand possible. In this way the spirit that is deeply
thought-forms in Western culture came from the same source, and

Title: Background/Mark: Lecture Ten: Rosicrucian Wisdom in Folk-Mythology
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cultivate under the symbol of the Rose Cross is gaining more
whatever use he may make of his faculties. No matter in what
cleverly and ingeniously to advance modern culture but they
it is precisely the legitimate progress of culture during the
often difficult to learn among the older theosophists what
without which the genuine cultural achievements of the world
truly spiritual life and no external culture. Everything that
happened in European culture, can we form an idea of how this
creative faculty can work effectively only if he does not try
second half of the century, came the materialistic culture
surmise that what we ourselves are cultivating has always
whence we to-day draw the knowledge on which the culture
culture thought-forms expressing in pictures the same

Title: On the Mystery Plays: Lecture I: Self-Knowledge Portrayed in the Rosicrucian Mystery, The Portal of Initiation
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most difficult task to become completely free. A man
experience how infinitely difficult it is to become free of
conveniences our materialistic culture has put into our

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at all with his ordinary self. Another, deeper faculty reveals
feel our body as an instrument. It is not so difficult for a
a difficult task to become completely free. It is one of the
how infinitely difficult it is to get free of oneself. A most
culture generally does it in the things of outer life. That

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combined with what was said in Occult Science, [Rudolf
Steiner, An Outline of Occult Science, Anthroposophic
was a truly long descent from all the occult laws of
what is at work in the realm of the occult, that is, in the
When you look with occult vision at any group of people,
connecting him to her. These are all threads that lie occultly
real happening that anyone conversant with occult life will
Love, and Wisdom. This is so difficult to discern and
judged theoretically, for it is extremely difficult to arrive
things welling up from occult sources. She cannot clothe them
door into the occult world.
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and poems — and who then penetrates into occult science, into
occultism, and who uses occult science as an instrument enabling him
he understands them rightly — to which occult investigation can
through occult investigation — all this may afterwards be
unprejudiced investigation of an occultist the more he penetrates
of an occultist another strange thing arises, something quite special
will arise in his case. Namely, in the case of an occultist we may
be filled with an occultistic spirit and yet to feel an aversion to
occultists, if we have this strange attitude as occultists, we shall
occultist approaches an oriental or an occidental document and comes
of them. Particularly the occultist will always realize this. If he
true aspect of things. Let us suppose that a modern occultist
they should be. Let us now imagine an occult investigator before the
time of Christ Jesus, an occult investigator who has reached such a
that he reached the maturity of a modern occultist; that is to say he
How would an occultist who is so much in advance of his time,
event, how would such an occultist have to appear in order to avoid
from an occult standpoint in a very strange light. The occult fact
difficulty in which direction and toward which goal the world is
every occultist knows by experience that the understanding, or
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Christmas or Easter. Today it has become very difficult indeed,
their body or their larynx. Thus they cultivate art in a materialistic

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cities as the representatives of modern culture. It has
agricultural workers, while their feelings and inclinations
clairvoyant faculties had persisted among all the peoples of
Earth. And so, although it will inevitably be difficult for
convinced that all cultural life, all spiritual life must be
we cultivate in our anthroposophical centres become in the

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could only be revealed through occult sense organs. I have
is extraordinarily difficult to create the bridge between
him a genuine relationship to the occult world. So there had to
the occult world.
development through the culture of the intellectual or
soul arose in men in the fourth post-Atlantean cultural epoch
up in the intellectual or feeling soul; it was cultivated
the other hand, wherever the culture of the fourth epoch had
northern reaches of Europe, the culture of the sentient soul
the intellectual soul culture that advanced from the
East, could enter into the ancient sentient soul culture of
sentient soul culture. Thus, we see the end-rhyme regularly at
home in the poetry of the South, and for the culture of the
we can feel the rolling, circling will pouring into the culture
of the fourth epoch at its height, the culture of the

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Occult History
to modern times. Steiner focuses here on the Babylonian and Greek cultures
increase in difficulty the farther we descend from universal principles
to be an introduction to lectures which belong to the domain of occult
through the culture-epochs after the great Atlantean catastrophe —
culture-epochs and an into our own — the effects produced in the
Five culture-epochs
we come to the first Post-Atlantean culture-epoch, the ancient Indian;
the Greco-Latin epoch. These two culture-epochs follow one another, and
in the occult sense belong together, the one taking place half a plane
discourse which then takes place we can glean how, for the culture of
depths lying behind the Chaldean-Babylonian culture-epoch. These pictures
the actual inaugurator of the Chaldean-Babylonian culture, and working
Occult Science,
culture, and we shall see that the whole of this culture is an outcome
into the Chaldean-Babylonian culture. This process, enacted by two beings
reflected in the later, fourth culture-epoch, the Greco-Latin, and in
all others for the culture of personality — and on the very soil
where the culture of were personality was meant to be overcome. Herostratus
been imparted to the Babylonian-Chaldean culture by Gilgamish. This
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Occult History
to modern times. Steiner focuses here on the Babylonian and Greek cultures
understood only when we not merely observe the forces and faculties of
he could help himself out of his difficulties was by linking the strict
occult facts — namely, that souls who lived in ancient epochs
this quite apart from the purely occult, esoteric research with which
her. In order to throw a little light on the occult understanding of
the whole cultural life of humanity during the centuries following!
many vicissitudes and difficulties she was introduced to the Court of
the greatest difficulties, led the armies to victory and the King to
occult grounds and with occult means of proof — for they are indeed
standpoint of occult science the two personalities hidden behind the
legendary names of Gilgamish and Eabani. In the Sense of occult history
of the Babylonian-Chaldean epoch of culture. The impulses proceeding
spiritual culture of ancient Babylonia and Chaldea. — Now Gilgamish
Occult Science
almost be said to cause astonishment even to the occultist. If someone
older souls. But, strangely enough, occult research finds just the opposite;
and for the occultist himself it is surprising to find that in Kant,
existing culture, but also that which strikes into it as a new impulse,
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Occult History
to modern times. Steiner focuses here on the Babylonian and Greek cultures
things that have been said in giving a brief glimpse into the occult
the Greco-Latin culture-epoch was the period of development paramountly
Babylonian-Egyptian culture-epoch brought the sentient soul especially
each of the soul-members separately. In a sixth culture-epoch man will
culture-epoch — man will grow into Life-Spirit or Buddhi; and
the realm of the ego itself. The ancient Indian, pre-Vedic culture was
essentially an inspired culture, a culture which streamed as it were
Indian culture was acquired more passively, through surrender to what
that this ancient Indian culture must be attributed to a kind of activity
In ancient Persian culture,
and in Babylonian-Chaldean? Egyptian culture, Manas or Spirit-Self worked
in the sentient soul. This latter culture, therefore, does not yet bear
and we can therefore say: In Greek culture the ego actually works in
shall see that the essential and unique character of Greek culture is
But that culture-epoch
until the sixth culture-epoch. We are now living between the fourth
through its senses. In the fifth culture-epoch we are in a position
to the ancient Persian culture received the influence of a super-sensible
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Occult History
to modern times. Steiner focuses here on the Babylonian and Greek cultures
activity of the human soul which characterises Greek culture —
the ego working in the ego. The culture of the ancient Indian, Persian
forms of culture imbued with clairvoyance. The Egypto-Babylonian-Chaldean
the essentially human culture of Greece. In the preceding, third Post-Atlantean
for the purely personal, purely human culture characterised by the activity
implicit in clairvoyant culture was, to begin with, uncertain and indistinct
when Eabani had as it were endowed him with certain faculties for looking
In studying the occult
activities and cultural achievements the several peoples by no means
single streams of culture have converged in it. In our present spiritual
folk cultures which were developed more or less one-sidedly by the several
what can we, who have received into our own culture the work achieved
from occult history.
and the like. When these sounds are pronounced and their occult value
egohood. Thus the Tower of Babel was to be the cultic centre for men
external Babylonian civilisation there was a Chaldean Mystery-culture
in the mission of the Babylonians was embodied in their culture and
an 10 — a number which causes great difficulty when it has to
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Occult History
to modern times. Steiner focuses here on the Babylonian and Greek cultures
Such studies of occult
can give us deeper insight into the occult course of history.
The investigations made possible from occult sources enable us, in a
the immediate pupils of the inspirer of the ancient Persian culture,
age have a faculty of perception only for the one Spirit, Jehovah. —
on the physical conditions of the earth, it will not be difficult for
And because he perceived how difficult this was, in an age moving more
only to the character of this priest but also to the cultural conditions

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Occult History
to modern times. Steiner focuses here on the Babylonian and Greek cultures
general way the course of man's cultural life may be described briefly as
follows. — We find cultural life rising from unfathomed depths and
an for a long time, penetrate into later streams and into folk-cultures
to think of an eminently characteristic example of progress in culture
This, as we have shown, was the case in the culture of the ancient Greeks.
decline Greek culture was being prepared. During the decline of the
Babylonian culture, which streamed from the East towards the West, there
that when Greek culture appears to outer observation. as if everything
that Greek culture was able to rise to the heights it achieved in bringing
the essentially human element to expression. For this reason Greek culture
those prehistoric ages when, as its basis, there was cultivated in the
Greek culture against the deep background of the Mysteries, we can begin
art, of the whole folk-character. For when such a culture first arises,
culture, then, in the age of the Persian Wars we can clearly perceive
in the battles against the Persians, against the waning culture of the
all this as a legacy of spiritual Powers who imbued Greek culture with
essential characteristic of a culture which is rising towards its peak.
that must be especially cultivated, this or that must be the main consideration.
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Title: Lecture: The Son of God and the Son of Man
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in very early epochs of Egyptian culture, for example — but
actually in all such culture-epochs — the external appearance
And so it comes about that many of those in cultured and learned
form and direction taken by culture in the near future that this is
as a child possesses the faculty of ideation. But the highest

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told, both by what Occultism relates as well as by outer historical
We are told how the heroes find themselves in a difficult position.
now works further in mankind is of great significance for occult

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really justified. We must reach very deeply into occult research if we
applicable to the earth organism we can say that what occultism
It is really a simple thought, yet people have a difficult time grasping it.
impress such thoughts upon our culture; let one try with these thoughts to
culture, if it streamed into the soul already in childhood, it would provide
it is difficult. People have a certain antipathy toward moral preachments.
the whole human organism. But occult research shows that the following
physical part of these other people will be fundamentally coarser. Occult
Such a picture as that contemplated in advance by the occult researcher is
My dear friends, it is true that to establish morality is difficult; to
he said that to establish morality is difficult.

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acquired the faculty of judgment necessary in physical life, namely,
for him to acquire the faculty of clear, intelligent perception of the
the undermining of the faculties of the human race. There we have the
reality. When the new faculty of vision that is to arise in the next

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is of all mysteries the most difficult for mankind to grasp, namely,
very deepest and most difficult Mysteries to understand. From the
through inherited clairvoyant faculties, can feel himself penetrating

Title: An Occult Physiology: Lecture 1: The Being of Man
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An Occult Physiology
subject is a difficult one to approach. For if we turn our attention
mystic, occult heights, we see at once that a real, true
one who wishes to reflect, in the occult sense, upon the life of man,
sight, our entire spiritual faculty for seeing and beholding the
our intention here to pursue this “occult physiology,” as
necessary to proceed in a somewhat different way, in this occult
consider, something of which occult science, however, since its task
regard to the animal. On the contrary the occult task is to consider
of a science that is not occult will say that we have to do with a
really can confront us only in the field of occultism. A question may
spinal cord, the occult method of observation reveals that what
later what underlies the occult view, so as to enable us to say this.
occult view affects it.
And here occult observation shows us that there actually is, inside
which we shall justify in the following lectures, occult, clairvoyant
exist in the physical world of sense. Even though it is difficult to

Title: An Occult Physiology: Lecture 2: Human Duality
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An Occult Physiology
of our reflections, the difficulty of keeping in our mind's eye
method of observation a foundation for the occult method, let us
visualise all this it is important, as a basis for an occult method
basis for everything that will enable us to ascend to occult heights,
takes part in its digestion. On such grounds, the occultists of all
comparison — it appeared to the occultists of old to be best
occultists and their observations, was the first within our solar
occult study, a certain relationship which the nerve-system has to
authenticating this later on, that for the occultist the nerve-system
life. We shall see later on that anthroposophy, or occultism, does
man — and I said yesterday that in occultism our task is not as
basis for arriving at the occult foundations of human nature. In

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An Occult Physiology
of occult observation of the human being and afterwards to build into
occult exercises, to set free from the blood the nerves of our brain
that he has brought his faculty of cognition to an inward
extraordinarily difficult to find out the functions of the spleen by
occultists, anything whatever can be substantiated by showing clearly
any being, making it independent, is called in occultism saturnine,
belonging to our solar system. For the occultist all those forces
this surrounding world. For this reason occultists of all the ages
names as the ones already mentioned are chosen in occultism. They are
chosen because the occultist does not connect with the names borne by
originally created in the occult schools they were never applied
a rhythm of its own. And the occultists have, consequently, been
an occult idea, expressed in the name Kronos or
be able to understand why certain occultists can with justice say as
has penetrated into human nature with the help of occult
by means of occult science, can re-establish from the human
or beginning with the help of occult science on the one hand; and we
in the myths and sagas, and that those occultists are right who find

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An Occult Physiology
difficulties present themselves even to those who approach the
scientific methods, find difficulties as soon as they choose the road
the occult depths of cosmic Being.
presented by external science. The difficulty before us is this, that
anthroposophical world-conception into the culture and knowledge of
names as we have described is justified, that in occultism the
the activities here referred to, occult knowledge sees in the heart
the occultists, according to the same principle, characterise as
lectures I shall have occasion to show you that the occultists have
difficulties that the most varied answers, offered by the most
of occultism, in which it is considered a dispute over empty
leads them out of all their difficulties, but only in the sense that
of occult physiology) is a super-sensible organisation, which we
occult methods, we see at this point ether-forces compressed as if

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An Occult Physiology
be difficult for you to believe that forces not visible to the senses
difficult to think that space around us may likewise be completely
of this organ is its least significant part. In occult literature
not be difficult for us to conceive that the human organism as a
may be used as they ought to be used. It is not difficult to gain this

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therefore, it will not be difficult to grasp the fact that we must

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An Occult Physiology
who has a basis of genuine and true occultism will tell you that the
occult observations. If I could hold lectures for half a year,
occultism.
occultism, when it is asserted that all processes in our soul-life
through occultism.
it for granted that these statements as to results of occult research
difficult, if one has even only a moderate capacity for true
themselves in real effects; so that, as a result of purely occult
these facts, combats such affirmations as may be based upon occult
show us how significant, how illuminating, occult premisses may be
difficult to distinguish individually, to which particular course of
diseased organ appear to us in the light of occult physiology?”
very distinct, if we are able to presuppose occult principles. It

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An Occult Physiology
last few days regarding “occult physiology,” in which the
To be sure, there is a certain difficulty in taking such a view. But
all occultism, this which first confronts the purely physical matter
we say in occultism, by the ether-body. The moment the nutritive
this? Can we verify that which occult perception compels us to
in such a way that the best picture occultism can give us is to
and intimate occult observation, to the relationship which the heart
for thousands of years occult science has not only examined,
of occult sources, that we can quietly bide our time, that the facts
What does occultism

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due to the incarnation of Christ at the time of the Greek culture.
European cultural development when the several activities of the
in feeling to the very first beginnings of European cultural
development, to times when a unified culture, born directly out of
highest that the human soul can reach; it was a culture pulsating
their culture, but they still spoke of religion, even when their
with the archetypal mother of all culture.
imbue every aspect of human culture with that singleness of vision
that. True occultism at a somewhat higher level shows us however that
is twofold. Firstly, if European cultural life is not to dry up, to
it cannot be a continuation of the occultism, the mysticism, which
occultism; we should be putting our personal preferences above the
some form or other of ancient occultism, let us suppress this, and
occultism nor modern science will serve to satisfy the deepest need
middle course between purely historical occultism, which can be read
been taken along that golden middle road between ancient occultism
place of this ancient clairvoyance another culture will become more
culture requires a sacrifice — they no longer feel that in
external culture which he traced back to Agamemnon, Menelaus,
represented this perpetual sacrifice demanded by intellectual culture
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due to the incarnation of Christ at the time of the Greek culture.
European cultural development when the several activities of the
in feeling to the very first beginnings of European cultural
development, to times when a unified culture, born directly out of
highest that the human soul can reach; it was a culture pulsating
their culture, but they still spoke of religion, even when their
with the archetypal mother of all culture.
imbue every aspect of human culture with that singleness of vision
that. True occultism at a somewhat higher level shows us however that
is twofold. Firstly, if European cultural life is not to dry up, to
it cannot be a continuation of the occultism, the mysticism, which
occultism; we should be putting our personal preferences above the
some form or other of ancient occultism, let us suppress this, and
occultism nor modern science will serve to satisfy the deepest need
middle course between purely historical occultism, which can be read
been taken along that golden middle road between ancient occultism
place of this ancient clairvoyance another culture will become more
culture requires a sacrifice — they no longer feel that in
external culture which he traced back to Agamemnon, Menelaus,
represented this perpetual sacrifice demanded by intellectual culture
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due to the incarnation of Christ at the time of the Greek culture.
Occult Science — An Outline
other culture associated with Persephone and her mother Demeter. Now
of Spiritual Science has happened to the old clairvoyant faculty of
culture has vanished. But nothing in the world ever really
form his own clairvoyant faculty, but both these things were given to
transformed into the faculty of clairvoyance.’ (We may call
forces which in man develop into the faculty of clairvoyance.
faculty of clairvoyance. And because this organism of ours has become
intellectual culture. Now it is emerging again from the dark depths
which all true occultism is in agreement. At the end of three
contribution of western culture is that the cosmic Individuality who

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due to the incarnation of Christ at the time of the Greek culture.
Occult Science — An Outline
other culture associated with Persephone and her mother Demeter. Now
of Spiritual Science has happened to the old clairvoyant faculty of
culture has vanished. But nothing in the world ever really
form his own clairvoyant faculty, but both these things were given to
transformed into the faculty of clairvoyance.’ (We may call
forces which in man develop into the faculty of clairvoyance.
faculty of clairvoyance. And because this organism of ours has become
intellectual culture. Now it is emerging again from the dark depths
which all true occultism is in agreement. At the end of three
contribution of western culture is that the cosmic Individuality who

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due to the incarnation of Christ at the time of the Greek culture.
of the harmonising of two streams of culture which I may call the
the beginning of our fifth post-Atlantean culture-epoch that
culture-epoch, there arose in all sorts of ways in western
occult investigation in this direction is being pursued with greater
occultist calls the self-knowledge of the physical body through the
occult sense of taste, the spiritual sense of taste. When
permeated by this astringent taste, the occultist knows that he is
experiencing knowledge of his own physical body through the occult
of concrete knowledge; they are known to occultists in the same way
spiritual, then you have the clairsipience which the occultist knows
and antipathies.’ When the occultist acquires the taste of
this, when as a practising occultist he feels himself in this etheric
also be recognised by the occultist who has developed these higher
faculties. But in this case one can no longer properly speak of a
different terms. But it is also possible for the practising occultist
occultist, he certainly gets at first a very unpleasant sensation ...
contains — like an occult sign on which we can
occult sign and acquire a certain feeling for the proportional
is an occult sign; one can meditate on such signs; I have described
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due to the incarnation of Christ at the time of the Greek culture.
of the harmonising of two streams of culture which I may call the
the beginning of our fifth post-Atlantean culture-epoch that
culture-epoch, there arose in all sorts of ways in western
occult investigation in this direction is being pursued with greater
occultist calls the self-knowledge of the physical body through the
occult sense of taste, the spiritual sense of taste. When
permeated by this astringent taste, the occultist knows that he is
experiencing knowledge of his own physical body through the occult
of concrete knowledge; they are known to occultists in the same way
spiritual, then you have the clairsipience which the occultist knows
and antipathies.’ When the occultist acquires the taste of
this, when as a practising occultist he feels himself in this etheric
also be recognised by the occultist who has developed these higher
faculties. But in this case one can no longer properly speak of a
different terms. But it is also possible for the practising occultist
occultist, he certainly gets at first a very unpleasant sensation ...
contains — like an occult sign on which we can
occult sign and acquire a certain feeling for the proportional
is an occult sign; one can meditate on such signs; I have described
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due to the incarnation of Christ at the time of the Greek culture.
postAtlantean culture-epoch, in the Persian epoch, in the
Egypto-Chaldean culture-epoch were unable to appear directly in human
Egypto-Chaldean epoch to all the culture-epochs. Things were
Archangeloi. One may say that the Persian, the Zarathustra culture,
was guided by Archangels just as the Egypto-Chaldean culture was
Impulse, and in the sixth culture-epoch, the epoch following our own,
majesty; but in the most advanced men of the seventh culture-epoch it
the seventh culture-epoch of post-Atlantean humanity.Thus we see that
which we can call materialistic culture and materialistic science.
Occult Science.

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due to the incarnation of Christ at the time of the Greek culture.
postAtlantean culture-epoch, in the Persian epoch, in the
Egypto-Chaldean culture-epoch were unable to appear directly in human
Egypto-Chaldean epoch to all the culture-epochs. Things were
Archangeloi. One may say that the Persian, the Zarathustra culture,
was guided by Archangels just as the Egypto-Chaldean culture was
Impulse, and in the sixth culture-epoch, the epoch following our own,
majesty; but in the most advanced men of the seventh culture-epoch it
the seventh culture-epoch of post-Atlantean humanity.Thus we see that
which we can call materialistic culture and materialistic science.
Occult Science.

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due to the incarnation of Christ at the time of the Greek culture.
the Greco-Latin culture the reins of spiritual guidance from above
meaning. For a modern consciousness it is somewhat difficult to come
to terms with the proper concepts. It is difficult to imagine that
is because the modern man has no idea of this that it is so difficult
post-Atlantean culture-epoch, but during that epoch to hold the
fantasy, one wholly pictorial. Within the pictorial mode his culture
teaching men the arts of agriculture, the cultivation of the vine,
taught men agriculture, taught them the cultivation of the vine,
as intellectual culture, consider the mental content of what is given
culture also envelops all men in their daily lives—therein

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due to the incarnation of Christ at the time of the Greek culture.
the Greco-Latin culture the reins of spiritual guidance from above
meaning. For a modern consciousness it is somewhat difficult to come
to terms with the proper concepts. It is difficult to imagine that
is because the modern man has no idea of this that it is so difficult
post-Atlantean culture-epoch, but during that epoch to hold the
fantasy, one wholly pictorial. Within the pictorial mode his culture
teaching men the arts of agriculture, the cultivation of the vine,
taught men agriculture, taught them the cultivation of the vine,
as intellectual culture, consider the mental content of what is given
culture also envelops all men in their daily lives—therein

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due to the incarnation of Christ at the time of the Greek culture.
occultism, do we find this contradiction, a contradiction which
by the exercise of our physical senses, by exercising our faculties
nor in any way perceptible to any faculty for acquiring knowledge of
is utterly deceiving himself. With physical faculties for acquiring
only learn to know the ego when we direct our physical faculty of
what a man's normal faculties find within him as his ego ever
faculties, as belonging to any other world than that of the physical
the world, is only maya.’ For as soon as the faculty
a mighty occult script, the question arising out of this Greek myth.

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due to the incarnation of Christ at the time of the Greek culture.
occultism, do we find this contradiction, a contradiction which
by the exercise of our physical senses, by exercising our faculties
nor in any way perceptible to any faculty for acquiring knowledge of
is utterly deceiving himself. With physical faculties for acquiring
only learn to know the ego when we direct our physical faculty of
what a man's normal faculties find within him as his ego ever
faculties, as belonging to any other world than that of the physical
the world, is only maya.’ For as soon as the faculty
a mighty occult script, the question arising out of this Greek myth.

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due to the incarnation of Christ at the time of the Greek culture.
own time we can come to know through Spiritual, or Occult Science; and
problems concerning the human faculty of cognition.
that something quite different from ordinary knowledge was cultivated
matters in ordinary life. That is why it is so difficult to make
Spiritual Science it will not be difficult for you, from all I have
his soul to be poured out into external culture was nevertheless able
the meaning of Greek spiritual culture in the sense of ancient Greek
Mystery-wisdom when one knows that the old Dionysian culture

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due to the incarnation of Christ at the time of the Greek culture.
own time we can come to know through Spiritual, or Occult Science; and
problems concerning the human faculty of cognition.
that something quite different from ordinary knowledge was cultivated
matters in ordinary life. That is why it is so difficult to make
Spiritual Science it will not be difficult for you, from all I have
his soul to be poured out into external culture was nevertheless able
the meaning of Greek spiritual culture in the sense of ancient Greek
Mystery-wisdom when one knows that the old Dionysian culture

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due to the incarnation of Christ at the time of the Greek culture.
feeling, a man is only allowing Spiritual or Occult Science to work
through us. We are not cultivating in our knowledge any private
important occult experiences, how he has been permitted a glimpse
occult experiences of the kind we have been speaking of has to
be described in the following way. When the human being cultivates
finds it very difficult to accept, something which is in the highest
another side. We cannot come to know occult facts by pinning
most closely followed by the occultist in the case of the heart and
physical brain. We have to resort to occultism to learn how the brain
Occult Physiology,
occult development becomes aware of something peculiar about these
of feeling and activity, steeped in occult forces.
found it too difficult to enter into these dense elements, and
saying that the one chose the more difficult path, that took them

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due to the incarnation of Christ at the time of the Greek culture.
feeling, a man is only allowing Spiritual or Occult Science to work
through us. We are not cultivating in our knowledge any private
important occult experiences, how he has been permitted a glimpse
occult experiences of the kind we have been speaking of has to
be described in the following way. When the human being cultivates
finds it very difficult to accept, something which is in the highest
another side. We cannot come to know occult facts by pinning
most closely followed by the occultist in the case of the heart and
physical brain. We have to resort to occultism to learn how the brain
Occult Physiology,
occult development becomes aware of something peculiar about these
of feeling and activity, steeped in occult forces.
found it too difficult to enter into these dense elements, and
saying that the one chose the more difficult path, that took them

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due to the incarnation of Christ at the time of the Greek culture.
culture-epoch — for instance, that of ancient Egypt —
have in fact what a clairvoyant culture, which was inwardly aware of
through occult and religious scriptures — the symbol of the
of modern clairvoyance, modern occult science? We may perhaps feel
means of occultism. Let me draw your attention to the fact that in
religious cults or rituals. Nowadays — I say this by the way
break with him or rise above this difficulty and remain true to him.

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due to the incarnation of Christ at the time of the Greek culture.
culture-epoch — for instance, that of ancient Egypt —
have in fact what a clairvoyant culture, which was inwardly aware of
through occult and religious scriptures — the symbol of the
of modern clairvoyance, modern occult science? We may perhaps feel
means of occultism. Let me draw your attention to the fact that in
religious cults or rituals. Nowadays — I say this by the way
break with him or rise above this difficulty and remain true to him.

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due to the incarnation of Christ at the time of the Greek culture.
spiritual hierarchies. But when through the serious cultivation of
cultural conditions which have prevailed hitherto, men have made
error to think that the faculty of speech is formed through the
brain which brings into existence the faculty of speech but the
activity which the man himself develops. The faculty of speech is

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due to the incarnation of Christ at the time of the Greek culture.
spiritual hierarchies. But when through the serious cultivation of
cultural conditions which have prevailed hitherto, men have made
error to think that the faculty of speech is formed through the
brain which brings into existence the faculty of speech but the
activity which the man himself develops. The faculty of speech is

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indeed one which compelled him to vanquish all difficulties,
and its spiritual culture. It is especially important for
forms of vibration, once cultivated with such extreme
said to be based on ancient occult traditions. But even these
planets. — It has always been a difficulty for science
spirit, and tries to help itself out of the difficulty by the
doubtless a difficult step for many at the present day. Some
lately in “Occult Science”. Into that work are
him. But Goethe has an occult power of attraction; there is
who was on a level with the highest culture of his day,
risk a bold assertion or to make a statement difficult to

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understand the occultist describing in his way that paralysis is an
intellect. If an occultist observes a soul at the moment when it is
indefinable individuality, so far difficult to understand in that He
to be correct by Western occultists, is that in the moment when the
Genuine occultists recognise the incarnations of the Bodhisattva, the
occultists of the present day, it is recognised as an essential that
uncompromising. Any true occultist would find it strange for a Buddha
to appear in the twentieth century, as every occultist knows that he
It is part of an occultist's basic knowledge that the Maitreya Buddha
years that we should bear this principle of occultism in mind: before
places to speak about occult matters. This has been stressed for
but they do not do it as an occult duty.

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the whole of cultural development because it is the time when the
stream that came from the East and mingled with Western culture ceased
human being whose clairvoyant faculties have awakened will see new
an understanding of occult life as I have described it today.
what has gradually taken place within the science of Western culture.
practical occultism, as has been done recently, in order to make a
have worked out, we can see occult
understand the occult significance of every spiritual form. To this
Great things will happen in the next epochs of culture. What only
Buddha also. Every serious occultist knows that five thousand years
have the particular destiny on earth, as every serious occultist can

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reincarnate?’ — occult research gives the answer
they then inhabited. This clairvoyance, once a natural faculty in
prevailing during the Græco-Roman epoch of culture. Since then,
post-Atlantean epoch of culture, the ancient Indian being the first,
Occult research is able to
influence upon the soul of man. That is why Greek culture was able to
nature of development in the sixth epoch of culture, it is well to consider
post-Atlantean culture-epochs in order to grasp how intellectuality,
interesting finding of occult research. You know that when a man
occult experience — is that the majority of men
himself to be drawn downwards, and it is an actual fact in occult
worlds, and inspires all bearers of culture who are not yet permeated
is that a man who has paralysed his intellectual faculty as a result
occultists.
physical body, according to occultism that would be equivalent to
The Oriental occult teachings call this Bodhisattva the
occult investigations that in this Maitreya Buddha the power of
Christ. Occult investigations show us to-day that in a certain
years time, will become the Maitreya Buddha. It would be so much occult
can be substantiated only by means of occult investigation. Yet
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image has been put into words. A considerable amount of Western occult
the fifth post-Atlantean cultural epoch. In the Greco-Roman cultural
the fifth post-Atlantean cultural epoch. Man's clairvoyance gradually
Occult Science
teachers of the ancient Indian cultural epoch, all that was left of the
the ancient Atlantean cultural epoch of mankind and the further course
back into times long past but could look back to the occult wisdom
ancient Persian cultural period, the third to the
Egyptian-Chaldaean-Assyrian-Babylonian cultural period and the fourth
to the Greco-Roman culture. These four joined the seven to form a
Western occultism, but these twelve different streams of wisdom worked
middle of the thirteenth century is the time when a new culture began.
wisdom of the five post-Atlantean cultures. Thus the twelve
The beginning of a new culture was only possible, however, because a
Isis Unveiled. We have to see the occult process in such a way
succeeded them, so that they could form the occult rosicrucian stream.
onwards. Esoterically, in the occult sense, he was already Christian
to avoid occult astral attacks which would be constantly directed at
materialism it became more and more difficult for inspiration to come

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cultural epochs, the culture of ancient India, ancient Persia, the
Egyptian-Chaldaean-Assyrian-Babylonian culture and the Greco-Roman
culture, we learn about the nature of the development of the human
themselves to Spiritual Science; they must cultivate an inner life, so
occultists this is no longer in doubt. Occultists of both the West and
occultist will give to any human being physically incarnated in the
twentieth century the name of Christ, and no real occultist will
genuine occultist would find such a statement erroneous. The
occultists of India, in particular, would be horrified if we were to
could well be the kind of occultists in India, of course, who are not
real occultists and who, for reasons of their own, speak of a Maitreya

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self-knowledge so difficult? Man is very a complicated being. If we
occult investigation to our aid. Here another polarity confronts us
purely external way, for we know that we can wake in the occult sense
Why is this the case? Occultism shows us that in respect of his will
concepts and ideas; or we may become more highly moral, more cultured
individuals, but we can do nothing as regards the will. By cultivating
character is revealed by deeper (occult) investigation. The processes
The occult observer is able to see a continual streaming from outside
only knew how badly they betray themselves to occult observation when
described today as the result of the most scrupulously careful occult
No word shall be said here against the great advances made by culture
now be operative in human culture and its concerns. Men will thereby
constructive forces into human culture and civilisation.
whereas today men must build with broken fragments. All the culture of
evolution we shall learn to assess our culture at its true value. We
to establish it is very difficult.” Why is this? Because no
which, as in so much else, Oriental Occultism and Mysticism alone give
Anthroposophy. The cultivation of Anthroposophy thus becomes a duty;
many questions. Self-knowledge is difficult because man is such a

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difficult for us. Man is truly a complicated being, and if we speak
cultivate better thoughts we can work indirectly upon the will, but
being sleeps, the occult observer is able to see a continual
made by culture in our day; these achievements are essential for the
his soul through Christ, Who will now take hold of human culture and
with broken fragments. We make all culture of the outer world with
will understand even better how much in our culture is the product of
We must understand the process of evolution to evaluate our culture
is most difficult.” Why is this? Because no morality has yet
definitions of Oriental occultism, Oriental mysticism. The moral
what we today call anthroposophy. The cultivation of anthroposophy
Self-knowledge is difficult because man is such a complex being. The

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— for instance, by reading a very difficult book. When we have
shall understand, if we clearly grasp these distinctions, that occult
occult science is in speaking of the three worlds. And, when we take

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instance, by reading in a very difficult book. When we have been
if we clearly grasp these distinctions, that occult knowledge
in this way, we shall see how justified occult science is in

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appropriate way to develop and to cultivate these three parts of the
specially cultivate if we wish to work in a beneficial way on our will
investigate karma by occult means, we always discover that in most
satisfaction; and then despair will work back upon the culture of the
in the cultivation of the emotions.
But occult science teaches us that when we sleep, everything is
creative fantasy. Strange as it may seem, such cultivation of creative
the press for the cultivation of the emotional life. A serene heart, a
person in question had cultivated absorption in things, in the secrets
which follow the cultivation of absorption. These manifest themselves
found. Insufficient cultivation of concentration and insight makes one
self-seeking, egoism; and cultivate, on the contrary, a certain
This is what all occultists call attention to: that he cannot be
Now, it is possible for anyone in our time to cultivate those

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Cultivation of the life of the soul. Right development of our soul
development and cultivation of these three parts of the soul life?
shall ask ourselves: What characteristics must we cultivate very
occult means, we always discover that in most cases the joy one
back upon the culture of the will, and evoke weakness of will.
environment, is most beneficial especially in the cultivation of the
But occult science teaches
fantasy. Strange as it may seem, such cultivation of creative fantasy
of what is afforded by the press for the cultivation of the emotional
had cultivated the absorption in things, in the secrets of things,
cultivation of absorption. These come to manifestation even in a
Insufficient cultivation of absorption and insight makes one sullen,
self-seeking, egoism; and cultivate, on the contrary, a certain
This is what all occultists
one in our time to adopt the practice of cultivating those
cultivating apathy, etc. But this results in a laxity in the

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without the help of occult research for plenty is said about him in
rises to the rank of Buddha. In agreement with oriental occultism,
sections. By means of certain occult processes there had been
of the kind of culture which was to characterise the Fifth

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Anthroposophically orientated Spiritual Science is based on occult
understand what is at work in the cultural periods of our own epoch.
and so that occult research can help us direct our lives in harmony
In order to speak about contemporary occult trends it would be a good
thing to start from the point where deep, occult research can lead us
because it is impossible to make compromises between the occult stream
impulse into the culture of the times. The others cannot even
results of occult investigation. The psychoanalysis of Sigmund
difficulties arising in this sphere. It began by investigating the
occultism, make no compromises and show a courage that is lacking in
him. Spiritual Science must penetrate into our whole cultural
difficult thoughts and think to such an extent that we get tired, then
life as a fructifying force! This enables us to understand what occult
human incarnations during the various cultural epochs.
When we consider the occult background, we see how the life of
esteemed so highly. Our time, the fifth cultural epoch, is that of
yet can only be felt by the occultist who is capable of overcoming
real feeling, without lengthy logical reasoning. The occultist feels
understood. The occultist feels pain especially vividly when he reads
Remarkable progress will come about through this. Occult
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certain occult processes, the wisdom that had passed over from
what existed in those days of the kind of culture which was to

Title: Lecture: Faith, Love, Hope: The Third Revelation
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study of the being of man, and of his connection with the occult
this is a reality for every true occultist — we must say that
Western culture. The man after death is confronted by two figures. One
all this points to the growing of new human faculties enabling men to
the faculty for perceiving in a vision the karmic adjustment, the
coming when new faculties will awake in men.
faculties of men He will manifest on earth; as counselor and protector
or in the next, we may realise that newly-awakened faculties give us
times will no longer do so in the sixth culture-epoch which is to
spatial centre from which to spread the culture of the epoch. The
culture-epoch those who have accepted Spiritual Science will come out
of every race, and will found, throughout the earth, a new culture no
directly from life what can, it is true, be learnt only from occult
extreme, it is sad to see people who find it difficult to love, who
that after a time, when the enhancement of men's faculties is in full

Title: Lecture: Faith, Love, Hope: Towards the Sixth Epoch
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difficulties. To begin with it is very easy to say: Yes, this is quite
but they had no special faculty for understanding what lay behind the
We come here to something exceptionally difficult to grasp, but the
faculties. The example I gave you yesterday of how a man will see, in
means the re-awakening of faculties that will lead the soul once more
the faculties appearing more and more in human beings will be one
fifth post-Atlantean culture-epoch, the Graeco-Latin, as it is called.
its light. Love in the sixth culture-epoch will show itself in a very
post-Atlantean culture-epoch, when people grow to realise more and
must gradually become widespread in the sixth culture-epoch. Then in a
number of people will possess the above-mentioned faculties, and when,
When in the final post-Atlantean epoch our external culture, with its
spiritual within them to confront their culture in utter desolation
convey, this external culture might for a short while be able to hold
spread over the earth. But, in the last culture-epoch, souls who have
ruins of the external life of culture. Their surety that this
life, in a new culture, what has already been prepared spiritually

Title: Lecture: Esoteric Studies: Cosmic Ego and Human Ego
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five cultural periods, up to and including our time, since that great
ancient Indian cultural epoch; of the second, the great ancient
have gone through various incarnations in these successive cultural epochs
previously experienced in the different cultural epochs.
was formed and developed in each cultural epoch — but note well that
cultural epochs, in one or, in most cases, in several incarnations.
great cultural progress of the earth, and it is narrow-mindedness in
Luciferic in all that it comprises. It is generally difficult to make
to the latest occult investigations, it is confirmed that there was an
from occult investigation that an earthquake had taken place, that
In this way we must understand the Resurrection occultly, and we need
occultly.
This is a remarkable passage in the occult sense. It does not in any
All these things can be understood today through occult principles, on
each well-instructed occultist will urge concerning the nature of
Occult Physiology, 1911.

Title: Mission/Rosenkreutz: Lecture I. The Dawn of Occultism in the Modern Age
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I. THE DAWN OF OCCULTISM IN THE MODERN AGE
of Spiritual Science must find their way into the culture of the
present age; but we know, too, that the culture of the West presents
difficulties. Spiritual Science cannot make different human beings of
born into Western culture. Our task is not as simple as that of the
has been incarnated in every epoch of culture — indeed more than
culture and civilisation? It was this question which brought Lessing
culture and they must return again and again in order to learn new
successive epochs of culture. Today we shall speak in closer detail of
might be made for the intellectual culture which was to be
have this kind of culture today in the Fifth post-Atlantean
epoch. Culture in the Greek epoch was quite different. Instead of the
then the dominant faculty; the human being was one, as it were, with
We shall, speak today of the dawn of occultism in the modern age.
heritage left by the ancient culture of Atlantis was embodied in seven
Occult Science
culture of the thirteenth century and of our modern age. These seven
past; they looked back to what mankind had acquired from occult truths
during the four epochs of post-Atlantean culture. The first of the
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THE DAWN OF OCCULTISM IN THE MODERN AGE
way into the culture of the present age; but we know, too, that
Western culture presents difficulties. Spiritual Science cannot make
our karma we have been born into Western culture. Our task is not as
you here has been incarnated in every epoch of culture — indeed
periods of culture and civilisation? It was this question which
earlier periods of culture and they must return again and again in
successive epochs of culture. Today we shall speak in greater detail
to fall for this short period to prepare for the intellectual culture
is that we have this kind of culture today in the fifth post-Atlantean
epoch. Culture in the Greek epoch was quite different. Instead of the
dominant faculty; the human being was one, as it were, with what he
We shall speak today of the dawn of occultism in the modern age. Twelve
ancient culture of Atlantis was embodied in seven of these twelve men.
Occult Science
the culture of the thirteenth century and for that of our modern age.
occult truths during the four epochs of post-Atlantean culture. The
Egyptian-Chaldean-Babylonian-Assyrian culture, and the fourth to that
task to cultivate and foster the external sciences. These twelve
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II. THE DAWN OF OCCULTISM IN THE MODERN AGE
because we receive stimuli from outside. Nobody will find it difficult
the overwhelming difficulties of which he was conscious in taking his
hated, the very difficulty of this exercise rouses the soul and thus
makes a man into a true anthroposophist is that his faculties remain

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THE DAWN OF OCCULTISM IN THE MODERN AGE
difficult to realise that the life of thought is the most closely
and the overwhelming difficulties we know
our youth we may have hated, the very difficulty of this exercise
faculties remain receptive his whole life long, even when his hair is

Title: Lecture: Facing Karma
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difficult tasks, and that nothing in life demands more in the way of
It is difficult, however, to come to terms with joy and happiness. Much as
Here occult investigation reveals a significant fact. The people with whom
life, just as is the faculty of speech. The greater part of our ideas live in
speech. Most of our ideas are derived from our faculty to express ourselves

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deeper knowledge that there is nothing more difficult than to be a
but it will be difficult to find the right attitude to happiness and
A certain striking fact presents itself to occult research.
preconceptions lurk within us but in these difficult matters it is a
sometimes be difficult and uncomfortable — they are true

Title: Esoteric Christianity: The True Attitude To Karma
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difficult than to be a good man in the real sense and that nothing
persevere; but it will be difficult to find the right attitude to
A certain striking fact presents itself to occult research.
things which can sometimes prove difficult and uncomfortable to learn

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indicated that this might be possible. It is, of course, difficult to
achievements seemingly unrelated to our actual faculties.
the faculties and qualities we happen to possess. If, for example, we
the ancient Indian epoch of culture. The teachings given by the seven
sacred Atlantean culture shone forth in the hearts of these seven men
these four, the wisdom belonging to the ancient Indian culture shone
ancient Persian culture lived in the soul of the ninth; the wisdom of
the third period — that of Egyptian-Chaldean culture — lived
in the soul of the tenth, and the wisdom of Graeco-Latin culture in
the soul of the eleventh. The wisdom of culture as it was in that
search of the different centres of culture in Europe, Africa and Asia,
participate consciously in the happenings of the occult, spiritual
an occult influence, a lack of harmony was perceptible. When Solowioff
occultists become aware of the reality of these processes, that

Title: Esoteric Christianity: Intimate Workings of Karma
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indicated that this might be possible. It is, of course, difficult to
our actual faculties. We will now make a close study of all these
are obviously dependent upon the faculties and qualities we happen to
— the ancient Indian epoch of culture. The teachings given by the
the sacred Atlantean culture shone forth in the hearts of these seven
first of these four the wisdom belonging to the ancient Indian culture
the ancient Persian culture lived in the soul of the ninth; the wisdom
of the third period — that of Egyptian-Chaldaean culture —
lived in the soul of the tenth, and the wisdom of Greco-Roman culture
in the soul of the eleventh. The wisdom of the culture as it was in
search of the different centres of culture in Europe, Africa and Asia,
consciously in the occult life of the spirit had a strange experience
factor and so, as an occult influence, he had an inharmonious effect.
occultists become aware of the reality of these processes, that is

Title: Festivals/Easter III: The Death of a God and its Fruits in Humanity
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rightly so, of Italian, Russian, French, Spanish, German culture, but
culture flourished in a tiny region of the earth and little was known
of calling this material culture an earthly culture! Moreover
soul. Just as material culture encompasses the whole body of the
movement dedicated to the cultivation of spiritual knowledge.
Something comparable with cultural relations between individual
marriage of spirit with form. And in Roman culture, in Roman civic
in Greek culture is characterised by the saying: ‘Better it is to be a
To feel this as a reality, we must go deeply into the occult truths
understanding must be quickened by the deepest, most intimate occult
such knowledge was cultivated in the Rosicrucian Schools. It was known

Title: Mission/Rosenkreutz: Lecture VII. The Mission of Gautama Buddha on Mars
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great and eminent occultist has to reckon with the conditions peculiar
ask: What has occultism to say about this revolution in thinking?
One who asks from the standpoint of occultism, what kind of
to it. It devolved upon him to rescue occultism in an age when all the
thirteenth century. — In this later occult Conference of leading
The occultists of the East rightly believe — for they know it to
were, including occultists, who suffered deeply at the thought that in
unsuited to a form of culture directed primarily to practical life.

Title: Esoteric Christianity: The Mission of Christian Rosenkreutz
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Anyone who makes his mark in the world as a leading occultist, like
ask: What has occultism to say about this revolution in thinking?
Anyone who asks from the standpoint of occultism what kind of world
Rosenkreutz had to save occultism in an age when all the concepts of
system by means of occultism, for with its materially-conceived globes
This occult conference of leading individualities
The occultists of the East rightly believe — for they know it to
many people, including occultists, who suffered deeply at the thought
the sixteenth century, called together a large group of occultists in
different forces. The Mars culture that human beings experience
the decline of the Mars culture. Previously, Mars had sent forth good
salvation, and the earth's too, depended on the declining culture of
for the Mars culture to receive an upward impulse. That was the
this upward impulse could be given to the Mars culture, for the
that, for the earth's sake, the Mars culture should be brought once
unsuited to a form of culture directed primarily to practical life.
during Mars' cultural decline. Not only does a man bring with him into

Title: Mission/Rosenkreutz: Lecture VI. The Starry Heaven Above Me - The Moral Law Within Me
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culture, conditions were such that the Throne of Christ was to be seen

Title: Lecture: From Jesus to Christ (single lecture)
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difficulties. It is unusual in our age for the feelings to be so attuned
application of Anthroposophy or Spiritual Science to the most difficult
Occult Science
and that these schools were the homes of the cults. Also there was a
Occult Science.
development was given to the normal soul-faculties of man.
faculty, but it lasted right through the historical period and reached
the Roman legionaries, were filled with the Mithraic service or cult
Palestine, and Christianity was the confluence of both Cults. The
the Mithraic and Dionysian Cults, but they remained far removed from
Occult Science.

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life, and to what the sources of occult science have
of occult spiritual life in recent centuries, for as
which have been cultivated with the utmost
here in the light of occult science; and then, if we
occult.
occult life, but into the Will, and within the field
of occultism they hold the Will in severe
been led into the occult, in the way just indicated.
these occult exercises, at least in their chief
trained occultly, he turns away from everything else
through Imaginations, which means by occult means,
other occult paths to which such a Will can have

Title: From Jesus to Christ: Lecture I: Jesuit and Rosicrucian Training
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deeper sources of religious life, and to what the sources of occult
both of religious life and of occult spiritual life in recent
cultivated with the utmost intensity: on the one hand an exaggeration
Resurrection, we shall have to discuss it here in the light of occult
occult.
which lead into the occult life, but into the Will, and within the
field of occultism they hold the Will in severe discipline; they
been led into the occult, in the way just indicated.
consider these occult exercises, at least in their chief points, we
occultly, he turns away from everything else and surrenders
Imaginations, which means by occult methods, it acquires the capacity
all the other occult paths to which such a Will can have recourse.

Title: From Jesus to Christ: Lecture II: Rosicrucian Training and Anthroposophical Training
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of certain occult faculties, but if we bring a cleansed and purified
occult vision to bear upon these faculties, they cannot be considered
indicated yesterday. The occult methods there described are designed
predetermined course; hence a true occultism will rigorously avoid
ground of occultism, including therefore any theosophical stream. For
occult script, the finding of the philosopher's stone —
occult knowledge, but without needing to achieve full clarity
our history books or in cultured circles nowadays. For in such cases
occultism, simply by observing nature, he tried in his own way as a
spiritual culture the ordinary interweaving of the physical body,
such a person will find progress particularly difficult. Hence it is
not succeed, particularly on the occult path, we must blame not
tested by occult cognition? What if it were not in any way firmly
must come to know these things first by the occult path; we may not
we can learn from intuitions given to us by modern occult teaching.
occult training must be so far advanced that we overcome this hatred
Gospels afresh through our occult life. We feel ourselves at one with
within us another feeling, a next step along the occult path. We feel
is the picture we encounter at a certain point on our occult path,
us like two great pillars on the occult path, the story of the
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Title: From Jesus to Christ: Lecture III: Sources of Knowledge of Christ, Lord of Karma
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have been men of all degrees of intellectual culture who have
passes over in a heightened form to the Christ. Occult clairvoyant
living and the dead.) Only, according to occult
This has been common knowledge in Western occultism for
many centuries, and is denied by no occultist who knows these things.
every means available to occult research. We will now enter more
can find in occult literature information concerning these matters if
impart as the results of occult research in our time.
according to the occult results of the present time, we know just as
unless we go into exact details, it is even difficult for us to
seen through the more highly developed faculties — can be

Title: From Jesus to Christ: Lecture IV: Experiencing the Christ Impulse, Jerome and the Gospel of St. Matthew
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they were’ — a statement confirmed by occult science —
attached to the idea of reincarnation — tradition and occult
it in practice. Every occultist today clearly understands that this
that since he is occultly prepared, he must provide an explanation,
the occult investigator: ‘Have patience and wait, until you no
influences described above; but they need to have their difficulties
did not understand it, because of its difficulty, and so wrote down
confirmed by occult research: the Gospel of Matthew was originally
light of occult truths we shall find many things comprehensible. Who,
standing on the ground of occultism, would care to say that all the
occultism, would not say that into external evolution there must have
misunderstandings, and that today, on the ground of occultism, our
the Christ-Event from the occult standpoint is thus a necessary
faculties. The old form of the Gospels will first receive its true
fully demonstrated only by occult research. Only when the original
significance of this Event is understood through occult research will

Title: From Jesus to Christ: Lecture V: Redemption of the Physical Body
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concerning human nature, as shown through occult sight.
first of all look at man in his physical body. We know that occult
process of development. Occult sight sees the physical body, etheric
human evolution we must learn the occult truth that this Ego, of
At first it certainly seems as though occult knowledge
declares Maya to be correct, for, strangely enough, occult knowledge
fourth epoch comes to full expression. The wonderful Greek culture is

Title: From Jesus to Christ: Lecture VI: St. John and St. Paul, First Adam and Second Adam
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belongs to the most difficult productions of man, the Apocalypse, and
according to the requirements of modern culture, they stand with
whole culture of our day, concerning the question of the
who had been steeped in Greek culture. Only a Greek would so think
the physical human body, in itself, belongs to the most difficult
symbolically, and factually in occult science, as the entry of the
Occult Science. Out of that path of evolution in which his physical,

Title: From Jesus to Christ: Lecture VII: The Mystery of Golgotha, Greek, Hebrew and Buddhist Thought
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consciousness is filled with the intellectual culture of the present
as a miracle, must we assume that the only way out of this difficulty
another difficulty: he now has to answer the question why the human
occult investigations, which reach back through reading the Akashic
is an occult fact. To someone who contemplates evolution with occult

Title: From Jesus to Christ: Lecture VIII: The Two Jesus Children, Zoroaster and Buddha
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Occult investigation shows that the individuality who was in the
the great faculties of Zarathustra, in the way that human faculties,
body which did not wait until later years to work on these faculties,
that the faculties of the child developed comparatively early. The
moral difficulties, though not exactly vices or sins. Then we know
occult process known to everyone who has made himself conversant with
familiarise himself with the products of human culture on earth. By
was born. A faculty which belongs more to the physical body was thus
tradition which can be occultly confirmed — the language he
absolutely correct, for it can be confirmed by occult science —
that precisely the researches made by western occultism in quite
civilisation. The outcome of our own occult investigation harmonises
more precisely in the Outline of Occult Science — is to be
occult research shows this — that part of the substance of the
occult science knows about this Ego — which naturally for
us, was untalented for all that human culture had developed. He could
from the starting-point of human evolution the faculty of speaking,
can be made clear only by occult investigation. You know that in the
In occult terms we
in so far as the salt constituents dissolved. In an occult sense one
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accept and make their own. A special occult or esoteric development
seek the Christ by gaining access to occult powers. We must
which Theosophy was cultivated in the eighteenth century. At that
who could look deeply into occult connections, and particularly into
really wants is often difficult to recognise in the case of the older
difficult to believe that the Theosophy of that time could affect
Oetinger. It is difficult for a man of the present day to reconcile
equally difficult for a man of today: to accept the Christ-Event as
very real difficulties, if the views of the nineteenth century on
regarding this difficult matter, let us recall something very
the centre of all Christian cults — an exoteric path to Christ

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those persons in whom higher faculties have awakened will look upon
corresponds exactly with occult research. The Bodhisattva who worked
preparation for the future evolution of humanity. Occult research
occult investigation fully agrees with oriental tradition. So, 3,000

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and that this year, in spite of great difficulty we were able to
Probation that occult perception may very well be turned to
difficulty even in this. Theosophy requires, as you all know, a
such a thing should be thought possible). It might even be cultivated
the limitations of space and so on, as regards the cultivation of
occult knowledge in such a room. We have seen that the deepening for
knowledge in the separate domains of life — even of occult life
might have been difficult to work in the time approaching. When I
theosophical movement we have to look upon the occult ideal as the
occult truth. There cannot in reality be an Eastern and Western
occultism. That would be just as sensible as if we were to
peculiarity, be better attended to by occult research in the East or
the occult research of the last century in the European esoteric
schools, the European sanctuaries of occultism. Nothing that has been
were it not that the occult researches of the West had been fostered
occultism should give its conclusions on these facts in the West.
of the West, which the Eastern school of occult thought, in so far as
occult teachings — for instance, about Buddha or the
meditating about the Being of the Christ, or in making occult
Society to cultivate universal love! For there are many such, and
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necessary they are for all occult observations of human evolution. If
Occult Science
cultivated by people in themselves. Hence, even in literature we find
difficult to form an idea, except for one who has taken the trouble,
very difficult for man to imagine this to-day, because his ideas
Occult Science,
and further into the realm of occult knowledge.

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necessary they are for all occult observations of human evolution. If
we now turn to the accounts given, for instance, in my Occult
our own world. Neither of these feelings is much cultivated by people
difficult to form an idea, except for one who has taken the trouble,
naturally very difficult for man to imagine this to-day, because his
In Occult
further into the realm of occult knowledge.

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gathered from our last lecture how extremely difficult it is to
Occult Science
occultism, is concealed from us in the fundamental depths of its
Occult Science
Occult Science
Occult Science.
wonderful when such a word arises from the depths of true occult knowledge

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from our last lecture how extremely difficult it is to describe the
attention to the fact that the description in my Occult
occultism, is concealed from us in the fundamental depths of its
read in Occult Science that ancient Sun re-organised heat by
describing those beings spoken of in Occult Science as Spirits
is as described in Occult Science. Besides heat, the Sun
when such a word arises from the depths of true occult knowledge and

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so difficult to perceive that words could hardly be found in any
to an extremely difficult chapter indeed, and we shall only be able
Occult Science
occultist in this sense in order to paint this picture. But in the

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so difficult to perceive that words could hardly be found in any
an extremely difficult chapter indeed, and we shall only be able
book Occult Science which must in certain respects still be
not required] to be an occultist in this sense in order to paint this

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world we have now carried a difficult aspect of it far enough to

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world we have now carried a difficult aspect of it far enough to

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great occult truth: “In the whole world of Maya one thing only
is the only reality, presents itself to occult science.
die? To the occultist there could be no sense in saying that minerals
the same sense, according to occult science, the minerals do not die.
organism of the earth. To occult observation there would be no sense
is, as we learn through occult research, a real overcoming of death,
alone! Among the many proofs of this fact which occult science is
faculties which will be developed in the next three thousand years,
there is hardly one so difficult to prove on external realistic,
stand: one which is only possible through an insight into occult science.

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than the great occult truth: ‘In the whole world of Maya one
to occult science from yet another side, that in our world of Maya,
the occultist there could be no sense in saying that minerals die. It
the same sense, according to occult science, the minerals do
the whole organism of the earth. To occult observation there would be
is, as we learn through occult research, a real overcoming of death,
alone! Among the many proofs of this fact which occult science is
becoming able to perceive the Christ by means of the higher faculties
there is hardly one so difficult to prove on external realistic,
stand: one which is only possible through an insight into occult

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year — in spite of great difficulties — we were able to prepare three
Probation will indicate to you that occult observations, just as
to take a larger hall. But there is a difficulty there too. As you all
the space, and so on, for the cultivation of spiritual knowledge.
domains of life, and in the occult life too, is brought home in Course
which it would have been difficult to visit in the near future. In
this mysterious Individuality, all the occult truths gathered in the
occult ideal: There is in reality only one true form of occultism. To
occultism would make as much sense as to distinguish between Eastern
one kind of problem falls more readily into the sphere of occultism in
the East and another into that of occultism in the West. Everything
for years as the Appearance of Christ, is the result of the occult
esoteric schools, the European centres of occultism. All that has been
for the occult investigations which have continued in the West from
light to be shed on these things by occultism in the West. So far as
can be known from outside, the trend of occultism pursued in the East
thousands of years. In India and in Thibet, wonderful occult teachings
particularly interested in occult research concerning the Being of
cultivation of Universal Brotherhood! There are many such societies
and every normal, thinking person will approve of the cultivation of
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characteristics and faculties of the Atlantean epoch still survived,
occultism as belonging, not to the progressive races, but to the
All this indicates that what may be surmised from a study of occult
those laws of which knowledge can be acquired only along the occult
material culture. The treasures of wisdom will come into their own
concerning the Krishna- or Brahman-culture, or the ancient
Zoroastrian culture. In the older civilisations there was, naturally,
the spiritual culture of the West — to such an extent indeed, that it
mentality, spiritual treasures will pour from Chinese culture, and
products of such culture cannot be grasped by the pedantic thought
culture which arose on the soil of the ancient Chinese civilisation.
things that have passed over into Chinese culture from Atlantean
acquired in Christian culture in such a way that it will have to be
bygone ages it constituted the spiritual culture of our Earth. But
every epoch has its own mission, and that of Western culture is to
Post-Atlantean, Christian culture has imparted to the soul. Weaklings,
culture and a firm footing on the soil resulting from evolution
it was an example of the fact that occultism and earnest spiritual
striving for occult knowledge can be true, genuine and sincere ...
further the development of the occult life! And the fact that we would

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will be difficult to realise that even in what is, apparently, quite
difficult always to see through maya; when people are deeply imbedded
to teachings concerning a spiritual world although it is not difficult

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over the globe and also of its deep roots in the culture of the
occultism, with this remarkable poem of the Finns — who are
presented today, biblical and other records clearly based upon occult
“Kalewala,” has a special and unique occult significance. My
acquired purely through occult research and occult observation
Occult research was the only source consulted. And now, because our
friends in the Finnish Section desired me to speak of the occult
closely, and with occult means, it becomes apparent that these three
occult truths restores to the traditions of religion, which rest upon
occult foundations, their ancient value and meaning. Man received
them, there is occult content which can be rediscovered today, just as
occult content can be rediscovered in Homer's Iliad, in the
the realm of occultism, shines forth in Imaginations deriving from
been born at the same time as Christian culture among the other
peoples of Europe: for Christian culture arose long after clairvoyance
brought into play by Christian culture. This is something quite
people, a number of occult Imaginations. If we follow the matter in
occult content of the Folk-Epics, with particular reference to the
the whole world of culture are turning to it. In what is the most
the Holy Rishis of India, culture “flowed” as it were,
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THE IDEA OF REINCARNATION AND ITS INTRODUCTION INTO WESTERN CULTURE
epoch of culture, he does not vanish from the field of evolution, but
The First Post-Atlantean epoch of culture after the great Atlantean
due course, by an ascent. Graeco-Latin culture, for instance, was a
Oriental culture and Christianity (not Pagan or even ancient Hebrew
culture) — a difference which becomes clear when insight into
which, up to now, Christianity has paid little heed. Oriental culture
Oriental teachings. As a result of this, Oriental culture contains
And now compare this with characteristic features of western culture.
one incarnation to another, whereas western culture has been little
we beginning — having acquired in western culture a gauge as it
existence which Oriental culture accepts as a matter of course,
I spoke of what occult research reveals concerning this
only say that in the light of occult knowledge, Elijah was one who
being described in the light of occult knowledge.
— in the characters of an “occult script,” as it might
“occult script.”
although, to begin with he was not understood. Occult investigation
Occult investigation finds that in Elijah, in John the Baptist, in
glimpses of a future when a spiritual culture will spread peace
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It would be difficult today to find anyone in civilised Europe who has
certain period of Greek culture. In the works of Aeschylus, what we
begin to philosophise in the world of Graeco-Latin culture. And a
difficult to maintain in true and right perspective, this concept of
whatever to do. That is a point where the culture of our day abandons
point to the fact that in the Fourth Post-Atlantean epoch of culture,
We look at the Fourth Post-Atlantean epoch of culture and perceive,
Movement and then it would not be possible to cultivate the true
“Second Logos” and that we are said to be cultivating a
other country; we are said to be cultivating a “narrow”
culture of humanity and the conviction that this Impulse has lived its
whatever moral strength and power of conscience has been cultivated by

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culture, lying as it does in the middle of the Post-Atlantean period,
Gothic architecture gives the keynote. This is an occult fact. It is
epoch, that of ancient Persian culture, will be recapitulated in the
of ancient Indian culture, will be recapitulated — not, of
worlds of Divine Spirit, was present not only in the culture which
upon which there has been much reflection and upon which occult
to light by occult investigation. Nearly all the peoples who have left
men, culture was inspired, paramountly, by the human ether-body;
during the ancient Persian epoch, culture was inspired by the astral
Spirit-Self will gradually be imbued into culture. In that development
gradually unfolded but, strangely enough, the faculty for gazing into
the ancient Persian epoch, the faculty of looking outwards into the
with a faculty which tells him of the outer world, clouds the bright
culture — those who were living now during the Second Post-Atlantean
fancy, but an occult fact. It is clear, therefore, that the Greeks
into Western Culture) dealt with this subject. Western culture, the
beginnings of which were mingled with the ancient Hebrew culture, has
the physical plane between birth and death; Western culture cannot
aspiration, for it is a necessity in the evolution and culture of the
work that it is difficult to imagine him rising still higher or
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Occult Science,
until your death. It will not be difficult to realise that what you
not be Man. A being who did not unfold the faculty of memory belonging
would possess the faculties of thinking, feeling and willing, but

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earlier periods of culture, outer marks of race will be much less of a
that just as there was one leading race in each of the culture-epochs
distinguished by physical attributes. The ancient Indian culture was
borne and sustained by a leading race; so, too, was the culture of
already today it is apparent that culture, instead of being borne by
Spiritual Science that culture — a spiritual culture — must
beings belonging to the Sixth epoch of culture — for they, in the
culture without distinction of race, colour, and so forth, it will not
cherish groundless hopes of a future culture emanating from one
fundamental character of the Sixth epoch of culture, is no kind of
can only be actually discovered by occult research. This evidence can
And so it is the task of occultism — if one may speak of
occultism having such a task at the present time — to provide objective
actually be discovered only through occult research, they can be
the human being. The ideal vantage-point is that the occult teacher is
Earth-existence as brought to light by occult research, will not speak
It is all-important to realise that the faculties of man have
Occultism reveals still more clearly how the several streams of
culture are gradually converging into one; but as they converge, they
must be recognised and identified. The very operations of occult
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often be very difficult to know with which direction of thought one
we are to recognise the true spiritual stream. How difficult it is to

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and thinks it is itself an evidence that the human faculty of
direction of reality. What we have to do is to cultivate an attitude
It is difficult sometimes to
the world of the senses and we apply to it our faculty of judgment.
one or other of these two fundamental forces. In occultism what we

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difficult, but which, when we have once grasped it, will help us very
would otherwise have. It is extraordinarily difficult for a man of
the faculty of seeing: that they do so now is due to the temptation
special occult development. With the hand it is possible. A man can
actually manifest to higher and occult observation — the fact
an occult observation appear the consequences of the Luciferic
communication of an occult fact and set out to draw conclusions with
and this time occult observation discovers a preponderance of the
You see how difficult it is to
exceedingly difficult matter for him to extricate himself. He would
find it most difficult to go through the world saying to himself:
occult point of view the nature of what we call substance or matter;

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conceptions which are comparatively difficult that the nature of what
description of matter in an occult sense we have first to ask, what
certain time. Before we can come to the occult truth about all this
exactly what shows itself to occult knowledge. When certain forms,
in the universe, is for the occultist nothing more than form broken,
you is very nearly exactly what occult observation finds in the case
to the occult observer. There is something like an invisible ray
There is still another difficult

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educates his faculty for knowledge in the way we described; when,
faculty of knowledge can gradually rise to a perception of two
acquired in occultism, which must take root in your heart and minds.
suffer from difficulty in breathing. To-day we still have left in our
we set out to discover and bring from occult heights — thus
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and his evolution, may well ask: Why is it so difficult to gain a
are by no means easy; indeed they are difficult, but they can
find easy or difficult? What happened to me that I would like to have
difficult as it may be to realise it as a picture of yourself in this
know what intellectual or artistic faculties, say, we possessed in a
occultists is where an individuality in one incarnation lived with
language; otherwise our school-boys would not find it so difficult to
who have a special faculty for learning languages in one incarnation
will not have this in the next; instead, they will have the faculty
difficult.
condemned to be labelled as the outlook cultivated by the kind of
spiritual faculties does not depend upon man, but upon the whole
applies to those who are the bearers of external cultural life: it
concern their intellectual faculties — and this fact will
here for the purpose of cultivating in man a retrospective longing

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it a function which belongs to our ordinary faculty of remembrance.
conceive that they are connected with the forces and faculties of our
cultivate any rueful feelings about it, as though we ought to have
here dealing with a kind of faculty of remembrance which can be
developed in the human soul, a faculty which, in contradistinction to
the ordinary faculty of remembrance, must be designated by a
different name. We must designate the ordinary faculty of remembrance
as “image-memory,” but the faculty of remembrance now in
that our ordinary faculty of remembrance is really a kind of
faculty of remembrance is an image-memory, whereas the feelings that
content — a practice that has always been known and cultivated
in all occult schools — is confirmed by what we know from
difficult by the methods described to construct out of what actually
Occult Science
Occult Science

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faculties and talents, we find, to begin with, that when we succeed
been evident between what inevitably happened and your faculties or
success or failure with these faculties or shortcomings; how we
faculties and shortcomings — outer events, therefore, which we
connection by means of our own faculties; we endow this imaginary man
with the qualities and faculties which have led, in our own case, to
faculties of such a kind that he will inevitably succeed or fail in
shortcomings or faculties. We imagine him as one who has quite
without difficulty; you will be able to cast your thoughts back to
of still a third kind. Admittedly it will be more difficult to make
said is difficult, it can again be used again by way of trial. And if
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be cultivated on the physical plane; but it is important to realise
culture are strenuously directed — so much so, on the one side,
attacked by external culture and education, is still regarded as
human culture is not to decline but rise to a higher level.
said that this is unconnected with what the prevailing cultural state
its truths and its errors. If culture is not to fall into decline,
cultural factor of the very first order are truly not disputed
results and consequences of Copernicanism in present-day culture are
our cultural life.
opposite of what is habitual in the external culture of to-day is
enlightened man in the sense of modern culture, would not maintain
mission, that it is like a seed of culture that must grow and come to
forces are apparently lost to them! Modern culture is as it is
culture that is the bearer of Buddhism. And if Buddhism were to
inner faculties, to deepen life inwardly, the more we help to bring
more strongly into external culture. We know that the whole of our
cultural life itself is created through what is given us in
profess to adhere to Anthroposophy as a cultural movement shall be so
is conscious of these truths. The cultural life of the modern age has
they will penetrate culture and in so doing essentially transform
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necessary for those who want to cultivate Anthroposophy to unite in a
the cultivation of Anthroposophy is made necessary because
for example, be said that in Western culture, certain truths —

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spiritual world; esotericism does not begin with occult development.
He who, with trained occult sight, is able to see behind the physical
world which reveals itself to the trained occult vision as the one
but will only be clear that occult sight is able to look behind the
physical body and to find there the etheric or life-body. Now occult
as we can investigate man occultly to see if there is not something
we can look with occult vision at external nature in her colors,
occult vision is directed to the etheric or life-body of man, it is
figure. When the occult vision penetrates all that external nature
In Occult Science, that which thus gradually appears before man in the
which present self-enclosed pictures to occult vision. In order to
second phenomenon that presents itself to occult vision. Beings that
— belong to this second class. Occult vision actually only finds
moral issues from our soul — then there arises before our occult
vision that class of creative nature-beings which, for the occultist,
forms of the most varied kind. If, having had an occult training, and
themselves to occult vision. For according to the task set me, I must
Just as with occult vision we perceive in our imagination clearly
also possible for occult vision to have an impression of other beings
But as occultists we become acquainted in yet another way with these
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classes or categories of spiritual beings, perceptible to occult
nature-spirits. The one is disclosed to trained occult sight when we
these forces or beings exist. They are only visible to occult vision
what occultism has always called the elements.
with what in occultism has always been called the Fluid or Watery
category of such spiritual beings with which occult vision can become
difficult to observe this fourth kind of being, for they are the
certain degree of heat, a certain temperature. If occult vision
If we wish with occult vision to discern this etheric body of the
penetrate further, deeper occult exercises are necessary, such as you
How to Attain It. At a definite point of esoteric or occult
strikes the occult vision thus far trained, is that the new spirits
beings which we learn to know when the occult vision is so far trained
Now to occult observation there is a great difference of
means of his occult vision, he perceives them as beings connected with
been preserved in occultism for these beings, which in their totality
earth on its axis, is perceptible to occult vision, because the
occultist knows that these spirits are distributed over the whole
than the astral body. A man who is developing occultly and progressing
sphere of clairvoyant, occult observation. In every esoteric
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acquainted with certain spiritual beings which occult vision can
observed them from another side. It is always extremely difficult to
to occult perception, because human languages — at least those of
Now if we look with occult vision into the world hidden behind the
with the outer world. Now those beings which occult vision meets with
If they are to be observed by occult vision, the occultist must first
describe how the occultist can find them.
The first inner experience which one who goes through an occult
more the occultly developing student can bring himself to be passive
occultly, be rooted out of his heart; he must, in a certain sense, be
often emphasised, but which, in fact, is more difficult to observe
not so difficult; but we must remember that in the one incarnation in
difficult to understand someone they encounter in a distant region or
pictures, but such pictures can be extremely useful for man's occult
and hold fast to an attribute. Such pictures are useful for occult
egoistic interests, occult vision draws our attention to this fact:
occult development, not only may the Angel who specially leads him be
which he belongs. And then when our occult development goes still
successive epochs. If the occultly-developed man studies, for
under a definite leadership. If he then looks with occult vision upon
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Archangeloi; and how, in the course of cultural civilisation we find
through an occult development, he will for a long time only have a
himself through occult development to this condition actually
between waking and sleeping, so to him who has gone through occult
Thus we can accurately distinguish a certain stage in the occult
us direct our occult vision to a being of the Third Hierarchy. We
change. But if you look at a being of the Second Hierarchy with occult
the beings of the Third Hierarchy, it is shown to occult vision that
externally. This approximately represents to occult vision the
Hierarchy. Whilst to occult vision the “being filled with the
separation, perceived in such a way that occult perception hears
distinguish between these categories will be more difficult, for the
higher we ascend the more difficult it becomes. We must in the course
It is still more difficult to consider a third category of such beings
helped by the use of the other exercises which raise man to occult
occult education is carried on in this most rational way in this realm
experience if one directs the occult vision of the second stage to a
vision, the occult perception and understanding are stimulated; —
beings, into the profusion of the Spirits of, Wisdom. When occult
occultism as the group-souls of the plants and animals, the
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Hierarchy. A yet more difficult path leads to a still higher rank of
feelings to the occult path, we may succeed in pouring forth our own
extremely difficult to describe the beings of this higher category,
as the occultist feels when he stands before the beings we call the
Still more difficult to describe are those beings called the Seraphim
Seraphim make upon occult vision, if we take the following comparison
of the feeling which the occultist has when he ascends to the
occultist receives when he lifts himself to the beings we call the
when we look at them with occult vision; but there is a difference.
occultist gradually rises and which, when one first becomes acquainted
with them, are somewhat difficult; but today we will place these
In speaking of man he is described as he reveals himself to occult
Occult Science,
of these lectures. I have already said that it is difficult to come to
extremely difficult to arouse concepts within us concerning that which
occultist when he looks up to the Seraphim, we try to grasp such means
Spirit, Son, and Father. When we look up to such a being with occult
our observations, give the following information revealed by occult
we call the Spirits of Motion or Movement. Now to the occultist, such

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occultism, Luciferic Spirits.
occultist who follows the spiritual events in the cosmos, this globe
which is seen out there is not what the occultist calls Saturn; to him
Saturn, is to the occultist Saturn. For to him not only is that which
not only that which gleams in the heavens, for the occultist knows,
occult vision teaches him that, as a matter of fact, a sort of
(a,a,a, in the diagram). So that if with occult vision we regard this
draw the Saturn of the occultist thus: — as a much flattened
if we add an idea which we can gain in a similar manner from occult
planet (the inner circle). That to the occultist, is not Jupiter: to
true occult Jupiter.
a boundary, gives form to this etheric substance which in an occult
substances, certain masses of ether, so that what we call occult
Saturn, occult Jupiter, comes into being. Now let us ask: How would it
existence as occult planets; the most external of these flattened
from the Sun, centrifugally; he brings about the occult Saturn, which
Thus to occult vision what we observe in the stellar world, is
occultists. To those people who from a materialistic standpoint object
aid what occult vision can actually see. It is certainly abundantly
proved to occult vision that what must he described with the physical
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ways in which occult consciousness actually penetrates to a sort of
with the occult, esoteric, mystical consideration, to seek a way from
are so difficult for the external consciousness to place in the
by the occult-esoteric methods we will now pass on to this external
planet. Occult vision teaches us that, just as this whole system of
disposal, directs his occult vision to the other planets of our own
Spirits of Wisdom; — thus far the results for occult vision are
we try to direct our occult vision to another planet — to Mars,
Now we can also direct our occultly developed vision to the Sun
occult vision to the fixed star, thus in our system to the Sun, we
bodies present themselves to occult vision? If directed to the moon,
which revolves round our earth, what forms of activity does occult
Occult vision finds upon the moon nothing of that which is developed
Neither of these is to be found by occult vision upon our moon. It
are to be met with upon the earth; when an occultist uses such
forward human evolution and if we then turn our occult sight to the
moon, strange to say we find these forces existing there. Occult
Greek to our own — if we acquire an occult vision of the forces
Now, before we continue to study the results of occult investigation
consideration if, from the point of view of occultism, we further
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occult schooling, to translate ourselves to some extent into the
You can gain an idea of this, at first theoretically — for occult
says: “If that which now actually appears to our occult vision
what we see there.” To our occult consciousness the moon tells of
seen by occult vision; I do not wish to speak in abstractions, which
things as they appear to occult vision. The impression one then
planetary system; for by fixing occult vision upon the moon, we have
As a second attempt of occult observation we must once more look away
we can only again have the whole which appears before our occult
focus our occult gaze upon our present-day sun; — that is, when
if we try to have the occult impression of the sun, not by day, but by
before the sun is no reason for the occult vision to have no
physical eyes, it is not so for occult sight. On the contrary, if we
try in clear daylight to direct our occult vision to the sun, the
physical harm, in gaining a good occult impression of it. Hence in the
an occult impression of the sun by day; they were taught that they
to direct their occult vision to the sun, through the physical earth,
in occult writings are most correctly understood if no endeavor is
very difficult to heal the sick with mere symbols. In the second place
the Rhine. Altogether it is very difficult for me to imagine how a
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Occultism and Initiation
Occultism and Initiation
occultism today should realize that much of what they have to say
contemporary culture or science, let me assure them that I, for one,
I really mean by occultism, which is the subject of today's
of occultism, which may be summed up by the word initiation.
to arrive at the results of occultism. When I speak of occultism, I
logical requirements of the present. By occultism I mean everything
is often published these days as occultism is more than calculated to
this occultism, coming forward with insights concerning super-sensible
through this form of occultism, speak of the development of the true
external life, with the external culture, this form of soul-activity
if we wish to penetrate into occult mysteries, entirely different
that this kind of meditation is in practice far more difficult then
connected with an occult training, such as the one described above,
streams seeking to bring occultism into the world to base themselves
Unfortunately, this occult movement was connected with something
inner truth of occultism. No matter how much good will might be
culture — and that it must follow paths and use means which are
culture, or standing upon this or that stage of scientific training,
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Till now I have only been able to say that the occult vision which
of its activity. Occult science cannot ascribe an ego to the animal in
animal; indeed in the realm of occultism we are even convinced that
Occult vision shows us that the cause of the varieties of the animal
case. If we direct our gaze to a certain direction in space, occult
astral plane,” that really means that when occult vision wishes
be found on the earth, occult vision can only discover for the animal
was traced back in occultism to the Spirit of Motion who works down
book. Of all the great truths taught by the true occultist,
occultism, and in these subtle and great truths things must not be
to occult vision with regard to the plants; that not only in their
occult vision to the planet, but to the sun, we shall find the
Occult Science or
investigate occultly, we can distinguish a differentiation because we
manner — and everyone who is acquainted with the occult facts in
humanity from their occult foundations. They were conscious of having
this being existed. Zarathustra said that the occult vision directed
Christ. He was the portal through which occult vision could be
important, so many occult truths have prevailed, if we were to confuse
what we have been able to learn through occultism with regard to such
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Again, when we trace with occult vision what is really in question, we
arrive at the following result. In the sense of occultism we must, in
certain way with the nature of the mineral. Now occult investigation
occultism always starts from reality and seeks to find the origin of
this or that, names are so bestowed in occultism that the name points
the second principle of a being of the mineral kingdom. The occult
Therefore the occult schools which have to investigate such matters
the planets; and indeed in such a way that occult observation has been
tin as main substance; from Mars, iron; and in the occult sense, from
of true occult nomenclature) produced creatively by Mercury, on
understand, and occult vision tells us, that the astral nature of the
by occult investigation as quite separate, outside the mineral; but it
something very remarkable is seen. If we investigate occultly the
planets, but by the sun. Hence the occultist has allotted gold to the
occultism. You know that the Bible, in Genesis, states that man was
forces should work from the moon (which occult vision perceives as
shine. — Hence if occult vision searches for these spirits on the moon,
it is not difficult in this external fact which we encounter in the
physical world, to see the symbol of a deep occult connection. The sun
Now when we turn our occult vision to the moon, that which the
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to the standpoints of occultism, theosophy and philosophy.
together of what these three words mean. When we speak of occultism,
something totally unknown. For ordinary everyday life occultism, in
hidden. Occultism starts, indeed, from the idea that in order to come
perception with the senses and reflection with the ordinary faculty of
clairvoyant or occult knowledge. The first is the stage of Imaginative
is attained in occult knowledge and clairvoyant vision, I need only
and he judges it with his intellect and his other faculties of
through the means employed for training in occult knowledge, to bring
path of occult knowledge man acquires the faculty to behold the
able to acquire this faculty by first himself undergoing change; he
Occultism can only find its way to man, when man sets out to apply to
his own soul the means that are given for attaining occult knowledge.
that before a man was given the means of attaining occult knowledge,
It is easy to understand why this had to be. Higher occult knowledge
time man acquires faculties he did not have before; and so, when he
to cite it to demonstrate how impossible it was to give occult
causes if it is able to work with occult knowledge. It has, therefore,
always been required of those to whom means of occult knowledge were
all-important requirement in the preparation for occult knowledge.
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— the occult, the theosophical and the philosophical — it
will be necessary to speak first of the occult point of view. And we
succeeded in raising himself to occult vision of the world.
on in the Mysteries and places of occult teaching and education. It is
to take part in occult life, instead of the very few who have done so
who takes an interest in theosophy and realises that occult knowledge
A man who set out to attain occult knowledge had in the first place to
remain a man of action in the external world, his occult development
of a man who was undergoing occult development.
meant is much more a particular kind of culture and education of the
of occult development Before the moment of time when he makes this
around, would never have the urge to undergo occult development In
fact, as a general rule, those who could be called to occult
society. The capacities and faculties a man shows in his position in
into the occult world, not to make use in his outer standing in life
of whatever should be acquired in the field of occult research. His
of his life since he had begun to take steps on the path of occult
research. The power given him in occult research must never be allowed
all advantages that might be gained by occult means for his position
on the occult path. “You shall not attempt to make any use of
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IT was related yesterday how the pupil of occultism, when he has gone
When, however, the pupil in occultism undergoes the experiences of
occultist himself is assured of it from inner experience. All the
inward experience with which every aspirant after occultism has to
difficulties. Indeed, he will hardly be able to find the way further
enter, as aspirants after occultism, into the element of flowing
This is the first experience for the aspirant after occultism, and it
continues and grows stronger and stronger in the course of his occult
faculty of memory.
Nor is this all. What is perceived with the faculty of memory enables
What does the occultist discover here? In the surging sea of light he
faculty of memory; they have become so powerful that the understanding
them? As a matter of fact the occultist does not notice anything
physical consciousness. He has only the pictures. But the occultist
thought, the occultist sees the real and living light that is behind.
occult learning and occult self-discipline increases, this perception
being that is now coming to meet me as I pass over into the occult
occult experience take its course, — first the expansion of the
forces, an echo of what comes from the realm of occultism and had
of what may be derived from occult research, when the researcher has
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with particular care and accuracy, when we are considering occultism.
ego-consciousness, is for the occultist that element in his life which
themselves an occult path, or to receive teaching from initiates who
have ascended the occult path and have come to a comprehension of the
It is difficult to form a conception of the nature of mysticism
complicated ideas that are acquired on the path of occultism; to
such a thing is extraordinarily difficult to accomplish. For an
occultist, it is quite a matter of course; we shall go into that more
deeply in the coming lectures. An occultist rises to states where he
as they make use of consciousness. A practical occultist who ascends
the occultist begins to live and experience in the super-sensible
super-sensible world. But he does not enter this world as the occultist
We shall see, when we go on to speak further of occultism, into what
nature that it is less difficult for her to conquer herself, that is
occultist, he must not merely undertake the negative striving, but
consciousness into which the occultist has to enter.

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Christian times, is one who sets out to tread the occult path and
can be a path to occultism, does not attain to the consciousness that
attain to what we named as the third element of occult experience
I want now today to show you how the occultist on the other hand
occultism. We may picture it to ourselves in the following way.
We shall not, therefore, be able to find in the ego the occult
aspirant after occultism must face if he would make the leap out of
occultists — so long as we are gazing perpetually into it! In the
We have here reached a difficult point in our consideration, but we
have any difficulty in following me when I say that as a plant is in
The occultist must now go further. Of the ego he can say that he
hand, seems to be there. And so the occultist finds himself in a
There is here only one possible course for the occultist to follow.
the occultist comes to realise, — that the human form lies to
Now the occultist must of course know that he cannot live in ideas and
consciousness, and this he wants to transcend. When the occultist
result. The occult student conceives a dislike for his human form. He
the occultist steps forth out of ordinary experience and takes
perception that stands at the beginning of occult consciousness,
— if it is genuine occult consciousness and not mere mystical
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want to penetrate further into the knowledge which true occultism can
It is essential for the occultist to come to an understanding of this
discard righthandedness and cultivate an equal left and
culture! What does an artist not do with his hand? All art would be
occultism, — that in arms and hands we have wonderful organs
and culture, — then we begin to see the true character of this
difficult it would be to walk if the lower leg and foot were not
separated off in this way. Walking would be a still more difficult
science cannot but find difficult to accept — between the solar
world of human culture. On the other hand, in the outer as well as the
Occultism has always given the name of Mysterium Magnum, the Great
a remarkable fact described, how when the disciple of occultism takes
occultism must give heed. When he passes out beyond his consciousness,
being divides, as soon as it takes the first step into the occult
Both of these facts must be recognised by the disciple of occultism,
come to a particular stage in occult development, you are met on all
occultist this formula signifies what I have here described to you;
occultism — and this is what we are attempting here, in many
To the mediaeval disciple of occultism again and again were the words

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and some of you will perhaps have felt a certain difficulty in
nothing for it but we must be ready to put up with some difficulties
aspirant after occultism who becomes clairvoyant must, as you will
the occult pupil, but are not at all generally observed. For it is
possibly be a head man alone. We saw yesterday that for occult
no difficulty in recognising that a particular class of dreams is
For the disciple of occultism it is by no means merely a question of
these stages are attained instead by occult training, and it is
the pupil in occultism becomes clairvoyant, when he develops, that is,
aspirant after occultism surrounded by phenomena of flowing light. He
light when he becomes a pupil of occultism. He beholds the Sun in
aspirant after occultism learned to perceive the Sun in its reflection
gazing. When the pupil in occultism is led on to perceive not only the
of occultism observed not what is, so to speak, on the upper surface
aspirant after occultism.
occultism could go to men who were religiously inclined, who were able
The disciples of occultism came in this way among men as founders of
well-being of the middle man — to such the pupils in occultism
the influence of the pupils in occultism, followers of a Sun religion.
after occultism, knew in the case of certain peoples: — We
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THE attainment of occult knowledge — it is necessary we should
student in occultism must take for his starting-point. He must —
occultist, — namely, to start from the inner life of soul. We
occult vision. Luciferic and Ahrimanic forces can easily penetrate
firmly to the ancient occult saying that man in respect of his form is
Nevertheless this path has its difficulties. If you start from inner
soul experiences and by means of occult development succeed in looking
they set out on the occult path from the inner life of soul. The other
occultism, taking his start from the human form, penetrates into the
different from the external impression. The occultist has to learn
completely to overcome external impressions, for occultism is there
the play of fancy. Occult experience is not dependent on whether a
When the occultist succeeds in experiencing in this way something like
You see, for the pupil in occultism it is a question of experiencing
that many who have aspired to be occultists have not been able to
Earth body. But the pupil in occultism must inevitably come at this
described him, has always been expressed in occult symbolism in
of the task of the occult teacher consists in warning people not to
what we must do if we would make practical progress in occultism, and
difficulty in holding this thought. Many of you will know how
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WE spoke yesterday of how the pupil in occultism meets with Lucifer
can never be that a man has too little culture or too little education
in occultism. Christ gives him the means whereby he can remember his I
modern time and will be increasingly so for pupils in occultism. As
occult Schools and Mysteries have always understood by the
Zodiac, it will not now be difficult for you to understand that a
to know occultism and you have at the same time the root principle of
also not difficult — the movement of the breath. We have to come
The faculty of discrimination for the several movements that take
When we come to enter into occult knowledge in detail, we can look in
it is a direct outcome of occult research. Compare it with the
you; for it is a result of occult investigation that is comparatively
closely, as far as occult research will allow. And the following is
practical occultism. He can take his start, always under the guidance
and counsel of an experienced occultist, from the study of the life of
occultist, however, who goes far on the occult path can follow also
he follows. In the field of practical occultism the question arises:
task of deep significance. When the eye of the occultist has been
when the Buddha acquired the faculty which made it no longer necessary
occult observation of Mars.
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Lucifer. Lucifer appears to the pupil of occultism as in very fact the
hearing difficult to grasp (we shall return to it again presently)
life and culture on Mars as could reveal what the Buddha accomplishes
Occult Science
learn also what has again been described in outline in my Occult
essentially different, and the difficulty you have in understanding
Occult Science
indication of how difficult it was to describe the state of old Sun. I
Occult Science
It is indeed extraordinarily difficult to find outward means of
Occult Science
the first rudiments of physical man began, as is shown in Occult
him. It will therefore not be difficult to see that not only has man,
Earth. Hence you will find that in occult communications most of the
gave in the Secret Doctrine has its source. Occultists who have
understanding can be awakened for what the occultist investigates. The
occultist speaks of different states of consciousness. In reality they
give other names to the results reached on the occult path. Both roads
man from the standpoint of occultism, where we speak of
theosophy. For where the occultist speaks of conditions of
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Starting from such a thought, the results of our modern culture will
be made to introduce spiritual values into the general culture of
own faculties, without limiting himself to what I myself would say. To
no blessing in occult development, in occult striving. Truth and
candid truthfulness, since I can see no blessing for any occult

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accessible to the occultist alone, lived on in post-Atlantean form in
culture. We have also pointed out how great and significant man finds
culture is concerned. Least of all can it be realised in the countries
that have been prepared for their present external culture by what the
to the ancient, holy, spiritual culture of mankind.
impulse for their culture. Then, before our vision, arises the
Zarathustra culture that, if seen in its true light, entirely differs
We then see the Egyptian-Chaldean culture arise, and the ancient holy
important cultural impulses in the course of successive ages, had
through anthroposophy or some other form of occultism. The external,
occultism. It is one of the first requirements of initiation to divest
occult view, it is obvious that one should confront without prejudice
Now occult investigation, in following up this course of human
the things known to everyone conversant with occultism, letting
not generally recognised where bona fide occultism is upheld.
objective result of occult research. This Individuality Who was not
it would be equally impossible for any genuine occultist to maintain
of occult research that may be recognised by anyone, be he Buddhist or
Anyone who has made certain progress in occult development learns to
beg you to receive this as an occult fact. Suppose a man had never in
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faculty lacking, has an actual effect. It guides a man along a certain
comes this feeling: In passing through various earthly cultures. I

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passing is made through the gate of death. To the occultist these
which, to be rightly understood must be interpreted by the occultist.
carry through because we foster this faculty of holding together what
difficult to explain.
that has taken effect in the life of the souls the faculty has been
difficult. But you will not easily see anything more. If you let the

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are not necessarily the poet's occult experiences, but the clairvoyant
certain special way that one first lights upon when looking occultly
Christianity who have a mortal dread of what is known as occultism,
turns to occultism or anthroposophy that they shy away from it? If you
recognise its origin, but the occultist can do so.
happens that those who know something of occultism, but have not
relationship to Christ, he might even become a great occultist and
relevant investigations. Among occultists it can be said objectively
occultist, and who is simply a faithful follower of his particular
as a piece of historical culture, and will help you to understand much
of true occultism, namely, that here in the world of the senses there

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worlds, you already have the faculty for recognising him as partaking
in a life of the senses; I have possessed a certain faculty, but this
faculty found a one-sided expression in me; it is possible I even made

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continually repeat that true occultism, true science of the spirit
light when we come to certain refinements in occult observation.
and purifying intervention of a movement that combines occultism with
Men have many difficult things to learn. Simply from the facts
he is familiar. When there are indications of any occult results
said because for every occultist it is an objective fact. With this
personally prompted propaganda cannot also be an objective occultist!
karma of Western culture. In a certain sense these make it not too
difficult for a westerner, when he has made himself a little familiar
cultural evolutions.
Who indeed accomplished His greatest deeds of culture among a people
strange about the occult nature of thinking. A materialistic science
darkness, and we see how, by looking at things in an occult way, the
attention to where we only find darkness, to the difficulty of
it was ready, which can never happen on an authentic occult path, this
When these things occur, they present themselves to the occultist as
merely as an objective statement. The occultist who recognises the
that has come into the world as objective occultism — not as the
objective occultism — can never be extinguished. No matter how
much opposition may arise, it cannot mean the extinction of occultism

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some way with an initiation or some occult revelation —
offered by external exoteric life? Even the most cultivated
man, one who stood on the highest pinnacle of the culture of
foundation of the culture of this age. All those who wished
culture, Greek education and Greek life. It might be said
part in the spreading of the Greco-Roman Christian culture.
embodied in later Western cultures. Those were the three
into the whole formation of the culture of the age is able
East played its part in the culture of the West, indeed very
into the culture and will increasingly do so. For this reason
culture of the West, in whom we could find nearly everything
convergence of the peoples and their folk cultures and folk
kind from ourselves, who are difficult to understand but whom
of their souls and can only with difficulty adjust themselves

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which he was only with difficulty able to extricate himself,
century, increased the difficulty of really understanding the
who is equipped with the occult method of observation is
spiritual science or occultism, you come to something very
incarnation. Indeed, through the difficulties caused by the
important to keep these occult facts in mind, for only thus
accomplished by another man, who is recognized by occultists

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occult research have to relate concerning the prophet Elijah
evident discrepancy in the story. Now occult research begins
together here, and able to enter into occult facts, it is
beneath the grandiose artistic and occult style many of the
that the artistic and occult style does indeed conceal such
understand the spirit and the occult core of anthroposophy we

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character of Western cultural development is bound to
their thinking. Actually it is difficult for a man of today
cultures gradually developed: the ancient Indian, the
primeval Persian and the Egypto-Babylonian-Chaldean cultures,
the Greco-Latin culture and then ours. And it was shown how
EgyptianBabylonian-Chaldean cultural epoch is the specific
the Greco-Latin era there was the specific culture of the
So we are confronted with these three cultural epochs, which
foreshadowed in the earlier. In what cultural epoch do
has the task of preserving the culture of the sentient soul
cultural period, could be warmed through by the glow and the
culture, bringing it forward right into the culture of the
fifth cultural age. It was his task to foreshadow, though in
fourth and fifth cultural epochs are telescoped in the
constituted the culture of the sentient soul of the third
post-Atlantean cultural era and let it shine out again. If

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that it is in a certain sense an occult teaching. Why occult?
It is occult for the simple reason that few people can
lock it up in a safe, so that it stays “occult”;
it remains occult for no other reason than that too few
into their hands, they still remain occult. For they can be
brought out of the realm of the occult not by disseminating
widely asserted today that there is no occult teaching. This
But it is in the very nature of occult teaching that they do
”occult teachings” of mankind. For though we can
words they have remained occult teaching. Truly they have
remained occult to this day. There are very few people who
people Hegel has remained an occult teaching. What shines out
that it is difficult really to warm up to it, if, for
the culture from which Krishna emerged. If we do this, if we
another example from the same culture, which we find in the
of what he had in mind for his culture. If today we look into
culture out of which Krishna emerged was preceded for
thousands of years by a clairvoyant culture, because human
ancient and holy culture, and admire its grandiose logical
But they will never be perceived through those faculties that
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post-Atlantean cultural epoch, the Old Persian as the second,
of this recurrence of the same in successive cultural epochs,
the ancient culture of the third world age had become dry and
arid and the culture had entered the phase of autumn and
western culture is in truth historical.
Western culture? Precisely the knowledge of the one focus of
basketsful over? This has been a difficult theme for

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of Christ Jesus, but with a rich world of external and occult
how they experience a real difficulty particularly in
itself that the apostles experience these difficulties? What
profound mystery that is given to us by occult science in the
should feel it difficult to grasp what has just been said,
has ever happened on earth is bound to be difficult. In a
was something remarkable about the culture of ancient India.
the great cultural flowering of the first post-Atlantean
the Rishis this faculty was accompanied by the wonderful
difficult to come to a clear idea about such matters.
experience much difficulty in making ourselves understood.

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series of secrets. Both in the Gospels and other occult
then we have to do with something occult. In an occult
have an occult meaning. But in this particular chapter we
the lake, the mountain and the house. Just as in an occult
place, so is this also true in the other two cases. In occult
occur, this invariably means that they have an occult
appoints the Twelve, that is, he confers their occult mission
on them. That was an act of occult education. It is again on
the mountain that the occult Transfiguration takes place.
initiated by some means into occult matters, or comes near to
new occult powers in oneself. Likewise the expression
imaginative vision and the use of occult powers.
relatives, it is most difficult to make use of occult forces.
could not develop occult powers, but only that this does not
this is drawn from the occult understanding of the conditions
factually correct in an occult sense. Hence we shall always
Moses has long been familiar to you; even from the occult
have often mentioned how through special occult processes
destined to lead over from primitive forms of culture to what
occult research. We know that those representing the high
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their composition. The occult background and the
precisely in Greek culture, from a certain point of view
represents a kind of concluding phase of the culture of
mankind. It is as if this culture had attained a certain
time occult threads. As we emphasized yesterday the important
the spread of Jewish culture. Such an understanding was again
actual occult background that lies concealed behind the words
the light of occult truths. I have already pointed out how
the Mark Gospel clearly describes occult and spiritual facts
comprehension is difficult. The possibility is always present

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However, it is very difficult to establish the facts about
shown most strikingly in Egyptian culture, which had
and palaces, in the culture of the Sphinx, which, however was
particularly the greatest works of Egyptian culture that sank
down, still during the third cultural epoch, into the worst
in Egypt the most profound secrets because this culture
Egyptian culture the good which was scarcely visible even to
culture. I have often emphasized the peculiar nature of these
linkages between cultures in human evolution, and I have
explained how among the seven successive cultural epochs of
the post-Atlantean era the fourth cultural epoch that
itself. However, the third cultural epoch, that of the
Egypto-Chaldean culture, emerges once more, though in an
unspiritual manner, in the culture, especially the science of
today. Within our materialistic culture, even in its outer
reawakening of the culture of the third epoch. In a certain
consider the culture of today, we should not describe it in
materialistic culture it is only mechanism that is
occultism, true spiritual science is interwoven into the
this description in truth corresponds to the occult fact. In
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of soul is more difficult to attain than we might think. All anxiety,
my occult research the following question arose. What is the
means of our eyes and ears. Now, however, we encounter a difficulty
faculty to sense the working of the beings of the spiritual world, of
like a cloud and on the basis of them we must develop the faculty to
the further development of man's faculties, a new relation is
third period after death, then it is all the more difficult in our
It would not be difficult to interpret this explanation as a
They are simply objective occult realities. Yet the accusation has

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Gradually the soul finds it more and more difficult to retain the
readily recognize him. As time goes on this becomes more difficult,
occultism such stress is laid upon understanding how Christ came to
us to the Sun through the Mystery of Golgotha. Occultism shows that
occultist denotes the next sphere as Jupiter. As we proceed the
embryonic life begins with a small spherical germ. Occultly, we make
died before us and whom we completely forget, finds it difficult to
surprising to what extent the cult of the commemoration of the dead
is confirmed in its deeper significance by occultism. Those who have
becomes exceedingly difficult to establish a connection with the
one investigates the matter more closely from a cultural-historical
for the cultural life on earth to have changed completely. We do not
earth, and he has to acquire the perceptive faculties for life in the
to an occultist only after he has made the necessary occult
clairvoyance, as is continually stressed in our occultism. We find

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Lecture IV: Recent Results of Occult Investigation Into Life
Recent Results of Occult Investigation Into Life
In occult research one cannot check often enough the facts one has
known for thousands of years, yet it is difficult to describe them. I
myself more intimately again with an important aspect of occultism,
difficult to accept because it strikes so deeply against our vanity.
spiritual world, do we dwell in this second sphere known in occultism
particular passage became fully clear only during recent occult
will value all the more its true artists when, as a result of occult
The next sphere is termed the Venus sphere in occultism. We now
expand our being up to Mercury, which is known as the occult Venus.
objective occult research. Beyond the Moon the human being is like a
of the realm of occult investigation what has been given to humanity
Unless physiology and embryology receive their facts from occult
occult investigation has confirmed that the opposite is true. The one
it from the aspect of occultism.
culture will be accomplished when human beings meet in such a way
that each presupposes and then senses the occultly hidden in the
love can be cultivated.
cultivation of general human love, but it will receive by way of

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If we ponder deeply about the implications of this, occultism can
lessen the worth of our ego but we can also augment it. This faculty
In the domain of occultism — using the word in its true sense —
investigation is difficult and full of complications. Suppose a man
domain of the occultism studied here is there anything that does not
These findings of occult investigation throw remarkable light on an
Occultism reveals that if we feel something of the reality of the
Golgotha. This is what is revealed by genuine occult research.
Occult research also shows us how we can be prepared to receive the
One who truly grasps what occultism can reveal to him about man's

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describe the realm of the occult as is commonly thought. If one
Occult Science
described from one point of view only. Occult facts are such that we
considerable soul difficulties in the super-sensible world. For
pupil of occult science after only a little progress. They appear
occultism we become Moon dwellers. Our being has expanded to such an
system, though first into what the occultist calls the Mercury
by means of occult research but we will take two. For instance, let
after having passed through the Mercury sphere, which in the occult
with the Infinite, with the Divine. Occult investigation observes
a fact that presents itself to occult observation as the consequence
religions was lost and can only be found again through occult
discovered from the occult aspect in modern times. If a Buddhist were
occultism. Those human beings who lived on earth before the Mystery
confirmed by occultism. Both are the same — the starry heavens
obtain through occultism may become impulses in our life of soul and
What has been cultivated for years, through the performances of the
said out of occult sources. There is nothing similar in any of the
my recent occult investigations. They astonished me because they
showed how a truth which was established occultly corresponds to what
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the needs and the interests of the heart. Occult vision observes
kamaloca and they may find one another. Occult investigation shows
connected with our faculties in the next life, and we see the

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occultly considered, feelings are a mirror image of a realm that does
Mercury sphere in occultism. We shall not represent it
We encounter other difficulties in connection with sociability in the
is particularly difficult. In theory such an understanding is often
Now we proceed to other spheres that the occultists terms the spheres
through the occult mysteries. The more one strives in this direction,

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the day. We would sleep only at night. But our whole cultural life
Ancient occult vision penetrated to this point only occasionally.
cultivate spirit and soul through spiritual science have a greater
External cultural life goes to its downfall. A time will come when

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contemporary cultural life have experienced the painful cry of souls
come who will consider it important to cultivate a spiritual life
be cultivated on earth in the sense of the new spiritual science,
must have attained the faculty to perceive. But this faculty cannot
content between death and a new birth who have acquired the faculty
this faculty between birth and death by evolving a thought content
possible to show that a person owed this or that faculty to his
There are people who say, “You seek to trace faculties and
shows clearly that certain faculties are passed from generation to
able to provide the faculty he has perceived and thus bring it to
a previous earth life the very faculties needed for that art, unless
particular faculties of the soul during the embryonic period or after
were conscious of ourselves marks the time when we lost the faculty
not letting our innate spirit-powers wither, but of cultivating them
occult writings are often more profound than we imagine. When the
why we gather in order to cultivate spiritual science. He who works
what will lead humanity to cultivate increasingly the spiritual life
cultivated faithfully here.

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connection, or they have the greatest difficulty in doing this,
overcome a great difficulty, consisting therein that the old spiritual
is very difficult for the souls to find the right direction after
perception of the spiritual world would really not be so difficult if
the human beings themselves would not render it so difficult. If we

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understanding under considerable difficulty, or not at all, because a
important — but anthroposophy must also be cultivated more
world in reality would not be at all difficult if human beings were

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lecture series entitled, Occult Investigation of Life between Death
half of last year, it became my duty to carry on some occult
astronomical terms, is described by Venus, in occult
man's fate to have difficulties in finding such contacts
of Mercury. And it is difficult for him to find other souls
new birth. The sphere of Mercury — in occult terms
during this passage through the sphere of Mercury (in occult
the earth which, however, in occult parlance we call the sphere
beings are operative there, those beings whom occultism
who (in occult parlance) enters the realm of Mercury after
occultism as the sphere of Venus.
is not merely a myth but an occult truth that what has
that those things are infused into the spiritual culture of
times were ahead: the times of external material culture, of
Man in the Light of Occultism, Theosophy and Philosophy
there was only exterior, material culture, on the other
with it; this can be ascertained by occult investigation.
according to the application of occult knowledge, then
This statement may seem significant to the occultist. For what

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lecture series entitled, Occult Investigation of Life between Death
developed the faculties which enable us to penetrate into the
is oftentimes difficult. It might be easy, for instance, to try
least inwardly, even in the most difficult situations; he will
difficulties arise. For Spiritual Science is an affair of the

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develop certain faculties, that they fail to create instruments for
such mystery centers had already developed lofty faculties for
fact that the soul of Francis of Assisi, through the higher faculties
to develop their faculties here on earth as a result of the
presents a difficulty. There was no difficulty as long as the one was
presents considerable difficulties today because the general lack of
He may possess the faculties to ascend spiritually to the realm of
it is important to cultivate a feeling for the task of spiritual

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bear a special responsibility in the difficult social conditions of
precisely such souls who after death make it difficult for the beings

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understand that a man who for a whole lifetime has cultivated only
earth sphere. Ambitious people, for instance, who cultivate an
he would have liked to do. These situations are not difficult to
their faculties and talents they could have achieved in life
the aspect of occultism, not from that of ordinary astronomy.
an inherent quality of the Mars “culture.” The basis of
earth sphere and one who possesses certain initiate faculties
endow us with certain faculties. Yesterday I could only go as far as
either by the instreaming light or by anything else. Occult
had better leave imperfect such faculties as I possess.”

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faculty of living directly with the spiritual world because the
the faculty of judgment and so forth, but it has robbed man of the
faculty to live with the spiritual world.
mankind was able to regain this faculty to some extent. Now, however,
faculties dwell. Such souls can be seen from the other world, souls
who have spiritual thoughts and feelings on earth find it difficult
have known on earth who have died before us. It is difficult to speak
souls who have cultivated moral feelings and inclinations on earth
cult, a Thor cult, and so on. But the European people have accepted
we require the faculty to see what is in the spiritual world, but
faculty it is not sufficient that one has acquired it. One also has
the occult sense, then out to the orbits of Venus, Sun and Mars. One

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essentially for himself. Such a being encounters difficulties after
cultivated by giving lectures. Within the Anthroposophical Society we
a Wotan cult today that would be the equivalent of an occidental
to the physical world as the statement made by certain occultists
occultly the painting known as “The School of Athens.”
discovered only with great difficulty.

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It is exceedingly difficult to speak about life after death in words
been cultivated. Therefore, such souls remain in the dark in relation
behind in the physical world, and who cultivated a spiritual life

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make it difficult in many respects to commit to writing everything
but it is also difficult because spiritual truths lend themselves
always difficult to allow the more intimate truths relating to the
This is a feeling which a man of modern culture may not wholly share,
but every true occultist will experience this feeling of distaste for
and more difficult, that even a comparatively short time ago this
— that is, if we allow external culture to be our only guide.
makes it more difficult for them to perceive what is astir in the
When we cultivate Anthroposophy today in order that there may again be
deep down within us there is the longing to cultivate Anthroposophy in
diminished and must be replaced by cultivation of the spiritual life,
we recognize how necessary it is for cultural life on earth to be
Although it is more difficult, this can be carried so far that if in
such a family and life becomes very difficult for many people because
without clairvoyance it is difficult to be sure of this, although one
it is so very difficult to describe these conditions in terms of human
spiritual world. You will therefore realize how difficult it is to
bodies and more difficult in the case of irregular phenomena caused by
also subject to law, but difficult to know with certainty. At one
Here in Bergen it is difficult to know what the weather is in Berlin,
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From the volume Occult Investigation of Life between Death
the world today, it is difficult to confide to the written word what I
difficult to do so because spiritual truths really can be better given
is a question of much difficulty, for books cannot be read in the
even a cultured citizen of the present age cannot quite share, though
every true occultist must have this feeling of reluctance to write or
dead is becoming increasingly difficult, and that a comparatively
only follow the external culture of the age. At the present time the
time ago. It is, in a sense, much more difficult for them to perceive
cultivate it in groups, for it is of great importance that persons who
must be replaced more and more by the cultivation of a spiritual life
thoughts, we recognise the necessity of permeating the culture of our
it is more difficult to do, that you can even read to someone with
becomes really difficult because of the attitude of these good friends
difficult to know this unless we have clairvoyant vision, but if we
extremely difficult to express these in human words and thoughts.
how difficult it is to coin in ordinary human language the
which are, of course, subject to law, but are more difficult to
individual life after death is more difficult, and demands a more
special cultivation of the gift of clairvoyance than to follow the
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Occult Investigation of Life between Death and Rebirth.

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The Transformation of Earthly Forces into Clairvoyant Faculties
THE TRANSFORMATION OF EARTHLY FORCES INTO CLAIRVOYANT FACULTIES
the following form. It is clear, of course, that the faculty needed
this faculty of remembrance. The explanation is that retrospective
Occult Science,
Occult Science.
It is really not difficult, even for a modern man, to acquire the
meet with such vehement antagonism. For it is not difficult,
Occult Science.
When you think of the amazing achievements of modern culture it will
elaborating the brain, for this culture is almost entirely a product
creating this culture! Everyone can delude himself in this respect,
however isolated, where outer culture does not penetrate to such an
Occult Science,
culture must already have been there. The exercise of these forces
Occult Science
faculties which leads, not to these wide, universal vistas, but to the
discovery of particular conditions. For example, the faculty of
Occult Science.
life but at an early age acquires the faculty of standing
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From the volume Occult Investigation of Life between Death
The Transformation of Earthly Forces into Clairvoyant Faculties
enable man to grasp with ease what is to be found in my Occult
what is described in Occult Science. What is the reason that
therein are not too difficult for the man of today to understand; one
difficult, comparatively speaking, to attain the necessary degree of
difficult!” The development of the brain is most actively carried
Occult Science. The reason that so few people do so is that
man's brain; for, indeed, almost all external culture is the result of
in my Occult Science could not be developed by him, because he
clairvoyantly the facts Described in Occult Science; for in so
the transmutation of other human forces and faculties lead, not to the
great universal viewpoints described in Occult Science, but
general in Occult Science, but that is quite different from
human culture. You may be sure that it will not stop at merely
the feeling that it is, indeed, a misfortune, one we find difficult to
difficulties serve in a sense as a sort of external world to them.
instincts of man, and may then lead to the greatest occult depravity.
occult nonsense, because these, more than any others, are subject to
such as are given in Occult Science can be easily developed by
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Occultism.
already some knowledge of occult science — to approach and
allegorical figure of ‘Night’ with occult vision. We can
the spiritual world shining into the physical. Occultism does not
preach morality is easy; to establish morality is difficult”,
very difficult to discover moral principles, neither is it difficult
spirits, spirits who find it extremely difficult to move away from
which in occultism is called the Mercury-sphere.

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even without any occult knowledge — to observe the life of soul
that is possible without any occult knowledge provided only there is
bodies but not to restore them to health. Occult investigation
Mercury as understood in occultism. Thence he expands to the spheres
have the faculty to become thoroughly acclimatised in these other
— in occultism it is always so named — a man's contact
this sphere we can learn from occult investigation how in our astral
same religious tenets. Occult investigation shows clearly that

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Chapter IV in the book Occult Science -- an Outline.
culture, upon spiritual life, influences will not only rise up from
the existence of a spiritual world. Hence it is extremely difficult
to know what occult investigation reveals, namely that the Ego and
findings of occult investigation when the investigator knows from his
can be convinced of the validity of occult investigations. It is a
in the world. When someone asserts that the findings of occult
to sound judgement. Genuine occult research is not afraid of
Occult Science — an Outline,

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region which receives forces radiated from the planet known in occult
passages in the Bible which, as is the case with all occult
characteristics, for instance, the faculty of distinguishing between
This occult
Occult Science — an Outline,
based on occultism. You have always heard — and from a certain
Even externally it is not difficult to discover what the soul is
faculty of perception far more in line with the life between death
exist. If he had learnt in an occult school what in the future would
Occult Science — an Outline.
the Graeco-Latin epoch of the faculty of judgement and the formation
culture have in the depths of their souls the conceptions which
the Venus sphere if, on Earth, he has cultivated a moral and

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Western cultural life. I refer to
not differ from that of Western occultism in regard to this event —
Those who desire to understand from occult knowledge the
example of evolution. This example is revealed to occult
is known to all occultists that the same soul which appeared on Earth
industry only, of external forms of culture on the Earth.
and interested in external culture only; these human beings would
and the advancement of external culture, and the other class, due to
fostered and preserved spiritual culture. But the souls belonging to
the sphere of occult development in the West is not to rise into
to inaugurate the epoch of materialistic culture during which all
Earth the ascending phase of culture began with the Mystery of

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correspondence between the true form of man and those faculties. The
spreading in the world in the form of occult teachings, of Spiritual
that occultism has to give — how comes it that hitherto, indeed
Occult Science — an Outline.
even if we cannot yet claim to have any knowledge of occultism?
enable him to participate in the evolving culture of mankind; he has
faculties of speaking and thinking are still undeveloped. When the
between the true form of man and the faculties of standing and
occultism and seership have to say about the nature of man. But this
Occult Science — an Outline,
clairvoyance, simply with the clairvoyant faculty possessed by every

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Occult Science — an Outline
unwilling to believe this on the basis of the occult facts should
strange to many people, that life in Kamaloka becomes very difficult
impossibility. For such people Kamaloka is admittedly difficult. But
evolution of humanity. True spiritual culture will more and more be

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present faculty of perception. As soon as a person goes to sleep,
is extremely difficult to describe these conditions and it can really
assimilated is transformed into faculties for the new incarnation.
being influences which prepare his future bodily faculties to adopt a
body will afford the soul no possibility of Developing faculties for
the comprehension of spiritual truths. For if such faculties are to
beings will be devoid of the faculties needed for the acceptance of

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always found it difficult to establish any relation with their
necessary to cultivate Anthroposophy on Earth, for one will be in a

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Buddhism in the cultural life of India. Events on Earth are reflected
progress of culture on Earth possible. The stream of spirituality
Occult Science — an Outline,
Occult Science — an Outline.
of Brahmanism into Buddhism in the cultural life of India.
death and rebirth, culture on Earth would still be at the stage
Indian culture was able to progress to that of ancient Persia only
region; and again, the progress from Ancient Persian culture to
Egypto-Chaldean culture was made possible by impulses for progress
human beings have contributed to the progress of culture on Earth has
various culture-epochs progress and new impulses take effect. But as
distinguished from the progress of external culture and has its
progress on Earth from one culture-epoch to the next is dependent
here: Progress on Earth from one culture-epoch to another is
From this we realise that external culture on Earth is
space, a world that is embodied in culture on Earth because souls of
of a connection between culture on Earth and the stellar worlds as
the promotion of culture on the Earth is to be regarded as a kind of
place; it was then that culture on Earth received its ‘soul’.
of any philosophical argument or reflective thinking, but of occult

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Anthroposophical Society wishes to be for the newer culture should not
cultivation of the personality. We may say that we can see in the
culture of the second; not as something historically great, not as
Occult Science
Occult Science
so-called “Newest thing in Occult Science,” and what is said
that is said in my pamphlet, The Occult Significance of

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of what was drawn straight from occult science than by such methods as
added our present method of occult investigation) worked more through
be a man who preferably cultivates his soul and spirit, so that every
influenced by the weight of his physical body, to whom it is difficult
Christian Middle Ages. We turn our gaze from what the older cultures
If one wished today really to combine science with occult principles,
culture, the principle which once upon a time reigned as the spiritual
however, upon occult principles; for one may quite relevantly say that
blood, as I have shown in my book, The Occult Significance of
consideration which is the basis of the pamphlet, The Occult

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account of his external activity had cultivated Manas; then according
difficult for thee to behold, in which thou hast just seen Me, that is

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extremely difficult to extract their deep meaning. Yet it is
difficult, and anyone who merely makes an external comparison will
may say the legend directly reproduces an occult fact. That is what
from the depths of occultism. We then experience what this tree brings
The Occult Significance of Blood — we must say that the

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is in a certain sense public. Not that there is no longer any occult
science in our day, but it cannot be considered occult simply because
it is not printed or spread abroad. There is plenty of occult science
It is rather difficult to form a right conception of this but we must
Occult Science
only now possible to mankind from the basis of occult science. St.
wish to learn anything of occult facts consider all visions as being
was, so to say, cherished and cultivated in the mysteries, and was

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occult foundation of every form of cramp or convulsion. Here the
occult facts. In this case we must recognize the existence and efficacy of
and to cultivate the habit of drawing the letters. The point here is that
cultivated from early youth, it is, perhaps, not quite so useful in later
body. When a man cultivates an awareness of his gestures and
The cultivation of the will, as we may call it, is most important. I have
involved. This is really difficult to apply in life. When a man has lied to

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body lies at the occult foundation of every kind of cramp or
occult facts; we must believe in the existence and activity of the
it now more upright, with a different form. Cultivate the habit of
‘culture of the will’, as we may call it, is notably important.
difficult this is in life. For instance, when a man has lied to you,

Title: Lecture: Conscience and Wonder as Indications of Spiritual Vision in the Past and in the Future.
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life much more difficult.
even the characteristic of western culture that people have, so to
forgotten them; but our whole culture stands to-day at a turning-point
universal faculty of mankind. And it will be thus ... Let us imagine

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delicate conscience can make life very difficult. Another kind of

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occult training. This would enable him to descend into his
conscientiousness with which we penetrate into occultism, can
to investigate the occult sphere — we must learn to
possibility is given to us only through a slow occult
another — that is, we do in the occult what we would
course — in the occult sphere. If we proceed in the
wish to progress in occultism, we must carry out several
the word then we do not come much further in occultism, for
spheres. We can see many things on the occult plane, but the
only by penetrating into occult depths. Thus, adjustments

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assume that, as a result of employing this or that occult
domain of occultism can save you from falling into error. It is
must undertake research within the occult field, and learn to
only in the slow occult training of the soul. As we go on
that we learn to do in the occult realm what we would have to
confront us in the occult field.
we may not find this too difficult we may place this event back
account. You see, if progress in occultism is desired
further in occultism, for that which relates to higher
spiritual cultures on earth, and because she had never gone
many things upon the occult plane, but the power of
in the physical world who was a liar had difficulty in
This application of the law is to be seen only in occult

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Such an appearance is usually designated by occultism as

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super-sensible faculties. (Tr.)]
occultism deuteroscopy, or second sight. With all this I
[This term as used by Rudolf Steiner, denotes a super-sensible faculty (Tr.)]

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external exoteric culture, created through many centuries, then
the 20th or 21st year of life? Here we must observe, by occult means,
be tested by the methods of ordinary anatomy or physiology. By occult
occultist can tell us this.
If we survey all that the occultist can teach, we come to a curious
Indian culture, we see the seven holy Rishis, in whose souls there
Then came the Zarathustra culture. Zarathustra spoke, when he directed
spiritual in the sun, this is what the later Persian culture called
now is in our culture, is a sort of reminiscence of the old Moon-time.
As the culture of the seven holy Rishis is a sort of reminiscence of
the old Saturn-time, as the Zarathustra culture is a reminiscence of
the old Sun-time, so is the Osiris-culture a reminiscence of the old
such culture as does not make use of the Gospels or the name of
Christ, culture which may have come to birth under the influence of
human culture, I need an impulse from the spiritual worlds, in order

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Egyptians also pointed; and which the fourth post-Atlantean cultural
can be examined by occultists as a fact. With the same love, with the
of Jesus of Nazareth appears from the standpoint of pure occultism you
a task in the world is different from the cultures which have
We can study such a thing especially well if we examine occultly the
Occult study shows us that every pain which is inflicted on a
been without man, what happens then? Now, you see, occult research
pains, the compensation will be created. This is the occult truth,
The last culture epoch before the Graeco-Latin looked up to Christ, to
then that the fourth post-Atlantean culture period ran its course in
the worlds beyond, as the third culture epoch had still done. The
initiator of a certain line of Greek culture, in an earlier
an hypothesis, but a fact of the super-sensible worlds. The cultivation
literally, serve the cultivation of the Christian initiation, that

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been gained of certain things indicated in occult writings though
to innumerable passages in books on occultism or also in
ancient sacred Indian culture; then came the ancient Persian and the
Egypto-Chaldean-Babylonian epochs of culture, then the fourth, the
the spiritual content of ancient Indian culture. Qualities and
elaborated and cultivated in the third epoch. Men had direct
Occult History,
attitude resulting from the stage of occult development
difficult concept to grasp but the reality of certain facts can be
post-Atlantean culture-epoch must as it were rise again in the fifth
or a European, the fact well known in occult life is that the Mystery
with German culture! No credence whatever should be given to this
can assure you that the results of long, long occult investigations

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flowing from occult sources — sources to which Madame Blavatsky had no access.
upon another, that in fifty years' time occult investigation would have to rectify
Theosophical Movement whose one ideal in the field of occultism was to establish only that
has come to light. Nothing is ever said to discriminate between the great cultures or
first post-Atlantean epoch with the spiritual culture inspired by the holy Rishis, that
we point to the difference that distinguishes Oriental culture from Western culture.
Oriental culture speaks only of
through their human development more quickly than is usual. Thus, Oriental culture is
different. We have lived through an epoch of culture which has nothing to say about the
has found expression. Western culture was destined to stress the importance of the single
culture proceeds in a different way, concentrating on individualities and neglecting the
can see that divinity itself, an occult and superhuman reality, looks out of those eyes
good it is that for a time Western culture has paid attention only to the actual
individual cases. Then much that is attainable only through intuitive vision and occult
Occult History,
given by Dr. Steiner in 1915, entitled The Occult Movement in the Nineteenth Century.
Publications dealing specifically with H. P. Blavatsky and the earliest occult

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From an occult point of view, what is done out of love brings no
itself. The impulse for this is not strong in humanity. But occultism
more. Occultism says: Love is for the world what the sun is for
cultivate love, creative forces pour into the world. Can the intellect
great danger that — if it is cultivated without the Christ
From this the conclusion must not be drawn that we should not cultivate

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difficulties of inner experience is to get beyond the standpoint of
upon certain difficulties which may arise in living together with
which accompanies the faculty of rising above personal opinions and
disposal. That is why it is so difficult at this point to distinguish

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the following manner. He cultivates the thought of how a man lives in
cultivated as a real and immediate experience, first in the Mysteries

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WHEN a man of our time goes through an occult training which leads him
Zarathustra that men were able to absorb into their occult knowledge

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Now it is extraordinarily difficult to speak in ideas and concepts
of the fifth post-Atlantean culture-epoch must be connected with the
which occult sight reports: That is dead — so dead that there
Once in ancient times men's souls possessed a certain faculty of
(“justly” is here used in an occult sense) all the
Sicilian soil and have occult sight, we are aware of the Akashic
known in occultism and in legend as Calot bobot.
beings in whose souls there were occult forces, the one known to
occultists as the worst of all was between Klingsor and Iblis, the
proportion as these things increase, the human faculty of judgment
know the Mysteries through occult sight. And they should be most
difficult. Someone tries to acquire self-knowledge, but even if he is
knowledge and the pursuit of knowledge? The difficulties of the inner
is brought to the Consciousness Soul from out of occult knowledge. By
wounded in body and soul, and Parsifal, whose task is to cultivate the

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The Effect of Occult Development Upon the Self and the Sheaths of Man
An Outline Of Occult Science,
exoteric study of Theosophy. It is especially difficult to
climate they find it difficult to acclimatise themselves; you
you will find these facts of Occultism confirmed. It is
extremely difficult to explain this clearly. Imagine a glass of
is the occult fact of the matter looked at from one side.
power only comparable occultly to the power which the ego of
effect of the ego on the blood is occultly quite similar to the
occultly, not chemically — a process very similar to that
opponent. That is the occult fact. A man who takes no alcohol
lecture about food, about the occult physiology of nutrition;
abstract thinking becomes more difficult than it was before,
things more through the imagination; it is more difficult to
difficult. Thus the various organs become relatively more
frightfully difficult.’ I have often had to give a very
difficult.’ I have had to say: ‘It must not be
resting on an occult basis, not only to pay attention to what
as a whole, and hence many difficulties that may arise in

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The Effect of Occult Development Upon the Self and the Sheaths of Man
confirmation of what the Occultist affirms regarding the
you were to investigate the cosmos as an occultist, you would
occultist, and compared with that of other planets, with what
easily be proved by the occultist, that the animal kingdom of
experience of the occultist this milk-food appears in such a
occult, esoteric, or theosophical development, it is extremely
creating the difficulty in his physical sheath, which will
people interested in occult truths, you must gradually realise
these things with occult vision can see that not merely the
firmly on the earth with both feet, and to cultivate a healthy
things in their secret occult foundations. Though such a drink
occult observation makes clear the experience of the relation
physical human heart is to the occultist an extremely
aspect, for in this way you may appreciate the method of occult
of occult science which combine and flow together, and their

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The Effect of Occult Development Upon the Self and the Sheaths of Man
changes which take place in the pupil through his occult or
notice the faculty for sensation with respect to the
skeleton was in accordance with a certain clairvoyant faculty
extremely difficult really to shut off sensitivity to heat and
the faculty of calling up the sensation of taste as a memory,
difficulty in stating that it is not possible to understand all
organ of hearing is met with in occultism during esoteric
occultist who really gains his knowledge from still deeper
powers, the occultist who tells him: on the ancient Moon, the
sense-organs, for the simple reason that it is difficult to
his occult development, namely, the activity of his physical
difficult to bring them into harmony than before, inner
An Outline Of Occult Science
— it will be difficult for him, but let us suppose that
person may be brought to esotericism; but it will be difficult
only be influenced with difficulty. In the melancholy
choleric himself has a difficult task to change his etheric

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The Effect of Occult Development Upon the Self and the Sheaths of Man
it were, and he gradually forms an idea of what the occultist
occult vision it appears that in the sleeping human body
truth of this teaching, a teaching cultivated especially in the
Occultism teaches us that what I have just described had taken
understand when it is said that the occultist who thus learns
occult description of the ancient Moon.
has once been lived through. Judge from this that the occultist
is only with difficulty impressed by the consecutive events; it
When a man goes through an occult development, he also
An Outline Of Occult Science,
this wisdom can only be attained when the esoteric or occult

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The Effect of Occult Development Upon the Self and the Sheaths of Man
these beings at first, without traversing the difficult path of
them extremely beautiful, while to the occultist who perceives
worlds, because in Occultism it is the custom not to speak of
the course of his further occult development. In the last
obtains an idea of what the occultist means when he says: On
An Outline Of Occult Science,
good if, during a theosophical, occult development, we extend

Title: Effects of Occult Development: Lecture VI
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The Effect of Occult Development Upon the Self and the Sheaths of Man
picture of that which was once known to the occultist as a
being, which occultism designates as the Eagle. The occultist
a far-distant past, to a being which the occultist designates
as a memory of what in occultism is called the Bull, an ancient
the Grail is an occult experience which every human being can

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The Effect of Occult Development Upon the Self and the Sheaths of Man
represent occult imaginations which may really be experienced
through his theosophical occult development the student
observed in many theosophical and occult societies that while
it is particularly the case in this matter; quietly cultivating
land which he cultivates; let us suppose this man loves his
Through what do we gain the faculty to raise ourselves
have their cults and rituals. These rituals surround a member
of a cult with imaginations obtained from the higher worlds by
occultism is to be cultivated; for naturally egotism cannot be
cultivated without really striving to emancipate the astral
destructive thing in the field of occultism is for the stronger
are really entitled to work in the domain of occultism, and the
greatest ideal of the occultist who is to attain anything
another, and yet wishes to work as an occultist, must carefully
may not cultivate and cherish any of these personal sympathies
and antipathies in the domain in which an occult movement is to
occult teacher his own teaching is a matter of no concern; in
can be of help to souls. Therefore, no occult teacher will at
the astral body under the influence of occult development.
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man as experienced in occult development, it becomes more and
more difficult to describe them. For the experience in these
occult development a counter-balance against the egotism of the
this point in his occult development he can feel the impulse to
difficult to give a single description of the Guardian of the
and there comes about what in Occultism is described as: not
occult conditions; yet the endeavour shall be made to describe
occultists, and in the way in which they must be given,
order to recognise afterwards what knowledge and occult vision
idea, I mean no experienced idea, of occult vision; but still,
occult vision will first fall on another being, a being who
none other than the reproduction of an occult experience, which
the loss of the vision which is regained in occult vision
oneself. The moment we try to develop further in occult
magic begins where occult activity is carried into the world
occult-moral significance; that we so gradually transform this
cultivate within our self the feeling indicated here, we then

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The Effect of Occult Development Upon the Self and the Sheaths of Man
the evolution of humanity! In the theosophical-occult field it
can also be observed that someone who has undergone occult
upon a number of genuine occult facts; these are in the middle
‘Occult Science,’
through the theosophical-occult development of the self and
everything obtained in the fields of occultism with the forms
this will impose upon the very faculty in others which should
always be recognised in true occultism. And to assert the
could only spring from a disposition that permeates occultism

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or esoteric occult development, changes come about in the four
occult development. Interesting, also, although perhaps not so
the physical body of a person undergoing occult development is
who is steadily advancing in occult development is actually
person who is undergoing a true occult development, that which
occult life is called ‘Imagination.’ The physical
body of a person undergoing occult development manifests more
has not yet developed in occultism. In this latter case a
of a person engaged in occult development, they manifest as in
occult development, this picture grows larger and larger, and
engaged in occult development, the macrocosm is only reflected
occult development the spiritual content more and more
macrocosm are to be seen. Thus occult development also shows us
that a person engaged in an occult development, from being
between persons engaged and others not engaged in occult
development. The more a person presses forward in occult
human etheric body of one who is not undergoing occult
the more deeply a person is engaged in occult development, the
who has undergone comparatively little occult development
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against mere familiarity with it, can only come when its occult
civilization really know of Eastern culture before it became
obvious. The difficulty for him lies rather in being able to lift
life. A God, Krishna, must make our civilization and culture
but that stands infinitely nearer to Western culture. Here in the West we
says on immortality to be spoken by a man of great culture, depth
correct logical demonstrations. If any highly educated and cultured
understanding for the Socratic culture. We only grasp Western
Arjuna. So there is much in the occult wisdom on which the
contradictions in life that the occult mysteries unveil themselves to

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MORE deeply we penetrate into the occult records of the
various ages and peoples, that is to say, into the truly occult
occult record it becomes ever clearer that it is really most
artistic beauty at the foundation of these occult records. I could
and the deep occult truths that it contains.
indication of deep occult truth. Anyone who finds the way, by
with tremendous force when we enter the occult worlds. Then we
stages of occult development, to entering the spiritual worlds. It is
occult training. Such a person must be prepared so that he may
starting-point for occult life must take place in far deeper layers
what it means to be ripe for occult development: To be able to
occult development must widen the circle of his interests beyond his
occult development.
preparation in our age for a true occult development. Let those who
scoff if they will! One who would prepare himself for an occult
through the study of anthroposophy, which leads even without occult
training to an understanding of occult truths, then he is being
rightly prepared for an occult path.
beginning of occult experience. With wonderful truth the
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to help him in entering the occult worlds, must therefore be
occultist should do so — that we shall gradually begin to
describe to you what may be called the occult development of
go even one step into the spiritual worlds. Sometimes it is difficult
occultism. For example, they become vegetarians. In spite of all
occult development, we have really gone through such experiences in
this self behind. That, however, is a difficult thing to do
the statement that Arjuna had done occult exercises. In fact he had

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soul by the experiences we gain through occult exercises such as I
human soul to intensify its self-consciousness by such occult
clairvoyance. This is also a faculty man does not really need for his
is. Apart from that I still have another faculty, a clairvoyant power
right occult exercises.
we must always forestall objections that the true occultist is well
present-day man to want to undertake occult exercises at all? Why
world of the senses. Thus he is driven to cultivate something
take up occult exercises. We would not say man has an inward longing
a spiritual culture. Otherwise we shall be overcome by
Their arguments against what the occultist has to say are plausible
enough. The occultist himself knows how easily such objections are
the physical world. So it is yet more difficult to describe than the
culture of today, attacked them with all sorts of insinuations. In
appeared as a result of occult research, namely, that at the
This is true also of those occultists who are conscious only as far
occult exercises we are best able to enter this realm if we pay
occultist who would set himself to making as few judgments as
condition in which the facts can meet him. The more a man cultivates
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the occult basis of these transitions from one age to another, where
Here we have the occult physiological foundation of the matter.
we know that certain occult forces are at work behind his forehead,

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REALLY is exceedingly difficult in our Western civilization to
most difficult in our time to gain a true judgment about the great
doing so we do not use our ordinary intellect, but a higher faculty
to the next as we penetrate on and on into the realms of occult
the deep occult truths contained in it? When we take up the ninth and
thing — a peculiar difficulty in imagining and bringing to life
directly out of the occult depths of life. If we are to understand
be attained except in occult vision or in reverent devotion —
are able to do by means of what is given, for example, in our occult

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things being equal, it can believe in itself. With the faculty of
faculty that raises him above animals. Logically, that is. But even
other forces of nature. We are here approaching a difficult subject,
will find it difficult to imagine this “less than nothing.”
show what difficulties external science has and must have in getting
Occult Science
they are directly and immediately given to occult vision. Only
historical research, but from the beginning it was an occult fact.
see in this how the science of man will have to work into the occult
when we make ourselves acquainted with occult facts that we have a
with all the faculties of our soul. Then we shall ourselves become

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our own without much difficulty. It is also natural that those who
enter the general development of mankind will remain occult knowledge
a superficial Western culture is in relation to what has already been given
misunderstanding grafted onto another misunderstanding. So difficult
difficult of access the
spiritual faculty, the same keenness of perception they had when they
was striving as we do today in our occult education, aimed for
something quite different. When we today go through our occult

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entered we may call the Jesus-path if we would speak in an occult
occult dilettantism as to keep on declaiming the equality of all
present-day occultism must try to throw light on the different
together form a unity. If one tries with this truly modern occultism

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occult eye.
experiences of the previous incarnation as occultly true. When it is
being connected in this way strengthens the inner soul faculties.
intellectual culture of today.
It is one of the most difficult things for people with
this superficial faculty of intellect in our modern culture to
the physical plane can be understood if one does not keep this occult
fact in mind. It is especially important today that an occult fact of
My friend, I thank you for these occult words.
other cultural achievements that Strader assumed towards Felix Balde

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unknown territory from the viewpoint of our faculties and soul
it in plain terms — correctly and sensibly. Since the faculties
spiritual world with the necessary faculties for it, returning across
threshold is made especially difficult by the presence of beings
not become a practical occultist, the result for his inner attitude
that will people the physical world. Occultly observed, these
this modern materialistic culture there is every reason to point out
— that they must cultivate a certain sphere of love as
emotions cultivated here, however, should be carried into the
has the greatest difficulty in becoming clear about certain of its
boundary into the other world, taking with them the faculties and

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than through occult knowledge. We can learn what a human being
outside ourselves. We must have the faculty of metamorphosis.
You will easily understand that in order to exercise the faculty of
Occult Science
into the physical body, exercising in a healthy way the faculties
the faculty of transformation it has to have in order to be at all
aware of the spiritual world. The faculty of transformation I have
First of all, then, we have to take note that the essential faculty
for finding and feeling oneself in the elemental world is the faculty
the opposite direction to the faculty of transformation leading to
be developed and strengthened. For the faculty of transformation,
into the faculty of transformation and begins to be at home in the
develops his faculty of metamorphosis, he delves into it with his
the thinking that, lying in occult depths, can be called a true
oneself, to the faculty of transformation again. While we rest in
The lotus flowers must be there if a person wants to have the faculty
of transformation. That faculty comes into existence when the flowers

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than through occult knowledge. We can learn what a human being
Occult Science,
other beings outside ourselves. We must have the faculty of
exercise the faculty of transformation, the soul needs something more
Occult Science
into the physical body, exercising in a healthy way the faculties
into the sense world the faculty of transformation it has to have in
order to be at all aware of the spiritual world. The faculty of
essential faculty for finding and feeling oneself in the elemental
world is the faculty of transformation. But the human soul could
something that works in the opposite direction to the faculty of
the faculty of transformation: thinking or imagination; for the
into the faculty of transformation and begins to be at home in the
with clairvoyant soul and develops his faculty of metamorphosis, he
that, lying in occult depths, can be called a true living force. As
of only willing oneself, to the faculty of transformation again.
have the faculty of transformation. That faculty comes into existence

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Occult Science
sense world, one has to help oneself out of the difficulty with
the soul directly to what lies behind the occult writing. Above all,
All occult perception attained for mankind by the
In the various past ages and peoples, occult knowledge

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that Capesius is a historian, a professor of history. Occult research has
an initiation cult or else by being attracted in some way or other to
I was continuously aware of his link to the Egyptian cult of initiation
thus Ahriman can invade human culture.
the evolution of human culture. Now he could recognize in solitary
actually come — as occult research shows — to one
has come down through the various cultures, through the efforts and
most significant factor in cultural development on the physical

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soul and its faculties, and then these strengthened, fortified soul
faculties must be carried upwards with us. When we cross the
the development of human culture.
a judgment about European culture. Although such things seem
middle condition cannot be reached without special difficulties: the
modern culture in regard to anything expressing itself as
correct, for in the spiritual world there is not only the faculty of
Occult Science.

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falls occultly in love with Theodora. Certain physical impulses

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about the so-called “culture” of the present day may well
penetrate this culture. A discerning person who has some
others interested in occult movements will obviously snap up this new
“When we approach the occult sciences
guidance one easily masters difficulties coming from both sides.”
occultism that, creeping out of so many corners of the world, is
backs on very many ingredients of modern culture. For this we need
generally play a different role today in the external culture. During
civilization. It is extremely difficult for a human being to unravel
the entanglement and find a way out of it. Everywhere in our cultural
that difficult. To enter that world, however, in such a way that we
culture. On the threshold, the luciferic impulses assert themselves
genuine, truthful self-knowledge. Nothing is actually so difficult in
difficult indeed to practice self-knowledge in a direct way. People
excuses for my difficulties that I've expressed so frequently, such
extreme difficulty of entering the higher worlds without danger, as
partnership, it is not at all difficult for them to lead the human
Occult Science
These things are extremely difficult to describe. To picture it, just
Occult Science.
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absorbed Greek culture. Even including a certain unusual
refined, strong figures with Greek culture – Romans
with Greek culture, which added Greek cultural delicacy to
Greek culture didn't understand it at all. They had
highly cultured people argued against Christianity, how
Christianity; it was fought against by a high culture which
little intellectuality or high culture. Even
culture could not understand about the essence of the
penetrated western culture, was opposed to Christianity.
Christian culture and the Christian impulse. And he who
Christian culture. And modern natural scientific
materialistic culture. It is certainly possible to divest

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spiritual culture, as represented in Aristotle; it was a
large numbers of men who had assimilated the spiritual culture
highly cultured men who had absorbed the sublime Ideas of
numbers of learned Romans and Greeks. Men lacking in culture
culture. There we have one side of the picture.
culture, the impression we get is that they did not understand
highly developed culture incapable of grasping its
spread of Christianity is concerned, it will not be difficult
integral part of Western culture, might appear to run counter
change was possible only within Christian culture and through
culture. And however hard modern natural science may try to
of Greco-Roman culture? What power is at work in the men who
world of Greco-Roman culture; it is Christ Himself Who stands

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things which are necessary to it during this cultural
difficult meditation appears light-filled. One sees plants
help it if I am obliged to read in the occult text about a
occult cosmic text. When one has attained to clairvoyant
cosmic occult text. I said that contemporary consciousness
is at first extremely difficult to extract many things from
difficult and broader meaning than it normally has. I can
is in the Spiritual Script. For it is very difficult and
completely free cultural environment. My education was

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it, quite inevitably, by the culture of the times.
other times only to be reached after very difficult meditation,
to read in the occult script at this particular point in the
culture, mankind had evolved to the point where, in Plato and
occult script out in the Cosmos. And when clairvoyant
Cosmos in a stupendous sign of the occult script. I have said
additional and necessary words. In an occult sense I feel
be extracted with the very greatest difficulty and effort from
difficulties and of the labour required when it is a question

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“occulter”, a “hidden one”. In the
in its path of evolution and culture.

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progress along their path of evolution and of culture.

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outside Palestine. At that time an Asiatic cult was
Asiatic cult which was a mixture of many other cults, but
which was mainly the Mithras cult – one can see this
cult was previously celebrated. Yes, one must say what for
services. It is not difficult to understand why these
new, difficult experience added to the Bath Kol
Occult
obligations exist! And following one such occult obligation
cultivated a kind of secret rite and teachings at certain
culture, by his dedication to the highest spiritual powers,

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cult was very widespread in Western Asia and the regions round
Mithras cult. Temples dedicated to the worship of Mithras were
contained elements of the Attis cult, but were in essentials a
shows that this cult had spread far and wide. Although to many
cult on the site of which St. Peter's stands. And the cult
continuation of the Mithras cult. When in his sixteenth,
Therefore in witnessing these cults he experienced many
the priest was enacting the rites of the cult at many a heathen
heathen cult, a certain Deity was worshipped. But the people
occult duties exist! And obeying one such occult duty, I then
iron but also imparted a faculty of clairvoyance powerful
secret cult and secret tenets at certain places in Palestine.
dead at the altar of the heathen cult, and the significance of

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about how on his travels he encountered the pagan cults and
years of age, where he learned an occult teaching and knew
the people who dedicated themselves to that occult
wisdom, culture and moral achievements. He often thought
cults of Asia Minor and Southern Europe. But he also
carried in his soul the feeling that this cult had
themselves by means of their way of life and their occult
correct. But it is very difficult to observe such things in
distant our present culture is from this search for truth.
are greatly respected nowadays. It is difficult today to be
clothes, and they are even true! The hounds of cultural

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had then acquainted him with the heathen cults, with heathen
soul-treasures of human wisdom, of human culture, great moral
this had merged into the Mystery-cults scattered over Asia
significant utterance: Even if all the ancient Mystery-cults
is very largely correct. But it is very difficult to observe
distance separates the culture of our times from this search
For in spiritual culture as it is to-day, this sense of truth
nowadays. For all that, it will be difficult in the modern age
Christ! Evidence is produced to show that the cult and also
later on, is found to be worshipped in forms of cult the same
cults, there come these clever people who do not understand
culture stand in high repute to-day and their science is

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wholly from sources of occult investigation. The
which enabled him to easily absorb the culture and the
the whole cultural civilization of humanity in words, gestures
even a shadow in Jewish culture, through spiritual inspiration
still somewhat difficult. These were also the years in which he
impressions one can receive in the occult field to learn the
It is very difficult to put into words how
first an ancient Indian culture developed in which the great
other words, it was basically a spiritual culture. Yes, he went
the evolution of humanity will find human evolution difficult

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I want you to have an idea of what we can call occult research,
An Outline Of Occult Science,
correctly describe the [ancient] Indian or Egyptian cultures
that this occult research is completely different from research
occult nature of the Mystery of Golgotha is like someone who
difficult to wring from the soul. Their meanings are reversed,
should not have been difficult to trap Jesus of Nazareth. So
When occult vision observes life on earth
although it is quite difficult to speak of these things.

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to bring together various results of occult investigation
civilisation and culture; he is led to the Holy Grail
In our age, by far the greater part of external culture
is characteristic of materialistic culture that even the

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culture. And now let us consider once again all the
essential features of this culture. It had, as we know, a
Ancient Hebrew culture venerated Jahveh or Jehovah az the
leading Being in Earth-evolution. Ancient Hebrew culture
Ancient Hebrew culture represented a definite stage, in
whole of ancient Hebrew culture looks upon Jehovah as the
Occult Science. It seems incredible to-day that
Golgotha approached, Hebrew culture was veering more and
up by ancient Hebrew culture against “astral”
endowed with faculties which enabled them to worship the
faculties derived? Prior to the Mystery of Golgotha these
faculties were bound up with physical heredity! What I am
the Mystery of Golgotha, the faculties of knowledge as
inherit his faculties from his forefathers. —
faculties and talents from their forefathers — but
result? Their faculties of knowledge would have been
faculties from the soil of heredity is John the Baptist,
must remember Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, for the faculties
ancestors.’ But now these faculties must be derived
we ascribe our faculties and gifts, all that makes us

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Spirit-Beings, Greek culture preserved the shadow-images
soul-faculties at the end of the Atlantean epoch had it
culture, the end of all human thinking, reflection,
‘poverty of soul’, with faculties hardly

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disturbingly aware of how contradictions, difficulties, must pile up
which Greek culture and other deepened forms of thinking had achieved
a clairvoyant faculty in the background, then one feels truly
period will have great difficulty in understanding it. Our souls are
That is why it is so difficult to enter into the
faculty of thinking about it, shut off from the thirty Aeons? We must
and have shown you only one occult experience, the perception of the

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endeavour encountered the very greatest difficulties. We must pause
difficulties denied entirely that the Christ had appeared on Earth in
and there, but it was not a physical body. Because of the difficulty
civilisation, the first of the post-Atlantean culture-epochs. There,
Christ. Then there would have been no difficulties; they would have
culture-epoch, we find that the possibility of understanding Christ
culture-epochs, we find the Bible itself indicating that a certain
accompanying the fourth culture-epoch like a shadow of its wisdom,
such things from beneath the layer of materialistic culture which
and fundamentally speaking upon the whole Indian culture of the first
has been a decline in the faculty for saying: When I think, the
cultivated. I know I am saying something strange, but we shall see

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accordingly, resides in what was said about the difficulty of
Occult Science — an Outline,
Occult Science — an Outline)
Occult Science —
Occult Science,
of human culture. St. George and the Dragon reflect that celestial
difficult moments in their lives, with their souls well prepared, and
and a weak echo of it could be heard in the musical art cultivated by
Christ, had cultivated in the heavenly heights in order to bring
to occult observation: Marsyas was not flayed in his lifetime, but

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Roman cultures, but also to all the other regions of Europe.
occultism. But in revering Apollo the Greeks did not look on the sun
to suppress everything Pythian in their souls and to cultivate solely
character of Jewish culture will be understood only if it is taken in
us look back a little, with the aid of occult knowledge, over what we
The cults of Attis and Adonis have been correctly noted as having
there was a centre of the Adonis cult. Bethlehem was one of the
all nature grafted into the cultivated olive, how much more readily

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good significance. But as one culture-epoch succeeds another in the
first, as occult, i.e. hidden, reality.
you that when in my occult researches I tried to follow this stream,
further occult development of Christianity in the West — then
I had to experience the fact that occult researches are
from occult truth on the wings of fantasy, we have to be guided
In occult researches of this kind one is often held
clarified their meaning. In occult investigation, too, one is, led
whether something drawn from the depths of the occult world will have
first misled by a certain circumstance. In occult research — I
occult sources, but also of what external research has brought to
Occult Science
occult script, was the name Parsifal!

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difficulties that must be gone through before that which may be
sickle; and there, in occult writing, is to be found the name of
might become the bearer of spiritual culture in later times. Now let
Occult Science)
Occult History: Personalities and Events in the Light of Spiritual Science,
we who are placed by karma in the geographical and cultural

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Occult Science and Occult Develoment. Christ at the Time of
Occult Science and Occult Develoment. Christ at the Time of
endeavour to penetrate in occult spheres, this principle
when we go to sleep. To the occultist going to sleep and
body? Occult science shows us that it is surrounded by the
of occultism, we can say that after an inspiration the same
of a physical atmosphere, so Occult Science speaks of a

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we do encounter a difficulty, a great difficulty — not for our
difficulty. It is not so easy to say where you would have to take
be done.” Here we meet with one of the difficulties which we
simply have to admit. For if we refuse to recognize this difficulty
in the domain of ordinary thought, we shall not admit the difficulty
realize how difficult it really is for men to attain to clarity in

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we do encounter a difficulty, a great difficulty — not for our
difficulty. It is not so easy to say where you would have to take
be done.” Here we meet with one of the difficulties which we
simply have to admit. For if we refuse to recognize this difficulty
in the domain of ordinary thought, we shall not admit the difficulty
realize how difficult it really is for men to attain to clarity in

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as much as for Realism. In those days it was more difficult to be

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as much as for Realism. In those days it was more difficult to be

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idealism; he lacks the faculty for conjuring up ideals in sharp
acquainted — and yet here even the easy is difficult —
ordinary means of cognition.” Occultism! The psychic
mood of Occultism!
Again, one can be an Occultist throughout all the mental-zodiacal
signs. One can even be a thorough Occultist of Materialism. Yes, the
rationally-minded scientists of the present day are all occultists of
remains in the occult. It is only that they do not like to be called
“Occultists”, but they are so in the fullest sense of the
open to human personalities. One can specially cultivate each of
Mysticism as Venus, Transcendentalism as Mercury, and Occultism as Moon
similar. The Moon remains occult, invisible when it is New Moon; it
must have the light of the Sun brought to it, just as occult things
remain occult until, through meditation, concentration and so on, the
investigations. The connections are not difficult to find when the
an Empiricist, a Mystic, a Transcendentalist, an Occultist. All this
exercises, the various psychic moods — Occultism, Transcendentalism,
with imagination, so the occultist, the Intuitionist, as we mean him
Mysticism, Transcendentalism, Occultism, and all this moving round

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idealism; he lacks the faculty for conjuring up ideals in sharp
acquainted — and yet here even the easy is difficult —
ordinary means of cognition.” Occultism! The psychic
mood of Occultism!
Again, one can be an Occultist throughout all the mental-zodiacal
signs. One can even be a thorough Occultist of Materialism. Yes, the
rationally-minded scientists of the present day are all occultists of
remains in the occult. It is only that they do not like to be called
“Occultists”, but they are so in the fullest sense of the
open to human personalities. One can specially cultivate each of
Mysticism as Venus, Transcendentalism as Mercury, and Occultism as Moon
similar. The Moon remains occult, invisible when it is New Moon; it
must have the light of the Sun brought to it, just as occult things
remain occult until, through meditation, concentration and so on, the
investigations. The connections are not difficult to find when the
an Empiricist, a Mystic, a Transcendentalist, an Occultist. All this
exercises, the various psychic moods — Occultism, Transcendentalism,
with imagination, so the occultist, the Intuitionist, as we mean him
Mysticism, Transcendentalism, Occultism, and all this moving round

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into a spiritual world-outlook, Occultism or something similar;
A person who makes a little progress in occult perception can
one wants to investigate occultly, so that one can picture things,
the brain remains entirely unconscious. But an occult researcher must

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into a spiritual world-outlook, Occultism or something similar;
A person who makes a little progress in occult perception can
one wants to investigate occultly, so that one can picture things,
the brain remains entirely unconscious. But an occult researcher must

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Occult Science and Occult Development
only in the language of thought — I refer to the realm of occult
his human faculties man strives for occult knowledge and may also acquire
it, but occult knowledge has a greater significance for the world than it
faculties is called Akasha. The manifestations of beings and of
accessible to man. What a man acquires in the way of occult knowledge
of the world. When we make a thought of occult science come alive in
Occult Science.
acquire all occult knowledge, because he will then be in the
existence but there would be no occult knowledge of these spiritual
applied his faculties for the acquisition of knowledge to aims other
than the attainment of spiritual knowledge. These faculties have been
Akasha-substance between the impressions made by the occult knowledge
acquisition of occult knowledge only, to the study of things
everybody, spiritual or occult science can be made intelligible only
of Spiritual Science. Admittedly, occult truths can be discovered
courage. Therefore we may say that occult science must be explored by
anyone wish to understand occult truths through the original moral
them to work upon his soul; and if he has absorbed the occult
One who has no actual occult knowledge, but whose inclinations and
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Occult Science and Occult Development
Mystery of Golgotha is the most difficult of all Mysteries to
of occult knowledge. And of all the truths within the range of the
because it is unique will be very difficult to comprehend.
very difficult to distinguish the one from the other.
ancient Hebrews endeavoured to find a way out of this difficulty. In spite
with the help of occult knowledge we endeavour to shed light upon what
culture bore the stamp of Michael. Through his power he poured into
to occult knowledge we have again, within the last few decades, entered
already said, it is extremely difficult to characterise the Mystery of
now part of it. To those who through the study of occult science have
writers of the Gospel had no clear occult knowledge themselves, for the

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centuries, or from the one who directs the cultural evolution of our
super-sensible world the spiritual culture of the epoch which is just
Gabriel was the guiding Spirit in the cultural epoch which came to an
And that can only be done through occult training. If one has not
will be able to remember, — that is, those who by means of occult
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Golgotha, the same Spirit who is the Leader of our own culture epoch
here on earth. Occultism alone can give knowledge of life; external
occultism which I have now endeavoured to lay before you; try to have

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in the Atlantean epoch would so have developed his whole life-culture
to influence the culture of Egypt, taught the people to revere that
humanity to think in thoughts, this faculty not being aroused in man
upon our present faculty of memory as a preparatory stage, many of us
perceptive faculty will then arise in man and his ordinary memory,

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present culture. A renewing of responsibility, a deepening of man's moral
become selfless. This is a duty of our present culture to the future.
near future we may offer certain occult proofs of these facts in order to

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difficult situations in life, and which are fitted in many respects

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spiritual life, and it is difficult to describe these in fitting
Occult Science.

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draw attention to several positive results of occult investigation
world occultly through Imaginations, through creative images. The
to tread a difficult path in the future. We shall forego the
very difficult to find words in ordinary language which exactly
during the Persian culture, when, together with the outer perception,
Occult Science.

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these things would be difficult of comprehension. But the deeper we
mental culture of the present day, evolution is standing, as it were,
deals, would have had to be treated from the basis of occult
truths of occult science which enter here.
such difficulty on earth, surrounds us in all its fullness and wealth

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physical plane, it is extremely difficult to give an accurate
lying at the foundation of the faculty of remembrance, but not acting

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it enters the sphere of culture, as we have just described.

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attention to the symptoms of our cultural life. For example, I once

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really present in it. Of course, this is very difficult to imagine,
faculties to unfold its imagination, let us compare this soul faculty
people who do this will have greater faculties in the world after
difficult for many people to understand. That is why they speak of
person will have difficulty in finding his or her way after death. In
would have to do so actively by acquiring the necessary faculties.
to thinking. Some people nowadays develop clairvoyant faculties at
faculties from earlier times and they have not yet achieved sound
cultural life.

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cultural isolation in that region. This famous person was none other
the most significant memories of my boyhood, but also most difficult
knew about Hellenism and then look with sadness at modern culture,
culture in order to fill it with sounds that would encourage people
poem about cultural history.
wished to embody all of the grotesqueness of modern culture. There

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cultivating and nurturing germs. If this fear can be reduced even a
not cultivate such thoughts, the dead are deprived of them. Ideas
manifests in many other respects, but it is difficult to talk about
needs of their particular time and culture.
great relief for someone fully involved in modern culture, in science
culture with all its material blessings. On the contrary, it
external material culture to the gods.
guided by spiritual luminaries. That is especially difficult now

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age of materialism. What I wanted to say, however, is that Occult
if they are to thrive. Human beings do cultivate them. Of course
stream into the body and become the cultivators of bacilli.
If you cultivate such thoughts about the connections of the physical
who, by means of a short life on earth, acquired faculties which shine

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soul-faculties, these only shows that he has not laid aside the
develop ourselves; he does not give us our faculties, those we must
spiritual faculties to the work, but, just as no matter how strong the
a future of humanity which is to be prepared by the culture of
must not evade the difficulties and inconveniences which a soul may

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in difficult times — you should always be aware in your hearts that
for the impulse it should give our culture. I mention this again only
may feel that it will truly be very difficult to make any progress
picked up on the streets of our modern culture! It is deeply painful

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clairvoyant faculties. Such an encounter can come about when the
That is why we speak of reading the occult script, in the true sense
the occultist who is able to investigate these things knows that it
occult development, the soul immerses itself in specific moods and
could also say hierarchies, of the dead as soon as our occult
at this particular moment. Speaking as a true occultist and not
first time. If, however, you speak as an occultist, thoughts always
angels and want to continue there with really fruitful occultism, we
does not consist merely in acquiring clairvoyant faculties, but in
clairvoyant faculties. In other words, we must learn not only to see
People find it difficult to
occultist is expected to do more than merely follow instructions on
complete misunderstanding of our position in regard to occultism. We
so-called occult movement. All we want is that even if our way of

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culture as slowly and with just as much difficulty as the natural
not speaking from the standpoint of the occult knowledge so often
that we must use faculties that slumber, that are latent, to use a
depths of our soul a faculty we know nothing of in our everyday life,
When we are not using this faculty, it lies dormant deep within our
or another person through the soul faculties I have described, we
had taken in much of that Christian culture. However, she had not
modern culture will eventually come to the point Giordano Bruno did.
culture with its prevailing belief in the incontrovertibility of the
accepted. However, as our culture continues to develop, it will reach
the physical world. A proper perspective on our future cultural
culture the yearning and the latent urge in many souls to go beyond

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the simplest way, there are many difficulties in understanding them,
a deeper occult view of life furnishes us with something wherewith to
already become acquainted through the elementary truths of occultism.
But how does the matter stand, when the occult observer, he who really
That which then presents itself to the occult vision teaches us that
Occult observation shows that just as the physical and etheric bodies
everything else is in a certain way analogous. To occult vision is
fact that to the occult vision of a man who experiences the Spring on
scientific and occult research, is of immense importance for human
Whoever follows this with occult vision sees that the sprouting and
occultism, in order to decipher the meaning of existence, gives no
other. How often has it been emphasised in our occult movement that
of something which we have to regain with difficulty, viz., the
Mosaic Culture of the old Hebrews was conscious of the fact that “the
expression. A great occult fact is here indicated that man, as
more to the occult interpretation, to a higher inter-denominational
Christianity. Now let us direct occult observation to these three
When it is revealed to occult vision — which searches and
Occult research comes in here again, not merely to put forth theories, but
and fervent faith has died.” As occultist, one can say that in
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is a still more difficult problem. We see already in the origin and
genuine occultist or spiritual investigator would answer these
which is so seemingly difficult to understand in the coming forth of
This he can only do when, in an occult or spiritual way, he
But these ideas the occultist and the clairvoyant must form for
that words which are used in occult works, be it in the form of prose
spiritual or occult works which really spring from truth, truth about
What is difficult to understand in these lectures you must ascribe to the

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science, but he may also have understood many occult and spiritual
give them a foundation is difficult.” This statement is very
difficult these forces are to find, is shown by
these lectures to show that it is only by delving into the occult
worlds. We find this cultivation, this dedication of the soul to the
affected European culture very much, when it had only begun to spread
difficult for Christianity to bring a feeling of devotion to the
spiritual investigator or occultist, even though we may be
agreement with occult facts. Although occult facts are frequently

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science, but he may also have understood many occult and
is easy, but to give them a foundation is difficult.”
difficult these forces are to find, is shown by the simple fact
the occult secrets of life that it becomes possible, to
find this cultivation, this dedication of the soul to the
Christianity had affected European culture very much, when it
Europeans. For, this reason it was difficult for Christianity
occultist, even though we may be looked upon as foolish and
Assisi are entirely in agreement with occult facts. Although
occult facts are frequently hidden by history in pictures and

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castes, the highest of them being the Brahmins, who cultivated
second caste consisted of those who had to cultivate the profession
of occult knowledge for which they were not yet ripe. In consequence
through wisdom, mysteries and occult truths being given them for
from its spiritual and occult foundations, we must examine a few
occult or spiritual truths. Let us inquire: Whence really came such a
occult school which lasted far into the Christian era. This school
humanity. If I were to describe to you this occult school on the
Black Seas as the occultist or spiritual investigator sees it —
worlds. The first thing attained by the pupils of this occult school,
this way they came to know Buddha. Thus, these occult pupils learned
being. In this way he continued to work spiritually in the occult
pupils in this occult school were grouped according to their maturity
in this occult school. They could also become clairvoyant in such a
pupil of the occult school on the Black Sea, was born in his next
period of European culture in which the Christ-impulse had not yet
cultivation of the lower human impulses. These are the three chief

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the Brahmins, who cultivated wisdom. The separation of the
books. The second caste consisted of those who had to cultivate
Atlantean population became possessed of occult knowledge for
wisdom, mysteries and occult truths being given them for which
understand human morality from its spiritual and occult
foundations, we must examine a few occult or spiritual truths.
there existed an occult school which lasted far into the
were to describe to you this occult school on the Black Seas as
the occultist or spiritual investigator sees it — and you will
worlds. The first thing attained by the pupils of this occult
Buddha. Thus, these occult pupils learned to know Buddha face
way he continued to work spiritually in the occult pupils and
Now the pupils in this occult school were grouped according to
precisely in this occult school. They could also become
One such pupil of the occult school on the Black Sea, was born
European culture in which the Christ-impulse had not yet
the passionate cultivation of the lower human impulses. These

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in our cultural life. The speed of travel, the lust of sensation on
uncultivated human being, is but little affected by the great
truth is cultivated, the more rapidly will the anthroposophical world

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or the soul of cultivated feeling. You know that it developed
uncultivated human being, is but little affected by the great
truth is cultivated, the more rapidly shall Anthroposophy and

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change must gradually come about in our cultural life. The
world begins with wonder. The savage, uncultivated human being,
The more the truth is cultivated, the more rapidly will the

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think, present great difficulties for all who reflect more deeply. It

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difficulties for all who reflect more deeply. It is a passage to which

Title: Lecture: Anthroposophy and Christianity
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tasks required spiritually of our contemporary culture.
signified an advance in human cultural life which can be compared to
them to ethical, social, and all other aspects of cultural life.
concerns man but which is most difficult to investigate for that very
itself. They are not miraculous qualities; they are faculties which we
Occult Science — an Outline,
rejected just because it appears at the dawn of human culture, before
back on early cultural epochs — for instance, to the time when people
explained into contemporary culture? Why, no differently than natural
felt in human culture today in the same way as the new natural
research. Studying ancient pre-Christian cultures from the viewpoint
Although the exoteric cultures of earlier times did not allow people
Christianity. Anyone familiar with modern culture will find that it is
our cultural life today. Spiritual science is in full agreement with
wants to present itself to culture in the same way that the loyal
conviction to contemporary culture. It knows that truly religious

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the world of the occult, the world of hidden spirituality. A man who
Owing to the difficulties of his bodily life he was
something very remarkable comes from occult observation of this soul.
cosmic tableau. For the occult observer this is a most striking
It might perhaps be said that the occult seer is able to
This is an occult fact. I have repeatedly mentioned it
that will be important for our considerations today. And this occult
the promulgation of occult teaching, as we give it, will often ask
asked: “What progress will this occult teaching make in human
is one such assurance from the occult world. Why? Our friend, who has
In contemplating this occult fact, the following
to cultivate true occultism, undismayed by what the modern world has
with our spiritual faculties, but our physical forces, our muscular
powers, are of no help to us if these spiritual faculties are to be
two examples before you in order to show you, out of the occult
most difficult circumstances, as support in the worst abysses of

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from the world of the physical plane into the world of the occult, into
poems, which have been recently published. Owing to the difficulties of
very remarkable thing results from the occult observance of this soul.
the occult observer it is a most striking sight. It may, perhaps, be
said that the occult seer is able to cast his gaze round the whole wide
occult fact. I have repeatedly mentioned it to friends in different
connection with the subject we are to-day considering. As this occult
opposition to-day to the promulgation of occult teaching as we give it
will this occult teaching find in the hearts and souls of men?’
our friend has become is one such assurance from the occult world. Why?
in our Movement, passed over into his soul. In the face of this occult
occultism, undismayed by what the modern world has to say against this
occultism. Consequently we may speak of matters which only come to our
it is with our spiritual faculties, only there, our physical forces,
our muscular forces do not help us when these faculties are to be
you out of the occult world, how different is the working of that which
precious inner soul-warmth, as comfort in the most difficult conditions

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Here, certainly, a difficulty may easily arise,
difficulty we need only look at the opposition between the concept of
Here the difficulty begins. These people then easily say: “How
difficulty for anthroposophists arises from the question: If this
anthroposophical conception of Karma meets a difficulty that is not
criminal, there will be difficulty in getting on; for we must not
plane, that they have such difficulty in understanding Anthroposophy,
This is indeed a difficult question, but we will try to
difficult questions of occult science. We must make a distinction
are indeed some difficulties in so doing. We shall find it, as I have
said, a difficult subject, and you will perhaps have to turn the
occult observation that will make the matter clearer.

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difficulty of course arises here, especially for the anthroposophical
world conception. To be faced with this difficulty we need only direct
compensation is brought about. Here begins the difficulty. These people
Gospel, for they are very significant. The difficulty arises from the
conception of Karma is here met by a difficulty that is not easy to
difficulty in getting on; for we must not forget that Lucifer, besides
difficulty in understanding Anthroposophy, although it is all perfectly
difficult question, but we will try to approach it more closely in the
touching here on one of the most difficult questions of Spiritual
ultimate consequences; there are difficulties in following it up to its
ultimate consequences. We shall find it, as I have said, a difficult
distinction. And I may now perhaps introduce an occult observation

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yesterday, we must again examine some occult mysteries, for they will
the occult saying: “When the air enters into men, it dies.”
In occultism, we can continue the sentence, “Of the Tree of
When in our occult studies we go back to the times
Body”. But those who seek to deepen their occult knowledge of

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the last lecture, we must again examine some occult mysteries, for they
understand the meaning of the occult saying: ‘When the air enters
himself the faculty of differentiation between Good and Evil, but Life
Occultism an addition may be made to this; to the sentence ‘Of
our occult studies, we go back to the times before the Mystery of
those who seek to deepen their occult knowledge of the Mysteries of the

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Occult Reading and Occult Hearing
‘Occult Reading and Occult Hearing’ in August 1914, after the
occult reading and occult hearing. We hear something about the
experiences, when he speaks of the actual processes of occult
reading and occult hearing. Absurd theories still prevail at
the reviewer — these so-called occultists should state
difficulty still standing in the way of understanding books on
changed within us when we have understood a genuinely occult
book. It is therefore quite understandable that genuine occult
There is one essential to be remembered if the words ‘Occult
Reading and Occult Hearing’ are to mean anything to us. We
occult learning to read, it would be just as clever as a person
understand the question: What is occult reading? Occult reading
must the occultist, without sinking into the physical body,
come down into the etheric body. Occultists call this, with
experience what we call ‘occult hearing.’ As soon as we have
been consciously thrust down into our own etheric body, occult
us therefore repeat what has been said. Through his occult
art of occult reading. At a further stage, when he is able not
Gradually he develops the faculty of occult reading and occult
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Occult Reading and Occult Hearing
occult reading. After due preparation we experience the more
concerns the occult world. I can only give an example.
next stage must be this … it is difficult to find the
insufficiency concerning ourselves. These things are difficult
occult expression can be used here. We can say: Man becomes a
endeavour to acquire the faculty of distinguishing what speaks
must remember that language must be precise when occult

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Occult Reading and Occult Hearing
realised that occult reading and occult hearing consist in
may be called occult reading and occult hearing.
invisible, because man's faculty of perception is too dull, too
the great motto which runs through all occult studies. It is
the utterance made by all those who have become occultists in
this most solemn moment which is described by occultists as
tried to get right into them, the occult reading and hearing,
endurance to make progress in occult development through
good preparation for this faculty is to practise over and over
it is for the developing occultist to awaken this loving
hence the lack of success that often attends occultism. It is
difficult. It might happen that a man falls ill and is not
will admit that what I have described is very difficult. And so
very difficult to take the most ordinary things we experience
because it is so difficult it is not as a rule attempted. But
extremely difficult. It will be attained in the same measure in
become capable of this. But such things are difficult for the
made by making the physical world a motive for a kind of occult
practising occult reading and hearing in the real way, it is
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Occult Reading and Occult Hearing
heard how occult reading and occult hearing are very living
experience which comes when we acquire the so-called faculty of
beyond time. It is a difficult conception, but we have to reach
world is cultivated in the way described? Ego and astral body
perceive. It is very difficult to describe these things. Cosmic
Occult Science — an Outline,
the humility of the occultist and the spiritual investigator
cultivated for some hundreds of years and people have become
that our materialistic culture should prefer the hotchpotch
reason. It is comprehensible that modern culture should
you see, much, very much is contained in the occult study of
look at it merely with the faculty of physical perception, for

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the knowledge of Christ that can be imparted by occult science. And

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each other in these difficult times and keeping faith

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perceptive faculties. He therefore does not sense, does
Man uses his perceptive faculties to draw a veil, a
achieve with difficulty particularly in difficult times,
and also find difficult to achieve and retain in their
full strength and clarity in difficult times such as
Perhaps it will be difficult to take these truths as
eternal. This is what makes it so tremendously difficult
occult point of view, there had been an instinctive
a work representing the high point of culture on the Italian
Even in details, the elements of ancient Egypto-Chaldean culture emerge
of Greek culture is today found in the French nation,
on in Racine and Corneille. If we look to French culture
to find again the culture of the intellectual or mind
epoch, we should find what was best in that culture. With
how he had a special appreciation of French culture. This
a Central European living in the ego culture. In my
Egypto-Chaldean culture.
Western European culture and philosophy. It is a little
soul in contradistinction to western European culture?
of the culture of ancient Greece. The Briton shows the
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will impulses, find this truth even more difficult to
difficult to find adequate expression for these things,
culture, a culture that can only be seen as arising

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French spirit was able to influence European culture
fully explained with the means now available in occult
fact is that cultural epochs were cut short within this
the dawn of Germanic culture when the writers of the
culture began and the first had been completely
as it were, of the first flowering of Germanic culture.
in this culture. It is possible that another deeply
Yet if we take the findings made in occult
from occult research in detail, for that will be the only
brought to light by occult research in the present day.
occult horizon triggered by the events of our time and
straight Christian culture. The streams, the paths,
Central European culture, how preparations have been made
culture were now to suffer through what may come from the
culture but also of the East. The worst that can happen
an adverse effect on German culture. For as I said, the
come about for the civilization and culture of the future
refuse to accept what Central European culture in
see the deeper occult reasons behind what in the public
occult reasons. At all events it is possible to see from
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and strengthen you for your difficult task.
attention to the occult substrate to our life on earth
but also other kinds of Ahrimanic forces. The occultist
nor through other occultists. We know what the soul goes
spiritualization of human culture, of man's ability to
find most difficult to do is to unfold the will at the
culture of the present age leads to. The point, however,
cultivating everything to do with reason and intellect to
attain to clairvoyance, for it is possible to cultivate
cultivate the human soul in this way, the twilight period

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systems. (It is not really difficult to be clever in the
influence cultural developments on earth through their
own culture, were a race of barbarians, and they may make
culture which has not yet fallen into nervousness the way

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acquiring self-knowledge, about the difficulty man had in
have something of a pointer to show how difficult it is
world. These are momentous times, but also difficult and
indication that even in the midst of these difficult
are under the sign of greatness, that the difficult

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clear path to a cultivation of inner faculties for experiencing
requires manifold preparation. Some of this preparation is difficult,
although it is difficult, it is possible for the human being today to
head. One must actually achieve this. It is difficult to have this
In German culture we have
fundamentally occult things are taking place, but in essence, they
This brings one directly, if one must stress this, to a difficult
difficult point, for this method is useful; those who stimulate
devours us. The difficulty is that we are no longer able to
have no objection to the cultivation of science based on such
brain, it will be difficult for a man to fill what is colorless and
to cultivate the identification with destiny. And this is also
One great difficulty at the
Attainment and in the second part of Occult Science, an
faculties — nevertheless the phenomenon of death is
this difficult time; but what can be done through mere
work on the future development of culture in humanity.
movement of culture. Then will begin what is implied in these words

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with many preparatory stages, some of them difficult
That is what we must actually achieve. It is difficult to
will occur that fundamentally speaking are occult, but in
oneself in a difficult situation having to stress this,
difficult point, for it does work and people who whip UP
find it difficult therefore to use head clairvoyance
Occult Science.
faculties will recall his physical birth. But death is
difficult times: what we are able to do by teaching
spiritual culture for mankind. Then the words will come

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something we would find difficult to do in a natural way
to find out what went on in the cultural and literary
a poet to reveal the process of the culture and
own characteristic cultural features on the basis of

Title: Destinies of Individuals and Nations: Lecture 10: Problems on Spiritual Path - National Characteristics in Europe Moulded by Folk Spirits
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fact discovered through occult investigation.
occult terms this means that the folk spirit developed a
cultural life had its flowering period at the time when
culture in conjunction with the West for they will never
develop a culture out of their own resources.
tremendously difficult to understand the Germans. They
of the most difficult chapters in historical development
to evoke in this particular culture the powers that will
culture of the German spirit and the striving for
the nature of German cultural development that there is a
profound relationship between German cultural life and
made, all the difficulties people have to live through
for the tasks set for us in the difficult times of the

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organism. In the present time, occult immersion in the world
expression is not quite appropriate, for it is difficult to coin
“Occult Science” you will discover an important
an effort to get up. You will find it difficult to get up if you
realms. All the difficulties which more developed human beings
that the difficulties of our age are a warning, induce us to

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enters deeply into the world in an occult way there is
Occult Science,
subconscious recording faculty to the fact that his body,
The faculty
like to stay in bed and it is difficult to find the
within you it will be difficult to reach the point of
all the difficult things the most developed part of
difficulties of the present time are intended as a

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for the further cultural and spiritual development of
to the fact that it is indeed German culture out of which
On the one hand there is purely Oriental culture. What
does it consist in? The Oriental nature of this culture
observe how in the culture which represents the highest
flowering of Oriental culture, in the Indian culture, all
body. It is a purely Luciferic culture, an entirely
Luciferic culture. The further east we go the more we
is the opposite. In Indian culture there is no regard for
or the other of them. We have to be aware that a culture
not be satisfied with the purely Ahrimanic culture which

Title: Destinies of Individuals and Nations: Lecture 13: The Prophetic Nature of Dreams: Moon, Sun and Saturn Man
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acquire special faculties. These things are at a
cultural stream. They feel that they must wait. Yet no
consciously absorb European culture. Yet there is an
able to make its own Contribution to European culture.
Russian and English culture. I suggest you consider his
in at this point. But Russia should not merely cultivate
consider Asia. Asiatic culture really originated from
Iran. Iranian culture based on Ormazd.
overcame the Ormazd culture. First Ormazd was in conflict
peoples of Europe behaved towards this Ormazd culture we
find that this lovely culture had spread in the areas
Ormazd culture. Russia will have to make up for many
exploited the Ormazd culture, sucking it dry. What did
Ormazd culture to exist for their benefit; those
culture, they felt, existed for no other purpose. The
Ormazd culture which existed in Asia. They only went to
the places where the Ahriman culture had spread, holding
English had committed against the Ormazd culture in those
above all the English, had done to the Ormazd culture.
Ormazd culture, Yushakov's reply was that they had become
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No culture
soul than the Italian culture. Present-day Italian
culture, the culture of the Italian nation, has developed
soul. It is the current mission of English culture to
why present-day Italian culture goes into positive
Lucifer and Ahriman. Those human faculties are then not

Title: Forming of Destiny: Lecture 1: Spiritual Life in the Physical World and Life Between Death and Rebirth
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He be at your side in all your difficult duties.
Occult Science
Occult Science

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quite foreign to the world-culture up above, but which they carried so
scientific and spiritual culture it may be said — though this is
dwell on the transformed world which will arise out of these difficult
when the old Roman culture was still above, and Christianity, tended

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up these things in this difficult way, we could not properly advance
culture. This personal assimilation causes knowledge to become our
certain faculty of the etheric body (I will for the present limit our
have been able for a long time to develop the faculty of maintaining
be investigated occultly). If one traces this back, one finds that in
It is indeed specially difficult, while one only wishes to conceive of

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which should arise from much of what can be cultivated in Spiritual
ruling wisdom. It is often very difficult to believe in a ruling
books written in a way so difficult to understand? Could they not be
difficult books, they do not get on very well. For such as these there

Title: Forming of Destiny: Lecture 5: Concerning the Subconscious Soul Impulses
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the spiritual world. If a student performs his occult exercises with
it so difficult to make progress? Why? They say that there are limits

Title: Lecture: The Golden Legend and a German Christmas Play
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physical body but remains stationary. It is a Mystery difficult to
difficult to understand because we cannot grasp the fact that
difficult for humanity? It all originates in what we become in the
a difficult part in the great events of the times.

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difficult mystery to grasp, that the “I” stays at the
remains behind, the “I” stays there. This is difficult
life of humanity so difficult today? Where is the origin of

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thinking oneself is very difficult. But that is the task of the
culture, and that a man making a noble effort (they are all honourable
culture of the age, then at its summit, was carried on. Several
civilisation of that time, the old Roman intellectual culture has
He be at your side in all your difficult duties.

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occult connection. It is called “The period of the
border closely upon occult secrets, it is possible to
occultly it is the reverse. The “Spirit of the
accord with this occult truth the festival of Christmas,
from ancient times often correspond to these occult
This is an occult fact, which to occultism signifies
occultists is a fact, namely that the spiritual solstice
that occult experiences can come at any time, but in so

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Europe and it left behind an important monument of culture,
Finnish nation. This stage of culture is expressed in the epic poem
Graeco-Byzantine culture into Slavism, a particular form of the
here, as the centre of the Graeco-Byzantine culture, may be taken, if
Graeco-Byzantine culture.
because it was experienced as something which in occult language is
Europe’s Eastern culture was preceded, let us say, by a
cultural stratum in which the human beings were constituted in such a
We can understand culture, even
one another. But if he describes it in this way, it will be difficult

Title: Lecture I: The Balance in the World and Man, Lucifer and Ahriman
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I have said repeatedly that the cultivation of Spiritual Science today
a drop of blood, because access to the blood is so difficult for him.

Title: Lecture II: The Balance in the World and Man, Lucifer and Ahriman
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I can well imagine that this difficulty might arise in your minds, and
of occultism, this means nothing else than that he is placed in still

Title: Lecture III: The Balance in the World and Man, Lucifer and Ahriman
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A purely external science finds itself in difficulties when it comes
difficulty someone might experience who, in order to relate himself
matter is made difficult by the fact that the different ages live
as I have described, it is difficult to find the way back. You must
to Lucifer. And this we can do by cultivating the polar opposite of love.

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virtue can be called — though it is difficult to describe it

Title: Mystery of Death: Lecture I: The Four Platonic Virtues and Their Relation with the Human Members
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they have grown fond of the way of striving that we cultivate
first thoughts we cultivate now with our being together in our

Title: Mystery of Death: Lecture II: The Path of the Human Being through the Gate of Death - A Transformation of Life
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It is even difficult to coin words for those quite different
Also this makes difficulties to get clear ideas of the way how
ideas of these relations to be difficultly described bit by
And if you imagine how difficult the striving for spiritual
how difficult it is, just in the present, to provide for our

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separate, you will notice that there the cultural life has
spiritual life grows out of the general cultural life. You only
become higher spiritual culture. We cannot couple our spiritual
Central European civilisation to relate to the future culture?
are the springs for the whole spiritual culture of the future.
spiritual culture. For that is necessary that here in the
centre an ego-culture is founded. You can see that easily on
Thus the ego-culture of Central Europe is aroused from without.
ego-culture in Central Europe.
is difficult to break through the veil which separates the
difficult to the greatest possible extent; one imagines that as
something too easy. It is sometimes difficult already in the

Title: Mystery of Death: Lecture IV: The Intimate Element of the Central European Culture and the Central European Striving
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The Intimate Element of the Central European Culture
Intimate Element of the Central European Culture
demands to be implanted into the cultural development. They
European culture in the West, is due to the Romance current.
culture driving down from the European north to the west,
cultural basin what remained of the original Teutonic element,
in this Central Europe an intimate culture prepares itself, a
culture which was never able to run like the culture had to run
in the West or the culture in the East, but which had to run
quite differently. If we compare the cultural development in
West a culture developed — and this can be seen from the
smallest and from the biggest feature of this culture —
culture, rationalism, a longing for dressing everything one
German cultural life were not blind for them, but they
how difficult it was to set the methods of internal development
time if it should correspond to the Central European cultural
life. This intimate element of the Central European culture is
European culture expresses itself. We find this wonderfully
European culture has the vocation to let unfold the germs to
should come there, it is afraid. The Central European cultural
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Title: Spiritual Science, a Necessity for the Present Time
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All that has been cultivated for so many years in our
the modern culture and civilisation of Europe. We should at least
the breaking up of European culture. To-day we can only have a pale
post-Atlantean epoch of culture. This is the epoch of the
post Atlantean epoch of culture is a kind of repetition of
Atlantis. The fifth post-Atlantean epoch of culture in which we are
post-Atlantean epoch of culture. The impulse of the Mystery of
Golgotha arose during the fourth epoch of culture, as the most
fifth epoch of culture the Mystery of Golgotha will not work in the
the fifth epoch of culture is to approach the Mystery of
culture.
fifth epoch of culture, let us first bring before our souls the way
fifth epoch of culture is called upon to bring into human
post-Atlantean epoch of culture will really have extracted from human
epoch of culture we should envisage the 6th and 7th epochs. It is
understanding is the task of the 5th post-Atlantean epoch of culture.
with the goals that must be reached during the 5th epoch of culture.
develop gifts which have no productive force. This idea is difficult

Title: Mystery of Death: Lecture V: The Intervention of the Christ Impulse in the Historical Events
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is the culture of the consciousness-soul in whose middle souls
back at what was the Greek-Latin culture, this Greek-Latin
culture was basically, even if in another arrangement, an echo,
fourth post-Atlantean culture-epoch a kind of recapitulation
happened. The fifth post-Atlantean culture-epoch in which we
in the fifth post-Atlantean culture-epoch.
the fourth culture-epoch, the impulse of the Mystery of
effect in the fourth culture-epoch, it does not merely continue
working in the fifth post-Atlantean culture-epoch. This fifth
culture-epoch is incumbent to go to meet the Mystery of
a significant, great task of the fifth culture-epoch.
expected from the fifth culture-epoch. Let us put before our
The fifth post-Atlantean culture-epoch has a vocation to make
culture-epoch really gets every knowledge force out of the
culture-epoch towards the sixth and seventh culture-epochs. It
fifth post-Atlantean culture-epoch. The sixth and the seventh
defended as Central European culture if you just feel this
Central European culture intimately connected with that which
must be gained in the fifth culture-epoch for humankind.
productiveness. Today even the concept is difficult to grasp
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Title: Mystery of Death: Lecture VI: Moral Impulses and Their Results
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Cultural Impulse of Eurythmy
fifth culture-epoch and those who are its bearers have a
souls. The fifth culture-epoch will not come to an end, before
European culture has.
how the European cultural regions stand facing each other. I
directly in this facing each other of the cultural regions.
spiritualism lives in the Central European cultural current.
our fifth culture-epoch within that nation to which this task
have something in our culture that counters this good progress,
on because of our present cultural point of view, as one says,
should not happen, because the general cultural progress

Title: Mystery of Death: Lecture VII: Cosmic Effects on the Human Members During Sleep
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festival with the peoples who belonged to the cult which

Title: Lecture Series: Effects of the Christ-Impulse Upon the Historical Course of Human Evolution
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OCCULT BACKGROUND OF THE CHRISTMAS FESTIVAL.
who intend to penetrate into the stream of occult experiences,
festival was fixed in accordance with occult truths, not with
therefore find among these peoples whose cults and knowledge
occult observation of the present time.

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look at the East, at the area of the Russian culture. The
characteristic of the Russian culture is that it can develop
is allotted to the Russian culture is not there at all, but
that the Russian culture has such a relationship — like
characteristic of this Central European cultural life? You all
internationally on the ground of the Central European culture
and cultural life, says in one of his nice sayings
internally in the Russian cultural life, if it is not taken
says, as a “miracle.” The Russian cultural life is very
in Central Europe. If once the East-European culture develops
because that culture will be founded which floats above the
work thus, as if the culture of Eastern Europe should begin now
decadent culture that must be replaced by East Europe. —
who stood up for the emancipation of the Russian culture in
Latin cultural achievements from the South. Because development
There a very rich German cultural life came about, a most
European spiritual culture. And the East European culture has
culture, was taken up. Now, however, it is not different when
that which the Central European cultural life involves, also
is there in the Central European cultural life and which is as
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Title: Lecture Series: The Subconscious Forces
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Russian culture. Russian culture is characterised by the fact
however, it is clear that what pertains to Russian culture does
not exist as yet, for Russian culture is connected with tin
completely international way in Central European culture, in
only be found in Central Europe. If the culture of Eastern
Europeans, the whole lot of you, have a culture which is rotten
if to-day the terrible, difficult, fateful events among the
spiritual. People found it difficult to understand. In the
present difficult and fateful events. It is a warning to work,
full of venom against the spiritual culture of Central Europe;
what the difficult, fateful present reveals to human souls.

Title: Mystery of Death: Lecture IX: The Relation of the Human Being to the Realms of Nature and the Hierarchies
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something today in our present spiritual culture that goes
in the British culture. Like the individual human being

Title: Mystery of Death: Lecture X: Central Europe between East and West
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prevails in the culture. Although the Russian element has a
threat exists that the Russian culture is entangled by Lucifer.
However, it also poses the difficult and big task for us in
Central European culture has to show the way to spirituality
difficult even for the external world. He tells: I passed a
it is already so difficult for a person who does not often see
then one will get an inkling how difficult it is to get
wants to lead the Central European culture to Ahriman. One has
Europe that from South Europe the Arabian, Moorish culture
prepared in the Central European culture especially expressing
Central European culture. It must be our symbol. That is why we
can feel, cultivating our spiritual-scientific views, as if we
compared with the intellectual culture of the present. This
intellectual culture, which is deeply infiltrated by Lucifer in
this old world view. They were deeply despised who cultivated a
who cultivated the new teaching, separated from the world view
cultivate the so-called justified world view today. But in such
culture, the ancient world view disappeared in a certain way.
However, what is cultivated in our catacombs — they are
arrive triumphally at the culture of the next epoch. We may

Title: Lecture: Christ In Relation To Lucifer and Ahriman
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cultivation of Paul's declaration, “Not I, but Christ in me.”
for occult knowledge it is evident that the earth is not only what geologists
December to the 6th of January. From her biography it seems difficult
sentient world and we must read the occult signs that present this
cleanse Western culture of the luciferic remnants and in part we must
Looking to the West and especially to American culture, a different
American culture is to explain everything from external appearance.
how the culture of the West is seized by the ahrimanic principle, and
a Romance culture about their nationality affects the ether body by
can understand this contradiction only through occult observation. On
the Turkish element, yet occult vision, perceiving this struggle from
occult perception who is working artistically on the building in
difficult to understand. When
is to be cultivated. Recently, a good and faithful colleague aged
remarks about Central European culture that one could imagine. The
science. Our spiritual science must cultivate souls on this earth who
‘Occult Science’”

Title: Mystery of Death: Lecture XI: Christ's Relationship to Lucifer and Ahriman
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read this occult writing which shows us the forces working from
But we have partly to purify that all in the western culture
the Russian culture, the orthodox Christianity spread out which
understand this gainsay if one does the following occult
following presents to the occult observation. If one observes
movement which should be cultivated in our spiritual-scientific
European culture. He ranted and sneered terribly about this
Central European culture. The editor printed these letters as
an example of how brainlessly one can think about this culture.

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body. It may perhaps be difficult to understand this, but the etheric
is far more difficult to perceive the true relationship of cause and
culture, knowledge and forces of the will and of feeling, is all
spiritual science — consider the difficulties connected with
the spiritual world, but it is difficult to discover them directly in
earth, for it would be too difficult to use them. Another reason why
is such a significant Being and it is so difficult to understand
by the art which we cultivate here. Even in the sphere of art,

Title: Mystery of Death: Lecture XII: Spiritual Science as an Attitude
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Cause and effect are distinguished more difficultly if one
arbitrariness if we cultivate spiritual science today, but that
science, but take into account which difficulties are there
them directly in the spiritual world, it is difficult. One must
too difficult to use them. That is why they could not be used,
difficult that this can only be reached in the course of time.
overcome by the art we cultivate here. Something novel, also in

Title: Lecture: Preparing for the Sixth Epoch.
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and cultivate in them the spiritual treasure to which we dedicate our
spiritual progress of humanity, might ask if we could not cultivate
human beings who want to cultivate the more intimate side of spiritual
say to ourselves that by the cultivation of spiritual science we
the culture of the ancient Indian period of civilization. This was
the Egypto-Chaldean-Babylonian period of culture, then the
has, on the one side, to cultivate a particular form of culture and of
culture.
Persia was prepared; within the ancient Persian culture, that of the
post-Atlantean epoch must prepare the coming sixth epoch of culture.
of the sixth epoch of culture. Thus it has been in each of the
which the form of external life belonging to the next epoch of culture
whom other things were cultivated than those cultivated in the outer
world. The ancient Indian epoch was concerned with the cultivation of
the human etheric body, the ancient Persian epoch with the cultivation
culture in the sixth epoch its content and character, must be prepared
in advance. Many characteristics of the sixth epoch of culture will be
in our hearts for the sixth epoch of culture and that it is our task
culture in the sixth epoch, will be a certain moral quality. Little of
the most highly cultured will not only feel pain such as is caused
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while we cultivate spiritual science, we transport our souls in
was carried by that cultural community we call the Ancient
Indian culture-epoch. This culture-epoch was continued by that
culture-epoch. Then the Egypt-Chaldean-Babylonian
culture-epoch, the Greek-Latin epoch followed, then our fifth
post-Atlantean culture-epoch. Any such culture-epoch has to
care for that in culture and in spiritual life in particular
world. But at the same time every such culture-epoch must
there in the next culture-epoch.
first post-Atlantean culture-epoch, the Ancient Indian one, had
post-Atlantean culture-epoch must prepare the sixth
culture-epoch of the next age. I emphasised repeatedly that it
sixth culture-epoch should have as its contents for its
post-Atlantean culture-epochs that way. The sites where that
culture-epoch were the mystery sites. These were unions of
human beings where different matters were cultivated than the
post-Atlantean culture-epoch, the Ancient Indian culture-epoch,
cultivated the human etheric body, the Ancient Persian one the
culture-epoch cultivates and develops the consciousness-soul up
the contents, the character of the external culture in the
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Title: Mystery of Death: Lecture XIV: Post-mortal Experiences of the Human Being
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with him, one starts reading his writing. The external culture
external world. We speak rightly of an occult reading, because
physical world is an ahrimanic reflection of this occult
Lucifer and Ahriman must be in the external culture. It is only
we declaim something about the ahrimanic culture, about the
progress and the splendour of the ahrimanic culture, for
responsibility to the occult duties.
in the cultural currents. The human beings must learn to look
just to deeper meditate about the tasks of the cultural

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notice on it is more difficult than entering it. Some people
those who want to be at the head of the scientific or cultural
science. Above all, however, it is difficult to manage with the
Occult Science in Outline.
vivid life which we want to insert to the cultural development
Sometimes it appears so symptomatically which difficulties and
Occult Science in Outline
Occult Science.
It would not have been so especially difficult to
the author said, for example: Steiner calls that occult science
which he wrote there in his book. But there cannot be an occult
is not secret, but is public. — So, an occult science is
secret science, of course, but there is an occult science. It
unfortunately not with “occult science,” because

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characteristics of the Saturn evolution among the hidden occult
Outline of Occult Science
pursued today by the so-called cultural-scientist of a materialistic
Occult Science
the forming of world concepts. It is difficult to give clear

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example, how difficult self-knowledge is even in the most
difficult. Nevertheless, personal and individual
called the five senses — in the occult sense. For in
not at all difficult nowadays to write a book. Books almost
intellect but with their faculty of feeling — wrangling
and intellectual culture of our time. He who can understand
that will dominate the spiritual culture of the future.

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often exceedingly difficult to work out the concepts and
difficult to picture that consciousness exists beyond
however, both these faculties are strongly influenced from
our faculty to form mental pictures, it is also true that
certain small, but excellent piece of writing. An occultist
cannot avoid touching the occult sides of life, he cannot
of art and of occultism really occurs only at the end of a
accordance with true occult laws.
enter into the culture of the Earth and become more fully
occult truths in the form of stories or poems ... in the age

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by clairvoyance is difficult for us, because in physical
altogether different. The difficulty is that words coined
difficult days of the war are over, our esoteric life at
difficult to describe these things. They are not the same
whole present age, European culture that has grown old and
the still young American culture, are described in a great
love. The representatives of these two kinds of culture are
untouched culture of America, and, on the other, with the
atavistic European culture that is simply subsisting on
“An outline of Occult Science.” This lives on

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For it is difficult to find words from the treasures of our
spiritual reality becomes very difficult when at every
found it extraordinarily difficult to get up, that the
decision to lift themselves up was very difficult. I have
not exist for the faculties of earth, so already by the
ordinary earthly faculties in the physical body behold the
awakening to the degree corresponding to the faculties
weaker. One makes the will weakest of all if one cultivates
made in our present epoch of culture.
lost faculty) — one sees this death-spectrum through
Spiritual Science, through which the necessary faculty for
evolution where artistic faculties must ripen through the
into the most utter confusion. It is difficult to imagine
then grow into the faculty of vision, so do we grow, after
different places. Maya is difficult to pierce in cases like
have to cultivate; they become those to whom we look
that can be fulfilled only slowly and with difficulty
that Dr. Steiner hawks about his occult researches into
spoken ... he hawks about his occult powers in connection
should include in my occult investigations and exclude from

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occult bases of his own destiny, of his personal worth and
spiritual world, will have extreme difficulty in getting
head, and are then really in a world which we have difficulty
spiritual science has not penetrated the culture of our time,

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culture. When we instigate cultural work we also destroy
a new birth. We acquire the faculty of consciousness between
cultured of those attending our lectures, those who write for
merely call upon man's faculty for forming concepts and
intestines”. In its culture and ethics modern spiritual
that it is a new element in modern culture. Any

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culture. Above all, it is a question of living with conditions which are in
take hold of the life of culture.
concern themselves with something which is not, so to speak, the culture of

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thought, and that, for the mind cultured through Spiritual Science, the
active development. Hence, we find that the first three cultural
deciding point came with the fourth post-Atlantean cultural period in
the progress of man, and in our fifth post-Atlantean cultural point we
faculties, because our psychic-Spiritual is reflected on our physical
subject, we know why we cultivate Spiritual Science. We then know that
culture has brought us. This Ahrimanic culture can do nothing but pass
over into the future new evolution, anything of this old culture!
they may appear to be. The culture of Spiritual Science demands deep
It is difficult to
implant the germ of Spiritual Science into all our cultural impulses,
carry this in us, — this earth culture. It is therefore not
culture.
that all the Spiritual culture that men can attain here will form the

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becomes still more difficult. Other things will emerge that bring new
perfected culture of wisdom and knowledge, but that the depths of the
point life was grasped — the ego-culture appeared
effects of Latin culture, European humanity would in a sense have
Latin culture; then the whole population would have dried
of the old Romans, and the Latin culture had gone on working in them,
blood absorbed the withering Latin culture. If the population had
call: Configuration and Speech, and in particular the faculty to see
last relics of the drying-up Latin cultural knowledge. Charlemagne
It lives on as life within the Latin culture. That is the true state

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special occult training, a man can be clear that during sleep he was
fact to be known from many occult perceptions. This is the fact that

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My dear friends, it is really difficult in our time
difficulty of being understood among the individuals whom we
cultural streams, the various world-conceptions and feelings which
in the first place a great difficulty which has sprung from the
Therefore it has been very difficult for
This then is the difficulty, as well in
Occult Science
When you call to mind the Moon evolution as described in my Occult
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from the Mystery of Golgotha. It is very difficult today to make

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even if difficult. So what does Lucifer want? What do these Luciferic
although it may be difficult to attain; for all that is contained in
intensely difficult to gain a living grasp of the cosmos in place of
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the passages there) that it is difficult to form a picture of the
true occultist as we know has no other desire than to make valid that
it was a great question among occultists as to whether they should
watch when it is a matter of fostering and cultivating this sublime

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to become manifest. Certainly, this is difficult. For truly,
is also difficult for the human being, when he detaches himself as
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board.) It is difficult nowadays for a man to picture it because he
wants to give the red a boundary. It was not difficult like this for

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faculties of perception.
special reference has always been made by all occult schools to this
human head occultly, one must not draw it so, but in the negative,

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earthly culture and the spiritual worlds.
more difficult than others we might choose. But there is inner moral
an introduction that, though it has its difficulties, will nevertheless
my point of departure and describe the difficulties inherent in the
we might suppose, for it demonstrates how extraordinarily difficult
difficulty of achieving truth. For we know that the life of the human
ordaining that the quest for truth is so difficult. And we will find
truth can be discovered only with such difficulty cannot touch us if
Why, to call attention to how difficult it is to get at truth by stringing
imbue ourselves with a sense of the difficulty of the quest for truth,

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earthly culture and the spiritual worlds.
and who regard the so-called nudity cult as extremely wholesome; materialism
of contemporary culture, a thing to be undertaken only exoterically

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earthly culture and the spiritual worlds.
words, it happens to be a fact that universities set up history faculties.
If a regular faculty were provided to teach the art of riding, asserts
stressed too how the various cultures succeeded one another in the post-Atlantean
epoch and how the various facts occurring during these cultural periods

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earthly culture and the spiritual worlds.
point to some sources of the difficulty. The mere appearance of

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earthly culture and the spiritual worlds.
of activities going on in it. It would be good to cultivate the right

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earthly culture and the spiritual worlds.
up to what is claimed to be valuable “occult knowledge”
such as we hear some people touting. Those who desire to have occult
Now it is extraordinarily difficult to get
It is of course difficult to give an impression

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earthly culture and the spiritual worlds.
that achieving this goal is difficult is also the reason why it strengthens

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earthly culture and the spiritual worlds.
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of our movement is rendered difficult in several ways by the carelessness
But the way some things are handled by members causes difficulties.

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physical body but remains stationary. It is a Mystery difficult to
difficult to understand because we cannot grasp the fact that
difficult for humanity? It all originates in what we become in the
a difficult part in the great events of the times.

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difficult mystery to grasp, that the “I” stays at the
remains behind, the “I” stays there. This is difficult
life of humanity so difficult today? Where is the origin of

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or the soul of cultivated feeling. You know that it developed
uncultivated human being, is but little affected by the great
truth is cultivated, the more rapidly shall Anthroposophy and

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faculties. This was what they knew about the Christ.
greatest possible difficulty in understanding this fact; the capacity
very difficulties we spoke of appeared. On the one hand, we have
who walks on the earth. This was why they found it so difficult to
What was a theoretical difficulty in the case of Origenes — the
to many difficulties. People are at a loss when they try to find the
difficult indeed to apply to them the name theologians. The word
finest attainable comprehension if we cultivate spiritual science to
spiritual science?” We should cultivate inwardly everything
seems to me a good idea to cultivate among us and to experience the
worldview finds it difficult even to rediscover the right
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to be found where the life of spiritual culture exists in its finest

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share the belief in them has had in the decline of our culture, it is quite

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naturally difficult for us to be aware at the outset that this
bodies have a powerful faculty to reproduce the harmonies of the
being with powerfully developed faculties, those we often say are
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others. It is very difficult to say anything at this time about the

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evolution, history, and culture, showing how and where human beings
days to speak about important but rather difficult aspects of
one of the most difficult of questions, the kind of question in

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evolution, history, and culture, showing how and where human beings
drawing your attention to the full significance and difficulty
example demonstrating this difficulty in regard to world
thinking precisely in life's most difficult problems, why we
certain way if we want to solve the difficult question we have
This, of course, is difficult. Yet we are constantly
Through Goethe's Faust, German cultural life in a sense
conquered the cultural life of other nations too. Even in
that it is difficult to form a true, permanent judgment
to point out how extremely difficult it is to form a judgment
must now ask why that causes us such difficulty. We shall begin
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evolution, history, and culture, showing how and where human beings
look at all the difficulties. For instance, we must
difficult to grasp and even more difficult to reconcile.
fairly and squarely at the difficulties these problems
lectures on all the possible difficulties.
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most difficult of human problems, the problem of freedom and
difficulties. And those who believe they can solve this problem
before they have dealt with all the difficulties in fact

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evolution, history, and culture, showing how and where human beings
of the way this encounter came about between a culturally
culture has produced. Could things have happened the way they
Here indeed is a new difficulty, one that can be the starting
difficulty. You know, the great Spinoza said that when we look
difficult to distinguish one from the other. Where one thing
impulses can come in. In the cultural period in which
is actually very difficult to have an immediate
so extraordinarily difficult to grasp: that with the angels'

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evolution, history, and culture, showing how and where human beings
without a model is due to their having totally lost the faculty
extremely difficult to avoid, and I will point out just one of

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had to pass through many difficulties in order to attain what
wants to familiarize himself with the culture of the West;
whereas Dimitri knows very little of the culture of the West
about how the modern spiritual culture can enter into the
culture you have a certain spirituality which is a further
West European culture flow into his soul. Because of his
absorbed by our modern culture; he reflected it. Now, these

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of Will. Just as the human being cultivates the earth and
realize that in this it is, I might say, very difficult to
say that this is difficult to imagine, and you could also ask
culture of Germany. How many people who had a materialistic

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culture which proceeded out of the 4th post-Atlantean period,
the Greco-Latin cultural period. What lived in this
Greco-Latin cultural period is continued in Central and
thinking logically. This is the faculty which the Western
working in of occult science proceeds which always was
Through its whole evolution of its spiritual culture, Middle
incisive occult working has always come out of the British
British colored occultism. This British colored occultism is
comprehensive working occult schools actually stand behind
this external side and they have taken up the ancient occult
traditions and the ancient occult stream into themselves in a
down from the more ancient occult schools. Actually we are
Ireland but over Scotland) such occult societies spread out
occult knowledge in the ancient times, which however they
that the 4th post-Atlantean cultural epoch which was
Saxons who had the occult sagas of Hengis and Horsa when they
spiritual life but also to the occult British life. Naturally
occult British spiritual life .
that this spiritual life was a continuation of the occult
significance. There in the British occult life they knew the
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like to pass over to the occult side of the lecture which I
certain occult streams are significant for human life, these
occult streams which bring themselves to expression in
certain occult brotherhoods. You will have seen from the more
British lands, such occult brotherhoods are used in order to
designated by the name occult brotherhoods is a very
kind of cult and certain symbols are given over to them and
with certain occult brotherhoods, and they tend to dismiss
which form the foundation for certain occult brotherhoods
what results from this You find that the occult brotherhoods
However, as a general rule, this is not done in these occult
other occultism and sign, grip and word and many other things
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damage has occurred in France through the occult literature
things we have to know. We have to know that every occult
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been occult brotherhoods, and they work particularly out of
occult brotherhoods towards Russia from Western Europe.
is that which the occult brotherhoods accomplished through
occult science things are not read in the decimal system, but
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The occult
cultural epoch and we can also go back still farther to the
cannot acquire. Now, it is very difficult for present day man
in these occult brotherhoods, even if it is in caricature,
these occult communities in the second grade and is made
those who are in the third grade of such occult brotherhoods,

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already spoken of how the cultural development of mankind, in
the Catholic cult there is also a symbolic presentation
occurs there in the cult, particularly in the Catholic cult,
it is just the same as that which occurs in occult
point in a certain connection in these occult brotherhoods.
the symbol and call up those faculties out of their soul
of the human being either in the occult picture as in the
Catholic cult or more in thoughts as happens in other
bring that understanding which is necessary if a culture your
wonder when those particular cultural streams in the
always been with the deep religious cultural impulses.
example, did something like the cult of Easter enter into the
evolutionary history of mankind? Why was this Easter Cult
cultural situation of the human being have so deteriorated
sense when you say that through cultural decadence man sinks
type of science, the present type of culture continues as it
would get the illness of culture. We cannot sufficiently
difficult time of trial something would happen which would be
period of cultural development. We grasp the thoughts which
shall we also be able to perform the cult activity within our
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that which can be called the Easter Cult. Today I will begin
were instructed by the Gods. However, in the cult, something
unconscious depths. It is most difficult to grasp this in
difficult tasks than the hard tasks of the present, tasks of

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him out of it. He had difficulty in getting a divorce from
formulations which are present in the occult brotherhoods
disappearance of the ancient occult capacities; how for the
occult capacities were accessible through spiritual
very easily realize that these occult brotherhoods also draw
customs of the occult brotherhoods. These customs which are
projected from an occult wisdom, from an ancient observation
that that which lives in many occult brotherhoods are
not involve Christianity. These occult brotherhoods place
certain religious confessions have in reference to occultism.
Naturally they do not understand the real occultism; they do
that shallow occultism which says the following: Christ is
occultism. It is for this reason that here in our movement we
permitted to forget that which can be occultly experienced
occult experience of the spiritual world even though he
different through the working of his occult experiences. The
working of these occult experiences caused Thomas More to
occult brotherhoods. Here we have Thomas More; he wrote his
those judges who at the same time belonged to occult
continues to work into external human culture. Therefore,
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CULT AND SYMBOL.THE JESUIT STATE IN PARAGUAY
again, with certain cultic activities as they are customary
in such occult brotherhoods, how is it possible with all that
instead of the experimenting as is done today, you give cults
with the cults, with symbolic mythical presentations, one is
the ancient symbolism, the sacramentalism, the cult
symbols, sacramentalism, cults, that works deeper into man,
and cults from their environment, that works into the ether
is usually the situation in these occult brotherhoods of
another type of occult brotherhood which follow the same
such occult brotherhoods. Jesuitism absolutely rests upon
occultism. I once told you about that in a lecture cycle in
cult, instead of being affected in his ether body, these
music in order that one could produce a certain type of cult
of the cult. They had musical stimulations in the smallest
suggestive stimulations. The cult occurred. The time was
church bells. The cult permeated all activities; even the
work done in the fields was accompanied by cult activities
Everything was permeated by the cult activity. Therefore we
consequence of the symbolism, the sacramentalism, the cult
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bring up and it is the fear of these difficult concepts and
much more than to clarify them. This difficulty of
way, people have difficulty in trying to understand that
example, that in Occult Science and other books, we talk
mineral kingdom. Just read in my Occult Science how this Moon

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Angel of Death had some difficulty here, because it was

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very difficult in our time for human beings to understand and
very difficult for people to grasp the ideas in this book,
great culture bringer of our age who is solving the great

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may He be with you and your difficult duties.
becomes especially difficult for him to penetrate into the spiritual
something which may appear difficult to you. But we must also
overcome difficulties such as these. Moreover, the possibility may
way” is difficult.
every position of it, as it were. It is difficult to make this
and conceptions. You know how difficult it is to convince a
especially just at the present difficult time — to see a

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epochs of culture, and so on? Those who feel that a realistic
culture epoch, during which the most important peoples were the
culture and work and that cultivation of the consciousness soul is
our present task. What does the cultivation of the consciousness soul
the various peoples of this period of culture should work together.
mankind had reached, the faculties of intellect and of feeling were
cultivate it as we must do at present, and as will be increasingly
secluded from the rest of mankind. Hence the difficulty of getting to
will become increasingly difficult to bring ourselves into a right
difficult for children to understand their parents, parents their
will become more and more difficult, because of the increasing need
Now this negative prospect of ever increasing difficulty
absolutely necessary condition. If the difficulty of coming to mutual
And cultivation of individuality — which belongs to the
difficulty we find in understanding each other. I need only say —
of their species, they have this inborn faculty; it is inherent in
soul this self-culture of the individual is one of the most important
the soul, but also a practical knowledge of life, will be cultivated,
to the difficulty of understanding one another. It is what must come
it were, to the proof, and difficulties spring up everywhere. These
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through faculties enabling us to have an insight into these things.
development of certain faculties to which we must draw attention and
and we shall then proceed by explaining that these faculties enable
spiritual faculties which enable the spiritual investigator to have
and faculties — this applies particularly to the soul —
difficulties. In the spiritual sphere, too, our strength increases
spiritual ideas we take up before death change into faculties after
only in regard to culture, but also in regard to the densest aspect

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occultly trained cognition that they rise into consciousness.
the occult connections in the world knows that when two human beings
occultly-trained person cannot consciously come near to one who is
occultly-trained, clairvoyant person were about to approach a dead
another it is made difficult for them and they can only do it with
the occult reasons why, let us say, the people of this year are doing
sincerity on the true ground of occultism — no one who is
is necessary for everyone who stands on the true ground of occultism

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In general it is not even difficult for him to do this. True, it is
more difficult for the man of today than for the man of primeval
let occultism show its art!’ Well, it will do so the moment its
faculty, already in the physical world, always to see how the
difficulties through our own conduct — which difficulties find
physical world, although the faculties which are only to be acquired
the faculties we possess here in the physical world? The mineral
it is always difficult to describe these things correctly, and one

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difficult times so that humanity as a whole can meet better days in
how difficult it is for people to find what is right in this area of
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in spite of culture, schools, and other educational facilities,
But genuine culture should teach us above
very characteristic of the difficulties people have nowadays in finding
not difficult for me to speak about Bahr because I have known him since
with enthusiasm for Spanish culture, so much so that he wrote an article
Austria, its various regions and cultural history and so on.
excuse for him — I mean, that is, I like him as a cultural phenomenon.
his way through the difficulties of the present time and then takes
it proves what I have so often said: it is terribly difficult for people
We have to keep in mind, I think, how difficult
us that the trend-setting, so-called cultural world nowadays lives in
difficult it is nowadays for people to find their way to spiritual science.
fiftieth year. So we have to admit that it is difficult for spiritual

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In our age people have difficulties finding
phenomena virtually dominate our cultural life, as in the case of the
lectures of the past winters in these difficult times and have now collected
prove too difficult for people, even though it was written as simply
difficult times, but I have substantiated everything with details and
our cultural life comes from the belief that anything thought out logically
and in no way outstanding — this man judged the cultural value
culture step by step into technologization, that is, into homunculism.

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not trying to integrate spiritual science into contemporary culture
occult substance that flows through our whole evolution has found its
outer expression or manifestation in all kinds of more or less occult
an age when the occult knowledge from the spiritual world must be given
of our other senses in our memory and how difficult it is to remember
difficult it is to remember, for example, the feel of a piece of fabric
touch, and you will find it very difficult to remember the perceptions
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side to the day side. Occult and symbolic societies have always tried
And that is what people find so difficult
this rare and most difficult realization that human beings cannot
occult experience, namely the perception that the soul of Franz Ferdinand,
again, the part has become much more difficult for me. To myself

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has lost this faculty of inner experiencing. But we have to know and
Europeans do, for we have advanced to the fifth post-Atlantean cultural
bring spiritual science into things. However, in our culture today we
difficult to attain a spiritual scientific outlook; rather it is simply
not speaking about you, my dear friends, but our outer culture resists
spiritual science. The main reason for this resistance is that our culture
conscience. Here we come upon an actual sickness in the culture of our
should be taken. We can introduce spiritual science into modern culture
people seek in the current stage of our cultural development. It will

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become a necessary part of human cultural development in the present
hope or desire. But our culture does not like this; on the contrary,
our contemporary culture, unknowingly and without wanting to, loves
can least experience. That is why spiritual science is so difficult
same on the cultural and spiritual level as stimulating the life process
cultural and spiritual realm, to use words to get to any truths about
visible in our so-called cultural life. Much, very much appears in our
occultist is cautious in these matters because here only a very fine

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spiritual science has to enter the culture of our times and bring something
professor of physics and mathematics at the Vienna Agricultural College,
That is what makes it so difficult to represent
to put it mildly. In other words, there are excesses that make it difficult
science and also because it has the task to intervene in our cultural
life and revitalize many areas where our culture has reached a dead
end. Spiritual science is to heal what is sick in our cultural and spiritual
of the dishonesty of our general culture. Lehmann would not have sold
lives the whole culture of Central and Western Europe — in his
the whole of European culture up to the end of the nineteenth century
led him to question whether he had been in full possession of his faculties
your attention to many occult movements active in different societies.

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hold of by something of a special nature. This is what is so difficult
to understand for our materialist culture. Yet, this must be understood
again as it was in earlier cultural epochs when a spiritual world view
“occult reading of the world,” and rightly so. What conventional
terms. When we look at more primitive cultures, we see that people then
their reality in them. Even in Asian cultures, which are somewhat atavistic
reality; it expresses reality. It would be very difficult to present
in pictures only, we would be going against modern European culture,
because I had said in a lecture one should cultivate self-knowledge
of our modern culture.
life, we have an advantage over other cultures, for example, over the
Asian or oriental ones. What those cultures know about the spiritual
is to flow in a living way into our culture, it has to take hold of
And then spiritual science will create what our culture, which is developing
of the Christ Mystery over the Asian cultures. But what do Asians say
are on a higher stage of cultural development. However, you also say,
an individual may understand it, but you will not influence our culture
weighs so heavily upon one's soul is just this awful difficulty of integrating
you, and particularly if you really know our rationalist culture, you
in all branches of culture. It must influence thinking, feeling, and
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great significance for our spiritual movement. In these difficult
self-knowledge difficult, for it is rooted in the soul in such a way
Nothing and has nothing to contribute to cultural progress. If there
can participate in the cultural progress of humanity and who lives on
unknown, occult way, you have been summoned into existence by the
influences. The various cultural streams of the end of the nineties of
bodies in order to use the spiritual faculties and powers they contain
in which life will become more and more difficult, in which men will
self-knowledge is becoming more and more difficult. The upward thrust

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The cultivation of an understanding and a rationality divorced of
basis of an occult division according to certain numbers.
flesh. In other words, the ancient Hebraic culture lived in a
numerical relationships, as in its occult connections, it presents us

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awareness of time that was typical of the ancient Hebrew culture we
what is to follow. As it is these days, it is difficult to make

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thinking about the location of the faculty in a very materialistic
particularly difficult to understand, for people of today like to
second. The occult basis of all aesthetic and artistic enjoyment is
the occult in assigning names to things, there are good reasons for

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is more difficult to conceive and is rarely touched on by the habitual

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development of earthly culture for the age when a person will have to
and, inwardly, very little is added to development. The Greek culture
culture. They knew of little else beyond what lay in the direction of
results. For in our hearts we should cultivate a fundamental mood when

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the universe must necessarily seem difficult and complicated. People
is the task of anthroposophical thought to prepare earthly culture and
incarnation? At the outset it is difficult to conceive of the body being
you by means of a picture. Suppose a botanist or an horticulturist wished
of antiquity, when man's knowledge was acquired through faculties of

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difficult to imagine what the senses were like during ancient Saturn
development. It is already difficult enough to picture the senses as
of how man, as bearer of the senses and faculties of perception, is

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difficult for us to imagine what it is like to hear things backwards.
We run into difficulties trying to imagine a melody backwards. For
be perceived through the faculty of Imagination. There is a whole
limits of the human senses and perceptible only through the faculty of
Such a consciousness is appropriate when it has been cultivated and
consequence of this? Those people who do not want to see human culture
to the fact that thinking backwards is especially difficult to imagine
if it is difficult with the hare, how much more difficult will it be
written in a philosophical language that is difficult to understand,
grotesque because it is difficult to grasp the implications of the

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In this way three new soul faculties arise. In character they resemble
— but are not identical with — the earthly faculties of
faculties. The new faculties differ from thinking, feeling and willing
everything in the human being is adapted to the earth and, for occult
does not just apply to occultism; it already applies when you come to

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these things would cause some difficulties if they were set forth
for occult vision not everything in man is in accord with his
to occultism but to Art. To comprehend the world in accordance with
are living at a stage of evolution when the faculty for grasping even
materialistic thinking can work to the benefit of the human faculties
needs to be cultivated. If there is no feeling of responsibility

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that is objective. Just observe what difficulties the adherents of
reality or other — is right or wrong. They have difficulty in
has had to think something out because he has had difficulty in
if it were wholly isolated. But along with the extensive cultivation
establish within it the things necessary for exercising the faculty
cultural ferment that will again enliven today's deathly, exhausted
in one culture and personalities in another. Only by observing these

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This faculty of memory can only be developed under the influence of
beings of the Moon, we did not have a faculty comparable to our

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the soul must make two attributes or faculties its own.
our faculties in earthly existence! And think how different our life
tasks of earthly life is to unfold the faculty of memory. During our
possessed a different faculty — a faculty which was able to
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by heart. There is a difference between acquiring the natural faculty
faculty of memory.
assistance of the naturally unfolding faculty of memory? It is a case
see, the memory we now cultivate artificially but which in Greek
however, to cultivate the position of balance and not to believe that
spiritual world, so too, other spiritual faculties we may gain are in

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Consider what our present-day, materialistic culture of the fifth

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faculty of thinking is not bestowed upon us for the purpose of
attempt to use their faculty of thinking as an instrument for
there remains the faculty of imitation in early childhood. But

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to reality. How occultism wanders into false paths.
difficult to believe that the situation might at some time be quite
engage in occultism, quasi-occultism, occult fraud, and all that is
among the members of a society which claimed to be occult. Such groups
short while ago. Now, after just a short conversation with this occult
occultism, provided that this form of initiation has not awakened in
him the impulse to replace that occultism with the rightful kind. He
For the reasons I have described, malicious occult circles cultivate
an alliance with Ahriman. They also cultivate an alliance with Lucifer
There they accomplish the same things that the malevolent occult
sides by a distinctive attitude — it is difficult to find the

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Opposition to Reality. How Occultism Wanders into False Paths.
is not difficult to conceive that the marvellous structure of the
Occultism.
circles where occultism, pseudo-occultism, occult charlatanism and
the like, are cultivated. These strange things happen again and
itself an ‘Occult Society,’ numbers among its adherents,
certain celebrities. In these so-called ‘Occult
occultism and as a result of the initiation he has received has no
inclination to place himself in the ranks of true occultism, then he
many circles which like to consider themselves ‘Occult.’
is out to cultivate such ideas as will generate in man the highest
by that, cultivation of the most enhanced consciousness, of the
occult circles, for reasons already indicated, so too, attempts are
achieved in these corrupt occult circles, namely, a pact with Ahriman
ideas and the corresponding objective realities. This faculty, as we
acquire the faculty for the perception of truth in this physical
faculty which we then carry with us into the spiritual

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difficult to find a description of the organ for the sense of warmth

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complicated and difficult to follow. But we can nevertheless come to

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that there may be some difficulties in understanding me. Regardless of
many remains of Greek culture. We know, on the one side something of
culture. As this culture continued to progress, becoming almost
thinking of the peoples of European civilization and culture, and of
of law, military and political culture. Were they to speak from
understand them because they play so large a part in our cultural life
for the education and culture of our young. Then we see how, while all
Christianity and also brought semi-occult communications into it,
culture. After Justinian had laid down the code of Roman legal and
external institutions. Occultists with insight have always had a
the whole of Greek culture. They used well-educated Greeks, who indeed
was the way to acquire a conquered culture.
and law. There followed something like a renewal of Greek culture from
culture the Greek way of thought and life. During the Renaissance,

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transformed into a papacy, the mechanizing of culture could have been
culture and art. You see how Ahriman and Lucifer work together.
humanity in the fourth post-Atlantean age is revealed in the culture
the faculty to see the world of external nature without the
unfoldment of these two faculties will lead to a right development of
Gradually, the consciousness soul and its culture will achieve this
There will certainly be onesidedness in this cultural epoch. That goes
the old Atlantean culture spreading out from it as a preparation for
powerful than the forces established in Greek culture — were all
West that would make its culture visionary. Then it would have become
culture. It would cut it off from the conditions of its further
difficult to say how the ahrimanic spirit worked. This is because the
East of Europe, however, in all the culture of the East, we find an
Weeping, and restraining myself with difficulty from crying out, I
“Weeping and restraining myself with difficult from crying
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It is extraordinarily difficult to speak of the conditions that were
determined by the whole development of our modern culture. This
further reason that causes certain difficulties in treating conditions
The particular faculties of which we have spoken, namely, the
the two faculties mentioned above under this protection. Foundations
faculties that we need in the fifth post-Atlantean epoch are being
post-Atlantean epoch. In the fourth post-Atlantean culture they were
fifth post-Atlantean culture has been saved from the first attacks.
widespread mysteries of this cult so they could receive his
himself a definite task within this culture. The old, original
her. When one makes researches with the occult powers at one's
examines the matter with occult means. This being set himself a quite
virgin, as I have said. When one investigates it occultly, one finds
more and more purely externally. The false cultivation of the idea of
the urge that, in its one-sided cultivation, would drive back each man
In the science that was described by me as “occult science”
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meets the eye to what our faculties — our mind and its power
age, which we describe as the fifth post-Atlantean cultural epoch. We
post-Atlantean cultural epoch, calling it the Greco-Latin in
nineteenth, humanity was evolving quite distinct faculties that were
woman of thirty five, just as faculties must evolve in the life of an
The special faculties that came to the fore in Copernicus, Galileo and
similarly because the faculties for doing so were simply not in
if he did not gradually evolve faculties suited to each period of
life; neither would humanity become complete in its way if faculties,
gradually emerge. That these faculties develop, that mankind gradually
Now, what is the nature of these special faculties that evolved in man
represents the faculty that belongs to those centuries. It is clear to
development of other faculties. But man must increasingly take his own
today of doing something toward adding fresh faculties to those gained
in the last three or four centuries. Why have these faculties arisen
what purpose have these faculties appeared that penetrate so little
In earlier ages man had other faculties. When we go back in historical
man to look into the spiritual world. But the faculties he then had
achieving the faculty of making free decisions and developing freedom,
back to its primitive constitution, in this way meeting the difficulty
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post-Atlantean epoch, during which the Greco-Roman culture developed
manifest in European culture of which we heard, for instance, in
human culture during the period of Atlantis. It has often been said
culture — although Atlantean culture was, of course, much more
culture of Greece and Rome. What had been direct experience in
Greco-Roman culture constituted a deep disillusionment for the
the Atlantean culture, as it had been in Atlantis, should simply
that had constituted the essential nature of Atlantean culture should
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and great in Greek and Roman culture constituted a spiritual
In Roman culture, on the other hand, Ahriman's aim was to help
bleakness, the lack of fantasy in Roman culture, the egoism in Roman
faculty of judgment different from that of man. We cannot judge from
reality. This faculty could not operate in earlier times because then
sight as being so passive a faculty as we consider it in the fifth
different faculty belonging to the fifth epoch might arise. This
faculty of the fifth epoch, which lasts from the beginning of the
culture. Again in this later epoch the aim of the luciferic and
powers. Their plan was to bring all human faculties and human forces
strongest attacks have been undertaken. Think of what gave to culture
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Ancient Cultural Impulses Spiritualized in Goethe.
Ancient Cultural Impulses Spiritualized in Goethe. The Cosmic Knowledge of the Knights Templar
faculties of mankind have evolved in the whole European cultural life
what he regarded as the right impulses of culture, knowledge, feeling and
post-Atlantean culture as the highest spiritual treasure. Such depths
the depths of old cultural impulses. Today I should like to speak a
little about such cultural impulses in connection with yesterday's
In order to describe the configuration of the cultural impulses that
culture. Gradually the Knights spread out in highly influential
vassal, Pope Clement V — it was not difficult — that the
about the culture of the East and of Russia, you will not consider it
cultural life of humanity. Not only centuries but millenniums will be
culture toward the understanding of Goethe's personality. We can, of
civilization has so withdrawn that an un-Christian culture has

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influences coming from the southwest began to decline, cultural
English spiritual culture became ever stronger, first in the West and
English civilization who are inspired by this cultural impulse;
persons also appear in France in whom these cultural impulses live.
through thousands of cultural channels unknown to external life. Locke
cannot as yet be evaluated by the self-styled “cultivated”
realize how profound was the influence of the cultural impulses coming
faculty lives that is transmitted to European thinking and feeling, so
it. This faculty creates a kind of thinking that is peculiarly fitted
dependent; it was rather to bring definite faculties into the human
rather the faculty of bringing men away from reality. Men do not at
this science was betrayed by the opponents of the Osiris-Isis cult.
connection, if all these human faculties of spirit that mediated such
sleeping culture but now the time has come for an awakening.
Spiritual faculties, which is to say, a concept of the world in the
sense of these faculties, slept deeply in the centuries indicated. On
humanity had developed the ancient spiritual faculties further, if
nature. This deepening of our inner faculties that must be striven for
with her soul. What happened through this Isis cult? What occurred was
an Isis nor an Osiris cult will appear. Something else will arise that
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with high spiritual truths, the general culture became more and more
orderings, to the end that they acquire the faculty of holding the balance
Occult Science
etc. — forces that have taken deep hold in the culture and civilization

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and Eastern Culture, H. P. Blavatsky
our civilisation and culture had reached a certain crisis, and
culture. And so, it was no accident but something founded in
was made to take occultism, which is a merely traditional
occultism, and to propagate that. And what has followed from
unite occultism with utilitarianism. Now in the way in which it

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existing to-day. Anyone who works with occult methods knows
the unconscious as well as the conscious faculties of man. As
in occult Brotherhoods, Freemasonry, and so on, the attempt is
rejected by the occultists in the West because she put too high
ancient knowledge through occult brotherhoods. Hence Ku
is an educated Chinaman, at the summit of Chinese culture. He

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cultural epoch, the karma of human vocation.
important phenomena of the advancing post-Atlantean cultural
to the very nature of our modern culture. It may be asked how
French culture of his time completely permeated the life of
had been created in the culture of Rome.
to those associated with the contemporary culture of Leipzig.
had immersed himself in mystic, occult writings and sought in a
contemporary culture could not give him, found in Herder a
revolutionary spirit of the first rank storming the culture of
cultural mood came to life in Goethe, now baptized in the name
occult aspects of the life of the soul and knew how to describe
the earth, belongs among the finest descriptions of occult
the aesthetic in life, and by Jung-Stilling to the occult
cultured world surrounding Goethe. People had become bound, as
From this a mood gradually arose that affected many cultured
This life still permeated a large part of the cultured world in
pantheism and does not enjoy the fruits of culture, wants to
the cult of false prophets play a part and, under the mask of
themselves capable of understanding culture, art, and poetry.
difficult because nothing was more repugnant to him when he
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talents. It is more difficult with the things he has given to
body that is in a sense filled with occult knowledge, and in
the fifth post-Atlantean culture period; it grows far beyond
able to estimate how difficult it is to find the way to a human
gradually without difficulty, one page at a time; he can do

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is undoubtedly more difficult to prove that they do not belong
be shewn without much difficulty, for no one can say that
a certain extent filled with occult knowledge; and in this
possible for him, even in youth, to cultivate in his soul the
Greeks and of Greek culture, through Aeschylus,
Sophocles, Euripides. People study this Greek life of culture.
acquainted with the whole culture of the Greeks, when he must

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we look back, for example, to the Egypto-Chaldean culture or to
other cultures of earlier times, we shall find that the measure
Students of the external history of culture who are generally
Egypto-Babylonian culture period something still lived and wove
before. But when you look back at earlier cultural periods, if
what constitutes the shell of culture. The buildings in which
church, have become the sheath and shell of culture; the days

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culture — even a few centuries ago — you will find
of culture (and will inevitably become so more and more). There

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that is connected with it, you will have seen how difficult it
unconscious faculties of soul — and failings of soul
out of our experiences and trials and faculties acquired during
together. Therefore it is so difficult if we desire to speak

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is difficult to explain these things because they bring so much
second fact is equally important. It is extremely difficult to
it difficult to speak of and decipher, not in mere empty

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side-track so as to understand the difficulties which confront
is often very difficult to discuss these matters, for language
— from the rich store of occult science, may easily
bridges. Magnificently he describes the faculties he has,
there was one difficulty. There was a very famous actress at
occult life. From this point of view alone, the story is
This symptomatic study, certain occult societies of our time
themselves occult, — notably in the West of Europe.
Within these occult societies the study of human character has
knowledge, which has been studiously cultivated — if I
when the connection is exposed between the occult endeavours of
occult communities to the events of our time, and when their
methods are unveiled. For those who worked out of such occult
it is difficult to speak about these things, especially to-day,
prejudice, but is even forbidden by the law. It is difficult
— claiming at the same time to cultivate spiritual
question of the real things of the occult world. The point is,

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order to see clearly the difficulties that hinder our
often difficult to discuss these things because language is
occult science is directed toward an entirely different
of mechanism, as a mechanistic culture, belongs absolutely and
able to point out that our culture really has two origins: the
one difficulty, however. There was a famous actress connected
penetrate the secrets of occult existence. From this point of
that some contemporary occult
still continue to call themselves “occult,” especially in
Western Europe. Within these occult societies special study has
between the occult endeavors of these modern societies and
are exposed, it will be exceedingly interesting. These occult
theosophists lacked the skills of other occult societies. It
is, of course, difficult to speak about these things,
difficult to speak of these things; indeed, in a certain sense,
in this nebulousness, also to cultivate spiritual science,
that pertain to the real occult world. What is essential is

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development of these faculties. In a subordinate sense, no
future. If only our outer worldly culture could make up its
for the Western culture is comparatively more advanced
are born out of the Western or the Eastern culture. The Russian
Herzen, has only one difficulty in becoming very rapidly a
I have told you, there are occult societies who have knowledge
occult brotherhoods exist, they have the deepest interest in
There are members of occult brotherhoods to-day, fully
occult brotherhoods they speak in no other terms than of the
they are the very same people, who in the occult societies
cultivate Spiritual Science as a traditional doctrine, and in
course there are also many very peculiar members of occult
most important year of the War. A very occult relationship of
occult association which wishes to attain a certain
so-called ‘progressive’ occultists. It was the reactionarists
those who wanted to keep all the occult secrets for
of the Western Occult Brotherhoods. Had this succeeded, only
condemn her to a kind of occult imprisonment and so
bring her into an Indian occult brotherhood whose pursuit of
occultism they considered harmless for the so-called Western
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role if only those whose mission is to cultivate learning are
culture can decide to reckon with repeated earthly lives,
culture. These two ideals, the bourgeois and the pilgrim, face
whether they are born in the Western or Eastern culture. The
called your attention to the fact that there are occult
atavistic occult teaching. As you know from previous
especially by those who belong to the occult brotherhoods I
to be. There are members of occult brotherhoods who, within
between the living and the dead. In fact, within their occult
are also all kinds of strange members of occult brotherhoods
pronouncements go back to some occult connection which calls
esotericists and the so-called progressive occultists. That is,
the word thus because they wished to keep the occult secrets to
Western occult brotherhoods. She would then have been able to
other than by imposing upon her a kind of occult imprisonment,
and by bringing her into the Indian occult brotherhood, whose
practice of occultism was considered harmless to the so-called
our circles much.” Most of the occultists who were working with
serious occultism said, “Now, how can anything much result
hand, traditional occult knowledge and, on the other, comes out
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difficulty in proving it would be impossible to carry out this
for money, since I know that it would be much more difficult
fundamental laws of the occult conception of the world knew
in the life of feeling and of general culture. The book deals
conclude, from the absence of organized cults, that religion is

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the Christ. Surely there is no difficulty in seeing that,
up to this belief is to cultivate — what is indeed

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the Christ. I think this is not difficult to see because it is
miseducated persons who have been spoiled by certain occult
seriously even by those who belong to so-called occult

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An Outline of Occult Science,
say, in various regions of the earth we find religious cults
that we may call ancestral cults. Such cults in which men look
cults are customary (cf. chart on p. 194).
ancestral cults were not based on fact, as is supposed by
nature of the most ancient ancestral cults was such that men
ancestor appeared belonged together in a single ancestral cult.
we go back to the ancestral cults, what we find is the worship
superhuman was especially cultivated. Human beings were
into the human mind, we must admit, only with great difficulty.
An Outline of Occult Science.
Occult Science
Occult Science.
the West, the Mithraic cult expanded along the Danube all the
way to France and Spain in Western Europe. The cult of Christ,
however, has been victorious over the Mithraic cult. Why?
Because the cult of Mithras had developed from extending above
symbolically practiced in the ancient cults of Christianity and
science, which he finds too difficult, but is relapsing into
go as missionaries to foreign cultures, or even to people in
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spiritual life. An abstract culture of this kind cannot enter into
material life; only a truly spiritual culture can do this, a culture
spiritual culture will have to enter ever more strongly into external
that just now it is extremely difficult to speak about the position
Even superficially we find that the level of culture we have reached
its relationship to modern culture as a whole. Inevitably I have to
mention many things belonging to today's culture which make it
could say: The great sin of our culture today lies in the fact that
values of soul quality established by past cultures perish in the
process ... At present such cultural values survive only in
are embodied in external culture? No. We can even say that in a
revolutions, not of cultural dreams which would have been fully
according to a name or a phrase and, instead, cultivating the will to
thoroughly into the difficult and complicated conditions of life
dare to accuse the historical faculty of the University of Berne of
ministers and the uncultured remarks of Paris journalists and
the English people, who are proudest of their own culture, have
rich treasures of culture, artistic sense and natural beauty from her
remarkable cultural and spiritual nature! But nothing is further from

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order to help them understand today's difficult times. So
underlying spiritual forces and powers. But it is difficult to get to
certain occult connections in order to bring something about in the
an occultist, is not entirely scrupulous, can indeed gain power over
together in spirit and in soul, in political and in cultural life. In
If certain occultists belonging to the Theosophical Society have
prove either that these people were no occultists or that they wished
but as a cultural fact — the Polish element comes forward in a
quite particular way as the most advanced and culturally secure,
firmly-rooted spiritual and cultural life that is exceptionally
characterized just now there is the spiritual and cultural life of
scientist in its deeper significance. I mean the kind of cultural
cultural development of Europe.
Masonic societies with an occult background. It was then necessary to
hidden and has only revealed its occult basis from time to time,
These occult streams which live, as I have said, through the
element. This expresses itself in the various Latin cultures and
everything was to be permeated with the Latin culture, so at the end
culture that is to arise out of the English-speaking peoples. I am

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And see his rare, most lofty and most difficult understanding, that
will be a far more difficult role for me to play. For me, I really
culture is. Then he went to Spain, where he became a burning opponent
peoples. This is of course exceedingly difficult, since peoples do
in some way with the occult streams using the secret brotherhoods
vessels through which occult streams flow. The society whose
connected with occult workings throughout the world.

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the East in European culture, and I have described to you what has
Europe. They worked to a high degree with occult means. One of these
and which actually worked with occult means in their ceremonial
something that worked with occult means and which encompassed people
is extremely difficult to hit upon the right measure in this matter.
confederation was also discussed by those western European occultists
period of western European occultism. And even though this ideal was
an occult power. To counter this love of the people it was necessary
supporters. This was difficult, since the Serbs did not love Milan
it was extremely difficult to gain agreement from leading quarters.
description many hints — in the occult sense, too —
an objective way? English culture itself has brought it about that
thinking of English culture must be regarded as the least suitable
not difficult to understand Lord Rosebery from his own standpoint.
with satisfaction as France entered into distant and difficult

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connection with European cultural life was that the German
pasture, and leaving none for cultivation. They're even
come into play and when occult impulses of this kind start
to hear of occult matters is, in a small way, no different from all
to start with, are of course occult for everybody. But much of what
takes place on the physical plane is also occult for many people. We
can only hope that much of what is occult and hidden on this plane
that so much remains occult for so many people, who nevertheless

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wanted. By taking a portion of the total occult picture of
much that is launched on the public from occult sources is not
make use of occult means.
to have affinities with Greek, and their culture is unusual in that
and perform cultic rites. Festivals are celebrated at the end and the
Such a man as this knew that occult impulses work and weave in the
in any way an occultist. But what he says does contain a certain
occult schools, particularly towards the end of the nineteenth
homogeneous cultural and religious life of a relatively high calibre.
used for such experiments for the future. Political, cultural and
part of western culture.
repeatedly spoken already. Although external culture cannot
We shall come to other aspects of spiritual and cultural life
occultism. It will be up to you to decide, when you know more about
places. The people in the background who are involved in occult

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certain — shall we say — occult knowledge is forcing its
faculty, by patient, grand, and successful steps, towards an object
was to cultivate peace in Europe. All sorts of facts have been
So when difficulties arose in the Moroccan affair between France
say more in the future. It is well known to occultists that in the
Jaurès was not an occultist, but we may be excused for being
certain people. You remember what I told you about the occult
killed? Why was it said twice in this so-called ‘Occult
Certain people in these centres, however, do not want the cultural
and culture and of the sober modesty which used to exist. In other
culture and modesty by acting in the way the Romans behaved towards
the Greeks. Obviously, Greek culture was higher; and the Romans did
German culture. On the contrary, these people will be only too
pleased if German culture continues to flourish vigorously, but they
is, they want to make a kind of cultural helotry out of what exists
The culture of Central Europe was so permeated by the French element
one which set the tone at the zenith of German culture, Lessing's
being submerged from all sides, even spiritually and culturally.
Just consider how difficult it is, for example, to grasp the
culturally, has come about as a result of the way Germany is wedged

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it was possible, through faculties that were a heritage from the days
follows about the Nertus or Hertha cult:
In the ancient cult of the Wanen it became known in
symbolised later on by the Nertus cult. The whole experience was
consciousness. This is hinted at in the description of the cult given
the cult, slaves who are at once swallowed up as forfeit by the lake,
ancient times in the true Hertha cult was advanced about four weeks, it
Mephistophelean form of the Hertha cult, the perversion into the
old Northern Mystery-cult had proclaimed to the woman about to
cult, but in unconsciousness. In the future, however, humanity will
from the heavenly heights was not the same in the ancient Nertus cult
cult flourished, are also described in the Gospel of St. Luke. I can

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Mystery of Golgotha to the ruins of European culture and spiritual

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cult-myth and then into the myth. We have to distinguish between the
cult-myth and the myth as such. The cult-myth is something that is
than in difficult concepts which require intellectual understanding,

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reached a stage in evolution at which it is very difficult for the
always advertise such feelings, we must nevertheless cultivate
spade a spade. That is why it is so difficult for them to understand
religious cultivation of something that is entirely without thought
What is the historical criticism cultivated today in historical

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So the attempt to test the cultural maturity of mankind by means
certain occult brotherhood in Paris. Through this brotherhood she
that American and European occultists joined forces in order to
inflict on Blavatsky a condition known as occult imprisonment.
honest occultists never apply, and even dishonest ones only very
For years Blavatsky existed in this occult imprisonment, until
certain Indian occultists started to take an interest in her because
keep coming up against occult streams which want to work one-sidedly.
of various machinations the Indian and the American occultists
occult lodge in Paris. If this had happened, she would not have come
— and the life of the occult lodge in Paris would have been
and many others would have had no occult backers behind them. Many a
of their consciousness, and when occultism is being used, not for the
Blavatsky was prevented by her occult imprisonment from publicizing
present time in the fact that a certain sum of occult knowledge has
On the basis of the two examples I have given you, of occult
founded on a certain degree of honesty. But it is extremely difficult
occult, spiritual impulses have been working, chiefly through human
accordingly. Much spiritual culture also travelled along these
occultists, James I, was thrown into this position.
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attention to the difficulties which exist and to the fact that it is
argument, so this is where the difficulties begin. Neither shall we
I have chosen this example for it has a very profound cultural and
England's cultivation of opium in India because the Chinese
wanted to build up their own cultivation. This is what was said.
poppy cultivation in India must gain ground; it is a matter of
protecting poppy cultivation in India; furthermore, the economists in
economy includes a good part of English culture. Just as it would be
nonsense to underestimate English culture, so is it also nonsense to
underestimate English culture or English life — English

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destiny of mankind it will be difficult to speak today, on New
world round about now, to strengthen the cultural forces of Europe,
observes the spiritual aspects of cultural history will have to look
artificially cultivated in a human body. But if these things are
It is difficult to imagine this in connection with certain
achievement of British culture’ was old Wellington
is not an occultist.
difficult for them to realize the significance even of facts which
cultivation of the sciences and arts as it is to industrial pursuits;
it has not prevented Germany from cultivating successfully the
civilized, wealthy and cultivated, a nation well aware that it can

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impulses are developed in each succeeding cultural epoch. It is
everything which could cultivate his soul in the manner required by the
upon to absorb the culture of the fifth post-Atlantean period. Now
were to absorb what his cultural impulses require him to absorb, the
cultural decadence, all the emptiness of soul, the states of
culture, which are aggressive and antagonistic towards cultural
impulses. Either the individual accepts the culture of his age, and
culture. But if the poison is allowed to become deposited, it leads to
the development of instincts which are opposed to the culture of the
with the present cultural age. Indeed, the very best evolutionary
we are asked what we can do in these difficult times, our answer must
in earlier cultural epochs the possibilities of erring were different,
by conquest, to maintain a cult of strength and success which shows
difficult at once to change the age-old nature of a people, the
time. From the viewpoint of cultural history, however, this is a good

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material culture — such as a railway or a locomotive — can be
back to cultural periods which one might suppose to have been long
only stem from the culture of Central Europe. But in the form it has
application of occult forces, and it is these forces that are being

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and impulses working in the blood are very difficult to describe since
conditions and facts because it is to be even more difficult for human
certain members of occult streams began — not with ordinary
consciousness, but with occult consciousness — to expand this British
occult circles the following idea was consciously cultivated: The fifth
extraordinary collaboration came about between something occult
This is now the immensely difficult karma of mankind: that people do

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assimilating the western Slavs with western culture, thus working
century we find everywhere in the occult schools of the West, under the
direct influence of British occultists, indications that such a Danube
like a sword of Damocles over European culture and civilization.
or lesser degree of occult forces — such as we have discussed — are
certain orders of Freemasonry which possess an occult background? In
lodges, which were to act as the external tools for certain occult,
Spain and others, they also have a strong influence on the culture of
are flowing along side by side. Nothing occult is meant by these
occult motives in the various secret societies — in isolated cases,
possible. So you may view that whole part of German cultural history
In western culture over the last few centuries preceding our own day
But the spiritual culture linked with Lessing, Herder and Goethe has no
spiritual life cultivated by certain western secret brotherhoods actually
For those who dabble in the occult, this is naturally tremendously
by someone who merely dabbles in the occult. If he had known nothing
occultist knows: When consciousness is damped down even slightly,
If he had known something about real occult facts, he would not have
occult values, occult laws, are seen from a materialistic standpoint.
preparations made by the kind of occultism I have been describing to
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reality, either by way of direct occult factors, or by way of impulses
certain occult teachings necessary for the increasingly mature
untruthfulness, and the sense for truth must be cultivated in the
gives us cause to approach him to some extent from an occult
inclined into contact with occult powers which are at work and which
they were formed by the critical faculty of his soul. They may have had
formed by his critical faculty of soul. From this angle Treitschke
thought from cultural life capable of placing the human being firmly on
Then Treitschke, with the critical faculty of soul I mentioned just
freedom; but its cultivator and guardian. A state structure that could
which are important for an occult understanding of him, we must not
of a portion of harmonious human culture. For women gain a part of
their culture only through us. Yet we take it for granted amongst
too small-minded not to begrudge them the freedom of culture and
arises out of total ignorance. That is why it is difficult to make the
drawing I now want to make. There will be difficulties, as you will
Slavs are also to be liberated. This is rather difficult. If the
of the difficulties of managing all this here, where the Slavs are

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Occult Science
concern every human being. Difficulty arises only if one wants to
to my mind. In general, I have great difficulty in finding rhythmical
This is the main difficulty in the case of psychological
they do not, in reality, want to be cured. This is the difficulty. The
whole group. Occult knowledge is not always applied in a selfless
Now I told you that occult knowledge was used by certain secret

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religion spread which was borrowed from the cults of Egypt and Chaldea.
culture, was essentially the ecclesiastical element of cultus and
hierarchy. This ecclesiastical element of cultus and hierarchy, which
cultus in so far as their ideas and cultural life are concerned. To
on the part of Rome to permeate, to saturate the culture of Europe with
growing old and using up his forces, so do cultural phenomena, when
element we used the expression ‘ecclesiastical element of cultus and
to find an expression to describe that cultural element which bears the
culture of the intellectual- or mind-soul from the fourth
finance, and also culture in general, hollowing it out down to the fine
accompanied by the spread of civilization and culture across the whole
culture of the consciousness soul: the English, the British element.
The sentient soul element, brought into culture by the Italian-Spanish
sphere, expresses itself in the theocratic element of the cultus — the
Here, B, is the culture of the intellectual or mind soul. It also
This is where the forbidden interplay begins. For obviously occult
principles, occult means and occult impulses are not permissible as
moment occult impulses work behind the spread of this purely
materialistic culture, things become questionable. Yet, as I have shown
plane, but also with the impulses of occultism, the impulses which lie
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difficult for people today to think about these things in the right
way, because they have lost certain faculties which were once present
in human evolution; for a while these faculties had to go underground,
It is difficult to describe these things in words because our
ever-decreasing part. When we experience difficulties in understanding
from the brain, it is so very difficult for the dead to make contact
difficult for the dead to penetrate this black fog. Therefore, with the
system. The cerebral system is the most difficult of all to influence
so great that they strive for means by which they can cultivate
cultural processes of our time gives a speech in parliament or writes a
occult point of view, could be called ‘insurance companies for
these matters are no mere tomfoolery but stand fully in occult life,

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cultural period is running its course here on earth, a great deal is
Seen from the occult point of view, the complete human being also
whole human being, and this is so, but from the occult point of view a
preserved from the better days of mankind's occult knowledge, still
a great deal because of the materialistic culture prevalent in the
why people find it so difficult to achieve the broader view needed in
are laid during childhood and youth. The faculties which enable
post-Atlantean period this is exceedingly difficult for them.
paralysing effect on the living. It is nowadays so difficult to
the difficulty today, or one of the difficulties, standing in the way
because of their significance with regard to cultural history. It was
not the content that interested me but their relation to cultural

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our angeloi organism is difficult. This is why we tarry for a while in
it is difficult for human beings, however strong their yearning, to
thoroughly immerse the fifth post-Atlantean cultural period in
comprehend the full significance of a fact such as this. When occult
same time work as an immeasurably strong occult impulse.
exceptionally effective occult method of stimulating faith by means of
occult impulse in a particular direction, away from normal Christian
and wherever we do so in the world we find occult impulses.
A similarly powerful occult impulse, which failed, was sought by Mrs
a strong occult impulse. So you see that even the mere spread of
certain concepts, certain ideas, can contain strong occult impulses.
right concepts, the less will certain occult trends be able to stir up
that many occult impulses are at work with the aim of distracting
Difficult though it is in the face of current ideas, by which our
southwards. We described it as the papal, hierarchical cultic element.
From one quarter many occult impulses have emanated which have used
another quarter have come occult impulses which have used the warlike
element. In the same way, from a third quarter, occult impulses are
themselves through the cultures of Greece and Rome during the fourth
ideas bear within them a powerful occult force if they are believed by
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indicate what may be felt occultly.
difficult for them to reach us when we fall asleep, for then, as a
Just imagine how difficult it would be, if during the course of
Mysteries, certain feelings were first cultivated, before taking into
to cultivate that feeling.
concrete as man, are studied in genuine occultism. But the various

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that can be sensed in an occult way. We are surrounded by air. It is
sleep is more difficult, because here we usually become immediately
difficult it would be if this situation meant that in the course of our
Indeed we can. In addition to man, true occultism studies all the

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not without its connections to other occult streams of the nineteenth
exceptionally cultured representative of the Theosophical Movement, the
brought it to a fresh birth out of the western cultural spirit. There
be found. This is a difficulty that still exists and of which we must
fields encompassed by the various faculties, with the exception of
which is a very difficult subject to study for many reasons, not least
I am saying all this in order to point out what difficulties today
shows once again how difficult it is to bring together the
lives in the culture of today.
led to the opinion that what is written in consequence is difficult to
with the greatest difficulties. And one of the greatest difficulties
cultic element which created as its opposition the Protestantism of
industrial and agricultural class’. Think on this, meditate on it, and
It is going to be immensely difficult to find clear and realistic
science more widely known. It is so necessary in these difficult times
become increasingly difficult. It would be utterly thoughtless to
So we must accept that difficult times may be in store for our
realities. Many potential difficulties can still be swept away if we

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“Occult Science”.
It is difficult to explain this word; it is a far more qualitative
always be available. It is difficult to travel about, at present.

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feeling and willing. It will not be difficult for you to understand
our materialistic culture such things perish even in remote regions.
It is not too difficult to observe that the moments of waking up and
Wakefulness of thinking is a faculty which has never been lacking to
thinking which is a mark of our culture. To have thoughts that can be
however, may be cultivated in a certain way. We have previously
described several ways of cultivating it; today we shall add the

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what it is spiritually that under-lies such a difficult time. To be
of that which here in the physical world, is very difficult to see
significance of the occultist's statement that, in starting from an
It is, in general, very difficult to speak to human beings of the
inclined family which does not cultivate spiritual thoughts, he is
stars” when the forties of last century approached. If occultists
catastrophic age, our present difficult times have become a necessity.

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difficult tasks! (These meditations were repeated at the beginning of
Spiritual Science, but that we must be up-borne through this difficult
impression in large circles, even of cultured people. It is a very
it difficult to believe me when I say that He is already present in
The occultist is able to point out that since the year 1909 or
time of the Mystery of Golgotha. Just reflect how enormously difficult
standing in the centre of these things, one who is an occultist,

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the external world, and it is therefore difficult to find words conveying
over, as one might say, with intellectual culture, often say:
difficulties attached to the grasping of the Spiritual world in its
very great space of time; the difficulty is to have the Spiritual
constitutes the great difficulty of grasping the Spiritual world. Were
Now let us investigate something else — which is not so difficult

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Occult Science.
Spiritual — a state of things very difficult to endure — did we not
free will. A man of modern culture can regulate his life as he pleases,
culture of today — the season of Christmas is connected with processes
himself. The difficulty then encountered by the soul and which is
modern materialistic age find it very difficult to feel what I might

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Occult Science.
Spiritual — a state of things very difficult to endure — did we not
free will. A man of modern culture can regulate his life as he pleases,
culture of today — the season of Christmas is connected with processes
himself. The difficulty then encountered by the soul and which is
modern materialistic age find it very difficult to feel what I might

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difficult to understand. In the course of these lectures I will return
difficult to understand today. Everything that comes out into the open
the ordinary faculty of perception, it enters a deeper, more material

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be to say he would rather enjoy his body than listen to a difficult

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of the Christian conception of the world to cultivate an understanding
at the same time very difficult to make men really adopt these views.

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its beautiful preface, — will find it extremely difficult to
is today very difficult to imagine what lived in the souls of that
occultist, I might say. Anyone lacking the organ of perception for the
unnecessarily difficult to understand. The very large number of books
different fundamental conceptions from those we now cultivate as the
In this second part of Faust there is an enormous amount of occult
wisdom and rendering of occult facts, though expressed in truly German
being.’ In an age in which the culture of the nude is even
it is not difficult to understand why Ötinger made many historical
if it were quite impossible to speak to the cultured today through
old conceptions, as is done in certain so-called occult societies

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difficult to determine whether the judge was a Roman with
knew how difficult it was to hold orthodox opinions whilst at
Mystery cult. The courts and the administration were in their
in the affairs of men. You can imagine how difficult this
evolution of Christianity. And nothing has been so difficult
occultism and mysticism. Influenced by Pasqually,

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in the cult of the Mysteries. It is a remarkable fact that
of these Mystery Cults. It has been pointed out that what we
transference of the ancient pagan myth and ritual cults to
Mystery Cults!” Pagan usages, they claimed, had been
They said that the various Mystery cults and legends had been
studying the pagan Mystery cults there is always a dangerous
man existed, a knowledge which is exceedingly difficult to
Therefore with the best will in the world it is difficult to
which survived in the Mystery cults I have mentioned, to be
difficult to arrive at an understanding of these problems for
difficult for man to find his way back to the spirit. The
we call culture today, yet they could not escape these
the early Christians who still possessed occult knowledge
difficulty men experience today in developing a clear and

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because we fail to recognize how difficult it is to achieve a
do they speak of mysteries? It is somewhat difficult to
Gospels from the occult standpoint are increasingly of the
medical knowledge of an occult nature which is disclosed to
purely occult investigations — I am aware of course
hundred years time. We can discover through occult

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“difficult to comprehend”. We can safely
difficult to cope with precepts such as “whoever shall
difficult because these things are closely interrelated. But

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Occult Science: An Outline,
occultism to adepts and charlatans. Mysticism of every kind

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difficult to bring home to the majority of people how certain
Mystery-cult of the ancient Roman empire. And since, at that
occultism to adepts and charlatans. Mysticism of every kind
with difficulties for them. When initiation of the emperors,
to challenge the gods. He decided to celebrate a cult act,
different customs which had an occult meaning had survived
guided him in the difficult administration of the Western
faced with an insurmountable difficulty because the
the secrets of the ancient pagan Mysteries. It was difficult
“Imagination”, but also an historical cult act,
cult acts. People knew that in earlier times wisdom was not
connected with this symbolical cult act people felt that they
in accordance with certain cult acts which were publicly
cultural development of the West. In particular you will be

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culture and civilization. When he grew older Julian learned
complicated psychological processes which are difficult to
cults had been preserved. Today the question of miracles is a
pagan cults which had survived from ancient times. Wherever
Manichaeans did not cultivate abstract ideas which divorced
principle of Manichaeism was to cultivate only those ideas
life to the Earth, it is difficult for us to imagine that
the exoteric side of Western culture and Julian the Apostate
slight knowledge — I do not mean of occult facts, but
with a real knowledge of those occult facts that can still be
occult knowledge derived from ancient writings, we discover
and cult acts? Not I alone, but countless authors who have
that the Christ figure was a copy of the cult-god of pagan

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the question let us first examine a few facts of occult
our era we must bear in mind that it is difficult to
of the Mystery of Golgotha the ancient pagan cults and
cults still survived. But these facts are usually dismissed
fields where peasants cultivated their crops were to be found
never undertook agricultural work without first putting
difficult to speak of these practices today because we find
the Mithras Mysteries by occult means we realize that they
extremely difficult to acquire, and these sacrificial rites
ancient cults from certain points of view; this is of far
along and revives the old prejudices. Cults are far easier to
eradicate. And these ancient cults which, in a certain sense,
simply a further development of the ancient cults. The
spirit of these two cults, especially if we appreciate
Christian cult. And ordination was an attempt by the Church
relation to the great cultural manifestations men are fast
philosophers unless one has recourse to occult knowledge.
Consequently these lacunae must be supplemented by occult
neutral in the conflict between Christian and pagan cults.

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literature and their cultural life. Just imagine how
ceremonies of the ancient pagan Mystery cults, that the forms
of these Mystery cults and symbols had been totally
became an adept or “occultist” as we should say
traditions and dogmas and especially in its cults or
origin of these cults. The ancient cults have a deep symbolic
interpretation. The performance of cult acts or ceremonies
difficulties of our own time. I propose to read two passages
The whole of European culture is slowly moving towards
present difficult times. We shall then change our attitude
Spiritual Science. I simply wish to point out how difficult
difficulty. He wished to depict the State as a reality, as an
touch with reality, and shows us the impossible difficulties
we had practised the cult of individualism far too long. We
learned what is most difficult for them to learn — to
in the customary jargon of the ’cultivated man of our
difficulty in accepting a spiritual teaching of which our
conformist, opposed to tradition and culture. This

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problem is not so much that it is difficult to reach the
is difficult to come to an understanding of chance, because
external ceremonies and cult acts) to be convinced of the
difficult for contemporary man to make head or tail of them.
Difficult as
memory of everyday life, you will have difficulty in

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of festivals in the usual sense. In these difficult times it
cultural epoch, which we can do with the help of concepts
within the cultures that were then in existence, man's soul
remotely the same way in the first postAtlantean cultural
threw its light over the whole culture. Young people were
cultural epoch a veneration, a worship of old age of which
then 54 and so on. When the first post-Atlantean cultural
ancient Indian cultural epoch.
ancient Persian cultural epoch followed the one we designate
Graeco-Latin culture by virtue of mankind's evolution in
it. That is why so much of Greek culture reveals
in different branches of cultural and public life. I have

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development of the physical body, in that ancient cultural
visualized as a movement of a cultural-political nature.
to the conclusion that my inductive approach to cultural and
suggesting anything out of the way or difficult; rather, it
present materialistic way of life creates huge difficulties

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further the particular spiritual and cultural impulses at
further only if he cultivates impulses received directly from
Indian culture. There was at that time a complete absence of
ancient Indian culture developed the way it did through the
there arose in Greece a culture specifically related to the
understanding. When a culture develops, it must of necessity
cultures developed which reflected the earth's spiritual
the faculty of imagination. This atavistic ability had
Egyptian-Chaldean cultural epoch, in the course of normal
main form of worship in the third epoch was a star cult.
Earlier, in Persia there had been no star cults; the
pictorial aspect became fainter. A proper star cult developed
is something difficult to understand when one's own thoughts
It is extraordinarily difficult to ascertain what kind of person
first post-Atlantean cultural epoch the patriarchs when they
When the faculty of genius appears today it is still to some
men of genius appearing during the fifth cultural epoch will
that as a natural gift the faculty of genius will disappear.

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history in my books, for example in Occult Science, will know
Occult Science,
came to be written. There it is said that the fifth cultural
Occult Science.
Occult Science
Occult Science
Occult Science
Occult Science
manifests itself to the faculty of super-sensible perception
Occult Science
Occult Science
Occult Science,
Occult Science,
“The Occult Significance of Blood.”
Occult Science,
“The Occult Significance of Blood.”
greater extent. I emphasize that these things are difficult
“The Occult Significance of Blood,”
to live in occult research. Admittedly this theory of a
of occultism. The truths grasped in the youth of a people
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gather material that will help us understand the difficult
society would be an impossibility. It is not difficult to see
a farmer who says: I shall certainly cultivate my fields, but
most painful aspect of witnessing these difficult times.
Every moment seems wasted unless devoted to the difficulties;
has cultivated for so long. We are living in such chaotic
aspects of cultural life, to find true concepts,
way the present difficult times demand. What one should

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Human Development, the Difficulty with Self Knowledge
difficult to attain. There is no simple straightforward path
causes the greatest difficulty. One often feels as if
philosophical approach is the difficulty one has in getting
all other so-called advantages of culture. This incident was
culture, all education and learning, all the respect and
woman. This someone is a man from a background of culture and
learning who nevertheless posed the question whether culture
materialistic sense, a certain difficulty arises when the
difficult to understand the soul characteristics of the
Occult Science,
where the difficulty lies. There are others, of course, but

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is so characteristic of today's culture. Our culture, our
faculties of imagination, inspiration and intuition. This
from the spiritual realm accessible to the human faculty of
difficult to understand that in spiritual research the law
with many interests and is full of energy, then his faculties
the real truth is that it was brought about by occult powers
to the exact moment when these occult powers intervened, the
rather appeared to be. The occult powers who caused the war
themselves manipulated by occult powers, powers which
occult insight into Britain's political future and the future

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The difficulty arises because people want ready-made
to be, it is worth remarking that in the cultural life of the
light of this general view. Today it is still difficult to
presented creates great difficulty for the mobile human soul
Occult Science.
which causes difficulty for many because they prefer what is
difficult to become altogether clear about the contrast
encompasses a whole complex of cultural attitudes. In the
praise of the intrinsic value of German culture.
his experience of German cultural life. Yet like hundreds of
four centuries of crimes against culture; that is what

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the world. These deeper impulses can be difficult to discern and spiritual
the 19th Century cultural life around him On the contrary there comes
contemporaries were bound to find it difficult; and it is natural that
into Eastern European culture. What is as yet experienced only instinctively,
Western culture, but it had left its imprint in which could be recognized
forgotten aspects of cultural life. When, in a few strokes, I place
difficult to speak about things belonging to this domain, at the same
meant. It is difficult to explain these things because they tend to
for cultural development. One cannot however just stand still and avoid

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cultural life, is so urgently needed. Our studies also set out to show
merely through certain distinguishing features and through his cultural
“No doubt our culture has evolved as a special instance of organic
be the source of all man's cultural achievements. So we must study how
does civilization, does culture come about? He says: “Culture
occurrence happens in his life. Culture is nothing else than the totality
of his life.” — To define culture in this way one must have
well! Culture is supposed to be the sum total of values created by man
have ceased to function for undoubtedly the culture created by man at
at what culture has become in this domain it can hardly be described
in regard to a part of culture. But statements like those brought forward
example: “The production of cultural values is a physiological
function of the political State. This is because there are many cultural
political State as such is therefore an organism that produces cultural
so extraordinarily difficult to reach any understanding, particularly
very difficult it is to come to any understanding, especially in the

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cultural developments in their true forms seldom find any accurate picture
science can describe a faculty of sight which is on a level higher than
and they consequently present cultural development and historical events
that time had not the faculty of sight but the two places in his head

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for in recent cultural achievements. However, if Herman Joachim —
in his human relationships with others a cultural artistic quality of
cultural life — held his hand in blessing over him when a child.
to cultural life in recent times. When a dear friend of his, the unique
through many difficulties. When this endless calamity under which we
aim was to enable it to enter rightly into the stream of human culture.
difficult years, how he pursued it with earnestness and integrity; anyone
they are faced with the kind of difficulties which in our time must
be endured with pain and sorrow, difficulties that one comes up against
when trying to solve important and necessary tasks, difficulties that
during this difficult time, one which was for me especially sad, one
way the many and often difficult duties imposed upon her by external
the most valuable people are among those who recognize and cultivate
meaning of this most difficult trial of the human race and concerned
was the handmaid of Theology; looking at modern culture he concludes
about Greek and Roman culture and even about Mohammed. The only thing

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way one sees it is of course an easy way to avoid many of the more difficult
live in difficult times, fraught with problems and conflict. Everyone

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It is extraordinarily difficult
take place about spiritual matters. When it is difficult, as it usually

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is really extraordinarily difficult for someone who is able to look
European cultural development,
was being cultivated with the spiritual world, to a time when he himself
cultivated such communion precisely in the realm of the ahrimanic. To
cultivated today. The way the spirit came to expression in Luther will

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view of history is very early in the fifth post-Atlantean cultural epoch.
man of his time inasmuch as in this, the fifth post-Atlantean cultural
It is not difficult to
one hand very much a man of the fifth post-Atlantean cultural epoch.
cultural epoch he felt with great intensity the deprivation which the
harmony with the outlook of the fifth cultural epoch but would have
it is replaced by another. However, in the fifth cultural epoch the
cultural epoch. Whereas the way man felt and experienced his place within
which man perforce had to have, in the fifth cultural epoch was experienced
of the Cosmos in the fourth cultural epoch. And on the other we see
felt and experienced the fifth cultural epoch as a soul belonging to
the fourth cultural epoch. The experiences man had to undergo in the
fifth cultural epoch weighed heavily on his soul.
cultural influence in the fifth post-Atlantean epoch. One may ask who
within the fifth had the latter not been influenced by other cultural
but other cultural streams make themselves felt. The most important
other cultural stream. Both works stress that man must turn, not only
greatness that could have enriched Western culture in works such as
the deepest spiritual impulses that have sprung from Western culture.
in Western culture we would cease to hear the empty phrase, “the
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the external products which make up our materialistic culture. When
importance but somewhat difficult for modern man to understand: Every
baby. That is the deeper reason why it is so difficult for man, during
enough to say that good will is a virtue and should be cultivated, or
cultivated without developing also a disposition towards the opposite
of thing I have indicated. If people in one age one-sidedly cultivate
for present-day cultural life, the most unenlightened, elementary ideas
it difficult to explain what is necessary, especially in relation to
a hypothetical example a society founded for the purpose of cultivating
being in the fullest sense is naturally difficult to understand. However,

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on the surface. Surely it cannot be that difficult for anyone
it really difficult to admit that they cannot judge an issue

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difficult for people to discover this for themselves when
area where people find it particularly difficult to
to look for inner spiritual impulses we now have a culture

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times today when it is really difficult to take what is said
that it is so difficult to convince the wider public of this.
truth, it is extremly difficult to accept the truths relating
the greatest difficulties one can imagine. For when it comes
for occult truths and particularly for truths relating to the
made public and it is difficult to draw the line. The right
been members. And I think it is not really difficult to
created their own excitements. This has now become difficult.
finds it so difficult to make its way today. It will make its
development may find it difficult to understand how such

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ever? It is extremely difficult for people today to have
because of this there is a general difficulty today in

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Occult Science
are getting more and more difficult today and the situation
occult; it is hidden.
conscientious occult research aiming to penetrate the laws of
there will be situations in future when it will be difficult

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It will, of course, be difficult to grasp, but it is

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which were said were true, though they are difficult to find.
difficult than working with mere corpses of ideas. Humanity
cultivate the intellect as early as possible, for this will
intelligent by cultivating the intellect as early as
possible, but only by cultivating in them when very young the
faculties which will later have them prepared to be
cultivated via the intellect. The living truth is: the
intellect is cultivated by healthy belief in rightful
play. People find it difficult to manage today because they

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our views. It is actually difficult to take such a train of

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the spirit often have almost insuperable difficulties in

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influence the whole of human life, the whole of culture and
Perhaps it is difficult to believe this today, but the time
Occult Science
To use the outer scientific culture, such as it is now, in
also needs new stimulus. Yesterday I spoke of how difficult
relationship between different forms of culture, such as
political life and other forms of culture, and how our ideas

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this physical process the American Indian culture would be

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turning-point in the evolution of modern cultural spheres
that the purely physical intellect and a culture based on
conception, acumen and critical faculties for the adherents
the particular acumen, critical faculty and so on, which I
to foster one's acumen and critical faculties. It is most
critical faculties was indeed a time when access to Part 2 of
Goethe's Faust was difficult. Even today this work, which is
The Occult Significance of the Bhagavad Gita.
independence, culture and literature were then still being
difficult to say truth-inspired things today because they
inculcated into people's heads. And it is difficult to form
certain sum total of cultural achievements which come from

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excellent exposition on the extremely difficult position in

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stretches of time, we speak of certain epochs of culture within the
The reason for speaking of these periods is that the faculties of
faculties of soul — change fundamentally from one period to
that certain faculties of comprehension and also certain forces of
occult principles than has ever before been possible. It lies in the
unfold certain spiritual faculties, a certain natural capacity to see
occultists on every hand insisting that precautions must be taken to
occultists and, in a certain sense, has remained so to this day.
which we shall speak — to investigate these things occultly was
extremely difficult to speak because they everywhere run counter to
knowledge of the occult connections; they were defence measures born
with the faculty for learning certain secrets. The individuals who
events” as they are called in occultism. Such was the intention:
result of occult crime, these things which ought to come much later
increasingly; human beings will be able to acquire the faculty of
cultivate spiritual strivings in this Fifth Post-Atlantean epoch, we
culture, to the several branches of science today, really do set to
certain degree, become a faculty in humanity of the Fifth
gift of observation very different from the clumsy faculty of

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but had difficulty in persuading her to continue. She
to make it into a cultural fact.
difficulties, and Jung himself offers this example.
see, you have there one of the points in the cultural life of
pitilessly to the cultured man that he is still a barbarian,

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cultural development. And psychoanalysis is not content
so-called man of culture, needs particularly to be mindful of
these things. For present culture has this peculiarity, that it
culture: the Indian, the old Persian, the Chaldean-Egyptian,
the sixth postatlantean culture period? It may be easily
statement regarding the sixth culture period. He had
Occult Science, an Outline,
present fifth postatlantean culture period. In it I say
preparation for the fifth culture period. Dessoir, reading
said about the culture period with what had been stated
centuries. Thus he says “sixth culture
Occult Science,
this chapter alone will prove the difficulties against which
there is no danger of this since the three faculties then
into regions of great difficulty if it yields to
must enter, must enter even the general culture of the period,

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of Michael with the Dragon. Aims of occult brotherhoods in connection
his Angelos with Christ. This may be difficult to understand, but it
relations with the spiritual world. It is not difficult for us to
occult schools although they are not always able to give accurate
Certain occult brotherhoods, however, make it their business to work
on the other side there are enclosed occult brotherhoods of an evil
Post-Atlantean epoch. Only then can light be shed on all the difficult
Occult brotherhoods of this kind are also, as a rule, those that lead
effective. That is so terribly difficult to understand.
everyone versed in occult matters of this kind will tell you, namely,
some knowledge of occult impulses, of impulses deriving from the
want to turn spiritual impulses, occult impulses to account in the
the right occult impulse into action at the right moment, just as the
such is, of course, ruled out. Impulses truly derived from the occult
this way, certain occult brotherhoods acquired knowledge concerning
knowledge of occult forces in a right and honest way, all you will do
apply occult truths are in relation to the spiritual world. Every one
are so grave, because it will become more and more difficult to fight
these difficulties will grow. And as in the immediate future we shall
difficult conditions of the times, in the conviction which arises from

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difficulty gaining access to evolving humanity.
recall, for example, how difficult it was to bring the Copernican
those considering themselves enlightened and cultured, not only bring
Occult Science, you will find all the details concerning
age, due to the habits cultivated in the natural scientific sphere,
difficult, because the will is sleeping in relation to the higher
we develop or what we cultivate in our present willing live the
way. It is difficult to speak about these things so that they arise
difficulties, sorrows, that have shattered him, or joy that has

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occult societies. They maintained that the human being was not yet
instead nurturing them only in the narrower circles of occult
This is a difficult
effort of elevating themselves to concepts that are more difficult
difficulties precisely because they wish to promote eternal bliss in
am now speaking has long been known to certain occult brotherhoods.
disseminated to humanity only by those occult brotherhoods who make
no longer be wholesome for occult brotherhoods to be able to employ
This is the significant historical arrangement that was cultivated by
under the influence of purely materialistic culture, which simply
and gradually to extinguish European culture from the earth. It
partisan! But this was one of the reasons that certain occult
is really united with us. Now these are difficult times. We know that
there are even more difficult times ahead. But whatever the

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least noticed by people. There are certain occult brotherhoods who
fourth post-Atlantean cultural epoch the task lay in the struggle
interest in cultivating materialism and disseminating it. These
initiates desire who, in spite of knowing this, shelter and cultivate
some cases this is very difficult for this being, and all sorts of

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independent of the body, and nevertheless cherish and cultivate
man before death, but in many cases this is very difficult for

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We are now cultivating studies that I have associated
otherwise it will be difficult to reach understanding of these
fifth post-Atlantean period is a particularly difficult one. As you
An Outline Of Occult Science,
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The Occult Movement in the 19th Century
Occult Science
the occult truths which will be disclosed in the course of the
fifth post-Atlantean epoch. Darwinism contains no occult
beings would have horrible results. But if occult truths are
would be an endeavour to use a certain occult discovery for

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senses.” It is indeed difficult to stagger over all these
the occult sphere one must refuse to harness human beings themselves
all those life experiences that can be won today in these difficult

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is really difficult to stumble through all these wishy-washy
forces into the realm of machines. In this occult sphere the
encountered, particularly in this difficult time. You will see
were represented also by certain occult schools, shall now be

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difficult to see through reality than through the thoughts
these things difficult if you hear them for the first time,
difficulty.
it is a copy of reality) — so for the occultist the

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at our disposal now in the occult basis that is to be
difficult as you know from other lectures) are able to have
anthroposophists will already be more cultivated in this

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life between death and a new birth, it is difficult to
someone cultivates exactly the same kind of ideas in 1914

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an occult point of view, in order to understand the course of
Perhaps it may be difficult to imagine this; but it will be
say, right into our days, by the occult schools in question,
The occult
ways were given whereby that which occult schools have kept
flashes outside the occult schools. There have always been a
spatial. These things are difficult to describe, because when
difficult of all to imagine that things are reversed after
more difficult, from a technical aspect, than our present

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difficulty consists in the fact that, generally, we consider
possessed. Only with great difficulty can a modern man
the meaning of such a period of culture as the one that began
They will know: We belong to our period of culture in such a
to which modern man has reached a cultural blind alley.

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though with great difficulty in our materialistic age.

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it is difficult for him to learn this owing to the
faculty of memory.
describe it thus, this offers few difficulties; it is no

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philosopher, “that the spiritual faculties of Jesus could
attractive male whom they proceed to make the center of a cult.
still be possible in these difficult times for him who is

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Origine de tour les Cultes. This book came out in
Cultes, we find for example the following sentence:
he has the special faculty to formulate them. These things
Dupuis' work, Origine de tous les Cultes.

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difficult for our Time, inasmuch as this Time suffers from
faculty of insight and penetration. One need but think of
human intellect — the human faculty of intellectual
culture, so-called — even in the 19th century the
such difficulty bestir itself to draw forth, from the inmost

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Occult Science.
the same, namely the laying-waste of an ancient culture. Let
culture were destroyed while Christianity was being spread
these things, they are extraordinarily difficult to bring on

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interconnected in their culture are the ancient Egyptians, the Greeks
belonging to the Egyptian culture. I have already called your
cannibalism, that they owed to him the plough, agriculture, the
Mercury, the Greek Hermes. A kind of Horus-cult, the cult of the son
moreover have been rather difficult to be sentimental over Zeus. Yet
... now (in the Egyptian Osiris-culture) one can no longer look to a

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evolve the Imaginative faculties. The ancient clairvoyance exists no
as a normal faculty of the human soul. And men were aware that in the

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the Osiris cult — that is to say, a memorial service of
It is difficult to say

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culture, it was still plain and clear that when one spoke of
Egyptian culture, however, the mystery as a principle of the
Egyptian culture fell more into decadence the saying drifted into
might say that in the decadent age of Egyptian culture this was the
separates our post-Atlantean culture from the Atlantean culture, had
passed by, the first post-Atlantean culture-epoch arose. This
one can characterize this first, ancient Indian culture by saying
touch upon what underlay the original Indian culture — in that
post-Atlantean culture, the Cancer-culture, this insensitivity did
inwardly as something bodily. That was during the ‘Cancer-culture’;
world-conception of this first post-Atlantean culture-epoch. A man
post-Atlantean period, the Cancer-culture, mankind formed concepts
when the human being too is in the Cancer-culture. In a special way
to do with the second post-Atlantean culture-epoch, the original
Zarathustra culture. This Zarathustra culture turned towards the
a Thought-Culture. And so the Greco-Latin time, which as we have seen
thinking with reality. This head-civilization, this Aries-culture,
precisely through his head. It is particularly difficult today to
understand the Greek culture — that of the Romans became more
earth arose in this age essentially through a Mars-culture, a warlike
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deserved so well of Central European culture. Friedrich Schlegel
difficult to be enthusiastic over something that went on so and
is a trained Natural Scientist, standing in the difficult life of
difficult sentences, was inwardly gripped by the spirit. Only a few,

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difficult to understand. In reality they are not, in spite of the
fact that they sound as if they were difficult. They are only so for
from all the current ideas that we have today, that modern culture
astronomer says today, what our general culture today says about the
concepts may seem difficult today they will become something that one
of these things, however, in difficult concepts. For as long as

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culture knows that there will be a bad crop three to five years after
Occult Science.
whole cultural life becomes imbued with the principle that it should
Occult Science
Occult Science.

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gives me to be with you again at this difficult time so full of
is finding it increasingly difficult to stand up against the attacks
It is certainly very difficult to
preached; it grows if properly cultivated; it is a child of the

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still remain, as hereditary culture from older times. If, however,
nature; for because we only cultivate head-wisdom, because we do not

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well known even to those who are not occultists; for example, the
observation is more difficult (to the ordinary scientific
cannot be said that it is extremely difficult to do so, for it is not
difficult to come into individual relations with souls of the dead
often described the reason. The higher faculties of the super-sensible
we stand firm against it and cultivate what will bring us in relation

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cultivating the union with the dead under the guidance of Spiritual
Science, we make the effort — which is difficult in our present
customary free course. We can develop certain faculties which
should be so cultivated — especially in our time, for the
cannot do so. It has to be cultivated; but when it is
cultivated, when we really take the trouble to be awake and,
of special occult experience; it is something that any man can have
it is not so difficult to develop the mood here described, for the
cultivation of relations with the so-called dead is specially needed
things are generally very difficult, because we are not conscious of
— if we cultivate intercourse with the dead in this way, the
faculty to perceive the spirit in nature, to see the beauty in
Goethe's library of writings in order to cultivate it as had never

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remain in space. That is why the lotus-flowers are so difficult to

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of the Spiritual world are difficult for us to grasp because between
because it is difficult, but because an effort is needed to accept
difficult to bring to consciousness than our relation to other beings
faculties of perception and feeling, of perceiving consciously
own. This is connected in the soul-life with a certain difficulty in
good memory, that is, a good imaginative faculty and power of
usually have more difficulty in speaking to us; but with those
whom thought is very easy; if it be found difficult then it is
it most easily, find it most difficult. This is because they are too
‘difficult.’ They just think, they grasp their ideas
avoided by so many because it is difficult to understand, but because
difficulty as it were, because he realises more and more that for a
the fact that it becomes ever more difficult to grasp thoughts
difficult! We can, however, observe that as we gradually become
difficult to chatter and be ready with an answer; for that comes from
the difficulty of retaining anything in the memory and the difficulty
that thinking is difficult, this is the basis of the possibility and
difficult as anything else which we feel to be difficult. We must
first learn to feel thoughts as ‘difficult,’ to feel the
to vanish, when thoughts arise which are difficult to grasp. We can

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and were then a parasite. Kant and difficulties to understanding. The
smallest. Our difficult experiences may for the moment cause us
dead in any way, then because we have cultivated this disposition,
very difficult to find. It resembles gratitude to life, but is quite
nothing more to give us. True, we pass through difficult and
him to develop a faculty which must be cultivated from knowledge of
cultivation and which, though a few scattered remains still exist, is
most that we produce in later years of life from the faculties
may be said that this is difficult to imagine. The only reply is that
only because Kant is so difficult to understand that he is regarded
‘Occult Physiology’
feels, and which is so difficult to bring up into the higher soul at
by a spiritual culture in this domain. Ultimately the feeling here
feeling-in-common; the faculty of making hope active in life through

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these facts present a difficulty. For not only have we the opposition
occultists notched to communicate important things publicly, we must
entered the fifth cultural epoch of the Post-Atlantean development,
the fifth cultural epoch began with the 15th century A.D. Till then
cultural development of mankind was specially developed. In order
parallel. When such things are uttered, it is rather difficult to
that man shall cultivate his consciousness soul within this
to-day. This again is somewhat difficult. But since in the whole wide
really condescend to recognize them. In the course of this culture
you with some of the more difficult concepts. But they were
concepts will then not be so difficult; but what you were so good as
to listen to today in respect to more difficult concepts will help

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clearly upon ourselves certain ideas in Spiritual culture
Roman culture had to pour over Europe, especially over
Western Europe. The study of this Latin, Roman culture in its
Roman Empire merely streamed forth into Europe in a cultural
in France, a piece of old Celtic-Gaelic culture was entirely
came what was spread abroad as the Roman culture. This is
culture which have since been destroyed.
have cultivated, through the body. It is like the case of a
difficulty in developing a consciousness that these pictures
it so difficult to really to understand dreams for the reason
cultivated, although present within him from the beginning,
cultivation of the Soul-Self. Between death and rebirth man's
child: to imitate everything it sees. This imitative faculty
correct many an idea. One acquires with much difficulty ideas
imaginative faculty with them out of the spiritual world,
it will no longer be difficult to introduce things in a
which is necessary. It will then not be at all so difficult
new ideas. This is often very difficult, for if men would

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to the fact that occult truths, though coming from other
took great care that those who had been initiated into occult
the occultist but a comprehensible and obvious one for
called your attention, keep guard over certain occult truths,
are men, though it may be difficult to believe this today,
world-plan by trying to understand from their occult
quite objective occult investigations, and it would least of
in the course of the Fifth Post-Atlanta epoch of culture
deceives himself. The English-speaking occultists however
taken up by English-speaking occultists, for this lies in the
thinking out means and ways from occult sources to exercise
undertake. It will however be very difficult for the present

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be impressed on the culture of mankind. For it is just such
the whole spiritual culture of our time. That ought really to
culture. And we must really take note of these thoughts. That
necessity find it difficult in our present time to work its
of the cultured thinkers in Germany; it was considered
appeared, “Ship-building and Tree-culture” by
culture of the 19th century had to be disclosed some time.
men. It is far too difficult for the men of today. Therefore
today to have serious thoughts. But one sees how difficult it

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necessity developed as the basic cultural characteristic of
men, in regard to their faculty of perception (in respects
impressions, to satisfy the faculty of perception of their
difficult, and it has been asked how one can simplify it for
difficult to imagine asked me whether I could point to a
What enters from this side into our present-day culture can
Science work against a certain attribute of culture; it
Post-Atlantean epoch of culture — are to develop to a
ought to recognize and cultivate as such. But what has
the negation of all cultural interests of a far-reaching
how very one-sided our present-day culture is. That cannot be
nature in the whole movement and growth of culture and we
given to determining social culture, the position of a man in

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will not find it difficult to understand that many people
seriously. But difficulties arise immediately if these young

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no difficulty in recognising that each type of consciousness
faculties, the structure of the head is seen to be derived
would not be at all difficult even to a quite low grade of
the last earth-life. The interpretation is the difficulty.
and West is so difficult. In the East it is no theory that a
described. (There are certain difficulties, discussed in the book
“Occult Science”
It was at this point that it became so intensely difficult
inexplicable save through occult science. It is not merely a
symptom easily to be explained by occultism. Equally mingled
really deep occult knowledge was hidden, but behaved

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contemporary culture. He divided present-day mankind into two
that is what is active in our culture, and this is the point
the cultivation of spiritual life than did the man of old,
who with his “natural” culture, stood so much
culture and reflects on the inner nature of present
spiritual culture of humanity, we are bound to conclude that
thought what is not yet clear to me so far as its occult
basis is concerned: it may well be that future occult
all things it is most difficult to express the Spirit in

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in the course of the fourth Post-Atlantean period the faculty
difficult to describe this sentient-soul consciousness,
the West is that occult capacities are reckoned with, and
cultivate especially the powers of perception belonging to
intensive cultivation — ostensibly instinctive but in
near future, produce people who will cultivate a survey of
magnificent understanding of all aspects of human culture was
Sophie did to encourage the Goethe-cult was immeasurably
culture, but some outlooks are always inclined to stop short

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Freemasonry, but over the whole range of modern culture. We
see how modern culture — notably in the spreading of
soul, is, as I have said, difficult to-day, because, even in
reason for alchemy, as it was cultivated in the first
ideas, pagan culture and pagan experiences, they understood
agriculture. The fact that a third of the soil of Europe
understand; they are so very difficult! If only there were

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and in their culture — are the several periods in
difficult to understand and is so erroneously expounded,
great difficulties for many commentators of the Gospels,
view of the universe; but it seems very difficult at the

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is extremely difficult to understand; and the effort ends
whole marvellous culture of Greece, whose civilisation was
that the secular culture which ran parallel with the Mystery
culture to come to an understanding of the Mystery of
Christianity had made itself at home in this secular culture
culture, but this outer recognition does not alter the fact
orthodox man would say: “The human faculty of knowledge
might be described as of a more educational, cultured kind,
in the culture of the West, and particularly in the element
into cultural life as sheer monstrosities — and this
cultured or not, which led gradually to Bolshevism; compared
of human faculties for turning to the super-sensible. These
faculties have become truly impotent, and hatred and
cultivated, and which is the exact opposite of everything
to Americanism. If the latter is the cultivation of the

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spiritual. Man two-day has to choose between cultivating the
nature or in cultural life. Often in the history of
cultural paradox lies in the Jesuit's book on Goethe for the
Occult Science,
culture will be fruitful for the future of mankind, which
this particular culture defame it; but let us grasp it in the

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difficult times must be said in public anthroposophical lectures, so
such, however, that it can be understood only with great difficulty
world, he finds himself in a realm with a universal faculty for
cultivates as a gardener or farmer. In these two realms he can at
consciousness. It is extraordinarily difficult to explain to earthly
Obviously, this also makes it difficult to come to an understanding
cultivates. This is inevitable.
element itself to be cultivated by natural science. The spiritual

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fraught with difficulty, because its conditions are so entirely
People to-day still find difficulty in acquiring knowledge of the
spiritual world. The difficulties would more or less solve themselves
difficulties than the first form of knowledge, which is easy to
but difficult, because it demands scrupulous care on the part of the
occult fact. We shall find that precisely when we are speaking about
faculties; but when we think it over, we shall realise that it
developed clairvoyance, realise why it is so difficult for human
form of intercourse is exceedingly difficult. The dead are always
to enter the spiritual world. The concept is extremely difficult to
that a head-bone might be produced from it. It is a difficult concept
Space ”. It is an occult fact that in the spiritual world there
you may find it difficult to understand.
but older people are endowed with higher faculties of perception

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difficulty, because its conditions are so entirely different
People today still find difficulties in acquiring knowledge of
the spiritual world. The difficulties would soon solve
greater difficulties than the first form of knowledge, which is
has died is possible, but difficult, because it demands
Living and the so-called Dead, for it is an occult fact. We
meaning for man as long as he has not developed faculties of
realize why it is so difficult for human beings to know
familiar form of intercourse is exceedingly difficult. The Dead
difficult to apply in an actual, individual case. For instance,
difficult concept, but one cannot really understand
is an occult fact that in the spiritual world there are
find it difficult to understand.
near us, but they are endowed with higher faculties of perception

Title: Lecture: The Work of the Angels In Mans Astral Body
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individual human being, just as the nature of his powers and faculties
and faculties possessed by humanity in general constantly changing in
An Outline of Occult Science,
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In this domain it is extremely difficult even to formulate a concrete
faculties. Everyone can do so, who does not bar his own way with his

Title: Lecture: How Do I Find the Christ?
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course of the nineteenth century, when in European culture at
This was the Graeco-Latin culture-epoch.
culture? You know what this epoch signifies. The functions of
Graeco-Latin culture from
of itself all the faculties belonging to the
Golgotha through his ordinary human faculties. Indeed,
however much mankind may develop and grow, with the faculties
faculties of ancient clairvoyance. It was this that enabled
human faculties. The Evangelists wrote the Gospels by drawing
the human faculties which had unfolded in them in the natural
but I choose one whom modern materialistic culture regards
(the Graeco-Latin) culture-epoch.
noted that the middle point of this culture-epoch was the year
faculties were to be bestowed upon humanity in the year
over from ancient Greek culture and had taken no account
all Europe, spreading that Jundi-Shapur culture of
The primary purpose of this culture was that at that
Western culture was blunted. Instead of the spread of a
man's ordinary earthly faculties — inspired
also the aim of certain occult societies in our own time
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Title: Occult Psychology: Lecture One
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Occult Psychology
when work has been carried out under such difficult conditions, part of the artistic work has
among men in the remnants of what is old, rotten, in their so called cultural life.
infinite difficulty, for he holds the view that it is the content of a programme, the content of
present so-called culture of mankind. There is nothing for it but to fight against these

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Occult Psychology
life in Asia that tells of it. Fundamentally it is Asiatic culture as a whole. This it is that
makes it so difficult for a European to understand what is said by an oriental about the
ingredients of culture rejected. It is not only the initiates of the East who feel a decided
aversion to certain European characteristics but every cultured oriental instinctively feels it
culture which has arisen both in Europe and in its off-shoot America. Those who study man's
the same number of ahrimanic demons to take up their abode in human culture! These ahrimanic
highly culture oriental; he turns from this ahrimanic demonology. For this ahrimanic demonology
will be found on earth. The culture of the soul will be deepened, what is of a bodily nature will
Orientals wish to found a culture that takes no account of the human body, in the future earthly
evolution, in the American culture of the West there will be an endeavor to chain the soul to the
have seen, is essentially its leaning towards an ahrimanic culture. But this American
far as possible from the understanding of Christ. And the endeavor in cultural development that
Occult Science,
penetrating into the spiritual world, this sleep of man is extraordinarily difficult to surmount.
culture at present there is something of a sleepy nature about the very impulses everywhere
the opposing cultural powers can be overcome. Man's intellect today is so great that if the
this understanding is not an egoistic cultural interest but one that is universal and human. For
today need some tiling more in our culture for the gifts of the spirit to become fruitful. The
to incorporate into human culture what we receive from the spirit. And it must be incorporated,

Title: Mysteries of the Sun: Lecture I
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culture of mankind, the mankind from whom the present
cultural life has arisen, a certain capacity existed in the
An Occult Psychology Lecture. I 17.VIII.18.]
the disconnected and chaotic nature of our culture. We have,
The Foundation of Culture in the Nineteenth Century,
And this is literally true, as things in the real occult,

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However these are the difficulties to be expected in
cultures repeated lives on earth treated as a fact. This is
necessary that we should enter into these difficult details,
difficult matters a little enthusiasm were aroused, a little
difficult conception to which, however, I have to come.
Occult Science
lecture of 18.VIII.1918; Occult Psychology.]
cultural life of mankind. For in these concepts that man

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cultural life of the earth giving men, in conformity with the
that is something that is an extraordinarily difficult idea
absolutely nothing strange or difficult to understand when
set to the faculty of memory. You would go outside there and
infinitely important for spiritual culture, and will in
the formation of concepts, with Goethe the faculty of forming
arms, hands, feet and legs. This again is a difficult idea
nature, namely, the Movement for Ethical Culture. At that
founding these societies for Ethical Culture. These people
for Ethical Culture ... if you have a taste for butter, you
culture,” and denounced it in awful words. Naturally it
is the matter with ‘ethical culture'? Go and see

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in my “Outline of Occult Science”) — in

Title: Bridge between the Ideal and the Real: Lecture I
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“Outline of Occult Science”) — in various

Title: Lecture Series: Goethe, Comte and Bentham
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Science. It is extraordinarily difficult to speak of these things.
occultists of his own Country say: Bentham put forward this purely
these occultists, if it were correct that good consists in the

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It is extraordinarily difficult to speak of these things.
a Spiritual basis, as absolutely Ahrimanic. The occultists of
occultists, if it were correct that good consists in the

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Occult Science.
Ahriman, the Ahrimanic beings, want on the contrary to cultivate most
specially human intellect, to cultivate it to the extent of being
that these things are difficult, for that is not at all the point. I

Title: Cosmic Prehistory: Lecture III: Romanism and Freemasonry
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that a materialistic age actually prepares a spiritual culture, but
such a culture is pre-eminently exposed not to their own head-nature
Outline of Occult Science
Occult Science
at certain phenomena of present-day culture we must consider to what
We have already referred here to this occult Centre, in many connections.
best expression) prefers to reckon with the other pole. The occult Masonry
the course of the outer culture of the whole civilised world, just as
about that occult Freemasonry, the Orders, it speaks correctly. One
of the West say is also right. That in fact is just the difficulty;
be borne in mind very fundamentally in the present cultural tendencies.
principles of the occult Orders, though they are kept secret. Rome works
just as much in accord with occult precepts as that other Centre does.
in the cultural life of today as befits a man of the present who is

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Occult Science
[Occult Science — an Outline]
evolution we should have a very different form of culture if
interest in other people? It must be a future task of human culture
Chapter IV of Occult Science — an Outline.]
difficulties for Western thinking is to form a conception of
difficult to talk about these things for the simple reason that, at

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Occult Science
[Occult Science — an Outline]
evolution we should have a very different form of culture if
interest in other people? It must be a future task of human culture
Chapter IV of Occult Science — an Outline.]
difficulties for Western thinking is to form a conception of
difficult to talk about these things for the simple reason that, at

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and Greek cultures — polaric opposites of one another —
Greek culture was threatened with a
is extraordinarily difficult for human beings to conceive how men of
forces for developing the faculty that would of itself lead him to
then he would not acquire this faculty until the Venus stage of
at the same time the difficulty of inspiring men increased. In the
sixth century this difficulty went on increasing, until finally the

Title: Three Streams: Lecture II: The Fifth Epoch, Semitic and Greek Cultures, the Christ Impulse
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and Greek cultures — polaric opposites of one another —
Greek culture was threatened with a
is extraordinarily difficult for human beings to conceive how men of
forces for developing the faculty that would of itself lead him to
then he would not acquire this faculty until the Venus stage of
at the same time the difficulty of inspiring men increased. In the
sixth century this difficulty went on increasing, until finally the

Title: Three Streams: Lecture III: The Mystery of Golgotha Must Be Approached Supersensibly
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in the Greek culture of that time he was not a particularly
reiteration. But if we look back over the human faculty for
faculty for knowledge is never adapted for grasping either the fact
strange situation in which we find the human faculty for knowledge!
Under the guidance of nature itself this faculty is driven to
polar opposite: in human life you can never cultivate a fact without
Occult Science,
must the spiritual branches of culture be taken in hand —

Title: Three Streams: Lecture III: The Mystery of Golgotha Must Be Approached Supersensibly
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in the Greek culture of that time he was not a particularly
reiteration. But if we look back over the human faculty for
faculty for knowledge is never adapted for grasping either the fact
strange situation in which we find the human faculty for knowledge!
Under the guidance of nature itself this faculty is driven to
polar opposite: in human life you can never cultivate a fact without
Occult Science,
must the spiritual branches of culture be taken in hand —

Title: Three Streams: Lecture IV: Consciousness Soul and Scientific Thinking, Sorat and 666
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post-Atlantean culture-epoch began. As we are well aware, this epoch
on the other hand to overshoot his mark. Thus in cultural history we see
Golgotha, or further back to the third post-Atlantean culture-epoch,
culture-epochs they spoke of ghosts, but they were conscious that the
knowledge — though this should certainly be cultivated in
only of the Consciousness Soul. In effect, the culture-epoch of the
next culture-epoch.” An unjustified mingling of the Intellectual
which began in 1413; when you add half a culture-epoch — 1,080
a knowledge and a culture which the primal gods had intended for men
difficult; but the non-spiritual defend themselves with all the

Title: Three Streams: Lecture IV: Consciousness Soul and Scientific Thinking, Sorat and 666
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post-Atlantean culture-epoch began. As we are well aware, this epoch
on the other hand to overshoot his mark. Thus in cultural history we see
Golgotha, or further back to the third post-Atlantean culture-epoch,
culture-epochs they spoke of ghosts, but they were conscious that the
knowledge — though this should certainly be cultivated in
only of the Consciousness Soul. In effect, the culture-epoch of the
next culture-epoch.” An unjustified mingling of the Intellectual
which began in 1413; when you add half a culture-epoch — 1,080
a knowledge and a culture which the primal gods had intended for men
difficult; but the non-spiritual defend themselves with all the

Title: Three Streams: Lecture V: Free Human Personality by Self Training, Justinian and the Schools
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cultural evolution, and looks only at the external facts of history,
Western culture we have these two forces, these two streams —
lives in the cultural evolution of the West is illuminated when
Occult Science
rigid — it is difficult to find a good word for this — a
cultivate a strict conscientiousness, in relation not only to
is untrue. If you cultivate what is untrue, you will say: “The

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cultural evolution, and looks only at the external facts of history,
Western culture we have these two forces, these two streams —
lives in the cultural evolution of the West is illuminated when
Occult Science
rigid — it is difficult to find a good word for this — a
cultivate a strict conscientiousness, in relation not only to
is untrue. If you cultivate what is untrue, you will say: “The

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must repeatedly feel our way back in imagination to the culture of
difficult, my dear friends, to speak of these things, for the very
achieve in the way of culture by their own efforts since 747
of ancient Persia, and of the Egypto-Chaldean culture. And when,
a feeling for the meaning of the old cults, those cults which
acquired intelligence and when the cults of the Gods had arisen
although Greek culture was then approaching its outward decline. This
a great cultural question. What happens if the Intellectual or Mind
incomprehensible old cults; there was indeed an endeavour to
cult with no questions asked as to what it all meant, no attempt to
to drag in merely an old cult, as is so often done to-day, when seeds
though this is difficult — to real knowledge of the
revival of ancient cults. For this would be using it not to gain

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must repeatedly feel our way back in imagination to the culture of
difficult, my dear friends, to speak of these things, for the very
achieve in the way of culture by their own efforts since 747
of ancient Persia, and of the Egypto-Chaldean culture. And when,
a feeling for the meaning of the old cults, those cults which
acquired intelligence and when the cults of the Gods had arisen
although Greek culture was then approaching its outward decline. This
a great cultural question. What happens if the Intellectual or Mind
incomprehensible old cults; there was indeed an endeavour to
cult with no questions asked as to what it all meant, no attempt to
to drag in merely an old cult, as is so often done to-day, when seeds
though this is difficult — to real knowledge of the
revival of ancient cults. For this would be using it not to gain

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a manifestation of the Angelos, a faculty not yet under man's
them lies a whole culture of the soul of which they are the
difficult at first to distinguish between them. In the period
when modern history begins French culture was widespread in
the quintessential character of the culture of the
European culture) was something natural and spontaneous. The
equally strong. In the field of culture the whole nation was

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assimilated the creative forces of their culture, these
energy, that especially in the cultural field which
culture. It is true that Philip the Fair had the members of
numerous occult lodges which then began to work exoterically
still preserves today, a culture based on suggestionism, a
culture that is calculated to arrest man's progress towards
Fair, something of this culture which had been brought over
great difficulty, under the compulsion of circumstances,

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determined by an intellectual faculty which is detached from
inner circles of the occult lodges of the English speaking

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tradition and culture were destined to take over in Russia.
which is most difficult to bring to men's understanding today
the cultivation of an active concern of every man for his
sixth and seventh cultural epochs the individual will have to
of history mankind develops some definite faculty and this
faculty plays an important role in evolution. Recall my words
faculty, but four faculties in succession up to the age of
four faculties. A man who is prepared to continue his
cultural epochs.

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the nineteenth century. Or else they have been cultivated in the way
eighteen-seventies. This cultural sleep of the bourgeoisie could
is this: To endow man with the full faculty of the Spiritual Soul. You
instill, to implant into his evolution the faculty for the Spiritual
Soul. I say once more, the faculty for the Spiritual Soul —
“An Outline of Occult Science.”
faculty of the Spiritual Soul.
the Spirit: which from henceforward must fertilise all cultural life,
It can scarcely be denied — if we cultivate the symptomatic
Needless to say, every branch of culture has many different branches
the faculty to perceive men pictorially. You have already heard the
is to cultivate this understanding of his picture-nature, and thus to
arise a faculty to feel and apprehend in man, even as we meet him, his
mid-European culture of the nineteenth century, with essays on the
future. Men must acquire the faculty to perceive the inner gesture in
ruts, and that is what makes it so very difficult to speak of such

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knowledge of this ‘cultural sleep’ ought to have
how, you will find in my book Occult Science. They first
himself the faculty of the Consciousness Soul.
the whole sphere of cultural life if it is not to perish. Our
culture, of course, has many ramifications and consequently
he was a typical representative of Central European culture)
cultural epoch even a professor who dabbles in politics may
simply as an anodyne, a kind of cultural soporific, it is a
tendencies. And because men find it so difficult to make this
difficult to speak frankly on these matters today. For we

Title: Symptom 2 Reality: Lecture VI: Brief Reflections on the Publication of the New Edition of 'The Philosophy of Freedom'
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a mature, impressive and rich culture associated with what I
centre, a focal point where many and various cultural streams
extremely difficult — in fact it was impossible —
often mentioned that there would be no difficulty in
Perhaps I have made it difficult for many of
wrote in later years. People found the greatest difficulty in

Title: Symptom 2 Reality: Lecture VII: Incidental Reflections on the Occasion of the New Edition of 'Goethes Weltanschauung'
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wish to cultivate may be associated with the building which
cultivation of the spiritual orientation that I envisage to
reasons for this choice, reasons which I find difficult to
but clairvoyance is difficult to achieve and the majority
and their clairvoyant faculty. Indeed, where this dichotomy
the cultural life of the time. It is of course easy for me to
difficult problems in this domain which face us now and in
of German culture at the end of the eighteenth and at the
They find themselves driven towards the cultural life which
past. Then came the invasion of Catholic culture by
cultural stream to which Goethe belonged and which produced a
the latter are a few who are receptive to modern culture, but
however, with another aspect of our culture, that aspect
‘Goetheanum’ in these most difficult times.
fundamentally the erudition in all the faculties of our
cultivated everywhere and when cultivated contain the germ of
their cultural sleep ask nothing more. We must seek

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we have to consider are so difficult to convey owing to the
Consequently it is particularly difficult, after the birth of

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in relation to external culture, Goethe and the whole of Goetheanism
form of sacramentalism and cultus. This form of the Christ
proto-European culture, a Celtic culture, within which the
other cultures developed — the Teutonic, the Romanic
operative here; it can only be cultivated if it is not
influence and helped to shape him as a man of culture. It is
cultural ferment for the whole world. Small wonder then
culture of the Consciousness Soul and the culture of the
consummation of papal absolutism, life was made difficult for
them (and is still made difficult for them today); meanwhile
sentence to be possible? A cultured German, a man who is

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more from occult sources in order to make it clear to you
sound common sense of those who do not yet possess the occult
manifests itself as a nightmare. The occult fact is simply
true human dignity, and you work over this image in an occult
saying to you here is only a description of an occult
Romanism. Of course, there is much in Western culture that
by what has taken form within Roman culture. It continues to
belonging to the fourth post-Atlantean culture. This is
specter that appears to the objective occult observer when he
sixth cultural epoch is in its preparatory stages in Eastern
post-Atlantean cultural epoch. This force actually requires
the field of spiritual science are considered difficult to
full measure to these things. They are considered difficult
done only by the true occultist whose development has been in

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handed over to agricultural communes. According to this
culture. There are cultural objects. To select one example,

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you do not understand Greek culture if you do not know that
on the basis of occult knowledge about the Greek slave class
and slavery, without whose existence the Greek culture we so
higher spiritual faculties and that genuine realities can be
person can possess higher faculties and not to the point of
faculties. It is as if one should say to a person, “You
faculties may evolve in the human being. Spiritual science
connection with important matters if these higher faculties
An Outline of Occult Science,
difficult to persuade even our best friends to abandon it.
word secret or occult and is able to refer to anything
whatsoever that is secret or occult, what an altogether
societies dealing with such occult truths as have a bearing
holding back of a certain kind of occult knowledge that is
do with so-called material occultism. By means of this
occultism. Motors can be set in motion, into activity, by an
mechanistic occultism enters into the field of practical
English-speaking peoples. Mechanistic occultism will not only
secret circles of the West that this eugenic occultism will
call eugenic occultism. This is the second capacity —
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being himself is decidedly the most difficult. Thus, in the
difficult for the human being today is the realization of all
The truth is that it becomes exceedingly difficult for people
scale. In the same way a person may cultivate within himself
in that one cultivates more the social and another the
why it is so difficult to discuss the social question. This
these difficult tragic conditions. Only sound judgments can

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It is often difficult for a person to find
admit this to themselves. It becomes especially difficult for
a cultural element in the evolution of humanity. We touch
cultural element, which was permeated in an especially
essential element of the Old Testament culture. The night
of Old Testament culture man would have been entirely
be understood. Human culture could not progress further
breathing remains unconscious, the Jewish culture was a folk
culture, not an individualized culture of humanity. It was a
folk culture in which everything is related to the descent
the basis of folk cultures. The present clamor in favor of an
culture, in which all the peoples represent only folk
cultures, that is, Old Testament cultures. The peoples in all
The cultural impulse of the Old Testament is to be maintained
connections by blood, upon heredity. The culture that must
one-seventh of what must be established in the culture of
its own Jehovah cult, its own socialism, throughout the
All influences of education and of culture must be directed
course of the present and the two following cultural epochs,
way develop Hebraic cultures, each in its own form. Other
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difficulties. These difficulties follow in a particularly
spiritual-scientific discussions. These difficulties arise
Russian conditions. The first great difficulty is that the
culture. The proletarian, who is actually to take the
led to the difficulty that the proletarians, as I have said,
The difficulty,
instance, sees in this the first great difficulty. This is
renders understanding so difficult when people try to grasp
with the basis for distinguishing between wholesome occultism
differentiation as to peoples, and the kind of occultism that
anyone to attain to real occultism, thus serving the whole of
to advance in genuine occultism. But the kind of occultism
an occult development within the societies of the
are trained and instructed in this way for occultism have
occultism related to all human beings, but to a form
from this statement that the occultist in question comes from
difficulty in German culture. This is the reason why in the
culture of Germany and of German Austria only single
to the contrary. They shall take hold upon world culture from
Russian people's culture will continue to be a culture of
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Now we need not give a full description of these cultural stages, but
Many present difficulties and much that is chaotic around us in our
can from an occult perspective be seen to govern our life. When we
belief that people can master everything with the faculties they have
truly more and more difficult because the anti-social forces are
the so-called difficult ideas of economics can be gained if the
difficult considerations of economics, in the areas of capital and
that it would be difficult in our time for people to develop
us? How can we cultivate the social element, this interest of man in
again within our soul, this is a faculty which is decreasing week by
faculty for the other is something that must enter into pedagogy and
faculty in us if, instead of striving after the immediate sensations
him. For this reason it is so very difficult to acquire the activity
each time. According to true occult science, nothing can be done by
always be cultivating them afresh. This is just as it should be
therefore a question of training ourselves in this faculty — through
cultivate the social instinct and impulses in us by looking back upon
inherited faculties. Because the English-speaking peoples have been
especially prepared for the cultivation of the Consciousness Soul they
is in the West, and can indeed be best cultivated as a quality among
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symptoms and from the inner occult standpoint, the nature of
Russian head-culture appears predominantly as a culture of
the East-European culture.
describes the whole of the mid-European culture — is
you are already guessing what is left for them) their culture
is paramountly an abdominal, a muscular culture. That is
man as such. All that proceeds from the culture of the
there that we find the origin of muscular culture in the
Protestantism the mid-European culture is utterly
expression in the receiving of every kind of cultural
seeing here or there this or that occult society — or
society that calls itself occult — will not
considered as occult or similar movements. How do they reckon
dear friends, it is made more difficult, because owing to the
cultivated so much in other quarters.
Anthroposophical Movement is being cultivated here.
time have left undone and what a certain occult movement too
are not difficult, they need only be rightly attacked by

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Occult Science.
Occult Science.
faculty to learn, but to this end you must return to the age
Occult Science.
Occult Science
such thing as an ‘Occult Science,’ for a Science
of ‘Occult Science.’ ” — That, of
of course by mental work. So it is when we speak of Occult
There is such a thing as a published “Occult
be called intimate or occult. It is simply an absurd way of
what has frequently been cultivated by secret societies and

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difficult a language that very few people can read it.
indeed be difficult to lead away from the perception of the
the achievements of Greek culture; but we do not always
blessings of Greek culture. Let us face the fact fully and

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ordering of the universe? What is the truth about faculties and
understood why the Old Testament occult conception possessed a

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and more deeply, in order to acquire faculties that can only be acquired

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world conception of the cultured humanity that has brought this fearful
with deeper understanding what is really not difficult to see today,

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I said that in the ancient Indian cultural epoch man was dependent upon
cultural epochs of our post-Atlantean period that was not the case.
of life, even without special occult training, to extract the forces
the power to think must again be developed, out of our earthly culture.
it had religious revelations, but no concepts out of the culture of
the Greek intellect because the culture of their own time had no intellect
of their time, because there was none, none that belonged to their culture.

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knowledge began to take on motion. It is difficult today to give any
goes to sleep and the cloud goes out of him spatially. It was difficult
It is exceedingly difficult
and time. If you would apply this to yourselves, you might find it difficult
through the extraordinarily difficult third stage, he was at once ready
that emptiness in us, but that in turn gives us special faculties. Certain
ancient faculties have been lost, but through their loss new ones have
been gained that now can be developed as the ancient faculties were
view of the outer world, using the same soul-faculties (if we use them
Occult Science, an Outline,
form. What we describe as our epochs of culture—ancient Indian,
forms we can shape conceptions about the successive cultural epochs.
Golgotha took place in the fourth culture-form (the Greco- Latin) of
Occult Science.)

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of occult science, he at least announces that it is Rosicrucian, or
knowledge that has been obtained in the immediate present is not cultivated.
to the rules of ancient, antiquated occult science.) On the contrary,

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increasingly abstract ideas of the so-called cultured world —
role with elemental power throughout the cultured world from the twelfth
is utterly untrue, there are faculties developing in a spiritual direction,
faculties that will impel these souls to seek a Christ concept in the

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worthwhile, more or less difficult, or more or less satisfactory. We
upon our experiences during its passing, we meet with many difficulties.
anthroposophical thought confront these difficulties in their observation

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of the last weeks. If one asks what is the most important faculty of
that intellectuality is now the outstanding faculty, but that as it
ten beans; to imagine twenty at one glance is already difficult; but
of old occultism and things of that kind—and rituals, of which

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difficult to say: “How can he know that? I don't know it”
rising lower classes of the people who both in blood and cultural heritage
of the cultural basis and a raising of levels as a whole. But this would
difficult, but nothing ought to be too difficult for us and we are meant
notion of, that is, a particular faculty of seeing into the nature of
in clear outlines what I have just now indicated, that is, man's faculty
to think really in abstract concepts, a faculty which the animal certainly
most abstract concepts which we men only form with much difficulty,
if we do not acquire the faculty for going into the real facts through
at developing his faculty for abstraction to an absolute art. In this
faculty for being able to form abstract concepts. Where does this take
scientist shows up the inner connection between the faculty for abstraction
certainly would be were man to develop only a faculty for abstraction),
him of sinking back to the animal. When man in primitive culture epochs
faculty for abstraction, even though it appears one-sidedly in the various
today who with all their faculty for abstraction come so far with this
faculty that they get beyond the one sidedness of the present animal
difficult concepts, the concepts bearing reality. For it is natural, when
own faculties, and he will become so increasingly if he develops only
shall learn to see it again when through our faculty of abstraction we
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a path man is supposed to acquire the special faculty of rising to the
bring men to any extra-ordinary faculty but to a raising og the faculties
that are universal and human. Such a raising of universal human faculties
is difficult. This, however, may not be striven for in such a way that
special faculties for penetrating to the supersensible worlds all striving
and its Attainment. He would say: man strives for special faculties
virtuous, a facility in other faculties exercised ter man on the external
faculties, that is, faculties leading into the super-physical world
should be said to exist between the ordinary faculties the faithful

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Thus, we may say that man really lacks the faculty for knowledge—and
who has conceptions. When, however, he puts this faculty for conceiving,
thinking. This is why there is difficulty in understanding my Philosophy
as described in my Occult Science, you can follow this evolution
Science. It is also naturally the reason for what is still such a difficulty
difficult today to create an Anthroposophical Movement so that it will

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to an occult reality—our body or the experiences of our body are
have referred must be borne in mind. Fundamentally it is not very difficult
employs what is grossly material, it is difficult to make any impression
not meant as a criticism of the culture and conditions of the times;
Men, however, who have remained behind at earlier stages of culture
have preserved a great deal of these former cultural stages in which
difficulty modern man generally has in getting out of himself where
when appearing among people who also belong, let us say, to some occult
occult or whatever else they may be; I have never come across in them

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when in any other way he is connected with modern culture, will have
in such a way that the culture of the civilised world not only was absolutely
In the lofty Culture of Greece we see how man tried in pure thought
morality as a content. In the culturally advanced pagan religion of
But this caused a difficulty to enter into this Jewish religious conception
which the pagan religious conception did not have. This difficulty lay
nature, from the cosmos, shows us what difficulty exists between the
moment pagan and Jewish culture had reached their zenith the force that
exhausted. Men were faced with the death of the culture that at the
post-Atlantean, the Greco-Latin culture stage, in the north was still
the fourth post-Atlantean culture stage, the fifth post-Atlantean culture
stage; (cf. R XLVII.) we know that the fourth post-Atlantean culture
culture epoch. Take any point of the fourth post-Atlantean culture stage,
height this Graeco-Latin culture has come by the time the great—one
this Greco-Latin culture, Plato with his raising of the human myth into
this old Greco-Latin culture of the fourth post-Atlantean culture period
Greece, the northern barbaric culture still had much to pass through
friends, in one culture period? You know that if you take 1413 years
culture period, 2160 years, a little over 2000 years. This is about
the time that passed between Plato and Goethe, a rather long culture
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to atavistic clairvoyance the supersensible world. But this faculty,
have explained the Mystery of Golgotha to you—it was not the cultured
Hebrews, nor the cultured Greeks, nor the cultured Romans, who as I
it was the northern barbarians, with their primitive culture, who in
culture of the Hebrews nor of the Greeks, nor of the Romans. There He
culture consists, in the cultures too of France, Italy, the Balkans,
as as there has been progression here, but even behind the culture of
all these cultures have been radiated out. Naturally it would be dreadfully
prejudiced to believe that what today is Italian culture, Italian civilisation,
streaming out of these cultures, what has remained as the womb out of
culture, I was permitted to comment upon, whoever does this may say
at this Hungary where, you must know, purely Magyar culture has been-supposedly
leaven forming the basis of the Magyar culture over which is now simply
poured what then in reality was only developed very late as Magyar culture.
At the basis of this Magyar culture, however, though perhaps not in
this most fruitful of men in his being for all that is spiritual culture.
This feeling of cultural isolation, this feeling of his that he was
of the word—by a gathering of scholars. In fact the Goethe cult
king of all earthly culture. But neither can one get free of the other
a great scholar, or even as a man of certain culture, is easy to understand
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feeling for the culture of middle Europe. Herman Grimm once said that
“Occult Science:”
regarded with horror; but it will have to be cultivated, if any real
faculty of judgment, is Experience, the totality of what one has

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of the uncultured unfree persons, who are in the widest sense dependent
that this writer defines “the people” as being the uncultured,
to the meaning of the expression “the people”: The uncultured,
view, we would have to say that only one tenth of humanity is cultured,
that nine tenths of the population consist of uncultured, unfree, dependent
tenths of the whole of humanity constitute the uncultured, unfree dependent
uncultured, unfree mass in need of guidance, is not worth much more
uncultured, dependent people in need of guidance, still possess, as it
of spiritual development are accessible to the so-called uncultured,
cultured men of Greece and of Rome stood between the current of Christianity
outside, through some other cultural process, through an ethical process,
it from outside, which came from some other cultural task of humanity,

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thought, they should be given up. People, however, find it difficult
people find it so difficult to understand this!
from the existing kind. Yet people find it so difficult to understand this,
how difficult it would be to think out all that occurs within you during

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a spiritual-scientific aspect, so that it will not be difficult for
only a small minority belonging to the cultivated classes really feels

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times, it cultivates at the same time a soul-life which is entirely
Occult Science,
demand which was conjured up by the cultural process. itself. If production

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in our difficult times. Many things have been considered and put under
For that, a consciousness must be cultivated more and more that there
made to the so-called world of culture, issued by ninety-nine German
by those souls who, where our own particular cultural questions are
Germans themselves should be heard by the whole cultural world. I shall
“TO THE GERMAN PEOPLE AND TO THE CULTURAL WORLD”
is difficult to express it. Nevertheless, if people should think without

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is cultivated in men's souls.
into fundamental things. It is fundamental to cultivate a practical
to the whole economy. It is very difficult today for anyone to gain
— in the places where there were people with a faculty for judging
vain that we cultivate fraternity in the economic life. In all that
take what we think and feel ourself, if we adopt this faculty of inner
run to creating sects, but cultivate something that develops out of
I opposed it with all my might, because a movement for ethical culture

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belief, what kind of art they have cultivated, what attitude they have
of culture, the Indian, and described its character from the most varied
existed in the old Indian culture-epoch — to be discovered only
is particularly prized by the cultured for its very dryness and dullness.
1. Old Indian Culture-epoch:
2. Old Persian Culture-epoch:
3. Egypto-Chaldean Culture-epoch:
4. Graeco-Latin Culture-epoch:
5. Modern Culture-epoch:
has drawn upon the logical consequences of bourgeois culture —
be no spiritual culture, no further culture at all! There would be only
kinds of popular cultural institutions to be set up. What people's kitchens
to cultivate insight into these connections, how little are they still
spiritual, cultural, educational life, and so on. If the life of the

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cultured language of a philosopher, what Bolshevism is doing. You will
is Fichte? Fichte is a characteristic modern thinker. He cultivated
For in what arises and is cultivated in man's community life, when rightly
culture at all, and no rights State, for all this comes out of surplus
economic interests brought to realisation, if members of the agricultural
on the one hand, and on the other the cultural, spiritual life, is such

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spiritual sphere, the administration of the affairs of spiritual culture,
spiritual culture. Through speech we learn as men to understand each
different from what the upper classes can offer as so-called culture,
is concerned people become accustomed with such difficulty to the necessity
to ethers are cultivated in exclusive circles. Just realise how today
have to be made to find a cultural life common to all men. At present
our schools and universities are very far from such a cultural life. In
to a great many people today may seem merely an impulse towards cultural
extravagance, cultural luxury, which in any case could not appear to
we have come so far from them that we are now going through this difficult
other difficultly in modern economic life. Suppose you were carpenter
discussed in another, and all cultural, spiritual relations arranged
the cultural member. They work together in the right way only when relatively
But when a spiritual, cultural life has been built up, which includes
be able to arise for the initiative of the individual faculties which, in
upon the free initiative of individual faculties and the free understanding
of what these faculties promote. There is no other socialism that is

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difficult. But what thoughts do they find easy? They find easy such
difficult to face up to these things; they prefer to avoid such thoughts.
Today it is very difficult
not keep repeating the superficial chatter that it is difficult to apply

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spiritual. And the present — day difficulty in adding spiritual
partaking of genius has condemned the whole modern culture of the west,

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certain reluctance to merge themselves into the cultural
our materialistic culture. There is a great difference
civilization, to sweep away this culture of capitalistic and
these things can be cultivated (however strange that may
a position, through his occult experiences, to communicate
thrown overboard. We must once more cultivate this making of
conceptions. You see when one cultivates such a style today
bit difficult to think of.
the difficulty of bringing mankind forward will lie: for all
from the cultural and economic spheres, that this life of

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superphysical worlds, cultivate a deeper understanding for
present superficial culture.
cultivates imagination. Each one of us must seek his own
cultivates the Imagination from which must come the common
spiritual culture of the future. An imaginative spiritual
culture must be developed in the future. Now we have reached,
culture, that spiritual culture which everywhere works
a culture with imaginative conceptions. Our culture must be
genius should be especially cultivated, out of which should
epoch will have to cultivate Intuition. Only under the
the imagination must be cultivated in the emancipated
characterize what is very difficult to describe. In regard to
remark how much the man of every sphere of culture when he is
worlds and that must be cultivated if one is to find the way
hand, my dear friends, it is extraordinarily difficult to
to permeate the whole of the education and culture of the

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interest groups and have neglected to cultivate a generally human
— a kind of cultural commonality closely connected to
participate. One need really only consider how little the cultural life
cultural life of the ancient Hebrews, there were of course the scribes
concerned other matters than cultural life itself. And it should not be
with our eyes. It is actually rather difficult to point to what the dead
took yet another turn. Within French culture, among the Encyclopedists
respect. In recent years, for instance, German culture has frequently
god on earth. But it should be remembered that German culture had not
greater extremes arising from the same cultural life. If one then wants
to portray such a cultural life, then one has to do so as I did in
it is difficult — it is not actually difficult
Cultural World” contained in GA 23 and GA 189] which will be
or another individual of the need for cultural life to be placed on an
that need to change in our time. We should cultivate the devoted attitude
with all too many inherited notions. Reverberating through modern culture
consciously cultivated that we send down once again into subconscious

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signify for men of the Fifth Post-Atlantean epoch of culture. He
civilisation. For when we envisage this brilliant culture of the
culture was devoid of spirit. What is meant here, of course, is spirit
the whole period of Middle European culture of which I spoke
He himself was not capable of this, for culture in his day could give
of culture there is no real grasp of the spirit, no experience of it
must be said that this culture was empty of spirit. And because of
stream of culture: men were unable to perceive, to divine, the
happen only in an epoch when scientific thinking impinges on a culture
Greek culture which enables the soul-quality of the spirit to pulsate
restrictions by cultivating a form of spiritual life fundamentally
of an alien form of culture. This Greek culture was a cover for the
infantile disease, from ‘culture scarlet fever’, ‘culture
juristic culture was fitting and appropriate. Then this same juristic
transplanted from ancient Rome into the sphere of Middle European culture,
gets ‘culture scarlet fever’, ‘culture measles’, if one
bearers of this middle-class culture, which reached its culmination in
souls, the bearers of this culture were seeking for the spirit without
realm of Greek culture! They learnt Greek in their intermediate
inculcation of Greek culture. No spiritual life belonging
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Occult Science,
Occult Science,
occult powers, but the same force that enables us to take an interest in

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difficult — in view of the many facts that meet one
is little given to cultivating so great an interest in the
incident of external culture, of external technical culture.
is, strictly speaking, peculiar to Asiatic culture. America,
human individual endowed with particular faculties, he is
cultivation of the soil, that is to say, with the primal
connected with agriculture! Of course, there is here, as
country, agricultural or industrial. And much deeper than
much understanding of how to introduce into European culture
a realisation of the actuating impulses of Asiatic culture.
way of bringing Asiatic culture into Europe. One finds a good
with his Asiatic culture, was the pig that grunted and that
speak out quite plainly about the occult facts of

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world to-day. It is not very difficult — in view of the
cultivating so great an interest in the spiritual world. The
external culture, of external technical culture. Freedom has
culture. America, Europe, Asia, each has one- third of what
endowed with particular faculties, he is also the owner of
cultivation of the soil; that is to say, with the primal
agriculture. Of course there is here, as everywhere else, a
in city or country, agricultural or industrial. And much deeper
introduce into European culture what are the real actuating
impulses of Asiatic culture. Just think of Mme. Blavatsky; she
he, with his Asiatic culture, was the pig that grunted, and
quite plainly about the occult facts of our civilisation in the

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peoples, — the faculty for developing the idea of
produced a form of culture that is intellectual, a
thought-culture. Prosaicness and aridity of thought dominate
of culture, of civilisation, from the East. The first and the

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difficulty in understanding it, for the simple reason that the
instance, the things in my “Occult Science.” It
be willing to regain the faculty of looking on their

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the whole extent of pagan culture. Jewish culture was, after all, a
culture is essentially different from our modern Christian culture.
culture had a uniform character. It was principally based upon
“Occult Knowledge”.
Occult Science.
“Occult Science”
cultivate the characterized power of discernment; it would be fatal

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epoch after the peoples responsible for its culture. It was preceded
culture.
all culture in the then-known world, goes by the name of paganism.
Like an oasis, Hebraic culture arises in its midst as a preparation
culture, which differed so fundamentally from the other forms of
source of inspiration for much ancient culture was what can
the sake of the soul! They are out to absorb from cultural life only
spirit. It is difficult to say these things today, for in the
of a large section of modern culture! To keep people in the state of
time. It was a preeminently luciferic culture that persisted until
after the Mystery of Golgotha — a culture inspired by the

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for its culture. It was preceded by the epoch of Egypto-Chaldean
culture.
time, all civilisation, all culture in the then known world,
goes by the name of Paganism. Like an oasis, Hebraic culture
disregarding for the moment this Jewish culture which
ancient culture was what can only be described as an earthly
out to absorb from cultural life only what is regarded as
difficult to say these things to-day, for in the light of
large section of modern culture! To keep men in the state of
preeminently Luciferic culture that persisted until after the
Mystery of Golgotha — a culture inspired by the

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a matter of computation and reckoning. It will be difficult indeed
that cultivation of the inner life alone, as attempted by numbers of
All kinds of hallucinatory tendencies, all kinds of faculties fraught
pastor for the Evangelicals. I shall not speak of the difficulties

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be difficult indeed for men to bring themselves to admit that
of you will have realised that cultivation of the inner life
faculties fraught with illusion come into play.
the difficulties that came from the side of the priests

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on earth. Therefore mineralogy, botany, zoology, cannot be cultivated

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cultivated truly without anthropology — without the

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Outline of Occult Science.
Occult Science
European civilisation there is a special culture of its own
an idea of the special nature of the Russian culture, if we
Europe would cultivate the more intellectual sphere; and this
actually cultivating the soil, of working upon the immediate
this way of culture in the West, in Central Europe, one must
had only with difficulty struggled to acquire an appreciation
the Centre a kind of ethical element is cultivated, and
also necessary to cultivate a certain artistic element, and
that has made quite special difficulties in the
must cultivate in himself a sense for truth! When one speaks
paid to the cultivation of inner truthfulness, as is so often
century, and up to our own day. Indeed it was difficult

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different course through the various epochs of culture. But having
culture, the world of reason in the highest sense of the word —
developed in the course of evolution into the faculties of speech and
cultural life would become completely specialized, completely
culture. This new wisdom must again be Initiation wisdom.
wisdom, then, without their consciousness, the whole of culture would
the ahrimanic form of culture is furthered. What would be the result
into right channels those streams which lead to an ahrimanic culture?
whole of culture would be impregnated with his forces. What else
appointed time, he would establish a great occult school for the
way all culture on the earth would fall prey to Ahriman. Human beings
culture; all the disastrous tendencies unconsciously cherished by
themselves the solemn duty of saving earthly culture for
initiates through whose intermediary the faculties of speech
difficulty is that when they want to understand spiritual science
nevertheless; they are fearful of the difficulties that will have to

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the various epochs of culture. But having made the descent,
intellectualistic thought pervading culture, the world of
faculties of speech and of thinking. Speaking and thinking
earth where he is born; and his cultural life would become
culture. This new wisdom must again be an
unconsciously to him, the whole of culture would become
the streams by which the Ahrimanic form of culture is
channels those streams which lead to an Ahrimanic culture?
the West, the whole of culture would be impregnated with his
appointed time, he would establish a great occult school for
all culture on the earth would fall prey to Ahriman. Men
human culture; all the disastrous tendencies unconsciously
themselves the solemn duty of saving earthly culture for
the faculties of speech and of thinking were transmitted to
be overcome, but for men of to-day the fundamental difficulty
fearful of the difficulties that will have to be encountered

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individualities into the general cultural wealth. Take
parasitic growth on the ordinary body of culture. It
of culture: And then one must think of international
spiritual culture has spread, etc. But all that, that has
the privilege of sharing in any of this culture, if this
culture had not meant hunger and need for the body and
meant to penetrate the general culture of the people, but
of what all this is about: a picture of the culture of
the last century, the Luxury-culture, a culture that
without which this culture would not have been possible,
life has worked out. It is still very difficult for
events. Men find it so difficult today to understand the
years, for that reason it is so difficult to grasp today.

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really not difficult for one who has lived to some extent
faculties and talents. As we shall see directly the
It includes everything that belongs to the cultivation of
your soul-faculties of perception in the direction I have
individual talents, individual faculties, leads into the
cultivates the most simple feeling for the physical-
— in short, they can only be cultivated amid the
everything that is cultivated on the basis of our
man's individual faculties is unmistakably
Occult Science, that describes the supersense
physical-spiritual cultural life we carry from man to man
you give yourselves up to spiritual culture; and on the
death. And if we cultivate brotherliness in economic
precisely by virtue of what we cultivate in our relations
his life after death; in his spiritual culture, he is
physical-spiritual culture, is an inheritance from the
is this threefold being. He cultivates talents in himself
since the 15th century that he must now cultivate
guiding threads is extraordinarily difficult and
Threefold Commonwealth is found it can, like all occult

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soul. This makes it difficult for us to describe
the human being. But these faculties ebbed away. They had
occultism. But they are spoken of in a different way. And
connection: the man who wanted to describe the difficulty
external difficulty of self knowledge, and for that

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between what must be called a declining culture and a culture that may be
how the culture based on bourgeois social contract is in rapid decline,
whereas we are witnessing the dawn of another culture based on what is
greater emphasis how, on the one hand, bourgeois culture is on the
point for the culture of the future.
culture and its spiritual foundation. A remarkable community of people
“Gold possesses the faculty of circulating independently of
cultural narcotics which prevent their looking with wide awake souls at
what is concealed in bourgeois culture. For this reason I have shown you
elements of present-day culture, in so far as, out of the scientific
method of thinking, this culture understands the social life. In a
of our decadent culture; and on the other hand (you know I do not say
naturally is the very opposite of what is meant to be cultivated here,
difficult for them to be enthusiastic about anything. In thought they
cultural decline, namely the tendency to sink back into the bosom of the
special features of our present culture knows that this is threatening
of the culture, the particular technical shade taken on by the culture of
one day I shall do so. This technical culture has indeed one quite
definite quality; this culture in its nature is through and through
culture makes it increasingly necessary — and those who are able to
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at today culturally and politically, in the best and most ideal sense, if
faculties, and so on. I tried — though at the time I was little
forgotten factor in our culture. It is a symptom of something cheerless
matters to such a pa ss that from what we strive after culturally we have
growing human being something different from what has been cultivated in
him of late years. What has been cultivated of late years has, among
our mid-European culture is a particularly forcible example of how a
be experienced. The one thing cultivated today, namely, the worship of
is a conscientious worship. We need the capacity to cultivate the inner
the situation. Kapp who represented agriculture squealed, not knowing
which can be characterised only by saying that agriculture squealed, that
discussions about this cultural and historical phenomenon, and to have
of view in human culture.
the necessity of not being trained for cultural life one-sidedly but as
question, of a most unassuming but cultured observer of life, Herman

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individual branch of human culture. Let us say therefore: We have to
figured what is called philosophy. It is true that this was cultivated
The more recent cultural life of spirit has abolished all these things.
It has no longer any wish to look at man at all; this new culture seeks
that is found in our common cultivation of the spirit, which no longer
bears the stamp of a united culture. It has split us asunder and so far
our cultural life has been so much extended that a man can have a
some special subject to be hailed as qualified men of culture. Naturally,
anyone having culture at heart cannot hope and cannot wish that
general culture. This can happen in no other way than by giving every
college a foundation of the general culture of mankind. The pedants today
beings with an allround culture — if we can work upon men who
our modern culture we have reached the point where a man in his special
culture. For, my dear friends, it has come to this, that our colleges lie
half asleep on the outermost fringes of culture. The following can be
modern sociology is the most nonsensical product of culture that could
because, where it is meant to be cultivated, namely in centres for higher
cultural life; it is there that they have to be sought if they are ever
of our gaze being turned back to the most ancient epochs of culture,
should have to learn what has to do with agriculture, what goes on in
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History of Culture.
culture has tried to ameliorate the severities of life
hardly say that if it were not cherished and cultivated
human organism, consisting of nerve-sense faculties,
rhythmic faculties, and metabolic faculties, is presented
highest culture. To what else, then, should it have

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from here, in regard to our present cultural movement. I
my “Appeal to the Cultural World” has come into his
existing bourgeois culture has been adversely criticised, and
write an “Appeal to the Cultural World” having before
of culture today we are living more than we believe Am a wave
materialistic culture being surmounted in certain spheres is
materialistic culture is fought with words but it is not
culture, must, however, take stand on the same ground as
subsided and out of a much older culture the first blossoming
of post-Atlantean culture arose in the Old Indian period,
culture-period — the old Persian. Still the same in the
matters would go badly with modern spiritual culture.
interest of the spirits above him. Otherwise our culture will
approaching such difficult and serious times that it is quite
Rubicon of the modern cultural impasse. Whoever always wants
culture can evolve.
Where this is concerned, human culture is at its peak. Those
a lying rascal. And to remedy this men must cultivate the
faculty of being sensitive not only to what is logical but

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want to speak to you about the cultural life of our present
had got hold of my “Appeal to the Cultural World”
— he feels aggrieved that middle class culture, as it
with what is to be found in the “Appeal to the Cultural
and write an “Appeal to the Cultural World” I
stream of materialistic culture in every department of life,
this materialistic culture is being overcome, that is an
attitude has been cultivated in a sentimental-theological
in a more tempestuous, uncultured atmosphere! I do not say,
What has bred and cultivated it? Religious Creeds and
this connection if the question of culture is to be taken
which has really arisen out of modern culture must, however,
augur very badly for the spiritual culture of modern times.
civilisation and culture will stagnate and choke and rot.
difficult to render in English.]
difficult times. There is far too much tendency not to take
critical faculties, that intellectually they have got very
no crossing the Rubicon of the miseries of modern culture.
the impulses of the culture of the future can develop.
there. And in this connection human culture is, as it were,
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sense). You will realise without difficulty that in the
Occult Science a considerable amount of knowledge gained
it were, into faculties. So that between perception and
arising. But at this pole it is much more difficult to
when we have learnt (it is difficult to learn, but it is
nowadays that when the occultist gives out his experiences
what is, for example given in my Outline of Occult
one of the most essential cultural tasks,to overcome that
culture. Anyone who understands such matters,will see that
settle down comfortably into cultural evolution, especially

Title: Inner Aspect of the Social Question: Lecture I
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economy, and the spiritual and cultural aspects - and how these three
our bodily faculties of perception, we must recognise beneath the
Occult Science,
striving from the depths of human nature. We can cultivate this in

Title: Inner Aspect of the Social Question: Lecture II
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economy, and the spiritual and cultural aspects - and how these three
The more this brotherhood is cultivated, the more fruitful economic
abstract, but an inescapable need to cultivate idealism in
yourselves. And if you cultivate this idealism, or if you introduce
We shall grow towards Him only if we cultivate idealism in ourselves,
cultivates this second idealism, which must essentially be
cultivated, he can say: “Not I, but Christ in me.”

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economy, and the spiritual and cultural aspects - and how these three
to-day I have pointed to as important, are found rather difficult by
of these difficult conceptions. How do people usually form their
spiritual life, in spiritual culture. This is what draws men together
culture should be justified on its own ground, for it reflects our
should therefore never try to organise spiritual-cultural life except
spiritual-cultural life, only if we take super-sensible life into
just as spiritual-cultural life is a kind of remedy for the remains
cultural life, political life, and economic life. People have gone on
of modern technique which culture and civilisation had carried to
such an advanced stage. But this culture, this civilisation, was

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entering through birth to-day feel a kind of hindrance, a difficulty,
lies something which is extraordinarily difficult for our
cultivated through the anthroposophic view of the world. Of course
cultivated to the utmost. The catastrophe of the world-war has, more
cultural life. The latter cannot become healthy unless fructified by
and find a cultural life that despises the West and us too, for the
Eastern culture still clings to an ancient spirituality and is
as trustee of the spiritual [cultural] life, especially of education,
ignored. But it appears as if this is being learnt with difficulty,
fruits for the cultural life of the whole of humanity.

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LIFE and CULTURAL or SPIRITUAL LIFE. This need of a three-partition
fearful catastrophe of the great war, because of the difficulty which
this can only be grasped with greatest difficulty. How do these

Title: Lecture: The Ahrimanic Deception
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and so on. It is, however, extraordinarily difficult to speak about
extraordinarily difficult to follow up, even with the science of
widespread cultural impulse that was derived from this Asiatic,
even in the culture of Greece.
Greek culture with all their beauty, proceeded, as already said, from
Luciferic preponderated in certain currents of cultural development of
increasing force into what they find so difficult to realize —

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a time as pagan culture in the period of Christian development
itself. Within this pagan culture, the utterly different
Hebraic-Jewish culture took root, having Christianity as its
The nature of pagan culture
Hebraic culture that the moral element was first
occupy a place separate and apart; this pagan culture was such that
in the Mithras cult with its main symbol of the God Mithras riding on
forty, to grasp through the faculty of human intellect itself what
the pre-Christian, pagan culture which still survived in the gnosis
derogatory judgment on this Lucifer culture. For all the beauty
faculty of comprehension until the fourth century
acquired the faculty of using the organs of their intellect, of their
human beings do not receive the spiritual through their faculties of
ahrimanic culture. Even on external grounds it is obvious that
culture, gradually piling one above the other, have created chaos,
questions. It is very interesting to find two levels of culture
reflected picture — but for all that, it is not difficult to

Title: Lucifer and Ahriman: Lecture III
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and then continued for a time as Pagan culture in the period of
Pagan culture, the utterly different Hebraic-Jewish culture
Pagan culture can best be understood if we realise that it
earthly existence. It was actually through Hebraic culture
separate and apart; this Pagan culture was such that man felt
as a religious rite, in the Mithras cult with its main symbol
age of about 4o, to grasp through the faculty of human
described as the pre-Christian, Pagan culture which still
wrong to pass derogatory judgment on this Lucifer-culture.
faculty of comprehension until the fourth century
acquired the faculty of using the organs of his intellect, of
man does not receive the spiritual through his faculties of
prevalent to-day, promotes Ahrimanic culture. Even on
to realise that the levels of culture, gradually piling one
levels of culture existing side by side but using the words
picture — but for all that, it is not difficult to talk

Title: Mission of Michael: Lecture I: The Power and Mission of Michael
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faculties of his head, but indirectly through the effect of the rest
For, the influences upon human spiritual and cultural life do have a
triad. We can observe very clearly in modern culture that the
are a cultural maya and have sprung from the great delusion of modern

Title: Mission of Michael: Lecture II: The Michael revelation.
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drawn your attention to such products of culture as Milton's
artistically as well as spiritually outstanding products of culture we
Hence the difficulty in our time of arriving at a pure concept of the
evolution. Through the culture of the centuries we have become
Thus in ancient Hebrew occultism, the Yahve-revelation was called the
that within them the latent faculty is ready to be awakened which is

Title: Mission of Michael: Lecture III. Michaelic Thinking.
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Occult Science
Occult Science, an Outline,
distinguished faculty of man.
to the beautiful, we would cultivate those forces in us which lead
as I have just put forward enter human cultural evolution. You know
culture, yet in ancient Greece it was still possible to devote oneself
one-sidedly to the cultivation of beauty, for mankind at that time had
longer indulge in the cultivation of the merely beautiful. This would
enables us to see in man a super-sensible being, we cultivate within us
the faculty of perceiving the Christ impulse in our midst, everywhere,
effort to cultivate the consciousness which, right from the outset,

Title: Mission of Michael: Lecture IV: The Culture of the Mysteries and the Michael Impulse.
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Lecture IV: The Culture of the Mysteries and the Michael Impulse.
The Culture of the Mysteries and the Michael Impulse. Self-knowledge and its Permeation of the Three Strata of Consciousness
Mystery of Golgotha there begins, out of Greek culture, a kind of
Greek culture in its entirety — also in art the same trend is
the last echo of a primeval culture of mankind no longer appreciated
back to those times in which a Mystery culture that extended over the
Occult Science, an Outline,
culture. It had its origin in the ancient Mysteries into which those
culture in its entirety if one does not focus one's attention upon the
demonstrable culture. We can best judge what has happened here if we
culture in which Greek civilization was rooted. What has remained is a
mode of thinking is only the last echo of the Mystery culture, for
this culture of the Mysteries was rich in content. Spiritual facts
visualize the following: In a pre-historical age, the culture of the
for me to describe this to you graphically. Visualize the culture of
culture in very ancient times. This culture of the Mysteries — I
have the last ramification, the echo of the ancient Mystery culture.
height. Greek culture stood at an end. We stand at a beginning.
their own self will sense this faculty — which will be theirs
look back; it then will sense this faculty only as a deficiency.
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Title: Mission of Michael: Lecture V: The Michael Deed and the Michael Influence as Counter-pole of the Ahrimanic Influence
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as an oddity, but with a certain cultural-historical sagacity, then
concepts and ideas as they had been transmitted by Greek culture. Then
argumentation is somewhat simple, but it points to the difficulty that

Title: Mission of Michael: Lecture VI: The Ancient Yoga Culture and the New Yoga Will.
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Lecture VI: The Ancient Yoga Culture and the New Yoga Will.
The Michael Culture of the Future
The Ancient Yoga Culture and the New Yoga Will. The Michael Culture of the Future
perception and conceptual view of the world. In my Occult Science,
culture which reaches back into such ancient times, the primeval
Indian culture. We may say: the human head organism of that time was
If I am to characterize the world conception of the third culture
bring it into consciousness again. Therefore Indian Yoga culture is an
times, quite particularly in the Indian culture, but which had been
asks: Why did Indian Yoga culture try to call it back, what did it
third cultural age, something was understood within man that at the
under the after-effects of the culture in which a twofold element is
going back to Yoga culture; that has passed. For the breathing process
post-Atlantean cultural period. Roughly speaking, we might say: In the
third post-Atlantean cultural epoch the human being breathed soul; today he breathes air. Not only our thoughts have
three millennia ago, lived in a night culture. Yahve revealed himself
of thought and culture. This ancient way of comprehending the Mystery
in primeval culture. But this power of comprehension is gradually
arise which will signify for us what the Yahve culture signified for
called Michael culture. If we move through the world with the
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Title: Lecture: Elemental Beings and Human Destinies
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produced within present day culture we may well say that about 99 per
part of general culture. The culture and education of mankind change
Outline of Occult Science,
needed: the evolution of human culture requires that Man should bring
with the greatest difficulty that they come to the point of resolving
part of general education and culture, as they were in ancient times.

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progressed during the difficult war years. Up to the present time it
since the beginning of the fifth post-Atlantean cultural period —
this is also connected the fact that in this difficult time a

Title: Mysteries of Light: Lecture II: The Development of Architecture
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so-called occult movement is reference made to its age. We had among
accomplished, whether working with tools or cultivating the ground,

Title: Mysteries of Light: Lecture III: Historical Occurrences of the Last Century
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more difficult, if there are nevertheless people who are possessed of
Under the influence of modern culture people have lost
reflected image of it shines into us. Here a certain difficulty
developed in the ancient Hebraic culture; and those forces of
the ancient pagan culture. At the present time we have the two
human culture, so to speak. In reality, Christianity does not
Occult Science
foundation, the spiritual-scientific, occult foundation of the

Title: Mysteries of Light: Lecture IV: The Old Mysteries of Light, Space, and Earth
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actual, momentous, basic facts. It is so difficult for people of the
different nuances into our present European culture, with its
economic threads — is by no means an easy matter. Our culture,
the ancient Greek and Latin cultural life, the Greco-Latin spiritual
universities. All the rest of our so-called humanistic culture, even
the Orient. The entire Greek culture goes back to the Orient, but it
merely a cultural-historical phenomenon, but is at the same time a
special faculties. Besides the atavistic clairvoyance, which still
call the thinking faculty; and indeed they were the first
with the plebeian faculties of atavistic clairvoyance.
spiritual culture derives from that which entered humanity at that
was still a consciousness that this faculty comes from the same
form of culture, had united with intelligence in the Greek
civilization; that this existed at the bottom of Greek culture; and
spirit-culture. It was possessed of such inner impulsive force that
cultivation of the soil, and so forth.
through our secondary schools and universities as spiritual culture,
The Mysteries of Light in the present-day oriental culture, the
regions the spiritual culture was felt to be very unfruitful, and
There is the crux of the cultural problem, this second current. If we
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Title: Cosmic New Year: Lecture I: The Three Streams in the Life of Civilization. The Mysteries of Light, of Man, and of the Earth.
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secondary schools, into the whole popular cultural life of modern
reach a purified cultural life. For this reason Spiritual Science
stirring within him something of this impulse to free the Cultural
Initiation can give concerning the origin of our present cultural
present life of culture. Of these three streams the one most
Culture. They tried to draw conclusions from his philosophy. The
culture. You will correct me if I make a mistake, for I was not there

Title: Cosmic New Year: Lecture II: The Michael Path to Christ: A Christmas Lecture
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fearful deterioration that has overtaken the so-called culture of
cultivated as those which we find in the leading personalities during

Title: Cosmic New Year: Lecture III: The Mystery of the Human Will
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last few days, we see how essential it is for the further cultural
that it would be difficult in our time for wider circles of people to
significant difficulties. You have often been told that the Science of
speak of other great difficulties in the entrance of the Science of
Mystery of Man's Will has been veiled from modern culture especially
— is absolutely intellectual, a culture of the understanding; for
the culture of Natural Science is an intellectual culture. The Will
by our exclusively intellectual culture. Only when we seek, through
the whole Earth existence. This conception is a very difficult one,
culture than of the post-Socratic. It is certainly true that with
characteristic of our Western culture. This logic, this dialectic, has
arisen the greatness of Greek culture itself, that unique ancient art,
culture, to which, through the incarnation of Lucifer man was given

Title: Cosmic New Year: Lecture IV: The Breaking-in of Spiritual Revelations Since the Last Third of the Nineteenth Century. Thoughts on New Years Eve.
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towards those beings to whom religious cult and religious sacrifice

Title: Cosmic New Year: Lecture V: The Dogma of Revelation and the Dogma of Experience. The Spiritual Mark of the Present Time. A New Year Contemplation.
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with our classic period of culture — this is lacking now. The
leading. Our solution of the difficulty should be to overcome
Experience”. I wished to show that the one-sided cultivation of
general culture, without coming into contact with the Luciferic
this German world of culture, we have at last come to this, that men
his own words the inevitable coming of the Luciferic-Ahrimanic culture

Title: Lecture: Some Conditions for Understanding Supersensible Experiences
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faculty will be so vitiated that even if millions of experiences of
orientation given us here on earth by the culture that is smothered

Title: Lecture 1
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ruler or the rulers. It is very difficult to understand the feelings
Christian era because it is difficult nowadays to take account of how

Title: Lecture 2
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a talent for cultivating platitudes existed and on the other hand for
surface; but what tsarism really cultivated appeared in its true
and the other areas dependent upon them, two layers of cultural
external purely literal platitudes we also have the cultural
the awareness of the necessity for renewal of spiritual/cultural life.

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is good for me in order to counter this or that difficulty in life?
culture of secret societies, which are sated with empty symbols. But
and spiritual/cultural life is truly free, meaning that here in
when all the institutions responsible for cultivating the spirit,
that is, cultural life, are dependent only upon themselves.
a spiritual/cultural reality. The spirit will possess the possibility
platitudes this will be especially difficult though. For during the
platitudes. It is made difficult because those who live in platitudes
possible if the spiritual/cultural sector is allowed to develop
generation a new spiritual/cultural life appears on earth. It's
the cultivation of a true spiritual life must be poured into this
Above all, the desire for the liberation of spiritual/cultural life
spiritual/cultural life can create this empire.
It is difficult to believe that in the lands

Title: Knowledge of Healing: Lecture I
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more do we find how everything that could be cultivated by man in the
occult science, we see that with the concept of this occult science, of
to have any place in occult science it was said In all science, in all
All these faculties were originally combined in one man possessing the
man is not disposed to allow that the very faculty of perception in
men in our sense-faculties from the characteristic men of the fourth
life; we must acquire the faculty for making our way into soul and
this faculty through spiritual science we shall take the opposite
culture-epoch. Then the reflective man will once again become a knower
faculty for seeking the truth. Those with a little logic who, hearing
the faculty for bringing down spiritual forces of the soul from the

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the passive kind of knowledge cultivated todays is in reality a
called the birth of human phantasy — man's faculty or
knowledge which is especially cultivated and most in favour. It has

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from ancient atavistic clairvoyant faculties and gave man a knowledge
difficult it is to find our way into the ideas presented in the
possessed atavistic faculties with which to behold them. But now these
faculties could not rightly be possessed by man. On the other hand,
the whole cultural life of Europe, unless men bethink themselves in
human faculty of knowledge? Should not this be the thought that rises
culture is due to the fact that we ourselves are no longer in earnest
its grave and when ideals and works of culture will no longer send

Title: The Meaning of Easter: St. Paul and the Christ Impulse
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clairvoyant faculties and gave man a knowledge far surpassing the
should confess today, in all sincerity, how difficult it is to find our
possessed atavistic faculties with which to behold them. But now these
faculties could not rightly be possessed by man. On the other hand,
that will inevitably lead to decadence in the whole cultural life of
character can be brought again into the human faculty of knowledge? Should
lying and deception in modern culture is due to the fact that we
works of culture will no longer send their voice out into the universe,

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These well-intentioned people are the really difficult ones to deal
a cult, there the grave of Christianity is being prepared. Those who

Title: Roman Catholicism: Lecture I
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that, among people who had reached a certain degree of culture, freedom
something which illustrates how the cultured people of the day were
them he analyzed the difficulties humanity experiences in this very
out how necessary it is to follow these difficulties with clear
mood in wide circles of the cultivated world which seemed full of

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culture, all that belongs to the fourth cultural epoch. And the
post-Atlantean age, which we seek to cultivate through spiritual
the difficulties of working on the faithful in modern times and
generally to take these difficulties into account. One ought to pay
cultivated was not applied to produce sharply defined concepts. What
difficult to distinguish in the individual instance whether it is
culture of the fifth post-Atlantean epoch. It then became necessary
is so great but great for the last culture epoch, for, of course,

Title: Roman Catholicism: Lecture III
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intensified condition of consciousness. The difficulty in the present
“On the Cultivation of Human Egotism by the Churches” —
egotism in human nature. Churches, as cultivators of the deepest
the most extreme egotism. By this cultivation of egotism on the part of
cultivated, mankind has become what it is today. Just think if the
greatest difficulty in freeing oneself.
present culture. It is on this side then that the naivety lies; and

Title: Oswald Spengler: Lecture I: On Spengler's Decline of the West
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of our world-culture in the present cycle. I would like today
demonstrates how the culture of the Occident has now reached a
declining cultures of the old Orient, of Greece, and of Rome.
complete collapse of the culture of the Occident must be
by the year 2200 this Occidental culture will have fallen into
Spengler does not consider the single cultures to be as sharply
Egypto-Chaldean, Greco-Latin, and present-day cultures. He is
too considers such cultures. He looks at them with the eye of
observes the rise and fall of cultures — oriental,
cultures; they go through their childhood, their maturity, and
rising and declining cultures as organisms, and then look at
our culture, our entire Occidental civilization, as an
culture, it is like an organism in having infancy,
pointed out to Spengler that the cultures do not always have
themselves and will do so in this case also; when our culture
cannot speak of a seed somewhere in our culture, but only of
observer. And those who speak of cultures continuing
organism which is a culture or civilization, its
new seed into the Persian culture. The Persian mysteries were
the Greco-Latin period. And then the stream of culture
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Title: Healing Factors for the Social Organism: Lecture I
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millennium our western culture must fall into decadence and
for the view that the culture of the 17est is heading for
Outline of Occult Science
was applied in European culture and its American offspring, which
occidental culture. For merely to talk about immortality after
seriousness concerning the cultural necessities that have to be
our time is in danger of destroying the culture of our earth -
That is just the great difficulty that one has when one seriously
further course of cultural materialism is condemned to not be
one does not do that, as we have done in occidental culture for
understood the entire historical and cultural significance of

Title: Lecture Series: Man and Nature
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one-sided and difficult to bear. Philip Mainländer, the
difficult and much less sensational than visiting the School

Title: Healing Factors for the Social Organism: Lecture II
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becomes for one incarnation one-sided and difficult, as it did

Title: Social Forms: Lecture I
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indicates the difficulties of the age in which we live. I
life. In our case the difficulty would be compounded should a
more difficult because the one existing school has, of
when one reads Steiner's other occult books. They all point
misleading; the sheepskin of a superficial occultism

Title: Social Forms: Lecture II
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of certain Western occult politics have envisioned them for a
with the brain. For, in regard to its faculties, this brain
Occult Science, an Outline.
materiality and to nurture and cultivate thoughts that follow
recent cultural development. It therefore cannot be a matter
political and cultural endeavors, then these efforts only

Title: Social Forms: Lecture III
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Occult Science, an Outline
experience. A person who perceives matters in an occult sense
mystic actually reveals nothing more to the genuine occultist

Title: Social Forms: Lecture IV
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clearly show the extraordinary difficulty we have in freeing
difficult to deduce the inner trends of facts from the
existence, and that from a cultural and historical point of
view people of the future will find it difficult to grasp how
they find expression in full earnestness. It is difficult for
find so difficult. Why is that?
of our whole age and its effects on the cultural, political
in such a way that no use is made of the faculty of memory

Title: Social Forms: Lecture V
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mention the periods that preceded these cultural epochs,
must take hold of humanity as inner cultural education,
cultivate this already now as an impulse that must
about man's faculties between death and a new birth if we do
what had its start in 1914, one must resort to the occult
that mankind cultivate a certain sense of humor on its path
today. It is extraordinarily difficult to cope with the
other, the difficulty and danger of this path. We must be

Title: Social Forms: Lecture VI
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outside Bolshevism is to be cultivated further, it must turn

Title: Social Forms: Lecture VII
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the obvious features of present general culture, what do we
cultivate the spiritual life. The West, on the other hand, is
materialistic culture. One with the faculty to look a little
have faculties of philosophy, no more than two of the

Title: Social Forms: Lecture VIII
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preexistence, of life before birth, is then cultivated.
faculties are distributed over the world's various regions,
that in order for the cultural life, the life of the state
In this modern age, we will not arrive at a cultural life if
disposition, we come to the essence of the cultural, the
will come into being when the cultural life, the life of
possible; a cultural life will be present that will unite the
prenatal life with that after death. Such a cultural life
being into whom, in the cultural sphere, shines his prenatal
initiation science in his will to transform the faculties

Title: Social Forms: Lecture IX
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the essence of the Central European cultural life, which,
Having played a certain role in Central Europe, this cultural
number of other cultural concerns of that region. Born on
The difficult
cultural importance.
with great difficulty into a word, which then issued forth as
summation of the entire cultural essence of Central Europe
form the whole new cultural striving, that took hold of him
deeper occult foundations of which I spoke here a few days ago.
lack of culture still included the practice of blood
tendency to devastation in regard to the established cultural
vestiges of this old cultural life into schools for civil
not do things like that; the Ahrimanic, materialistic culture

Title: Social Forms: Lecture X
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Occult Science,
particularly charmed when he wrote something like an occult
this occult chemistry. What really happened? This Mr.

Title: Social Forms: Lecture XI
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Occult Science
for our spiritual life, our free cultural life. We need them
question of education with that of general culture. For
agricultural circles, and so on. It is precisely the economic

Title: Social Forms: Lecture XII
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a cultural life was born out of a primeval, wholly spiritual
fruits are primarily cultural; and all of mankind has
cultural life, permeated through and through with the trend
referred to by Huxley, namely, the faculty of imitation. It
Occult Science, an Outline,
the result? Then, the result is the conscious cultural life,
creates the cultural life while working inwardly upon itself.
All cultural life is, in fact, inner formative development of
that is the cultural sphere, the transformed mineral kingdom,
Cultural, Spiritual Realm
corresponding to the mineral kingdom, we have the cultural
“human instinct for mimicry,” the faculty of
of the mineral world man attains to his cultural life; that
infused with the cultural element of jurisprudence. Finally,
beyond the most primitive, elementary level, the faculty of

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Occult Science,
Occult Science
this way appears as the content of culture and civilization
the other contents of culture. In every cultural content,
forms it into a cultural life (which then exists in our midst
defines quite clearly what we call the cultural realm of the
possibility of strictly defining the spiritual or cultural
our culture, we find its most conscious component parts to be
with his ego he is grounded in its cultural sphere. Thus, as
World Cultural Sphere
cultural sphere from the transformation of the ego. Now,
from his environment insofar as it is the cultural sphere. If
descends from a cultured family; he now grows up in an
uncultured family. His face then bears that subtle nuance of
provision of the cultural sphere that surrounds it in this
from the cultural sphere surrounding the physical body, what
rights sphere acts upon the etheric body and the cultural
establish in the cultural or spiritual sphere we draw from
Cultural Sphere
climate, finally even the cultural life. You know that there
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the cultural development of mankind in art, religion and
body during the old Indian cultural period, a certain
of the next cultural epoch — the unfoldment of the
the higher domains, the rights domain and even the cultural
in Orientalism. It entered into Occidental culture, faintly
spiritual or cultural sphere is bound up with the wholly
culture, as if stuck with pitch to comfortable seats, not
ask today: Do people wish to go on cultivating social

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reconstruction of culture from his own inner being. We no
upon his faculty of judgment twenty-five years ago. At age
cultivated in its purest form in the initiation centers
longer in such pure form, it was cultivated in Egypt in a

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can say that people who, in an occult sense, do not have
little inclination for faculties that wish to experience,
do this in the first place by permeating our culture once
cultural life.
pictorialization of the whole life of culture, this
external culture, today's science, certainly does not deal in
wrote an occult chemistry. What did he do in this book? He
is the reason why anthroposophical cultural thinking must lie

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which cultural, political, and economic matters are handled
the cultural, political, and economic field. It is the

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change, the faculty of actual intelligence increasingly
will have difficulty explaining the nonsense of the
viewpoints there existed yet another in all the old cultures.
In the late Greek culture, it was already no longer present,
abstractions, to mere theory. In the cultures of antiquity,

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culture, had basically faded away between
quiet note, for much of Greek culture was still alive in him. It develops then with particular
vehemence in the Roman culture within which it had been prepared long before Aristotle, and,
a particular culture, or the first hints of it, was being prepared alongside that which lived on
was a highly spiritual culture which arose from an inner perception living pre-eminently in
within this occidental culture, the way of thinking which comprehends primarily what takes place
out with full force in the Middle (or Central) culture. Thus we can distinguish between the
Eastern culture — the time in which the 'I' is first experienced, but dimly — and the
Middle (or Central) culture — primarily that in which the 'I' is experienced. And we see
during the development of all that can originate out of this I-culture.
We then see how, within the I-culture of the
this I-culture. For what is it that arises through Kant? Kant looks at our perception, our
Central culture in which the 'I' came to full consciousness, to an inner experience — was
involved with the culture of Central Europe — that which is now the culture of the West.
This came to meet him in the person of David Hume and it was here that the culture of the West
[of this culture]
lie? In the oriental culture we
express themselves, spread out, in imaginative pictures. In the Western culture we find that, in
the human being of the Western culture the 'I' is already below this sphere. It is below
the Central region of the earth's culture still set itself against this with all force in Fichte,
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imaginations, put into practice in present cultural development what these beings introduce. If
From the Roman culture, and even already from the
Hellenistic culture there developed, as we know, what took hold of the human beings of the Centre
culture when one considers at first that all three branches of human experience — the
Western regions to begin with, is that Roman culture spreads as a sum-total of people towards
culture —what took shape, that is, through the intersection of these two lines (see
culture embodied in a language — it dissolves into it, assumes it. It grows into this
Latin, culture. Thus, in a certain respect, in so far as Western humanity is submerged in the
lived on as Puritanism and the like but which had no connection with the real world culture. We
would really be cultivated. We could then imagine that, in such a crude way, some individual
cleft is nevertheless there. It is difficult to find a bridge between the style of Part One of
— something one does not allow to be touched by outer culture.
colour, revealed through colour, what has inspired and worked through different human cultures

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blossoming of oriental culture; in Greek art as he construed this for himself from Italian works
Thus, in a later phase of European culture, there
modern people, in the culture of ancient Greece. Goethe also strove towards this Greek element.
imbues itself with reality only with great difficulty. It was this semblance-nature of Central
intimate context what exists in a less refined form in external culture at large. A crude
spiritual-scientific culture which not only wishes to enter, but must enter, the world
today still has an extremely difficult task getting through. And everywhere those who wish to
Contributions to German Cultural History,

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faculties in his soul which enabled him to achieve a relationship to nature — a
idea of the faculties rising up out of the human soul that are higher than the faculties
concerned with daily life. Although in olden times these faculties arose from the soul in a
dreamlike way, they were nevertheless faculties different from those of everyday life and it was
faculties that people tried to probe to the depths of the
knowledge of their culture, perceived a spiritual element in all the manifestations of nature;
culture was retained as a heritage from the ancient Orient. And when people still had this last
Europe. European thought and culture was, as it were, closed off from access to the Orient. But
dialectical-legal aspect. The economy was a minor element in the ancient theocratic cultures
money was gradually lost and the dialectical-legal culture spread in Europe as a kind of economy
element grew up in a kind of agricultural economy based on barter, and it was only when
forgotten; spiritual culture could be forgotten, but machines would remain. They would simply be
they can become free. They have to develop a faculty that has absolutely nothing to do with
faculties that stand in a relationship to nature, he is not free. If he tries to flee into the
faculties that have nothing to do with either knowledge or practical life, like pure
intelligence, he can appropriate freedom to himself in the course of cultural development. It is
precisely through a faculty like the intellect, which does not stand in a relationship to the
other, can perceive what role must be played by cultural life; how cultural life must give
economic life its configuration. This can only happen if the cultural life is independent, when
declare spiritual science a heresy. This is what makes difficulties for our Anthroposophical

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inborn faculties of such a nature that they were able to come to this instinctive perception. Out
The inborn faculties based on the action of the
to many difficult conditions. Take the fact that the existing accounts concerning the Mystery of
which a faculty of vision, of supersensible perception, is again being prepared. It is the wish
of spiritual science to prepare for this faculty which humanity must take hold of again. Not the
faculty. But this new vision is rising up as a necessity which must take hold of humanity. And it
is into this faculty of vision that a true comprehension of the Mystery of Golgotha can shine
whole human nature during the ancient oriental culture. Those who worked out of the Mysteries

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culture of Middle Europe, as we have come to know it in recent weeks,
“Outline of Occult Science.”
“Outline of Occult Science.”
to take spirit-self into it in the next, the sixth, culture-epoch. I
amount of intellectual culture enables them to solve the riddle of
can absorb from modern culture — that culture which today is

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culture of Middle Europe, as we have come to know it in recent weeks, will be wedged.
Occult Science
Occult Science
now I am preparing myself to take spirit-self into it in the next, the sixth, culture-epoch. I
culture, people are still not able to solve the riddle of man. Man is missing from what can be
as a cosmic being. Out of all that modern culture — this much-praised, idolized culture of
spiritual science may not be hostile towards Christianity, but is culturally valueless. And then
comes the really good bit: spiritual science, he says, is culturally valueless for telepathy will
Occult Science,

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Man which must form the foundation of all true spiritual culture. It
would find it extremely difficult to train himself to feel that by
difficult to attain; but we shall more easily raise ourselves to this
phraseology, man will become inwardly richer and will gain the faculty

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one another; it is only the faculty of mental abstraction in the head
is however not the case. If we have the faculty for observing the
processes and happenings. Some of you may say that they are difficult
next lecture. It had to be rather more difficult; but when we have
overcome these initial difficulties, we shall have constructed the

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difficult for the physicist to speak of Ether, for he thinks that

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now we are confronted with another difficulty. The size of the Sun has
into difficulties.
This difficulty cannot be settled by studying the outer aspect of the
form. That is not difficult to comprehend, for we have seen that we

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Now it should not be difficult to understand that these forces of
Now it will be a little more difficult to find the relationship

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Occult Science — an Outline,
faculty must owe its origin to something.
then naturally be somewhat more difficult.

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Egypto-Chaldean culture, we should find that man did not look upon
very different kind of culture which will guide humanity then; and it
so much nonsense masquerades as genius today that it becomes difficult

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knowledge of spiritual beings. In our present difficult time, it is

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the faculty of thought and ideation can work together with the Will in
not find it difficult to bear in mind also that the idea of the world
We must really cultivate this sense for reality in our inner being by
of human culture, this application of the methods of Spiritual Science

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faith, which has been cultivated since the Council held in
a Roman Jesuit, Father Secchi. There is no difficulty in standing on
Occult Science.
its contemporaries, least of all by the most cultured.
of history. It would indeed be difficult to describe it, if one kept
this connection, arising in the materialistic stream of culture which
about them at the present difficult and fateful time.
Occult Science

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to make one perceive the connection between Man, his culture and
their effect on the cultivation of the land, represented a certain
Europe and American culture, of the split between materialism on the
Occult Science,

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better known than he is among more cultured circles. Those who

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—though the latter is more difficult than the former.
difficulty in spreading Spiritual Science lies in this

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in the Central European faculties had been read by Hegel. Hegel
was most difficult to pry apart because the volume was still so

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object by saying here we encounter a difficulty. One will soon
Adam Smith only dealt with cultivated land, with private

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Spiritual Science, History, Reincarnation, Culture, Examples
Science, History, Reincarnation, Culture, Examples
culture, outer civilization propagates in a straight line from
century in Europe and who were present in the cultural spread
great blossoming of the oriental culture of nature, but it was
particular culture of wisdom which could not be transplanted
culture.
rebirth while the oriental culture, even in its decadent form,
The entire American culture with its materialistic aspect,
arguments about private property and its cultivation, and of

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to these extra-earthly forces. What we call our mental faculty, our
if we, egotistically boasting of our “higher culture,”
view of a higher culture. These early inhabitants of America, the
As a result of their specially developed oriental culture, just this
culture, live now in American bodies. A part of these, I should say,
and there went through a culture which was not yet permeated by
tradition as spiritual culture and merely accepted as such through

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we come — as you know from the book Occult

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— as you know from the book Occult Science

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death by cunning means. There are reasons which induce certain occult
Emperor Julian certain occult societies guarded their secrets so

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which induce certain occult societies to withhold vital
Julian certain occult societies guarded their secrets so

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faculty of judgment, comes into the world of thought, so, when we
assess the difficulties that will have to be overcome before the

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faculty of judgment, comes into the world of thought, so,
will be able to assess the difficulties that will have to be

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nothing of culture but were quite simple men both in intellect and
For us, however, in the 5th culture epoch, both ways are
regards its culture, threatens to become a heap of ruins. Nothing can
which could be revealed to the shepherds as well as to the cultured
must find it by cultivating all that within ourselves of which we

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center of the view found in the cultic rituals performed by the priests in
community is facing a difficult year, that all our forces must be gathered

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had a central place in the cults performed by the Egyptian
our community is facing a difficult year, that all forces must be

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with one and the same faculty of knowledge that men of old
We must not think that the faculties of knowledge in
different from our own, is nevertheless difficult for many people
their culture, did not see the colour blue, that the heavens were not
experienced as blue. As the faculty for the perception of blue, of
olden times men possessed a deep, inner faculty for perceiving what
faculties of perception. Man in olden times was highly sensitive
more living, more intense. It was with a faculty of external
remained for man's faculty of perception which now became external He
what man had once seen through faculties of inner perception was
spiritually through faculties of external knowledge was transformed
their faculty of perceiving the Star, we have developed our dry
mathematics and mechanics. The faculties of outer and inner
What really underlay this faculty of perception? During
our existence was spread over cosmic expanses. And the faculty of
essentially a faculty which entered strongly into the human being
it was a ‘pre-natal’ faculty. What the soul lived through
faculty in those who were pupils of the Magi. And when the pupils of
the Magi developed this particular faculty they were able to say:
The faculties by means of which the earth's depths, the
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last remnants of faculties of vision which in much earlier times were
last remnants of ancient faculties of vision still existed in
individual man, faculties capable of grasping the super-sensible
times were wanderers. The faculties of inner knowledge coming to them
sense-perception then developed out of this inner faculty. This
sense-perception. The faculty of outward perception, expressed in the
Egypto-Chaldean and Greek cultures proceeded from the Turanian
primeval faculties of vision in man. Yet their last remnants still
culture; for the one does not pass abruptly into the other, these
— this was prepared for in Greek culture. The ancient
the human being, not indeed gained with our conscious faculties of
knowledge, but with the instinctive faculties of men in those times.
Soma-drink, men tried to quicken the faculty which appeared, in its
cultural professions are very far from realising the need of union.
is typical in all cultural affairs. In the realisation too that the
cannot help asking: Where then are the cultural interests of the
people's life, we need a Cultural Council for the promotion of
“It will be difficult for anyone who goes into
say to himself: “It will be difficult for anyone who goes into
This ‘Cultural Council’ was founded a year
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the faculty of human understanding to the highest level, a level which
faculties of apprehension and thinking — that is to say, inner powers
well as the faculties of instinctive clairvoyance, had lost their
whom the ancient faculty to gaze into the how of cosmic happenings had
universe. The wisdom relating to cosmic happenings was also cultivated
masses of the people possessed faculties of instinctive clairvoyance
geometry presented to mankind by Euclid had already been cultivated
the outer universe belonging to an ancient culture which in its last
so, through their faculty of inner vision, the simple shepherds in the
faculties developed in specially prepared pupils of the Mysteries
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faculty existing to-day, which in its approach to the outer world
Thus what sprang as science from an ancient culture, and was still
“Occult Science”

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not be difficult for us to be convinced of the truth of repeated
They were not, of course, cultured people in the sense in which we
think of culture today. But there was a certain quality in these
understand the curious culture of Japan — which presents so
culture which have remained in the language and other forms of
hearts from a degenerate Oriental culture. We can find evidence of
Life itself indicates the line of investigation, and then the faculty
receive them; namely, souls through whom the ancient culture of the
this old Oriental culture at the time of the Mystery of Golgotha.
of certain facts and events of the spiritual worlds. Those faculties
course, if the faculty of healthy reason has to confront such

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present in colleagues of other faculties — who pose as
seek out cultural historical falsehoods. It is extraordinary
how deeply these cultural historical falsehoods are taken up.
untruthfulness is a cultural phenomenon of the present and
cultivate a free and open insight for what causes decline in
the greatest part of our cultural life. Anthroposophists for
can be cultivated in our relationship to external things and

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Science meets with so much difficulty, because fundamentally
Threefold State” (book) is so difficult to understand,
grasp what is a little difficult, which requires effort. It is
should not cultivate such inwardly frivolous thoughts as
“This is difficult” — for if it were given in
objective work this apparent difficulty simply must be

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while on the contrary we make the Earth richer if we cultivate
not need to be cultivated in an abstract way; when one is able
anything else which we cultivate pedagogically, we wish to

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cultural life, or in outer life, these insoluble-knots were
become the Minister for Culture in Wurttemberg during the

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have often pointed out that oriental culture has fallen into

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difficult problem of knowledge and conscience for modern
“Occult Science”
culture on the one hand, on the other hand that which
this equilibrium must be found. The fruit of the culture, the

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centering round three significant impulses of culture or
Eastern, Asiatic culture. About the third impulse we shall have to
of what has until to-day been considered as the Asiatic culture, a
the element of soul into what expresses itself as their culture or
intellect, as the Modern European mechanistic culture does. The
dear friends, look back to such conditions of the primeval culture
cultivate is love.” But, my dear friends, that would mean: We must
the European who longs for the rickets of culture, and the Asiatic
culture, the ethical expression of which, for him, is piracy and

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Therefore a certain training and culture of the will was demanded
their way through the difficulties one has to encounter in any
the world, and one has to cultivate the right perception and know
Decision is with us to-day — that difficult hour of decision

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see through this cultural and spiritually favoured `esoteric
What appears to be thoroughly difficult to understand to those
These things are of course difficult to discuss because as soon
feeling for the spiritual life, when confronted with difficult
Obviously it would not be so difficult to get through this if

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modern and particularly in European culture. This low point may be
still prizes to-day as Greek culture; developed through the fact that
culture was unfolding, that which we call intellectual or
Greek culture, so much admired by posterity, came into being out
Latin and Roman culture then took over something that was in a
comprehension for that which lived in Roman culture know: There the
sense known in Europe, in the Greek culture: The Romans developed the
fundamental material of culture. The life of humanity thus entered
difficult and is rendered still more difficult through the fact that
their own body. For example, the really cultured Greek looked up to
thinking. And when a particularly cultured Greek ate, he indeed
cultured Greeks and the cultured Romans had concepts that were
described in my “OCCULT SCIENCE”, the Angels, Archangels,
culture of humanity, and of pouring into it the results of a
enabling us to find the spirit anew, and to cultivate in human life,
dear friends, after our long absence. Cultivate spiritual science
be cultivated individually, so that we may progress. Cultivate what
gradually find the path enabling you, in the present difficult and

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“Occult Science”
“Occult Science,”
“Occult Science.”
regard them occultly today, to the same sphere to which the
the occult gaze to the Hosts of the Cherubim, Seraphim,

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our external intellectual culture, but to what expresses itself
intellectual culture — for them a special influence was
fifteenth century approached, the culture of Europe was tending
culture, how far does it extend? Fundamentally, it is limited
attempted to carry on some sort of religious culture by

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our external intellectual culture, but simply to
intellectual culture, for them a special influence was
approached, the culture in Europe was tending more and more to
civilisation has now grown up. Our modern scientific culture,
attempted to carry on some sort of religious culture, by means

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with the declining culture of Rome, the influence of Western
experience of the Spirit gradually faded from Western culture, and we
that has taken place in Western culture in respect of the
surmount. The whole of our Western culture needs the Easter

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one time in Western culture, has gradually been lost sight of

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“Occult Science,”
the faculties, of the human intellect. To be sure, what we
comprise under the faculties of the intellect includes
to the appetitive faculties, to the will. Today we will turn
our attention to these faculties with reference to mankind in
“Occult Science”
turn our attention to the intellectual faculties and remember
cultivated as something universal, hovering over
institutions, to cultivate a science which is quite impersonal,
sphere that the levelling down of the whole of human culture is
indication of how the ordinary intellectual culture in modern
cultivation of the intellect. People can take the line of
is one way in which intellectual culture can be grasped.
universe. For what a man does, inasmuch as he cultivates
seized by the culture of the intellect» The intellectual
culture only develops in the head, as it were, and hovers too
hovering over mankind as the intellectual faculty, so do
appetitive faculties not transformed into love.
State culture, which has fallen into decadence, is something
culture, which are immensely important, and have sought in so

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Occult Science
say or write down through their own faculty of perception,
not trained his faculty of observation, it is nevertheless
most difficult to distinguish whether a person is actually
difficult to understand that empirical super-sensible
of percepts. We also have memory, the faculty of
It is not difficult to recognize that what enters into the
able to notice how dreaming is connected with the faculty of
as into that of culture, to be able to ask ourselves: Where

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reality. Difficult though it may be for modern thought to
so intimately tied to the faculty of memory. We observe this
explains the difficulty of seeing in the external physical
knowledge, so intimately linked with the faculty of memory
organism. We should have to picture this faculty, inherent in

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their culture only in the first third of the fifteenth
the Greek culture — it became estranged from the direct
that is even more difficult to discern than preexistence
culture and shone across into Asia, casting its shadows into
the most difficult problems by means of the threadbare
the present cultural age we simply do not possess in our soul

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the etheric domain. This wisdom also flowed into cultic life. Image of
the Mithras cult; Christianity. Dionysius the Areopagite; further
two areas. One area is that of knowledge, cultivated in the
times in cultic practices and religious ceremonies. The
learning. Those cultic practices that found their way from
cultic pictures, religious symbolizations which, if we may
the cultic image. It was not meant to be merely a thought-out
This cultic
let flow into the Mithras cult what agrees with the following
Christianity was eradicated. Finally, in regard to the cultic
fourth century, we see the diminishing of the cultic worship

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Transition in the fourth century A.D. Nature of Greek culture, its
Mithras cult back into the Orient. For the religious life of
Europe in Arabism only as an intellectual culture. In some European
Greek wisdom disappeared from European culture, wisdom
Mithras cult. This Mithras worship, which was intended to
central and western Europe. These two streams, one a cultic
has to say that neither a cultic worship, which would have
slaves. But the bearers of Greek culture certainly
glory, Greek culture pined away and, in essence, vanished
say, represents the dawn of all later culture. It brought
that this culture of Greece was destined to decline and
a significant mystery in world history. With faculties of
the earlier periods of Greek culture, every individual knew
soul from its spiritual home. Greek culture must definitely
Platonic age as the tragic epoch of Greek culture. For
justifiable to say that this Greek culture could not have
Greek culture had continued in the same direction, human
strength to take possession of the Mithras cult and allowed
Asia, all insight that could have brought about a cult in
by a fantastic intellectual culture. This was a culture that
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from one to the other in Greek culture. Gnosticism's problem to
civilization of central and western European culture came
Oriental culture certainly was already in decline. The
It was, however, a problem with which Greek culture struggled
itself where, even in the early Greek culture, this self was
civilization if this European culture wishes to avoid its
emphasized this — has lost the faculty for
It is naturally difficult to find one's way within this melee
path between birth and death is difficult terrain. When they
understand why it is difficult, when they grasp that the ego
hitherto difficult terrain between birth and death that comes
experiencing, and this does not necessarily mean occult
guilt; we must properly cultivate the awareness of sin and

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sensitivity in all the cultural streams pervading Europe
confinements of culture, the narrowness of civilization. He
conceited, for this culture believed it had a grasp on the
a product of this narrowness of culture, and as a young man
forces of decline inherent in modern culture.
this modern culture any redeeming spirituality that could
about everything that had occurred in modern culture. As I
the whole cosmos, instead of an “occult science,”
1887. He had abandoned everything offered by modern cultural
modern culture have indeed lied too much and lie too much to
truth. For the malaise our culture suffers from is
culture.
that culture for which the politicians are now digging the

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difficult, of course, to ascertain what the successive
create difficulties for some of you, we must make it somewhat

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to go on was that it assumed a certain form of ancient cults.
ancient, sacred cult, namely, the Sacrifice of the Mass. The
ancient cult was just altered a bit but as such continued on.
to this, another separate and different cult system spread,
Christianity but proceeded more from older cults. This other
cults and symbolism fight each other tooth and nail to this
out yesterday, the inner faculties that enabled human beings
could no longer make anything of the cult that had spread;
no longer could connect any meaning with the cults, the
modern soul as intellectual faculties and what dwelled in the
An Outline of Occult Science.
“intelligent” people. In that case, the faculties
retained its living relationship to the cult, to the

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individual cultural epochs we have to point out based on
specific cultural contents and the whole of mankind has to
their culture. This is what existed in Asia Minor and enjoyed
certainly possessed this faculty of free surrender to the
intelligence within the human cultural development. Earlier,
when the cultural development ran its course under the
something shadowy. This is the reason for the difficulty in
An Outline of Occult Science

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consciousness soul. In the various cultures, this dawning encountered
Latin intellectual soul culture; in Italy, a portion of the ancient
sentient soul culture; in central Europe, a legacy from the fourth
on the basis of the general culture and without initiation to
progressed to the point where it could cultivate this empty
have to develop this stronger faculty, stronger in comparison
in modern cultural development?
which had already made way for other forms in Greek culture,
matters are extraordinarily difficult to notice because in
Latin-Roman element from the fourth post-Atlantean cultural
period, what has brought over the ancient culture of the
sentient soul in its passage through the culture of the
level. We can see it in the peculiar high cultural level of
Goethe. By that time, the faculty of comprehension for it had
Even today, you can see this tribal culture everywhere in
enlivening of culture through the intentions of

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power. Both streams are ultimately rooted in Persian culture, Catholicism
of the Ahura-Mazdao cult in the ancient Persian culture,
more diminished, in Greek culture, finally became abstract in
the Roman culture. All this left residual traces in what has
offshoot of the Ormuzd or Ahura-Mazdao culture has remained
world view emerges as modern culture. Indeed, like Ormuzd and
Ahriman, these two cultures confront each other in recent
the last offshoots of the Ormuzd cult. These last traces can
French, Spanish, and Italian cultures contains in itself the
what has been living in the depths of European culture since
manner of thinking in Russian culture, and the element coming
of the modern faculty of reason. Through human faculties
to the finest times of French culture under Louis XIV. At the
intellectual culture has produced since the beginning of the
spiritually essential. It is most difficult for matters such
is so difficult to impress on people of our age who
gods, for he really went back to the cult of Ormuzd. And he
culture, I would say, in an ingenious but folk-oriented form.
It is this that lives in French culture and has constantly
sense, dwells in the inner sphere of the modern cultural
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the culture of the human mind was based issued from the
to be awakened during the age of the culture of the mind or intellect,
faculty of perceiving and experiencing spirituality in the world
of soul. This faculty of inwardly living perception functioned for a
awaken a faculty of the soul which will quicken in this shadowy
shadow-intellect that is characteristic of all modern culture has
the Ego is associated with the intelligence and the faculty of forming
the thinking faculty, and Jupiter is responsible for permeating the
The development of the faculty of thinking takes place essentially
We see, then, that the development of faculties situated primarily in
of the astral body in the human organism, with the faculty of thinking
and with the faculty of speaking.

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intellectual or mind culture for the general population of
age of the intellectual culture, the mysteries of that age
That faculty,
human beings, namely, the faculty to sense and experience the
precisely because of the modern culture of the shadowy
scientific culture. People have no idea that they belong not
culture of the intellect that has gradually become prevalent
ancient Indian culture was at its prime, we see that the
developed the faculties mankind is so proud of today, he was

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An Outline of Occult Science,
clairvoyant vision. Nor was man deprived of this faculty by the separation of
intellect is an altogether spiritual faculty in man, its existence is not
thinks merely with his intellect and faculty of reason, his thoughts are not
nature has become more spiritual, but with his spiritual faculties he thinks
Occult Science
intelligence was combined with a faculty of vision which perceived Nature
necessity for artistic insight and perception. This faculty was already alive
To cultivate Spiritual Science is no abstract pursuit. To cultivate Spiritual
nineteenth century. The cultivation of Spiritual Science is in very truth a
will happen if men continue to cultivate shadowy thoughts. For their destiny

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would thereby be cut off from world's life and spirituality. Cultivation
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being was not deprived of this faculty of having clairvoyant
Occult Science
Occult Science
sent into the hospitals and to the scientific faculties of
cultivation of spiritual science, my dear friends, is no
cosmic event to cultivate spiritual science. We need to
to cultivate only their shadowy thoughts. As the ugliest of

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of the knowledge of earlier cultural epochs in first three parts of
and theological culture of his time. In his age, scholarly
Christianity was cultivated in a certain esoteric manner. The
of the rational soul originated the Greek and Roman cultures.
dwelled in the intellectual culture of his time. Anybody
that the intellectual culture of his time had produced. He
to be cultivated from the first third of the fifteenth
does not credit the human being with the faculty of arriving
Occult Science,
But it did originate from what was thus cultivated as
means of soul faculties of vision — to begin with,

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difficult for people today to turn their minds back to the
among spirits. This is probably the most difficult to picture
was when it still bestowed faculties upon the human being. If
human beings must adhere by means of super-sensory faculties.
is sought for with the faculty that has developed since the
of his self-awareness. The faculty with which we try to know
rescue of mankind. Greek culture was again disseminated in
what prevails today as education. Greek culture was present
wisdom — already difficult to understand for him, I
that had been cultivated in Ireland. This is how we must

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For anyone who would read my Occult Science as he
reasoning faculty. Until that time, all knowledge and all
that is why it is so difficult for us today to understand the
Christian Church were fighting. So difficult was it for the
growing faculty of human intellect to understand this teaching
difficult to realise that in the first centuries of Christendom
namely, by the application of those faculties and forces which
culture was brought to light once again and is still being
offered to human beings in the form of education. Greek culture
— which he himself found difficult to under' stand
— was drawn from the Mysteries still cultivated in

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development of Greek culture, which began in the eighth
culture, maintaining the body in a pure state was therefore
something that was especially cultivated. The Egyptians
cultivated in their ancient form: geometry, astrology,
we note in Greek culture a certain decline of geometry as it
the time when Greek culture was passing over into Latin
culture, these three disciplines flourished. In grammar, man
cultivate the art of concepts in order to engage in anything
later propagated in Europe as Greek culture was really only
offered to him as the shadow of Greek culture. He traveled to
especially cultivated in the academy of Gondishapur
Greek culture predominated in Romanism. Romanism only became
however, we must also steel our faculties by means of

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become a universal cultural force, very little indeed is
lawfulnesses. It has become increasingly difficult for the
cultural development. The ancient Greek, because he would be
Oriental from an ancient cultural period but a knowledgeable
cultural evolution since the first third of the fifteenth

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physical world. The great cultural defect of our time is that
concept of pre-existence was cast out of Western cultural
languages of our culture, for “unbornness.” This
participate in world evolution, our cultural evolution will

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dear friends, this is a difficult conception, but let us make

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an appropriate cultivation of the metamorphic thought, from
today to be culturally creative. This dishonesty must be
driven from the field of creative culture — which it

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culturally creative. This dishonesty must be driven from the
field of creative culture — which it actually

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ordinary life normally. When one undergoes an occult
an occult development usually experience that when they begin
recalling it, for a real seeing is a real occult experience
therefore undermine memory in a certain respect in occult
such an occult development must above all be certain that in
to undergo an occult development. One absolutely must have
that are recommended for an occult development are actually
rooted in the nature of occult development itself. You thus
through occult development, we see into our organs, as I
birth and death. In occult development this capacity for love
it is necessary for one who attempts an occult development
a way that he cannot lose it through occult development, that
he maintains it in spite of this occult development, then he
in ourselves these two faculties.
Imagination, which in occult development is striven for with
that are striven for in occult development, the human being
particularly cultivated. We would lose our individuality if
intensively cultivated thought. We human beings would be
of our culture.
will not harden, and Ahriman will be in a difficult position.

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before birth, before conception. Fundamentally speaking, the faculty
sense-qualities, and that the faculty by means of which I am able to
wish to acquire the faculty of logical thinking. In order to enjoy
Nothing now remains but for us to acquire the faculty of making
the development of those faculties which are spoken of in my book
is too weak to be conscious of his intuitive faculty. But he
nevertheless exercises this faculty during the night. So that it is
there is a poem belonging to the old German culture called

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Although to begin with it is more difficult to point to an organ for
civilisation, or culture, or refinement of taste has not developed so
promote culture is useless if its thought is full of confused ideas,
happens when you move your arm — not at least without a faculty

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You see at once how difficult it is to make do with the rough and
difficulty — only by the survey of ever wider and wider
culture.
325; there you have a period which it is very difficult to get to
>Oriental culture
culture. And you understand that culture best when you understand it
> Western culture
to designate as oriental culture what was first revealed through the
western culture. This western culture is in essentials derived from
in the Veda culture, the Yoga culture, must start from an
of the Anglo-American nature, of western culture.
Eastern Culture
Western Culture
A spirit specially representative of the rise of this culture is Lord
ancient cultures he talks nonsense; he knows nothing about them. That
characteristic of the emergence of a culture that corresponds with
— it was possible to live with the culture of the upper man, but
it will not be possible to live with the culture of the lower man. For
And it is the crucial test, not only of the value of modern culture,

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You have on the one hand the faculty of memory, an important
The human faculty of memory must be understood entirely out of human
faculty of memory arises more out of the child's inward development,
difficulties in remembering; while on the other hand such children
perception, that the child forms concepts; but that the faculty of
Thus, when we see that the child's faculty of forming concepts, his
faculty of thought, depends upon his head-formation, we can also say
On the other hand, what develops in us as the faculty of memory
previous earth-life, and the other, the faculty of memory, he acquires
primarily for use between birth and death and which we cultivate in
and death, but that we have to develop a higher faculty which traces
and in which the faculty of memory plays an essential role. One can
in this the faculty of memory is at work, for one cannot easily learn
such a way as to reproduce what he has learnt unless a clear faculty
one hand you have the human being shaping his concept-forming faculty
with ideas. In short, in the life of ideas, in the faculty of
connection between the faculty of memory and the organisation outside
connection between the capacity for feeling and the faculty of memory.
the way the faculty of memory is derived. One only has to be capable
faculty of memory is active, to begin with, in growth.
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reached in these later times, in accordance with the faculties of
configuration of Greek culture, Aristotle is not a Gnostic. The
to man's cognitive faculty towards the contents of the world. We may
the intellectual faculties merely to the world of the senses, without
faculties merely for an external observation through the senses. In

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influence upon the general culture of humanity, may be considered
this Haeckel-celebration, a physiologist of the medical faculty
It would be difficult to distinguish Mr. A from Mr. B or Mr. C.
were, a colleague of the medical faculty.
way through the spiritual culture of the nineteenth century, began to
delivered at the Hague, [“What is the Significance of an Occult
see, these are the occult connections in life. Those who see, with a
and culture; we should be filled with the conviction that this

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found in my “Occult Science” and in my book
“As occultism is similar to communism with a fatal
focus what is in my `occult science,' letting this gaze turn

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culture.
how all that unfolded in Greek culture since the age of Pythagoras
several national tongues. It is not difficult to distinguish there
Greek culture as still remain extant, if we imagine that the Greeks
moulded. But a faculty of soul functioning with quickened instinct in
this faculty of instinctive Imagination man can perceive in outer
opinion about his capabilities and faculties; but if our ears are

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culture,” then it must certainly be admitted that but little of
the Asiatic culture, the penetration of this primeval element of joy
cultivating self-knowledge and a true inner vision. And simply
who had already cultivated that vision of man's inner being, a
characterised by the fact that the seed-ground for cultural
The culture of the countries situated round the North Sea has
gradually spread throughout the West and will become a world culture.
The centre of gravity of this world culture will be transferred

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times of Oriental culture if we are to consider what I wish
now, in the phenomena of decline of the Asiatic culture, the
the ancient Greek culture. The ancient Eastern world
his environment. The ancient Oriental culture was founded
later Western culture. In the ancient East, man's inner gaze
ancient Oriental culture would have been expressed.
necessity of cultivating self-knowledge and a true inner
cultivated that vision of man's inner being, a saying that
to cultivate the egoity, everything is founded on fear. With
for cultural interests, which has hitherto been in the
now moving to the Pacific. The culture of the regions
the West and will become a world culture. The center of
gravity of this world culture will be transferred from the
culture. We need a trust that will be able to bring into
Outer culture will be in need of spiritual deepening. I

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the same degree of culture and the same soul-constitution he
be found in Asiatic culture.
appearance of the earlier stage of Greek culture. This kind of
in the world around him. The ancient Oriental culture was
culture began to spread more toward the West, and Mystery
world culture is arising out of the civilisation of the
gravity of this world-culture will be transferred from the
soul-attitude able to encompass a world-culture. We need faith

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as you may read in my Outline of Occult Science, of how our Earth
round about him on the world, and uses the combining faculty of his
virtually in a kind of sleep condition, spiritual inner faculties
faculties in the same way that we trace the gradual growth of the
through his intellect a special faculty for studying and observing
to lead you, by what may have been at times a rather difficult path, to
own account. All our so-called education and culture has been
with what is dead. This kind of culture is directly opposed to real

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without which we could not cultivate our I, must never be
cultivation of egoity, we pour into this source of
Outline of Occult Science,
what arises with the cultivation of egoity as the anti-moral.
At one time the Oriental cultivated all that man longs to
behold behind the sense phenomena, and he cultivated the
cultivated his egoity, has cultivated all that we have
and ideas that he has been cultivating as natural science
beholds the world all around and uses the combining faculty
sleeping condition, inner spiritual faculties gradually
develop. These inner spiritual faculties will arise in the
emerging spiritual faculties in the same way that we trace
been cultivated as the peculiarly Western method.
meaning for modern man, who has been occupied in cultivating
man has developed through his intellect a special faculty for
education or culture
what is dead. This kind of culture is directly opposed to

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in the books already referred to of the cultivation of a
cultivated among human beings, all people would be able to
only because this presence of mind is cultivated so little
difficult to grasp than what I described before, for the
More difficult

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What we cultivate inwardly as a web of Imaginations exists

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as I have described in my Outline of Occult Science, one at
that we have cultivated in our inner being. In incorporating
thoughts. What we cultivate as the geometric element, as
cultural evolution.

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the peoples are cultivated, until one knows that this
such difficulties today for human evolution — all this
angel being, we have difficulties when penetrating into the

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from the description given in my Occult Science, how in the
the other kingdoms. This, too, you may gather from my Occult
my books, Occult Science and Theosophy, as the passage of the

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Outline of Occult Science
our earth — called in my Outline of Occult Science the
around in the darkness of a decaying culture, a decaying
from our purely intellectual culture, should have distilled
culture. Nietzsche never came to a real comprehension of the
culture, he became not a worshipper of Christ but a
should discover the way to cultivate in the right way within
called in my Occult Science the Jupiter world.

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being encounters today as culture, as civilization, is
higher stages of culture and absorb all this into himself, by
has formed his soul life in accordance with the culture of
state of being in which nothing that modern culture
soul, which other people, who live only in today's culture,
therefore, what those who live in today's culture do not
approach with their I-culture. They do not approach this with
their I-culture. The earthly I cannot comprehend the concepts
I-culture. If the astral body is here (see
the I-culture. It is prevailing more and more.
in a difficult wrestling for comprehension, just as that
Outline of Occult Science
they complain about the difficult things with which people in
I-culture, which man received first during earthly existence,
and the culture that can be acquired through anthroposophical
can be taken up through earthly culture, this I-consciousness
germinal quality in our declining culture actually can only
culture has entered.
felt how very necessary it is for the renewal of our culture

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makes life worth living for the cultured, the so-called
cultured, world today, is something that is obliterated upon
An Outline of Occult Science.
Occult Science
Occult Science
Occult Science

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the ideas of sin and atonement are difficult, these

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sin and atonement are difficult, they do not do away with

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taking his place culturally in the external life on earth.
stands for agriculture. In this sign people, of course, see

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An Outline of Occult Science
in sacred ritual and cult, they revealed to the people the true nature
An Outline of Occult Science, Rudolf Steiner Publishing Co.

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propitious emerge from the period of grave difficulty through which
were able to realise their full significance. It is difficult to find
the Spirit. However glibly people may talk in these difficult
to lie fallow in the culture which has been developing since the
treasure in this culture, but it lies fallow.
In vivid contrast to this there is the purely materialistic culture of
the West, of Europe and America. This materialistic culture and its
hidden in European and American culture — the Spirit from which
periods of culture, for instance to the culture of ancient Egypt, when
scientific view of the world and technical culture no longer help him
heights of culture to which the West has risen since the middle of the
indeed, that during earthly life man can unfold a certain faculty of
Ego-conscious-ness, a faculty for self-contemplation, unfolds.
agriculture — husbandmen. This was the third calling in ancient

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And so throughout our life, by means of what we cultivate over and

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certain respect also to the life of feeling. The faculty of thinking
feeling. Our thinking faculty per se comes with us at birth
upon the cultivation of his intellect. True, much that the child
if we fail to cultivate in him the right kind of feeling and. will.
The faculty of thinking which we bring with us at birth, comes to an
cultivate through feeling and will — which is nevertheless
take with us through the Gate of Death. In our present very difficult
culture of the West. And at the same time when this repression of the
faculties arising from their particular bodily constitution, they gave
revelations concerning the spiritual worlds. These faculties were a
way the languishing Latin culture is stimulated and imbued with life.
and endows him with certain faculties which are important from the
longer be difficult.
form of culture.
actually speaking of the decline of culture, of something that is of
The influence of a new stream of spiritual culture is profoundly

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the transition from the Greek culture to the Roman-Latin culture, that
value as sounds. In Greek culture we still have a name for the first
the Greek to the Latin culture something living in speech, something
to what is Roman-Latin — men of culture became estranged from the
brought prose and jurisprudence into the culture of later years. What
like a cultural dream which men approach through their own revelations
Occult Science.
understand how, in passing from the Greek to the Latin culture,
abstraction took hold of European culture and thus resulted in the
language was for a long time the language of the cultural elite. What
Greek culture, there lies something that may be expressed as follows:

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our conceptual faculty of discrimination. It is by means of
this same faculty alone that the whole range and significance
the material nature of thinking, of the conceptual faculty; we
it possible for us to possess the faculty of thinking.

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customs and traditions, without considering the difficult,
world. This faculty existed in so strong a measure that until
characteristic of the Occident is that it gained the faculty of

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caused the loss of the faculty to differentiate between the Father God
same time schools for the cultivation of the religious life. In these
performed the difficult training which brought him to the point of

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recently in the culture of the middle region. It is characteristic of

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of development to be the culture epoch of ancient India. In my book
Occult Science
you will find this culture of
echoes of that ancient culture, of which there exist no written
records. In the words of today we have to describe the culture of
ancient India as a religious culture in the highest sense. To
religious element of ancient Indian culture included what we today
human being was encompassed by this culture for which the most
pertinent description is that it was a religious culture. This
religious culture generates the feeling in human beings that in the
post-Atlantean cultural epoch, people still had this feeling to some
feeling was a matter of course. In the second cultural blossoming,
called philosophy. In the culture of the third post-Atlantean period
instance at the Egyptian culture from this point of view — and
culture indeed took the most intimate interest in the constellations
the fourth post-Atlantean cultural period: Your view of the world,
the earth of a cultured Greek had a quality of soul. It was
characterize the attitude brought by external, abstract culture
themselves, in what became Greek culture as such. Out of that,
culture of the Romans. (The lecturer draws on the blackboard). But

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pleasure. Behind, us lie extremely grave times, difficult times, of
wretchedness of culture and civilization we have experienced and are
obvious fact they would not find it so difficult to enter into
impossible to carry on living in a proper way, and today's culture
artistic element is cultivated, since this is what stimulates the
world's difficult situation, but no account is taken of the fact that
For western culture, primeval wisdom has disappeared. In the East it remains

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Occult Science.
working not only in every human being but also in the cultures of all

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to some points of view from which to assess present-day cultural and
evolution. As I have often said, cultural life since the first third
known in general human cultural life as the Mysteries. In those most
Occult Science.
cultivation of his will, the pupil had to reach the point at which
cultivate the will in order to reach whatever knowledge is possible
the will must be cultivated, if knowledge is to be achieved. All this

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German culture that, precisely in the years when Napoleon destroyed
faculties are as they are because the element of soul and spirit is
Occult Science.
Occult Science
soul, you allow to rise up. It is extremely difficult to confine

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over the earth, the heathen culture, and in a certain way separated
from this, a culture which one could say was that of the Old
culture? It contained a definite awareness of the fact that
The heathen culture had a strong awareness of the nature of living
of the different kingdoms of nature, this culture saw everywhere the
Heathen culture perceived the living thoughts of the cosmos and
of all heathen cultures, but it was particularly marked among the

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strong that although Christianity passed through Greek culture and
evolution: Roman culture. Being abstract, Roman culture could only
Cyprianus sings presents another difficulty for modern scientific
sets about this task. Human beings find it difficult to understand
find Christ. They describe the difficulties human beings face now
Goethe simply took the Catholic dogma. He used the Catholic cultus

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more pointed out in these lectures that in the most recent cultural
the cultural life of the eighteenth century, which was actually far
union of soul with the whole of cultural life. Faust was depicted as
for he could not find it in the cultural life that at first presented
to the end. Goethe made a study of the Catholic cultus and then
them in the mainstream of culture, our civilization will only go
express or than has filtered through into today's culture. Perhaps he
culture. On the fiftieth anniversary of Goethe's death, in 1882,
the need for Goethe to be assimilated into modern culture. And then
rather vague intuitive faculty when making his diagnoses. Instead of
back into our culture. Karl Julius Schroer's instinct was good. In
culture, which all of you have as your background, urgently needs
culture and civilization. There are many symptoms, if only we can see
were certainly the bearers of European culture and rich in
and their courts must be the centre and epitome of culture, insight
them, bringing up all kinds of occult and mystical things; we must

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spirits of the leading culture of the time — that of Rome. It
cultural context. But first let us look at Faust himself as an
all in his youthful endeavours, stimulated of course by the cultural
is familiar with all four academic faculties. All four faculties have
This is what people find so difficult to understand. In the tenth,
of the most interesting phenomena of recent cultural evolution that
Faust is one of the most interesting phenomena of recent cultural
culture of his day, occupying himself with the intellectual sciences,
but on the other he is not unfamiliar with occult things, which in
a place in the cultural history of mankind which is almost equal to
action of the drama shows that although the cultural attitudes are
lecturing not so much about the occult as about the intellectual

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speaking about the tasks facing the leaders of spiritual and cultural
spiritual world which was still characteristic for western cultural
typifies the position of Schiller and Goethe within the cultural
and cultural. I would like to say that this spiritual revolution took
step from the ordinary imagination to the faculty of Imagination! But
towards the faculty of Imagination. Schiller was at first nowhere
near to seekingfor the faculty of Imagination. But in
form, are nevertheless taken from the Catholic cultus and Catholic
and cultural history of humanity in order to arrive at an
cultural evolution of mankind is striving for a certain goal, the
be developed to become the faculty of Imagination, then we can

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presented to him in the four academic faculties:
symbolism, the Catholic cultus, the cultus of the image, though he
pointers to these things at crucial points in cultural evolution. See
into the whole process of cultural and spiritual life. The important
cultural and spiritual evolution of mankind. As soon as you step back
what lies hidden in the figures brought by spiritual and cultural
how the spirit works into cultural life, we see how moral impulses
It makes its appearance in cultural
knowledge of man. From this kind of viewpoint spiritual and cultural

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we have often also called the age of the fifth post-Atlantean culture
Occult Science,
Occult Science
it is extremely difficult today to make medicines effective for the
serious intent it is not too difficult to find one's way quite
Without this we come to that decline of culture which is clearly to
to gain a content for their lives, whereas it is more difficult to

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Occult Science. All such
Occult Science originate in the way just
Occult Science, the answer must be:
Occult Science.
Occult Science. What is there
Occult Science.
Occult Science. In that work I have, of
Occult Science is not as though one merely
with some difficulty, with something which they must conquer in
was there which has left a certain sense of difficulty, that

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modern man finds it very difficult to understand that the first men
“Occult Science”),
feels how difficult it is to clothe these experiences in the words of

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humanity and one which it is exceeding difficult for the modern
to-day. Because of their faculties of atavistic clairvoyance,
also possessing the faculty of atavistic clairvoyance —
An Outline of Occult Science.]
know nothing of death and therefore cannot unfold the faculty of
Occult Science,
have the faculty of intellect; but intellect makes us inwardly
speaking of such matters one is always aware of the difficulty of

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those times men possessed faculties whereby — if I may so express
Occult Science
speaking — men could discover little through their own faculties.
“with death, you must strengthen your perceptive faculty
An Outline of Occult Science.
It is difficult for men to-day to form any conception of this
instruction about the Mystery of Golgotha. A faculty was developing in

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the human beings of that time possessed faculties which enabled
Occult Science
Occult Science.
establishment of the Holy Mass with its wonderful cult, its
could remain. A faculty was developed which for the time being
Traditions were preserved. In many occult societies of the
lodges and occult societies do not understand what lives in

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means of our ordinary self-knowledge as the three forces or faculties
this world with certain particular faculties and qualities of
There is yet another faculty of soul in which the student of the
higher knowledge must train himself. It is that faculty which we know
deliberation, to perceive the right course immediately. This faculty
we go about our life with those qualities and faculties and
higher faculties of knowledge which have been described as
simple unbiased faculties of thought and judgment normal to our

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which penetrates us fully in all our powers and faculties when we
their faculties with that which anthroposophy can give them. Reference
merely in pictorial form in the cults and ceremonies. The cults
physical body and become like a corpse. In those ancient cults where
— the Mystery of Golgotha. The men who witnessed these cults and

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“Occult Science”
“Occult Science”,
have been then these three stages in the cultural evolution of
into the external exoteric culture of Greece. And the world
of Greek culture, but was quite incapable of handing on, in its true
form, to later generations what lived at the heart of this culture.
culture.
culture, but no one sees any occasion to Christianise the natural
part of the Egypto-Chaldean epoch of culture, the initiates were

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“Occult Science”
“Occult Science”,
have been then these three stages in the cultural evolution of
into the external exoteric culture of Greece. And the world
of Greek culture, but was quite incapable of handing on, in its true
form, to later generations what lived at the heart of this culture.
culture.
culture, but no one sees any occasion to Christianise the natural
part of the Egypto-Chaldean epoch of culture, the initiates were

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“Occult Science”). In my “Occult Science”

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Attainment and the second part of Occult
exercises that will develop faculties of knowledge which
cultivation of higher cognition?

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is also there, it is not created by the higher faculties.

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it. Yet, it is still difficult.

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first heard. It may, to begin with, be difficult to

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personal. However, modern cultural life brings up in
spiritual can live within it. This is how the cult in its
and participate. The aim of the cult was to rescue as much as
This was the origin of religious cults to which people are
must be inwardly cultivated and then carried outside into
The halo was particularly cultivated in very early times,
appearing frequently in many different forms, even in the cult
egoistical religious instincts alone are cultivated, which is
often the case today, it is all too easy to cultivate Luciferic

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begins to make his own faculty of judgment felt, comes only at the

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earth between birth and death. Hence, it is difficult to

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attention to the fact that in ancient times man possessed a faculty of
Occult Science: An Outline
we find among others the one practised in the Orient within the culture
Occult Science
This faculty must be regained but along a different path. For reasons, which

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times man possessed a faculty of instinctive
a higher one can be developed. In my books Occult
Orient within the culture known later as the Ancient Indian
Occult Sciences as the Ancient Indian epoch, certain
This faculty must be regained but along a different path. For

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Yet the practice of centuries continues through a certain cultural
counting these gnome-like beings is a difficult task. If one
While the intellect played a creative part in man's cultural life
Occult Science: An Outline
etheric element strive rather towards unity. It is difficult to

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centuries continues through a certain cultural inertia.
beings is a difficult task. If one tries to count them as one
played a creative part in man's cultural life there was not
described in my Occult Science Occult Science — an Outline#8212; an Outline as the
towards unity. It is difficult to differentiate them from one

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that ancient culture which developed and flourished in the
influences streamed into Greek cultural life, and these did not
the further we go back into the cultural life of the East.
contemplation of the divine. When the Mystery-culture of the
constituted a high stage of culture in the evolution of
development of a new culture.
This culture is still in its infancy, and the further West we
remnants of Eastern culture, still existing for instance in
during the course of cosmic development. Our whole culture must

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consciousness? There are difficulties in describing this
culture which arose, in ancient times, over in the East,
cultural life within Europe. A system of education developed
which included a rudimentary cultivation of mental
this still influenced Greek cultural life; in general, no
is rightly admired within Western culture as one of the first
cultural life of the West, while there was no life of thought
and the further we go back in Oriental culture the stronger and
perception with beholding the divine. When the culture of
spiritual seeing, which had once signified a cultural
What I have described has a counterpart in the cultural life
cultural life of more recent times is still in its early
from the fact that it is not only man's spiritual or cultural
permeate every aspect of our culture. This would provide the

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a certain inherent difficulty for our human power of knowledge and
the difficulties begin at once when man endeavours to relate the world of
imaginable difficulties. They know that the physical and bodily is
difficulties have arisen, especially for philosophic
or less under the difficulty of bringing the soul-and-spirit, which
these things indicate what difficulties arise when we seek the relation
all the difficulty in gaining a knowledge of the soul. People are
passing from one dimension to another. This is difficult for
we cultivated more intensely

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It is exceedingly difficult for modern consciousness to see any
the faculties which had once been possessed by the initiates in the
called up in the soul of the initiate. It is difficult today to form
before it became so difficult to find a publisher! Today, however, he

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difficulty, for actions lasting over a lengthy period of time were

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difficult, for they have almost entirely dropped out of use in modern
cultivated in the ancient Mysteries, through an inspired, dreamlike
existence — to understand, by means of all the faculties we
understood by means of the faculties acquired only on the Earth; it

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find it so difficult to bring clear concepts to bear upon what
Occult Science,
Occult Science,
is a very important subject of study; but in agriculture, too, this

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[Julian, the Apostate (332–363), Roman Emperor (361–363). Steiner is referring to his lecture of July 16, 1922 (GA213). Cf. Rudolf Steiner: OccultNote 1]
anything at all concerning the deeper streams of culture, including
the culture of recent times, we must understand the soul life of
fourth century, when the northern culture mixed with the Roman. You
had the faculty to see how the soul and spirit goes forth at

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the south during those early days of growth for Western culture we
see how these difficulties of understanding constantly
of faith in the human soul life did not develop without difficulties.
Christ, he would have said: This is difficult to understand, but
trend of culture was to grant authority to reason alone, and
[John Scotus Eriugena (c. 810–877), Neoplatonizing Celtic Christian philosopher. Cf. Rudolf Steiner, Riddles of Philosophy, OccultNote 1]
It is extremely difficult for people today
ninth century, and it was exceedingly difficult for serious minds of
the sense world and, as he looked, his faculties enabled him
Thus did Nietzsche interpret Greek culture. And here Nietzsche merely

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of culture. Looking back we shall see how those people, in whom these
consciousness, who had developed it through the mystery cults.
initiates, in whom higher faculties of vision had developed, were

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the differentiated, highly-organized cultures and
perception of the fact that salvation for this western culture
cultural life is to observe what it is that the power of
of a future culture, with different souls and different
only one culture, and, perhaps, for only a few centuries.
and the perceptive faculty as the high and the low soul-forces.
“This impoverishment of the sense-faculties involves at
plant kingdom. It would be difficult, however, to enter upon a
anything so difficult to approach as the blood, if one pretends
of lofty culture, this whole wonderful world of divinities,
incident — culture, in the incident — man, a form
“For us, however, whom destiny has placed in this culture
complete collapse of the cultures of the West, and into which
the present culture will be transformed.

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culture to see that those who learned in the Mysteries the
cultivated the free intellect more and more, but they did

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of humanity's development this knowledge was cultivated in a form
not find it so difficult to believe that there is something even
very difficult. We must be able to think just as well on the other
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persuade themselves that it is not so difficult, yet in reality it is
far more difficult to gain access to the dead than to achieve
of, language which you can only make your own by cultivating a true
faculty to concentrate in a single point within the heart and thence

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persuade themselves that it is not so difficult, yet in reality it is
far more difficult to gain access to the dead than to achieve
of language which you can only make your own by cultivating a true
faculty to concentrate in a single point within the heart and thence

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of spiritual experiences that are extraordinarily difficult to
not so difficult to approach a deceased person. But it is actually
far more difficult to really come close to the dead than to achieve
enlarge into a universe. For if we had the faculty to concentrate in

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or less uncultured in their souls, — perceived in themselves
culture of that age, the question was. How did Christ enter into
times I gave you the faculty to remember your spiritual life, your

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according to the culture of that age was this: What path had Christ

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light on your faculties and capabilities. For the fact is, these
faculties of ours are not of the Earth, they have come hither from
difficult for man to attain with his Sun-eye to any degree of
“An Outline of Occult Science”.
times had faculties of soul that made it possible for the initiate to
unusual difficulty, is that of making connection with souls who have
re-awaken in man a lost faculty, to bring to remembrance in him what

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light on your faculties and capabilities. For the fact is, these
faculties of ours are not of the Earth, they have come hither from
difficult for man to attain with his Sun-eye to any degree of
“An Outline of Occult Science”.
times had faculties of soul that made it possible for the initiate to
unusual difficulty, is that of making connection with souls who have
re-awaken in man a lost faculty, to bring to remembrance in him what

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do that. But people have not yet acquired a faculty that would lead
An Outline of Occult Science.
[Rudolf Steiner, An Outline Of OccultNote 2]
difficult tasks of initiation knowledge. However, it is possible
that this human language here could help us to cultivate
human culture and civilization, in many ways an unconscious

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as Occultism, Mysticism, etc. These schools of thought either refer to

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today is promoted as occultism, or the many things that go by
the name of mysticism. This occultism, pursued today in many
cultivated here as spiritual knowledge must certainly reckon
frequently called occultism today is founded on ancient
occultism as we have with the kind of occultism that seeks to
supersensible knowledge as being cultivated, as rigorous, as
cultivated here as spiritual knowledge. But it is possible to
is also to be cultivated here in such a way that they
faculty. It is therefore the nature of this knowledge that it
the universal science, and all the sciences we cultivate today
cultivated to bring about a revitalization of life. This is to

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cultivation of a method which on the one hand is similar to that by
cultivated on a soul-content or subject matter but also a fully
spiritual existence. Inspired knowledge is cultivated in the astral
attain it, Theosophy, Occult Science, etc. What is necessary in

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consciousness that cultivated philosophy in ancient times it
An Outline of Occult Science.
An Outline of Occult Science,
French as La Science de l'Occulte.
supersensible knowledge is cultivated, that of true
person living in a rural area far from all urban culture.
An Outline of Occult Science,

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natural faculties.

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the faculty of hovering, as it were, with his thinking in the
faculty of abstract thinking. The metamorphosis of a part of
acquired the faculty of experiencing this soul condition
consciousness by a modern person with cognitive faculties
extremely difficult to make this soul condition of

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depends on the acknowledgment by our present spiritual culture
the cosmos. This is why modern culture had no way of arriving
philosophy, one already had the above described difficulties in
modern culture of the methods employed by spiritual science for
to the world of feeling, to certain mystical faculties, and
expressed today in regard to other areas of culture, but that

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you look with such cognitional faculties into this first stage
what in waking consciousness is cultivated in his soul as

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for it. She attracts the cosmic ether. And according to the faculties

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highest cultural work in which we can ever participate here on

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The further development of purely inner faculties of knowledge did not
the ego-consciousness could be freely cultivated.

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endowed my soul with that faculty, which brings it about that
the most educated, cultured person of the fourth or fifth
culture and civilization. It, therefore, could throw no light
consciousness, his highest faculty in earth life, that drew his
faculty. Man thus generates and unfolds a force in his

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possess a memory or recollections, faculties that in his
remains unchanged alongside the new faculty. But man cannot
exercises for cultivating imaginative consciousness are a

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the cultivation of man's spirit germ, an ego consciousness had

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practices. They reduced the body to a state which made it difficult
appreciate them. But just for this reason we also know how difficult
not aided only by the solar-being after death, the faculty of
faculty is the spiritual counterpart, experienced after death, of the

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is difficult for the will to enter into the body and there to
difficult it becomes for the will to submerge and live in the

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Outline Of Occult Science as the Old Indian and
Old Persian periods of culture. Naturally, many things that were done
way. We well know how difficult it is for therapy to restore the
and ancient Persia, presented greater and greater difficulties. Up to
Egyptian epoch of culture, we must study not merely the external
existed. That is the simplest way out of the difficulty, from the
culture. In the lecture tomorrow we shall see how in the present age,

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importance assumed in Greek culture by Luciferic Beings, elementary
today, to those whose perceptive faculty is deeper and more inward than
intellectualism which now has sovereign sway in all human culture and
Occult Science, when the physical substance of the
were still external institutions, ceremonial cults and the like, by
This will be difficult and he will have to be educated up to it. Modern
of culture develops it must abandon certain fundamental ideas if
occurs to people that it is up to them to sow seeds in culture and in
of our culture — whether one desires to return to the condition
something real to contribute to culture will not sit down and write
mentality; it is symptomatic of the deplorable state of modern cultural
in life. If it were universally cultivated, newspapers written in the
tries to develop his faculties of knowledge so that he can actually
because he says: Two men were actually able to develop their faculties

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The Revelation of the Spiritual World in Old Indian Culture, or
when Egyptian Initiation-culture was at its prime.
which, without the cult of the mummy, they could not have
guidance and education of men. But because the necessary faculties of
were great. With the help of the culture connected with the mummies,
character of Egyptian culture, a perpetual reminder that it was a
culture in decline, in degeneration, and cannot be said to represent a
golden age in human evolution. It was a culture that encroached upon
and minerals. A strange atmosphere pervaded Egyptian culture. The
Egyptian culture. Chaldean culture held aloof in this respect and was,
so to speak, a culture of greater purity.
antiquity. Hence the aversion to Egyptian culture indicated in the Old
Testament although, through Moses, many elements of Egyptian culture
preserved, was something different, namely ancient cults, mainly
pre-Christian cults. And particularly since the fourteenth and
culture, ancient ceremonies and rites were preserved in all kinds of
occult Orders. Wonderful cults of antiquity, occult rites and
Golgotha. There is a very great deal in these cults and ceremonies, but
ceremonies of many occult Orders an impetus is given to introduce a
occult Orders, especially since the birth of modern intellectualism,
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The Egyptian Mysteries, Indian Yoga and Egyptian Mummy Cult
with cult and rites, indicating how the mummy enshrined secrets of
antiquity before the Mystery of Golgotha, whereas cult and ceremonial
was able to perceive inwardly, through cultivation of the breathing
place from the culture of ancient India and ancient Persia to that of
truth, was the essence of Egyptian culture, which for us today is so
of ancient India to their pupils. It was not difficult for an Initiate
the Mystery of Golgotha. For them, cults and rites in many forms have
they began to “mummify” ancient cults and rites. In its
the fore with the passage of time. In occult and other Brotherhoods,
A time will come when a deeper conception of the cult and of all
a sensory process. And so, when the cult can once again be truly
clear to their pupils that enactments in sacred cults and rites have an
as you know, also play a part in cult and ritual. When true ceremonial,
enactment in cult or rite is a call to the spiritual Powers of the
you in the last lecture that provided a man has the requisite faculty
earth. Through the sacred enactments of cult and ritual he comes into
truly in a sacred enactment of cult or ritual, you are engaged in
Outline Of Occult Science, the earth will prepare to pass over
the spiritual Beings who develop onwards to the future in cults and
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custom in Egyptian culture of mummifying the human body and in the
modern age the preservation of ancient cults — which is also a
Egyptian culture as expressed outwardly in the phenomenon of
is exercised by man, how he gradually unfolds the faculty of thinking
in modern times is that in occult societies here and there, rituals,
cults and ceremonial enactments once filled with living reality have
external way. Once upon a time, however, these cults were charged with
also be applicable to the animal. But this is a more difficult matter.
found it much more difficult to picture the form of one of the spinal
in the ceremonial enactments of the cult to which he belonged was
occult traditions, but by growing into, and moreover elaborating, the
in historical evolution. It is a picture of how spiritual culture was
culture may flow onwards to the future. There are two forces: one
thoughts will not do, that they lead to the death of culture. In an
occult maxim that “wisdom lives in salt” ... but only when

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more difficult to keep alive these ancient principles of Initiation and
into those concepts which, in the culture of Latin Rome, had departed
flows in cult and ritual; but only when the cult has at the same time
to cult and ritual, clinging with greatest intensity of feeling to what
they held to be the very heart and core of the cult: the Grave of the
reality, men gave their hearts to cult and ritual, and to that with
which the cult was outwardly connected: the Grave of the Redeemer and
did one see this inward, heartfelt veneration of the cult; men clung
passionately to the cult and to all the experiences evoked by the
series of streams, as the stream of the esoteric cult in contrast to
into cult, ceremony and ritual, was the question: How is man to adjust
entirely obscured. The inner attraction to cult and ritual that had
was born the modified form of the cult which now exists in the Roman
If you compare the cult
form of cult practised in the Roman Catholic Church, you will perceive
grew increasingly aware of the need to turn away from the cult —
and from the dogmas to explain the cult. In the East, cult and ritual
various occult communities. These communities exist to this very day
Europe a form of cult which does not, as in the East, take hold of the
and more to introduce the element of materialism into cult and dogma.
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hoping to carry the new Waldorf education into modern culture, he stressed
cultural life of the West. One feels that in Oxford — a town
influential centers of culture, is nevertheless an evolutionary
taken by Middle Europe and its cultural life, the leading centers of
culture emancipated themselves in the thirteenth, fourteenth and
which were read by those who played a part in shaping the cultural
learned or scholarly but possessing an average degree of culture, and
stout-heartedness in cultural life. Where is it then? — so asks
cultivate science. What does it matter to us if Nature is an artist?
lay on his couch breathing with difficulty and said: “Open the

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hoping to carry the new Waldorf education into modern culture, he stressed
difficulties of the inner life among the youth at Universities and
imagination cast an eye over the higher forms of culture in recent
having been badly educated and yet difficulties in life are
look at my book, Occult Science, it will be brought home to you.

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hoping to carry the new Waldorf education into modern culture, he stressed
nothing by way of experience. External culture, which alleges such
external, visible forms of culture when he is awake, but only in
that this mood was deliberately cultivated. At the end of the
is an example which I am only quoting for the sake of cultural
faculties of vision you will be able to see that even though Caesar
cultivated here as Anthroposophy and what is pursued in other places
effect upon our dead cultural life. The Spirit must be the lightning
which strikes our dead culture and kindles it to renewed life.
densest of materialists. It is really terribly difficult for one to
the human race. The fully conscious human being feels the culture of

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hoping to carry the new Waldorf education into modern culture, he stressed
the different cultural conditions in which they occur. The view of
itself in German culture in a most tragic way. We need only mention
with it he absorbed the whole spirit of Greek culture.
was not a personality to shut himself off from the general culture.
substance of life to him — that already in Greek culture there
culture, and held that the influence working so destructively upon
faculty of understanding driving away the old spirituality.
character of Greek culture as it appears in the writings of
idea that the true and living Greek culture has a kind of pessimism
Greeks, the art they cultivated in the time of their prime was the
because I want to have a thermometer for culture by which we can read
cultural evolution. During Nietzsche's youth the store of ideas

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hoping to carry the new Waldorf education into modern culture, he stressed
his soul. He was endowed with the faculty of perception for what he
the faculty of perception of the divine-spiritual in the old sense
and in the nineteenth century a history of culture was established.
primal revelation faded out. Human beings lost the faculty for being
new faculty — the faculty of drawing out of the human
see, this suited the old, who held the control of culture in their
same time developed the faculty for moral intuitions. Already at the
Occult Science.

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hoping to carry the new Waldorf education into modern culture, he stressed
cultural pedagogics, which is directed towards confidence,

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hoping to carry the new Waldorf education into modern culture, he stressed
I am placing before you an idea difficult to describe accurately,
difficulty.
gradually we enter this fire, because if one possesses the faculty of
difficult to give ancient thoughts in a suitable form considering we

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hoping to carry the new Waldorf education into modern culture, he stressed
man's spiritual culture. Today, in order to find the bridge to
culture of Southern Europe, or in certain districts of Northern
idea of what gave the tone to the cultural life of the time. The
being possessed the faculty of receiving thoughts by revelation.
as the Graeco-Latin culture, as the culture of the East. These
cultures were extraordinarily intermixed up to the fourth century;
if since the fifteenth century man has lost the faculty of perceiving
anatomists, but one can see that it was difficult for Hyrtl. He
among those who, participating in the cultural life, did not really
penetrate into it because they felt dissatisfied with a culture
the Spirit on the path of thought, which although difficult to tread

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hoping to carry the new Waldorf education into modern culture, he stressed
culture to which man has so far advanced.
however, exceedingly important for life. If culture is to find roots
Today this is one of the weightiest of all cultural questions.
great problems of world-culture. If one really looks into life today
older cultural order; it was of the nature of art. Today too we need
of mind and heart. All our present culture is expressed in a withered
phantasy. But the stimulus to acquire the faculty for perceiving this

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hoping to carry the new Waldorf education into modern culture, he stressed
connection with the general development of Greek culture up to the
the terminology of my Occult Science. At the zenith of Greek culture,
of Greek culture, we should bear in mind that the Greeks were still
cultural conditions. For Eduard von Hartmann said to me: “There

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hoping to carry the new Waldorf education into modern culture, he stressed
child still has the faculty of grasping the world with his whole
not many people do nowadays because they find it too difficult —
into something no longer spells culture with us. Culture is what the
tremendously learned. To be tremendously learned is not difficult.
get through to man as a whole — our head culture sets itself
modern culture does nothing to develop a sense for this. But this
pictures that are capable of growth, we stimulate in him the faculty
is needed. Otherwise our culture will reach the point which it is
culture. He said: When one looks at human beings today, they cannot
was the cultural dread I met with in this man in the last third of

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hoping to carry the new Waldorf education into modern culture, he stressed
quite new conditions in human evolution, conditions difficult to
epoch of culture men overlooked all they saw in the outer world and
in the epoch of the first post-Atlantean culture, the Mysteries were
of these potatoes because men have lost the faculty of getting right
another age came in my book Occult Science. I have called it the old
being more in a form of light. Man had the faculty of perceiving this
then came the epoch of the third post-Atlantean culture. One felt the
culture, mummified the human body. In the epoch of the old Indian
culture, mummification would have made no sense; it would have been a
this is the difficulty in our life of soul; we have to live into this
gives its special coloring to the whole of our cultural development.
certain sense men are afraid of it. If we had a cultural psychology
suffering from the great cultural disease of modern times,
such things in speaking about cultural phenomena. Read the first
difficult for me to distinguish by their outer sheaths between a
all are caught. In the centers of culture which have retained
ashamed to talk about education. But under the cultural conditions of
in older cultural epochs. Education was not talked about in earlier

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hoping to carry the new Waldorf education into modern culture, he stressed
being could only keep going with difficulty, by preserving and
difficulty could man protect himself from having his innermost life
now consider how infinitely difficult it is today not to be
metamorphosis of the dragon, all external culture too is an outcome
must no longer nurture the dragon by cultivating a science with

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greeting it was well expressed — how difficult it really is becoming
wrong; and herein lies an immense difficulty. Always in the past there
a certain stagnation at present; they lie in the difficulties of the
youth movement. These difficulties arise because it is so hard to give
spiritual chaos. To give something form is much more difficult than
happened, because it is, to begin with, extremely difficult for a

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developed as new faculties from out of the ordinary life of the soul we
when someone has inherited a certain faculty from his parents, he is
aware that this faculty has inserted itself into the course of his life
and culture if men will not learn to extend to the spiritual world the
faculty of persistence, but that in order to be turned again into the

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effort have to be developed as new faculties from out of the ordinary
when someone has inherited a certain faculty from his parents, he is
aware that this faculty has inserted itself into the course of his
lower in civilization and culture if men will not learn to extend to
going during the night through their own faculty of persistence, but

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a culture that has become heavy. One cannot quite get him in movement.

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today, as well as the cultural historian know absolutely nothing about
way. It was the light-filled age, and his whole cultural life was directed
to rely on the mere physical world, including the remaining human cultural
It is just as difficult
Occult Science,
Occult Science
Occult Science
Occult Science
Occult Science.
difficult to get an understanding in regard to these things with such
But it is, of course, terribly difficult to come to an understanding.

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This truly is the difficulty that irreligious people have: they have
exposed to all life's difficulties. Then, in order to strengthen him

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discrimination. This kind of faculty has evolved only in the

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discrimination. This kind of faculty has evolved only in the

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during his earthly life; it is therefore difficult to tell in human
kind of control that endows man, for example, with the faculty of

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during his earthly life; it is therefore difficult to tell in human
kind of control that endows man, for example, with the faculty of

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cle.ar conscious faculties remain throughout in full activity,
we now possess as adults, faculties which we gained through
sense-impressions, acquire a certain faculty which consists in
ordinary bodily faculties, and are thus able to retain these
three days at the most. If our clairvoyant faculties are highly
can only meet within their bodies and they can only cultivate
an obstacle and no longer renders it difficult for us to live
and there will be people who will develop their faculties so

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the sense that inner faculties of soul otherwise slumbering in man during his
once a child and my faculties then fell far, far short of those I have
being.” It is quite evident that certain faculties which did not
naturally: Is it not possible, then, that faculties are slumbering in the
adult human being just as his present faculties were slumbering in his soul
faculties can indeed be drawn forth from the soul.
anthroposophical Spiritual Science these inner faculties must be drawn out in
acquires a certain faculty of observing the world not only in the immediate
in the present age, already brings with him at birth the faculty which can be
developed by these methods. This does not mean that the faculty is
his existence. This faculty consists in being able to live within the
place, the faculty whereby a man is
abstract faculties of soul but is strengthened by the act of writing down the
into the ordinary human faculties. This condition is not induced
ethereal quality is poured into the ordinary human faculties. This enables
faculties have been developed to a high degree. Certain powers of which I will
without the support of the bodily faculties. It is the same as the vision
who has acquired the faculty of seeing into the higher world, because he
acquired the faculty not only of experiencing a second existence in the life
spatial body — but also the faculty of living outside the body, a
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the reach of human faculties. From this side, therefore, Anthroposophy is
development of those faculties of inner perception described yesterday as the
spiritual life and culture in which religion and science were a unity. Sheer
natural faculty in all human beings. Thus, the pupil knew: When my actions
nature. And all the faculties developed by a man through meditation and
knower — all these faculties are immeasurably strengthened when, as one
away from the Earth, having unfolded a faculty of perception outside the
will, to begin with, find it extraordinarily difficult to speak of the Spiritual
reasoning faculty were directed to the material world of sense and to one who
will realise that the Mystery of Golgotha presents difficulties to everyone
But it is exceedingly difficult to wrestle through in thought to this
thoughts and words, not in any way to use his bodily faculties as an
the spiritual world, he finds it exceedingly difficult to take hold of the
physical world; his faculty of speech and the natural flow of his thinking
then becomes a veritable hallowing, a continuation of the sacred acts of cult

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that is like a faculty of memory such as man does not have in ordinary
consciousness, a faculty that might be possessed by beings of the
the faculty of remembering, and we have to win through to a new feeling
birth. Within it is the faculty of remembering, so that it really gives
between death and a new birth gives us the faculty of memory. Over there
But from the head comes the same faculty that inwardly, in the soul,
For anyone to be able to speak without having a faculty of memory is
have here on earth as a utilitarian faculty — why do we transform
cults. The images men formed of their gods was the source of plastic

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ele dedicou seu requintado trabalho como arquiteto, escultor e pintor - ter sido
Chegamos agora a um conceito extraordinariamente sutil. Pense em como, de fora, temos que viver nossas aÃ§Ãµes novamente com nosso ego e com nosso corpo astral. A capacidade de fazÃª-lo Ã© adquirida na proporÃ§Ã£o do grau de amor que desenvolvemos. Esse Ã© o segredo da vida, no que diz respeito ao amor. Se um homem Ã© realmente capaz de desprender-se de si mesmo no amor, amando ao prÃ³ximo como a si mesmo, aprende o que precisa durante o sono para experienciar, ao contrÃ¡rio, plenamente e sem dor, o que deve ser vivenciado dessa forma. Porque, nesta hora, ele deve estar completamente fora de si mesmo. Se um homem Ã© um ser sem amor, surge uma sensaÃ§Ã£o quando, fora de si, ele tem que experimentar as aÃ§Ãµes que realizou sem amor. Isso o retÃ©m. Pessoas sem amor dormem como se â€“ para usar uma metÃ¡fora â€“ tivessem falta de fÃ´lego. Assim, tudo o que somos capazes de cultivar em nÃ³s por meio do amor se torna verdadeiramente frutÃfero durante o sono. E o que Ã© assim desenvolvido entre irmos dormir e acordar atravessa o portÃ£o da morte e subsiste no mundo espiritual. Aquilo que se perde entre a morte e o renascimento, quando vivemos junto aos os seres espirituais dos mundos superiores, Ã© recuperado por nÃ³s como uma semente, durante a vida terrena, por meio do amor. Pois o amor revela seu significado quando, com seu ego e corpo astral, o homem, dormindo, estÃ¡ fora de seu corpo fÃsico e corpo etÃ©rico. Entre ir dormir e acordar, seu ser essencial se amplia, se ele estÃ¡ cheio de amor, e se prepara bem para o que lhe acontecerÃ¡ depois da morte. Se ele nÃ£o tem amor e estÃ¡ mal preparado para o que lhe acontecerÃ¡ apÃ³s a morte, seu ser se estreita. A semente para o que acontece apÃ³s a morte repousa preeminentemente no desdobramento do amor.
Prova abundante disso reside na maneira como a arte se desenvolveu. Originalmente era uma com a vida religiosa. Nas eras primitivas da humanidade, ela era imbuÃda nos cultos religiosos. As imagens que os homens formavam de seus deuses eram a fonte das artes plÃ¡sticas. A tÃtulo de exemplo, recordemos os MistÃ©rios da SamotrÃ¡cia a que alude Goethe na segunda parte de Fausto, onde fala dos Cabiros. [Vide ciclo de palestrasGoetheanism as an impulse for man's transformation,Dornach, janeiro de 1919.] Em meu estÃºdio em Dornach tentei fazer um desenho desses Cabiros. E o que resultou disso? Foi algo muito interessante. Simplesmente me propus a desvendar intuitivamente a maneira como os Cabiros teriam aparecido nos MistÃ©rios da SamotrÃ¡cia. E imagine sÃ³: cheguei a trÃªs jarros, mas jarros, Ã© verdade, moldados plÃ¡stica e artisticamente. A princÃpio fiquei pasmo, embora Goethe tenha realmente falado de jarros. O assunto ficou claro para mim apenas quando descobri que esses jarros ficavam sobre um altar: entÃ£o, algo semelhante a incenso era colocado neles, as palavras sacrificiais eram cantadas, e pelo poder das palavras de sacrifÃcio â€“ que nos tempos mais antigos da humanidade carregavam uma forÃ§a de estÃmulo vibratÃ³rio bastante diferente de qualquer coisa possÃvel hoje â€“ a fumaÃ§a do incenso era formada na imagem desejada da divindade. Assim, no ritual, o cÃ¢ntico imediatamente se expressava plasticamente na fumaÃ§a do incenso.

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the faculty of Love here upon Earth we have an echo of the living in
the middle man contains above all the artistic faculty of man, the
other faculties which we possessed in the pre-earthly life. For each
have seen, our bodily faculties: Walking, Speaking, Singing and
earth is a spiritual faculty; our earthly thinking is essentially
outstanding faculties of the body are transformations, metamorphoses,
of the spiritual. Then, in the soul, we have the outstanding faculties
faculty of sense-perception. Our seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting
‘Occult Science,’
Indeed in my present way of life that would be immensely difficult.

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faculties of walking and speaking, which in reality are
acquired before the faculty of thinking.
important part is played by these three faculties in the
man's achievements in culture and civilization on the Earth,
with all kinds of qualities and faculties. But there are three
faculties for which the spirit-seed receives no forces at all
in the spiritual world. These three faculties are: thinking,
acquire this faculty until we are already here on Earth; it is
physical things. He has none of these faculties. He only
rudimental faculties of walking, speaking, and thinking. And
Thought, are transformed into the earthly faculties. Thus to a
heavenly faculties into earthly faculties in that you passed
heavenly faculties are transformed into the earthly, the human
faculties that have been characterized into walking, speaking,
his earthly faculties of walking, speaking, and thinking would
faculties; but for all that he has faint inklings of them. If
faculty between birth and death to speak human words, to master

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has to say about man will realize without difficulty how
matters become more difficult when we turn our attention
one can say: that which man cultivates in himself, in his soul,
there is a third faculty in man, namely, the will. True,

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Occult Science that the Earth will one day pass over
— these two hosts send their waves into our cultural life
above all in outworn theology. In our cultural life, as an
culture.

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communion with the Beings referred to in the book Occult
faculties in man's earthly life as walking, speaking, and
and this heritage is the faculty of Memory.
our consciousness — this faculty of memory that is so
earthly love and partly as the faculty of remembrance, as
earthly, shadowlike faculty comes into being. It comes into
spiritual world, a faculty of tremendous power is present
— the faculty whereby in those periods when we ‘come to
This faculty is at work, to begin with as a formative force, in
stronger forces — and this is the human faculty of
again connected with this faculty of memory. Memory is also
faculties: the faculty of love and the faculty of memory. But a
has little interest in what others experience, little faculty
acquiring the faculty of sight in the supersensible world after
supersensible. However powerful a man's clairvoyant faculty

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Human Faculties and Their Connections with Elemental Beings.
THE faculties needed by man in order that he may be able
beings we may be able to unfold our faculties, to have thoughts
These beings are difficult to find in the spiritual world, even
are with our faculties. A clever man pursuing his activities,
present, that has something to do with our faculties, but is
very difficult to assess. If we wish to do that we must rely
difficulty. When, for instance, we ask: How is it that
the reason why it is so difficult to discover these beings is
difficult, we must turn to other means of help. Now fortunately
acquire the faculty, intimate and delicate as it is, of seeing
Occult Science in connection with the Saturn-existence
difficult. It is very difficult to approach the beings who live
Otherwise it is a matter of developing the requisite faculty
Moon-existence as I have described it in the book Occult

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Græco-Latin culture and that the most recent phase of time
Until the Graeco-Latin epoch, the faculties that enabled man to
other regions of Europe at the time when Graeco-Roman culture
Old Persian, the Egypto-Chaldaean culture, everywhere you will
Think how difficult it is for a man of the present day to
culture and civilization with open eyes will find it
order to strengthen the faculty of ideation. Only we must
Space ‘devotees’ among us often cause difficulties by making
Persian culture, but today when, for example, attempts are made
see, what I have described in the book Occult Science
period given in Occult Science, you will say: The Saturn
which the faculties possessed by the Gods do not make possible;
utter perplexity before the ideas and notions of a cultured man
can work, for instance, into what I have called in Occult

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acquired the inner faculty of Imaginative vision of the world,
dies away. A person who has acquired the faculty of Imaginative
the book Occult Science, I have called the world that
very often obvious how difficult it is for the astral body to
have called in Occult Science the world of the
with the Beings of that hierarchy we cultivate this power of
memory. Just as we cultivate the power of sense-perception and
the hierarchy of the Angeloi, so do we cultivate this power of

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of the faculty of instinctive clairvoyance. In certain states of
and culture, art, science and religion were one. It was actually the
faculty to acquire his thoughts through his own efforts. This induced
cultural life said to themselves: Man can no longer have such
attained by human faculties, for man's thoughts are now within his
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facultad de la clarividencia instintiva. En ciertos estados de
yacía oculto detrás del mundo físico. Así, el mundo
lo que él encarna en sus materiales como pintor, escultor o un
en esos antiguos centros de aprendizaje y cultura, el arte, la ciencia y
y cada vez más se despierta en el hombre la facultad de adquirir
vida cultural, se decían: el hombre ya no puede tener pensamientos
sobrehumanas. Este Poder debe ahora ser alcanzado por las facultades
Ciencia Oculta
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were institutions of men still possessed of the faculty of
said, in those ancient centres of learning and culture, art,
and more and more there awakened in man the faculty to acquire
time at the height of cultural life said to themselves: Man can
now be attained by human faculties, for man's thoughts are now
is from this point of view that my Occult Science is
was not possible to proceed in this way in the book Occult

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instituciones de hombres aún poseídos de la facultad de la clarividencia
cualquier realidad histórica, sino de un mundo espiritual que yacía oculto
encarna en sus materiales como pintor, escultor o un músico - eso es fantasía!
de aprendizaje y cultura, el arte, la ciencia y la religión eran uno. En
facultad de adquirir sus pensamientos a través de sus propios esfuerzos. Esto
Misterios. Los que en esos tiempos estaban en la cima de la vida cultural, se
ahora ser alcanzado por las facultades humanas, ya que los pensamientos del
desde este punto de vista de que mi Ciencia Oculta fue escrita. Si un libro como
posible proceder de esta manera en el libro La Ciencia Oculta. Aunque es

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civilization, in external culture today; we must realize that

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Arises the Cosmic Cult.
together to form a whole, unless man develops the faculty of
becomes a ritual, a cult, and the cosmic ritual comes into
life. Every earthly cult and ritual is a symbolic image of this
cosmic cult and ritual — which is higher and more sublime
than all earthly cults.
outlook to any particular religious cult. And this will be done
cult.

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the world in religious cult or ritual, a revelation through which the
Movement having a religious, cultic character has arisen, a Movement
cultural life, cannot find their way into the Anthroposophical
an authentic and inwardly vital cult, filled with spiritual content,
feet. For everything of the nature of cult and ritual is finally
flow with great difficulty for the Anthroposophical Movement, nor,
had to be given for a Cult, a Cult whose growth in our present time
arise in regard to this Cult when I speak tomorrow of the
conditions of the life of Cult in the spiritual world, I felt it

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of the nature of the world in religious cult or ritual, a
Movement having a religious, cultic character has arisen, a
circles of the cultural life, cannot find their way into the
cult, filled with spiritual content, to be celebrated in a
the nature of cult and ritual is finally bound to dissolve away
only flow with great difficulty for the Anthroposophical
advice had to be given for a Cult, a Cult whose growth in our
misunderstanding should arise in regard to this Cult
when I speak tomorrow of the conditions of the life of Cult in

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the Beginning of a Cosmic Cult Suitable for Men of the Present Age
the Beginning of a Cosmic Cult Suitable for Men
When this problem is attacked by the methods of occult science
cosmic ritual or cult.

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And when we study the human being, it will not be difficult to
faculty of knowing something about these radiations coming from
special occult study, enabling him to know the metals of the

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really have the occult imaginative consciousness before you,
an occult perception. It is only when — as is the case
and makes it the object of a special occult study. Then he
I remark here expressly that water (for the occultist) is a
when there is any talk of cultivating scientific endeavours

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spectre the faculties of thinking, feeling and willing also come into
age dawned when this faculty to experience in the etheric body these
the universe, must get to know his own nature, but his faculties did
ancient faculty of perception and of a knowledge that was at the same
faculty of man to look back into pre-earthly existence has been lost
clairvoyant faculties men were able to observe the actual working of
desire that the new faculty of insight — which was exactly the
inner clairvoyance but by means of new clairvoyant faculties acquired

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Now, with normal human feelings, it is difficult to understand
even if the external temples, even if the cult became
difficult, because when such a periodical system is discovered
such a staggering blow demands the cultivation of these

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exercise the students' faculties of thinking, feeling and willing.
is to exercise the students' faculties of thinking, feeling
outer culture. A civilization that is filled with ugly machines, with

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consciousness can only be acquired if the whole task of culture and
faculty, began to develop. And so, in a certain way, what man
part of the general culture.
one knows, with what difficulty — sometimes over decades
watchfulness with respect to ordinary pride must really be cultivated
Anthroposophical Society. But we can cultivate it again here!
must return to the cultivation of a certain world consciousness so

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by asking someone who is firmly rooted in modern culture: —

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cultural ingredient that now permeates our whole external
— Less than 150 years ago, yet electricity is now a cultural

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more particularly in regard to culture and the life of the soul. We find
has been an ideal in all civilizations, in all ages of human cultural
Now we must come to ancient Greece, and the time when Greek culture was
on earth, and you must therefore take upon yourself the difficulty of

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lifeless with living things. These things are very difficult to
for example to the Egyptian culture, the Babylonian-Chaldean
culture, or even to the ancient Persian culture, we shall find
were human beings. Those who do not distort Oriental culture in
connection with man. The whole external spiritual culture was
of God the Father. Cults and rituals were arranged accordingly,
external culture; he cannot, however, remain standing by this
modern culture, as described to you the day before yesterday,
of the present lifeless culture consisting in the mechanism of

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sleep and waking, he has to cultivate intercourse — if
of these things which it is naturally difficult to express in
those who absorb modern intellectualistic culture.
phenomena of modern culture can never be understood today if
For men of culture today thought is by no means a ‘boundless
their languages. Attempts are made to create new cultural
has become it is evident at once that these cultural
culture, the element of materialism which has laid hold of

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Occult Science: an Outline

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Occult Science: an Outline.
Occult Science: an Outline
Occult Science: an Outline
octave. Thus man experiences something which is difficult to
profound personalities of the developing Greek culture,

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belonging to Arabian culture, were the first to be influenced
Arabian-Spanish culture which then, at a much later period,
whereby ancient culture was partially destroyed but in which
that culture was permeated now by human individuality.
Graeco-Roman world of culture?
to his time. Through the good and splendid fruits of culture

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life in the world difficult, but we shall also find
everywhere ways out of these difficulties. Only we must seek
difficult today for a man to wish to be a free being. What

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difficult to imagine how man could have been influenced by
accept a concept that may be extremely difficult for modern
the discordance in culture and civilization which is becoming
demanded difficult thoughts from you today but you will

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during the post-Atlantean culture-epochs and the future tasks
culture-epoch and Wolfram von Eschenbach's "Parsifal."
culture epochs have evolved, epochs which in my book
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our present Fifth culture epoch.
we go back to the very early culture-epochs this constitution
culture-epoch will even now have the impression that at one
culture-epoch man felt himself to be primarily a creature of
now, in the Fifth post-Atlantean culture-epoch that it is
significant products of human culture. And our feelings
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and Egyptian cultures, when a wish arose to know what that Being who

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today and indeed dominates our culture: it devotes its ideas entirely
because of the very situation of their culture; for the Oriental
cultures lay nearer to the Torrid Zone, where such things were more
ancient cultures! In those days people did not distinguish spring,
Indian culture, for example, to think of something like the course of

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humanity for the form of man in general. It is very difficult
race. And the farther back we go into ancient cultures, the less do we
not performed during the summer. It is difficult to describe in modern
of winter; but above all, those things were cultivated that then led

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difficult climb and becomes ever more so, the higher he goes. Finally
during the decadence of the Druid cults, when they contained much that
this burying place — like other old cult sanctuaries, the
the herd, it was done. The cult of that epoch was anything but an
a favorable contact with the whole universe. That was a cult that
those olden times. Within the cult — and it was a cult that had a
during the height of the Druid culture. Elsewhere in that region as
such relics of the Druid culture.
Mithras Cult are to be found. Here again I will only indicate
the most important features. The outer symbol of the Mithras Cult is
undergone by those who served the Mithras Cult. The whole ceremony
much. The service of the Mithras Cult demanded in the neophyte a very
sentience. Everything depended upon the development of this faculty in
engaged in the Mithras Cult. They had to develop a sensitive,
ancient cultures pervades us when we see deeper into them and
rediscover, for example, that the purpose of the Mithras Cult was to
of the year. The Mithras Cult served to elicit from the heavens the

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of sleep, into his physical existence. There are three faculties
Of the development of these three faculties people have usually quite
process receives consideration. The first faculty is learning to
cannot walk, who has to acquire this faculty. The second is speaking,
and the third, thinking. One faculty may take precedence
being learns to walk, to speak and to think. The faculty of thinking
follows that of speaking; the faculty to grasp also in thought what
correct point. Current ideas about this faculty are, as I said,
faculty of learning to walk. The differentiation testifies, in the
certain faculties during his physical life on Earth.
The second faculty, that of speaking, is also acquired by
a faculty that develops out of speech.
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is one that is particularly observable in modern cultural life —
There is in the culture of the present day very little of what we
itself lacks idealism, then it is exceedingly difficult, during
Beings. And it is difficult for him, then, to have the inner
life, unfolded love for his fellow men — a faculty that belongs
work, namely, the Beings designated in Occult Science the Exusiai and
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the relationship of man's faculty of speech to those Beings in
that are to be observed in man's faculty of speech.
connection, but not in respect of the faculty whereby the word
older faculty of Intuition they were standing within the world of
speech-forming faculty, he retains the Inspirations longer. Dates can
civilisation, a culture and a civilisation fired by what I recently

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cultivated in children. But through such thinking, which Goethe and
materialism in civilization and culture, to drag the whole of earthly
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in relation with the pre-earthly existence, but it is difficult to
describe. Since it is difficult to characterize, I shall express this

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was cultivated in the ancient Mysteries. Looking at this etheric body,
as warmth, light, and sound, and is thus difficult to describe —
phosphorescent light — the occult script corresponding to
with the help of an Archangel as intermediary, the faculty of
faculty the work of the Dynamis is in a sense dislocated, and
to which the great German thinker ascribed a conceptual faculty,
human faculty of speech into accord with its physical basis. In all
accord with the organs of speech. And now the faculty of Thought must
brought into harmony with the faculty of speech — in all this we

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An Outline of Occult Science.

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evolution, as is told in my book, “An Outline of Occult

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Cultural Phenomena — Three Perspectives of Anthroposophy
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world of the Pleroma. Faculties of an entirely different character
experience of kinship with the Pleroma, the faculty of individual
this connection, medieval culture and, above all, Scholasticism
faculty of thinking was turned to practical application in the
unfold an inner faculty in his soul, namely the faculty of thought.
development of certain definite faculties in one portion of the human
a veil. And in the case of which we are speaking, a decadent culture
into Western culture in its most characteristic form. As a matter of
East we see a culture which in the true sense is not culture at all
this cosmic background the faculty of thought in its pure form began
working of the faculty of pure reason now dawning in the human mind.
were being made to unfold the faculties of pure reason and a pure,
faculty of earthly thought and to establish a standard and technique
unfold the faculty of pure thought were gradually tinged with
Men must awaken those inner faculties of soul which once gave birth

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Doubtless external earthly culture, external earthly
these names and their significance from my Occult
arises a slight difficulty: three hundred years ago this

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described and named in my Occult Science; and we also
is called the content of civilization, of culture, so above,
beings are doing for civilization, for culture, on earth. Far
more magnificent work than all earthly cultural activity is
the three modest faculties needed to gain a dynamic static

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is difficult for our ordinary consciousness to conceive of the
ego-consciousness, pervading human culture only gradually after
abstract, something dream-like. Although it is difficult to
man's dynamics of walking and standing and the faculty of
interior of the brain whence the faculty of speech is brought
conceptual thinking only after acquiring the faculty of
as he masters the faculty of walking and handling objects, what
destinies of culture and civilization, as well as the destinies

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visualize what you know of the faculty generally called
faculties are attained by the child.
in the physical and etheric bodies, but find it difficult to do
could make ourselves understood with less difficulty, if we
This fact makes our position very difficult. The
must be able to fathom this difficult relationship

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culture-impulses, they believe that human beings in
faculties write newspaper articles at twenty-one. These young
called in my Occult Science the primeval Indian epoch.
into the next age, called by me in my Occult Science the
a member of primeval Indian culture no longer said: I am
culture — which lasted from the third or fourth
Egyptian, of ancient Chaldaean culture felt that his thoughts
Egypto-Chaldaean culture, the human being felt this dependence
century, for until then, the echo of Graeco-Latin culture still
from him. This is all very difficult to express, for we are
has given you the faculty of making your soul independent of
powerful faculty of attaining a relationship to the

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experiments involving the memory, even the faculties of
experimental psychology. Yet we must acquire the faculty
those of the child's faculties are called forth which

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Steiner explains how it is possible to develop higher faculties of
anyone who is unprejudiced, a difficulty arises at once. Directly he wants
concerned. It is only the faculty of forming concepts, of thinking,
pointed out, this is much more difficult than the blotting out of

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Steiner explains how it is possible to develop higher faculties of
difficulty in understanding how all these movements occurred, and
occult, hidden from us. And through every opening, every happening,
only by developing to its highest point a faculty which, in our
right into the spiritual Being, with the aid of the faculty for
loving which we have cultivated first towards nature. Spiritual
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all the repeated lives on Earth, can manifest only when the faculty
with the culture of the day — he considers nature to be
preserved as occult. What with us is knowledge for everyone was for
that age occult knowledge; and explanations of nature were an occult
ideas which, as the most external form of occult science, included

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Steiner explains how it is possible to develop higher faculties of
most difficult things become comprehensible when we are willing
doubt that mathematical truths are among the most difficult things. They

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Steiner explains how it is possible to develop higher faculties of
hand it is extraordinarily difficult, from the standpoint of higher
Now the soul that sinks down in this way may find it very difficult
great difficulty is to distinguish the immediate content of the
and then runs into great difficulties, ending in an insurmountable
soul and spirit. Then, when our conceptual faculty has been

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Steiner explains how it is possible to develop higher faculties of
difficult to grasp with the ideas of physical science that a man
people often say: “This is becoming very difficult — we

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Steiner explains how it is possible to develop higher faculties of
doing it for anthroposophical or occult or esoteric reasons,
approach it with the human faculty which lives otherwise in a
more or less easy or difficult to hold on to, for the
that the difficulty of holding an Imagination is not so great as in
difficult.
where, for Imaginative consciousness, there is no difficulty in
over the Threshold our everyday faculty of perception. Then

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Steiner explains how it is possible to develop higher faculties of
the Earth. A faculty of this kind for perceiving these hidden

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Steiner explains how it is possible to develop higher faculties of
The difficulty of picturing what is then experienced comes from our
one-dimensional world, taken for granted by the faculty of
Inspiration — the faculty, that is, of actually perceiving the
in a way suited to men's present faculties.) The old

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Steiner explains how it is possible to develop higher faculties of

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Steiner explains how it is possible to develop higher faculties of
cultivated good thoughts during earthly life, they glimmer out, after
difficult to put into words the truths of Initiation. It must either

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Steiner explains how it is possible to develop higher faculties of
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the first, second and third postAtlantean culture-epochs and in
cult is no longer suitable for Western people; they must attain to
with many apparently insignificant cultural systems and symptoms of

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Steiner explains how it is possible to develop higher faculties of
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occult phrenology which considers the individuality of each man and
faculty arising in the child comes from his new orientation in space;
on the transforming of earthly civilisation and culture.
Agriculture of To-morrow,

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Steiner explains how it is possible to develop higher faculties of
man encountered difficulties which had to be overcome on his
evolution a certain cult was to arise, practised by all who were to
pass from youth to maturity by developing a cult of the Virgin. This
occult circles there is a wrong practice: the student is given various
occult teachings, but is never brought to the point of being shown
Occult Science.
Persons who practise a wrong kind of occultism do this with a student they
“occult imprisonment”. He is then encircled by confusing
pictures. That is how much occult harm has been practised, and is
certain people into this occult captivity; but for the soul the
case, too, human beings are occultly imprisoned.
than pictures of the general occult captivity threatening to overtake
with the prejudices of the occult prison in which, fundamentally,

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cultivated by all the Beings in his cosmic domain. Creative thoughts
We now come to Mars. It is difficult to find appropriate expressions
difficult to approach; she does not want to know anything about the
would-be partner. It is very difficult to express these things,

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published by a Cingalese, an Indian of Ceylon, The Culture of Souls

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agricultural practices and acquired a deep knowledge of the elemental
and sagas. Druid culture in its prime preceded the epoch of
an illness by Druidic culture. “Baldur ... the Sun-force
cultivated by the Moon Beings on the Earth was preserved through the
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degree into the Druid culture. With the means accessible today to
We obtain a right perspective of this Druid culture — and it is
Wotan really lies later in time than this epoch when the Druid culture
All this, however, streamed into a culture that must be called sublime
foundations of European culture.
For what is Wotan? The Mystery from which this Wotan culture proceeded
thing, a special secret of the Druid culture. We know that at all
land. We might say that the Druid culture recognized as the good
present knowledge were transposed into the Druid culture, we should
was felt as a Mercury culture. Thus it was no wonder that what
proceeded from the Wotan culture, distilled from the best forces that
so long as they were here, had cultivated on the Earth, and which was

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agricultural practices and acquired a deep knowledge of the elemental
Remains of Druidic culture in Wales, near Penmaenmawr. Inner qualities
place you can find the remains of the old Druid cults, fallen stone
faculty for perceiving the quality of the shadow — for
of this sort. There were many other things that belonged to this cult:
the cult included something quite different.
ago in the region where the Druid cult flourished led an extremely
simple life. Agriculture and cattle-raising were the chief
they are much more difficult to inscribe in the astral atmosphere. On
most important cult-centers, just such places in which the spiritual

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agricultural practices and acquired a deep knowledge of the elemental
Yesterday I used the culture of the Druids — which at the moment
it had begun in the later period of Greek culture. In earlier times,
If not in the very oldest periods described in my book Occult Science,
Occult Science,
Chaldean culture in the Near East — it can be seen to coincide
from their dream-waking life into sleep, for which they cultivated a
have been difficult! Yet it one takes the whole physical world,

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agricultural practices and acquired a deep knowledge of the elemental
difficult, particularly if they are typical scientific thinkers of
not surprising that when a man enters it with underdeveloped faculties
get over this difficulty by saying that on the one side we have
meaning we have to develop a new faculty; we have to pass with right
what we can get from various cultural revivals. We do not possess any
participating in our present culture must have the same sort of

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Occult Science.
all. Again, according to occult laws which I might touch on at some

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is the splendid thing that unites us, if we are cultivating Spiritual

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comes before one to-day, if one has the faculties needed to behold it,
up. Anyone who has the faculty for beholding and feeling such things
materialistic culture is the use of iron in the realm of earthly life.
which has led to the culmination of this materialistic culture. We
materialistic culture and made them smooth; and everywhere we see it
manifest also in the way we handle outer things. Out of the cultural
culture, while the meteoric iron which falls from heaven is treated
material culture to the spiritual and cosmic aspects of what serves us

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position in spiritual cultures, can only be understood when one is

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speaks. And Central Europe, which is imbued with much of the culture
It is difficult indeed today for man to be really man. For, if I may
development of the great course of culture. Thus, expressed in modern

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“Occult Science”,
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something which it is of fundamental importance to cultivate in

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“Occult Science”
casing. We must therefore say that a being of which it is difficult to
if man finds it difficult to unravel the complicated feelings which he

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turn their faculty of perception towards what seeps downwards from
blossom, is unusually difficult to explain. And why? It is because the

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difficulty for purely materialistic science, because it does not know
“Occult Science — an Outline”.

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— it is so difficult to find the appropriate words — but
congenital [it is so difficult to find the appropriate words] —
And the fire-beings — there it is very difficult to find any kind

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“Occult Science”,
inner faculties. It is necessary, of course, really to immerse oneself
way one handles a lethargic child one gains the faculty to perceive
nutrition, through healing, to civilization and culture. For all that

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“Occult Science”

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Because this is so, man must gradually cultivate in himself moral
things belong together: a parasitic culture below, which does not
just out of itself the fact is revealed that a truly cultural
dear friends. Its way of thinking in the cultural sphere is the same
of civilization, for a right awakening of human culture.

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among persons of an idealistic turn of mind. The ordinary culture and
of the Higher Worlds,” “Occult Science” and others,
physical life we must be able to remember — for if the faculty of
different kind of activity. It is difficult to express in words
although this is decidedly more difficult. Then we come to the various

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therefore be surprised that those who are possessed of the faculty of
physical faculty of perception. It is also not physical; it is

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cultivated by the investigator of spirit. One usually believes,
difficult, something where you have to renounce things. —
last awakening. Without any difficulty people simply leave out

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have lived on earth only when we learn to imbue with love the faculty
Only a selfless, love-imbued faculty of cognition can grasp this
only with the greatest difficulty can one lift them on to a higher

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are endowed with the faculty of spiritual vision will say: “Yes,
universe changes. The faculty of thinking, especially that abstract
spiritual world to the faculty of which the head is the instrument; it
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movements and the whole solar system and, finding it very difficult to
first and foremost the faculty of will that man possesses after death.
Earth, he possessed the faculty of love; but if, on Earth, he
Greek culture, continuing on into the Latin, when the Sun influences
exceedingly difficult to-day for the results of spiritual insight to

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spiritual faculties we possessed during earthly existence, we can
fallen right away. But the faculty of soul that enabled us to speak,
remnants of his faculty of speech. And this discordant element that is
faculty that emerges from the being of man with elemental power. It
faculty of memory that will be necessary in his life on Earth. The
of the faculty of human memory. And in the Jupiter sphere, all that
transformed on the path of return into the faculty to conceive human
splendour. It is difficult to find words to describe what the human

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silicious rock. Certain inner faculties of soul can, as it were,
faculties of soul have pressed forward to the stage of which I have
upright. The faculty of speech is denied to the animal, whereas man
the faculties of speaking and thinking begin to unfold in a little
of the universe! Then the faculties of speaking and thinking begin to
the unfolding of the child's faculties of walking, speaking and
faculties of walking, speaking and thinking in the little child, if

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these difficult times one may see people occupied the whole day with
be carried into reality, though this is more difficult. It is still
memory to a certain extent, but it is more difficult to transpose

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his environment which man can cultivate, for he can then really raise

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warm, whereas it is difficult to let the will stream through the body

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still more difficult to perceive; how the bow-shaped ribs enclose the

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face in their souls all the difficulties of knowledge. All that
all the difficulties which offer themselves to the ordinary
all that we experience as difficulties if we have really gained
initiated into the doubts and difficulties of knowledge that by the
man desires to get knowledge, even if it presents great difficulties.
difficulties, and who are not led systematically into these
difficulties as were the pupils of the Mysteries in Hibernia.
in which all difficulties as regards knowledge, all difficulties as
Through his preparation as regards the difficulty of the
as something which released him from those difficulties, even though
spiritual world. And the difficulties which we have in the physical

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experienced all the difficulty, all the inner fearful difficulty,

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Occult Science,
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taken place historically. But cults, wisdom teachings as Hibernian
cults, Hibernian wisdom teachings spread abroad which were based on
from Hibernia and which could be presented in cults, over the
their cult, in their descriptions, to the fact that it was also a

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notwithstanding the general standard of culture, was cultivated in
Basilius Valentinus. On the surface there prevailed that culture of
which I spoke to you in the last lecture. In this culture that which
occult secrets traveled from Arabia towards Europe. This will help to

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delegates, concerning the occult basis of the historical life of

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such a thing as the faculty of memory has developed, passing in
have evolved in respect of one faculty — the faculty of

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the reflective faculties. What the conqueror required from the
the reflective faculties, set out to find these in wars of
Greece, in the time of the full flower of Greek culture, we

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would never have been able alone to meet all the difficulties
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cultivated and taught there in diverse ways at different times.
became so difficult that the priests of the Mysteries appealed
them. Such intercourse was especially cultivated in the
judge and appraise the faculty of knowledge that Gilgamesh
Everything of a spiritual or cultural nature that men received
the secret knowledge that was cultivated in all Mysteries of
their course in the time when Greek culture was falling into

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difficulties and obstacles which meet man when he searches
Mysteries. For all culture, all civilisation, was in earlier
afield — but with what was cultivated in a colony of the
average of culture; the civilised Greeks, the Hellenes, the
and culture of the peoples.

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ancient Oriental culture. The Greek had the feeling: There are
Hibernia are nevertheless doubly secret and occult, for you
Greek character and culture is this fact: that in the Greek
individual and personal spiritual faculties. Step by step we
Nevertheless, as long as Greek culture and civilisation lasted,
fragments, in Greek culture, — in the midst stood
the Grecian culture — what she had lost.
not bent on the conquest of existing cultures, he is not trying
with a culture and civilisation which the Persians themselves

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grew up through the Roman culture into the Middle Ages and on
personality, under the influence of the Roman culture
knowledge, external culture, external civilisation.
circle a kind of inner discipline in Aristotle was cultivated

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breathing presents no difficulty to the man of the present day;

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attain the faculty to perceive the language of Heaven in the
difficult than the access to the Holy Graal, as described in

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that must through all eternity be cultivated as the truth.
has for so long been cultivated, but real life does not allow
which we will dedicate ourselves in selfless cultivation of the

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Rosicrucianism or some other occult designation, and I should like to
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with a glowing enthusiasm. It is, you know, quite difficult to
alchemists and occultists, Rosicrucians and others, who flourished —

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Plays are no occult romances where you have but to find the key, and

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faculty into the spiritual world. The door was shut when the time
came for man, so far as his instinctive faculties were concerned, to
soul that was cultivated in later times by the so-called “Brothers
this period. It is difficult to distinguish the true from the false —
matter is all the more difficult and problematic for the reason that
here a spiritual event in the history of culture of the greatest
radiate impulses for a whole culture or a whole stream of

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exceedingly difficult today even to speak of these things, because
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Occult
twilight. It is difficult to find any trace of that old wisdom in
difficult to arrive at these things, for it is single individuals —
faculty of their own, a faculty that was in their cases, too, of a
concerning Man, in respect especially of two human faculties. We may
practical use had not been thought of in olden times. But the faculty
faculty in other animals too. It was shown to them how this sense for
pupils who had the faculties for it, develop the two-petaled
The animal develops this faculty downwards, to the fluid of warmth
it appears to be merely a sense of smell, but the faculty, the
astral. He acquires the faculty whereby he is able, not merely to
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man must be able to develop this faculty of writing in the astral
This faculty has
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Occult Science.
and earth. Attain the corresponding inner faculties. Then, as you
relation to former epochs of culture the humanity of to-day must read
necessary faculties — we do indeed encounter Michael.
to remain in the activity, in order not to spoil his faculty of
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written there, and man must be able to develop the faculty of writing
This faculty has
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Attain the corresponding inner faculties. Then, as you gaze into the
former epochs of culture the humanity of today must read in the
develop the necessary faculties — we do indeed encounter
to remain in the activity, in order not to spoil his faculty of
becomes an art). Thus one acquires the faculty not to spoil the

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whole community associated with this cult remained in an atmosphere of
candidates for Initiation was comparable to the sacred cults or
took place with chosen human beings in the Mysteries. Indeed the cult
— and we may take the special cult of Adonis as representative
— the cult was explained at the proper season to all those who
Cosmos. Sacred cult is itself an image of what is enacted in the
cult or ritual, that is to say, through a picture of what was enacted
able to behold within the Sun, by the methods cultivated at the places
the structure of the sacred cults, the festival of Adonis, for
was represented in the symbolic action of the sacred cult. But the

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lectures. Yet if we trace the festival customs and cult rites that
whole community that confessed this cult, that called it its own. At
And in due time the cult — we may take that of Adonis as
corresponding truths in the cult; that is, in a semblance of the
addition the form taken by the cult — the Festival of Adonis,

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cultic rituals, which symbolized what occurred in the
Mysteries. These rituals, such as the Adonis cult, that took
the form taken by the cult — the festival of Adonis, for
cult's symbolic rituals. However, when the time came for the

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And the ceremony — take that of the cult of Adonis, for
in order to cultivate thoughts of resurrection.

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the Divine Father. The Initiates of the ancient Hebrew culture were
Occult Science,

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Occult Science,
noticeable, certain exercises, certain cult rituals — in short,

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including exercises and cult rituals, began to be applied

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them in the practice of their cult by means of prayers, etc.,
“An Outline of Occult Science,”

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Occult Science.
the faculty of speech incorporated into his etheric body. Through the
receive the faculty of movement concentrated into his etheric body.
Moon Beings into their Mercury experiences we receive from the faculty
of spoken sound in man the faculty of Eurythmy. This is the cosmic
Then we come to that which permeates the human being with the faculty

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Occult Science, an Outline,

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difficulty as we progress through childhood and youth —
the Adonis cult and of others like it, demanded that one first

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An Outline of Occult Science.

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necessary faculty, all that is contained in the forms of the
more, as a place for the active cultivation of the Mysteries, while as

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of the purposes of the festivals is to try to cultivate this
The Anthroposophical Society must consciously cultivate this
your hearts, for by devotedly cultivating the solemn mood that

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spiritual things of the world were cultivated in the
make to sink into me. And if the necessary faculties have been

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grammes, they will only be infected with great difficulty.

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consciousness again. This will come about if Anthroposophy is cultivated
in full earnestness, extends his studies of human civilisation and culture
Occult Science.

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difficult to extinguish again, of our own accord, the strengthened

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you will say, is a difficult conception. Well, so it is. But you know

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more painstaking, conscientious observer than without the faculty of
or to inner joy, to something that we find easy or that proves difficult

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preceding lectures that a study of man's faculty of memory can give
connections. So today we will study this faculty of memory as such,
few features indicate the role of the faculty of memory in physical,
inner constitution of our soul whether we find this difficult or not;
are really able to live there. Our faculty of memory now undergoes its

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greatest difficulties, in face of the true reality. For if we speak
necessary spiritual faculties what the real man — the man of
if we acquired no other faculties of knowledge than those we now
faculties of knowledge. We find them however when we work our way up
faculty of knowledge. But then we do not need to travel to the sun;
whence come the forces which provide the animal with faculties of
as we will; we shall not find there the causes of the faculties of

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directly from this there result the greatest difficulties
were, at death. And if then, with that faculty of perception
into the rest of lifeless nature becomes difficult for us. But,
cause of the faculty of sensation or movement. We must begin to

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cultivating the impulses through which we find each other in

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exceedingly difficult to communicate with those who are in the life

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is exceedingly difficult to communicate with those who are

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completely immersed in modern culture — yet it is so. The first
faculty, out of his own nature to build his physical body. Therefore
very difficult. And as a consequence, in the next life he does not

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completely immersed in modern culture, we must,
the faculty of building his physical body out of his own
comes into contact, very difficult. And, in consequence, he

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organisation, then, if we have the faculty to observe such things at
organism. We bring it with us on to the earth as our faculties and

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with us onto the earth as our faculties and talents, our genius

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highly cultured man, a lover of art in every form, and a close friend
subject is almost as difficult as the Theory of Relativity, but,
considered, and still do consider it, quite wonderful. Difficult as

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faculties of which I have spoken so often and about which you can
same Arabian culture, who had already made strong contacts with
for earthly relationships it is difficult to find expressions for
the task of sustaining this stream of culture for Europe — as
it were of enabling a phase of culture not yet Christian to continue
bearers of non-Christian culture, particularly, too, of Cabbalistic
culture, who died during those centuries and came up into the
for even to occult sight he did not look like a reincarnated Arabian.
waking in the morning. It was extremely difficult to get a picture of
the case of Schubert himself, when one looks back in the occult field
personality, one who had little opportunity of cultivating musical
Arabic culture had come from Asia, passed across Africa and finally
again for myself. That is not difficult. But when one has done it and
battling ardently, good fighter as he was, for a cultural life devoid

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evolution of culture must culminate in the destruction of the whole
one has occultism in one's very bones — if I may put it so —

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Baghdad, much wonderful culture, a truly great and splendid spiritual
culture on primitive foundations — he himself only learnt to
write out of sheer necessity — spiritual culture of a very high
spiritual culture inspired tremendous respect in the environment of
highly cultured man whose followers were by no means men of such
not exactly ruling over culture, but certainly giving the impulse to
we see how there emerges within this spiritual culture, of which
medicine, for example, was cultivated at this Court of Haroun al
was cultivated there, also geography. Unfortunately, far too little
surrounded by Arabism — by a forked stream of Arabic culture.
flourishing over yonder in Asia that illustrious centre of culture of
which I have spoken, the centre of culture around Haroun al Raschid.
everything that went with the lofty culture to which Haroun al
in European culture, we find Arabism still in evidence — but as
Haroun al Raschid. The life and culture pursued at the Court of
“culture,” as we would say today, of the attacking Arabs,
no desire to subject themselves to the Arabs. But the culture the
along the paths of these wars comes much lofty culture. Even
can see how deep is the influence of Arabist culture. Spinoza cannot
culture. And what a Tarik had carried into Spain at the beginning of
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most difficult circumstances — so much so that he did not
students from the Vienna Catholic Faculty were there, who came every

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accustomed to occult researches of this kind; they are clues that
the cultural “climate” of the period. One would certainly
things in life can be explained only from out of an occult
against an occult background. that life becomes explicable. And so,
repays attention. If one follows it up in an occult sense, it leads

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assimilated the culture and civilisation then around us; we took it
life of culture far surpassing anything to be found in Europe in
Such culture as existed in Europe at
of Greek culture and of ancient Oriental culture in practically every
geography, poetry — all these branches of culture flourished at
light in the Oriental culture of the 8th and 9th centuries. For he
over from West to East a stream of culture that is abstract and bound
between people in very close connection with the Baconian culture and
cultured members of the Austrian Reichstag.
as a brochure, German Culture and the German Empire,
all there was to be said for German culture and the German
incarnation. He could speak of the German people and culture and of
culture had captured him and held him fast. And so it came about that

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difficult to continue what has been given in the last lectures,
realise that if some of our thoughts to-day prove somewhat difficult
founded, this question was really being asked, out of a deep occult
reason it was the custom at all times for the leaders of occult
doctor who went in a great deal for occultism. Around us stood many
this question (in order to call forth the further occult

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were often versed in the literary and scientific culture of the time.
us. I want you to realise the extraordinary difficulty of a genuine
his investigation to the point where he can rely upon the faculties
and it will not be difficult to understand the feelings and emotions
man of wide culture, who knew everything considered worth knowing at

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adaptation to the prevailing conditions of civilisation and culture
alone conditions of culture and civilisation — in which
the spiritual life of mankind, the impulses that had been cultivated
the lectures I once gave in Stuttgart on certain chapters of occult
Occult History.
and trend of the present age is such that it is difficult for one who
results, results which show very clearly how difficult it is to

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clearly, provided one has the faculty for understanding them ... That
must be extremely cautious — presented special difficulties to
nature, the perceptive faculty in his life of soul deteriorates. He
cult and ritual enacted reverently before men take effect. Everything
of the nature of cult and ritual, not the external rites only but
of cult and ritual.
same as it was in olden times. By cultivating the domain that lies
would have been cultivated in it, was in itself an education for the

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difficult for us in our present-day consciousness to undertake a
extraordinarily difficult to observe.
peculiarly difficult when the other person becomes a means for karmic
determined karmically, has difficulty in establishing itself. You

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paying attention to what can happen within us to develop the faculty
and how difficult it is. If you take a pen or pencil to write it all
culture-epochs. Only, according to the opinion of modern men who are
earlier culture-epochs really had these experiences, only modern man
of mind. For so-called occult experiences — and these are such

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entirely sedentary life are very difficult to study to-day from the
is connected with the carrying over of the faculty of attention from
really much more difficult to observe, although it is generally

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to-day who die imbued with modern culture and the fruits of modern
difficult to form a clear conception of these things, for observation
who were steeped in modern culture and who nevertheless were very
was alive in cultural life before the modern, abstract way of
cling too strongly to earthly things it may be difficult for them to

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culture are due to what has thus been carried over into old age, into
They lie mainly in the hidden, occult foundations of the
beings living in our time and sharing in its culture, we should find
contemporary culture, intellectual culture, and also, speaking
if we have a delicate faculty of perception for what enters our life

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etheric body. The moment a man acquires the faculty of super-sensible,
not, however, the Cabbalism that was so universally cultivated later
has become a world-famous figure in French culture, namely
was connected with the utterly decadent, pseudo-magical Mystery cults
everything was worked through once again. But Mexican culture is a
decadent culture and if you read the books of Eliphas Levi to-day you
you how difficult it is to approach these Mysteries, how they seem to

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his physical body. And in point of fact it would not be so difficult
as it actually is for the majority of people to acquire this faculty
experiences in the physical body. If he is to acquire the faculty of
certain difficulty is experienced in coming back into the physical
Beings ‘see’ — they would lack a certain faculty
were still associated with the cult and the teaching of Jahve united
be a natural human faculty.
faculty points us to previous lives. There are indeed many whose
and this is shown by occult observation — as a rule it is not

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science it is indeed very difficult to reach any intelligent conclusion
Course on Agriculture — when we come together again, bring this

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proposed I should have to take exception to it. These difficult and
the spiritual world. It is difficult to speak of such matters
not, however, admit of any other arrangement. It is difficult to
Understanding will inevitably be difficult for anyone who comes in
difficulties exist, a certain balance can be established. Provided
view of the conditions of culture to-day it can be indicated only by
to cultivate the attitude of soul that is needed here by learning,
existence, the more do the difficulties increase.
most difficult problems in any presentation of the subject is to
is one of the most difficult of all tasks.
to perceive, even if it has to be with higher, occult vision, how and
of the most difficult of all investigations that can be undertaken in
it is a matter of extraordinary difficulty in anthroposophical
faculty of perception. Therefore in forming a judgment of illnesses

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And you begin to understand the origin of the cult. A ritual is not
cult which has found its place in the Christian Community, and with
before the dead for a ritual of farewell. A cult or ceremony is only

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incarnation with inferior faculties or very possibly with faculties
aberrations and misguided impulses in cultural life, darkness is
in Luciferic activities at work in some region where ancient culture
hand. And no one will be able to cultivate the right attitude to the

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culture, they rather lived in the sensation ‘It
culture and education — all that the people knew
was only at the beginning, and was still difficult. Man was
European culture. It is there to this day; and in the
cultivated in the Anthroposophical Movement. Today, my dear

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of an ancient background of culture they rather lived in the
education at that time. All culture and education — all
the beginning, and was still difficult. Man was still conscious
European culture. It is here to this day; and in the things
cultivated in the Anthroposophical Movement. Today, my dear

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Occult Science.
cult or ritual men consciously transform their physical
frequently remain unnoticed even by the most occult of
occultists. To many a man of today, when he utters some
Never were there such difficulties as there are today in

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once described here as a great cult or act of ritual was
beings in the world. Then indeed great difficulties of life
But these difficulties are meant to come, for they are
all its many difficulties. For in this case too, we must

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Occult Science
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case. On the contrary, people who have excellent faculties
cult or ritual, consisting in mighty Imaginations. And in
longing. Thus it was difficult for them to find their way
such difficulty? For the simple reason, my dear friends,
who has had anything to do with occult matters, knows that
so, when we now look with occult vision at all that these
in that super-sensible cult or ritual. Yet they came to it

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this faculty and had approached more nearly to the
cultivated in a living way.

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were. A living knowledge of this kind was cultivated until
was still cultivated even until that turn of the 14th and
centres we still see these old teachings cultivated, though
with the greatest imaginable difficulties. They were
in Spain. He had cultivated a living exemplary
cultivated, and something was still present of an
were preparing to cultivate Aristotelianism in the
a condition to cultivate knowledge in this living way. What
cultivate must now give place to Aristotelianism. We will
to continue the cultivation of knowledge in the
circle of monks in the Theological Faculty at the
unison with them subsequently cultivated Aristotelianism on
cultivating spirituality once more within the civilization

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manipulation of the intellect or reasoning faculty by the
Grecian culture and civilisation was carried, with
cult or ritual (Cultus) that took shape in the

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awaken once more the faculty to read not only in the Book
seeking to cultivate the message of Michael. There are some

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super-sensible Cult of the beginning of the 19th century, among all
the point was to spread Grecian culture in a cosmopolitan way,
predestined to a harder, more difficult experience of karma than
though they will often only come forth with difficulty, — when
out of that human being, with that human being's faculties.

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super-sensible Cult of the beginning of the 19th century,
point was to spread Grecian culture in a cosmopolitan way,
predestined to a harder, more difficult experience of karma
forth with difficulty, — when as I say they do bring
with that human being's faculties.

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very seriously. And now compare the infinite difficulties
On the contrary, it generally becomes more difficult
omitted) it is not overwhelmingly difficult for those who
Waldorf School, it becomes far more difficult to give
cleverness which is thus cultivated is used by Ahriman. And

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friends, I must admit, is one of the most difficult
inner nature — of soul-faculty and soul-condition
remained in the kingdom of Michael, it is difficult to find
faculties to the highest point of eminence. It was only

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cultivation of the esotericism which speaks unreservedly of the reality
admitted that in a certain sense this is the general opinion of cultured

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repeated earthly lives in detail. What is derived from such occult
have cultivated Anthroposophy, enough occult material has been gathered
that must now be cultivated for the further course of the society's
a certain occult result must themselves be prepared in a spiritual, in a
of men who were interested in occultism in the widest possible range,
though an occultism somewhat externally conceived. He was fond of
relating the views of his many acquaintances on all kinds of occult
matters, and especially on the occult connections of what the modern
It is difficult to understand the origin of the peculiar style of Titus
of alchemists he was impelled to study all occult matters very
intensely, and gained an unusually intense feeling for occult things. He
manner of alchemistic and occult arts and artifices. And at length, look

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greater height of culture, I mean Haroun al Raschid.
that flourished at the court of Haroun al Raschid and was cultivated by
that genuine spiritual life which had been cultivated as between
cultivated under the aegis of Haroun al Raschid and his counsellor. It
cultivated in Europe in an essentially Christian form.
occult vision at what takes place there to this day, we receive a
in that region by the instructions of Merlin, to cultivate and civilise
with which Alexander the Great had carried the Grecian culture and
worship of the Christ, was cultivated in such a place, though needless
worked themselves out in lonely centres of cultivation of Christian

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light, in their mysterious occult influences. Thus from the Goddess
out even in an occult way into the spiritual atmosphere of mankind. We
fathers. At that moment he was really touched by the occult radiations
with in the course of my life, clear and distinct like an occult
of the theological faculty in Vienna used to gather. I learned to know
be prepared by modern educational methods, is extraordinarily difficult.

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Nature. All this was cultivated there — no longer, it is
indeed that anyone who would devote himself to the cultivation of
All the problems and difficulties of modern
follow it we have the greatest difficulty, so to speak, in keeping it within

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cult was instituted and enacted in real imaginations of a spiritual
moment a little miniature picture of this super-sensible cult and action
difficulties and conflicts in following Schelling thus through his
physical. Already as a young man I had no great difficulty in quickly

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Occult Science.
Michael there have been the greatest difficulties for the men of modern
extremely difficult questions that arise in the investigation of karma,
must learn to know all the obstacles and difficulties one meets in such
Christianity. After an extremely difficult period of youth (as is
that though there was no external difficulty in letting him live on just
death, we begin to realise the tremendous difficulties and hindrances.
special difficulties, we find the human being living gradually into the
greatest difficulty. And in this case I made the strange discovery that
meet with such difficulties when he had passed through the gate of death?
We see here how great the difficulties are
which makes it very difficult to approach with an open mind the science
of the stars, and the science, too, of karma. But difficult as it is, it

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reality. We showed how difficulties of karma may even go so far that a
difficult for us to receive what we must receive if we are to take the
how the cults of Asia Minor and Africa proceeded out of the ancient
witnessed — I mean the cults that proceeded from the
the impressions of cults and religious institutions which were
understanding for the external features of the cults and clerical
Roman cult and ceremony with all the ecclesiastical conceptions that
institutions, the Christian cult, the Christian pomp and grandeur. For

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difficult it can be to carry into this present time a spiritual science
difficult it is to carry into an earthly life in the present time, what
spite of this it is so difficult to carry into the bodily nature of the
education and culture, anything spiritual that was received and absorbed
you how such difficulties were already prepared in many cases during
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experience. For in effect it is really difficult to carry into a present

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soul which evolves most especially the intellect, i.e., that faculty of
faculty of the soul which is most able to emancipate itself from the
into the culture and education of this present time (or of that time)
the greatest difficulty in entering a new incarnation. When he had
it was a fairly long time — he found real difficulty in entering
soul was such as to make it extraordinarily difficult for him, when
was also a certain difficulty for his nature to receive Christianity,
Plato. Thus it was difficult for Plato himself, out of all the activity
must now bring with him into the world — it was difficult for him
strong in all the culture of that time which had to be received.
woman there was living so to speak the whole culture of that time. She
emerges with great hindrances and difficulties. Yet on the other hand it

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of yours may be based upon occult vision; but is it also capable of
book Occult
being, as you can read in Occult
single entities have no faculties for knowing a human being, and the

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the wood with a certain interest. If he is cultured, he takes
has really become a cult nowadays. People try to discover the secrets

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the Exusiai, Dynamis and Kyriotetes, are connected with the faculties
proceed to shape images of the talents and faculties we shall possess
Beings of the Second Hierarchy we behold what talents and faculties
much ancient culture. We see how Mohammedanism comes over from Asia
European culture would have taken a quite different form. In an
on, as a result of the Crusades, much Eastern culture — by
culture found their way to Europe through this channel. In Western
steeped in Mohammedanism, but everything in the way of culture
difficulty to master the rudiments of reading and writing, much
cultivated at the Court of Haroun al Raschid had spread far and wide.
and attitude of soul. If this is perceived by occult sight, then in
imagination, organised and vitalised everything that was cultivated
think of Haroun al Raschid himself. If with occult sight one discerns
cultivated in the ancient Mysteries. This could not come to

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else about him provided a far more revealing clue for occult
Constantine conceived the wish to carry Roman culture to
rather uncultured, rough and ready way, ideas were elaborated for
the nature of advancing culture immediately after Christianity had
Maeterlinck is certainly a high light in our modern culture and yet
and cultured mind, and then, in the later chapters he seems to have
First chapter — thoughtful, logical, cultured; last chapter
with, thoughtful, logical, cultured; and finally —
to-day shows how difficult it still is for men of the present age to
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different aspect. With ordinary faculties of cognition we see the
himself from the grasp of the Earth; and if we cultivate Imagination,
which we are looking. If we have acquired the faculty of Intuitive

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anything man can achieve for culture and civilisation on the Earth.
each has its history; culture and civilisation evolve throughout the
similarly, it is difficult during the Sun life to survey, to behold,
difficult in the early days of man's evolution, in spite of the
something spiritual within himself, it was difficult for him in the
Imagination, Inspiration and Intuition unless these faculties are

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reason why it is so difficult for men to find the natural path
difficulty, by deliberately turning our minds to these matters.
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Occult Science: An Outline
occult standpoint it is erroneous to speak of him as a
Occult Science
nullity. It should not be difficult, especially in these days,
Occult Science
faculty of genuine super-sensible perception through the methods
Mars sphere, investigation is more difficult. For if a
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adapted and elaborated by the unconscious faculty, acquired in
particular faculties they possess. The historical life of
faculties, human deeds, human thoughts and feelings. But all
culture, was followed by other, less important incarnations.
faculties arising from the experiences of an Indian
transformed into a faculty in which there was a certain vein of
imaginative, conceptual faculties.
The tiniest fragment of wisdom in any field is difficult to
had unfolded the faculty of creative imagination which was

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system. Everything is inscribed in this faculty of cosmic
uncultured American Indians, the latter were frightened by what

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children. The faculties that are drawn out of us, the paths
difficulties that any of the winding ways is the shorter. Hence
difficult to reach the spiritual world with the exercises they
Constantinople was one of enormous difficulty, entailing the
personality whose activities are really difficult to explain.

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reasoning faculty, not the mental grasp of immediate reality
faculty to gaze into the life preceding the descent to earthly
self-love in them. Love of others is rather more difficult to
and culture. Extraordinary results were achieved at his Court,
pedagogy — all these branches of culture flourished at
of spiritual culture. Moreover there is a great deal in the
a new edition of what was once cultivated over in the East. In
forgotten, when on the one side scientific culture is
an epoch when the highest human faculty capable of development
[The Occult Foundations of the Bhagavad Gita.

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is there. The deciphering is difficult and in the instances of
already clever and intelligent the culture of the age prevented
culture of the age exercised this influence upon a very large

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burdensome karma, a karma that is difficult to bear, radiates
a more intimate, finely developed faculty of introspection,
immediately on waking. But our modern culture has
illnesses make going to sleep an unwelcome and difficult
and difficult process are the beginning of good karma. For
often have difficulty in going to sleep, for that is a sign
for difficulty in going to sleep and in sleeplessness, for this

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faculties. And we shall see from this that man, as he is now
things of the world with the faculties that were ours in
before your souls a vista into the cultural task of

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Occult Science — an Outline,
intellect, and intellect is only one of the human faculties, although
is really no cause to be so very proud of our intellectual culture
realm into the spiritual, whence our particular faculties, our
people today have faculties for perceiving these things. But it is
precisely because these faculties are beginning to develop that so
much in our age is in a state of ferment. The faculties are already
faculties of perception are striving to function so that when human
to be cultivated more intensively within the

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be investigated through a higher development of the faculties
a task which it is difficult to describe in earthly words.
difficulty. This is entirely dependent upon how the karma from previous
Occult Science
individual concerned. This is the secret of the faculty of
little feeling for such things compared with the faculty of
beings through spiritual faculties without learning to know a host of
portrait in which an uncultured person sees no likeness whatever,

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Occult Science
directly related to life, cultivating the insight and feeling that
cultivated, Moon and Sun seem intimately related to us; we see in
works with systematic, fully conscious methods. It was a difficult

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culture at that time through Lessing's treatise, was broken. And in
to produce the chaos and confusion prevailing in culture and
civilisation in Europe, brilliant spiritual culture was being
wisdom but who also combined with this wisdom the culture that had
come over from Greece. The spiritual life cultivated at the Court of
provided the foundations for a truly wonderful centre of culture
difficult idea for our contemporaries to grasp. In an age when it can
advanced; forms of culture quite different from those
bearers of culture in the sphere of language, in the habits of
not difficult to see that the stream of spiritual life dominating the
profoundly European culture was influenced by Bacon and has continued
Occult
features in life that the occultist is guided along the paths where
criterion for occult research in the case of Garibaldi was the way in
worked in the currents of civilisation and culture
see how in these personalities, civilisations, cultures, flow
teacher's club-foot became for me the starting-point of occult

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problem of leadership of the Society was a very difficult one —
such undertakings are set on foot in a Society resting upon occult
the world increasingly difficult.
Society, which is simply an administrative body for the cultivation
apparently, is what it is so difficult to realise. Nevertheless
and renewal of the fruits of ancient cultures, and such a revival,
ancient culture.
Asia, Arabism was cultivated with great brilliance at the Court
most primitive rudiments of culture, great and illustrious
the souls who once shared in this brilliant culture at the Court of
England, a form of culture strictly aligned with Arabism ... this
culture as materialistic as that into which Francis Bacon could
circumstances. The difficulty is that the impressions welled up
difficulty — from their spiritual backgrounds, and if one

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Occult Science,
great age. This trait was softened and mellowed and became a faculty
only when it has become the Past. This is a difficult conception for
combination of Greek culture and wisdom that is present in Goethe.
culture, with all their heavy trials, it is urgently necessary to
‘cultural’ or
another case. At the time when the culture of ancient Mexico had
their cults still persisted, there lived a certain individual. He
cultural history as a rule mention hardly anything more than
occultist Eliphas Lévi, having passed through the Jupiter sphere

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cultivation of Anthroposophy. It therefore became necessary that I
the human element to be cultivated within the Society.
difficulties will be in store for many Members, because all kinds of
time a kind of cult or ritual was lived through by a number of souls
who were working together — a cult which instigated those longings
were together in spiritual worlds, and in a super-sensible cult we
throughout Christendom at this time the faculty of instinctive
kind of cult took place in the super-sensible world. These individuals
participated in this cult and they belong to the one group of souls
of the Christ into earthly culture and civilisation. They longed for
groups united with the other souls in that super-sensible cult during
it was preserved and cultivated. These circles were composed of
Teachers, divinely blessed Teachers, who still cultivated something
the world of Greek culture. And then — in the middle of the
task it is to cultivate the intellect in the Aristotelian way. The
time has come now for the cultivation of the intellect. Late in his
paramount task: the cultivation of the intellect in the Aristotelian
Dominicans, were to cultivate Aristotelianism — were together
is now your task to cultivate the intellect in the dawning epoch of
super-sensible cult enacted in the pictures already indicated,
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evolution of the world with the faculties which man's earthly life
concerns the intellectual, the spiritual evolution and culture of
who has to do with the spiritual element in culture.
sciences, of the arts, of the cultural element of the epoch, is the
and most spiritual form of culture produced by that particular age.
impulse of the lofty spiritual culture of Greece, whose fruits were
developing from the foundations of the ancient culture, we see the
urge to take the spiritual culture of
of Michael, to spread over the world all that the Greek culture had
essentially spiritual, reaching its zenith in man's faculty
if I may put it so, cultivates intellectuality per se;
in the twilight period of Greek culture and was the impulse underlying
while, as a result of the campaigns of Alexander, the culture of
which it is difficult for the earthly intellect to comprehend, the
Raschid was a product of Arabian culture, a culture tinged with
of all that was cultivated at the Court of Haroun al Raschid in the
Caliphs onwards, Arabian culture was carried from Asia across North
impetus were responsible for the spread of Mohammedan culture, were
the outer forms it had assumed and the external culture it had
with great difficulties. The natural science of Aristotle had been
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thinking was then cultivated in preparation for the next reign of
through the Imaginative Cult I have described to you, to prepare for
cult that took its course during the first half of the
therewith the possibility to nurture and cultivate the impulses
unacceptable in face of modern culture, but it is nevertheless a
of Anthroposophists is this: steadfastly to cultivate the

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branches of culture have produced .. . it cannot be said that these
those possessed of the corresponding faculties to live in the Mind
many fields in which men became expert and many ways by which culture
of the reality of the spiritual world presented no difficulty to me
things that came easily to others were difficult for me. I was always
found it difficult to retain concrete pictures of the things of the
opportunities vouchsafed to me for occult work, the demons who
occultism things that are discovered one day cannot be communicated

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branches of culture have produced .. . it cannot be said that these
those possessed of the corresponding faculties to live in the Mind
many fields in which men became expert and many ways by which culture
of the reality of the spiritual world presented no difficulty to me
things that came easily to others were difficult for me. I was always
found it difficult to retain concrete pictures of the things of the
opportunities vouchsafed to me for occult work, the demons who
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Alexander, Greek culture had been carried over to Asia in a form of
culture had found their way to Asia, brought thither by the genius of
and cultivated in a living way much of the ancient wisdom of the
brilliant spiritual culture was personified in Haroun al Raschid whom
Charlemagne held in great veneration. But this was a kind of culture
Christianity; it preserved and cultivated the best elements of
cultivated in Asia where it had all come under the influence of the
cultivated at this Court, should spread in the world.
spiritual life may find it difficult to recognise some particular
which had been given by ancient cultures and had come to expression
upon the whole of oriental culture.
Asia and Africa, at the time when the spread of this culture was
did the culture flourishing at the Court of Haroun al Raschid.
a form very different from that in which it had been cultivated by
promoted and cultivated by Haroun al Raschid and his wise Counsellor
longing to receive the spiritual knowledge that is cultivated in the

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Alexander, Greek culture had been carried over to Asia in a form of
culture had found their way to Asia, brought thither by the genius of
and cultivated in a living way much of the ancient wisdom of the
brilliant spiritual culture was personified in Haroun al Raschid whom
Charlemagne held in great veneration. But this was a kind of culture
Christianity; it preserved and cultivated the best elements of
cultivated in Asia where it had all come under the influence of the
cultivated at this Court, should spread in the world.
spiritual life may find it difficult to recognise some particular
which had been given by ancient cultures and had come to expression
upon the whole of oriental culture.
Asia and Africa, at the time when the spread of this culture was
did the culture flourishing at the Court of Haroun al Raschid.
a form very different from that in which it had been cultivated by
promoted and cultivated by Haroun al Raschid and his wise Counsellor
longing to receive the spiritual knowledge that is cultivated in the

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the product of his own inner activity. The faculty of thinking, man's
developing the faculties of the head but by seeking for the
Order paramountly connected with the cultivation of knowledge in the

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the product of his own inner activity. The faculty of thinking, man's
developing the faculties of the head but by seeking for the
Order paramountly connected with the cultivation of knowledge in the

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widespread forms of civilisation and culture were wiped out of
difficulties are always cropping up ... Last year, after one of my
who eventually attains the faculty to see the tree-spirits come forth

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widespread forms of civilisation and culture were wiped out of
difficulties are always cropping up ... Last year, after one of my
who eventually attains the faculty to see the tree-spirits come forth

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Difficulties in the investigation of karma. Karma in history. Dr.
connections of this kind are exceedingly difficult to investigate.
had a Geometry teacher whom I loved dearly. It was not difficult for
occult research by which this end can be attained.
progresses in the development of the occult forces of the soul in the
Being, the personality of Voltaire and still more from an occult
the Jesuits, which introduces occult exercises of the will in a most
further with the occult insight of Intuition, we come to something
the occult facts that stand behind the evolution of karma.
occult investigations into the matter and I could never do otherwise

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Difficulties in the investigation of karma. Karma in history. Dr.
connections of this kind are exceedingly difficult to investigate.
had a Geometry teacher whom I loved dearly. It was not difficult for
occult research by which this end can be attained.
progresses in the development of the occult forces of the soul in the
Being, the personality of Voltaire and still more from an occult
the Jesuits, which introduces occult exercises of the will in a most
further with the occult insight of Intuition, we come to something
the occult facts that stand behind the evolution of karma.
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look back with occult sight, if we can visualise the point of time
is the case with all such occult centres, chosen this spot because
Sun Hero, the Knights of Arthur spread their culture abroad.
spiritual culture spreads abroad among many peoples of the earth and
The achievements of Greek culture were spread among men wherever this
comes your impulse to spread abroad the spiritual culture of your
strange vista that presents itself to occult sight. In the age which
form of Christian culture in Europe, Haroun al Raschid was living
world they watched the form of culture which they themselves had
cultivated under the influence of Michael. This impulse was rooted in
to come down again to the earth very soon. And with a faculty of
Many forces of destruction are at work upon the earth! All culture,

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look back with occult sight, if we can visualise the point of time
is the case with all such occult centres, chosen this spot because
Sun Hero, the Knights of Arthur spread their culture abroad.
spiritual culture spreads abroad among many peoples of the earth and
The achievements of Greek culture were spread among men wherever this
comes your impulse to spread abroad the spiritual culture of your
strange vista that presents itself to occult sight. In the age which
form of Christian culture in Europe, Haroun al Raschid was living
world they watched the form of culture which they themselves had
cultivated under the influence of Michael. This impulse was rooted in
to come down again to the earth very soon. And with a faculty of
Many forces of destruction are at work upon the earth! All culture,

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follow a difficult path in face of the opposition and
accompany us on the difficult path strewn with obstacles and

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we will only be able to recognize what must be cultivated in

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provides; in these times it is especially difficult to acquire
difficulties upon entering the spiritual world, because your
This is possible if one has cultivated such reverence for the
earth-lives, takes over, the person meets a great difficulty in
said about the difficulty in being able to to differentiate

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is quite difficult, my dear friends, to just think about your

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is more difficult for normal consciousness to understand light.
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was, so to speak, cultivated. Since Christmas anthroposophy is
not only cultivated, it is also carried out; meaning that
support anthroposophy. It is going to be very difficult and the
difficulties. They are not merely anthroposophists, they are
destructive in an occult movement. There must be no illusions
steer through all the difficulties which will assail
quote almost verbatim. And you can see that the difficulties
through the future difficulties.
Generally speaking, it is not difficult for a person to leave
from the occult language.
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The difficulty is only in the spatial relationships. And the
difficulty will be overcome.

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the cultivation of science, religion, art and practical living, whose
in mind how impossibly difficult it is to substitute a knowledge of

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the cultivation of science, religion, art and practical living, whose
in mind how impossibly difficult it is to substitute a knowledge of

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Umriß», das hier übersetzt ist als «Occult

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Occult Science — an Outline,
that is akin to man. This is difficult to illustrate by comparison

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Occult Science — an Outline,
that is akin to man. This is difficult to illustrate by comparison

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faculty alone, but to enlighten the whole man and show his total
Chaldeans who owed their cultural impulses to the Mystery teachings

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faculty alone, but to enlighten the whole man and show his total
Chaldeans who owed their cultural impulses to the Mystery teachings

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consciousness, but it is too difficult to carry out the
content, our consciousness is obliterated. It would be difficult
the height of Greek culture.

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consciousness, but it is too difficult to carry out the
content, our consciousness is obliterated. It would be difficult
the height of Greek culture.

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endowed with the highest academic learning in all faculties, we

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endowed with the highest academic learning in all faculties, we

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perceive the astral body with the cognitive faculty by means of which
shall obviously have difficulty in withdrawing from our physical and
age finds a certain satisfaction in ordering our entire cultural life
bodies. I have no wish to inveigh against our contemporary culture,
primordial Indian and old Persian cultures that everybody could be
limited to those who had little difficulty in withdrawing from
only with difficulty. And this was determined by his makeup and
point out the difficulties in the way of Initiation
Indeed, a child would not have the slightest difficulty in entering
spheres can of their bounty accomplish for us. Then, in the occult

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perceive the astral body with the cognitive faculty by means of which
shall obviously have difficulty in withdrawing from our physical and
age finds a certain satisfaction in ordering our entire cultural life
bodies. I have no wish to inveigh against our contemporary culture,
primordial Indian and old Persian cultures that everybody could be
limited to those who had little difficulty in withdrawing from
only with difficulty. And this was determined by his makeup and
point out the difficulties in the way of Initiation
Indeed, a child would not have the slightest difficulty in entering
spheres can of their bounty accomplish for us. Then, in the occult

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«Occult Science» ins Englische übersetzt ist

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course without a spiritual recognition on the part of the cultured
Occult Science,
namely, the occult emanations that proceed from human
Occult Science — an Outline

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course without a spiritual recognition on the part of the cultured
Occult Science,
namely, the occult emanations that proceed from human
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and also the effects of external culture upon our karma. We can carry
past ages it has been most difficult for many of these beings to
with insight into the real occult relationships and into the true
being can only be a medium when he permits his faculties which are at
makes it possible for them to use the occult-chemical impulses in the

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and also the effects of external culture upon our karma. We can carry
past ages it has been most difficult for many of these beings to
with insight into the real occult relationships and into the true
being can only be a medium when he permits his faculties which are at
makes it possible for them to use the occult-chemical impulses in the

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primordial culture on Earth. When we look back into these
of the physical body, he also possessed another faculty —
with certain difficulties at first, for in the Theosophical Society I
Occult Science — an Outline,
Occult Science
Occult Science
Occult Science?
difficulties. I have already spoken of this. He feels that he is no
impelled to direct the occult stream into art. The Mystery Plays
science — can be used to fructify the occult knowledge of the

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primordial culture on Earth. When we look back into these
of the physical body, he also possessed another faculty —
with certain difficulties at first, for in the Theosophical Society I
Occult Science — an Outline,
Occult Science
Occult Science
Occult Science?
difficulties. I have already spoken of this. He feels that he is no
impelled to direct the occult stream into art. The Mystery Plays
science — can be used to fructify the occult knowledge of the

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the spiritual world. In the physical world there is no difficulty in
spiritual world, it is exceedingly difficult to establish this
effects, as superficial occultism for example, is on the false
psychic and occult societies, using methods which are a travesty of

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the spiritual world. In the physical world there is no difficulty in
spiritual world, it is exceedingly difficult to establish this
effects, as superficial occultism for example, is on the false
psychic and occult societies, using methods which are a travesty of

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the teaching faculty who, in addition to teaching, investigate
of Christ when all that is disclosed to occult investigation and

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the teaching faculty who, in addition to teaching, investigate
of Christ when all that is disclosed to occult investigation and

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of translating a very difficult German document. It is with the kind
the difficulties of the times
more difficult. “My dear friends” is how he began
represent such and such a thing find themselves in a most difficult
able to receive from the new occultism in the course of time, then we
to represent certain aspects of this occultism before the world.
occult societies and their heretofore possible organizations with
occultism about which we have often spoken in our circle.
exists in the world as a reality and which can be cultivated as such
representation of Rosicrucian occultism.
occult laws what is a very small circle at first is formed which sees
curator will be named for the outer cultivation of the endowment. And
from older occult principles, and this deviation consists in the fact
our culture from the spiritual world. Spiritual life must be the
The necessity of women being active participants in the cultural
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experienced as a unity. The farther culture progressed toward the West, the
either a master or a worker. With the migration of the life of culture
penetration of culture into the West, economic life took on more and more
economics, while trade and industry are subordinate to agricultural
economic affairs a character adapted to agricultural economics. With the

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way you cultivate relationships between yourself and other members of
ever more of your teachings, you have neglected to cultivate the attitude
they have in you, they may assume that there must be a deep occult meaning
occult reasons that permit or even obligate someone to make promises
incessantly through the behavior I described and through other occult
a means of cultivating these false relationships. The bliss that fills
Fully Christian occultists
occultist of the old school may dread it. It is not enough to simply
all his energies toward the renewal of occult teachings for our times,
the temptation is great to reject the difficult tasks of Christian community
sense, this kind of right living is infinitely more difficult for you
than for others. Christian occultists must take up a challenge that
clearly described your own difficulties in researching the Grail mysteries,
Perhaps the Grail will grant us salvation in this difficult hour.
This is an area where, in this Christian age, the occultist as such
September 14, 1915) shed some light on the difficulties the members
hand, mental illness is extremely difficult for even an expert professional

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mantle of occultism or let them merge into some nebulous mysticism.
of occult embellishments. They may even console themselves for the existence
aware of this. If I were to say, “Yes, yes, my occult research
be extremely difficult to live up to.
cultivated this sort of respect for the souls of others within our Society,
do without it and see how I try to let the subject, no matter how difficult,
to all these activities, take the time to cultivate all the relationships
Goesch's opinion, and welcome any efforts to cultivate our social and
doing a lot to cultivate the personal aspects that play such a great
inclined to conceal the matter behind any occult cloak. First of all,
there, my friends, but it is always harmful to link a particular occult
up to them truthfully without any occult disguises. That is also the
has been done to surround these things with an occult aura.
difficult to understand. She must have found some reason to believe
and understood on a spiritual level. It astounds me that in these difficult
of the occult. It requires a particular effort at self-education to

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the spiritual culture of the times, or on culture in general, was first
cultivated on the level of some formal social organization or society.
certain extent, to cultivate our spiritual scientific strivings within
of almost all such organizations that it is difficult, at least in actual
no help from a formal organization would be much more difficult than
occult society certain tendencies developed through spiritual scientific
mixed up with it. But when gossip is the general rule in an occult society,
our eyes to the harm people can cause by applying occult truths on the
we should introduce the worst principles of uncultured circles into
in what people do, and how difficult it is to notice it. If we take

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has to be cultivated within our Society.
as its corpse, and that will be much more difficult.

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An Example of Difficulties
I would like to talk about difficulties encountered in attempting to
to understanding this language, which is also our basis for cultivating
in learning to understand something difficult to read is a kind of inner

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culture. This points to something characteristic of current intellectual
mind, psychoanalysis has made a legitimate contribution to our culture.
closely at such modern cultural phenomena, because they show us that

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as the human race, of course. However, anyone who recognizes cultural
a contemporary thinker who is totally immersed in modern cultural concepts—in

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An Outline Of Occult Science,
to the world as a whole. Thus, we also speak of cultural evolution.
For instance, once upon a time there was an ancient Indian cultural
epoch, then into the Greco-Latin epoch, and finally into our own cultural
epoch. However, we also know that former cultural epochs continue to
world, a number of people have made it their task to cultivate a theory

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The Occult Movement in the Nineteenth Century
Earth-evolution this faculty of ancient clairvoyance was very
majority of human beings had lost the faculty of looking into
substitution. But a certain vestige of the old faculties of
gradually lost this faculty of living in communion with the
seership. But even that became more and more difficult. How
times, they were still able to quicken faculties of seership
men who devoted themselves to philosophy, faculties that were
depths of existence and it was increasingly difficult to
become more and more difficult but the threads of connection
also in very ancient Greek culture when thinking, still
more difficult. It was, of course, possible to retain some of
possessed the faculties of atavistic clairvoyance. Conviction
the faculty of spiritual vision deep down in the
responsibility. They had no recourse to any actual faculties
nineteenth century a difficult situation confronted those who
mankind, together with culture and philosophy, sinks down
occultists divided into exotericists and esotericists. If for
speak, the Conservatives among the occultists. Who, then
occultist who works as we work here, exercises great
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The Occult Movement in the Nineteenth Century
information might be obtained. In this way, “Occult
were faced with the necessity of having to cultivate and
whom mediumistic faculties — that is to say, atavistic
made by the occultists previously. In what other respect this
introduced into the occult Movement.
occultists of the extreme left-wing took possession of them
in the development of occultism in the forties, fifties and
occultists, the situation was sinister. For the further the
occultists inclined to the left, the less were they concerned
universal-human. In occultism a man belongs to the
goal with the help of what he knows in the way of occult
occultism when he desires that goal purely for its own sake.
of their own with what they promulgate as occult teaching. A
occultists is different from anything that external language
occultists' field of observation a personality who
possessed mediumistic faculties in the very highest degree.
the development of occultism, a personality appeared who
subconscious faculties.
An occultist
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The Occult Movement in the Nineteenth Century
have to be given tomorrow in connection with the Occult
civilisation and culture. I must, however, insert into the

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from different sides among occultists to save men from
been possible if the faculties of soul necessary for
already told you that those among the occultists who, so to
not wish certain occult truths to be made public — were
occultists the greatest consternation of all, for they
Lucifer. In the nineteenth century men had no faculty for
the one-sided sphere of influence of those Indian occultists who
sway of the Indian occultists; she was driven into their
views in the sphere of occultism. On the one side there was
difficulties had arisen as a result of the way in which the
Sinnett's book. One of the difficulties had been
reinforced the bias of the left-wing Indian occultists. She
occultists it would have been very dangerous to allow the
of Indian occultism. She knew that such truths do not remain
the possibility that an Occult Movement with such an oriental
make a great impression upon the occultists and that
Occult Science: an Outline.
Occult Science: an Outline.
if we picture how these occultists set about refuting Sinnett's
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difficult indeed to speak about the so-called “Eighth
why it is difficult to speak about this subject, for again it
Earth Sphere. If he develops his faculties of soul
Sphere is impossible. The reason why it is so difficult to
from the Third is clearly described in the book Occult
Occult Science.
Occult Science
occultists are so reluctant to speak, because it is an awful,
the dead were speaking to them. But the occultists then knew
had occurred to occultists to endeavour to accomplish
then lay hold of their souls. The occultists were alarmed
the plan had been seen through and the occultists on the
things. That is materialism pure and simple! The occultists
occult. The best way of doing this is to present the
imported into the realm of occultism; occultism there becomes
the Indian occultists who belonged to the left wing. She
occultists who were inspiring her. These occultists, being
clearly stated there. And so for occult reasons H. P.
Christ and Jahve. For in the occult domain such an utterance
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the right path, great difficulties spring up for him,
difficulties of a kind different from those otherwise
exercise his own faculty of free judgment. It is very
so a Western culture with an American offshoot arose with a
shown you how certain occultists made efforts to preserve
occultism that were connected, for example, with the High
about occultism than did the leading members of the
Occult Science,
times, clairvoyance was, after all, an external faculty. It
those times he had the faculty of clairvoyance. But the times
Describing this in terms of occultism, we may say: In earlier
difficult task. She remembers from childhood her innermost
excellent parents directed everything towards her culture.
All faculties were alive in her, all activities operative, so
planets, at what distance it would be difficult to say, with
its place in the cultural life of our time.
return among us. Therefore those occultists who wish the
is that the acquisition of the faculty of clear, exact
Movement which applies itself to the cultivation of
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also the difficult question of how my own work could find a
the testing should be thorough and exact, it was difficult to
for the science of occultism is there; but when one has laid
occultist, however, the first dentition is an entirely
from the standpoint of occultism it was quite correct. He
however, is not correct — from the occult standpoint,
shortly afterwards. Strangely enough, occult investigation

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The Occult Movement in the Nineteenth Century
chapter of which it is extraordinarily difficult to speak,
why it is so difficult to speak about this subject is that
why. Please, therefore, bear this in mind. In occult Orders
someone entered one of the lower degrees of an occult Order.
induce him to apply certain faculties to a purpose to which
advocated. Hence since that time, occult Orders have long
the appearance and cultivation of these methods of natural
been created by modern culture, the symbols seem antiquated
occultism, a propensity has developed which I have often
the old occult Orders — for such indeed they are
how little difficulty there is in doing so. Our age is the
humbug more rife than in that of occult Orders!
is difficult to speak about these matters, because in doing
example, you will realise why it is difficult to hand over
be pierced by men with the faculties at their command for the
would be pierced today. But with these faculties it is not
faculties of knowledge which make him really different from
they make a man astute, endow him with certain faculties of

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those faculties which can be acquired only in the
faculties, but a being of soul such as he is, can acquire
the occultist says: Two is the number of material
affinity between something in man and the highest faculties
clever, extraordinarily wise. Their faculties of soul come to
faculties which are less closely related to our thinking than
Orders intent upon the cultivation of the religious life were
— I am speaking, not of occult but of religious Orders
he allowed him to cultivate idleness for years, Paul the
occultism which, if it is simply handed over to
subjective mysticism, which if it is cultivated or
their sphere if we cultivate, not egotism but the will for
destruction. If we cultivate the subjective mysticism
duality in the material world: objective occultism —
present, on the one side, objective occultism, guarded in the
them; it behoved us neither to cultivate the old, traditional
occultism, nor the old, traditional mysticism. And now you
direction. Both objective occultism and subjective mysticism
old, objective occultism, while others are hankering after

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epoch of culture, the Spirit-Self is fully developed,
been said in these lectures it will not be difficult for you
Occult Science,
the matter is that if one were simply to cultivate today what
purports in certain occult Orders to be secret knowledge,
pursued hitherto as occultism. And if the mysticism hitherto
pursued were to be encouraged and cultivated in human beings,
therefore be so constituted that neither mystical nor occult
earlier lecture that the esotericists among the occultists
Science avoids false occultism in that it applies the
of a nature whereby false occultism and false mysticism are
quietly continue to cultivate what has been given, to
cultivate it as if I were no longer there.
our real aims. Certainly, there are some difficult years now,
but we must surmount such difficulties. And a different value
what I have now indicated is fulfilled. Difficulties of many
difficult to realise what danger there would be were this
veil. A zoology, a botany, a science of agriculture based on

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“AN OUTLINE OF OCCULT SCIENCE,”

Title: Significant Facts: Lecture I: A Convulsive Element in Humanity in the Nineteenth Century
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Occult Movements of the 19th Century (formerly GA 164).
Occult Movement in the 19th Century.” Course of 10 lectures.]
concerned with the furtherance of cultural aims akin to those of
or when he speaks of a faculty of knowledge higher than the
ordinary faculty, so that he must be accused of inducing his

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Occult Movements of the 19th Century (formerly GA 164).
Ancient Occult Magic.The Ahasver Mystery.
literary culture of the time. From Gutzkow's novel “The
external happenings, significant impulses are at work in the cultural
art than an inferior form of it called in occultism “Occult
recently [See “The Occult Movement In the 19th
not only to Greek but also to Roman spiritual culture. When one of
sanctity without culture, but I know too that nobody has been kept
from sanctity by culture. ... If I am to tell you my own opinion, it

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Title: Awakening to Community: Lecture I
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encounters with others and describes how the 'reversed cultus' forms the
up and embodying in every facet of our civilization and our culture
cultural institutions. Founded in 1920 and liquidated in 1925, the
spheres of culture.
various spheres of culture and civilization. The Society must unite
difficult aspects. These difficulties have shown up especially
the other hand how extraordinarily difficult it is to keep the right
faculty that performs far more brilliantly in both the described
a certain definite period of time. One of these is the cultivation of
Anthroposophical Society as a whole needs to cultivate these six
on to cultivate any other field. Then, since anthroposophy has the
capacity to fructify every aspect of culture and civilization,
have to admit that, due to the difficulties inherent in such
faculty, the Movement for Religious Renewal, and so on. May everybody

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encounters with others and describes how the 'reversed cultus' forms the
mistaken, the Waldorf School faculty was named as a case in point,
matter had never even been discussed with the Waldorf faculty up to
that, since I meet frequently with the Waldorf faculty, there had
An Outline Of Occult Science.
an objective faculty in oneself. When one first makes an observation
described, while in the second it is extremely difficult to summon it

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encounters with others and describes how the 'reversed cultus' forms the
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souls, the other at Prague in 1911 on the subject of occult
the Society's life was made especially difficult by the outbreak of

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to anybody who keeps up with the way civilization and culture are
life that has to be built up in the midst of our decaying culture.
feeling life. Many a difficulty stems from the fact that the
characteristics of modern civilization and culture are qualities that

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encounters with others and describes how the 'reversed cultus' forms the
to anybody who keeps up with the way civilization and culture are
life that has to be built up in the midst of our decaying culture.
feeling life. Many a difficulty stems from the fact that the
characteristics of modern civilization and culture are qualities that

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encounters with others and describes how the 'reversed cultus' forms the
humanity's evolution from the Oriental to the Greek culture.

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encounters with others and describes how the 'reversed cultus' forms the
attaining a certain cultural level enables an individual to acquire
being given in modern cultural and even political and economic life,
form of worship, a new cultus, suited to the age we live in. Shared
experience of the cultus is something that quite of its own nature
cultus. I believe that Dr. Rittelmeyer spoke weighty words when he
could present. For the cultus contains a tremendously significant
What is it in this cultus that unites them, that can make a
secret of the community building element in the cultus developed for
What is it, then, that a person is experiencing in the cultus in
that reappears before us in the cultus. That is a tremendous tie. It
background experiences of the human soul. The cultus derives its
subconscious soul depths. In the cultus he has it right there before
community creating power of the cultus derives from the fact that it
cultus takes. The cultus speaks to greater depths than those of
days, but it has become a threadbare thing in the culture and
reverses the direction he takes when, in presenting the cultus, he
the ritual of the cultus. We lift ourselves and our soul life to the
embody the super-sensible in the ritual of the cultus. Whether the
live into it and make it the counterpart of the cultus by raising it
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encounters with others and describes how the 'reversed cultus' forms the
that they too have them, though it may sometimes have been difficult
away from difficulties than is sometimes the case with
difficulties that have proliferated are a consequence of what I must
difficulties have given rise to the problematical situation now
how each such difficulty originated. And it must be emphasized that

Title: Awakening to Community: Lecture VIII
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encounters with others and describes how the 'reversed cultus' forms the
culture, our civilization has assumed a form, especially in
extraordinarily difficult problems at the preliminary meetings. An

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encounters with others and describes how the 'reversed cultus' forms the
cultus derived from fresh revelations of the spiritual world. So the
cultus now in use in the Movement for Religious Renewal was
The cultus unites
deliberations, that in the community building power of the cultus the
Such communal life with the religious coloration that the cultus
build community, which modern man feels and the cultus can satisfy,
an earthly situation that aptly illustrates the nature of the cultus.
For what is intended with the cultus? Whether its medium be words or
ceremonial facet of the cultus is. The words and actions of the
cultus convey the super-sensible world in all its immediacy. The
cultus is based on speaking words in the physical world in a way that
world. A cultus ritual is one in which something happens that is not
perceptible words and actions of the cultus. Rightly presented, its
others at the celebration of a genuine cultus feel himself
more deeply for that very reason. The cultus is designed with this
congregations based on a cultus feel especially keenly what, for
created by a cultus-based community, and it has always been the
but instead emphasizes the cultus, the cultus will lead to the
sacrament- or cultus-based community that remains standing where it
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encounters with others and describes how the 'reversed cultus' forms the
super-sensible insight included among their goals the cultivation of a
orientation when one joins with others in cultivating knowledge of
intellectual outlook of the day has no difficulty being clever. Every
examinations. Perhaps difficulties of some sort will prevent it. But
Waldorf faculty, or with members of our research institutions? That
might otherwise have joined it. It has become incredibly difficult,

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But those who find it difficult to accept this end up on many
fields, but let us take a very characteristic one the cult of Richard
cult consisted of a cultural flirtation with new ideas,
cultural phenomenon — was to offer them something which went
It was, of course, difficult at first to understand Richard
introduced into our culture. Indeed, it is true to say that
clear how difficult it was for some people to leave the mainstream of
really much more difficult than today. Even if it was less harmful,
it was nevertheless more difficult then to admit to the existence of
at the same time as this great contemporary culture was on offer to
highly cultivated, refined and distinguished. My description of

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beaten tracks, and did not put such difficulties in the way of
the title, ‘The evolution of mystic-occult philosophy from
at a particular time what one may call ‘Wagnerianism’: the cult
There was, no doubt, mixed up with this Richard Wagner cult, a
difficult. But that they were the creations of quite another
difficult it really was, particularly at the commencement of
really from the end of the nineteenth century), how difficult
nineteenth century, and so much more difficult really even than
difficult, — to come out straight away with a confession

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These ancient doctrines were difficult to understand, even when
is revealed by the spirit. These two men grew into the culture of

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It contrasts with another cultural-historical phenomenon which
important university's philosophical faculty. If this faculty had had
responsible for administering, say, our cultural life. And the
exceedingly important element in contemporary cultural history; an
difficult to understand that someone who had come into the possession
come to a chapter in tracing our cultural history which is really
difficulty in defining where — there are all the experiences
ancestral and cultural experiences stretching far back. And today
contrast with what was otherwise available as culture; was able to
this way what I might describe as a cultural escape valve was created
Let me illustrate this with an example of how difficult it is in
understand the great difficulty with which the revelations of the
was any difficulty — particularly with H.P. Blavatsky —
given someone as difficult to understand as Blavatsky — that

Title: Anthroposophic Movement (1938): Lecture III: Critical Judgment and Colour of the Times
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distinguished learned faculty at one of the universities. Had
things gone according to this learned faculty, there could be
come out, as though, one might say, through a cultural
was especially difficult, — especially with H. P.
Blavatsky it was not very difficult, — for people,

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was found necessary to cultivate this knowledge through a society and
It is difficult to be more anti-christian than the author of
to cultivate spiritual truths. Why do you, each single one of you, do
gather together in learned circles they have to show their cultural
cultured demands. It is not acceptable within our school education to

Title: Anthroposophic Movement (1938): Lecture IV: Blavatsky's Orientation: Spiritual, but Anti-Christian
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that one may truly say, she possessed the faculty for moving
the top of modern culture; yet, unlike as they otherwise were
number of others for the cultivation of spiritual truths:

Title: Anthroposophic Movement: Lecture Five: The Decline of the Theosophical Society
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nations. The cults existed. As the western world developed it was
Nietzsche. It is the most difficult thing for a scientific mind
to a final close in the last remnants of Greek culture in the fourth
attitude of Roman culture to learning was incapable of opening a real
historico-cultural foundation; they were quite capable of giving
teachers propelled by cultural tendencies of an egoistic nature. From
lectures on the development, as he called it, of mystic-occult

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It is the most difficult thing in the world, my dear friends,
piece of historical culture, and could undoubtedly give the
political-cultural kind and egoistic in character. From the
impossible successfully to cultivate a real spiritual movement,
the latest and most difficult phase, from 1914 until now, and

Title: Anthroposophic Movement: Lecture Six: The Emergence of the Anthroposophic Movement
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Occult Science.
Occult Science
foolish occult views.
specifically in the first period, and the difficulty which existed in
transition to the subject matter which continued to be cultivated in
faculties. The first person says: It is no business of mine be it
Occult Science
difficult as well.
world. We are not being honest about the course of modern culture if

Title: Anthroposophic Movement (1938): Lecture VI: The Two First Periods of the Anthroposophic Movement
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the publication of my Occult Science. — The
book Occult Science actually appeared in print some year
occultism.
in its beginnings, and how exceedingly difficult it was to meet
things that continued further to be cultivated in the
them with your common sense and the faculties of your own
Occult Science represents a sort of compendium of all
external road, it became ever more and more difficult to keep
would be well, — even in an occult society. — Of
altogether occult personage, one who drew from the very depths
of modern culture; in which, on the other hand, these homeless
culture, unless one for once puts these con-trasts really

Title: Anthroposophic Movement: Lecture Seven: The Consolidation of the Anthroposophic Movement
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that anthroposophy spread more widely into general culture and
During the war it was cultivated in what I might describe as
That was particularly difficult after I had written the
opinion, but who has an interest in the cultivation of the spiritual
who has an interest in the cultivation of the spiritual life, then

Title: Anthroposophic Movement (1938): Lecture VII: The Third Stage: The Present Day. - Life-Conditions of the Anthroposophical Society
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human culture and civilization, — as we attempted in
This was the problem of peculiar difficulty at the time after

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knowledge on what existed in contemporary culture, but had to link it
ordinary, must be cultivated to a much higher degree by those who

Title: Anthroposophic Movement (1938): Lecture VIII: Conclusions: The Anthroposophical Society and its Future Conduct.
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difficult with the sort of warmed-up Kantianism that at that
was difficult to find any point of connection. And accordingly
— at a time when so-called logic is cultivated, and
already, and is more peculiarly cultivated in the second. What

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human evolution are rooted in some way in occult,
you find the faculty of Intuition at the top, at the point

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those difficult times, all efforts had to be concentrated on
bring it unscathed through all the difficulties and obstacles
to make the difficult decision to advise the Society in
was difficult indeed. It was so grave because fundamentally
encountered difficulties because again and again the form of
Anthroposophical Society it is proving difficult to cast off
we shall come up against two difficulties. We must overcome
these difficulties here, so that in future they will no
difficulties is the following: Everyone who understands the
time. It is not at all difficult to prefer secrecy, even in
great difficulty, dear friends, is the fact that the impulses
eurythmy is drawn and cultivated from the very depths of
declaiming or reciting is what is drawn and cultivated from
cultivation of such a science. This cultivation is to be
spiritual science cultivated at the Goetheanum in Dornach
cultural life in the human being.’

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which serves the cultural life of all mankind, is to be built

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other hand there are certain difficulties involved in fixing
faculties of philosophy it was never a matter of moving up to
philosophical faculty there are good reasons which have come
a philosophical faculty at the universities. The three
faculties were those of theology, medicine, and
jurisprudence. These three faculties were always graded into
three. First you attended the faculty of philosophy. This is
faculty of philosophy into the different faculties. From then
to be the general anthroposophical and philosophical faculty,
absolutely indisputable. In universities, though, the faculty
of philosophy gradually developed into a faculty in its own
the faculty of philosophy has any idea what lectures he ought

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difficulties, we have indeed experienced the establishment of
from the foundations of occult life. If we ask ourselves over
earlier, before we began our meeting, it is quite difficult,
to the meetings, how difficult it is. Of course we are deeply
find it difficult for one reason or another to take a

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also in the whole cultural life of the present day in
it caused us serious difficulties. So I want to exert every
in cultural life outside in the world and about what might be
cultural life of the world and indeed life in general, this
who cultivate the life of the soul in this way. We can talk
which are expressed in the subsequent points, also cultivates
in such a way that this cultivation is based on a true
life of the soul is to be cultivated. After that is stated
Paragraph. It will indeed be very difficult to find a
life we want to cultivate the life of the soul in such a way
cultivation of such a science. This cultivation is to be
spiritual science cultivated at the Goetheanum in Dornach
cultural life in the human being.’
a training is needed which is to be cultivated in the School
the leadership at the Goetheanum that what is cultivated

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of the great difficulty Rudolf Steiner experienced in reaching the
mantrams of such a cultic nature: The force with which they return is

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is really difficult in this primitive accommodation to create
and the occult, and by moral qualities and so on. The
with this will be a department which must be cultivated
them anyway. I think it is extremely difficult to give
is in so far as it is cultivated at the School of Spiritual

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with the difficulties of the Swiss school movement. It seems
believe that the chief difficulties will arise from this

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consideration of the Swiss affair. I think the difficulty is
greatest difficulty in carrying out the things we intend to
difficult, nevertheless if everybody pulls his or her weight

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People are asking about the soul of man and about cultivating
will be a far-reaching one. It has always been difficult to
of the Society and cultural life in general. And I believe
will always be the people themselves. We want to cultivate a

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material is exceedingly difficult; the solution to this
is a reality. But it is difficult to generate an

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difficult for the Vorstand to make this choice if the matter
esoteric secrets by saying that it is extremely difficult to
particular difficulty. So I think it will be quite manageable
difficult to determine! And a branch which does not work well
not have to work as a council. A difficulty only arises if
does anything. That is where the difficulty lies.

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divine cultus simultaneously with the actual physical event
which existed but to which access was truly as difficult to

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were, though, made more difficult than they need have been by
are always exceedingly difficult. It is of course easier to
difficult to win members merely by saying that they should
super-sensible to the world. This is of course difficult, more
difficult than presenting something sense-perceptible, but we

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are the cultural leaders in the various fields of life, we
cultural life that has been nurtured for so long. But life
time, so that the faculty of thinking and living in ideas
field which is to be cultivated here in Dornach, the field of
enthusiastic cultivation of the life of spirit:

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difficult one. Great initiates could make the task easier for
world, the delicate seeds were cultivated away from blinding daylight.

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difficult one. Great initiates could make the task easier for
world, the delicate seeds were cultivated away from blinding daylight.

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cultivate thoughts and feelings and not change the social order. An

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no difficulties on the path except those the pupil creates for himself

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his occult development. Sometimes it's better to renounce things that
for occult development, whereas everything that grows upward is good
occult development, and so are all salts.

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Since they contain much nitrogen they're not good for occult
unfavorable effect on occult development, because one thereby takes

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unite with Eva again. Rosicrucians' occult brotherhood is the seminary

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Occult training leads a man to freedom. He becomes the master of

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get knowledge. An esoteric must place these occult propositions before
foot, and then thought ether back to the head. This is the occultist's

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People usually say that a man has five senses. Occultism only names

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occultism one calls the eternal part of man that goes through all

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Three occult things are important for occult development: the lamp of

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cultivate this. Thereby certainty is gained in outer and inner life.

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occult life took place very quietly and hidden from the outer world
rule — the God Mammon. For occultism Mammon isn't just the God

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The fourth element is fire. Fire plays a big role in occultism. It's

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beings. It's very important for an occult pupil to know about the
Now it's a law of occultism that every esoteric truth is used up after
stop all esoteric progress. It's the task of all true occultists to

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good or bad behind forever. That's why an occult principle says: when

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than they ever had before. A case that was investigated occultly can
couldn't express himself. What does this look like from an occult

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occultism, and estimatio is a poison that brings death. It

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lines — or measure, number and weight, as one says in occultism.

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occultists must reply that time that's spent on development isn't
a=devotion, leading up to the Gods; i=a particular direction that's supposed to lead to the divine; o= the all embracing God-head; the embracing of revealed form; u=resting in the Godhead and feeling protected in divine peace; e=a streaming in from far distant spaces (overcoming of difficulties); ei=divine revelation into men before which one retreats shyly with reverence; oe=same as ei but more so. A man feels that he's enclosed in his body with the active Gods outside.

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then made disharmonious. That's the occult explanation for the fact

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understand each other very well. An esoteric must cultivate this

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wrong things can make spiritual development difficult or impossible.

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this difficult to do he should imagine a caduceus. One will gradually

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body. Proteins make mastery of sexual passions difficult. Sugar

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There's an occult way of silencing these unwanted thoughts, and that
great danger. The occult way to combat this is to imagine the rose

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As soon a pupil begins an occult path powers approach him who try to
It's during our occult exercises that the Tempter approaches us most
them. Two things must be completely avoided during occult training. We

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Today we want to occupy ourselves with occult symbols that a pupil
Now, it's an occult law that some initiates withdraw to spiritual

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and spiritual world This drawing and occult script has a
in this occult script. The whole Christian wisdom and mystery that

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occult teachings out of our own consciousness.
illusion about our personality. This is often the most difficult one.

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one that mostly takes place in the human soul. It's an occult

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wasn't the case before. Then an occult teacher had to work on

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say that there are dangers connected with occult development. But it
occult path because one has a feeling of fear For someone who gets

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we become different from other men through our occult development. Our
caused by occult development or think that doctors can't treat
be kept from development by the difficulties that one can encounter and

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Difficult, unpleasant hours come to every esoteric striver, and then
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occult experience. After we've seen that the spiritual world is empty for
left entirely to its own devices on this difficult path; there's

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changes. This connection must be cultivated in the right way, otherwise

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discuss later, and they're both very difficult. We treat the

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Ahrimanic forces, we're prisoners, as occultists say. There
One calls this occult imprisonment.
in us. We should begin to carry out this easy and yet so difficult

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Occult Science

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occult-development path, we're given certain verses or formulas
from what they really are. Likewise, an occultist would be judging
personality too much. An occultist must especially guard against this
occult path, we can only prepare ourselves with the greatest humility
me — with a certain egotistical feeling, one just cultivates
occultist doesn't have this, he'll soon see that he has
to take the consequences. An occultist must not excuse himself by
doesn't suffice for an occultist, for he's responsible
the occult path in a productive way, as we free ourselves ever more

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following occult sign: (a regular pentagram inscribed in a
It's one of the most important occult laws to not make such

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talking about his difficulties and physical pains, who makes a daily
difficult to tell them apart.

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adjustments for this is called Azael in occult parlance.

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one gets further on the occult path through meditation and
feeling makes one strong and one should cultivate it. Another feeling

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things within one. For instance, an occult investigator can perceive
friend, so he has to suppress his urge to communicate. An occultist
esoteric experiences and difficulties, we acquire a soul force that

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came to them. Then, too, a tidal wave of spiritual culture from
Culture will greatly impress Europeans, for since it goes back to
ancient, high culture. Did they succeed? No. Something else happened
instead. The missionaries brought Chinese culture back to Europe, and

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difficult path. There can be no question of egoism here for we have

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occult exercises are supposed to bring us to imaginative knowledge.

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in us. There's an occult remedy for this. We must imagine a rod
the spiritual one. An effective occult remedy for this is to imagine

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influenced by a religion's ceremony and cultus. Then his
personality who work in all cultural conditions. A man

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us on our occult path. Today two inspiring thoughts shall appear
Grasped esoterically, they're of help to occult pupils. The
the fourth cultural age of the post-Atlantean epoch. This was
preceded by the Egyptian age in which the perfected Isis culture was
cultivated in the Egyptian mysteries. Egyptians revered the nature
than 33. From an occultist's standpoint, a man is only carrying

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judgment and memory. It becomes difficult for an esoteric to give

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heard or had a inkling of, or a lively vision of occult facts that we

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one comes in contact with occult sects, occult progress is always

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certain things, even though he imagined he could before. In occult
the corporeal difficulties that can arise in an esoteric from moral
much more receptive. He should see a warning in all difficulties and

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pours them outwards. In occultism one calls a consciousness soul with
occultism one calls him a Pharisee. The inner Pharisee is the
only look for truth in inner immersion. In occultism one calls this
it was salutary for the world. The main thing in occult striving is

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earlier times they didn't have as many pupils cultivating the
exercises. Difficulties that oppose esoteric life can arise
if esoteric life is cultivated rightly, for firmness and perseverance
ever more intensely; an honest cultivation of them may give him more
thing that esoterics should especially cultivate is a feeling for

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that's why it's good to cultivate it on the physical
hardest stage for an occultist is the one where he's bereft of

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should cultivate there. We're not always able to have these

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it's my duty to speak out of my occult experiences about the

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occult endeavors is greater today than ever before. It's true that
love of truth. And who can still be vain if he cultivates the love of
truth. We must increasingly cultivate the love of truth.

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1906: “Judge has fallen on this perilous path of occultism,
lighten that of my friend and brother ...” For occultism

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awake. It's true that this is quite difficult. Some say that they

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expresses something occult as for instance in the statement

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If one investigates the past of such a sick person occultly one can

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messenger, occult Mercury, is the connection. And so thinking of the

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knows himself. The reason self-knowledge is so difficult is that the

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theoretically — which wouldn't be so difficult
one wanted to take in Theosophy without thought difficulties
to rightly recognize all of the difficulties — Lucifer

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mystical immersion, but more difficult in visionary perception.
occult life through this effort of the will.
to it, certainly it's true, every little thing in occult life is
isn't permissible; we shouldn't use occult abilities for our own
very difficult, my dear sisters and brothers. But then we must
thing on this difficult path if we think of the simple but profound

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have been given that enable us to reach it. But the path is difficult

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difficulty in breathing is a second hindrance that emerges in

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in such a way that it's difficult for him to stand his ego when he

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tremendously increased by outer culture, air vehicles and other

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particular words, pictures, etc. that are given us by occult
said that it's very difficult to attain thinking, feeling and willing
that is devoid of intentions, and that what's difficult is impossible
Occult Science.

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must become familiar with our etheric body. This is more difficult,

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difficult for men to ascend into spiritual worlds. Their worries are
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reason why an occultist can think out bad and wrong things so quickly

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spiritual world. Many make it difficult for themselves to
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cultivate the human ego. Another host of elemental beings float

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riddle here that's one of the smallest ones an occultist encounters,

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Theosophist said that Occult Science is psychic-mystical, whereas the
writings of Besant and Leadbeater are occult and scientific. But
should be called Christian. For Occult Science and our whole work was

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follow a difficult path in face of the opposition and
accompany us on the difficult path strewn with obstacles and

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we will only be able to recognize what must be cultivated in

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provides; in these times it is especially difficult to acquire
difficulties upon entering the spiritual world, because your
This is possible if one has cultivated such reverence for the
earth-lives, takes over, the person meets a great difficulty in
said about the difficulty in being able to to differentiate

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is quite difficult, my dear friends, to just think about your

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is more difficult for normal consciousness to understand light.
achieve freedom, it became ever more difficult for him to

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was, so to speak, cultivated. Since Christmas anthroposophy is
not only cultivated, it is also carried out; meaning that
support anthroposophy. It is going to be very difficult and the
difficulties. They are not merely anthroposophists, they are
destructive in an occult movement. There must be no illusions
steer through all the difficulties which will assail
quote almost verbatim. And you can see that the difficulties
through the future difficulties.
Generally speaking, it is not difficult for a person to leave
from the occult language.
fifth post-Atlantean cultural epoch. According to the will of

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The difficulty is only in the spatial relationships. And the
difficulty will be overcome.

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follows difficult suffering which lasted more than a

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An Outline Of Occult Science,
war can only be written about in an occult way.
difficult when the air's composition is not right and with
breathing difficulty, angst. Warmth is something in which the

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With true occult matters it is really so. And

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on the truly occult spirit of this School, the member assumes
spiritual-occult world unprepared.

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occult axiom, which must be observed.
we are in an earnest occult School, in the real School of

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it is the start of the occult act through which the verses are
— this is an inner occult law —, with the exception
childishly oriented towards sectarianism, that if these occult
because of these occult facts that the handling of the verses

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This is not an administrative rule, but an occult arrangement
rule. In esoterica, everything is determined from true occult
is an occult law. And in the spiritual world there are laws
arbitrary rule, but one which obeys an occult law.

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occult school that a real action precedes something like this.
is all based on occult laws. Because if anything falls into the

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they must be burned. We must really observe the occult rules.
An occult rule is contained in all I have said and insist upon.
simply based on an occult law.

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occult rule that must be strictly adhered to. For every act of
occult fact that esoteric matters are only effective if they

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cultural factor confronts us, with which everything that would
which all the light of our culture shines forth. It is only on
with the level of culture of modern times.
only perceivable for those whose perceptive faculty is
attained a higher standard of culture can remain stationary.
and of the ordinary world make it more difficult for the spirit

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with a special faculty which is exercised by a part of that
occult science as the Region of the Spirits of Personality,
certain faculties, if thou accomplishest that which thou
picture-making faculty in the souls of men. But because this
faculty is torn to bits in the world of men the whole of it
through this act of thine, another individual faculty of that
the souls of mankind on earth a faculty which again is a part
individual faculty in that whole which the youth earlier
endowing men with the faculty which consist of representing
of painting. Thou wilt therefore be able to kindle faculty in
Men will be able through this faculty of yours, to animate
wilt be able to give men a faculty by means of which they
faculty which thou art bestowing upon them. Even when the
“But thou wilt have difficulties as well. And thy
greatest difficulties will occur when thou allowest men to
exercise this faculty of thine upon objects already possessed
faculty in the souls of men. And when this faculty is
nothing they can take from outside, so far has thy faculty
faculty of thine — something that is like a seed for
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difficult to approach art either perceptively or creatively
compatible with cultured taste; rather does it correspond to
senses, what is super-physical and occult somehow makes its
difficulty in approaching art psychologically lies in people
is very pronounced — he has within him the faculty that

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Remembrance, memory, the faculty of perception of external
in super-sensible cognition. It is very difficult to convey to
wakefulness of consciousness when the faculties of mental
completely to eliminate the faculty of remembrance that his
his ordinary faculty of remembrance into his conscious life
which his faculty of seership is developed. There is
one of the,most difficult problems in seership, namely, the
express itself directly in words. Thus it is difficult for
difficult to understand a seer. He has to unfold (in a
relative sense of course) the faculty of speech-creation, so
existing in space, but this evades the faculties with which
faculty of seership develops, we enter into a different
ancient Indian culture. In Indian culture a considerable part
sensitiveness to music. Other special artistic faculties also
the faculty of real ‘microscopic’ perception from
pervade the elementary faculty of production and creation in
indicates the point at which we are standing in our cultural

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strives to enter our modern culture under the name of

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actually only see the ruins of a culture, a spiritual culture
Look at many of the societies calling themselves occult, or
acquire certain faculties, not only through inner moral
faculties of the soul he necessarily has himself, is
men did not only possess the faculties leader in ruins; at
still higher faculties. when a man of the Egypt-Chaldean
culture said ‘Silver’ he did not mean only what
faculties, and he meant a certain kind of force-activity
taking them in appropriate quantities, to acquire faculties
himself moral and spiritual faculties. You will now see that,
then guided the ancient culture, of which the wonderful works
culture electric force has been put — something by
passed through the first seventh part of our culture-period,
material culture.

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difficulty of understanding can never be overcome unless we
must cultivate a little observation in such matters.

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not only as a record of cultural history, but also as an
of cultural history. Goethe had been deterred by all that he
we did not find Goethe elaborating into a system any occult
wholly within the aura of the occult, and knowing that what
with the spiritual culture of that time represented by Goethe
difficult and harassing. He had to find a way to bring Faust
faculties natural to him in life. For that, Helen had to
that it has nobody, but faculties similar to those of the
this, Goethe comes very near true Occultism, that through
Occultism of which I have often spoken, from which we are led
one-sided cultivation of the principles of Christianity leads
understood, for that is precisely where the difficulties

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border. This is something that it is very difficult to got

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acquainted with the more subtle distinctions of occult
it was out of this impulse that the culture of ancient Greece

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epoch of culture had to go by within the 4th post-Atlantean
the post-Atlantean age, in the 4th epoch of culture of the
evil. It is of course difficult to speak of details in this

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is difficult as yet to speak in any detail in this

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notices this is actually not so. Here exactly lie difficulties
towards despair in the power of his four faculties and so on;
four faculties, gropes towards magic, and so forth. However,
point. In this rebellion against the four faculties, this grope
occult connection with the threefold human being of body soul
There exists for instance in human culture, and Goethe felt it,
Occult scientific development had not advanced to such a degree
ill during the nineties. This is what made Faust so difficult,

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“Occult Science”.
“Occult Science”
exceptional for his own life from the culture of the south
— the culture of Italy. And if we follow up what he
particularly difficult for Goethe to approach the question:
the culture of the North, were not sufficiently pliant and
and to acquire Greek culture. Had Goethe been asked to state
correct significance. That is why it is so difficult to come
“Occult Science”;
“Occult Science”

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forces and faculties for knowledge different from any of
not particularly difficult to have this experience. If you
extraordinarily difficult to give a clear interpretation of
its Culture,
evil approached the concept of ugliness. That is difficult
culture, must fearlessly expose himself to the forces of
Occult Science
faculty, the forces, that are of importance. When we look at
think over what you know from Occult Science namely, that the
many occult schools of the present day — then you have

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special mind of natural science which Goethe cultivated. And
cultivate a sound natural science, we then have the impulse
cultivated at all in be sense of modern thinking without
by cultivating spiritual Science aright, something that is at

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difficulty of knowing the spirit is the fundamental

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with his contemporary culture, in which thee were still
most difficult circumstances about two years before his
be developed to the demonic, should the critical faculty of
represent that world, how difficult it is to put before man

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development of mankind culture has been brought to such a
realise how difficult it is to come to the real man. we might
the field of human culture, a new tree must be planted. It

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Their Bearing on Modern Culture
life, or to engage in a sort of hothouse cultivation of the spiritual
true culture of the spirit there can never be any question of such
modern life. How does external culture speak of this phenomenon?
External culture, as we know, is proud of what has been achieved. It
Ahrimanic elemental spirits. In this third stage, the cultural stage,
about the occult side of modern life to those earlier times when
community with them, is rendered very much more difficult for man by
Science available to us is written in such a difficult style; it
coming forward with the suggestion that difficult passages should be
rather difficult style.
To try to escape from the difficult concepts and ideas
grapple with difficult chapters of Spiritual Science in a book that
with the cultural life of to-day.

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spiritual life into a kind of hothouse culture. This could
never apply in the realm of true spiritual culture. Although
the modern age. What does modern intellectual culture say
intellectual culture is proud of the achievements of modern
cultural level, we have technology around us, stuffed full of
turn our attention away from the occult side of modern life
connection with them, is made difficult to the highest degree
particularly difficult for him really to develop those inner
science are difficult; they make you exert yourself in order
saying that they want to smooth out difficult passages for
difficult style into something as trivial as can be —
science if people shy away from the difficult ideas and
difficult book of spiritual science, even though it is
connection this has with the whole cultural life of

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in fact the quality of time. Of course, this is a difficult
thought is not alive in the external human culture of today;

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Occult Science, an Outline.
Occult Science is pure and absolute nonsense! Of course he
Occult Science
choosing suitable words. The presentation of occult events
an occult description to believe that it could be achieved by
Occult Science.
Thus it was a difficult task to take what of necessity had an
was a difficult task, for we know that the ahrimanic element
culture to art and in relating spiritual science to our
present culture. Our boiler house is a first small step in
the forces which must reign over the spiritual culture of
everyday life we must, of course, cultivate the personal

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can to bring knowledge like that into the culture of the
spiritual world. One of the difficulties consists in getting
these difficulties in my booklet
in mankind's spiritual culture.
the first centuries of the fifth post-Atlantean cultural epoch
post-Atlantean cultural epoch right into our time. Man was
language, during the fifth post-Atlantean cultural period,
this period of the fifth post-Atlantean cultural epoch that
materialistic science and culture in the part of it that is
And, in truth, during the age of materialistic culture, the

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course of human cultural development should take; of the
spiritual cultural areas to a marked degree.
creativity, whereas the materialistic culture that has
most difficult lawsuits. And this was often the case. His
with the difficult case of a rich man. The rich man would

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find this so difficult at the present time because we have
It is difficult enough if one tries in small doses to
intellectual culture all through his life. Now he celebrated
culture. It is a mood very easily acquired by people who
accept what materialistic culture has to say about the human

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it up in my book Occult Science — the spirits of the
When someone offends us it is certainly difficult to believe
difficult really to acquire the attitude that one's own ego
vigorous and robust.’ It is more difficult to form a
great deal in human nature, though, which makes it difficult
in the difficult times we are going through in face of the
to happen soon, too? It is extraordinarily difficult to
occult research, among other things, because I thought it
you in understanding our present difficult times. But that
even in such difficult cases, has not been given due
truth. These are things which add even more pain to my occult

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less difficult to study than the forms of any other living
difficult than symbolic or allegorical interpretation. For it
precisely in the materialistic age, has cultivated this to an
egoism. Then, of course, the cultivation of spiritual science

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of being developed by those difficult paths of meditation and concentration
In this event, it may be that a more refined egoism is cultivated through

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being developed by those difficult paths of meditation and
is cultivated through the pursuit of spiritual science than exists

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within world-wide culture: a boon for mankind.
would like to lead human culture over into honest spiritual

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Occult Science
cultural period, dwindled greatly. Though astrology still calculated
culture we see this full, fresh penetration into the physical body.
cultural epoch that man first became an earth citizen. The conception of
century, at the start of the fifth post-Atlantean cultural epoch; that,
time which culminated in the Egypto-Chaldean culture, when the folk
man must more and more develop the faculty of disregarding the physical,
Occult Science, an Outline.

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In ancient times, during mankind's evolution, these were religious-cultural
edifices took their characteristic forms directly from the cult
words, artistic construction was intimately connected with the cult
past cultural elements can be understood only in connection with the
undergoes a metamorphosis. What proceeds from the cult of the dead can
garments of flourishing primitive cultures you will see that clothing
so difficult to come into harmony with the whole of this teaching. Though,

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for him to round it out. The serious, difficult task of the artist weighed
felt the grandeur and dignity of art as a mighty cultural ideal. He
way into the spiritual world through contemporary cultural life. Goethe
the spirit. Goethe could not live without having seen Rome and a culture

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fathom the poetry of the bearers of ancient culture (it is nonsense,
our looking for this culture in present-day primitive peoples) we must
faculties, seeing the fixed stars and movements of the planets, considered

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art. By this can be seen how much waits to be done in culture if we
free ages led to the rise of genuine cultures. Today we have no real
culture.
spiritual world-conception can build up true culture, the indubitably

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with difficulty was quite negligible, the remainder taking

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Time and again I have emphasized Wagner's significance in the culture
difficult, as well as not looking particularly beautiful, to jump without

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it is difficult to make use of the necessary drastic expressions which

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eurythmy, but rather cultivated. For the onlooker can clearly differentiate
is very difficult to find. But you also know how often I have emphasized
it already is, terrible difficulties will arise if attempts are made

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so decadent and chaotic in the culture and civilization of the present
not difficult to understand that a man who has developed by himself
which marks the beginning of European culture — a civilization which
satisfaction in Greek culture, where everything was transferred into
transition can be made from solo eurythmy to choral eurythmy. Real difficulties
sitting here will be well aware of the great difficulties they have
with true human dignity. And so people today have great difficulty feeling
plastic element. But one thing is true, that the Greek culture with
The Greek culture did
The fault does not lie in the Greek culture: the fault lies in the fact
that Greek culture is supposed to be forever reproduced in European
the realms of speech and of music themselves. The difficulty people

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difficult today to speak to humanity about the things which spiritual
is very difficult for someone of today to understand. Now, many and
justified, if you cultivate the goingback-into-yourself (going back

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organism to perform in eurythmy. That is why it is difficult to bear

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are the feeling element as such. The faculty of feeling tends neither
With the means given here you will have no difficulty expressing anything
that is purely musical. Certain difficulties will only appear when you
invariably experience difficulty when you try to express this in eurythmy.
great difficulty in store for you when you try to find a means of expression

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sought, the form of some ritual or cult.
unusual attention is paid to the cultivation of initiative, of will

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Strasbourg Cathedral, and the whole of Gothic culture. Thus the

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nature of recitation so extraordinarily difficult to grasp. Here
difficult alliteration, which in

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difficulties. And when, as in our times, the tendency toward
cultivate a special sense. Style, not realism, must be
most difficult, as it represents the most intimate form of the art.

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difficult structure. This Balade is a moderately ambitious and very
from Greek culture. From there he derived the finest quality

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spiritual world particularly cultivated in our own time. For this
his poetic faculty in a region of human existence and experience
Greek culture. Out of this, stemming from his feeling for such art
culture man stood in a deeper relation, as it were, to his own
having, in these uncultured times, gone amiss. The voice itself is
illusory, it must be cultivated – only then will he be able

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Art is always a particularly difficult theme on

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blood-circulation, as of the occult workings of the human organism.

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as cultivated over the last decades by Frau Dr. Steiner. She will

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inspiration, and the occult experience of major and minor modes.
all other artists; in him lives the faculty of representing the world
his works. Leonardo da Vinci perhaps did not know the occult laws by

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inspiration, and the occult experience of major and minor modes.
to go through life with this faculty remaining mute and undeveloped.

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THE OCCULT BASIS OF MUSIC
how it produces its effects, it is a rather difficult problem.
— man has the faculty of forming mental images. These are like a
faculty; but genuine art, Schopenhauer insists, is not merely a copy
Schopenhauer was no occultist, but in these matters he had an
themselves faculties which are normally asleep; in the same way that
When a man develops these slumbering faculties through concentration,
everything that exists there. In occult schools, accordingly, this

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inspiration, and the occult experience of major and minor modes.
The Occult Basis of Music
presents difficulties for those wishing to grasp its effects. If we
constituted. Man is capable of awakening higher faculties of the soul
man develops these faculties that otherwise slumber, when, through
consciousness, man develops the faculty to hear spiritually and to

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inspiration, and the occult experience of major and minor modes.
earthly organism — does not yet contain the faculty of walking
upright. That faculty is incorporated into the human being when he
we can say that an essential part of the earth's culture and
modern-day civilization and culture, we notice that, to a large

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equilibrium for earthly life is a faculty which man does not bring
— is not so formed as already to contain the faculty of upright
gait and posture. This faculty is only incorporated in man's nature
lies a most essential element of all earthly culture and

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inspiration, and the occult experience of major and minor modes.
further cultivation of the musical element consists of this feeling
nine and ten and that should be specifically cultivated. As far as is

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inspiration, and the occult experience of major and minor modes.
conceptual faculty — nor should it sink down completely into
be cultivated in the child only after the above age has been reached.
in the musical element. It would not actually be so difficult to

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inspiration, and the occult experience of major and minor modes.
An Outline Of Occult Science.
An Outline Of Occult Science,
An Outline Of Occult Science
Occult Science
first tone of the following octave. It is difficult to put into words
ancient, great personalities of the dawning Greek culture, whose

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Pictures of Occult Seals and Columns.
founded; it guarded and preserved the occult secrets in their form
occult teachings. No one in the outer world ever discovered anything
of culture. It was, for instance, through such an influence, from a
those who stood on the ground of Occult Science, space was the
influence which the occult pupils of olden times experienced when the
given to us among those things that underlie all occult science, all

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series entitled, Pictures of Occult Seals and Columns, published in
Pictures of Occult Seals and Columns,

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Special Building for Anthroposophy at Stuttgart From an Occult Point of View
"Pictures of Occult Seals and Columns," given by Rudolf Steiner in
“Pictures of Occult Seals and Columns,” given by Rudolf Steiner
feeling further occultly, one may from their standpoint look into the
affects occultists. For this it is necessary that a person should free
who had made curtain occult progress it would come about that after a
if we consider the occult law it is very advantageous — if we
things, but to occultists explanations such as these mean nothing. The
figures, which are in accordance with certain occult facts, and can
that which is outspread in space, if it is in accordance with occult
the untrained seer they are like dreams. It is difficult to hold fast
it is also difficult in thought to give thought itself such an inner
a home must be built and arranged within according to the laws of occultism
itself, and indeed, according to laws of occultism which at first are
sharpened by occultism, he will be obliged to decide for himself the

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finally come to expression in accordance with the stage of culture
creations of art and of culture through the ages have many things to
heard how the creations of art and of culture help us to understand
such works of culture and of art as. we have received from the past,
Post-Atlantean epoch of culture. Outwardly, at any rate, very little
temples. This, of course, is a matter in which the help of occultism
culture and of Christianity, of the Mystery of Golgotha, although, to
give it. And after all, it is not difficult. The Emperor's
culture of the Fifth Post-Atlantean epoch. We do this in order to

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finds it very difficult to conceive that a beginning was
period, the Graeco-Roman. Although Egyptian culture belongs
idea which it will be very difficult to displace. It is the
therefore this motif could find expression in Greek culture.
perfect connection between the results of occult
difficult to make out what it was supposed to be, but by

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moved by the thought that our human faculties are not really
which your powers and faculties are capable, for you cannot
aiming at a primitive beginning. Yet if human culture is able
interior.’ The difficulties may be very great, indeed

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often so difficult to realise is that man, in his inner
in occult investigations. The line can develop in such a way
of an occult process of division that is brought into
occultist will always seek for diversity, for it would be
false occultism to desire always to lead back diversity to

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When the clairvoyant consciousness of the occult seer enters
diagrammatically as it actually appears to the occult seer
the progress of human knowledge and culture, but it gave rise
— if the agricultural labourer who is perpetually
Graeco-Latin culture remained so long in a state of barbarism

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Dante lived within a culture that teemed with import —
a culture that penetrated into and at the same time
general culture of the age. In any work of the scientific
culture of that time — however much it may have fallen
humblest circles. The learned men of the spheres of culture
soon find that the artist becomes a kind of ‘cultural
by the artist is not only fraught with difficulty, but with
difficult for man because, since he has to develop his ego
building of these bridges is hindered by a cultural life that
culture of our day. It is not at all necessary for the outer

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repeatedly endeavoured to show that modern culture aspires
anthroposophical culture.
Spiritual Activity” and the “Outline of Occult

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everything in human evolution and culture was based upon a
has shown how the ancient cultural life of man, permeated as
epoch of culture and in the part of the Fifth that has
from the First Post-Atlantean epoch (ancient Indian culture),
from the Second (ancient Persian culture), from the Third
(Egypto-Chaldean-Babylonian culture) and on into our own
times from Greco-Latin culture. The achievements of humanity
in these periods of culture are less easy to trace in outer
the age when the Ego is developing, when culture based on
in the First Post-Atlantean epoch of culture. [
among the cultures of the leading peoples of the Fifth
— have absorbed into their culture everything that is
culture of these two peoples. These peoples represent a
find in the external culture of the peoples in question the
find in the culture of the peoples of the Fifth
of Fifth Post-Atlantean culture was to repeat what was
contained in the former Sentient Soul culture, but now in
culture of these Southern peoples which represents an
impulse of all connection between the cultures of the Fifth
Post-Atlantean period and the ancient cultures, bears the
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study of the evolution of European Cultures in the Fifth
Post-Atlantean epoch, we come to the culture for which I
felt when one studies the Middle-European culture of the
Middle-European culture the most varied national elements
impossible to speak of a “national” culture in
the same sense as in the case of the cultures of the Southern
this Middle-European culture we must bear in mind at the
of States but of cultures, and am saying here that the
Middle-European culture is composed of two
of national cultures of the most varied kinds. This has been
in the interplay of these national cultures.
responsible for the fact that the culture of the German
enquire, to begin with, only into the culture of the German
bearer of the message of culture lies in the deep foundations
Austrian culture. In examining the remarkable, very
most truly representative of Middle-European culture.
of what was said yesterday: that in French culture there has
been a revival of ancient Greek culture. In a certain
respect, of course, ancient Greek culture also lives in
indeed live in Middle-European culture; but the essential
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working in the various cultural communities are given
relationships of the single European cultures in the
design, a single motif. The design and the cultural community
said that the cultures already referred to are the simpler
cultures, however strange that may seem; they are simpler at
any rate as far as the occultist is concerned. For the
occultist, the Danish, Swedish and Norwegian cultures, for
physical plane may seem the simpler, are for the occultist
culture, the queation may arise: How should we approach the
cultures of Denmark, Sweden and Norway as we have for the
Middle-European cultures when we look at the corresponding
leave that to your own occult studies.
make progress in occultism it is essential to abandon the
particularly difficult for the man of the present day to
I gave on “Occult Reading and Hearing” I spoke of
respect the Greeks had a similar experience. Greek culture,
one of it aspects, a, culture born from a peaceful union
our way into occultism such apparent contradictions must be
of every cultural community to acquire mutual understanding
member of one cultural community hate and abuse a member of
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will be difficult from a purely external point of view to
spoke about in the lectures on “Occult Reading and
Occult Hearing”. I said there that even in the waking
the impulses at work in the cultures of ancient India,
be deepened and quickened inwardly. It will he difficult to
conceivable in a far distant future — for the occultist
acquire the faculties which enable him to discover the
if we look for the most spiritual culture that has developed
to which I referred in the lectures on “Occult Reading

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CONSIDERED AS THE THOUGHTS OF CULTURE AND WORLD-PERCEPTION
of culture there shall break those spiritual impulses which
for our souls, but it must realise for them a cultural thought.
A deep question then arose: What building does modern culture
itself demand as a thought expressing modern culture? The
very forms express the Greek experience of culture: they are
this culture crystallised, moulded, made to live in forms.
the influence of this impulse, ostensibly cultivating the
impulse to the cultural thought necessary for our
years have also brought with them difficult food for thought
and difficult experiences for our movement, we can still say:
prove how far the culture of the present day is taking up the
Dornach hill with certain essentials in our cultural movement.
be heard, precisely in view of this difficult time of
suffering, expressions of sympathy with the deeper cultural
were not repressed by the so- called brutal culture of the
shoot up within them; but the stultifying culture of the age
superficially occult societies and societies aspiring to
occultism — when people understand, how, between the

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building is put before the spiritual culture of the present time may,
of note in human culture there have always been two streams flowing
be found in the imaginative may be cultivated, the element of vision,

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That is what is most injurious to the culture of our time. Instead of

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which is here very indistinct. It is, of course, difficult to reproduce
of the art of occult investigation. You see, that figure of Christ which
like to point out — is very difficult for the paint-brush or chisel

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Herman Grimm, the cultured Art-Critic of the nineteenth century, has
Dante lived in a full, rich culture, one which was really alive in
own souls which was present in the general culture. If one picks up
circles of culture from which Raphael created his Madonnas recognized
artist became a kind of cultural hermit who was really dependent only
not only difficult, but also few people feel the need to do it. And a
It is difficult for man, my dear friends, because man, on account of
superficial, abstract culture, which does not allow what is being done
environment which is different from that supplied by a dying culture,

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adaptation of the material culture of old to modern times has dried up

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transformed it into Spiritual or Occult Science;) bordering on it you

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Occult Science
difficult, because people will divide everything they want to
cultivate an enthusiasm for an outlook on life which really does

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processes which on the whole are difficult to analyze and are not

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Occult Science
Occult Science
superficial study — we shall not find it difficult to consult the
Occult Science,
civilization and culture. You may say that landscape painting is in
old masters did not cultivate the painting of this glow, of this
Occult Science.
If you follow what I have explained in my Occult Science concerning
hidden occult matter than with the plants' green. But here we have
this nature is expressed in painting — if one cultivates a

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If it still more difficult to be clear about counting, because after
This is always the case in Art; and in Greece, where the mystery-cults
untruth. Therefore also the Icon-cult was steeped in a certain

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Occult Science,
Occult Science
It is in fact sometimes difficult to explain to modern people what a
those medieval alchemists, occultists, Rosicrucians, etc., who, though

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of man's spiritual faculties towards the Cosmic, the Spiritual
into the unimaginative Roman culture that Christianity, coming
already lost the faculty to represent real beauty — a
faculty which they had still possessed in former centuries under
conquered by the Grecian culture, which, however, subsequently
a comment. With Ghirlandajo we come to a time when the faculty to
Spirit. Then the spiritual faculty of vision enters more and more
Nature, but in the faculty of Man, with all that he has found in

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figure the Greek artist created. In course of time this faculty was
lost. Another faculty now had to appear: the power to take hold of things
a musician, a cultured man in social intercourse, a scientist according
is true, yet cultivating largesse and freedom — died in 1492;
cosmic process with all the Prophetic gifts and Sibylline faculties
the faculties he needs for such creation by emphasising characteristic
in a perfectly real, Occultly realistic sense, how the figure makes

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whole series of interpenetrating impulses. Another difficult
in all the cultural life that spread from the North towards the
natural. In the oldest period of Christian culture we find the
certain realism. It comes to Europe on the Norman waves of culture.
part that was played in the primeval Persian culture by light and
but placed as he is in the whole context of Mid-European culture, I
biblical tradition. At the same time, he has great difficulty in
physiology, and so receive into his faculty of outward vision uhat
was formerly given to a more occult sensitiveness, as I explained
type, is here united with a high technique of Form — a faculty

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nowadays from the general life of culture and civilisation, and
culture of the age finds expression in the characteristic works of
element of fancy and imagination in the Southern culture which
same master cultivated the art of portraiture. He was a pupil of

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cultivation of artistic taste. You have lost the Mother-Earth of spiritual
the 19th century. In all directions it had become essentially a culture on
And we see how the Mid-European freedom of the cities — the culture

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— in all that is connected with the Southern culture, which we
of the Southern culture.
gathering of men together into a Group. In Mid-Europe there is a faculty

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help, if I may say so, of the Occult Text. Notably in the translations,
down from earlier representations of Myth or Cult or Ritual, and taken

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could only understand with great difficulty. To the people of these
Here you see how difficult,
difficulties at once. We must imagine it high up so as to look down
occult impulses that came already to expression in this art which we

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the occult history of Greek Art. Only this much may be said, in connection
is more difficult to date; it represents about the turn of the 4th and
feeling that arose in the culture of the Free Towns or Cities. Here,

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the introduction of cultural epochs as we have done in earlier
has great difficulty in transporting his feelings and thoughts
so often named the “Disputa”. Even more difficult
these mentioned centuries, which we find difficult enough to
view. This world view filled the ancient culture right down to
spiritual imagination for the unfolding of their culture. This
fate, Europe's karma to acquire their culture in a way they had
paint what the human being through his own soul faculties know

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being of today finds it exceedingly difficult to place himself with
has grown. And more difficult yet it is for the person of today to imagine
fact rule in the old cultures back into the third post-atlantian epoch.
to unfold its culture, this pushing back of spiritual concepts. This
order to reach the culture it had to reach. It was the fate of Europe,

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difficulties with this self-visualization. For many observers
of history today such difficulties do not exist because they
quite difficult for people in today's world of experiences and
already pointed out last time that the oriental culture was
possible, and with difficulty, to really penetrate into the

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You might find some difficulties with this, if you want to make alive
It is true that for many who consider history at present such difficulties
And one must say: It will certainly be quite difficult for a person
that the Oriental culture was held back in a sense. It was to wait,
surface out of the deep folk-believes, it is difficult for us. It is today
often possible only with great difficulty to involve ourselves deeply into

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these impulses merging during the development of town culture
cultural forms of the 4th post-Atlantean epoch, the
to a particular territory but rayed out over the cultural world
the continuing cultural development. The idea to which the
as a result, in the field of the most varied cultural forms of
script. Remember how within the Egyptian culture the priest was
old — when liberated town culture established itself in art
liberated town culture. Not just by coincidence, but through
other metal art grew out of the desires of town culture, by
liberated town culture was being developed, focussing towards
becoming of the Christ impulse in European culture is

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also comes to expression in the other forms of culture of the forth
culture of the fourth post-Atlantean age, so that we may say: whatever
cultural development. One concept which was as distant as possible to the
life, at a time when the Greek culture had brought the world on this
human soul. No wonder, then, that in this area of so many cultural forms,
the cultus of death was especially noted by the sensitive Christians.
which writing develops. Do you remember how in the Egyptian culture,
culture, given in the naturalistic depicting of the beautiful human being
have to say that in the secret mysteries, there was being cultivated the
heights, so that which later was to become the culture of the cities
developed out of the city-culture and — only as a part of the
Christ-Impulse in the European culture is presented as abstractly as

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cultural sphere and in order to elucidate the correct idea of
cultural area.
Century nothing had been done in the western cultural
creating the entire culture, and also through which the entire
Greek imagery, how Greek culture was conquered by
post-Atlantean cultural epoch — that went over to Romanism.
bring the then total cultural world under Roman rule was the
difficult to say: it spread out from an external point, outer
the old Persian cultural impulse dependant on Central Europe,
various developmental streams of human culture move at
which I identified with the liberated city culture, this free
city culture which has its point of origin from central Europe
city cultures had the urge to express the specifically human
then it does appear as a further progress on this cultural line
such ideas which can be gained from cultural areas of art, and

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of human culture, and our conception of what happened for the evolution of
for each separate domain of culture. It can truthfully be said that in
expression of that which rules through-out all culture forming the laws
to-day inoculated into a cultured person when he absorbs Rome through his
life at school, — for our whole culture really comes from Rome. We
some time after, Greek art and Greek culture were being appropriated by
the ideal of Rome. To dominate the whole of the then cultural world
of Greek culture, but at the same time decadence in its own. A period
new element enter? Just at this point comes the difficult thing to say
of human culture move at different rates of speed. We see up to this
true line of culture in accord with the realities of human development.

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with such thoughts as we shall here cultivate, that you do not pay any
even in the face of difficulty and resistance. And we must above all
are externals which we must certainly cultivate, but we shall only
cultivate them rightly if we establish the importance of the relation

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difficult because it has no real content. But what is will really? It
us from the time before birth. When you use this faculty to-day as

Title: Study of Man: Lecture III
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science, will find something difficult to understand. What brings us
faculties and through their means he grasps all that is dead in
true. All that we have in abstract science we owe to the faculty of

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something terrible. It is the death of all culture. Many dreadful
that former ages have contributed to human culture. This will not be
following generations, with the result that all culture will soon
the life of culture.
a real impulse of will. A more unconscious repetition cultivates
feeling: fully conscious repetition cultivates the true will impulse,
cultivating the will, therefore, we must not expect to do what is of
importance in cultivating the intellect. Where the intellect is
of education: for the cultivation of the will depends upon repetition
cultivation of the will. But in reality this is of no use whatever.

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Thus, in considering the separate faculties of soul, it is impossible
are so different that the faculty of judgment could not be understood
From this you will see how difficult it is to get any kind of exact
find it difficult to discriminate clearly — especially in the

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Mullner, a priest, the Catholic philosopher of the theological faculty
cultivate will and feeling; otherwise we shall really be contradicting

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far-reaching influence on the whole cultural life of the times.

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I have always found that for most men there is a great difficulty in
And this brings us to a very, very difficult chapter, to the hardest,
It is very much harder, very difficult indeed, to see the limb bones
is this so difficult? The reason is that a tubular bone, wherever it
centre of the limb system? This brings us to the second difficulty.
difficult matter. It is particularly difficult because in this age
things. Care is taken that the accepted culture of our time should
Similarly, as the result of present culture man only knows what is
Since the year A.D. 869 for Western culture derived from Catholicism

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accustom ourselves to the difficult thought that the only way to
the head system is made difficult. For this reason it is not right to
read something difficult, and really have to think as we read (not
exactly a favourite occupation nowadays), if we do too much difficult

Title: Study of Man: Lecture XIV
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cultivated during the later primary school years is the mutual

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culture, of the reading and writing which you impart to the
definite culture, has no significance at all for the human
culture have no direct meaning for super-physical humanity, for
first we shall attach great importance to cultivating the
Consequently, we proceed by letting every child cultivate
whole individual has not been cultivated. But it is not
only that the artistic element must be cultivated, too, but the
a meaning in them. While cultivating further what the child has
here to cultivate, at the same time as “object
authority should be cultivated, that does not mean that a
cultural epochs, but that we cannot proceed as though we were
transport the child into earlier cultural epochs now with
and fourteenth year that certain abilities can be cultivated in
battle of life. If these abilities are not cultivated at this
where the artistic element is being cultivated. We draw with
Occult Science.]
particularly cultivated from the head downwards. The head
when we cultivate all that has relation to the higher man in a

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Occult Science, World-evolution and Man,
human being is a mere mechanism, and the cultivation of this
outside reality. Only think how sympathy, rightly cultivated in
checked or cultivated — must be pursued in education with
cultivation of our own sympathy with the pupil. The better the
sympathies we cultivate with him, the better will be our
education of the will, we should have to cultivate
children now. And we must cultivate sympathies in the right way

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educators. Now you must not say: “We are not to cultivate
the death-giving element in man, we are to avoid cultivating
Outlines of Occult Science,
cultivation of the conceptual element; we must cultivate it,
extinction of the one element, but from the cultivation of
cultivated sense of feeling — with the way in which the
service. For just imagine what a great cultural problem the
cultivation of music in an elementary way, so that, without any
cultivated in the growing child. In poetry the child should
reality it is not difficult to understand; only they are not
Spaziergang — explain the cultural-historical
again, when the musical ear of the individual is cultivated he
Outlines of Occult Science.]

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sentiment, it must nevertheless be cultivated in the
culture must be inspired in the child from the very first, so
is the principle which has ruined so much in our culture. A
represented a cult or were in charge of it — in the

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taken spiritual science into its culture.
spelling we must cultivate in him the feeling of respect, of

Title: Practical Course/Teachers: Lecture VI: On the Rhythm of Life and Rhythmical Repetition in Teaching
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furthest-flung offshoot of a declining culture; in its entire
we must cultivate everything which does not aim at a mere
proved detrimental to our spiritual culture, do I emphasize
who memorize with difficulty; then other “subjects”
difficulty, what they have once learnt. Now it has been
difficulty; there are also those who easily or laboriously
us, above all, prefer to cultivate sound common sense in
starting-point, and when this is properly cultivated it will

Title: Practical Course/Teachers: Lecture VII: The Teaching in the Ninth Year - Natural History - the Animal Kingdom
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In Germany you will be sharing the many difficulties inevitable
should permeate our civilization and our culture: the

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development of the impulse in humanity towards culture. But
himself — just as we should cultivate the telling of
this involves. You must cultivate in yourself the capacity for

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opinion. You will find it difficult to form a sentence similar
the lesson the faculty necessary for teaching. The fact
faculty which is otherwise absent. This is stimulated

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interfering with our culture. We need this disturbing element.
and the less able, who have difficulties at first but at last
Dealing with them will be all the more difficult the older they
cultivating the telling of pieces of narrative. In the
cultured folk to-day only see half the world, as a rule, and
aspect of movement, is cultivated in the language lesson.
will be indeed important to cultivate object lessons, but not

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between agriculture and human life, to give him a clear idea of
let the children cultivate the school garden, if they could be
We then lead him on to understand the cultural conditions, the

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way. You will do far more, in fact, to cultivate idealism
Certainly, by overcoming great difficulties, he can learn it
difficulties. You do the child a great kindness if you teach
complex being, and that the faculties which it is desired to
cultivate in him must often be prepared beforehand.
almost invincible difficulties. You cannot even repair in the

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will result for us in the most vital difficulties which we must
there will, of course, be difficulties, because there
ourselves in a commission on culture, where a young
cultivate “ugly writing” and “pretty
our own accuracy. This is especially difficult for us Austrians

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as so necessary: the cultivation of the child's
imaginative faculty or the faculty of fantasy. If, for the sake
for this purpose we have to cultivate and practise, because we
cultivated in its proper place, but you must not apply the

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is extremely difficult to say, for the very reason that
“ideology” in world culture for it means a great
culture that arose after the middle of the fifteenth century. I
we consider spiritual science in the sense of a great cultural
cultural drowsiness, and the force needed for the rights
culture precisely because of the great historical demands that
arise today for mankind. Without this content of culture, which
culture. The deepest impulse of our souls has a Greek
say they do not understand this, that it is very difficult. In
difficult to understand, I said to them that I certainly do
inclination, yet events will depend upon it. Difficulties do
developed it into a high culture. But on the other hand there

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thus lay at the basis of Greek culture. With the Greeks it was
and agricultural colleges which have sprung from modern life.
difficulty begins. It begins because the concepts we as men
difficulty in rising and sounding out into full consciousness.
these faculties can be properly developed.
order to know which faculties should be developed. This is

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us the faculty of seeing in nature not the ghost-like things of
into the heads — and this is most difficult — what

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to humanity in ancient cultural epochs, but it was followed
this materialistic period and the development of culture of the
difficulties in the way of progress. Those who today consider
which could give them consolation and hope in difficult times
spiritual culture in future, namely, the question of
same. The culture of society, and especially of industry, makes
must enter education. Then, inner faculties quite different

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of knowledge; we must take it up into our ethical culture for
our culture, cruelties with which the cruelties of barbarian
so-called cultural phenomena of our age. Nor should one doubt
progressive culture in order really to feel this seriousness

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Egyptian culture through an instinctive form of cognition. Even
countries where people with mediumistic faculties are brought into a
but of a past culture, of the Graeco-Latin epoch. You see, if the
Graeco-Latin culture. Consequently this Graeco-Latin culture fills
Graeco-Latin ingredients of culture in the leading personalities of
spiritual culture is permeated by it. We do not read any newspaper
which does not contain traces of Graeco-Latin culture, for we write
turn back to antiquated cultures.
When we survey our cultural environment, we do not find in it only
character of our culture and the Roman character of modern
In regard to modern culture, we should therefore consider, in
far more difficult to understand. But for modern people it suffices
concept of the influences of past and future in modern culture —
This explains the difficulty of acting in regard to the social
time really needs. It will be difficult to acquire this organ in the
You see, this is the extraordinary difficulty of the present time,

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culture through their instinctively knowing consciousness. Even
culture we are forced to let the various currents of our world
them that in the West a culture develops that is different from
that of the East, and that the culture of the Middle is again
of the culture of our age but of the Greco-Latin age. If those
age but for the Greco-Latin culture. This is inserted into our
culture, acts in the leading people of today, in the so-called
cultures. In looking upon our cultural surroundings we have not
Besides space we must also consider time in our culture; that
culture, the Roman life of rights, the Greek spiritual
so difficult to be active in the social sphere. One will never
is difficult to acquire this organ in the spiritual sphere. For
see, this is what is so difficult at present: That people would
any case is very difficult. This building is the only one that

Title: Dear Children: Lecture I: Address at the Christmas Assembly
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supplement to the regular lessons. You could feel that our faculty
Our great ideal is to cultivate this

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This is something we want to cultivate as part of the good spirit of the

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like this are being cultivated in your soul day after day, and how
the spirit of humanity which we are trying to cultivate throughout

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professor." Of these, the formative effect of the rhetorician's cultivation
the rhetorician's cultivation of artistic speech is the most important.
of the western culture, just what can be called a pedagogy with
out of the whole concrete Central European spiritual culture

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professor.' Of these, the formative effect of the rhetorician's cultivation
facts about plants or animals, so that it is made difficult for children to
culture comes a pedagogy with a scientific, even a natural-scientific
cultivate this particular pedagogy, to have so to speak, an esoteric task
of education from the whole of the spiritual culture that is specifically

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the sculptor, must work more out of his inner faculties, the

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professor.' Of these, the formative effect of the rhetorician's cultivation
should develop. If our reverence grows, as we cultivate our connection and

Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture III: Spiritual Knowledge of Man as the Fount of Educational Art
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professor.' Of these, the formative effect of the rhetorician's cultivation

Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture IV: The Art of Education Consists of Bringing Into Balance the Physical and Spiritual Nature of the Developing Human Being
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professor.' Of these, the formative effect of the rhetorician's cultivation
is a difficulty here. As we may place too small or too large a weight on
meaningless, so meaningless that it is difficult to find common ground with
it than you would think. And then you will develop certain faculties which
consider certain things which are difficult for the children to overcome
feel then: there are many difficult things, but, for this or that teacher I
will do even the difficult things.
are matters which show us how we can overcome some difficulties in teaching

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attached to the cultivation of gymnastics, for this gives the
impression that they were cultivated then as they are nowadays,
Romans the art of cultivating the soul and the spirit by way of
medium of speech, the faculty lying nearest to
entire development of intellectualism in modern culture.
have reached a point at which we must cultivate the synthesis
teacher should cultivate gymnastics in the noblest sense,
whole faculty of the school ought to work together to
cultivating speech as such should always be kept in mind. This
culture and civilization. We need not turn into revolutionaries
most man is still aware that his highest soul faculties
understand the most difficult things as they need to be

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sense by the culture of today. We can say, of course, that the
— remains something rather superficial in modern culture,
difficult nowadays to arouse in people enthusiasm for
our own. It is necessary for us to work at cultivating this
certainly made infinitely more difficult by the fact that in
spiritual is difficult to attain for modern humanity, and this

Title: Spiritual Ground: Lecture I: The Necessity for a Spiritual Insight
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at the highest cultural level.
new thing in any sphere of human culture must first win the right to
This spiritual science was cultivated to begin with for its own sake;
But this spiritual culture is not capable of giving answers to man's
we may formulate such beliefs into a cult. This can warm our hearts
increasingly difficult to put in practice the great findings and
to acquire a delicate faculty for perceiving how the life of the blood

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at the highest cultural level.
I have been informed that there was something difficult to understand
in what I spoke about yesterday. In particular that difficulties had

Title: Spiritual Ground: Lecture III: Spiritual Disciplines of Yesterday and To-day
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at the highest cultural level.
“Occult Science,”
with the will is the faculty of apprehending our own will activity.

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at the highest cultural level.
something quite different and we feel difficulty.
as a manifestation of the highest, a difficult child. But we must live

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clear path to a cultivation of inner faculties for experiencing
in ancient periods of human evolution was cultivated in a somewhat
moving pictures, can be deliberately and systematically cultivated so
very difficult. One must be able to think there, but without
faculties are able to see many things; but they forget logic when
Occult Science, an Outline, was written from such a knowledge
occurs through further cultivating one's meditation. To begin with,
of them. This is a still more difficult thing to do when we have
word difficult to translate. Eternity has these two aspects:

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at the highest cultural level.
human being. Each capacity or group of faculties in the human being is
operations of mathematics are not foreign to human faculty in the way
perceives: what forces connect the faculty used in arithmetic with the

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at the highest cultural level.
Now the sanguine child is particularly difficult to handle. The
illustration for the sake of clarity. Suppose we find difficulty in
becomes in a way partially melancholic. The child finds it difficult

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at the highest cultural level.
single teacher and take him with the faculties which he has. Above all
it is necessary to understand what these faculties are. One must know
with certain practical difficulties in the Waldorf School. For the
But this naturally involved certain difficulties, for the proletarian
what I might call the tiny difficulties. A greater difficulty arose
have been a minor difficulty. The greater difficulty is this, that no
exceedingly difficult task of carrying out an educational idea on the
he will experience them inwardly. And even if this is difficult and

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at the highest cultural level.
a certain difficulty, of which the following incident will give you an
difficulties. Some of these difficulties are of a psychical and moral
troublesome behaviour and difficulties among 14, 15 and 16 year old
faculties by such numbers.
We find it exceedingly difficult, if only on humane grounds, to leave
difficult for us to find religion teachers in our own sphere. But, in

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at the highest cultural level.
encounter many difficulties. And these difficulties are particularly
difficulties by extraneous discipline. If they are repressed now they
in each others company such difficulties occur very frequently.
it, but in so far as we belong to the so-called cultured classes we
This is the real reason why the Waldorf Teachers do not cultivate a
definite and separate pedagogy and didactic, but cultivate a

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because it is difficult to see how such different views could
cultural problem. Later on we shall have to say much more about
culturally primitive. I believe that such a comment is
springs from the deepest needs of our present culture.
modern culture, and properly so. Indeed, it would have been a
But a far more difficult situation arises when, within its own
such a faculty, a living observation of the human being is
the child's soul realm, which manifests as a faculty for
discover that they have all arisen from the general culture of

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This has been strived for in the art of speech being cultivated
kind of recitation and declamation cultivated in times more
cultural phenomena will confirm. For instance, I don't believe
emotional sphere. Other difficulties may arise there. Dancing
cultures, and in such cases, neither our Waldorf teachers nor
who participate to realize that what is being cultivated here
pointed out how everything is becoming so difficult for us
make people see this is one of the most difficult things we
yet become very strong. Our difficulties are more connected
indication of the difficulties that could be said to be at the
Swiss School Association would not be so difficult if there

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gait, it will have difficulties finding the right intervals
third faculty the child must learn on the basis of walking and
more conscious. But this faculty ought to be developed last,
to be — the last faculty developed, always has the
The faculty of thinking, on the other hand, that we acquire in
this faculty, present-day science has been able to make only
seriously. This human faculty might best be understood in its
have difficulties in finding their way from one word to the
child who has difficulties in finding the right words. Here an
underlying the faculty of autonomous movement, to flow into
cultivation! If an earlier form of science had been asked to
society to cultivate what is of sinful origin in the human
But the faculty of speaking, which is developed earlier,

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refined faculty of discrimination, and this is particularly
for the child's faculty of speech. And how, arising out of this
faculty, the new faculty of thinking is gradually born.
acquisition of this faculty, because this constant reference to
something that has become alien to our culture — this is
one can develop a faculty for observing such things, one will
specifically different from the other two faculties, something
intention of replacing the generally uncultured element, so
comprehend them completely, one will also cultivate a musical
teacher will realize how difficult it is to reach the child's
stages of cultural progress that have evolved throughout the
intellectual culture has landed us in a situation where most

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the Waldorf school we are already facing great difficulties in
culture, but should arise from the tasks of ordinary life. The
of our advanced culture. We must lead them in harmony with what
human nature, it can become extraordinarily difficult to
to the views of a materialistic culture with its demands
faculty of forming sound judgments. In this way we will do far
brought many other difficulties with it, for, despite our
and dormant faculties in the child should be educated —
speak of the proper cultivation of the religious life at

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or ugly, good or evil. Children can only develop the faculty of
present culture awaits. People in the middle of life come to
and spiritual faculties should find its proper realm within the
music and of a general musical experience. The faculty of
This has to be cultivated methodically.
difficulties — not in taking in music, but in remembering

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In this situation, one would also cultivate the habit of
cultivation of this universal gratitude toward the world is of
faced with a particularly difficult task. Into everything
inner development of the teaching faculty.
developed the faculty to perceive them consciously. What they
difficult things in their vocational lives. For the best thing

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this, one is only too aware of the difficulties encountered in
difficult to give it a proper name, but something bad or
have responded differently. Naturally, many difficulties have
the real difficulties begin during the following years, for out
increasingly difficult to find a workable compromise in our way
more difficult, because from that time on, the curricula and
this can place one in terrible difficulties. It is just
already becoming very difficult indeed to bring pupils to the
school. Tremendous difficulties have to be overcome if pupils
insurmountable difficulties. When one tries to cultivate the
difficulties that beset us, therefore, make us realize that
so, in the educational system cultivated in the Waldorf school,
expand the practical type of work, and, of course, difficulties
of this presents us with the greatest difficulties. But since
clear indication of all the difficulties involved.
our difficulties increase the higher we go with the school. I
that obviously there would be two kinds of difficulties. First,

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mentioned yesterday that a united faculty of teachers,
this sense, the teaching faculty must become the spirit and
causes difficulties today. You see how expressions, sometimes
truly meet in every achievement of musical culture throughout
enormous obstacles and external difficulties was it possible to

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is not, after all, so very difficult to find understanding that
forms assumed by our culture and civilization in the course of human
history. We are living in an age when certain spheres of culture,
culture: knowledge, art, religion, morality. But the course of human
human faculties man copied divine creation, giving visible form to
faculty once again in Goethe, when out of inner conviction he spoke
positive activity. The difficulty of speaking of these things to-day
of thought which are peculiar to our age; rather does the difficulty
passed over and were embodied in ritual and cult.

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that it is much more difficult nowadays for age to come to an
cultural influence even at the present time. Nobody, to-day, will
admire Greek civilization and culture to-day, if we still regard it
culture, we shall do well to remember while we do this, that the
our devotion to Greek culture to-day we must not forget that the
bearer of this culture was the Gymnast, one who had not taken the
greatness, all the perfection of Greek culture was not directly
culture. In Roman civilization we have, to begin with, the emergence
of that cultivation of abstractions which later led to the separation
culture, but how, nevertheless, the education of body and soul fell
culture, into a training of the soul qualities.
essence a culture of the soul — of the soul in so far as this
Rhetorician — this was an outcome of Roman culture carried over
the Rhetorician for spreading the spiritual life as it was cultivated
to Roman culture. Roman culture is the source of all that later
sublime culture offered to his people in the age preceding that of
a kind of bodily culture. And he hoped, as the result of a special
cult of the body, one-sided though this would appear to-day, to
delicate culture of the body was the method adopted in the highest
example of this refined bodily culture. It consisted in a definite
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human faculties that have unfolded in the child up to the seventh
The very glory of his culture and civilization arose from the fact
factor lies deeper down, and its nature makes it difficult for modern
Greece. (Outer symptoms indicate its significance but modern culture
it is only when the faculties work unconsciously that they are right;
culture of the Greeks. It would have been nonsense in those times.
to Greece. In Greece, faculties of soul developed as of themselves
Without being cultivated, a marvellous memory evolved in the Greeks
among the Greeks, without being cultivated in any way, and in the
marvellous memory was the outcome of a right culture of the body.
traditions. And inwardly man was forced to begin to cultivate a
faculty which the Greek never thought of as a necessity. In education
cultivate the memory. The memory absorbed what had been preserved by
had to be cultivated by education. Memory was the first soul quality
to be cultivated when the emancipation of the soul had taken place.
this cultivation of the memory — which was the result of an
soul. And to cultivate the memory, without doing violence to another
the soul-culture of the Middle Ages was as much heeded by tactful men
tradition and memory had to be cultivated, there were
extraordinary difficulties. To-day we are living at a time when, as a

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the limits of the cultural life, rules, in reality, the whole of
the fact that I point to the highest level of culture. For that which
dead, in our intellectualistic culture — for the skeleton is a
cultivated to-day as being a thing dead, as being a corpse, you can
It only seems strange because as a result of modern culture, people

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limbs. Now we cannot return to Greek culture nor have that
beautiful document of Greek culture. This marvellous Gospel shows,
passed over into Roman culture, becoming more and more shadowy, until

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this reason difficult to describe the education given at the Waldorf
now, bearing this in mind, we must observe how three faculties,
earliest years — the faculties of walking, speaking, and thinking.
civilization is on the wrong road. For instance, modern culture has
intellectual faculties are developed before the fourth or fifth year bears

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lead the child out into life, to develop a sound faculty of judgment
the artistic, and all physical culture has a definite relation to the
healthy culture and exercise of the body should take, we must first
physical culture.
by the true Olympic Games in the culture of Greece. For if one penetrated
their nature — a true offspring of Greek culture. In their
inartistic forms of physical culture are contrary to all true education,
The faculty
justified in appealing to his faculty of judgment. At the age of
faculty of true observation. This will grow into an inner moral

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the faculty of clear and conscious discernment, did not as yet exist.
The old heathen cults

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it is difficult as yet to speak openly, because modern science regards it
Then we unfold a living instead of a dead intellectual faculty in the
with the child's sentient life and from feeling engender the faculty

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works upon the child's conceptual and imaginative faculties, anything that

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of languages we must remember that the faculty of speech is rooted in
brings with him a sufficient faculty of fantasy and imitation to
the teaching must appeal to instinct and habit through his faculty of
very difficult to introduce into this religious instruction the purely

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faculties it is our task to unfold in accordance with what we learn
particular faculties that should be unfolded during the different
we rightly unfold the faculty of memory? Above all we must realize that
provides for children whose faculties of thinking, feeling and
and culture in the case of such a child. Let me explain certain
difficult for a child to put together ideas. We shall achieve much by
nervous system we make it into a good foundation for the faculty
by the culture of the body. Suppose, for example, a child returns again
heels reacts upon the faculties of speech and thought, and specially
itself, the faculties of spirit and soul, which always need stimulus
and animal-lore which he grasps more with his faculties of soul, to
on his conceptual faculties and intellect, but it is all-important
in education. That the plastic-pictorial arts are to be cultivated
childhood. Modelling too is cultivated as much as possible,
man we need an all-round conception of art, for the faculty of reason can
moment we know how to lead over the faculty of mental perception to
should be to add to what is required by prosaic culture and

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branches of civilised, cultural activity which we foster within
spiritual life of the cultural world of today. Looking back on
the cultural life of today. At the present time the only sphere
has been “cured to death,” this indeed is difficult
social disturbances which are so widespread in the cultural
soul into a unity with the physical. The wonderful culture and
of a knowledge of man and the cultural value of education.

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An Outline Of Occult Science
difficult it was for his soul-spiritual being to enter into
difficult; but children who give no trouble are seldom those
the act of creation is always very difficult. He has, as it
occultism, mysticism, and initiation science. And Schiller sets
all kinds of occult secrets.
illness, that in some way or another, even if in a quite occult
outstanding faculties to be developed up to the change of

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but speech thought. So it is in the cultural development of
of course not do so in such a way that we study the cultural
study the history of culture — albeit the writing in use
being. Today this is difficult.

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then on the child develops the faculty of experiencing inwardly
but other faculties enter in. We see therefore that in the main
Of all the arts this must be cultivated first, for it leads the
emancipated, independent faculties of the head can only be made
certain farmers, I gave an agricultural course, at the end of
roots. Today, after the failure of agricultural methods of
development, we need a new impulse in agriculture based on
have not only the decline of the West in regard to its cultural
of nature, for example, in regard to agriculture.
difficulty in learning eurythmy, for in eurythmy he simply
cultural development a concept has arisen which goes by the
the history of culture are the ones who do actually
this kind are not difficult to construct. In the earlier days

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a psychological faculty of perception. This kind of perception
unable to develop the faculties which, spiritually, are
one merely speaks about faculties or lack of faculties.
in the physical and have difficulty in freeing themselves.
difficult to understand that this is essential in education.
know the sick body of a child. In studying the difficulties
belonged to the more cultured upper-middle class, and everybody
its faculty for psychological perception. In addition to
a great difficulty arises. It is a remarkable fact that where
with the difficulties.
usually experienced great difficulty in maintaining discipline.

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difficulties and these must be consciously overcome.
case he is faced with a more direct and more difficult task
realise what is suitable for adult life. Here we must cultivate

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different level, as it is, on a higher level, to cultivate the
this emancipated faculty. The child grows pale and the teacher
faculty of memory. Too many of these forces have gone down into
scarcely anything. I am unable to enter into his difficulties
crack, I shall give him something which is more difficult to
too many potatoes. The situation is a little difficult because
faculties of intelligence in human beings are related in their
And much might be learned about cultural history if people
together the most varied streams of culture. At the present
which were also centres for education and culture, centres
dedicated at one and the same time to the cultivation of
of cultic ceremonial. Science was embodied in such cults, as
united have in the course of cultural development become

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culture which were still built up out of inner musical
intuition, if we enter into such oriental epochs of culture in
this very difficult. Hence they do not describe the things, but
thinking. I always feel it to be a great difficulty with the
it gives me real satisfaction when they develop the faculty of
difficult to realise, into relationships which are purely
we have the calculating machine is a proof of how difficult it

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accomplish forms part of the whole culture and development of
example, but first we will begin with oriental culture.
oriental culture and what still remains of it. Oriental culture
difficulty does it rise beyond the principle of authority. The
nothing. In oriental culture to teach would have no sense.
intellectual, conceptual explanation. In Greek culture
and the outer faculties were allowed to develop out of this
faculty of movement; but the Greek knew this in a most
remained when culture passed over into mediaeval times.
all culture and world-perspective was based on the
consider Roman Art and culture. There the rhetorician takes the
place of the gymnast; there the entire cultural life is centred
taught in order to develop the faculty of working with and
importance. Hence all culture, the perspective of civilisation
stream of culture which carried this into later times, in some
Jesuitical culture. And it was only in the course of the 19th
far as the shaping and development of culture is concerned. We
culture. Life was to be shaped and moulded according to
the culture of the outer world. This could easily be seen in
This is why it is so difficult for us to gain an understanding

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there, in which religion, art and science were cultivated
spiritual and cultural life, where people were living in the
previously there had been the Roman culture. Keeping such a
not contain very much and is moreover extremely difficult to
originated out of Greek culture. I must often think of how it
have great difficulty in finding teachers for these free
shows clearly how difficult it is today for an
only what constituted a living culture, but now they had
to find access to the dead culture essential to the Abitur
extraordinarily difficult to reconcile ourselves to putting the
that at the examination. This was a real difficulty. And then
see how difficult it is actually to establish within present
they are, and that this gives rise to immense difficulties. And
of today is confronted with formidable difficulties when it
development of culture in the future; this alone compels us to
with great difficulties in the public life of today.

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cultural life.
in our present cultural life. We have theories, but no living
difficult to be a child. The child himself is not aware of this
descending to earth he would soon notice this difficulty: if the
world. Now there is one thing which the child has difficulty in
extremely difficult to give to present-day humanity, for we have no
spirit left in our materialistic age. It will be a difficult task to

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would only cultivate more power of observation of this kind, the
difficult thing to do, and it is not easy in the Waldorf School
what he does possess is an artistic sense, a faculty for creating
how writing really originated, only today it is difficult to
School which I shall describe to you, you will soon see how difficult
with some problem or difficulty. In most cases he will not actually
difficulties can go on for weeks and months — so that we can
particular difficulties, and by meeting the child with inner warmth,

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of how to cultivate the land if he knows how the soil is really part
years all agricultural products have become decadent. Not long ago
there was a Conference on Agriculture in Central Europe, on which
occasion the agriculturists themselves admitted that crops are now
agriculture. He will know that the farmer manures the ground because

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yet really be cultivated, but all thinking should be developed in a
line correspond. It will be a difficult task with children of eight,

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very great difficulties into education and teaching. Just consider
you may find that what I am now going to say will be rather difficult
the series of numbers, and thereby too we foster the child's faculty
general culture of mankind pass unnoticed. Nowadays no one is
has an influence on the whole of culture, as you will see from the

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This must be cultivated by examining characteristic words in
slightest difficulty in bringing Eurythmy to the children. If they
human faculties out of the very nature of man himself, for if you do

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one thing that is of course difficult in the Waldorf School method.
however, extraordinarily difficult, in view of what is demanded of

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for it. It is difficult enough for us to find sufficient Religion

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therefore have great difficulty in understanding pre-fifteenth century
with difficulty. I then arrive at a parallelogram of forces that is
obscure and difficult his expressions on many subjects may be, one

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has hitherto been the case. Special difficulties arise, however, if we
offer grave difficulties, for they expect their doctors to “get rid of
belief in authority and it should not be difficult to initiate such
It is extraordinarily difficulty to define this organic dualism

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method? You will immediately perceive the serious difficulty in this
particularly difficult to preserve the distinction between motor and
serving what is usually termed the highest faculty of mankind, the
faculty or function. Take as an example — purely by way of
superseded by the faculty of simple adaptation to external influences.

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was devoted to this process. It was found to be particularly difficult

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difficulties and obstructions for the ego in maintaining its position.
diagrams and graphs these difficulties of the ego in coping with the

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occult research, we can intuitively sense a living interchange between
faculty in us which lives in our soul, but is bound to the organism,

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action of — for instance a peasant, who cultivates his bit of land,
(which are often difficult to find out), to induce patients to
cultivate the sense of taste, and try to distinguish flavours as such,
and appreciate them. Of course there will be considerable difficulties
processes in this realm becomes far more difficult. The rational path
reactions here, is the human being. Of course it is difficult to
also cultivate our capacity of taste and can perceive the difference

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another potential faculty: — it is amazing but true, that man in his
course, difficult to distinguish these activities from those entirely

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difficult to mention and describe in public lectures or even before

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Here the need arises to cultivate the understanding of precisely these
medicine is made very difficult, for the opportunities for clinical
in respect of his faculties and capacities — including the faculties
reflecting them as a mirror. In the field of pathological-cultural
important. There are also significant cultural aspects. For example,

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impression work on you; and you will cultivate a sensibility to the
will no longer be so difficult to ascend from a devoted attention to
with this faculty we study the formation of the ear we shall find that

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are among the most difficult to comprehend of all lectures presenting
to complain that our considerations here set out are difficult to
understand; but the blackbird does not find them difficult — but easy
faculty of attunement with the extra-telluric forces remote from the
much so, that I have pointed out in a lecture cycle on “Occult

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difficult to define these delicate workings of our organism in the
with the cultivation of an appetite for suitable food. The imitative

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processes is so difficult that we should carefully consider such
water, so there is no difficulty in getting at it. It is only a matter

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difficult. If a judgment is formed on a question of heredity, there
side or the other, so that the law is difficult to regulate — so is
study, and there are great difficulties in surveying the results
clairvoyant faculties revealed something resembling the phantom of

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spiritual and soul factors. This is a chapter of peculiar difficulty.
would be a difficult thing to do for where could one begin? If one
hand, one starts at the apex, so to speak, with purely occult facts,

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is so little general cultivation of finer, more

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illness, is at the same time the most difficult one for
themselves. Hence at the time when the faculties of human
extraordinarily difficult to observe. Those of you who were
together. For example, an immediate difficulty arises when we
sight of how difficult it is to group together the individual
time makes it extraordinarily difficult for us to use the
difficult for us to observe what she is doing. That is, she
especially in difficult situations. He is simply not in the

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problem, because difficulties then arise as reactions to such
that a truly occult process is taking place there. Everything
poisoning is extraordinarily difficult to treat, because it

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occult investigations, and it also applies to domains other
presents the greatest conceivable difficulties, especially if

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cultivates that which opposes even tannin. In the case of the
Nevertheless, it is very difficult to promote the effect from

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is difficult to make distinctions.
well-hidden, and for occult observation it is of
that it is difficult to describe
attention to the difficulty of finding a genetic connection
here. Bunge, for instance, has pointed to this difficulty in
difficulty. It is due to the fact that there is a
naturally extraordinarily difficult to detect this

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occult. Of course they are occult in a certain way, but it is
extraordinarily difficult to talk to people about these
with the difficulty of not forming mental stereotypes or
difficult from anthroposophical quarters because, of course,
their personal aspirations. This becomes very difficult, but

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whole culture of our age, especially in so far as this culture is
modern culture. We should be in a sorry plight if all that lives in
our intellectualistic culture were not merely a picture but an actual
culture to deal with those who are suffering from so-called mental

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were active on the medical faculty at the university in Vienna at the time
when this faculty had reached its pinnacle; they were fundamentally
modern medicine with an extraordinary number of difficulties:
In the development of German cultural life we have an extraordinarily
as a philosopher, he is an interesting cultural-historical phenomenon.

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cultivate the connections among physiology, pathology, and therapy in
this difficult area of medicine progress is possible only through

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man's faculty of cognition was not then adapted to see objects
the old. Only if we develop certain atavistic faculties will we
faculties otherwise latent in the soul, just as in the course
is possible to develop faculties of spiritual perception. I
these faculties, he sees, to begin with, a world not previously

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reason that man's faculty of cognition was not then adapted to
return to the old. Only if we develop certain atavistic faculties
into modern culture, equipped with the kind of training given in our
faculties otherwise latent in our being, just as in the course of
then, it is possible to develop faculties of spiritual perception. I
these faculties have developed in a man he perceives, to begin with,
just this that leads us into difficulties when we take our start from
faculty of memory can be proved. But when Ziehen comes to the

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will prove as difficult as it appears at present, if people
permeates us with sentient faculties, with qualities of soul
I am also convinced that the so-called “occultists”

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difficult as it appears at present, if people will only condescend to
man with sentient faculties, with qualities of soul and the like —
kidneys underlie the sentient faculties, this is expressed even in
so-called ‘occultists’ whom you may consult —
especially ‘occultists’ of the modern type — will

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wrongly, outer causes of disease are cultivated. Education

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verified in detail. The obstacles that make it so difficult to

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organs, and then the soul elements we develop in the faculty of
difficult. This balance is just like a very sensitive pair of
scale into balance, but it is very difficult. We shall approach
that are very difficult to treat. The proper approach to

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elements developed in the faculty of sight adapt themselves to this
faculty developed by intuitive knowledge we can perceive, for
of occult origin’ — as it is called — to arise, or
extraordinarily difficult. This balance is just like a very sensitive
observing Nature. Although it is not difficult to produce a synthetic

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articulated in only very few people of today's culture. It will be
find that these things present difficulties for an inner understanding
will have great difficulty in grasping the significance of what happens
difficult it may be you will do this child a great service when you

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with difficulties in this respect, when one tries to have them do such

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that this going out of oneself is difficult, that one would like to remain

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same manner. He will have much more difficulty in learning to do it,
regulatory. In the ancient culture it was customary to have the younger

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occult. In a certain sense, of course, they are occult, but it is
extraordinarily difficult to speak to people about these things,
difficult for me even from the anthroposophical side — this cannot
personal aspirations. People will make it difficult, but it must be

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notice that a child is having difficulties in teething, you can assist
certain difficulties at the time it begins to teethe; it has certain
forth who will cultivate a fine feeling for what can be achieved in

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nature around man on the earth, we must cultivate a different
kind of natural science from what is cultivated today. I will
cultivated trees which produce sweet figs. People are shrewd

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aptitude for true diagnosis without a faculty of delicate
a sense organ of a different kind. The perceptive faculty of

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at one time people had a great faculty for understanding
these things. This faculty is now quite lost and no attention

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earnestness. It is difficult at the present time, but, as we
occult science. He himself attaches no importance to the mere
to bring to birth in the soul the faculty that can lead to

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the difficulties that may arise in the pursuit of the
describes, in a few brief words, in what these difficulties
themselves. The esoteric path is either difficult or it
difficulties, of man growing out of and beyond himself. From
hitherto. For inner, occult reasons, the only possible way is

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religious cults. It is natural that the physician should have
personally cultivate the mood of helping. He must deny

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The instinctive faculty of activating one's own astral body
instinctive faculty is an individual one. There are people in
important thing is this, that the faculty is, as a rule, of
on it often happens that magnetic healers, after this faculty
of magnetic healing — when a person has the faculty for
Question: Here is a question that is difficult to
Question: Are the healing faculties possessed by a
moral faculties of the physician. If such a final course were
cultivated so that the patient may remain ill as long as

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difficult. If someone of a rather dull intellect (and
There must inevitably be difficulties, for the world with its

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that it was necessary to face certain inner difficulties. The
more difficult, to make us realize the difficulties of
difficulties, we take the opposite path of development from
only by becoming alive to the difficulties existing as
will be if, bearing these inner difficulties in mind, you
difficulties have arisen in your own circle. Difficulties
difficulties and we will try to find their solution. All of
physician, the book Occult Science and read where the earth's
by direct perception and the faculty for this has to be

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reality, also in connection with the faculties which he uses
until recently, has caused difficulties to many of us.
science causes me many difficulties and conflicts. As a
various scientific faculties there have, at least, been
medical faculty today where you can study medicine in the
was not very difficult. I very soon discovered that thirty or

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your faculties of meditation and of inner assimilation;
you. If you activate these faculties you will develop that
give you a more delicate faculty of perception for what is
contained in the physical environment and the faculty to

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culture were reincarnations of individualities from the
Arabian-Mohammedan culture. These matters have recently been
that center of spiritual culture which was at its prime when,
spiritual culture centers around Harun al Raschid
world as an objective fact and the receptive faculties of men
four traditional faculties, namely: philosophy, theology,
misunderstanding. Faculties for such subjects as political
culture through Arabism which has gripped Christianity like a
Occult Science, evolution is described through the
described in Occult Science must really be grasped, not with
occult sense, is not merely that which works in the eye.
faculty by inner practice you think of the picture presented
In our modern materialistic culture there is a sharp division
feeling. Originally there actually were four faculties, a
“Luke faculty” among them, but no trace of it
general cultural life, that is what I meant in the lectures
our culture cannot help becoming diseased. Therefore you must

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— shall I say — to occult sight and the spirit
this out, you will be aware of certain difficulties. You will
the grown-up person. Here there will be greater difficulty.
so great. The difficulty will be to fit the one into the
is exceedingly difficult to help him medically. If the

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himself what is outside and foreign to him; he acquires the faculty
knowledge than one who had in his previous life acquired the faculty
man's father was a philosopher. He had divided the faculties of the

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The agricultural course and the need for high morality both in the
agricultural methods there advocated and in curative education.
time, become in consequence endowed with a faculty that resembles the
faculty possessed by a mirror. They acquire the faculty of enabling
the Agricultural Course at Koberwitz, [A
were also present, I indicated guiding lines for agriculture. An
using occult means for practical ends; won't that be steering too
and help agriculture. The Agricultural Experimental Circle has

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Difficulty of helping adults as compared with children. On waking,
healed only under conditions extremely difficult to provide. And this
difficulty. I am thinking here of illnesses of a particular kind, and
which is one of the most difficult of all to treat in adults, namely
century so very difficult to follow. What is important for you,

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difficulties. As I explained yesterday, the treatment would require
said to be suffering from hysteria. He has difficulty in making
means. He has difficulty in taking hold rightly of the equilibrium
conditions of sweating. There is a certain difficulty here. In the
will see at once in what a difficult position we are placed when we

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to educate, in whom I observe that impressions make difficulties for
difficulty. But scarcely had Herr K. turned away from him and begun
lies open to our perception, we shall actually be cultivating a
child is in difficulties when we tell him to do something which

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very difficult, the child had to be turned and helped out with
signs of increasing restlessness, and grew more and more difficult to
you see? It is difficult for him to do anything; he has not the power
that he should attain comparatively late those faculties which depend
narrowed by external pressure, it is certainly difficult for the head
as I said, be great difficulty in achieving any enlargement of the
the situation. It has made things difficult for him; he looks out
upon the world under difficult bodily conditions. For he has a body
now man's whole faculty of attention, the ability we possess
difficult to develop skill and deftness. If I go over in my mind all
will not, I think, be difficult for you to realise how helpful

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condition, and they go to show how very difficult it will be to
got to know this boy on a Journey. A rather difficult child! He is
difficulty in diving down into the ether and physical bodies. A
disordered ought not to be difficult to understand. For if the astral
journey into the physical body. It still has difficulty in returning,
extraordinarily difficult to deal with, the reason being that you
have here, you see, to do with a child who is most difficult of

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abnormality of this kind is very difficult to contend with. For at
employed in the psychological sphere. You have to cultivate your
is most difficult to point to any success in these measures, for the
now for the other difficult child of whom I was speaking yesterday,
has indeed in this instance been very difficult so far. For what do

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deep observation to be cultivated by teacher. Epileptic boy of
fifteen who had been castrated. Difficult puberty expected. Need to
clairvoyance. Danger of vanity in discovering new faculties. Youth
difficulties the boy's soul would be today on quite a different
a boy already in his teens, it is of course much more difficult than
despite his difficulties. For you must realise that even in persons
boy has, you see, difficulty in following the road that leads from
part of the journey he accomplishes only with great difficulty, since
already show signs of this kind of difficulty, where what has been
case is the difficult situation created by the fact that he is at the
puberty is going to prove difficult. The gradual attainment of
can beget in yourself the faculty simply to perceive what is really
that is hard to overcome. With the discovery of faculties not
This vanity is not so much due to a lack of education and culture,
you to bethink yourselves of the difficulties that beset your path on
to find the development of the faculty you seek, by spinning out all
must not omit to cultivate this interest in very little things. The
you should cultivate, with the utmost humility, this devotion in the
girl had, when three or four years old, an occult fever. It is even
not know what is the cause of a fever, he calls it an “occult”
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extraordinarily difficult for him to overcome the longing that he has
up, and, despite all difficulties, the principle of imitation will

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related to that system in us. One who is able with occult perception
this connection we cannot but recognise how extraordinarily difficult
a regular chart or map, and then it would not be difficult to find

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clearly that physicians, in addition to the cultivation of their
cultivating so strongly within our movement would suffer thereby. One
medicine has not been a subject in the medical faculties, but in the
theological faculties. And the pastoral medicine that has been taught
in the theological faculties has really not contained anything
of a medical faculty. It hardly appears any more in Protestant
theological faculties, but it does have a role in Catholic
theological faculties — and for a good reason. Only it contains
faculties — it sets forth clearly what is to be said from a
will bring about a profoundly important result for our culture. The

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clearly that physicians, in addition to the cultivation of their
cultivating so strongly within our movement would suffer thereby. One
medicine has not been a subject in the medical faculties, but in the
theological faculties. And the pastoral medicine that has been taught
in the theological faculties has really not contained anything
of a medical faculty. It hardly appears any more in Protestant
theological faculties, but it does have a role in Catholic
theological faculties — and for a good reason. Only it contains
faculties — it sets forth clearly what is to be said from a
will bring about a profoundly important result for our culture. The

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Still more difficult
difficult if you have such a person before you. And you may encounter
entire cultural life of Greece originated in the revelations of the

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Still more difficult
difficult if you have such a person before you. And you may encounter
entire cultural life of Greece originated in the revelations of the

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world at the threshold of perception. Naturally this is difficult to
difficult life situations whether you can make them responsible for

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world at the threshold of perception. Naturally this is difficult to
difficult life situations whether you can make them responsible for

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and steadily to develop the faculties that it will possess in the
second seven-year period: independent faculties of memory leading
individual. With the faculties upon which you call as a teacher in
school, the faculties you train, the child accomplished the great
child begins to develop soul faculties. This takes place in the

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and steadily to develop the faculties that it will possess in the
second seven-year period: independent faculties of memory leading
individual. With the faculties upon which you call as a teacher in
school, the faculties you train, the child accomplished the great
child begins to develop soul faculties. This takes place in the

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cultivated the corresponding faculties. One learns to know them best
almost completely lost the faculty of the ego organization that
they are not conscious of it, to rest in the hidden occult forces of
with special love — but should also cultivate an understanding
pathological, which must in any case be recognized as “cultural

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cultivated the corresponding faculties. One learns to know them best
almost completely lost the faculty of the ego organization that
they are not conscious of it, to rest in the hidden occult forces of
with special love — but should also cultivate an understanding
pathological, which must in any case be recognized as “cultural

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so-called scientific culture views our ancestors. You will see at

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so-called scientific culture views our ancestors. You will see at

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its present state. Naturally this causes difficulties if a certain
difficulties because I myself have experienced them with particular
natural science was giving out. This has not been too difficult with

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difficulties if a certain attitude prevails. I can speak of these
natural science was giving out. This has not been too difficult with

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only has that faculty when down in the physical body in normal life

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only has that faculty when down in the physical body in normal life

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cultivated in olden times, by seeking knowledge of humanity through
extraordinarily difficult to experience their response to the
concrete truths that should be filling their souls. It is difficult
difficult area, because these things do not take place in those parts
individuals and cultural pathology and therapy — we find that

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cultivated in olden times, by seeking knowledge of humanity through
extraordinarily difficult to experience their response to the
concrete truths that should be filling their souls. It is difficult
difficult area, because these things do not take place in those parts
individuals and cultural pathology and therapy — we find that

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clairvoyant faculty that leads an individual into the spiritual
question arises: what faculty does this healing event create in human

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clairvoyant faculty that leads an individual into the spiritual
question arises: what faculty does this healing event create in human

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meet this request. However, it is difficult to be brief, especially about this
world to find out everything, while it is difficult if one has to work in
will not be a problem. But it is difficult in the face of the prevalent,

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faculties in the human soul which are developed normally in
age of culture and civilisation which will create the necessary
stimulus for the further development of these faculties. All
three faculties can be so transformed as to become the
faculties of a higher kind of knowledge.
the Thinking. In the culture that we have acquired we
but on the contrary, every faculty that is connected with human
An Outline Of Occult Science,
thinking, which can be inwardly cultivated, Meditation.
difficult to express what is now arrived at, because in face of
thoughts aside. Anyone who knows how difficult it is, in
cultivated which could solve humanity's religious problems and
we regard the things that were cultivated there as somewhat
cultivated, there must also be found those that are concerned
where knowledge of the smallest details of life is cultivated

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There are three faculties in the human soul which are developed
this our modern age of culture and civilisation which will
these faculties. All three faculties can be so transformed as
to become the faculties of a higher kind of knowledge.
First there is the Thinking. In the culture that we have
every faculty that is connected with human hearts and
“An Outline of Occult Science,” I call this kind of
thinking, which can be inwardly cultivated, Meditation.
it is really very difficult to express what is now arrived at,
thoughts aside. Anyone who knows how difficult it is, in
knowledge was cultivated which could solve humanity's religious
cultivated there as somewhat childish. But there was
cultivated, there must also be found those that are concerned
where knowledge of the smallest details of life is cultivated

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means of the kind of knowledge cultivated by Anthroposophy, man
to the kidneys enhances their sense-faculty, so we now find

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to point out how by means of the kind of knowledge cultivated
enhances their sense-faculty, so we now find that such a

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requires the faculty of spiritual perception. It cannot be seen

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the faculty of spiritual perception. It cannot be seen with

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faculties of the senses and enable us to carry out experiments?
ancient Greek culture, there existed schools that were very different
the belief that man had first of all to develop new faculties in his
soul-faculties did not incline towards the fantastic, that it was
An Outline Of Occult Science,
it is possible so to raise the faculties of the
In ordinary life if we blot out by degrees our faculties of sight, of
for those who are able to see these things with higher faculties, all
investigate physical medicine, they would find it not at all difficult
culture.

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faculties of the senses and enable us to carry out experiments?
ancient Greek culture, there existed schools that were very different
the belief that man had first of all to develop new faculties in his
soul-faculties did not incline towards the fantastic, that it was
An Outline Of Occult Science,
it is possible so to raise the faculties of the
In ordinary life if we blot out by degrees our faculties of sight, of
for those who are able to see these things with higher faculties, all
investigate physical medicine, they would find it not at all difficult
culture.

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into difficult and uncertain regions. You are of course aware how
play an active, helpful part in the development of culture, must seek

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— has after all proved difficult for some of you to understand.
you who found things difficult to understand). Your difficulty lies
contains the seven colours within itself — a rather difficult
surfaces from the very outset. The phenomenon, difficult to study
difficult for me to see through the water than through the air; the

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difficult to see. Nay, altogether, in the textbooks you will find the

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through this kind of schooling it is extremely difficult for you to
find your way back to the pure facts. You must first cultivate the
away from the normal. Then, inasmuch as the eye has the inner faculty
ascribe this faculty ....) the light is somehow projected out into
faculty of stating facts straightforwardly and directly. This has
have lost the faculty of focusing attention purely and simply on the
recoil of elastic bodies are not so difficult to get to know, they

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we have the faculty of living in what really underlies the light;

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a first approximation it is not difficult to find what may be
the first to cultivate the materialistic ideas which are so
upon the inner faculty of the sound to have velocity. This then
in a certain faculty of speed, or of velocity.
makes the theory of metamorphosis more difficult. It is no use

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was it difficult to do so within certain limits. One could release
these things are akin to our conscious faculties of soul. On the

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little, my dear Friends, as the idea-forming faculty which you
faculty has indeed somehow linked up with the outer phenomenon, but
not get our children into difficulties. But this at least we can
said, future generations would find it difficult to understand that

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In the field of heat the difficulties that confront us are especially

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takes place, we have a great deal of difficulty in answering on the

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difficulties arise in the usual calculations and that we cannot, for

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inwardly, that it is extraordinarily difficult to bridge this gap, But
use the intuitive faculties rather than the rational when we relate
difficult as those arising from heat. Let me call your attention to
activity passes over into another. Especially is this difficult when
something and thinking about it. Thus it is difficult to find the
Occult Science.
faculties, whence comes the remoteness of the mathematical and
heart. It will not be more difficult for you, but less so. If you
without thinking about it, if you have undergone an occult training
occult development. It is such things as this that are not usually
experiences you have in occult training are really opposed to the
concepts that are ordinarily had before you enter occult training and
who advances in occultism is exposed to the danger of afterwards
becoming a greater mechanist than before. An orderly occult training
marked in the very people who have undergone occult development. I
But as I have explained to you these steps in occult development, I

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directed. And now we come to a rather difficult idea. Imagine to
more difficult to comprehend than the one in which we live ordinarily

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transition zone is really somewhat difficult for us. We have on the

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have seen that great difficulties arise when we try in this way to
dematerialization. It is not difficult then to see that we can go
other side — it is difficult to show this diagrammatically. Since

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difficult for modern man especially. The human being is more prone to

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that there is a certain difficulty in understanding what is really
I said there was a certain difficulty in understanding what a
What I mean my friends, is this. The same sort of difficulty that
The same difficulty that meets us in the phenomena of nature
up to the problem of living. With the faculties at hand today you can
not so much with an objective difficulty but rather with a subjective
one. For the purely mathematical difficulty arises of itself, and

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before us materially in the gas. Now if we will cultivate a vivid

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academic system in the world. It is especially difficult because we

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was kindled out of the dull, sleepy cultural life of primordial times.

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reaches of Russian cultural life. One thus could say that, anonymously,
proceed toward the kind of phenomenalism that Goethe the scientist cultivated,
to avoid this by perception alone, merely by having the faculty of perception.

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the one hand for us to cultivate a scientific habit of mind, so that
the dark recesses of human consciousness faculties that manifest themselves
of the melting or boiling point, one sees that this new faculty emerges
to the change of teeth, the soul faculties enabling one to perform mathematics
disposal after the change of teeth as a soul faculty worked previously
inward faculty of perception similar to the outward perception developed
unwell. We feel comfortable or uncomfortable: just as we have a faculty
for perceiving outwardly with the eyes, so also do we have a faculty
for perceiving inwardly. This faculty is directed toward the whole organism
faculty is the sense of balance. The sense of balance is what enables
underlies this simple faculty of the human soul which can be expanded
We come to realize that the faculty for performing mathematics rests
form if one acquires through the faculty of Inspiration the capacity
through soul faculties of a mathematical nature. It was an Inspiration.
consciousness. We must investigate in the Same way how soul faculties

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to consciousness in the same way that mathematics or the faculties and
feel is difficult to understand — one must have the courage to

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cultivated and zealously inculcated right up to the present day. Much
not yet present as a faculty of cognition. One must develop Inspiration.
attained except by exercising a certain faculty of mental representation
of inner self-cultivation, a schooling of the self in a certain form
Inspiration. For when one exercises consciously the faculty that otherwise
disease in particular be promoted within the cultural context of our
region unconsciously. They have cultivated nothing that would enable them
faculty. It is the ego that is capable of bringing the same kind of
revealing phenomenon within our contemporary cultural life. This is the
other form of the debility appearing in certain highly cultivated
can learn the whole tragedy of our modern culture, its striving for
That is one great cultural
skepticism must be cured culturally-historically through the cultivation

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forward in human cognition. Yet in a cultural epoch such as ours, in
human existence. If we really bear the faculty of memory out into the
one does not have the normal faculty of memory at one's disposal. One
has this faculty of memory at one's disposal in healthy life within
the body; outside the body, this faculty is no longer available.
the task of spiritual perception each time anew. The faculty of memory
time itself, and when he has learned this, he finds that the faculty
of memory has undergone a metamorphosis, that the faculty of memory
acquire the soul faculty that the Oriental employed in symbolism and
anthropomorphism. We must exercise this faculty inwardly and remain
enthusiasm for nature, if we employ this faculty to any end but the
cultivation of our soul. Later I shall have occasion to speak here about
By taking this faculty
in which, as a result of general cultural relationships, man is gradually
of previous cultural history. If evolution is not to lapse into barbarism,
must otherwise become an illness of the entire culture can be counteracted
itself as an Imaginative representation of the inner realm. Here a faculty
needs a mobile faculty of formal representation: one must be able to
two faculties within human nature. On the side of matter is the faculty of
you here. The other faculty is developed by discovering within oneself
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the higher worlds has its basis in a further self-cultivation, a further
by means of an inner self-cultivation that corresponded to their racial
that the Eastern sages, the so-called initiates of the East, cultivated
cultivation in everyday life. We can attain an understanding of this
with the requisite faculties during our life between birth and death.
We must acquire such faculties as allow us to orient ourselves within
the external, physical-sensory world. We must also develop such faculties
vocalized. This practice then led to a cultivation of living within
of development and transformed the soul faculty that we use to understand
There was cultivated within the neophytes, through a process of natural
the repetitions. Unless we acquire a faculty for experiencing something
one must gain knowledge of the inner nature of Eastern culture. Without
this acquaintance with the inner nature of Eastern culture one can never
of what arises in the interaction between this faculty and the revelations
that unites itself profoundly not only with the faculty of perception
in the development of Western culture, but it is the path that must
held up in this way by a temporarily insurmountable difficulty. But
the difficulty of grasping Imaginations and presenting them in sharp
along the path leading to a higher spiritual culture; only if we can
call this culture into existence as a stream of spiritual life flowing

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life in that world. We must acquire the faculties which enable
Three faculties come into the picture here. Three faculties
another person. In speaking of these three faculties:
ordinary way. But when he was endeavouring to cultivate the
something different the faculty of soul we otherwise possess
— he may fail to cultivate the right kind of
Unless we acquire a faculty for experiencing something from the constant
Eastern culture. Without this knowledge there can be no real
recognised in the achievements of Greek culture.
into being through interaction between this faculty and the
once unites deeply, not with the faculty of perception only,
beginning in Western culture, but it is the path that must be
difficulty. But one who feels a full sense of responsibility
difficulties appear, among them that of grasping Imaginations
higher spiritual culture, only if we can call this culture into

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way. Humanity has progressed in the interim. Different soul faculties
into the spiritual worlds is that of Imagination. This faculty of
in mathematics. Many thus would deny the existence of the very faculty
things differently and cultivates a different attitude of soul toward
external world by speech and by our faculties of perceiving thoughts

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the existence of the very faculty which I should like readers of
our faculties of perceiving the thoughts and perceiving the

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specialized branches of science and it will be difficult for
difficult to indicate the way in which man still thought of
period it will developing other faculties, which lead it to
precisely the mathematical, mechanical faculties for its
mechanical faculties. And he will some day see them again in

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it will be very difficult to grasp, even as a general idea,
phenomenon as home-sickness. It is difficult to from any
the Earth-life. In man we have the faculties of

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other perceptions, though it is more difficult to make it
faculty of memory; inasmuch as he still lives within the

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material which makes the bridge most difficult to construct,
plane of the solar equator, we shall be in difficulties if we
how many difficulties have arisen in connection with the

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(In my ‘Occult Science’ I clearly hinted at this
nature, aspiring to other faculties of knowledge, such as
intellectual faculties, — and what meets him with ever

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thoughts, the human faculties of knowledge find expression,
to anyone within European culture to want to prove God's
in which intense activity of human life and culture would be
human life and culture.
(you will find the details in my “Occult
possible. I mean the time described in my “Occult
much earlier than the culture of the Vedas, which was but a
the Earth. A culture like the Ancient Indian could only
enjoying certain forms of cultural and spiritual life will at
on Earth in the most highly sublimated realms of cultural
time of the cult of the Bull among the Egyptians and

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our sense-organs — and what our inner faculty of
approaching will cause great difficulty to many people of

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see it is considerably subject to the inner culture and
we should cultivate the habit of observing things like this.
taken place in his faculties of sense-perception. He had
these faculties, of course in earlier epochs too, but not

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extraordinarily difficult, as a human being, to come near to
difficult to grasp in space. For in the sense of the
circle, however, the matter becomes still more difficult. In
reasoning, — it nevertheless difficult to grasp this
picture which is difficult to form, just because it is so

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awareness of the fact that man's faculties of knowledge
what works in the cosmic sphere itself in forming our faculty
Meanwhile the realities we grasp by means of this faculty of
us now for our faculty of knowledge. Therefore we must
faculty for understanding the realities of the Earth.

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difficult to interpret the ever-changing aspect of the starry

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those who like Aristarchus himself were leaders of cultural
of mankind's spiritual outlook — though it is difficult
thinking about the cosmic system? It is difficult to describe
admit, at this point it is difficult to make oneself
field where it would seem most difficult to bring the outer

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we can re-conquer the faculty whereby the whole Moon is
gains the faculty for such perception. Man really owes it to

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difficulty in understanding what we have done hitherto. I
will lead over from these difficulties into a realm of ideas
difficulties are formidable. Earlier in these lectures we
drew attention to one such difficulty. The moment we try to
space. Nay more, another difficulty has emerged. Yesterday we
Three*, we get into formidable difficulties in spatial
where the difficulties come from when we are trying by dint
it, it will of course be difficult. Such organs as are met
with in the human head, it will be difficult to recognise in
instead. But it gets rather more difficult to imagine when
difficult to imagine with the two-branched curve, that the
again. You are up against the same difficulty as before, when

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been cultivated in Astrology; the natural in an Astronomy

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difficult to conceive. Yet if you are accustomed to having
in studying the cometary phenomena we get into difficulties
beyond it — if one would cultivate and pay more heed to
would not find it so very difficult to press forward to

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solidly on a common ground with scientific and other cultural
cognition. This makes it so difficult to take the assertions

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We will also have difficultly following in an entirely
difficult to grasp consciously. Even so, we can follow what

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difficult for modern science for a long time. I have dealt
thinking, it is difficult to establish a proper relationship
this difficulty has led some to say: What takes place in the
the eye through his faculty of imagination. In a mathematical
so that one knows that with the faculty of imagination a
development of our faculties of knowledge.
culture would certainly not claim to be a researcher in some
led us into a cultural decline. We will speak further about

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an imaginative faculty and of knowledge of the real nature of
being reveals itself only to the imaginative faculty, not to
kind of subjective difficulty arises, but once we understand
development of this capacity is more difficult than that of
"enhanced forgetting" must be especially cultivated.
faculty that can penetrate the phenomena of the outer world
for love, we are able to experience an enhanced faculty of
enhanced faculty of remembering. We gain the ability to put
In earlier periods of human evolution, this faculty was

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a further development of the memory faculty to a development
yogi of old, and human beings in general in older cultures
rituals in ancient culture. To find the motive for these
human being of an ancient culture, the outward cultic objects
still afterward. This is why it is becoming so difficult for
his relation to the cosmos through the cultic object and
ancient culture of instinctive clairvoyance, the impulse was

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Occult Science, an Outline.
culture, most people's memories consist of verbal images.
faculty of memory prevents us from having an inner view of
mystics) but by the development of his cognitive faculty as I
only to show you some of the difficulties — how one is

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system really is. This is a difficult process of knowledge.
cognition, however, that a kind of enhanced faculty of
developed with the intellectual culture that finds special
difficulties in reaching true insight, unless one is
serious difficulties arise when one wants truly to

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movement is artistically, scientifically and culturally
return to just a simple expression of truth. In our cultural

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Science cultivated here must work fruitfully upon the whole scientific
of the details, by the depth of his intuitive faculty and the like.
faculties.
Spiritual Science is well fitted to cultivate an objective outlook in the
Science must begin with a development of the inner, subjective faculties
and transformed into real faculties of investigation. The subjective
of the older, sacerdotal culture was due to his intense preoccupation
his day. He spoke of the old sacerdotal culture as a system of abstract
world. The old sacerdotal culture, he said, simply remains as a system
Maistre appear, like an illegitimate child of modern culture, in an
They work entirely with the intellect and reasoning faculty, systematising,
to the dying culture of antiquity in the South of Europe. The history
culture of Greece, with its belief in the Gods and its philosophy, is
for ancient European-Asiatic culture.
Education and culture had vanished into the cities, and the peasantry,
in the ancient East, had appeared in another garb in the culture of
the fading culture of antiquity, a man like Augustine experienced the
of this world-historic event. Ancient culture is still alive in Augustine's
remnants of this culture surviving in Manichæism and Neoplatonism.
Western culture but also in an element which constitutes the starting-point
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yesterday, with the downfall of ancient culture and of the Roman empire.
of the day. At that time men who sought a higher culture only found it
We even have to think of Greek culture as the possession of an upper
can we think of Roman culture without widespread slavery. The life of
this culture depended upon its possessors being remote from the thought
peoples, from whom the Indian, Persian and succeeding cultures sprang,
cultivated in certain places, where twigs were plucked from trees and
and cult. This had already taken place for the lower classes of the
built up as cult was built up with exact knowledge of this world-historic
these nomadic peoples Christianity was absorbed into the ancestral cults
and the cults connected with locality. And that constitutes the essence
Christianity that Augustine experienced had passed through the culture of
of oriental cults and religious ideas, which flowed together in a great
configuration of soul that constituted first Greco-Roman culture and then,
through the adoption of Christianity, the culture of the Catholic clergy.
It is essential to see this culture as it was at that time and as
is something which remains over from the real culture of that time.
the medium of speech. And if anyone reached a higher stage of culture,
the people who aspired to culture had to practice.
culture, that it was not concerned with the inner soul experience, but
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Cusanus was a person who is in some respects extremely difficult for
that above all else cultivated human qualities in an atmosphere where

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emerging from earlier faculties of mankind. A time had to come when

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had to perceive and accept as knowledge. He still had the faculty of
difficult to come to terms with this revolutionary change. It becomes

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understand that the phenomena of external culture are inwardly
sources that would lead too far today to discuss. He is difficult to
meaning in them. Awkwardly and with great difficulty Boehme presents
Century had great difficulty in getting rid of this concept. It was
on the one hand, he cultivated the germinal scientific concepts in

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natural-scientific development and, in a difficult moment of

Title: Agriculture Course: Lecture 1
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The Agriculture Course
a specific form of agriculture which has come to be regarded as 'premium
organic'. However, the agriculture Steiner speaks of in this book is much
are able to hold this Agriculture Course here in the house of Count
throughout these days an agricultural spirit which is already deeply
intimate Union with Agriculture, was prevalent in all that we were
Agriculture Course. We who have come here can express our thanks just
difficulties which such a gathering may involve in a house remote
will show us how intimately the interests of Agriculture are bound
Agriculture. Here, needless to say, we can only touch upon the
central domain of Agriculture itself, albeit this of its own accord
Agriculture especially is sadly hit by the whole trend of modern
explain it in the case of Agriculture, so that we may not be speaking
things, chapters on the economic aspects of Agriculture. Economists
consider, how Agriculture should be carried on in the light of
this subject: how Agriculture should be shaped, in the light of
Agriculture, not even of the social forms it should assume, unless
the economics of Agriculture. The whole thing seems to them so well
established. But it is not so. No one can judge of Agriculture who
neither in Agriculture nor in any other sphere.
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The Agriculture Course
a specific form of agriculture which has come to be regarded as 'premium
organic'. However, the agriculture Steiner speaks of in this book is much
of these agricultural lectures and talks. He especially
show us to what an extent the interests of Agriculture
which has not some relation to Agriculture. Prom some viewpoint
Agriculture. Here we shall naturally only touch upon the
agricultural problems. But what we shall say to-day of things
cultural life of modern times has had particular and serious
effects upon Agriculture. It has had economic consequences, the
them, taking Agriculture as an example in order to deal with
so-called Economics. These contain chapters on Agriculture; the
economics. Sow in connection with Agriculture this whole
Everyone should be able to see that Agriculture and its
Agriculture, it will strike them as completely absurd, because
the case. Judgment in agricultural matters must come from
of animals. There can be no fruitful vision in Agriculture
I mean Agriculture. I cannot say whether what I am going to say
can contribute to Agriculture.
Agriculture. We are accustomed nowadays to lay the chief stress
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The Agriculture Course
a specific form of agriculture which has come to be regarded as 'premium
organic'. However, the agriculture Steiner speaks of in this book is much
recognise the conditions on which the prosperity of Agriculture
observe how all agricultural products arise; how Agriculture lives in
as possible. Whatever you need for agricultural production, you
Earth which is the foundation of all Agriculture.
intestines of the “agricultural individuality,” if we may
agricultural individuality is standing on its head? For the following
be clear that the whole domain of Agriculture — including what
peculiar relation to the head-formation. Cultivate a sense of form to
— you have the position which the “agricultural
agricultural unit should be. Only the animal stock must also be

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The Agriculture Course
a specific form of agriculture which has come to be regarded as 'premium
organic'. However, the agriculture Steiner speaks of in this book is much
Agriculture, those which are necessary in order to enable us to
enquire at the very outset how the products of Agriculture come
whole. Now a farm or agricultural estate comes to full
every agricultural estate or farm should approach as near as
words, everything that is needed to bring forth agricultural
ought under ideal conditions of Agriculture, to be regarded
all Agriculture is the soil of the earth.
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now call the “agricultural-individuality.” On
why do I say that the “agricultural-individuality”
may wish to cultivate. But we must first know what is actually
we must realise clearly that the cultivated ground together
with regard to the cultivation of the soil there is a point of
Agriculture. What our friend Stegemann said in this connection
that agricultural products are deteriorating in quality.
“Agricultural-individuality.” The consideration of
the forms of things we shall see in what sense an agricultural
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Title: Agriculture Course: Lecture 3
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The Agriculture Course
a specific form of agriculture which has come to be regarded as 'premium
organic'. However, the agriculture Steiner speaks of in this book is much
important questions in agriculture is that of the significance of
held the name so secret and occult, only because if they had not done
man is not plant, but man. He has the faculty, time and again to
It is difficult to
of the greatest importance for agriculture. Nitrogen becomes the
evolution this was made difficult for carbon. It could indeed

Title: Agriculture Course (1938): Lecture III
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The Agriculture Course
a specific form of agriculture which has come to be regarded as 'premium
organic'. However, the agriculture Steiner speaks of in this book is much
processes of Agriculture through the substances of the
Earth. And we shall only be able to pass on to the difficult
discussing production in the sphere of Agriculture is
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very difficult to come to any understanding with physicists and
very special importance for Agriculture because —
soul activity, begins to have a bearing upon Agriculture. This
Agriculture it is a good thing if he is able to meditate,
in this way, one begins to practise Agriculture in quite a
plants which in Agriculture may be called collectors of
its task has been rendered more difficult. Carbon could

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The Agriculture Course
a specific form of agriculture which has come to be regarded as 'premium
organic'. However, the agriculture Steiner speaks of in this book is much
methods for Agriculture, as it is for other spheres of life. Nature
True, this is not quite so bad in Agriculture; here they do not always
with the realities of Agriculture as the customary science of to-day
Agriculture, and notably when we come to the question of manuring.
very difficult to come to terms at all with this science of to-day,
come from the theorising. You see how difficult it is to come to any
practical domains of life — and notably for Agriculture.
brought into a dead earth and find it difficult, out of its own vitality,
chiefly wish to indicate is that we must treat the whole agricultural
great difficulty in doing so. Why should it not be possible to make
life. You may cultivate some fruit of field or orchard in its appearance
to the whole, and so it should be. If you pursue agriculture in this
to the Bio-Dynamic Agricultural Association, Rudolf Steiner House,

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The Agriculture Course
a specific form of agriculture which has come to be regarded as 'premium
organic'. However, the agriculture Steiner speaks of in this book is much
agricultural as in other matters for a comprehensive
restricted spheres. Even if in agriculture the units concerned
sciences, yet agriculture usually concerns itself with the
done by contemporary science in relation to agriculture is, in
This applies in every respect to agriculture and
because it makes one see how difficult it is to find any
All this makes one realise the difficulty of finding a
we must reckon Agriculture.
agriculture. A child who does not know what a comb is for will
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within the sphere of Agriculture, and particularly with the
“agricultural-individuality” in the light of the

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The Agriculture Course
a specific form of agriculture which has come to be regarded as 'premium
organic'. However, the agriculture Steiner speaks of in this book is much
vital to agriculture, we should always remain in larger spheres,
those inspirations which we are able to give to agriculture out of spiritual
often find repeated in agricultural literature, in many variations.
is not at all difficult for us to use the minute quantities in the proper
things, but let me say at the outset: if they should be difficult to
of our Agricultural Circle should make experiments; they will soon see
two plants should he difficult to get in some locality, they might be
other hand, most difficult to replace for its good influence on our
will make the manure intelligent, nay, you will give it the faculty
the result will soon be that the alleged “excellent agricultural
to speak. This difficulty does not occur tn human healing, for a man
devices that are pursued in the chemical laboratories of modern agriculture,
who have studied academic agriculture from the modern point of view
way. It will give the soil the faculty to attract just as much silicic

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The Agriculture Course
a specific form of agriculture which has come to be regarded as 'premium
organic'. However, the agriculture Steiner speaks of in this book is much
right in saying that in the practice of agriculture we are
of agriculture far and wide we are actually depriving the earth
agriculture: to provide knowledge of the way to stimulate life
all agricultural literature, you will find the following
way. And in manuring we shall not find it at all difficult so
places where the ingredients are difficult to obtain,
cultivated plants. Yarrow should never be extirpated. It
Members of the Agricultural Circle should test this out by
I said before if these two plants are difficult to obtain,
difficult.to find a substitute for its good influence upon
methods for turning out fine-looking agricultural produce
complicated trouble taken in agricultural-chemical

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The Agriculture Course
a specific form of agriculture which has come to be regarded as 'premium
organic'. However, the agriculture Steiner speaks of in this book is much
the editorial offices of a Viennese agricultural paper in the 1880's.
they not try to do to fight against it! Read of it in the agricultural
In some districts it may be difficult to carry out; then you can afford
only it is difficult to collect the products of decay. But you will
receive the faculty to bring forth plant-life out of itself. This faculty
is saturated with water, and with greater difficulty when the earth

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The Agriculture Course
a specific form of agriculture which has come to be regarded as 'premium
organic'. However, the agriculture Steiner speaks of in this book is much
Scientific conceptions concerning the enemies of agriculture,
vineyards. I could tell you of an agricultural paper that used
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to combat this little creature? You can read in agricultural
districts, difficulties present themselves, a more homoeopathic
methods into practice. I believe that agriculture would
earth the faculty of bringing the seed potato to
allow it to decay, but then it would be difficult to collect

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The Agriculture Course
a specific form of agriculture which has come to be regarded as 'premium
organic'. However, the agriculture Steiner speaks of in this book is much
the faculty to regulate the ethereal vitality within the soil whenever
is an essential part of agriculture, and should indeed be thought of

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The Agriculture Course
a specific form of agriculture which has come to be regarded as 'premium
organic'. However, the agriculture Steiner speaks of in this book is much
cultivation of fruit and vegetables.
rate in certain departments of Agriculture. In particular
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though this faculty, common in the old days of instinctive
uproot the woods but to cultivate them. Ana as the earth is
agriculture, and must be examined with all its consequences
situated in the neighbourhood of cultivated lands, these
(e.g. mushrooms) is situated near cultivated land then the
creatures, these vermin away from cultivated land by converting
is so important for success in agriculture that the right
speaking, to cultivate the whole of the acreage at one's
because the increase in the cultivated area is made at
relationship between the cultivation of fields, of fruit and of

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The Agriculture Course
a specific form of agriculture which has come to be regarded as 'premium
organic'. However, the agriculture Steiner speaks of in this book is much
are, however, extremely difficult to clothe in general formulae or the
it will be much improved when our agricultural training tends more to
whatever is long and thin-stalked and goes to hay (Diagram 20). In agriculture
not like the animals of the plains, for they must walk about under difficult
or beet, that is to say, which by enhanced cultivation have grown bigger
materialistic since the introduction of potato cultivation into Europe.
of such things will relate agriculture in a most intimate way —
It is infinitely important that agriculture should be so related to
owing to their general interest and who are not in the Agricultural
resolved upon by the Agricultural Circle, and I can only say that I
Agriculture Conference we have also enjoyed a real farm festival. Therefore

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The Agriculture Course
a specific form of agriculture which has come to be regarded as 'premium
organic'. However, the agriculture Steiner speaks of in this book is much
agriculture, an insight is gained into the essential
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case? so we must approach Agriculture as a whole: of
difficult conditions owing to the fact that the ground is not
and which has become larger through long cultivation. In
connection between agriculture and social life. It is
infinitely important that agriculture should be so related to
agriculturalists who have attended this course, namely,
not members of the Agricultural Circle must exercise restraint
on by the Agricultural Circle and the decision announced by our

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difficult decisions here or there, would no longer have stood
souls. It is this which makes it so difficult today to take a
understanding of the classes. The middle class has difficulty

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spiritual life as in spiritual culture in the social organism
actual life of spiritual culture. This life of spiritual
culture, this spiritual life of the social organism has no laws
name ‘spiritual culture’ does not cover everything connected to
human labour and any spiritual cultural life lie at the
culture which is dependent on people's physical and spiritual
during these difficult times, addressed in the following way:
culture and independent state culture, which bring about in

Title: The Social Question: Lecture III: Fanaticism Versus a Real Conception of Life in Social Thinking and Willing.
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difficulties have been experienced during its development, have
between them, how difficult understanding is; this failure to
other, and vice versa. For this reason, it is also so difficult
must have seen how even the most difficult, seen from other
classes as respectfully difficult, this has entered into the
variety of areas and this makes it so difficult to allow the
significantly. It is difficult to recognise it. It is difficult
then so-called “Society for Ethic Culture.” Here
ethic impulse and be propagated as ethical culture. If someone
proletarians and was introduced as culture appeared as mere
to spiritual culture must develop; as a second independent
so-called spiritual culture, all inclusive of what could be
life regarding spiritual culture, positioned on a communal but
spiritual faculties must have free evolutionary possibilities
cultural life in some or other damaging or limiting or
realize that spiritual culture can also include, for instance,
and difficult points in the modern proletarian's experience in

Title: The Social Question: Lecture IV: The Evolution of Social Thinking and Willing and Life's Circumstances for Current Humanity.
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existence of this abyss which makes it so difficult for an
understanding of the difficulties when one looks for instance
really difficult to actually govern, and where one could still,
Here is something, I might say, like a difficult nightmare
of the difficult relationships of the present it has become

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say: the Proletarian, the social culture has thus come about,
but within the proletarian feelings, within the social culture
is. In the future, it would not appear more difficult to know
difficult in future than to know that three times three is

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souls a new culture, a new viewpoint was developing in the
order to the social organism, because the leading cultural

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autonomous spheres: economic, political/rights, and cultural. For a
form of culture. After having been busily engaged for some
spiritual and cultural relations, of economic
•cultural relations were for ever, now blending, now
cultural problem of the Slavonic question, involving spiritual
relations of a national and cultural character. No steps had

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constantly hear the remark that anthroposophy is difficult to
less difficult to understand than anthroposophy, this point of
confusion and chaos are over. We are entering a difficult period of
Occult Science
are rather difficult to understand. You will also see that what leads
however much power the world has today to make things as difficult as

Title: Social Future: Lecture I: The Social Question as a Cultural Question, a Question of Equity, and a Question of Economics
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The Social Question as a Cultural Question, a Question of Equity,
the three spheres of society: the cultural sphere including art, science,
AS A CULTURAL QUESTION, A QUESTION OF EQUITY,
together with the general course of events in the cultured life of
at the same time as capitalism and modern technical culture. Men were
people adopted the new cultural life, but it gave them no comfort or
spiritual-cultural question. One question, above all, stands out
social facts. How must the cultural life of a nation be constituted
problem. What new form can we give to cultural life, so that it may
social question must be called a cultural question, we see that the
question must he felt in its three aspects as cultural,
to do with the cultural side of life. In the following lectures we
beyond the old cultural and political organizations was always
cultural life of modern times. We must fully understand one sentence,
everything, because it has outgrown both political and cultural life,
reality, the cultural and political life of the people. It becomes
their position alone, have acquired the monopoly of culture. The
become apparent between the economic and the cultural, and between
the cultural and the political organization. The cultural life has
examinations are all directed to this end. The cultural life cannot
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the three spheres of society: the cultural sphere including art, science,
extremely difficult to survey them, a new method of dealing with the
it is a question of culture, of State, law, politics, and of
three elements of life, cultural, political, and economic, have
organism so that there will be an independent cultural life,
especially as regards general culture, education and teaching, an
cultural life, another for the political life, and a third for the
impossible either to include, on the one hand, the cultural life or,
thought within the independent cultural body. And the individual need
sphere of spiritual and cultural life in general.
knowledge Will rule in the cultural sphere. Not that the opinion of
the cultural body. Whoever believes that it is intended that a
from the cultural body. It must be placed upon its own basis.
very difficult to learn from facts in this way. This is best seen in
body and of many things which must now seem difficult to understand
others, the State or rights body and the spiritual or cultural body,
independent political and the independent cultural body, not until

Title: Social Future: Lecture III: The Task and Limitations of Democracy, Public and Criminal Law
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the three spheres of society: the cultural sphere including art, science,
been formed of it, especially in the spheres of law and of cultural
has assumed certain distinct forms. The legal system and cultural
a life in which culture and law are subject to the power of the
organize legal conditions or a system of culture suitable to himself.
They believe that culture and law result naturally as appendages to
the cultural life of the people. Therefore the economic life must be
reformed so as to bring forth a system of laws and culture
institutions were revolutionized, everything else, law and culture,
organized legal and cultural institutions would result. Under the
conditions — the dependence of law and culture on the economic
culture must first be created in order that a new cultural and a net
How can we bring law and culture more and more into dependence on the
equity and of culture could be purified in any other way than by the
cultural life. The equity state, due to its particular nature and
ago people laughed at the idea of legal and cultural spheres
their institutions such that human ideas and human faculties find
instruction, of cultural life in general, requires the devotion of
then we must exclude from it the administration of the cultural life
of the realm of economic life. And the same applies to the cultural
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Cultural Questions, Spiritual Science, Art, Science, Religion.
the three spheres of society: the cultural sphere including art, science,
CULTURAL
from all culture, the object of which is the understanding of art,
cultural untruth to tell them about the luxury art of the later
these three regions of culture, art, science, and religion. For it is
structure in these three regions of culture. To explain what I mean,
extraordinary one, but very characteristic of the culture, the
difficult to express what I wish to say without the risk of being

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the three spheres of society: the cultural sphere including art, science,
cultivated in individuals which can be used to its own advantage. But
and in economic life. Certainly this is not difficult. We need seek
life. There will even be corporations within the cultural
organization, united with all other departments of the cultural life,
circulation depends on the freedom of the cultural life by which it
culture, this despotic order of society gave place to the system of
in the immediate practice of life. Only a spiritual culture that has
spiritual culture which is allowed to influence practical life

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the three spheres of society: the cultural sphere including art, science,
editorial presents no great difficulty nowadays. For there is so much

Title: Lecture: The Peoples of the Earth in the Light of Anthroposophy
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and understanding another man. We are really faced with a difficulty
European culture after having steeped ourselves in those of oriental
humanity. In the highly spiritual creations of oriental culture we
modern culture: “In that man is placed on Nature's pinnacle, he
European makes it difficult for him really to understand oriental

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autonomous spheres: economic, political/rights, and cultural. For a
— not so much the faculty of perceiving the existing

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autonomous spheres: economic, political/rights, and cultural. For a
our repeated experiences was always this: how very difficult
finds no difficulty. I must confess that, so far, I have met
the business-houses; that they have difficulty in making
difficult to understand!” — When anybody says
agricultural undertakings. Well, but can you do it? It is all

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seems to be difficult to kindle this activity. It seems
difficult to spread the insight that this activity is really
Indeed, this is exactly the mark of our present culture and
significant cultivation of feeling must be basic for
that it would be so difficult, that one should not lecture at
of view that it indicates perhaps a bit the difficulty of
difficult when it is necessary not only to lecture, but even

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seems to be difficult to kindle this activity. It seems
difficult to spread the insight that this activity is really
Indeed, this is exactly the mark of our present culture and
significant cultivation of feeling must be basic for
that it would be so difficult, that one should not lecture at
of view that it indicates perhaps a bit the difficulty of
difficult when it is necessary not only to lecture, but even

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souls that it is difficult to make oneself understood. And,
without this feeling — that it is difficult to make
the faculty council on ceremonial occasions, since that was
beautiful speaking. For, wholly beautiful speaking is cultic
speaking. When cultic speaking pours itself into a sermon,
beautiful speaking found in the cult.

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souls that it is difficult to make oneself understood. And,
without this feeling — that it is difficult to make
the faculty council on ceremonial occasions, since that was
beautiful speaking. For, wholely beautiful speaking is cultic
speaking. When cultic speaking pours itself into a sermon,
beautiful speaking found in the cult.

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extraordinarily difficult in the first place to connect onto

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extraordinarily difficult in the first place to connect onto
of modern-day developments. It is very difficult to make that clear
being rose above the hardships and difficulties of life on earth, and
becomes possible to point out that the spiritual (cultural) life is a

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difficult it is for some of you to believe me in this. But it

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part referring to the state, is especially difficult to deal with
absolute illusory concept of democracy, it is so difficult to speak
what influenced the cultural and economic conditions from outside.
the life of the world economy, of the cultural life, matters are such
governs the cultural and the economic life, but in reality is not
here a national configuration was created in which the cultural and
letting go, freeing the cultural and the economic life; for
You see, the cultural, the
(the government). The cultural life, however, when one confronts it
but according to life, the spiritual, cultural life must really be
freedom. The cultural life turns into a great tyranny if it spreads
living freedom, against the tyranny to which the cultural life is
nineteenth century, the cultural life has been absorbed by the life
public cultural life really stands under the influence of this
constraint of cultural life, and we cannot attain to healthy social
become a substitute for enthusiasm for freedom in cultural life
imply with this statement and I realize how difficult it is for some

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into the other this would have been a difficult process under
have greater difficulty in the case of completely unprepared
listeners; less difficulty, if one addresses a group that one
while, one has difficulty in even writing one's name the same
difficult.

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into the other this would have been a difficult process under
have greater difficulty in the case of completely unprepared
listeners; less difficulty, if one addresses a group that one
while, one has difficulty in even writing one's name the same
difficult.

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the shortest time the independent cultural life into a form
independent cultural life and participate in it before we can
cultural sector. The Waldorf school has no head, no lesson
cultural life must be a real life of the spirit. Today, when

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the shortest time the independent cultural life into a form
independent cultural life and participate in it before we can
cultural sector. The Waldorf school has no head, no lesson
cultural life must be a real life of the spirit. Today, when

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life of rights and the spiritual-cultural life — the
difficulties of today. On the contrary, if the Threefold Commonwealth
had been understood at that time, these difficulties could never have
agriculture, of economic geography and so forth. The science of

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difficult in the first lessons: but as a result of it — you will
difficult conditions. The value that is thus produced through human
difficulty: they have always tried to hold fast at the outset that

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“occult”) we may be able to observe a kind of

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say, to some piece of agricultural work in the fields. He may suddenly
natural processes from without. We must evolve a faculty of insight to
somewhat difficult at the outset.

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value, namely, 100% — would be extremely difficult to realise in
done by others. The Marxists deny him the faculty of producing
process really identical with giving, to one who has the faculties
really freed, so that the individual faculties were always able to

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is not difficult to see that this is what actually happens in the
time to find your way to that meaning. But in respect to agriculture
agriculture of a social organism forms of its own nature a single
measure in which the products of forestry and agriculture grow more
price difficulty scarcely comes into question; but as soon as
agriculture is added to forestry, the difficulty begins. In effect,
the difficulty lies in the differentiation; the further the division
the differentiation of products increase, and the difficulties
products, the more difficult does it become to bring about their
wheat and rye and other agricultural products. But follow the thing
It is by the relative rise and fall in prices that the difficulties of
difficult; for when the thing we are seeking is shifting to and fro in
— it is extraordinarily difficult to distinguish whether it is

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that the human faculties come in. The individual faculties,
process the principle of Law or Rights and the Individual Faculties of
paying for spiritual faculties with the value of a commodity or a
Faculties and Commodities and also between Faculties and Rights.
lower prices at which scythes or other agricultural implements can be
economics of human faculties. In its essential concepts, our Economic

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are the very things we must get at. What makes it so difficult to
are often so widely separated. That is why it is difficult to see
congested on the land and are given to the spiritual or cultural life
spiritual or cultural “goods,” which in the course of time
difficult and lengthy business to estimate how the several factors in
extremely difficult to say what are the respective contributions,
authority is more or less cultivated, we see the consequences. For, in
the one case, those who really have the stronger personal faculties
man has to depend on his genuine faculties being recognised by an
extraordinarily difficult paths must sometimes be traced out. It is
certain part. Politics in any case are always difficult to keep out.

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profit. The question of profit is extremely difficult. Let us
thing and receive money for it. I know that I by my faculties or
in the process with my spiritual faculties.
This is the great difficulty which besets the formation of economic
goes on producing so long as his own personal faculties are united
the necessary faculties. It will be transferred by a gift — a

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conceived as private agricultural economies on a large scale. Their
private agricultural economy is self-contained, it includes within it
essentials the character of a primitive agricultural concern, a
of an economic realm lies in the cultivation of the land, i.e., in the
wiser; they must have higher faculties than those who went before
country, and they may then improve the cultivation of the land. Or, on

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sovereigns were as big as tables it would be far more difficult to
process) our reasoning faculty cannot keep pace. We ought to be able
where the Nature-process begins. There can be no economic difficulty

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economic values and which at the same time show how very difficult it
difficult it is to grasp them all. Thus the question arises: Is it
Therefore, when all is said, we must always look upon the cultivation
spiritual faculties. It could only be someone who was born grown-up.
more as we go forward. Even the cultivation of the soil must be made
workers — and again what power of further development of culture
industrialists, etc., and where there is still much agriculture or
agriculture, or the working of the land in the widest sense, upon the
co-exist. Sometimes indeed, in the most highly cultivated economic
highly cultivated elements which return to the most primitive. Values
created by our living in a most elaborated culture hark back, in a

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the other. It becomes still more difficult if you take, say, a
according to fertility and ease of cultivation. Suppose that every
for cultivation. Up to the moment when Nature — or a given part
available area of cultivation. In this relation you will find that

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side you battle with inner soul difficulties with particular
difficulties can be talked about because this particular
initial gathering can serve to make the difficulties you have,
harmonizing of these inner difficulties.
is completely understandable that these inner difficulties are
Ahrimanic forces being absorbed by people from outer culture
valid for a few people, which is not alive in the culture we
modern culture has brought into the present. This stream
promises the eradication of modern culture. You must not
deprived of modern cultural elements, which is what this
Movement carries. Modern cultural elements are considered as
the devil which needs to be conquered by the old culture.
made noble; he must be reckoned with alongside modern culture.
cultic worship which will develop in the future? How should

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attention to some difficulties which exist in understanding the
Anthroposophy. These difficulties are such that you actually
how difficult these soul relationships really are. Thus you
of cultural life, namely to be apart from what is called
scientific culture. You must be aware that an atheistic science
see, out of the cultural historical discomfort the view has
opposite cultural life which resulted in deep inner untruth.
to have a difficult position because many people thirst for a
another difficulty because it is really necessary to get a
satisfying, yet by contrast this is not the case with the cult
because the cult has an extraordinary power of building the
into these things you will have no difficulties.
Christ — this is the one side of the cult. The other side
Rudolf Steiner: That is something which is difficult to
and do not lead to inner difficulties.
and Theosophy etc.’ With such things inner difficulties can't
Rudolf Steiner: This is not inner difficulty, it is
difficulties arising among the Anthroposophists we realised we

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importance to cultivate a true impulse for feeling yourselves
leaders turning a completely de-spiritualised world culture
because through such a meditation real reverence is cultivated.

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is difficult to translate here

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significant, important and far-reaching occult truth that the
cultus that you want to adopt religiously, theologically and
Revelation. Let us use the term 'apocalypse' to mean all occult
and the human beings themselves. When the cultus brought the
of the cultus, that cultic speech of which a last remnant
human hearts. The magical Word, the cultic Word spoken in the
contemporary religious cultus living in the Mysteries. The

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Apocalypse has for Christians, and let's call all the occult
the cults occurred in such a way that supersensible and
investigated by occult science. During this time the gods
cultic language were two different things, and remnants of the
Ln this cultic language everything depends upon rhythm, a deep
intonation of magical cultic words in sacred places enabled
religious cults which arose during this third period. For the

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of the cultus — whether by speaking the
cultus, we can point to the interpretation adopted by those in
taken hold of in the magical Word, the cultic Word. In this way
intonation of the magical, cultic Word. One felt as though one
were oneself intoning the magical, cultic Word, the words of
who is speaking; it is the god who is speaking in the cultic
experienced, when he intoned the cultic Word and felt the
the priests still able to sense in the magically spoken cultic
cultus became something that for the chosen meant the presence
the act of consecration is celebrated with the true cultic
could do without celebrating the cultus at all. There was no
longer any awareness of the significance of the cultus, of the
powers who permitted the content of that cultus to flow down
through the content of this cultus, a revelation out of the
took in and ruled the effects of the cultus that were
the as yet only semi-conscious cultic Word. When the human
being intoned this semi-conscious cultic Word and this then
act of consecration with the cultic Word, experiencing how the
god became present in it. They had sent the cultic Word aloft,
and the god had streamed into the cultic Word. They departed
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magical words in cultic ceremonies. These words either worked
or cultic act, let's look at a view which the initiates we call
cultic words. The striving up of magical forces towards divine
intonation of the magical, cultic words. Whenever someone
intoned magical, cultic or prayerful words they were ascending
things, the godhead becomes manifest and speaks in the cultic
or fluidic body. When a priest intoned cultic words in the
still say: when I speak magical cultic words, a god is speaking
of consecration is celebrated with real cultic words by even
of cultic rites or of a real collaboration between gods and
controlled the cultic activities which occurred in the aery
that people were developing cultic words which were still half
epoch when these half-conscious cultic words transubstantiated
mentioned. They celebrated the act of consecration with cultic
They had sent the cultic words up and the godhead had streamed
spirituality in human, cultic words during the act of

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through the cultic Word by means of all the preparatory
was still present when the cultus was intoned in the third

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through cultic words and through everything the priest did in
sounds still existed in the intonation of cultic language

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this is difficult for people to understand nowadays, there were
to the future appearance of Christ. The cultus at Ephesus was
coming Christianity and with its pagan cultus, the ancient
in accordance with its own cultus. Each has a different nuance
Sardis. The congregation at Ephesus had a cultus that was
rituals of the cultus there was one in the procession who was
most essential symbol of the cultus. These candlesticks
evolved out of a Mystery cult that counted to the highest
In these earliest Christian times the old pagan cultus lived
Sardis the nuance of the old pagan cultus, tending towards
that linger on. In the way he spread the culture of Hellas,
out. Each people is left with its own cultus and convictions,
mission there were few outer signs in the cultus or in the
nuances in the cultus, in the ceremonial and in their

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mystery culture, but it is also an explanation which is still
This idea which shines in from the ancient mystery culture is a
The cultic rituals in Ephesus were supposed to mediate between
cult in Ephesus foretold the coming of Christianity and
various cults, whereby they approached the divine worlds in
strive towards him from its cult in its own special way; each
cult which was completely permeated by the presence of divine,
priestesses as they celebrated their cultic rites. The priests
candlesticks as the most important symbol of its cult. They
culture which really considered the investigation of life
And all the cultic rites in Sardis were based on this.
Thus in these first Christian times an old heathen cult which
church in Ephesus, whereas an old heathen cult which was
involved with the ancient mystery culture if you answer the
talk people into things. They let people keep their cults and
external cultic rites and the use of words went. But there was
poured in what the existing cults, sacrificial services and
with the existing ancient mystery culture, and they didn't try

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basic structure of the first post-Atlantean cultural age, even
the first post-Atlantean cultural age. The second congregation
Smyrna where the ancient Persian culture thrived before the
that lived during the third post-Atlantean culture.
Mystery that was alive in this culture.
referred to the fourth post-Atlantean culture, the
cultural age. When you look at Sardis you see that there are
The sequence of post-Atlantean cultural ages, and at the
fifth cultural age, you gain the impression: It is a matter of
today's spiritual life and culture. This is

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Persian culture lived more in the second community —
cultivated the third post Atlantean culture. If we let the
reference to the words of Hermes, which lived in this cultural
culture, in which the Mystery of Golgotha took place. If we let
most people cultivate a spiritual life today without these
transformed in our cultural epoch. Priests must begin to be
fulfilled the task of the fifth cultural epoch will have to

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cultural evolutions, a cycle that runs in sevens. In the Book
speech of the cultus. So while celebrating the cultus one felt
continuation of the old cultures as well as the beginning of
new cultural ages. But there is on the other hand also a
cultural age, the fifth larger cycle of human evolution,
The point in time when the fifth post-Atlantean cultural age
fifth post-Atlantean cultural age for three to four centuries.
We see that the cultural ages are separated from one another
fifth period has now reached its fifth cultural
The fifth cultural age was introduced by what comes through
period as a whole, once the fifth cultural age will have been
also in the fifth post-Atlantean cultural age as well as in the
and gradually through four cultural ages. It began slowly in
the ancient Indian cultural age which could definitely still be
cultural age the human being still felt himself to be within
during the second cultural age, that of ancient Persia. In the
third cultural age he felt even more separated, so that he
Greco-Latin cultural age death was felt to such an extent that
cultural age to find death more and more by our side as a
to make itself felt within Christian culture.
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one intoned in holy cultic language in the way that I already
Thus we have seen the continuation of old cultures and the
beginning of new cultural periods in the 7 communities or
we look at the successive cultural periods, we see that they
cultural period, we have what is known as the ice age or flood
after our fifth cultural epoch has been followed by the sixth
post Atlantean cultural epoch and in the larger fifth earth
slowly and gradually for four cultural periods. It was
happening slowly in the ancient Indian cultural epoch, and one
mysteries. During, the ancient Indian cultural age men felt
Græco-Roman cultural period that it gave rise to that well
companion in the fifth post Atlantean cultural age, as I said
of the whole Christian culture.

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in the middle of this period. The development of Greek culture
development — when contact with the culture of
ancient Rome was discontinued. We see how the culture of
period begins when the culture of ancient Rome shifted further
external manifestation, it came into contact with the culture
culture of ancient Rome declares itself in favour of
the difficulty about the Transubstantiation — if I may use a human
aware of how you yourselves had to struggle with the difficulty
having to struggle with the difficulties inherent in
with such peculiar difficulties. One must think of the ordering
The apocalyptist foresaw how difficult it would become for
difficulty that arose, with regard to comprehending the

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which broke away from the ancient Roman culture, especially in
Europe. We see that the old Roman culture could basically not
Muhammedanian mystery culture which knows nothing about the
Son. This Islamic mystery culture doesn't know anything about
difficulties with what one calls the transubstantiation for
spiritual elements which are involved. Now this difficulty, my
the difficulties which are connected with transubstantiation
are still struggling with the difficulties which are involved
difficult it would be for men to say that there is another
This also points to the tremendous difficulty which existed for

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culture. But it was there for a second time after a further 666
It is of course difficult now to consider what
world. With the culture and education we have today, which in

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western culture. It is there a second time after another 666
culture which had gradually been accepted by humanity in the
respect to this culture of the age to speak about the deep

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pole on the earth where all culture was concentrated, in other
this place. This was the pole where external culture was

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place where cultures run together and the most perfect houses
culture around the human soul, and its culmination was
able to or it will be increasingly difficult to make something

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cultural manifestations from below upwards, into a way of
the spiritual world. This means that all culture must now be
to the difficulty of working as a priest today. In a certain
human being as such, and that cultivates what belongs to
difficulties facing us there. It is an illusion to imagine that
we even have this difficulty where art is concerned. Although
priests who unite themselves with the cultus that

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building of cultural phenomena and of the human body changed
from the spiritual world. The whole culture must be arranged in
Therewith we really touch upon a difficulty with the
human beings and which cultivates humanity. Of course none of
even have this difficulty in artistic things. It won't be very
cultic rite which has been drawn from the spiritual world, that

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This is difficult to understand, of course, just as
world is difficult to understand. Here in the physical world we
Sun and has become what occultism calls the archangel of the

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are truthful in their own way. Of course this is difficult to
understand, just as it is difficult to understand what happens
Ptolemaic system) has become what is known in occultism as an

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present-day, modern cultus.
Book of Revelation that is most difficult of all to understand
them was wonderful, but it is difficult to reconstruct it for
Occult Science

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life as the present, modern cultic ritual.
before us which is very difficult to understand, but which
feeling but it is very difficult to reconstruct for modern
Occult Science. You can also find all the events which I

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one of the occult principles. In the considerations earlier today
With occult revelations given in the form of
going on. For occultists seven is always the most perfect
number; it almost amounts to an occult rule: Seven is the most
This can be quite a difficult task, for such people often
had the Gospels and the cultus. In the cultus the supersensible
degree of mystery, an occult secret. It is based on the belief
for someone like the apocalyptist who is writing an occult

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number principle — one of the occult principles —
buildup in accordance with numbers is quite natural with occult
always the most perfect one for all occultists. This is
practically a tenet of occultism: 7 is the most perfect number.
Crusades. In real occult centers one always looked upon this
human beings? It is often very difficult to relate to such
the gospels and the cultic rites; the cult gradually became
mystery and an occult secret. This is based on the fact that
occult writer like the Apocalypticer speaks of racial

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after misunderstanding showing just how difficult it is even
today's culture. It is not that human beings
surprise you, but anyone who can look into the occult

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difficult it is even for good thinkers of the present time to
could say that this points to a real cultural secret of the
surprise you, but anyone who can look into the occult depths of

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light. When we observe the world in a genuinely occult manner
occultist.
revolution — which also had many occult
difficult. Regarding the deterioration of physical health, this
maintained through what flows through the cultus and the

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know as light. If we really look at the world in an occult way,
that has been acquired by every true occultist, and it is not
which also had many occult causes; its storms of thunder and

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Everyone who truly wants to become familiar with the occultism

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occultism that underlies spiritual life must do.
difficult to understand, stop thinking about it and start to

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present to the higher secrets of occultism about which for the
through statistics. Opposing this is most difficult of all in
intellectual so-called cultural battles of our time. Where,
ever increasing efforts that are being made to make cultural
life conform with state requirements. How much of our cultural

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higher secrets of occultism that cannot be spoken about at

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Rudolf Steiner's death by the Agricultural Section at the Goetheanum

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faculty to comprehend the present situation, are being kept in
want to further their own cultures, solely their own. Strangely
that would have been difficult to diagnose and, as you can
this form after the second teeth. It is difficult to discover
stomach is removed, the patient has a difficult time. This is

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because it is usually quite difficult to tell when the child

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goitre, had a specific effect even on mental faculties. Its
faculties, surgical removal was indicated. This is how they
of events. It is difficult to make an overall judgment about
significance for the expression of man's faculties of
his mental faculties. The same is true when the substance is
mental faculties are altered also when he drinks wine, for
course, this method is more difficult and is related somewhat
when it is viewed in a larger cultural context, one sees its
it becomes difficult to check for any damaging after
results today, but when they are seen in a larger cultural

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fact can be traced in human culture. If we go back to ancient

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that while man is more cultivated than dogs, he lacks the
one hand, forces back his faculty of smell but, on the other,

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see, it is difficult to get people somehow to comprehend

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the improper quenching of thirst is difficult to detect,

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and health. In pregnancy, it is even more difficult than in the
best approach these difficult questions — and they are
difficulty breathing and doesn't receive enough oxygen, one can
henbane is extremely difficult to digest. Being poisonous
simply means that a substance is difficult to digest. The
People pay no heed to what is contained in spiritual culture. A

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Dr. Steiner: It is difficult to put into words the
ground, she tried to fly away with it, but it was too difficult
future, one must truly cultivate honesty, an honesty that takes

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difficult to supply, the waste products are deposited there. If
that should not be so difficult, because people know the facts.

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Something is indicated here that is difficult to study in
suitable locality. Though it is sometimes difficult to observe
accessible to him and even more difficult for him to leave.

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down and read some difficult book, the blood is stimulated. As
circulation becomes ever more difficult. This can cause people
Jew has more difficulty absorbing sugar, yet on the other hand
assimilation of sugar, since this people has difficulty
difficult — pork aggravates diabetes unusually in the

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Dr. Steiner: It is difficult to speak about such a case
is difficult to judge when one is not familiar with the
and doesn't slough off easily enough. This is most difficult to
much tougher skin than others. This is difficult to determine,
medicine, it is extraordinarily difficult to figure out. The

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even in older people. It is quite difficult to diagnose when
An Outline of Occult Science, I called the ancient Moon.

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cannot be fully explained without the faculty of spiritual perception. That

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The Declining Oriental and the Rising European Cultures
Cultures — On Bees
skin. It is difficult to perform operations on bleeders.
undertaking extraordinarily difficult. Hemophiliacs are forever
Assyrian cultures flourished. We need only go back a few
culture enjoyed a warm climate, a better, more energetic
culture developed in Europe than could have evolved in Asia.
Oriental, Asian culture, had become so effeminate that they

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They also knew that when a woman who is having difficulty
woman who might have a difficult time giving birth would not
they cultivated this science and thereby were quite useful to

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on earth. The lecturer said: Yes, it is difficult to imagine that
said: Oh, well, that is an inherited faculty; the young ones have

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which you go about is illumined, but it is difficult to form an
defense of truth is extraordinarily difficult in modern times.

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earth just in such a favorable way that the American culture
something similar in American culture to what is
inward, poetical and spiritual Indian culture. When they now go
education. Knowledge of man is so difficult to present

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faculty of feeling. The flesh is pressed back, and then the muscle;
it difficult for the soul-and-spirit to enter into the embryo in the
conditions depend, too, upon really wise cultivation
conditions of earthly life, then it will be very difficult for him to
cast into obscurity by science and the other branches of cultural

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both physical and etheric, but this it finds difficult as it contains

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the whole of our modern culture and civilisation may be said to be

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Switzerland too. It is still rather difficult to speak about this

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difficult to procure. Pollen is collected by the bees, with the help
difficult matter, is it? It is still easier to distinguish between

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specially lucky hand in the cultivation of plants. Even when they sow
impossible for some people to cultivate plants. They have an

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can cultivate those plants which the bees not only like, but must
this special cultivation of the necessary plants in the neighbourhood
make experiments with especially cultivated plants in seasons when
already working in the direction of the special cultivation of
large quantities for the bees; other plants were cultivated also with
who also edited an agricultural paper, and gave much attention to
began to cultivate the American vine, they could succeed in keeping
it in health, whereas the European vines died out. The cultivation of
cultivation of the vineyards was Americanised, and everything has
of you know that in the south, and more especially in Greece, the cultivation
lets the wasps lay their eggs in the wild figs which he cultivates
to be further cultivated, do not reach full maturity, they only
cultivator of the fig trees, the figs of the wild tree containing the
in wax. Nature has herself increased the wax so that the cultivated
work very carefully, and make a cross-section from the trunk of the cultivated
when we study this special cultivation of the fig trees we discover a kind
case of the cultivated tree, remains in the juices of the fig. One
artificially cultivated fig tree which the bees have made.

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very difficult to state that this is due to instinct. This would only
begin to cultivate. As soon as the wind brings other seeds, they bite off
as it were, and regularly cultivate the kind of grass that best suits
hardened soil made by the ants, the cultivated grass has quite hard
agriculture. Darwin, who especially observed these things, calls it
a question far more difficult to answer than that of a mere robbery,
of Occult Science,” it is also called the Moon-condition,
more at those farming ants which cultivate their little field, and change
select the plants which we can cultivate so that they get quite hard,
the cultivation of the brain, and rejects all that is instinctive;

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it is actually much more difficult to telegraph in a district where

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animal poisons all the time. The faculties possessed by animals are

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therefore with great difficulty that fish develop sense organs
difficult to observe since all sorts of other things come into

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Human History and the Outlook of People of Culture.
alone but by the whole Universe. It is difficult for the modern mind
Ravens, Occultists, Defenders, Sphinxes, Spirits of the People, Sun

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Human History and the Outlook of People of Culture.
develop all their powers. Many faculties could be developed quite
with the eyes shut. It is only a matter of refining this faculty,
then certain faculties will develop. These faculties can become so
can develop in everyone the faculty of being able to read with the skin.
sensitive faculty of touch or whether there is something bogus about
Mysteries — those places for the cultivation of art, learning
although under very difficult conditions. Later on they were
worshipping his wooden god. It is difficult for you to conceive what

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Human History and the Outlook of People of Culture.
particular culture in order to prevent its dissipation — as the
sculptors; with their own particular faculties they can achieve
is a Jew, begin to speak. The first says: It is very difficult to
minority and I know how difficult it is to persuade them! The third,

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culture, nutrition, the sense of smell, planetary influences on animals,
Outline of Occult Science
Occult Science
second condition “Sun” in my Occult Science; it

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culture, nutrition, the sense of smell, planetary influences on animals,
gradual preparatory conditions. The whole subject is indeed difficult

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culture, nutrition, the sense of smell, planetary influences on animals,
in one case we have to do with nature, in the other with culture. But
culture too we have to consider these strata.

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culture, nutrition, the sense of smell, planetary influences on animals,
with more cartilage, a race that already possessed a high culture and
had schools and a culture (they do not, of course, have them, but we
civilization and a culture, what would it be like? It would have to
others understood the signs — well, that would be a culture.
had a culture and civilization like that. When, for instance, there
a culture and civilization that men made in signs that disappeared at
than in harder clay. And when men had their whole culture and

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culture, nutrition, the sense of smell, planetary influences on animals,
On the Development of Human Culture, Lecture I.
their culture, the most ancient on earth. Today these are the peoples
bed — a more difficult procedure than people think — and
those people had soft bodies. The culture which they created with
speak) — the Chinese and Japanese had a culture quite different
ancient culture is merely its outward form. The Chinese have
can be seen in a less adulterated form — we find a culture
distinct from all others, for the Chinese in their old culture did
not include anything that can be called religion. The Chinese culture
by a “culture without religion”. When you consider the
cultures that have religion you find everywhere — in the old
Indian culture, for instance — veneration for beings who are
So, gentlemen, we find a culture there that is quite
ancient, and today this culture can still be observed as it actually
their having what later would constitute a cult. What might be called
those who are cultured, and this spiritually high rank is called into
the newspapers reported that we wanted Chinese culture in Europe!
That is not what was meant. In describing the Chinese culture, praise
for what it has of spiritual content. But it is a primitive culture,
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On the Development of Human Culture
their culture, the most ancient on earth. These are the peoples
— a more difficult thing to do than people imagine — and
people had soft bodies. The culture resulting from what they did is
Japanese have a culture quite different from ours. We should have a
their ancient culture is merely its outward form. The Chinese have
form — we find there a culture distinct from all others, for
the Chinese in their old culture do not include anything that can be
called religion. The Chinese culture was devoid of religion.
yourselves what is meant by a “culture without religion.”
When you consider the cultures that have religion you find everywhere
— in the old Indian cultures, for instance — veneration
Thus we find a culture
that is quite ancient, and today this culture can still be observed
constituted a cult. In what might be called their kingdom, everything
conferred as a matter of course on those who are cultured, and this
wanted Chinese culture in Europe! But that is not what was meant. In
describing Chinese culture, in a certain way — but only in a
human cultures as it actually existed.
the Chinese descended from a culture during which seeing was
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peoples of the earth cultivate some grain or other.
sometimes a difficulty, obviously: some people can't bear the thought

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culture, nutrition, the sense of smell, planetary influences on animals,
— for apparently all the peoples of the earth cultivate some
before. That's sometimes a difficulty, obviously: some people can't

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There have already been agricultural conferences in which the farmers
and exercises critical faculties. Therefore, you can see, in earlier

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culture, nutrition, the sense of smell, planetary influences on animals,
There have already been agricultural conferences in
one thinks and exercises critical faculties. Therefore, you can see,

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culture, nutrition, the sense of smell, planetary influences on animals,
On the Development of Human Culture, Lecture II.
“How did man's cultural development come about?”
This is something in the history of culture that
by the spirit so that cultural progress could be made.
were still undeveloped in reason, in intelligence — the faculty
much of what constitutes the greatness of our culture has actually
their imaginative faculty. And when we read the old documents with
you go up there to that corner so difficult to reach, you don't meet
culture developed out of rhythm.
of how human culture has evolved. Also, we must concede that the
into his present form, together with the faculties which he already
intellect, we have to regain the spirit. Culture is obliged to take

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On the Development of Human Culture
“What has man's cultural development arisen from?” I am going
history of culture which constitutes a real step forward for the
cultural progress could ensue.
culture has actually arisen from quite simple ideas. For example:
faculty. When we read the old documents with this respect, we say:
When you go up there, to that corner so difficult to access, you do
the faculties existing at that time, have arisen because the
by means of the intellect, we have to return to the spirit. Culture

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culture, nutrition, the sense of smell, planetary influences on animals,
makes it difficult at the very outset to get at the truth.
human brain a mighty transformation of the faculties of tasting and
animal, this does not exist, but these faculties are very
higher development is due to the fact that these very faculties which

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culture, nutrition, the sense of smell, planetary influences on animals,
from the moon, only this is more difficult to determine. Experiments
uncultivated soil, or are artificially cultivated in a garden. Think
cultivated strawberries as large as eggs! How is this to be accounted
garden cultivation too, from a long way away, and nourishes itself
although with garden cultivation they can produce huge strawberries
is difficult for the strawberry to find in the garden what it finds
plant cultivation, especially for the plants needed in agriculture.
agriculture not much attention is paid to the matter. The consequence
Earlier this year there was an interesting agricultural
We have made a beginning with agriculture in the domain
lectures on agriculture near Breslau,

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culture, nutrition, the sense of smell, planetary influences on animals,
quickly, it is difficult but still possible to distinguish the
to the winter, and some that are more difficult to the spring and autumn,

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culture, nutrition, the sense of smell, planetary influences on animals,

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culture, nutrition, the sense of smell, planetary influences on animals,
It is obviously difficult to speak briefly about these
long will naturally have some difficulty and only gradually be able
is very difficult to dissuade the people from feeding almost
spiritual faculties are constantly changing. Those who do not believe
if men had possessed the same spiritual faculties that they possess
today. In ancient times their spiritual faculties were not less, but
people had different faculties. We need to go no further back than
These faculties of ours do not come to us ready-made;

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culture, nutrition, the sense of smell, planetary influences on animals,
the unanimous opinion that all agricultural products have been

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races or epochs of culture, the Initiates of mankind up to the time of

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occult teaching was not disowned as it is today by materialistic
time and then think how difficult it is to make the violet or some
‘Occultists’; at the third stage they were ‘Warriors,’ at the fourth,

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of the development of mankind through the different epochs of culture, and of the regular,
in the first thousand years of Egyptian culture, thus looking upon ourselves in past
through the different epochs of culture. When we say that man reincarnates so and so many
to human conditions in general. When we reincarnate, we may have an easy or a difficult
arrange life in an easy or a difficult way. I mention this to indicate how complicated
periods of human cultural development before this was discovered. But how much do we really
have advanced furthest in occultism, faithfully observe the rule of maintaining the right
Every form of occultism knows that
Occult Science,

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karma behind it. You should cultivate calmness, and if you do, you will

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the cultural and spiritual life of the present time. It does
during the whole evolution of human spiritual and cultural
life. It is not so difficult to see that the science of spirit
really seeking spiritual substance in cultural life
know that however difficult it may be and that however much

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difficult for people really to go into and acquire an
of the unconscious. In the cultural life of Central Europe the
difficult to do the repetition. Thus, as a matter of fact, a
of spirit is not only considered to be difficult to understand,
belong to human culture.
configuration of present day spiritual and cultural life,

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cultivate. And we must evolve our soul life so that we can
after difficult preparation is now given to us in the
our own work. The first of these is the human faculty of
memory. It is through this faculty of memory that we are really
constitution. But this faculty of memory which is so necessary
interrupted, destroyed. But this faculty of memory can also be
there how the faculty of memory can be developed into something
ideas. The cultivation of these methods is certainly not easier
faculty of memory we are bound to our body. With this developed
faculty of memory we are no longer bound to the body, we enter
condition we are in when we use our developed faculty of
perceive through our developed faculty of memory. And the first
supersensibly developed faculty of memory. In this case in one
further on the developed faculty of memory which we have
the developed faculty of memory, we then have the spiritual
another faculty of knowledge which must be developed in
People will be prepared to admit that the faculty of
able to accept the second faculty for acquiring knowledge which
of normal life in the same way as the faculty of memory.
we must cultivate this love as a power for acquiring
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Title: Lecture: Reincarnation and Karma
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of the newspapers set forth these laws for the cultured and
difficulty in realising that plants change when they are
transplanted from one region to another. It is not difficult to
soul life, which are more difficult to understand. When he calls
faculties of the soul. And therefore it shall here be mentioned

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difficult to see clearly in this chaos. Descendants of many earlier
interminglings are difficult to unravel. We will try to follow the
This cultural civilizing process spread out radially from a point in
deserts. It was an eminently priestly culture, preparing a race of
in agriculture.
agriculture and vine-cultivation. These activities constituted a
of the Persians who are an agricultural people, in contrast to the
Medes who are not, and the tree indicates that the agricultural
agriculture.
culture, only here it was more a cult of locality than an
ancestor cult. There were sacred trees and, sacred caves. Cult was
result was the mixing of the Celtic with the Druidic Culture. The
reason why Druidic Culture had so much spirituality was because it was
the first having been to create religious culture, the task of the
second to create the foundations of material culture, and the task of
cultivating those things that proceed most definitely from personality
care by the spiritual guidance of the world. The ancient Rishi Culture
who assimilate Greek culture, destroy Jerusalem, go to Asia, and
from Ireland came to Germany, with a mixture of Druidic culture, Irish
secret cult. They said, “The Christ as presented by the Western
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Raven, then the Occultist, then the Fighter; at the fourth grade the
cultivates (frohmen) his passions, the River throws up great waves.
Anthroposophy call “occult knowledge” is expressed by the
old man with the lamp, — the light of occult knowledge cannot
highest wisdom is called occult, because it only appears when a man
is connected with the representatives of human occult knowledge. She
It is only when occult force unites with this which forwards material
This transmutation is brought about in man by occult knowledge.
cultivation of material nature? It is an interesting fact that the
culture, it will be the hour-hand pointing to the regular mechanical
in a somewhat different manner from what he had concealed occultly in

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“Occult Science”
“Occult Science”
gradually develop. It is extremely difficult to answer these

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pupil into an occult school. He had first to learn how the
occult pupil before us. He had to arouse within himself the
In the depths of the Temple Mysteries the occult pupil
The Occultist

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awakening of his higher faculties he became the God Baldur.

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every sentence is a source of occult forces. And when we read this
we become one with it. The occultist says: Each single sentence, from
means provided by culture to the end that men may still their purely
culture into being. A stream of spiritual life went forth from these
culture and civilisation.
himself. The occultist knows the truth of the words: “I am with
system. The occultist knows of this deep relationship between the
occultist says: The Gods have created the physical body in

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egoistical way want to retreat into the self and cultivate it
situations immediately surrounding us. Our culture, with
from the standpoint of today's customary culture pass judgment
future. That is why Theosophy cultivates intuition. That is
different form. If we consider cultural progress from the
people there were occupied with work, the difficulty of which a
themselves cut off from world evolution pursue as soul culture,

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regard to the outer materialistic culture, it is true in still
science, lead back into the hidden places, where was cultivated in
occult brotherhoods. Whosoever wished to be accepted into such a
there are methods whereby this end can be attained. By a culture of
Future — are only cultivated in a very small circle. The
Mysteries of the Son are cultivated in the Rosicrucian Mystery which
initiation. For this he must cultivate the power to endure all the
the third stage. The teacher said to him: “Thou must cultivate
Christianity has brought the blessings of culture and civilisation to

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with which we have to deal so often. How difficult it is regarding
this teaching he was attacked, and only with difficulty escaped the
instrument makes difficulties for him. The walk, to be sure, is
quickly forgetting child, whose interest it is difficult to hold upon
with what may present difficulties in the outer life. For the
difficult to overcome, so as to call attention to the difficulties of
Oppositions, difficulties, must be placed in the path of the choleric
very fact that certain difficulties are presented which the
can overcome difficulties which he himself cannot yet overcome;
for his ability to overcome objective difficulties. That is the
It is also very difficult to manage the melancholic
upon what is there, we must cultivate what exists. With the
With the phlegmatic child it will be very difficult for us if his
appropriate way toward him. It is difficult to gain any influence

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but theoretically it is difficult to gain a real conviction of the
spiritual-scientific truths is a very difficult path; the other path,
As a rule both envy and falsehood have occult backgrounds. Certain

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same as it is later on. Occult science reveals that in these

Title: Lecture: The National Epics With Especial Attention to the Kalevala
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shall we touch upon Occult Science or Theosophy; the consideration of
pedagogic cult could have maintained all through the centuries up to
of Occult Science or Theosophy, how a very intellectual man such as
it is difficult to use a name for them; one can not say Gods, one cannot
said sounds only like an hypothesis, so may that which Occult Science
to occult science, that not only does all present-day scientific thought
body. In so far as our soul lives in the physical body, in occult science
experience proved this — that which could bring all culture and
national epic. National epics only arise when the culture is still enclosed
as the culture depends upon the forces of the Sampo, so long does the
all culture the national character, the nationality. When, in the course
active sense of spiritual culture, can perform immeasurably great service.
writings are to be explained in quite an occult sense as an active protest
a motto for the principles of occult science, and sums up in main outline
so also says occult science which is to take its place in the active
development of culture in our time.

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the cloak of truth, in a form difficult to discern, not only
consciousness, and thereby renders it difficult to silence or
processes it is difficult to say where error ceases and truth
cultivate this side of investigation, but the pronouncements
super-sensible. Nothing is so difficult as self-knowledge. All
natural way, even if the difficulty of self-knowledge (which
followers make it as difficult as possible for the
points, and is, as it were, ruined, when a few difficulties

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a hypothesis, but I think that further a occult investigations will support
and occult hypothesis concerning the whole question, as the result of
be confirmed by a occult investigation.
immediately, and had no difficulty in extracting the roots of numbers

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cultural achievements of the present time, and of humanity as a
or through its own faculties.
difficult things of all!
Modern people find it so difficult to accept this. They do not
difficult it is for modern people to acquire a true knowledge of
But our contemporaries find it difficult to understand such
Through difficult soul obstacles,

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is difficult to speak of such a unique and deeply significant subject
An Outline of Occult Science
The experiences of mankind in ancient cultures — in those of Egypt
youth or old age, so in these cultures mankind's experiences were not
to wane, we begin to cultivate something new on earth, that is, a
We need only compare the experiences of mankind in our present culture
cultures. We need only point to our mighty and admirable technical and
Men in ancient cultures faced the world as a child does. The child's
point in his life and to cultivate up until his death a soul-spiritual
These mysteries, which existed in every culture and which to some
cultic rites intended to transform the everyday life of soul, these
that is most difficult to understand even now. When man attempted to

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of my Occult Science. Today I would only like to
inner upheavals and the surmounting of difficulties which we
being in the course of the cultural evolution of humanity
that having cultivated the activity of thinking to the extent
Higher Worlds and in the second part of my Occult
— Although this is more difficult to understand, I would
faculties that are needed in ordinary life are not yet present
the faculties of the soul that share in it, who have learned to
use and develop these faculties for a method of investigation
because he himself was immersed only in the faculties of
faculties of our mind which are sharpened and strengthened in
these same faculties first have to transform our thinking and
the spiritual world with those faculties of acquiring
But we can develop these very same faculties by a purely inner

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most important and significant faculties of the soul that we
and described in my books for the cultivation of the mind, we
a teacher of Christian philosophy, member of a Catholic faculty
inevitably lead to difficulties in the soul life, and to social

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There must be some reason why humanity finds it so difficult to
made in the laboratory and observatory. However difficult it
even more difficult to master all the preparation necessary for

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is something our age has got to learn, but finds so difficult
difficult for someone who is called to be an individuality, an
is much more difficult to do this than any other kind of
cultural life, where the soul is no longer dependent upon the
to be cultivated by those who are called to do so. However, I
lives through the various cultures of the earth and he bears
instinctively in the cultural life of Central Europe. But it

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occasions that the Spiritual Science cultivated at the Goetheanum has
cultural renditions that change and develop, but man's life of soul is
stand firm in extremely difficult and perplexing situations in Life?
can say is that man is on the way to freedom. By cultivating
groundwork of our whole education and culture — one thing stands out
contradistinction to what Kant recognised as the human faculty of
Faculties of cognition, which in ordinary life, and in the pursuit also of

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our life and existence. The times have become difficult. It
difficulties of the present time should be sought exclusively in
Gnosticism, or of Oriental occultism, in order to find in them
OCCULT SCIENCE,
civilization, of our cultural life. On the contrary the
OCCULT SCIENCE,
own nature through a culture of the will consisting of scrupulous

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And it is more difficult to get rid of
with his difficult methods, so one will gradually have to get
power of memory imprints itself only with difficulty upon the
the cultural development of humanity, but it might also

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Relatively speaking, it was not difficult for men at that time to
other sorrow on earth. When in the ritual of the Sun Cult in the
the faculty of instinctive clairvoyance. The men of old had said:
super-earthly faculties, can be reached since the Mystery of Golgotha
salvation; then the healing Spirit will speak to a new faculty of

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customary, cults and ceremonies took place which were specially
the olden Mysteries, during the celebration of the Sun-Cult,
super-sensible faculties can since that event be reached by the

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professor.' Of these, the formative effect of the rhetorician's cultivation
“Occult Science,”
“Occult Science,”
supersensible occult powers, but the same force that enables us to take an

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into the culture of the present and immediate future. It will begin to
faculty of spiritual sight to awaken in a man. When his higher senses
impulses in the culture of the peoples.
phantasy and clairvoyant faculties, of legend and myth. Nor should we
This wisdom was mirrored in the ancient clairvoyant faculties of man,
faculties, then he is a Mystic — in every domain of life. No

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I HAVE said on many occasions that at the time when medieval culture
Thus when medieval culture was at its prime, it was realised that
culture. If one had suggested to a Greek philosopher of the Athenian
man could unfold higher faculties of knowledge and that by these means
Now a change took place in Western culture between all that lived in
of the highest faculties of Initiation-wisdom.
Greek culture, had spread over into Italy and still further into
giving any idea of their significance. Naturally it is difficult for
difficult to imagine that anyone capable of writing such absurdities
wisdom because it was still cultivated in many places during the first
passed on to those whose faculties of knowledge had reached the stage
This requisite of spiritual culture was recognised everywhere in
abstraction had crept into Roman culture, a spirit no longer capable
— was to perpetuate the essence of Roman culture, to establish
Beings. As Christianity began to find its way into Roman culture, the
wisdom was superseded by dogma in the culture of the Roman world. And
realised that Roman culture was rapidly falling to pieces under the
sometimes difficult to believe beneath what thick layers the history

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encounters with others and describes how the 'reversed cultus' forms the
idealism. But the truth is that within our contemporary culture
the matters which create our difficulties are the various

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encounters with others and describes how the 'reversed cultus' forms the
Therein lies the difficulty of mutual understanding between
that they possess them, though it is difficult at times to
obtain them. But these people shrink from difficulties in many
themselves established, have caused one difficulty after
another, and these difficulties have simply resulted in all
be aware: that the sources of these difficulties can be pointed
difficulties. For this reason, just here in connection with
“I assure you that it was difficult for me to decide to
give this advice. It was difficult for the reason that such

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the cultivation of mind and soul that is needed. We must

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cultural contents that had first been achieved in Asia.
only the culture, the civilization, has been transplanted
writings or Vedantic philosophy and other cultural
streams in Asia compared to European culture you have to
had fewer abstract concepts, a culture that found its own
the peculiar nature of Asian culture unless you look at
laid among them than in Asia for a culture in which
the Mystery of Golgotha, an advanced culture of soul and
the great culture which had grown out of the soul and
garbled translation of Asian soul and spirit culture.
advanced culture of the spirit in Asia was already to
culture. It is important to distinguish between the
essence from the oriental culture of soul and spirit,
cultural life. This European culture must provide for the
with more profound insight at what has become cultural
that in a cultural community which possesses treasures
I could mention; that in such a cultural community people

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given in the mystery cult. This must of course sound
conditions regularly created through the mystery cult.
physical thrones. We must acquire the spiritual faculties

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 4: Western Secret Societies, Jesuitism, Leninism
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is made in cultural life to take a wider point of view
movement that has an effect in cultural life is based on
that go on today. The cultural movement I am speaking of
are in our physical bodies are faculties that govern the
between life before birth and our faculties of thought in
your faculty of thought. What you are thinking now, those
our faculties of thought. Having entered into my present
course difficult to rouse modern souls from their general

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 5: How the Material Can Be Understood Only through the Spirit
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therefore be compared with the cultural and intellectual
mind and intellect, and the cultural and intellectual
the social organism; cultural life is the stomach, liver
cultural life, on the metabolism of the social organism,
economic life arises out of cultural and religious life.
cultural life and not the other way round. The socialist
the views, the ideas, the cultural life of humankind.
counterbalanced by what the cultural organism is able to
is not the cultivation of a philosophy full of inner
seriously distorted. It is therefore difficult to speak
spiritual or cultural movement it can be ignored. Now,
appeal for a Cultural Council [
feeling for the truth. It is very difficult to continue
across those spread-apart thoughts that are cultivated in

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 6: Materialism and Mysticism, Knowledge as a Deed of the Soul
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now been scientific evidence that Western culture is in a
culture, irrespective of the degree to which they even
using a fact from cultural history as an example. I have
furthering the decline of Western culture.
the one hand relates to the progress made in culture. It
brings progress in cultural and intellectual life we must
aspect of our cultural life today. The other aspect, the
is difficult. This is a threshold truth. We do not get
rather difficult to do this, and things really get
cultural life. If we understand what the present age asks

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 7: Materialism, Mysticism, Anthroposophy, Liberalism, Conservatism
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in thinking that these men had a special faculty for
difficult, but it is not what matters. What matters is to
That is what is so difficult about it. Things appearing
the old faculty of tearing themselves away that lies in
more right; in our present culture it is coming to be
anthroposophy is so difficult to understand. We shall

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 8: The Opposition of Knowledge and Faith, Its Overcoming
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the faculties that would lead to freedom, and for that
is difficult to give an accurate characterization of the
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souls. It is difficult to preach on life before birth;
section ‘state, cultural sphere, church’,

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 9: East, West, and Middle
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ancient oriental culture and you will find that the
wisdom of that culture took the form of representing the
essential point of ancient oriental cultures. Human
culture of the ancient Orient goes back to far distant
In that ancient oriental culture the whole of life on
instinctive, was also sublime. This culture then fell
culture as it essentially is today you will find that the
decadent culture but, as I said, the underlying trend is
instinctive culture with a marked emphasis on life before
originally was a sublime culture. The decline reveals an
another culture to consider the true nature of the human
death. It was left to a culture which I should like to
call the culture of the Middle. Historically this culture
culture of the ‘Middle’ or the
The culture
oriental culture I have described. The element that came
finally becoming the culture of Middle — came to be
a culture based on law, dialectics and intellectual
thinking. It came to be a culture not of visionaries but
of thinkers. This intellectual culture has a particular
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 10: Transition from the Luciferic to the Ahrimanic Age and the Christ Event to Come
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difficult position that has arisen because of their inner untruthfulness.
nowadays that is is difficult to talk to them about these things. To show
difficult to describe but will nevertheless come to be the new Christ
earth life will provide the germ for faculties we shall have in future

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 11: Modern Science and Christianity, Threefold Social Order, Goetheanism
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indeed a cultural life of that kind, that would be
elements of the social organism: the cultural and
] — undermine the whole of human culture. What are
difficulty is that within the movement that is to develop
Occult Science and read what it says about
in a new culture which will be of the spirit.

Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture I
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themselves to its culture.
to find the way back to the higher Hierarchies. The difficulty
so much the more difficult, is to seek this connection from out
“So difficult to understand,” people comment on all
of economic life, political or juridical life, and the cultural
difficulty of finding an aim of a spiritual kind, of even

Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture II
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evolution is clearly perceptible to anyone who has the faculty
Cultural Committee where present-day education was discussed
through a certain schooling to absorb Greek culture, and have
cultural life was such that only a small top-stratum shared in
the culture; the rest were slaves. In Greece no
and — even then in a supervisory capacity agriculture:
language, and when we take Greek culture and language into our
our cultural life is saturated with what we absorb from the
difficulties had shown him the much greater importance of a

Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture III
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present stage of culture, without such a consciousness men live
rooted in Eastern culture, shuns the connection with the

Title: Problems of Our Time: Main Features of the Social Question and the Threefold Order of the Social Organism
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nothing of what we call cultural life, the life dealing
relation of our modern cultural life to the wide masses of the
culture. They had to be taken to the museums and shown what had
the spiritual culture and education of the ruling classes and
culture, and those who can actually enjoy it. Here there
was a vast cultural lie, and nowadays no benevolent mask must
at all! We have to say these things to show how the cultural
bring about the death of all culture. We must look not only
natural conditions, as is the case in agriculture. We have not
“It is all very difficult,” people reply when we
to reject it as difficult, and to prefer to play about with
with his faculties and talents at the work, not when he is cut
all his faculties. When this is no longer the case it should
who could in his turn by use of his faculties put it to the

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