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Title: Lecture: Mathematics and Occultism.
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definite enlightened consciousness and not in dim sensuous ecstasy or
super-sensible with the same enlightened clearness as the elementary
True Mysticism lives in the light, not in the darkness.
mathematics itself who can most thoroughly value the true enlightened

Title: Address: The Spiritual-Scientific Basis of Goethe's Work
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a new light is thrown upon the working and works of these men of
was the leading light of this age of culture, namely, Goethe. It is
You grasp in your view entire Nature in order to obtain light on her
delight, then might the Universe, could it consciously feel, deeming
the light ... She creates wants because she loves action ...
The Nature of Homunculus becomes quite clear in the light of the
the breeze, light and heavy, gathers together the folds of his veil,
Delight thyself in forms long past away!
There by its light the Mothers thou wilt see;
Only within me shines a radiant light.
I read the manuscript you sent me at once with the greatest delight; I
giving light where there is already light, meaning that the
Their light shines where the light of faith is present. This
veiled manner the history of his own inner enlightenment. Many will
through and through by shining beings, illuminated by a light which
not even the brightest sunlight could rival. She often saw two suns,

Title: Article: Philosophy and Anthroposophy
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comprehend man in the light of the operative forces observed in the realm
to cherish the hope that ideal natural scientific knowledge can enlighten
perceives the light”; yet, if the eye be affected by some other
means, say by pressure or by electric current, a perception of light is
also recorded. Hence it was said: the perception of the light is generated
man. If we succeed in acquiring an inner experience in the light of which
Kant's doctrine can be traced. Viewed in this light, the modern claim that
anthroposophy. In the light of the philosophical conception of scientific

Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture II: The Psychological Foundations of Anthroposophy
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not produce the slightest effect upon the constitution of
through the symbol of light, of the wisdom which may be pictured as
as symbolized by warmth which comes about in the presence of light.
cannot really be viewed in any other light than the different
through combinations of entities of warmth, light, etc., is

Title: Mission of Spiritual Science and Its Building at Dornach
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in order to place a fact in its objectively right light.
one, that light may be so treated as to appear in seven colours. Just
as light must be split up into seven colours in order that it may be
spiritual science, which not only throws light on the being of man and
the passage through repeated earth-lives, but is also enlightening

Title: Lecture: Human Life in the Light of Spiritual Science
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HUMAN LIFE IN THE LIGHT OF SPIRITUAL SCIENCE
ensue in human existence which would permit a sad light to be cast on the
the light of natural science, and the life of religion. If the meaning of
to find a person who is not delighted by a performance of the Seventh

Title: Article: Knowledge of the State Between Death and a New Birth
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sight,’ criticise lightly the limitations of scientists, and imagine
observed without prejudice in the same way as the phenomena of light
spiritual perception that this light develops during bodily life on

Title: Lecture: Human Life in the Light of Spiritual Science
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HUMAN LIFE IN THE LIGHT OF SPIRITUAL SCIENCE
ensue in human existence which would permit a sad light to be cast on the
the light of natural science, and the life of religion. If the meaning of
to find a person who is not delighted by a performance of the Seventh

Title: Article: Luciferic & Ahrimanic in their Relation to Man
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radiating force deprived of light, compared with its true nature as

Title: Lecture: Mathematics and Occultism.
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definite enlightened consciousness and not in dim sensuous ecstasy or
super-sensible with the same enlightened clearness as the elementary
True Mysticism lives in the light, not in the darkness.
mathematics itself who can most thoroughly value the true enlightened

Title: Address: The Spiritual-Scientific Basis of Goethe's Work
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a new light is thrown upon the working and works of these men of
was the leading light of this age of culture, namely, Goethe. It is
You grasp in your view entire Nature in order to obtain light on her
delight, then might the Universe, could it consciously feel, deeming
the light ... She creates wants because she loves action ...
The Nature of Homunculus becomes quite clear in the light of the
the breeze, light and heavy, gathers together the folds of his veil,
Delight thyself in forms long past away!
There by its light the Mothers thou wilt see;
Only within me shines a radiant light.
I read the manuscript you sent me at once with the greatest delight; I
giving light where there is already light, meaning that the
Their light shines where the light of faith is present. This
veiled manner the history of his own inner enlightenment. Many will
through and through by shining beings, illuminated by a light which
not even the brightest sunlight could rival. She often saw two suns,

Title: Article: Supersensible Knowledge
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in the ordinary sense, avoiding the full enlightenment as to the
the Supersensible must indeed shed its light upon the Sensible. For if
None the less, an enlightened reading of the course of History will
for man to see his own Being in a true light. Emptiness, chaos and

Title: Oswald Spengler: Article I: Spengler's "Perspectives of World History"
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light, he moves whither he will. A plant is nothing on its own
made it take root. The twilight, the chill, the closing of
on the contrary it retreats into the twilight in which life

Title: Oswald Spengler: Article II: The Flight From Thinking
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The Flight From ThinkingAugust 20, 1922
light of an intenser consciousness. From the dream-like
flee from our own Waking-being. But this flight is not into the
transform cold thinking into spirit; much more is it a flight

Title: Lecture Series: William Shakespeare
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flight of his fantasy, his sudden changes in the action, his passion

Title: Lecture: William Shakespeare
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flight of his fantasy, his sudden transformations in the action,

Title: History of the Middle Ages: Lecture I: Celts, Teutons, and Slavs
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came to light in such demands and movements — the emancipation

Title: History of the Middle Ages: Lecture II: Persians, Franks, and Goths
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and delight in hunting and war. Domestic matters lay in the hands of

Title: History of the Middle Ages: Lecture IV: Arabic Influence in Europe
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these two occurances must be place in the right light. They appear

Title: History of the Middle Ages: Lecture V: Charlemagne and the Church
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we have already touched upon, and which will throw light on this

Title: History of the Middle Ages: Lecture VII: France and Germany
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movement, but he who sees it in that light only, is talking beside
receiving his light only from the Church. This opinion found

Title: History of the Middle Ages: Lecture VIII: From the Middle Ages to the Renaissance
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view; but one who does not regard this thought as an empty flight of
epoch without allotting light and shade, according to the catchwords

Title: Schiller and Our Times: Lecture I: Schiller's Life and Characteristic Quality
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light as a result of Schiller's view of the world. Our business

Title: Schiller and Our Times: Lecture II: Schiller's Work and its Changing Phases
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Enlightenment had taken root in his soul. They had already

Title: Schiller and Our Times: Lecture V: Schiller, the Greek Drama and Nietzsche
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only grasped lightly, and then takes possession of his soul.

Title: Schiller and Our Times: Lecture VI: Schiller's Later Plays
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with delight again and again. It would be a worthy way of
Deep, rich, intimate and delightful Goethe may charm us all in

Title: Schiller and Our Times: Lecture VII: Schiller's Influence during the Nineteenth Century
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the other ideas which saw the light that year. There are four

Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course I: Lecture I: The Eternal and the Transient in the Human Being
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superstition would have held sway, now truth has been brought to light

Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course I: Lecture II: The Origin of the Soul
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delightfully far that it denies the existence of the own soul. The task

Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course I: Lecture III: The Nature of God from the Theosophical Standpoint
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the old religions receives the light of this wisdom. Now our time, according
grants a pure, free delight to him: then the universe if it could feel
with the light of theosophy. Among many other truths which rest covertly

Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course II: Lecture I: The Epistemological Basis of Theosophy I
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you wear blue glasses. You see everything in blue light; the objects
appear to you in blue light. However the things outdoors may be made,
light into the eye, you have a beam of light; if you bump against the
eye, you will likewise have a light sensation. Müller concludes

Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course II: Lecture II: The Epistemological Basis of Theosophy II
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and the light of the external world. The physicist has the view that colour
exists if we hear a sound, light is only an oscillatory movement of the ether.
is inconceivably fast. Physics of the 19th century transformed any light sensation
said: we have the sensations of colour and light, of sound and tone in ourselves.
sensation. If you push the eye, you can perceive a gleam of light; if electricity
with light and colour. If light and ether penetrate, the eye answers with light
body. There the light has to go through. Then it arrives at the rear of the
never transform anything into light. If you see forms of objects, the rays have

Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course II: Lecture III: The Epistemological Basis of Theosophy III
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to me, several weeks ago it became light to me and since some hours the sun
waited for a long time, until it could light up in the head of a human being

Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course I: Lecture IV: Theosophy and Christianity
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systems that it has tried more and more to bring the core of truth to light
only to understand one matter: to understand how the living word, the light
speculation or from the Enlightenment. — However, in truth we deal with
was the life of mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness
and came as a witness to testify the light, so that through him all might become
believers. He was not himself the light; he came to bear witness to the light.”
This finally throws the right light
Theosophy wants to bring to light again nothing else than what the Christian

Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course IV: Lecture I: Theosophy and Spiritism
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brought forward was quite untenable in the light of strict research. We see
This clear consciousness is like a light which outshines the spiritual influence
it is spread already here around our nature, and its light rises in every pure

Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course IV: Lecture II: Theosophy and Somnambulism
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sounds where they do not see if in their nearness a light shines where they
the somnambulistic condition is light, and one calls the person magnetised;
but this event has transformed itself like lightning into a quite dramatic action.
This sleeping dream consciousness is a symbolising one which could be lighted
everyday life. If any special light impression works on our eye, we automatically
such phenomena in the light of our theosophical view.
light. Let me, therefore, briefly indicate what theosophy teaches about the
light of a flame meets my eye? The so-called etheric waves move from the source
of light in my eye, they penetrate into my eye, they cause certain chemical
the flame, it gets the light impression. If another could see those processes
time; however, he could not perceive my light impression in my brain among the
physical processes. This light impression is something else than a physical
impression which forms the basis of these processes. The light impression, the
waking consciousness? A light impression is caused because oscillations of the
light, and one understands this picture as a mental picture; that is why I realise
dark; he takes a match, kindles the candle, then he feels it again as a light
and can go on working. The other lighting around him does not exist for him,
The whole remaining sea of light does not exist for him. You see that it is
in the outside world which we have excogitated in our mind in a lonesome twilight
in his mind, phenomena which throw the brightest light on the nature of the
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Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course V: Lecture I: What Does the Modern Human Being Find in Theosophy?
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the sight of the works of Raphael or Michelangelo, may human hearts be delighted
again, after it has delighted your eye some time and has pleased your heart.
As the eye distinguishes light and
open eye of the occultist distinguishes the higher, brilliant light of the spirit
which is no sensory light which is a brighter shining light in higher worlds,
in higher spheres, and this radiant light of the spirit is for the occultist
also reality as our sunlight is reality for our view. We see that the sunlight
self-illuminating spirit from the peculiar glimmering of the light, which is
reflected by the world of figures, as psychic flame. The soul is reflected light
of the spirit, spirit is radiating creative light.
and the great, only reality is the sublime, shining light of the spirit. What
we feel as a brilliant light, what is put around the figures is the world of

Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course III: Lecture I: Theosophical Teachings of the Soul. Part I: Body and Soul
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these views were expressed in the most radical way in the French Enlightenment
regard and which sum of ignorance comes to light, if today one speaks in apparently
most scorned of enlighteners whom one also knows least. I want to speak with
slightest objection should be said against modern science. On the contrary,
like the moon which shines, but receives its light from the sun. — The
animal soul only, but it is a human soul because it receives its light from

Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course III: Lecture II: Theosophical Teachings of the Soul. Part II: Soul and Human Destiny
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I may light up this question still
once; a difference, so big and immense, that it spreads light on the real being
thinks it through to the end only in that light which I have meant. We have
a bright light is thrown on the big question which has occupied modern philosophy
course for us? Where is no slight cause which the human being feels as pain,

Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course III: Lecture III: Theosophical Teachings of the Soul. Part III: Soul and Mind
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spirit in a similar, uninterested light free of grief and desire, he was mature
in the true light. Plato also wanted to say this when he let the dying Socrates
of the whole personality to see these questions in the right light. They were
laws, controlled by the laws of gravitation, magnetism, heat, light et cetera.
(Mabel Collins Light on the Path)
which it can have a light impression at most? Is it different with the human

Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course V: Lecture II: What Do Our Scholars Know about Theosophy?
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Nature, mysterious in day’s clear light,

Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course IV: Lecture III: The History of Spiritism
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to speak about the matter in a sense which really throws light from this point
regard to the way to look at the case. This is illuminated to us like lightning
— like with a blind-born who is operated the colours of the light and
kind than the forces in us which see any body of light before themselves. He
in the laboratory of the reality of forces of magnetism or light, one wanted
sounds et cetera, from these religious seekers in old way up to the most enlightened

Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course IV: Lecture IV: The History of Hypnotism and Somnambulism
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here is no light — and he sees nobody. These are negative hallucinations.
is the age of Enlightenment to which we approach, that age in which the human
with these matters, were aware of that up to the age of Enlightenment. Somebody
age of Enlightenment. Only in the daybreak of Enlightenment from such a side
century in the age of Enlightenment that in France the emotions were running
light on the saying: knowledge is power. — Certainly, knowledge is power.

Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course V: Lecture III: Is Theosophy Unscientific?
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and can throw back the light impressions for our physical eye. How these higher
— it is more luminous than any physical light — the physical has
whose eyes are opened, in new activity, in another light. This researcher did
considers the development of humankind in a higher light and because he can
How could we see the light?
How could delight us the divine?

Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course V: Lecture IV: Is Theosophy Buddhist Propaganda?
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the principle of enlightenment, the knowledge. Budhi means nothing else than
the internal light of the spirit, doctrine of wisdom.
Then however, when this light had come, one found the spark again, so that also
knowledge, enlightenment and nirvana. That is not why I have announced that

Title: Origin and Destination of Humanity: Lecture I: What Does the Human Being Find in Theosophy?
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brought light to the natural sciences, science now brought light into
the imperfect to the delightfully perfect state of our time. But one
see light and colours; they showed us that the eye is a physical apparatus
which a bright light shines, and imagine that you unlocked an eye: suddenly
and you saw no light. Now, however, you can perceive it. If you were
Light on the Path
the human being, on the other side, in a brighter light. It became also

Title: Origin and Destination of Humanity: Lecture II: The Nature of the Human Being
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The differences between the single investigators are much slighter in
only by the light for the sighted people. You talk to them of nothing,
appropriate methods. If he becomes sighted, a new world lights up around
soul, consciousness-soul in which the ego lights up. This ego is a quite
at this point he sees this blue ego-body at first, this blue light body.
where the ego is, and one sees the mind lighting up within the ego.

Title: Origin and Destination of Humanity: Lecture III: Reincarnation and Karma
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light and movement. If people were able to see the external effects
in the right light, must carefully pursue the law of development which
consideration. If, however, one has conceived it, it brings light and
structure, that light guise, which is embedded in the external guise,
Nature, mysterious in day's clear light,

Title: Lecture: Theosophy and Tolstoy
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Certain flashlights have now been thrown on the form-culture of the

Title: Origin and Destination of Humanity: Lecture V: Theosophy and Tolstoy
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sidelights on the western culture of form. Considering Darwinism we

Title: Origin and Destination of Humanity: Lecture VI: The Soul-world
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had no colours before and was without light, gleams and is enriched
from the sensory view, who comes from the darkness to light like after
senses can distinguish electricity from light or light from heat, the
devotion, and piety. As heat and light are different, love and piety
a physical body, he also has a body gleaming in the soul-light which
light cloud which gleams in the most different colours.
and ideas shining, other only gleaming. One calls this light cloud that
figures, lightning-shaped or other figures of blood-red or reddish-orange
this fifth group of soul facts soul-light. Just as the sun gives off
its physical light, the soul gives off its light if it sympathises with
the world, if it wraps it, if it illuminates it with the light of its
more real as the light of the physical flame.
colours. This forms the spiritual light which gets the driving forces
emotions, but where it makes the light of the spirit shine in itself
highest pours into the soul and that it reappears as God's light.
gets to know this higher region which we have called soul-light, soul-force
and a spiritual world is around us, which like colour and light light

Title: Origin and Destination of Humanity: Lecture VII: The Spirit-land
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shines around us in a new light. It takes on new qualities. Then the
called the higher light of aeons. This organises the human being and
and radiant light. This light is another light than that which composes
in a softly gleaming light, this higher spiritual aura, which remains
like the wind or the storm, like lightning and thunder in the physical
and pain flow through this spiritual world like lightning and thunder.
light up and appear to him as a much richer reality than the reality
is irradiated by the light of aeons as the Christian mystics called
it, that light which can shine from within also to the human being if
he has opened his spiritual eye. This light penetrates the whole spiritual
sticks to the present human being. The longer the human being can delight
in its true significance if one is able to see it in the light of these
the heart giving off the spiritual light is able to radiate:
It grows, equal to God, with joyful delight.

Title: Origin and Destination of Humanity: Lecture VIII: Friedrich Nietzsche in the Light of Spiritual Science
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Friedrich Nietzsche in the Light of Spiritual Science
that Richard Wagner's art is moved into such a light that it appears
light. It was a phenomenon that had never existed before. Wagner was
occupied themselves with Nietzsche about 1889 knew that he had lighted
“new Enlightenment.” He wanted now to inspire and enliven
then that would have lighted up to him which he longed for. So, however,
How could we see the light?
How could delight us the divine?
Light becomes all I can catch,

Title: Lecture: The Inner Development of Man
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enlightenment.
Since the directions for the road to enlightenment vary with each
himself from any flighty thinking or possibility to mistake illusion
for reality. Above all an aspirant for spiritual enlightenment must be
Light on the Path,
forces but forces of cognition. When the aspirant for enlightenment
around him lights up in colors never seen before. Something becomes
new light. New sounds and words will become audible. This new light
enveloped in a cloud of light. The aura of a spiritually undeveloped
schooling are called preparation or catharsis, enlightenment and
emerge. On the level of enlightenment man gains the means of
within himself that will light up the soul worlds for him. When a
Light on the Path

Title: Origin and Destination of Humanity: Lecture IX: On the Inner Life
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his everyday duties even in the slightest or to take away any time from
Light on the Path, also in the first four sentences of this book.
it, then only the right point in time has come to let light up it again
that he never heard sounding before. The world gleams in a new light;
new sounds and words become perceptible. This new light and this lustre
have organs in your soul and spirit to be able to perceive the soul-lights
like in a cloud of light who is engaged in internal development. With
on the three levels which one calls preparation, enlightenment and initiation.
catharsis, enlightenment and initiation. The preparation is suitable
soul-world by enlightenment, and by the initiation he attains the ability

Title: Origin and Destination of Humanity: Lecture XII: Goethe's Secret Revelation I
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radiant from within. It can now walk in its own light and sees how everything
round it is transfigured by this light. The will-o'-the-wisps
hopes to recognise now with its new light.
gold? The king asks. The light, the snake answers. What is more refreshing
than light? The conversation, the snake answers. Then it looks at the
Now a bright light spreads;
we have light? The golden king asks. You know that I am not allowed
has become internally luminous and full of light and where light radiates
toward light. The snake notices that it had become transparent and luminous.
most marvellously. It sees all things in a new, glorified light. The
from them toward us, if light radiates toward light.
in the caves and abysses of the earth There light faces light.
was compelled to creep without light through these abysses; but it could
human figures. Now it is in the possession of light, and light faces
wisdom, the ancient wisdom of humanity which is only light and does
shines if another light which the soul must produce is shown. It is
How could we see the light?
How could delight us the divine?
light of the divine is enkindled in the snake, the light of the ancient
changed to the light. The fire which has changed in the earth to the
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Title: Origin and Destination of Humanity: Lecture XIII: Goethe's Secret Revelation II
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we have light? The old man answers: you know that I am not allowed to
illuminate the dark. The human being must obtain an internal light first
to shine all by itself to show this effect. If another light was beside
it, it only caused a nice bright light and refreshed everything living.
this contradiction that it only shines if it meets with light; however,
if no other light is there, it shines particularly and transforms everything
The basket with the dead pug is quite light; it becomes heavy when she
whose singing delighted her has fled from a hawk to her and has been
intellect, which strives for enlightenment, sinks to the east, because
from the east the spiritual light of the sun always shines bringing
strives only for enlightenment, as long as it acquires more and more
inner light to itself by its striving one is able to do this also with
lamp must have a soul light in which he can shine his light. Because
the soul wants to sacrifice itself, the enlightenment takes place and
the lamp gives light to the young man; he always stays on his side and
of the lifeless matter is shown in the fairy tale with the light that
However, if this light shines into the human soul, it has attained a
prepared the light of wisdom was allowed to shine. The snake sacrificing
who meets it with inner life. But this refers only to the highest enlightenment.
if no other light shines unless it is disturbed. Thus we find profound
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Title: Origin and Destination of Humanity: Lecture XIV: Goethe's Secret Revelation III
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The boy lights the flame of the little aromatic candles in the light
as belonging to him refreshes him with fruits. He delights in marvellous
the daughter of the light of wisdom. Selene is the symbol of the moon.
saw his image in the mirror of a spring. This delighted him so much
ascend. Paris gets married to the daughter of the light, to Selene-Helena.

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The human being possessed this ability to develop light in him in the
light around him or still more properly speaking to sense the objects
around him in the light. This took place on a planet which the theosophical
moon. When the soul had acquired the ability of the inner light, the
the light was emitted. The same was emitted from them that pours in
us as light effects today. One calls our earth the universe of love
The universe of wisdom on which the light played the same role as today
of love the universe of wisdom. The inner light is connected with the
The light played a similar role in those days as today the heat on the
also the sons of the twilight. It was an especially luminous human being
within the surrounding luminosity, an exchange of light took place as
Beautiful Lily. The lamp can only shine where another light shines.
means with the light which spreads its light only where light is. Where
when the ability developed to bring light into existence. Goethe knew
that this internal light was there once in the human being and that
the present-day seeing of light is a later developmental state.
had to develop light in himself to show light to the light. Goethe was
How could we see the light?
How could delight us the divine?

Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture VII: The Great Initiates
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himself means the refining of his aura; it also means sending light
Very significant also are the sayings in the “Light on the
aura is completely shot through with new light. One can see this
light in the human aura shining and glistening. Bluish shades arise
color and no light. But when the barrier is pierced, when the pupil
same way as of a light in the astral world, or world of desire. Not

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improving his aura, irradiating light from the self-consciousness to
fulfils us with new life. The sayings in Light on the Path (1885),
a way that this aura is completely illuminated with a new light. One
can see this light lighting up in the human aura. Bluish colour nuances
replace the reddish or reddish-brownish ones, light reddish nuances
to light up again, so to speak. In times of very distant past this lotus-flower
and no light. If now the wall is broken through if he has progressed

Title: Origin and Destination of Humanity: Lecture XVII: Ibsen's Attitude
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did not save any forces to get to light and truth, to the solution of
eye is dazzled by the light to which it turns.”
he denied the light, he would have denied the law. With Ibsen one reads:

Title: Origin and Destination of Humanity: Lecture XIX: Schiller and the Present
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How could we see the light?
How could delight us the divine?
summarise the whole nature to get light about the single; you try to
Strolls above in the light's acres,

Title: Origin and Destination of Humanity: Lecture XX: The Divinity Faculty and Theosophy
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had to say about the world basically got its light, its most significant
spirit to the clarification of the loftiest questions, what should lighten
see the light can say anything about our sensory world, as little as

Title: Origin and Destination of Humanity: Lecture XXII: The Medical Faculty and Theosophy
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receive the correct light to recognise, for example, certain relations

Title: Origin and Destination of Humanity: Lecture XXIII: The Arts Faculty and Theosophy
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be seen in a new light. The examiner has not only to examine knowledge,

Title: Two Essays on Haeckel: Essay II: Haeckel, "The Riddle of the Universe," Theosophy
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education the age of enlightenment.
be from his in saying that the world is devoid of light and
as visions of light, but the tones also of those higher worlds
sees God as he can comprehend Him. How enlightening here

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materialistic education the age of Enlightenment. The human
the world is without light and colours.
higher worlds as light phenomena with the spiritual eye, but
How could we see the light?
How could delight us the divine?
philosopher) in the proper light, one can say, everybody sees

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question repeatedly, if you see lighting up principles or
however, we understand these facts only correctly if we light
masses of more developed individual intentions. One must light
spiritual life can find light on the path the second chapter
idea. You can read it not like a phrase in Light on the
both chapters of Light on the Path close. Somebody who
words light up in the soul: peace is with you. This will be

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of life and throwing light upon everything from these deeper
very noble-hearted men are lighting for the ideal of Peace and
considered in the light of a so-called esoteric
seen in a true light.
spiritual life will find light upon the path, for the second
with this idea. “Light upon the Path” does not
the end of the 2nd chapter in “Light upon the Path”

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physical eye sees because the external source of light throws
rays on an object. One cannot see without light. Eye and light
belong together. In the sensuous outside world, eye and light
light. We ourselves must emit this light which makes the mental
light this way, by sinking in your inside and the awakening of
shining from the inside and lights up everything in truth and
reality like the sun the objects. However, you do not light up
that this body is animated, penetrated and lighted by the

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spiritual science have always tried to bring in light to this
mystery, to lighten up this riddle, the spiritual-scientific
lighting up of the intellect in the human development. Here

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us realise once: we see colours, light, we hear tones, smell
no longer exist. Then also no colours, lights, tones, the
of the immediate beholding, which was more vague and twilighted
original divine. He faced the contrast, the duality of light
a light, the sun, illuminating the earth and saw it penetrating
new life, symbolised as Osiris, the sun, the god of light; as

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must be stressed in the light of the most manifold endeavors and of
foundations of existence, and as he emerged into the light of
physical light of the sun into a higher spiritual light. Something is
impossible for him to take lightly such statements concerning

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sunlight, somebody who looks for inner development steps out of
the sunlight, out of that which he can experience in the
sensory world, to a higher spiritual light. Something is born
qualities to light if he followed his lower nature, but within
slightly with regard to the spiritual world and the spiritual

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grow longer. The light of the sun celebrates its victory over
in the picture of darkness. The lighting up of consciousness in the
we feel during these days the victory of the sunlight over darkness,
days the light must be victorious. This seed, placed in the earth,
will sprout forth and prosper in the light of the newly arising year.
the light of the sun. In the same way, divine truth, the divine and
in the earth sprouts as a result of the victory of light over
darkness, and likewise, through the continuous victory of light over
the darkness of the soul, the soul will become filled with light. In
darkness there can only be strife; in light, only peace. Through true
celebrated the victory of light over darkness. Before the fourth
the victory of light over darkness had always been celebrated.
truth, a higher self, a divine, sun-like, light-filled Being. This

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preparations of Christmas everywhere. There are slightly clear
days start becoming longer. The light of the sun celebrates its
lighting up of the conscious human soul is expressed in the
understand the victory of the sunlight over the darkness during
these days that the light must be victorious. Out of this big
wisdom the victory of the light over the darkness was
day when this victory of the light over the darkness has always
sun-like, a light that will forever win over all darkness, over

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of humanity in the twilight of the mysteries. The life by which
religion. What then are the enlighteners, the freethinkers?
awakening of light, somebody who arrives at the new condition

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here,: “Nature, mysterious in day's clear light, lets
receives light and solution. Now I get an explanation why one

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word Lucifer means light bearer (Latin: lux — the light,
shall bring the light to the human being who builds on himself
choice, gives him light to own knowledge, so that he walks to
perfection in the light. Thus, we have the bearer of love and
the bearer of light as two real forces prevailing in the human
the bad. Therefore, Lucifer, the light bearer, became the
development as a bearer of light, as bearer of freedom. It is
other side, the bearer of light, the bearer of independence and
the light of the spirit, because in the human being the bearer
of light lives and works, the Christian love thereby works on
deeper at the things, Lucifer, the bearer of light, is no
Thus, life appears really as a fight between light and love. It
inevitably, light and love in the higher area of human life
In the human life, the two poles are love and light. The one is
recognised that the principle of the light bearer associates
with its light and wisdom and says to himself, I want to be not

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into the eye which opens the splendour of the sunlight to us.
mother when Zeus struck her with a streak of lightning. Then,
if our eye turns to the light and soaks it up as it were.
of Dionysus and put them in a higher light purifying the mere
principle, that light, which the human being freely kindles in
strength that works in him is the light. Lucifer, the bearer of
light, is the teacher and leader who bears the light in the
rushing to the temple of the unknown god to receive the light
light. With it, the mind of the man and the soul of the woman
That which the human being experiences by the light and what he
the light that is Lucifer. Then he becomes a child of Lucifer.
calls the astral light.
The astral light flows through all beings; it lives in the
instinctively — it is in truth the astral light which
light, unconsciously, with dim consciousness. This always
light if he connects himself with the force of Lucifer. Then he
changes this astral light, this creative force in the world
the astral light with dim consciousness, he can say, indeed,
emerge from unconsciousness, to let the light appear as
Everything that originates from the twilight of the
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daylight. He had to see this consciousness sinking in darkness
external eye, but an internal light illumined the mental all
around. This inner light descended into the darkness, and the
external light ascended which the human being perceives with
the clear consciousness, I have pointed to the astral light

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from the so-called Enlightenment. We may characterise this
Enlightenment with a few words. It was a necessary event in the
enlightenment simply means what can be summarised in the
by Horace: sapere aude). This enlightenment was nothing
great spirits developed from the Enlightenment. One only needs
than a result of the Enlightenment.
Someone who has broken with this Enlightenment in a peculiar
peculiar way with this Enlightenment, and then you do not
of the Enlightenment. He has broken in the way that he examines
all results of the Enlightenment and has continued building on
is only enlightenment, beyond the trivial. Just Fichte gives
Enlightenment reached a blind alley concerning the question in
which the Enlightenment can be caught at its despondency
wrong light due to wild speculation.
throws a characteristic light on this kind of German
eye. We get to know the light with the eye. Thus, we also get
to know the light of the ego with the soul. One can compare the
in the organism, the light in the eye, just as little you find
was the good side of the Enlightenment. However, the
of the Enlightenment to acquire an uncertain feeling. It showed
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Siegfried and the Twilight of the Gods
such a way that they would have once perceived a light that has
now disappeared in the darkness of the night. A light can
Baldr is the sun. Baldr is the old astral light, which beholds
spiritual light was immersed in darkness. This race about which
really the old Germans could have said: indeed, the lights
lights —, are the Nibelungs, the inhabitants of Niflheim.
if one looks into the world that the astral light illumines.
spiritual light did not shine.
inevitably: the twilight of the gods or Ragnarök.
After the twilight of the gods is over, another hero appears
the Twilight of the Gods (completed in 1874), he lets us

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delight” (Mark 1:11). The Holy Grail is shown in the
love without the slightest trace of any prejudice from the
struggles upwards bit by bit. Then there awakes that soul light
the light shines on these objects. Actually, we see the rays
the spiritual things because no spiritual light shines on
light shines to him is on the second stage of the path of
is freed and his personality comes to light from the old

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consideration the whole of nature in order to gain light
receives the light because the sun illuminates objects. What
man sees in the outer world is the reflected sunlight. The
— light created light. Formerly, before any such outer
vision existed, man possessed an inner light. In the remote
ideas, the primitive vision was a vision in the astral light.
through a sort of dim, misty astral light. But it gradually
extinguished by the fierce light or the physical sun which
brighter and more luminant human life in the light of the
light.
light is “dead”. It sleeps. But it will again be
future awakening of this astral light.
Vishnu begins at the Christmas time when the astral light
sank into sleep and physical light awoke. When man has
astral light re-awakens in him; he can celebrate the feast of
new life, so had the Astral light to sink into sleep in the

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the enlightening heart knowledge of it, then the sun is the
the gates of the senses. The human being receives the light
sees in the outside world is the reflected sunlight. The sun
— The sun formed the eye, light formed light. Once when
vision was a vision in the astral light. At that time, the
disappeared completely bit by bit. The strong light of the
consciousness in the light of the future. To the physical
vision, the vision in the astral light is still added.
astral light is dead in the human being; it sleeps. However,
this light will resurrect in the human being. A festival that
vision fell asleep and the physical light awoke. If the human
light awakes again in him, then he can celebrate the Easter
must rot to awake anew, the astral light must slumber in the
astral light is revived. The strength of the sun wakes up the
if the astral light awakes in him. It is born inside of the

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one. There is a light, which can illuminate the world, even if
however, the mental facts. This is the astral light. If you
soul can see the astral light where the eyes saw the figure
astral light illuminates the soul as the sunlight illuminates
it starts becoming light, that feeling starts becoming a light

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investigation, and enlightenment of nature, which is hidden
that Paracelsus said, the light of nature should shine

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lighted up in him. Sometimes it seemed to him, as if any leaf
God's assistance, a strange light emerged to my soul that was
finds an answer comparing the original good to the light, the
pure light. No darkness is included in it. While the light
the light? Certainly not. Pure light only goes out from the
source of the light. However, from the objects the opposite of
the light goes out. The light faces us in the world as the
the shadow must be present with the light, it is true that the

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talent’ of women to the lighter weight of the female brain!
held to be of inferior mind because of their lighter brain weight. It
To shed light here, to
and endurance in life, that which can shed light into those questions

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came to light that he had just an abnormally small brain, a
However, this only lights up the external situation, and it
light up those questions which occupy the everyday life and are

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industry also produces strong shadow beside strong light and
says, it is necessary that the human beings are enlightened

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on which only spiritual science can throw light. Later
Existence in the Light of Spiritual Science”;
light on life's riddles and burning questions. However, those
would throw light also on the spiritual content preserved in
born blind, the world of color and light is a
determine that light and color exist. Then, a person
science. Just as there always were enlightened human beings
at the world in light of this knowledge and see if it
regard to the ordinary world of light and color.
light; all her life had been one of silent darkness. But she
color, light and sound to affect her soul. Recently a new
winter. They will throw light not only on the great

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interpretations throw much more light on the sentence than that given
treats it in the light of an ironical remark made by Mephistopheles,
Faust makes a slight incision in his left hand with a small penknife,
Thus you see that this principle comes to light again in the more
with a slight alteration, a remark of the witty Lichtenberg, who said:

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clearly describes how Faust makes a slight cut in his left
light will be thrown on them from a different aspect. In
world of light the workings of the great cosmic laws.

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dark view of sorrow, a bright light-filled one dawns. When we look
bridge to what we are to consider today in the light of spiritual
shown how in the light of spiritual research we have to picture the
Without partial death a ray of light is not able to penetrate a
from with consciousness arises. But when light penetrates into the
the world had ascended up to a height where outer light and outer air
see how when a ray of light penetrates a simple being, the skin
light to the spiritually born. Yet this can come about only if the
ray of light and overcome by us as living being, so a creation in
we are able, just as the skin receives the ray of light and is able

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and light. A closer look at the Old Testament makes it clear
preceding two lectures that in the light of spiritual science
light, air, heat or cold, then these external elements act in
of light cannot penetrate to the surface of life, causing
a level of evolution so high that the external light and air
of light, you would see alteration in the skin; a tiny eye
Everything is seen in a new light and on a higher level. But
element. The ordinary person's consciousness lights up
of external light, something higher was born, that is,
the skin that received the beam of light, and out of the pain
of the Holy Spirit. In the light of the process we have

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with a bee. The world of colour and light offers the soul honey which
Lucifer is the bearer of light; the Elohim are light itself. If the
light of wisdom has kindled wisdom in man, then Lucifer has brought
light into man. But the black shadow of evil had to intermingle;
figures of light are shown in a painting together with evil devils,

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light of spiritual science.
gathering honey, saying that the world of color and light
divine. He is the Light-bearer; the Elohim are the Light
itself. Lucifer brought light into human beings by kindling
in them the light of wisdom, albeit mingled with the black
When a painting depicts wonderful figures of light, together

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Education in the Light of Spiritual Science
Education in the Light of Spiritual Science
external light to reach and harm the eyes of the unborn
through its senses as light and sound works formatively on
light that the child had simply imitated what he had seen his
light even on details of what should be done. Everything the
that spiritual investigation throws light even on practical

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light on the nature of death. Every illness is seen to be in some way
sound nourishment and light that he takes up into himself, a man
Where there is no light there can no longer be eyes susceptible to
light; vice versa, eyes susceptible to light can be formed only where
there is light. For this reason Goethe says that the eye is formed by
the light for the light. Naturally the physical body is built in

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nothing is said that throws light on the riddle of death.
is set alight. Wood could not give birth to fire if it were
more light an that of death. Every illness destroys life to
natural world. With every breath, sound, light, and morsel of
light, cannot exist without light; conversely, only where
there is light can this sense develop. Hence Goethe could say
that the eye is created by the light, for the light.
a different light in relation to human beings. The genuine

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Insanity in the Light of Spiritual Science
Insanity in the Light of Spiritual Science
also applies to the physical body, but only to a very slight

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Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture VIII: Insanity in the Light of Spiritual Science.

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spiritual: One evening in a small town, a strange light was
a rare event; so the fact that the strange light was seen by
the light happened to be noticed. Investigation of such
darkness if the eyes did not transform the light falling upon
eyes are active transforming light. Unless the soul creates
light-filled, sound-filled imagination; then they attain

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Stages in Man's Development in the Light of Spiritual Science
Stages in Man's Development in the Light of
would not perceive light; it is, however, equally certain
that we would not have eyes had the light flooding all space
without sight, knowing only darkness, the light enticed forth
are created by the light for the light.” However, the
recognize their creator — the light.
higher self — the light. The situation is the same in
spirit-light, existing in the eternal world, that created our
before the human soul with lightning speed a mighty memory
influence of light is what entices the power of sight to the
with a pure spiritual delight in the world, for these are

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may have found that Rosicrucianism is able to throw light on
Mysterious by Day's broad light,
slightly modified. While the wisdom is fostered in narrow
things in a fanciful or unreal light is of no use to the
the organs that the plant chastely turns upward to the light.
exists outside. For example, take what light has brought
would not see the light; the world would remain dark for us,
see. If light did not exist we would not have eyes. The light
said: “The eye is created by the light for the light,
inner eye will learn the true nature of light. Another area
various areas emit light and sound. The inward-looking soul

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pleasure in the harmony gives him pure delight, then, had it
more than turn a few spotlights on Wagner's inner experiences
Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods),
like Lohengrin must be presented in light of its

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concerning the Bible are to be understood in the light of
interpret the Bible in the light of spiritual science. The
become reality, though as yet it is only slightly indicated.
there was light, astral light. This is different from
physical light; it appears like a sea of spirituality out of
heavenly world, resounds in the astral light.) In this world

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to be the most enlightened, the most advanced ones said, the
light and its phenomena, but is so shortsighted that he can
however, is initiated into the principles of the light. Thus,
does this otherwise would be very delighted with us. You can
just with those whom the so-called enlightened ones maybe

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time about the phenomena of light, you can find soberly said:
only in you. Outdoors in the world is no light and no colour,
sensation of colour. Thus, the light is objectively outdoors in
developed that, for example, all light phenomena, all colour
basis of light, of colour? Nothing but movements of the ether!
consist, and there are for the naturalist virtually delightful
press each other and thereby produce the sensations of light,
electricity, frozen heat, frozen light. Then one has still to
formed the light, but the light the eye, and the tones that we

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How could we see the light?
How could delight us the divine?
researches. Concepts like ether, matter scatter today in light
view that behind the warmth, behind the tone, behind the light
behind the light, we do not find material atoms that dive into
of the colour and the light. If we really look behind, what do
soul in the right light only if we see it working from the mind
of light, divine among divinities: the shape.

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eye is created “by the light for the light.” The
organ. The light caused the organ to see the light, to perceive
light; the eyes arose from quite different organs. Which force
accomplished this change? The light! It conjured up the eye
new world as the eye opens the world of light and colours if it
sighted man goes among blind people and tells them about light
the operation and sees it lighting up in colours and light
someone who is born blind and says, there is no world of light
and the light? He did not know the sun and the light before.
things up to now, and to whom after the operation light,
light and its colours and the spiritual forces behind our
flooded from light. The light made it the eye, so that the
world of light and colours. As well as with the blind human
How could we see the light?
How could delight us the divine?

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spirit, will not take the matter so lightly. Even in seemingly
to cast light upon important occurrences that should be
there comes to light what gradually leads him to the crassest

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fashioned by the light, for the light.” If we had no
eyes, we could not see colors or light. Whence have we eyes?
Goethe also said that out of undifferentiated organs the light
their existence to the light, so do other delicate structures
What light is for the undifferentiated organs out of which the
spiritual light has been effective around him that has called
Against the spiritual lights around him, he must be able to set
hypochondriacal conditions, from the lightest case to the
circumstances in which light muscles and nerves are necessary,
feeling,” which we may not use lightly, but rather in its
forces. Happiness and joy and delight and satisfaction, which
part that has been drenched with sunlight; to know of the

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lighting exists, those who look into it can believe that
the light which lights up this superficiality that allows this
superficial judgements, the light that shines on it has to
blame on occult science that is the light, but on the fact that
like the world of colours and light to the world of touching
him and light and colours shine to him from the darkness. These
where strong light is also black shades are. Where less strong
light is, even weaker shades are. Theosophy possibly throws
should be a strong light. Where one speaks of the so-called

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light.

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The Soul of the Animal in the Light of Spiritual Science
Soul of the Animal in the Light of Spiritual Science
blind person light, colour and shine exist, around the human
operated is able to see, so that light, colour and shine appear

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in the right light.
delight of his fellow men. In the mines, for example, in
these matters has the duty to enlighten the human beings, so

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Man and Woman in Light of Spiritual Science
in Light of Spiritual Science
world, but must also seek to cast light on those questions which
their right light. And so we must ask ourselves: What is the

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light that shines from the moon is not only reflected sunlight,
but it contains formative forces. The sunlight is not only
light, but forces of light, of too intense light, so that the
mechanical-physical processes in the light without receiving
properly, one will also realise that the light consists not
behind the earthly light life is flowing down from the sun.
rainbow colours that they are deeds of the light.
sun and moon flow not only light beams, but spiritual life
light, one cannot understand this, because one can guess the
is integrated in the much lighter substantiality of the astral
did not reflect themselves in the human eye and did not delight
the more I watch it, the more is my delight.

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world of the light, the world of the smells, the world of the
penetrates us, as light and air penetrate the space. For the
experience now what one calls enlightenment. The human being is
he has no senses. Hence, darkness, lightlessness, and muteness

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penetrate the world in the good sense and finally the light
show them in another light.
However, this also appears again in the morning like light
streaming inside. It is the light of the
light for the light.” If we had no eye, we would not see
the light. However, if the light were not there, the eye would
also not be. The light has developed the eye. Because the light
distant past the light worked on the human body, this eye was
element even closer next time, which will give us light about
the whole. We get to know the bright heaven in the light of

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enlightenment, a man whose works made a great stir within the
abstruse to disparage the great service even in the slightest
about these things. Thus, a big part of the enlightened people
rather nice for numerous persons who want to be enlightened if
light and the colours can light up. As much of our surroundings
physical world, we see the light; it flows from the sun; we see
the plants withering and dying if we take away the light from
them; we see the light working creatively on the plants. The
more real than the sunlight.
now if this light of the thought about which he then speaks as
penetrated by the sunlight. Thereby we learn how the space that
of the light is active in the spiritual world as in the
manifold colours as the physical light; he knows that there is
colour-filled spiritual space of light into a world of tones, a
spiritual light, concealed in the physical light, is the
light for the light.” The force that flows out from the
borders in the light-filled space also contains those beings
tones, with the physical light; in the spiritual world, he
light. He lives in a world that is different from the physical
world. Here in the physical world, the eye sees by the light.
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the things, we must understand that we let light up in
for example: “the eye forms in the light for the
light.” From indifferent organs the eyes of the human
back at a long, long development. If there had been no light,
the ocular light in dark caves, the light has formed the
light for the light, that there would be no eyes without light.
spiritual organs in such a way. One can speak only of light and
colour if the organs are there; but the light is there for a
perceive the spirit as the eyes perceive the light. The spirit
forms the spiritual organs as the light the eyes. Thus, the

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to obtain light on each separate part, and you seek the explanation
significant through their application, and throw great light
the surface she notices that she gives off a peculiar light in a
light-giving power through swallowing the gold.
enters again and her radiating light serves to illuminate everything.
The moment the Snake enters the cavern and lights up the
‘Light,’ is the Snake's
Light?’
illumine only what is already illumined? that I may not lighten the
Through the power of the Lamp's light the most diverse materials
only a slight idea of what there is in this legend. But if we

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together the whole nature to get light about the single
the surface, it notices that it emits a peculiar light, radiant
possibility. In the twilight hour, you find a huge giant at a
again into the abysses of the earth and enjoys the inner light
its emitting light for the illumination of the things. When it
snake answers: “The light!”
light?”
the strange word: “Do you not know that my light is
old man with his lamp goes to his wife. The force of the light
the basket with the dead pug would only be as light, as if it
the silver one the light or beauty; the third, the bronze king

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‘enlightenment.’ Every man capable of development,
produce light and wisdom out of the purely abstract concepts. Then he
is a means to throw light on things, so Goethe illuminates the things
conceptions have reality and have the effect of lighting up all
Whoever wishes therefore to cross by clear daylight to the kingdom of
full sunlight.
there is already light? Now, who is this Old Man, and what is the
Lamp? What is its curious light? The Old Man stands above the
where there is already a receptivity, a definite kind of light.
place where light already is: the Lamp of the Old Man can only shine
where there is already light. Once more our attention is directed to
spiritual worlds to those who could not seek the light by way of
Science or otherwise. The light of the different religious
revelations is represented in the Old Man, who has this light.
But to him who does not bring an inner light to meet the sense of
religion, the Lamp of Religion gives no light. It can shine only
where light already is and meets it. It is the Lamp which has

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feeling enlightenment in all esoteric schools.
the green snake. Then he can shape light and wisdom from the
reality that they work like a light, become luminous, and
the twilight hour whose shadow extends then about the river.
bright daylight to the realm of spirit, must use the way, which
the snake provides. Who wants to come over in the dim light can
human beings that look for enlightenment can go over the bridge
that only shines where already light is. Who is the old man?
What is this lamp? What a peculiar light does it have? The old
susceptibility, a certain kind of light exists. As the old man
light is, the lamp of the old man can illuminate only what is
light on the way of science or in any way. The light of the
this light. However, to anybody who does not give the religious
sense a light from the inside the lamp of religion does not
shine. It can shine only where light already meets with it. It
enlightenment of feeling, and the working out of the will to

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was rejected in the light of that which was reproduced and
blind-born who could deny the colours and the light of the
strange appears. The text of the Bible becomes light and clear,
the old light of the Bible shines again to humankind in the

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way, as the colours and the light are around a blind person.
blind-born can learn to see colours and light. This takes place
you in the Lazarus miracle if you have the light only, which
in a new light. It will become apparent that a document like

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superstition today. We ask ourselves, should not the idea light
press today, which are apparently contrary to the enlightened
enlightened doctors are that the number 13 is ignored with
theosophy reject what could lead to enlightenment in the

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Issues of Nutrition in the Light of Spiritual Science
Issues of Nutrition in the Light of Spiritual Science
sunlight. Without sunlight, it could not build up its organism.
The light that flows to us and delights us, that can animate us
marvel takes place, how the sunlight helps to construct an
helps the sunlight to build up the plants so marvellously is
sunlight and the human astral body are two opposite things in
spiritual light, invisible to the external eye. A spiritual
light body is this astral body. It is the contrast to the
external luminous light. Imagine once the sunlight becoming
inner light. This inner light has the opposite task of the
external light that would build up the plant body from
inorganic substances. The inner light which initiates the
plant because of his inner light. This is to understand the
sunlight is destroyed by the astral body, indeed, over and over
astral body being a negative light body is the other pole that
science shows us more and more how that which appears as light
Something spiritual shines, through the light, perpetually
towards us, the light of the spirits shines towards us. What is
hidden behind this physical light, but is separated in parts
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the urge, the longing for getting enlightenment about the
the right light. We must incorporate in our attitude that the
they maybe say, fresh air, light, or water help. These
also bring light into the theories and biased views concerning
health in himself? The child could be a certain lighthouse to
speak more drastically, a lighthouse for knowledge can be to us
that sanitarium is located, how the air and the light work
because one believes that the air or the light have a
surroundings which serve his health in relation to light and
one calls light therapy. If the human being is irradiated with
light, the idea forms the basis to let the physical light work
that beam of light work on the human being, one works on the
effect of the beams of light as those, regardless of the human
instance, under the effect of the blue colour, not of the light
has to consider this huge difference between light therapy and

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illumine the depths of his soul with the light of spiritual
away at the delight in them. If the whole life is in such a
— he has taken up any income with such delighted soul as
Carnegie tells now — it is delightful how he tells this
the world if it lights up in us. Tolstoy says there, around me,

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slightest. Nevertheless, the thoughts, which the modern human

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sanguine has a light, springy step. Even subtler external traits can
danger is flightiness; the greater is mania, induced by a constant
In light of all this it is clear that to guide and direct the
always stimulate the sanguine child's interest in. However flighty the

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excited no matter how flighty the child is. If we only are the

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enlightened through his contemplation of Italian nature and of
Faust Mystery should appear in its right light there sounds an
it on to the wax taper and in this way lighted a fire on the altar
empty ideas, but ideas which enlighten the heart and warm the soul.
possibility of enlightening the soul or bringing warmth to the
opponent of the God of Light. In everything connected with the
soul, what a remarkable light falls on the two dragons with which
countenance’ but which now are flooded with light. Now he had
And those who once delighted in my song
With a crash the Light draws near!
‘Only within shines clear light! ...’ up to that

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appear in the right light
the world in which it finds space and light at the same time
we let him in this light and do not even try to grasp him with
words so that it penetrates him like with delight at the sight
that figure first which opposes the god of light. Zarathustra
calls this adversary of the god of light Ahriman, and then to
from experiences of Goethe's soul a strange light shining on
light arrives with deafening din!
light,” up to that passage where the soul works up to the

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With a crash the Light draws near!
To greet the mild ethereal twilight o'er me;
The world unfolded lies in twilight glimmer,
The deeps with heavenly light are penetrated;
Life is not light, but the refracted colour.’
wanted to throw light on everything. We shall say only this about
human life with an enlightened eye, certain words will have a
And I delight me in the fragrance rare.’
‘But in my inmost spirit all is light!’

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light arrives with deafening din!
But now the light of dawn unveils the world:
our wish had been to light the torch of life —
the more I watch it, the more is my delight.
the human life with enlightened view certain words receive
where what has ceased to be can still afford delight.
”But in my inner being there is radiant light (verse

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Nietzsche in the Light of Spiritual Science
Nietzsche in the Light of Spiritual Science
light-heartedly, and he forgets the need for a spiritual world;
Nietzsche is delighted by this worldview about which he says to
In it, he delights himself; however, he is not a parroter of
to light by spiritual science. He bleeds out because he could

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account was being pursued. In his flight he feigned insanity, and by his
little as the blind man sees color and light. It is the moment when
the sun in order to be irradiated by his light. Only those who spin

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the blind sees colours and light; where his spiritual eye and
light.

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follow. Hence, Ragnarök, the twilight of the gods, the

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— the soul. And that which comes to meet the soul, as light and
tells of the Twilight of the Gods. But then came the news of the great
light-heartedly. In true Initiation it is as if a man's organisation

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faced it as the external eye and ear face light and tone, the
Hence, the myth of the twilight of the gods, the tragic

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One, in pursuit of passions' crude delights,
but could not then carry into physical embodiment. Seen in this light, death
Education of the Child in the Light of Anthroposophy,
contours of the skull can indeed throw some light on character, but always in

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throws no light on the nature of rationality. Nor does Descartes in the
the twilight time of our solitary thinker, when human evolution took a rest,
modern science has brought to light many facts that were unknown a few
something which enables him to recreate the world in the light of his inward
free delight: then the universe, if it could become conscious of itself,
would throw light on man's inner life, just as it is possible to clarify his
purporting to throw light on the spiritual world. In earlier times, however,
everything in the light of healthy reason — will soon feel how
throw light on the great riddles of existence. He will come to feel that

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depth of every human soul its light shines forth.
can explain it in the light of having known something of it
light. The first man is frowning — why? In such cases the brow is
who is discovering truth. When he perceives the light of truth, he too may
precedes and heralds the sun, but also contains its light within herself
artificial light he carries indicates how his creative work proceeds from the
night's darkness. Epimetheus can indeed admire the sunlight and its gifts,
reflective thinking. The way in which light can escape the attention of a
light of day. His people, he says, are called upon not merely to observe the
sun and the light, but to be themselves a source of illumination. Now Eos,

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penetrated by the inner-light of thought. At the same time it is from the
indispensable before the super-sensible can be penetrated by the light of
by the light of thought.
light of thinking and of rational judgment to bear on the unknown? Love of
it rushes out into life and shrinks from using the light of thought to
succumbs to mental laziness and shuns the light of thought when it meets the
consciousness to be illuminated by the light of creative thought. No one can
the soul unconsciously or subconsciously, unchallenged by the light of
always prone to error, are permeated by the light of the soul and transformed
led and guided from a standpoint which never shuts out the light of thought.

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having an immediate effect. Hence I will make things easier by lightening my
slightest benefit. So long as a desire for meat persists, vegetarianism is
conditions of wind and weather, light and sunshine. These external
but they are really no different from us. With us, the light waves dance;
to be seen in its true light. Then we shall not get a wrong idea of what the
in this light, we shall understand true asceticism as a preparatory training
be light.” Then we hear how God caused the physical sense-world to

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cherish the slightest egoistic wish or give utterance to any kind of selfish
and nature of egoism in man only if we look at his being in the light of
say: Here the Sentient Soul is working its way out into the light of day. The
eye is formed by light for light.”
light if we had no eyes, the equally valid statement that if there were no
light, there would be no eyes. Through endless ages, as Goethe says, the
all-pervading light worked on the human organism so as to fashion the
sense-organ which is now able to look on the light. We can discern in the
light up only through living together with other human beings, for these are
shines back to us. As our eyes are formed by light, so is our strength of
relates how, like other people, she delighted in the world around her. Then,
transfused with sheer delight.

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effects in the following incarnation; while in the light of
enlightenment under the Bodhi-tree, gave out in the great sermon at
in the lightning, it is illusion I What roars as thunder — it
towards the perception, in the light of the Spirit, of that from
world of the senses. Thus we can say that something like the light of

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look where the lightning flashes and the thunder rolls — it is all
thus a doctrine of reincarnation, of resurrection, and only in that light may
through twilight inspirations, but also those who no longer have clairvoyance

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into a world of light and colour, so it is with a person whose hidden
Secretly, in the light of day,
understood in the light of this spiritual research when in later lectures we
the feelings we experience, so that they enlighten us concerning the outer
achieved the clarity which makes for enlightened inner judgments. He sees
event in the light of the Intellectual Soul or the Consciousness Soul, the
anger to react to something wrong, we advance gradually to enlightened
enlightened judgment of right and wrong. This is how we should look on the

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Lecture 9: Something about the Moon in the Light of Spiritual Science
Something about the Moon in the Light of Spiritual Science
Light of Spiritual Science”.
and is subject to the vast influence of the sun's light and heat, it was
sunlight on the earth and all that springs from it. And it is not merely a
And when man has once more united all the members of his being in daylight
existence, before he emerges from the depths of nature into the light of day;
thrown light on a subject which cannot be further illuminated in public.
clarification of much in man that is hidden from external sunlight, that lies
behind it. They are realms which have to be explored by a light different
from the light of knowledge we have acquired through the light of the sun;
up a capacity for knowledge of what lies behind external sunlight and yet is
full of light and clarity. But I must again emphasise that on the question of
the moon an even more intimate light is needed if we are to get to the heart
Those who read it by candlelight
to read the song by candlelight, by which I mean the telescope, and employ
Spiritual Science sings about the moon — not by the candlelight of the
telescope, but by the living light of the spirit, which shines even when all

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shall try in a somewhat aphoristic manner, to throw light on the
speaking of the eye: “The eye has formed itself from the light,
for the light.” To say in the sense of Schopenhauer that
“without an eye sensitive to the light, the impression of the
light would not exist for us,” is only half a truth. The other
half is that we should have no eyes if the light, in a primordial
organs. In the light, therefore, we must not merely see the abstract
essence described to-day by Physical Science as light; we have to
seek in the light the hidden essence that is able to create an eye.
spiritual essence of the light), his Ego could project into this
the eye in movement in order to receive the light that is working
externally (the eye itself is there for the reception of light), so,
made up of quite other elements than colour and canvas, light and
shade. Just as the painter imitates by manipulating light and shade,
the colours, lights and shades, on the canvas. The spirit of speech
and so on, — can shed light on a work of art. Artistic feeling

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the eye: “The eye is fashioned by the light for the light!”
sensitive to light there would be no impression of light for us, then this is
the light had not
Light must therefore be seen not only as the abstract entity which is
described today as physical light; but in light we have to search for that
corresponds to the spiritual beings of the light, he could fashion into this
the eye to take in the outward light, whilst the eye itself exists to take
light in, our ego within us sets in motion those organs which have been
consists of quite different constituents than paint, canvas, light and dark.
Similar to the painter who imitates with light and dark we imitate the
reality in the colours on the canvas and the use of light and shadow. The

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itself — though we may not be able to see it in that light until
considering in the light of spiritual science can illuminate certain
and then, in the light of this knowledge, we come to look on the ancient

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light in the soul; so much so that for them the clarity of science leaves off
with its realms of light and colour and all the other impressions it makes on
powerful light which outshines and blots out the finer experiences of the
ourselves to the inner light, they show themselves to us in their true being,
its search for enlightenment. Various opinions as to which is the right path
is mysticism?”, we must throw some light on the other path that can be
which throws light on the supposed conflict between monism and pluralism, so
debate in the right light.
Further light is
spark into a much stronger light. We can take the outward path or the inward
inner being: we see it lighting up as a powerful force of cognition, and

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appears as a light so faint that most men do not even notice
what we may call a force of warmth and light — light
being. The effect of light appears in those who know the
we feel when morning comes and we meet the light as though
ourselves. Then, too, the warmth of prayer becomes a light.
a force. Prayer in this light is preliminary to mysticism,
nevertheless the soul delights in its contemplation. Wisdom
is not necessary to be aware of such wisdom to take delight
warmth and light for the soul is just as possible without
can know the Light if we have never developed or approached

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human beings, and thus it appears as a light so weak that most people never
can thus be regarded — particularly in the light of the last lecture
study prayer entirely in the light of spiritual science, free from any
to the divine light that shines in on us, and this feeling leads us to the
us beyond ourselves. For what else is prayer than the lighting-up within us
implanted in our souls a source of light and warmth: of light, because we set
who understand prayer in its true nature. And the inward light comes to those
engenders. And then we know that in all things the light of wisdom shines
feel abandoned and pressed in on ourselves. When morning brings the light, we
prayer into the feeling of humbleness, it becomes a light. And now, when we
best in our soul flows out and unites us with the light that shines in on us
Seen in this light,
the prayer can pour its warmth and light into the soul without its secrets
Can we suppose that we should know the light if we had never kindled it or

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two streams in abstract reflection, tried to develop lightly a philosophy

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of light and colours is to the blind. Thus we have seen how the soul can grow
in our souls — if for example we take delight in a flower, not pulling
morning light when the sun is rising, not testing it in astronomical terms
delighted or repelled by the phenomena of Nature. The truth of Nature is not
concerned with the ego, but that which delights or repels us is; for how we
and historical periods. The idea of positive and negative throws light into
existence. Only when we see the idea in this light shall we accept it as a

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illuminate a little this chasm in the human soul with the light which we hope
many of our contemporaries — even the most enlightened. We observe that
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bodily mis-formation with the light of a healthy willing, a healthy feeling

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recollection. As a quite young man, I once had a slight experience of the
do. We have to go more deeply into the matter if we are to gain enlightenment
with the aid of the light that comes from raising the soul to higher levels
starting-points, we set out to throw light on the life of the human soul in
on a man blind from birth, when a hitherto unknown world of light and colour
arrogance for man to suppose that he has attained in the slightest degree to
illumined by the light of an ego; and it was from this mode of consciousness
Now if light is
spiritual science alone can show this in its true light — that in
since without eyes we could not see the light, the origin of light must be
created by light for light.
light, no eyes would ever have developed in the human organism. The eyes are
created by light, and without the sun there would be no eyes. No eye is
seen in the light of its spiritual background. This has been provided for in
human evolution, on the one hand by the light of Christ, shining from
outside, and on the other by the divine light within us: the light of

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so-called spiritual revelations that people accept so light-heartedly
world withdraws externally from man does his inward ego-feeling light
to light the hidden laws of nature which would otherwise never be found. And
truth as people today may lightly suppose. On the contrary, Goethe was right
with the light of the eternal, the imperishable. That is the mission of

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character of the human being. We will light up the spiritual
lead to mistakes about mistakes if one accepts light-heartedly
light-heartedly. This sentence reads, “Everything real is
experience shows — so small, so slight that they are
Who would like to believe, so to speak, light-heartedly that

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things lightly, we do not wish to penetrate to the depths,

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existence are viewed in the light of spiritual science, the task is
certain way bound up with the bodily nature. It is a delightful sight
nature of an animal by watching the delight it takes in the outer
delight in the things of the external world, can take in what the

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play upon a man. This need not enter into the broad light of external
but because it came to light through his experience: With Herder, and

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phenomenon really only in the right light if one either

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human body follows physical laws; when man awakes the light
grows lighter about it. The spirit acquires knowledge, it
free spirit. An action in the Fulbright light of
light upon another doubt that may arise regarding the
individuality, and come to light in his next incarnation as
this is not necessarily the case. In light every man is

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in the human organism light creates the eye for itself in order to be
able to manifest through the eye as ‘light,’ so every
‘lenses’ are arranged in such a way that the light is
instinctively begins to turn in such a way that the light can fall
works in another way. Thus there are organs for light on the surface
of the leaves of plants. These light organs, which actually can be
through them to the earth being. These light organs bring it about
themselves perpendicularly to the sunlight.
of the spirit in the most diverse forms. Goethe was delighted that

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am an ego” as a streak of lightning penetrated me and
cannot see without eyes, the light is only something that our
send the light in such-and-such velocity through the space, and
And can become light bearing you

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predisposition, talent, and education in a new light, in
another light than they can be considered if one only eyes what

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study the evolution of human life on Earth in the light of Spiritual
enlightened spirit shine forth clearly across the centuries. Those
“The East in the Light of the West”
is the derivation of the name “Ormuzd,” Spirit of Light.
Light, dwelt in the physical body of the Sun. Ahura Mazdao has to
imperfection, by the evil which casts shadow into the light,
exist on Earth exist also on the farthest stars. In the light of
phenomena — heat, light, chemical forces and the
is one power whence both the realm of light (Ormuzd)
Zervane Akarene — that which lies behind the light.
the serpent the Power of Light which grows brighter and brighter, is
centre, Ormuzd and Ahriman, Light and Shadow, are intermingled, and
Time, the circle described by Ormuzd, the Spirit of Light, is what
Sun passes in summer through the light,
forces of spiritual light sent forth by Ormuzd from his realm of
light. The signs of the Zodiac through which Ormuzd passes in the
expressions of Ormuzd (who represents the light part of the Zodiac)
the Sun through all the light signs of the Zodiac — from Aries
course runs through the light or the dark signs of the Zodiac. Goethe
activities of light upon the Earth: behind the Izods we must imagine
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persists. When we study the evolution of mankind in the light of
glorious blaze of light — The Revelation of the
(which we are inclined to regard as so amazingly enlightened!)
light-giving mass when considered as such, merely the external
Light’.
outward as a point of light from within man’s essence,
‘The Spirit of Light’. He taught them that, just in
and evil brings shadows into the light. By following the method
Heat, Light, and Chemical forces, so in the world of spirit must
birth to both The Realm of Light (Ormuzd) and to The Realm of
which lay beyond the light, and which Zarathustra termed
Light-Realms of Ormuzd; but if we turn our eyes upon the past, we
it is woven upon the one side, The Power of Light, shedding upon
profound. When we are midway, then is the light (Ormuzd)
ever traversed by Ormuzd, The Spirit of Light. In other words,
through the Zodiac takes place while it is light, as in the
forces ever flowing outward from the Light-Realms of Ormuzd. That
Light-Realms, the Amschaspands undertake that specific work which
finds expression in the transmission of the sun’s light
engendered by the action of light, and the Izeds, as governing
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Title: Lecture: Galileo, Giordano Bruno, and Goethe
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the light of the present time the means by which Copernicus
of delight in the spirit of the new age which had just begun.
Spirit of the age, all its delight in the discovery of the
— “More light”, which is exactly what he
that these great minds must be studied in the light which

Title: Lecture: What Has Geology to Say About the Origin of the World?
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light-heartedly and readily advanced by currents of thought on factional
and not the slightest sign of graded subsidences on the surface, but
this ground we see, lighting up seeds of what can quicken hope and

Title: Lecture: Hermes
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the significance of this expression only dawns upon us when the light
Osiris may be envisaged as the active power of light proceeding from
sunlight reflected by the dark Moon — just as the soul is dark
the light of the Sun in order to reflect it, even as the soul awaits
the Sun with its outpouring light and the reflecting Moon, but this
radiating and reflected light has some inner connection with the
between light and the Sun and Moon.
man but the man who has an unceasing urge to rise to the light of
preparing for Initiation were taught in greater detail of the light
marvellous processes enacted by the light passing from the new Moon
soul, understanding our own actions in the light of the eternal

Title: Turning Points: Lecture 2: Hermes
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past, in order to throw light upon later Egyptian culture;
more general enlightenment has nevertheless a feeling, whether
an endeavour to throw light upon the nature and significance of
the profundity of their primordial clairvoyant enlightenment they
Isis-Influence. But until she receives his light the moon is dark
vast universe — the light-giving sun and the dark moon every
ready to reflect his splendour. And he realized that the light
to send forth light.’
stimulus to strive towards higher spiritual enlightenment, is as
in order that he may obtain such enlightenment, he that would
desired to enlighten the people with regard to the nature of the
symbolical reference to the light which emanates from the Sun and
these old Egyptian peoples sought enlightenment and guidance from
Testament in the Light of the Ancient East.
strange and wonderful treasures brought to light, ‘were not
come to light as a result of discoveries made by digging beneath
light of modern external science upon one of those glorious

Title: Lecture: Buddha
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enlightenment which reveals: The cause of suffering inheres in the
new radiance in the sunlight of Christianity and will indeed in the
Buddha sitting under the Bodhi tree, rising to enlightenment as an
whom the Spirit of the Cosmos descended. The enlightenment of the
Deeply moving in this light
to light by outer science and to show how the Spirit lives in outer

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when we regard it in the light of all this retrospection
the light of the Buddha-mood, when regarded as already
enlightenment which flowed in upon him found expression in the
primeval wisdom; which, however, in the light of Indian
development and progress; and because of this enlightenment,
Gautama and led him directly to that sublime enlightenment known
enlightenment that the thought came to Gautama that the teachings
the light of our ideas concerning humanity regarded as a whole —
enlightenment is both remarkable and significant, but unless we
craved enlightenment, he went forth into solitude; to a place
soul that clear light whereby he might comprehend and solve the
depicted in Genesis. Now, a curious fact comes to light, namely,
may at last apprehend this perceptual world in the light of
contrast is as that between light and darkness. In St.
assimilate them, and throw new light upon their significance,
(Sanskrit). A Bodisat, one whose essence is enlightenment, that

Title: Answers to Big Questions: Lecture XIV: Moses
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things in the last decades and years that can cast new light on
lighted up in the way of the old clairvoyants. That is, indeed,
am an ego” as a streak of lightning penetrated me and

Title: Turning Points: Lecture 4: Moses
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there thrown new light upon the history of Moses — in so far as
depicted in the latter part of the narrative in the same light as
development, greater enlightenment, a more advanced stage of
of human evolution, and whose mission it was to enlighten mankind
Legends merely in the light of transfigured typical dreams, as
its fitting soil, and ripened, in the light of that knowledge
1 Viewed in this light the Bible story
the seven liberal arts were evolved and brought to light was as a
upon the world, and gain enlightenment through inner intellectual
of its promptings. All that knowledge and enlightenment which was
We now realize that the enlightenment which Moses
down as lightning from Heaven, of the words: — “I AM AN
to receive that great enlightenment which it was the Mission of
reason that the enlightenment which Moses was destined to give to
culture to that of Moses in its true light and meaning as an
the evolution of mankind; and we realize that it is no light task
his intellectual enlightenment was fundamentally dependent upon
Spirit brings to us enlightenment and ever manifests in

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could say to themselves, all outer phenomena, light, sound,
impression of light, another kind the impression of warmth.
way at first. For if we believe that light, sound and heat are
find lightweight ideas — like the newer astrophysicists

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Elijah in the Light of Spiritual Science
THE LIGHT OF SPIRITUAL SCIENCE
in its light, we find in the very nature of his being an
light upon the world’s history may become clearly apparent
enlightenment which came to him was passed on to mankind through
of the means at its disposal, is enabled to shed fresh light upon
seers. Viewed in the light of our modern times it is probable
light in connection with some quite lowly station in earthly
investigations made by Spiritual Science, in whose light their
as that glorious Divine Light which flowed in upon St. Paul at a
the city (II Kings, ix, 30 to 37). I have only touched lightly
bring about enlightenment concerning spiritual revelation, even
means of the methods of Spiritual Science] a new light has been
the outer world, does not enlighten us concerning things of
slightly modified form, are as follows: —
Which hides her secrets from the light of our new day.
light thrown upon it by Spiritual Science, its purport becomes at

Title: Lecture: Christ and the Twentieth Century
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the like, in the light of those habits of thought, feeling and
These ancient Wisdom-teachings come to light in strange ways; myths,
it had not first been charmed into being by the light. If on the one
hand it is true that perception of the light is determined by the
only exists because of the light, the Sun. Both truths must
correct: “The eye has to thank the light for its existence.
From subordinate animal organs the light calls forth for itself an
organ akin to its own nature. The eye builds itself up in the light,
for the light, in order that the inner light may meet the outer
light.” Just as the eye is formed by the light and the
perception of light occurs through the eye, so the inner Christ
regard to the relationship of the world of colour and light to
will come to understand the Christ Event in the light of an extension

Title: Turning Points: Lecture 6: Christ and the Twentieth Century
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only a slight study of spiritual life, that the subject chosen
enlightening to consider briefly those lofty Christ-concepts
higher wisdom, and various degrees of light and shade in that
momentous indeed in relation to that enlightenment which came
fresh light upon all forms of human culture quickened by its
Anyone who has obtained even a slight insight into the
merely in the light of a wholly abstract impression. Humanity is
the light of all those Divine qualities which dwelt within the
in the physical world. Through the study of history in the light
When we consider the sleep-state in the light of
enlightenment proclaiming his Godlike origin and the eternity of
enlightenment to humanity, but He became unified in spirit with
light of Spiritual Science, then we must first realize that: —
unto me true enlightenment [through the powers of those who have
and cometh to the light when man, in very solitude, shall know
throw light upon matters which have already claimed the attention
complete accord with the actual facts brought to light by
will yet be evolved from the wonders which come to light through
glorious realities of man’s inner life in a serious light
the light had not first conjured it into being. If, on the one
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Title: Human History: Lecture I: The Relation of the Human Being to the Supersensible Worlds
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Human History in the Light of Spiritual Investigation
Human History in the Light of Spiritual Investigation.
Since phenomena like light, heat, electricity and so on should
requirement of a material ether the rays of light would pass
must already suppose from certain facts today that the light
light that is not bound to any material substance.
state that the light flows without material medium through the

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Human History in the Light of Spiritual Investigation
Human History in the Light of Spiritual Investigation.
light. Then something particular turns out there. The human
light with which we find the underlying cause of the things. So
makes us on one side to submerge in a world of spiritual light,
pour out our own being like in a spiritual world of light; but
matters, as the most enlightened ones and regard these matters

Title: Lecture: Prophecy -- Its Nature and Meaning
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Human History in the Light of Spiritual Investigation.
Human History in the Light of Spiritual Investigation.
Supersensible. For those who consider themselves enlightened men of
times when astrological prophecy and enlightened science often went
numbers of truly enlightened men were votaries of this art. Indeed if
only be brought to light if the tokens of everyone who in spite of
hour of birth; the correction was only very slight but after it had
not of second-rate astrologers but of really enlightened men. The
brain was weighed and proved to be extremely light. He was the victim
brilliant and enlightened minds was such that these men believed —
connections will come to light, for example, between the life of
evolution of humanity in the light of Spiritual Science that there is
The Education of the Child in the Light of Spiritual Science,
direct their impulses in the light of knowledge. Goethe, who has said
... that is certainly true. But the light of this very knowledge will
must be made in the light of a kind of knowledge which reveals that

Title: Human History: Lecture IV: From Paracelsus to Goethe
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Human History in the Light of Spiritual Investigation
Human History in the Light of Spiritual Investigation.
glass and lighted a little aromatic candle, which he had put on
top, to light a sacrificial fire which was kindled in nature
But in my inner being there is radiant light.
my inner being there is radiant light.”
“But in my inner being there is radiant light.”
Nature, mysterious in day's clear light,
looks for the spiritual light in primal grounds.

Title: Lecture: The Hidden Depths of Soul Life
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Human History in the Light of Spiritual Investigation.
Lecture 5 of 16 from the lecture series: Human History in the Light
the need to make this division, if we consider life in the light of
man's world of reality. Now what light can spiritual science shed on
light of reason is working in the same way as in man. In this respect
not consist in his rational actions but in the light his
light on more than part of this world activity, but a far wider active
to light that flashed up from hidden depths.
soul sheds its light into the etheric body when man descends into his
instance, if a man brings the thought “light” or
tells himself that wisdom is presented in the symbol of light, or love
super-sensible experience and the light shed by consciousness on the

Title: Lecture: Good Fortune Its Reality and Its Semblance
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enlightening nature of these basic truths of spiritual science. But an
to a recognition of the enlightening nature of these great truths.
enlightenment, must nevertheless be acknowledged by a really unprejudiced
asked for — that Alexander should move out of his light. That then was
for him to be a parson in Sweden. It is a most delightful passage where he
each carrying his own light, after which pictures of his childhood would
rise before him — his brothers and sisters, each carrying a light. It
is a charming description of his delight in the people going to church through
hardly anything about which the man of our enlightened age becomes so
become exceedingly superstitious. I once knew a very enlightened German
ever felt the inner delight that knowledge can give; and this is substantiated
who call themselves the most enlightened could learn very much from them.
core that is explicable only in the light of repeated earth-lives. Thus
must lead to a point of view which, with a slight adaptation of Goethe's

Title: Human History: Lecture VII: The Prophet Elijah
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Human History in the Light of Spiritual Investigation
Human History in the Light of Spiritual Investigation.
or light up the historical development that are brought forward
shall light up which shall now enter in humanity. I shall be
directed to him, and the inner enlightenment said to him: let
Damascus, this enlightenment of Elisha should take place in the
light up them again with the means of spiritual research. I ask
right light.
that a light falls from here on these events and on that what
History, mysterious in the day's clear light of the present,

Title: Human History: Lecture VIII: The Origin of the Human Being
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Human History in the Light of Spiritual Investigation
Human History in the Light of Spiritual Investigation.
scientific knowledge has brought facts to light which do not

Title: Lecture: The Origin of the Animal World in the Light of Spiritual Science
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Human History in the Light of Spiritual Investigation.
IN THE LIGHT OF SPIRITUAL SCIENCE
by so lightly the theories of such a thinker as it is generally done
what is brought to light through spiritual investigators and which
bodily life, as it is formed, how the delight of digestion
and show how natural science today brings to light, as it were,
results what we can consider in the following words, enlightening the

Title: Human History: Lecture X: Christ and the Twentieth Century
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Human History in the Light of Spiritual Investigation
Human History in the Light of Spiritual Investigation.
human being and similar matters into the light of the habitual
light. However, with it gnosis also realised that with this
eye would not be there unless the light had brought out my eye
light are determined by the constitution of the eye, it is as
true on the other side that the eye is there only by the light,
existence to the light. From indifferent animal auxiliary
organs the light produces an organ for itself which becomes
equal to it, and the eye forms in the light for the light, so
that the inner light faces the outer one.”
eye is formed by the light as the perception of light happens
of Christ as it is for the world of light and colours with the
event in the light of the somewhat enlarged sentence of Goethe

Title: Human History: Lecture XI: Human History, Present, and Future in the Light of Spiritual Science
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Human History in the Light of Spiritual Investigation.
Human History, Present, and Future in the Light of Spiritual Science
and work. Hence, the Persian felt united with his god of light
perception, in the Greek-Roman epoch. The spirit of light,
look at history and at present in the right light. There

Title: Human History: Lecture XII: Copernicus and His Time in the Light of Spiritual Science
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Human History in the Light of Spiritual Investigation
Copernicus and His Time in the Light of Spiritual Science
Human History in the Light of Spiritual Investigation.
Copernicus and His Time in the Light of Spiritual Science
Human History, Present, and Future in the Light of Spiritual Science.
follies, although they belong to the “enlightened”

Title: Lecture: Death in Man, Animal, and Plant
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Human History in the Light of Spiritual Investigation.
matter. But in reality it should not make light of it. And this leads
if only it is studied in the right light, will account for the rise
organism? And so, in order to throw a little light on this
all reasoning and thinking in the light of Spiritual Science, we
sets so much store by the object of it, that it is a light thing for

Title: Human History: Lecture XIV: The Self-Education of the Human Being
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Human History in the Light of Spiritual Investigation
Human History in the Light of Spiritual Investigation.

Title: Lecture: The Nature of Eternity
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Human History in the Light of Spiritual Investigation.
will really throw light on a fact of this kind, except the
remarkable thing comes to light: that all that is best in
universally recognised that, when a finger is drawn lightly
across the surface of a table, even this slight pressure is
Earth. It is not only by looking at the matter in this light
being as an infant sleeps through a sort of twilight
throwing light upon the nature of eternity and on the way
shortcomings on myself.’ In the light of Spiritual
which Spiritual Science will throw more and more light, with

Title: Human History: Lecture XVI: Darwin and the Supersensible Research
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Human History in the Light of Spiritual Investigation
Human History in the Light of Spiritual Investigation.
look at the course of the events will say lightly, well, what
influence of Darwinism, one finds enlightenment of a big,
significance just in the light of spiritual science. Today we
light if one admires what the human spirit had intended, before
light which says to itself, if I trace back what I am what

Title: Lecture Series: Jacob Boehme
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capable of entering into such things, throw light on how Jacob
lights up again as if of its own accord, — only then does
perceived thunder and lightning, clouds, or cloud
with the flashing lightning, with the rolling thunder,
light the cause of darkness, so we do not need to seek in good
darkness relates itself to light, in that light shines into
to evil as light to darkness. Just as light graduates to the
light if darkness were not opposed to it, so can good perform
evil, and no matter how small the ray of light is that extends
in simplicity and solitude, and takes flight with his soul into

Title: The Worldview of Herman Grimm in Relation to Spiritual Science
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he is for us today. Concerning the two others, a slight veil
convince oneself that no one could have shed such light on the
light streamed in, was free and clear and she knew where she
a glimmer of light, but there was none; the light of the window
transformed itself into a point of light that became visible to
boundless longing, this light grew, spreading out, and

Title: Lecture Series: The Mission of Raphael in the Light of Spiritual Science
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The Mission of Raphael in the Light of Spiritual Science
Mission of Raphael in the Lightof Spiritual Science
appears in the right light when, — to use expression of Goethe,
delight the senses too, just as in earlier times the Greeks expressed in
For sense perception it was brought to the light of day from out of
“Neither can the original works of Homer truly delight us in these

Title: Raphael's Mission in the Light of the Science of the Spirit
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Raphael's Mission in the Light of the Science of the Spirit
the Light of the Science of the Spirit
individualities, of whom one had at first assumed, they light
special light. We see how a uniform spiritual element flows
a work of Raphael that especially delights us in Milan, the
heartfelt, the most delightful content of the world of
with light, with the sun, with what is luminous and what is
Raphael's mission only appears to us in the right light when we
figures that delight our senses.

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fairy tales in the light of spiritual science.
spiritual research does find it possible to throw some light into
profound experiences of soul, even though the style is light, playful
not the slightest knowledge of this, yet every morning our soul is
slight degree: it is the battle of the single, lonely human soul
meeting the gigantic powers of nature. Thunder and lightning and
dream consciousness. As a somewhat weak light is extinguished
can throw more light into these hidden depths of soul life by adding
gold. The king next morning is astonished and delighted but wants
the light and warmth of the sun. They are rooted in the earth and
sunlight to come to it, the rising and setting of the sun. It is
pours its light over the plant; the human ego shines too, resting
while they jumped over my stick!” The King was delighted with

Title: Fairy Tales in the light of Spiritual Investigation
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Fairy Tales in the Light of Spiritual Investigation
Fairy Tales in the Light ofSpiritual Investigation
tales in the light of spiritual investigation. One of them is
slightly after all as not to harm it by such investigation. Far
subjected to thunder and lightning — in experiencing how
consciousness. Just as a weaker light is drowned out by a
lectures, additional light may be shed on hidden aspects of the
light-heartedly look past this gulf between the human
only do so under the influence of the sun's light and warmth.
the sun exerts on the plant. Just as the sun pours its light
light over the now plant-like physical body when the human
belatedly came to light that the most significant fairy tales
time!” Delighted, the king assigns him another
delightful, often playful pictures of the fairy

Title: Lecture: Leonardo da Vinci
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machine. To accomplish this he busied himself in observing the flight
it presented itself to the human eye. How light and shade and
shadow — he is quite dark. Now when we study how the light
eleven disciples the lighting conditions are represented in the most
to be justified, in this sense. We can understand the lighting of all
opposites, Jesus and Judas, light and darkness proceed not from
the light on the face of the Christ cannot be explained by the outer
conditions of light, and yet we can believe that the Soul behind this
Countenance is itself a light force, so that It can shine of Itself,
in spite of the lighting conditions. In the same way the impression
light of Spiritual Science? We have repeatedly drawn attention to the
matter in this light we look back to Leonardo saying: “Here is
light of Leonardo's soul — conscious of its own weakness

Title: Leonardo's Spiritual Stature: Lecture
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series of hindrances came to light. The location of the wall as
himself in observing how bird flight comes about. The studies
of bird flight that have been preserved count among the most
impressions are to come to light in rendering a battle scene.
itself to the human eye; how light-and-dark and colouration are
never even in the slightest detail, to go against what, as we
covered in shadow and is quite dark. Looking at how the light
see the relationships of light everywhere represented in the
the basis of the external relationships of light we do not have
understood on the basis of the existing lighting, but not the
how light and darkness are to be accounted for inwardly.
the external light, but that we are able to believe: the soul
prevailing light conditions. And in the same way, one has the
his consciousness. In lighting up at a certain moment from the
death and how slight this is, compared to what lived within

Title: Lecture: Errors in Spiritual Investigation
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forces of nature; when lightning flashes, when thunder rolls, we have
to let the phenomena take their course; we cannot tell the lightning
forbid lightning to flash so little can we forbid self-love from
are happening that cast their shadows — or their lights —
obstructions for itself, grasp what is brought to light through
opening in the earth, however, and let the sunlight shine in,
illuminating what is underneath, everything can appear in the light
scientific investigation: it can be brought to light only if the soul
with spiritual sunlight. All of spiritual science, therefore, can be
can grasp what is brought to light through spiritual investigation.
spiritual world, can grasp that what is brought to light through

Title: Spiritual Science/Treasure for Life: Lecture I: The Spiritual World and Spiritual Science
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of spiritual science. I will also try in this winter to light
enlightening cultural factor for the most different questions
depend on that: I imagine light
— light of a star,
light of the sun —
touching me. This light is wisdom flowing
lightning striking in the space that you feel penetrating

Title: Spiritual Science/Treasure for Life: Lecture II: Theosophy and Antisophy
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the mirror standing before it? Because the beams of light are
see ourselves because the beams of light go through. The same
beams of light pass the glass. Only when the organism has
beams of light are thrown back by the reflecting glass. There
slightest element of the soul life as such. Later Du
if one even wanted to understand the slightest element of the
that of a human being who is in light fright. As paradoxical

Title: Spiritual Science/Treasure for Life: Lecture III: Spiritual Science and Denomination
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separate worlds, a world of colours and light, a world of
If one perceives light and colours, one is
given away by the eye to light and colours; if one perceives
in the future that one says: the fact that I perceive light and
know about something that induces light and colours. The fact
life during sleep, then this soul settles in that what lights
illuminate and light up the reasons of the religious

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the most enlightened spirits of the present. One could point to
many enlightened persons; one would find the same thing. I want
enlightened spirits of the present to refer to these matters.
approvingly about that what it has brought to light that today
by the senses, and a slight experience shows that also
enlightenment comes over the soul which then surveys the
bring to light only with efforts in a years
life should normally pass lights up from a certain point of
consciousness that one can call an enlightening purification of
death where the infinite consciousness lights up again, the

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that can shed light on this subject.
one of the leading guides of Enlightenment, to Lessing
meaning of the historical development lightens up for Lessing
lighted up in the human soul before the sophistries of the
which has not yet come to daylight, you know that they can

Title: Lecture: Michelangelo
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the light which Lessing in his day tried to do in his “Education
light of this conception of repeated earth lives we shall soon come
within that world. With a slight exaggeration we might say that while
light which passes from the index finger of God to that of Adam, who
forces of the soul. A boy with a torch is lighting a lamp; every one
Those amorous thoughts which were so lightly dressed
Twilight. I have often gazed at them; in fact they are one of the
Those amorous thoughts which were so lightly dressed

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Evil in the Light of Spiritual Knowledge.
little as one explains the shade which is caused by the light
a spiritual world from which to us only the light shines that
a world where spiritual light spreads out and lights up the
spiritual world. If one lights up something like the nature of
light;

Title: Lecture Series: Evil in the Light of Spiritual Knowledge
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Evil in the Light of Spiritual Knowledge
or, Evil in the Light of Anthroposophy.
Evil in the Light of Anthroposophy.
IN THE LIGHT OF SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE
forth by the light, need to be explained as something positive.
to the spiritual world —, because it cannot enlighten
enlightening to a small number of human beings, but who live
rejects a spiritual world, out of which light shines upon us,
light spreads out and illuminates the sense of wickedness and
Remains in the simple light of the senses;

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worldviews characteristic for the present where from this light
can note a peculiar, at first like the moral life lighting up
order. What spiritual science has to bring to light such a deep

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light. Spiritual science, however, shows that in the epoch that
familiar there just with that philosophy of Enlightenment. This
spirit of Enlightenment in the sense of the word. The dictum is
due to him: Enlightenment means that the human soul has the
Enlightenment? (1784). As to
of Enlightenment. Kant faces like Locke and later Hume the
age of Enlightenment, to the age of the conception of itself.
of Enlightenment, with Voltaire? She looks at the events of
Their trembling host, avenging lightnings
He lights those piles where Israel's
earth which arise to my enlightened mind; the lowlife is in
century that had to put everything in the right light on one
Voltaire in the right light if you put that as a counter-image

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we say that we see them if light of any source falls on them,
something mature like an inner light from the time of the last
matured in itself. You spread this inner light like a force by
inner light in yourself, it would be dark around you in the
which is like an inner light. There a soul force awakes for
light also those human souls belong with which one had a
way as an inner force of light develops gradually and
light has awoken; it enables me to experience certain other
setting in the evening, you feel the inner force of light more
it had developed the force of light. Thus, one must say that
processes and beings alternate with those where the inner light
because only thereby the inner force of light survives that the
life, is necessary, because thereby the force of light survives
inner force of light. This lasts a long time. Then one feels
the inner force of light decreasing. This happens when one
inner force of light decreases more and more; now you can light
up less and less what is round you. The light becomes fainter
light. Night enters in the spiritual world.
settle more and more in the twilight and, finally, in the night
the twilight of the spiritual world. This is the connection
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Lights wave and hover, the brightness comes
airship faster than the light does. But he is not content with
thundercloud, lightning strikes his airship, it cannot destroy

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to any dogmatism of facts, but feels the light of truth shining
brings to light; one has to think, to feel, and often to want
spiritual research brings to light. We can only characterise
with the good Gothamites who wanted to catch the light in bags

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The Soul of the People Considered in the Light of Spiritual
grace, dawning in the spiritual twilight. We must woo a
— and as if by a flash of lightning before your
soul experiences in the body; this lightning of consciousness
spiritual experience as a flash of lightning before the eye of
to admit of ‘lightning’ in translation.],
of light, I still stand safe and unchanged, the same man as I
youngest has sent out its last ray of light long ago, I shall
our eyes to-day, will appear in a higher light. In such a light

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(Suggestions for the Enlightenment of Public Opinion on the
said to himself, a philosophy of life which, in the light of a
book entitled: Suggestions for the Enlightenment of Public Opinion
at St. Helena, after his downfall; for it is only in this light
century, that — we may say it without the slightest fear of
which are present only through light to the sense of sight. You
kindling as it came fire and warmth and light. Fortitude vibrated in
in every single act, even in the slightest act of his life? Can we

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dark-colourless, lightless, and toneless entities. One got
that the admirable natural sciences brought to light leads
the world appears in a new connection, in a new light, under
darkness illuminated by no beam of light. Therefore, we do not
new light, under a new positive viewpoint.”

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other thoughts that light up certain things from the one or the
Schopenhauer's thought can face us. Such thoughts which light
he let follow about Goethe in the Light of Genetics in

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reality. You awake in another world that throws light on the
consciousness throws light on the dream world. Hence, spiritual
by a side lighting, one would like to say, if you throw a
slightest. Those human beings are bad spiritual researchers who
clearness, then only we can light up that with inner light what
brings to light. However, on the other side certain outer

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soul only transforms that into light and colours which is
there outdoors by light and colour continues through our eye
participate in it at first. Light and colour come into our eye
Spiritual science will once throw light on these matters if
perceive light and colour with our visual nerves, we perceive
expressions of the emotional life will be wonderfully lighted
must gradually change into the true enlightenment in the

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then the soul translates what is out there into light and
into our own organism. What occurs there outside through light
and color, or better said, what occurs in light and color,
its activity. Thus, light and color enter our eye in such a way
extraordinarily important truth which comes to light through
Spiritual science will one day throw light on this question
perceive light and color by means of our optic nerve, so we
entire spectrum from the slightest emotional disturbance up to
throw a clear light onto this field. On one hand it has
that this attitude must gradually lead to the enlightenment of
And, with this, something essential, something enlightening is

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lights a light and looks as the right method to get the
spirit in motion to light up the matter as it were with the
who extinguishes the light to understand it. Since this is the
illuminated objects reflect the light. However, we can nowhere
possible to light up the important questions which I have also
natural sciences want to explain the light, it is not content
sensation born out of a healthy soul life in true light.
delight as it were that we have come a long way because we are

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do? He turns on the light and regards this as the correct
similar to someone who extinguishes the light in order to
the light. But nowhere can we find the spirit, in whatever
explain light, it is not satisfied only to recognize the
in a true light by spiritual science. For, if one learns to
statement. He is, in a certain sense, delighted how wonderfully

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will shine in blue light. Indeed, I do not know in which way
with this light if one lacquers the walls of the rooms with
liquefied air, which will be a sea, gaseous light bodies will
resistance of these light gases will not be as strong as the

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slight physical pain is increased by observation.”
not have the slightest sympathy for this scientific direction,
Just the most enlightened men of the present believe that one
enlightened heads stopped at Kant and did not find the way from
edition of this writing The Unconscious in the Light of

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can really throw light on the everlasting core of the human

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no beam of light. We do not know where from it comes nor where
light what Goethe omitted because his senses were directed
light for the single; in the entirety of her phenomena you look
whole if the harmonious ease grants a pure, free delight to

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light from another side. However, natural sciences can only

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Nature and Her Riddles in the Light of Spiritual Science
Nature and Her Riddles in the Light of Spiritual Science
light mass that goes out from the sun or under the influence of
organs, or follows the light, or the gravity, and directs his
Then the current lighter gases form an air circulation, certain
light for a while, it will become luminescent. Hence, if one
newspapers with this light! He also describes that one can no
forces of the beams of light will have got lost. Briefly, you
science. Spiritual science can lighten the physical life, but
Nature cannot clarify itself but only the light that you attain
in the spiritual world can lighten the processes and beings of
way through the spirit. The spirit is the light that lights up
its own being and can light up the riddles of nature on its own

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light falls on the judgement you have to exert for the social
the light of the mental picture falls on the dream; then the
character of the historian Wilson, the light shines which
science has to bring to light: the best that we can have from

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explained in the light of Spiritual Science must bear in mind
sheds light upon the eternal, essentially free, core of being
the whole range of the life of dream brings to light two
comes to light as well.
mountain and on reaching the top had a delightful surprise;
briefly explained the nature of dream as viewed in the light
fact the dream passes only slightly into the abnormal life of
the bodily organism comes to light through it. This condition
slightly while this was being done. The different grouping
in one who finds delight and inspiration in Art, also lie in
artist and of the one who finds delight in a work of art, is
messenger from a super-sensible world, that delight in Art is
experience of the spiritual. We have heard that in the light
although naturally there may now and again be slight

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from the depths of his being what can enlighten him about his
imagining is lightened by the will which is with the animal
lights up.

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elements, or as the physicist splits the white sunlight into

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researcher is allowed to have the slightest predisposition of

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is operated upon and is able to see colour and light. To use Goethe's phrase:
would not set up the slightest opposition where it remains in the region of
Goethe's conceptions later on is intelligible in the light of this
you a debt of gratitude for throwing light upon the subject, for now we know

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Taken in this light, a vegetarian diet can
relationship by bearing in mind the influence of light on plants.
The effect of deprivation of light on plant life is well-known. The
same light that maintains life in plants makes it possible for us
to perceive the light-filled world of our surroundings. Light is
light but it is also something more. Just as there is a spiritual
counterpart to everything physical, so there is spiritual light in
the physical light that rays down on us. Each time a man rejoices
over the brilliance of physical light he can say to himself,
that in light there lives a spiritual counterpart.” Indeed,
the spiritual light that permeates the physical sunlight is of the
same kind and being as the invisible light that dwells within the
human astral body. A portion of the spiritual light that permeates
opposite or complement of physical light.
The invisible light lives within us and fulfills
to physical light what negative magnetism is to positive magnetism.
possess an astral body and hence the inner light. Now, the function
of this inner light is the opposite of that of external light. When
external light shines on a plant, the plant builds up its living
task of inner light is to break down, and this process of
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most enlightened spirits of the time who concerned themselves with
And we see the most enlightened spirits of the Middle Ages turning from
remarkable to light, to be described here as man's mission on the earth.
alive within him. The spiritual light, which meditation kindles in us,
with forces garnered from spiritual schooling. The light of clairvoyance is
the light-world. The fact ought therefore to be stated thus: “No eyes without
light.” It is equally true that without the historical Christ human beings
a pointer. Goethe said that the eye was built by light to perceive the light:
the eye was conjured forth by light from organs that were originally
How could they behold the light?
How could we feel so in Things divine delight.”
forth by light, so man's power to see God is conjured forth by God Himself as
lived here, an historic figure. Just as the sun's light conjures forth eyes

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the full contents of the soul life light up.
enlightened human being says that this corresponds to the
“cold light” in the Middle Ages that pours forth in
Still in the Middle Ages people spoke of this cold light which
could be delighted and given to a supersensible world or be
which it needs to possess the light of intelligence not only

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before he had darkness around himself, now the world of light,
theory of the light originated, no one saw in it something else
experience, for example, with light, heat et cetera. One calls
people who become light-hearted supporters of theosophy to

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theosophy today is considered in the same light as the
light and colours spread out. In the same sense, all things and

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that the eyes must be created for the light — a thought
How could we see the light?
How could delight us the divine?
the human being could have eyes that the light created the
the light must have been there to form the eyes. As well as the
light forms the eyes, the spirit that penetrates the whole
by such a thing. It is true that light and spirit must be
present in us if we want to perceive light and spirit. It is
true that the whole world must be filled with light if an organ
of light should be created in a being by this light, and it is

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get to an area that can light up the sources of error to a
the world express themselves; this comes strongly to light in
make themselves confessors of spiritual science light-heartedly

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drives through you like a lightning or you feel as if your body

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comes to light that laziness is appealed to maintain this or
earth. The sunlight penetrates into this gap; it can light up
feel it as wonderful and marvellous how the sunlight falls on
earth. What the sunlight creates on the surface of the earth
eyes if the sunlight penetrates through a gap.
sunlight that falls through the gap in the tunnel, and then the
in such a way that we even have the slightest sensation that we
experience it, like a torch that lights up the spiritual world

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in the seasons. We know that without sunlight, without forces
mine appear to me in the true light if I bore a hole and let
the sun shine on them. Indeed, everything is lighted up, but
light up that only which rests there down in the earth, but it
the merely outer science. Then it may come to light up it; then
However, as the ores arise from the earth and are lighted up
then by the sun, one can light up with the usual understanding

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lightning has struck you. What goes forward?

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In the bright light living wisdom is flowing.
In the bright light living wisdom is flowing.
feel our soul life in that light which becomes a symbol of the
In the bright light living wisdom is flowing
such a way that I contribute to the flowing light process, then

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say that these were mostly only light flashes in our time which
who contemplated the human spiritual life. These light flashes
beings illuminate this field by such light flashes repeatedly,
questions of the spiritual life have cast single light flashes
realise that such a light flash, emerging from the depths of
light flashes appear only now and again in his writings. The
least, such light flashes are found with him. However, one
personalities produced in single light flashes something of
were isolated light flashes.
that what has come up instinctively in single light flashes
light flashes appear, they disappear faster than a dream does.
spiritual-scientific literature — such light flashes with
light. We do not know, where from it comes, neither where to it
beam of light, but he experiences the spiritual world beyond
mentally, that you receive any enlightenment of the spiritual
light hits us and causes something. It is in the same world in
organism, something is formed in us if a beam of light hits us

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anthroposophic research: to light up the things from the most
enlightened thinking of the present, they noticed that they are

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throws its light also on nature that the whole spiritual-mental

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the nature of the dream if one as an enlightened person smiles
were a bright light that outshines what remains subconscious.
objects here. I light up the first object; then I light up the
object getting dark and light up the third one. I pursue this.
While I pursue this and say, the first object was lighted up,
that is the cause of the light of the second one; the second
one is the cause of the light of the third one. Such an
illusion, as if the first body which is lighted up from the
the fact that a common light illuminates the consecutive facts.
One has to penetrate into this light with higher, supersensible
with single light flashes what it concerned. As I have pointed

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reference to the topic by the fact that the one talk lights up
the will comes to light. However, this cannot be the full,
understand it in the light of the eternal. Our body is always
peculiar comes to light if now anything bodily is away and the
brought to light. The retentiveness is bound to the bodily at
of that what spiritual research brings to light. The spiritual

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very interesting way that casts intense light on the human
usual consciousness, even if they are ever so enlightened
lights up a matter only unilaterally with any concept and hence
the most excellent personalities have always lighted up.

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have brought to light all sorts of things, but it seems as if

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mirror coating reflects light. You can compare the mirror
Thus, the paradoxical appearing fact comes to light that that

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This inner conflict comes to light in the fact that they have
sense-perceptible world approaches him in colours, in light and
it were inner light is brought in the will that the human being
of which I have just spoken, the strange comes to light that in
lightning of the future, which expresses itself in the

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which the observation finds experimentally can be lighted up
conscientiously and carefully what comes to light so hopeless

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this apposition of “Light” and
original being, the original source of light delegates its
light. Man should have become something entirely different from
created by the power of light as an ally in its fight against
kingdom of light itself. But the demons have managed
which we find slightly changed, with — let us say —
light to be fully understood.
individuality. If we ascend slightly into higher regions, to
Augustine, by means of the light Plotinism had shed into his

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events within the human evolution. Thus, the contrast of light
being, the primal light being of the world, specifies its
have become a human being on earth by the divine light being.
original human being whom the light being had created for
viewpoint, because only then it appears in the right light. So

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it means to light up with the most subtle thought something of
of light. There is the belief of the thirteenth and twelfth

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in the thirteenth century threw out several scholastic lights
re-appears as Spiritual Science. And so a light is already

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science. Then light is thrown on the question: how does this

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through which the inverted part has passed now has a halo of light around
a little light-weight in relation to the process concerned, I would
and perhaps slightly coloured by his imagination and expressed as a

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in quite a different light. It becomes apparent how perception linked
inner indifference. We know that life normally lifts us up in delight

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necessity. And in the same way he will assess in the light of this
as a moral light, and says to himself. “No scientific knowledge
of the former subjective imaginations, objective imaginations light
up in our consciousness, and this lighting up of such objective

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certainty of faith. We look to the moral light that shines within us
will now light up in our conscious mind. The lighting up of such objective
see the outside world in the light of this Intuition, the mineral kingdom

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the light of the spirit to every single cell, so that there shall be
nothing that is not illumined with the light of the spirit. Then it
other which has been raised against spiritual science in the light of
want to consider the issue in the light of cultural and contemporary

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Self under a kind of oppression; the lightness and ease with which,
problems in their spiritual aspect, in the light of the reality of
has not the slightest tendency to be remote from the world, to be
body of formative forces. When, in the light of this knowledge, we

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slightest reason for questioning the medium's communication.
fact that under certain pathological conditions of a lighter
seen in the light in which Anthroposophy appears in comparison
with modern culture. The writer remarks that in the light of
first may really present a slightly comical aspect, but if they

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find the slightest reason for questioning the medium's
lighter nature, which do not clearly appear in the form of
if seen in the light in which Anthroposophy appears in
that in the light of ordinary consciousness many of my
These things at first may really present a slightly comical

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IN THE LIGHT OF ANTHROPOSOPHY
that man's true being can be investigated in the light of
Anthroposophy, it is possible to throw light upon the real
lifeless, can be filled with inner life, with light and power,
which vanish when the human being dies and can throw no light
may even be filled with light and radiance. Plastic forms

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that the three-folding of the social organism can throw light

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The World Development in the Light of Anthroposophy
DEVELOPMENT IN THE LIGHT OF ANTHROPOSOPHY
bodies during sleep, there is a dull twilight life, and we only
knowledge fills it, as it were, with light and with warmth
of our being which ordinarily lives in a dull twilight existence
lives in a dull twilight state from the moment of falling asleep
But when we throw light upon man's physical and etheric body in
exists: Whenever a thought lights up within you during your
precipitated salt solution. This lighting up of thought you owe
soul like a great flash of lightning, we acquire the memory of
what the light conjures up before him in the world of colours,
appear in an entirely new light, in a different way from what it
light will ray out of them. Indeed, my dear friends, it is as if
light were to fall upon words such as “heaven and earth
light falls upon them, if we hear them resounding from that
spiritual being of the world development rays out its light
towards us, a light in which the world development itself with

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DEVELOPMENT IN THE LIGHT OF ANTHROPOSOPHY.
the etheric bodies during sleep, there is a dull twilight-life,
super-sensible knowledge fills it, as it were, with light and
ordinarily lives in a dull twilight existence and which can
being which lives in a dull twilight state from the moment of
experience in itself. But when we throw light upon man's
lights up within you during your ordinary life, this is always
lighting up of thought you owe as it were, to this opaqueness,
that in death you see lighting up as if all at once that which
illuminates the soul like a mighty flash of lightning, man
the development of the world in the light of the ordinary
perceives, for instance, what the light conjures up
Gospel will appear in an entirely new light, in a different way
humanity, a light will ray on to them. Indeed, it is as if
light were to fall upon such words as “Heaven and earth
— light falls upon them, if we hear them resounding from
world-development rays out its light towards us, a light in

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If we let this shed light on
upon Christian life, but will shed light upon it, so that one can find in the

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realize that this is like painting a flash of lightning of
lighting, held fast only for a moment of its unceasing
when the light of knowledge comes to meet the seeking soul, not

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social sciences, and linguistics. He also brings to light the biological

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social sciences, and linguistics. He also brings to light the biological

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social sciences, and linguistics. He also brings to light the biological

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social sciences, and linguistics. He also brings to light the biological

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social sciences, and linguistics. He also brings to light the biological

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social sciences, and linguistics. He also brings to light the biological
research. I'm always delighted when things are said to me, for

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social sciences, and linguistics. He also brings to light the biological
thunder, lightning flashes, in the rolling wind and so on. An
— to be grasped as a sphere of light.

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lightly or more strongly, as required in order to restrain the forces
working from within. I must press, lightly or strongly, as the cosmic

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a general outline): as light and colours affect it, changes

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psychology brought to light — all these collapse in face
the clear light; and which will never emerge until we have
us light and warmth; noble and great is our experience when we
by which the sun sends us light and warmth and conjures forth

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symbolically by saying that light comes from the East.
direct observation! Look how we regard the light flooding
But how remote are the observations we record on light and
illuminate it with the light that streams from within him, it
within him. He has within him a light that is a direct

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cannot be the slightest question of anthropomorphism. On the

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clear view of this problem can, ultimately, throw light for us
slight viability. For, after all, it is not without
and allowed to develop freely in the light and air has all

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our horizons slightly, to include the Continent of Europe and
light of its commercial function in the social order. The

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Light comes from the East. What is most striking of all,
this light a great deal of labour within society which, though
we shall be able to view in their proper light many of the
today. To win our way through to this light, we need courage.

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language to express it, then eyes light up and hearts unfold.
today a feeling that enlightenment — not in any party
their eyes light up, because they feel that here is something
eat. How their eyes light up when you give them something that

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Especially in the light of what I have been saying, then, we

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That dreadful calamity was just the occasion to bring to light

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glimpse of a flash of lightning. This body of formative forces
from which the light takes so many light-years to reach the
Yes, but it is not like that. At its source the light
faint. The power of light diminishes at a ratio equal to the
square of the distance. So it is with light. And
light, the student of natural science will agree,
light, the spiritual investigator must make a
reservation. Natural science says: As the light
And this also applies to the light. The light
when the radiation of light has exhausted its elasticity and
cannot perceive it. There is no light that
What I am now telling you about the light applies
have exponents of the law of light, and so on.
true light. Supposing I carve a figure in wood, mould it into

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light and warmth of the sun, and here again he can find no
light as they awaken the plants to life.
leave not the slightest doubt that it is the world from which
lights up in man's being — the outcome of

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physical world appear in quite a different light in
have kindled the inner light and can experience ourselves, as
time being there is not the slightest possibility of an
that, seen in the true light, psycho-analysis is

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and experimentation have thrown a light also upon human capacities
research are willing to give very little attention to this light
thought to what this light has illuminated, we see that human
to gain enlightenment about the spiritual, about the
precise clarity, because it brings them to enlightenment regarding
much that they would prefer to see in a different light from the
light of truth. But one must endure the fact that one is able to look
are then, as it were, shot through with inner light, and we know that

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thrown a light also upon human capacities themselves. But I should
give very little attention to this light which has been reflected
thought to what this light has illuminated, we see that human
man's own self if he wishes to gain enlightenment regarding the
like this precise clarity, because it brings them enlightenment
in regard to much that they would prefer to see in a different light
from the light of truth. But one must endure the fact that one is
with inner light, and we know that we have now developed

Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture II: Anthroposophy and the Ethical-Religious Conduct of Life
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course of an experiment or of a clinical observation, is very slight
becomes a light illuminating the actions of our life, the whole
even when our striving is toward the loftiest light of
enter there in that his knowledge strives for the light of the
super-sensible, so that this light of the super-sensible causes him to

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Then a force will be lighted in him.
where, in the grayest light of dawn, those beings formed who later

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children in the religious documents. Then the Enlightenment came, and

Title: Greek/Germanic Mythology: Lecture I - The Prometheus Saga
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Greek and Germanic Mythology in the Light of Esotericism
lightning. Fire was the comprehensive expression for the causes of all

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sublime, majestic spirit-world of the Brahmans. The great light-sides

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Greek and Germanic Mythology in the Light of Esotericism
limbs she was able to continue her flight with Jason into Greece.

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of the world. “This does not gainsay in the very slightest the
to the Christian Mystery. Light will then be thrown on many a passage.
proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices, and there were seven

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Greek and Germanic Mythology in the Light of Esotericism

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The Birth of the Light
point is reached. The light increases, days grow longer and nature
reawakens. So the birth of the light at Christmas time has been
celebrated since the times when the light became the symbol of
post-Atlantean epoch saw in the light the garment of the wise world
Gazing into cosmic space today, we see the light shining steadfastly
Wisdom reveal themselves through the light, which in ancient religions
light and darkness, and finally as the trinity, the illuminated human
human heart itself. The external light, the light that is born out
light. Christ brought to the earth what had existed from the
the light is born anew at the winter solstice, so in the fourth
birth of the light.
birth to light in his own soul. He could do this because the principle
of light had incarnated in a human being for the first time. In this
winter solstice. Wisdom and light first appeared to men externally,
but now, after the Christ event, the light must be kindled in man's
Divinity was Brahman; during the second, it was the duality of light
the birth of the light was experienced at Christmas.
The birth of the light will be followed by life in the light.
light out of his deepest soul that will be a resurrection, a Sun
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Title: Richard Wagner: Lecture I
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Richard Wagner in the Light of Anthroposophy
Richard Wagner in the Light of
time we no longer have the slightest idea of how a medieval soul was
had past. In this light Charlemagne's coronation in Rome was
light, and out-streaming light becomes wisdom. Alberich brings the

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Richard Wagner in the Light of Anthroposophy
the Twilight of the Gods. The northern sagas tell us about this, and

Title: Richard Wagner: Lecture III
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Richard Wagner in the Light of Anthroposophy
The Twilight of the Gods.
The Twilight of the Gods.
of the Twilight of the Gods expresses that in the northern world the

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Richard Wagner in the Light of Anthroposophy
life proceeds out of the Twilight of the Gods. Richard Wagner's longing,
glaring light on these earlier periods and on this paradise in the
people delight in hunting; killing is a joy to them, but this
up which we already discovered in the Twilight of the Gods: “Incarnatus
initiates, the druids, spoke of the twilight of the gods out of which
twilight of the gods of the ancient northern saga shows us this ascent,

Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 1: Whitsuntide. Festival of the Liberation of the Human Spirit
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source of the education and enlightenment of most of our
such festivals, the writers of which have not the slightest idea of
been able to read it in the Astral Light.
seen as light effects by the seer, these soul powers, this soul body,
in the Astral Light, and otherwise only to a few initiates. The path

Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 3: The Mysteries of the Druids and the 'Drottes'
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of Light is killed. This whole story has a deep mystery content which
search consisted of a complete enlightenment about the nature of man.

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The causes of lightning and all other natural phenomena connected with

Title: Lecture: The Manicheans
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Darkness wished to storm the Kingdom of Light. They came to its
Now they were to be punished by the Kingdom of Light. But in the
Kingdom of Light there is only good. Thus the Demons of Darkness could
Kingdom of Light took a portion of their own kingdom and mingled it
of its own destruction. There then arose from the Kingdom of Light the
darkness must be overcome through the Kingdom of Light, through the
Divine-Spiritual Light of the soul, a rebellion of the soul against
contrary, supports himself on the inner spiritual light of the soul.
From the Kingdom of Light a spark is sent into the Kingdom of Darkness
will be led by themselves, by the light of their own souls. Manes will

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movement and then, at a later time, we can shed a light on
kingdom of light by storm. They actually reached the borders of the
kingdom of light and hoped to conquer it. But they failed to achieve
be punished by the kingdom of light. But in this realm there was
So what happened? The following: The spirits of light took a part of
darkness. Because there was now a part of the kingdom of light
kingdom of light to mix with the kingdom of darkness and to conquer,
overcome by the kingdom of light, not by means of punishment, but
order to redeem evil as such. Because a part of the light enters into
It must find the light of truth within its own soul in order to act
soul-spirit light. Everything which comes from Mani is an appeal to
man's own spirit light of soul, and at the same time is a definite
rebellious self-sufficiency of the spirit light which comes to
rebels, he puts his faith in the inner spirit light. We have the saga
Faust's pact with the devil. A spark from the kingdom of light is
light, to overcome outward forms and convert them to
something of particular worth. A glimmering of this delight in evil

Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 7: The Essence and Task of Freemasonry from the Point of View of Spiritual Science - 1
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to her wishes. He climbed onto a slight
light. Then Tubal-Cain gave Hiram his hammer which had the magical
told: If you retain the slightest curiosity about anything, then you
is then scratched slightly, so that blood is made to flow, and at the
these proceedings he is led to a flight of stairs in a room which is
answer: ‘Light’. Then the bandage is removed from the
Freemasonry today. About these lighter sides and some of the darker

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He is a leader, the sun from whom radiates the light which is to
that, or if they do hear it, they have not the slightest
Light. The true, deeper origin of Freemasonry, however, pre-dates
humanity entirely. It resides in Light itself which existed before

Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 11: Concerning the Lost Temple and How It Is To Be Restored - 1
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itself, divine life must flow into it, just as light shines into the
priest spoke from the pulpit, so that the divine light shone in his
listener's hearts just like the light shining through the coloured

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shed light on the connection between the Cross symbol and the
building the Temple. But then something peculiar came to light. It

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warmth; secondly, light ether; thirdly, chemical ether, in which
was attained by the apostles at Pentecost. In Light on the Path

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Atoms and the Logos in the Light of Occultism
AND THE LOGOS IN THE LIGHT OF OCCULTISM
future Jupiter]. The slightest thing we do will affect the smallest

Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 16: The Relationship of Occultism to the Theosophical Movement
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the light of a knowledge of the influencing forces. Man is a
light, and evolved out of our organism. Our spiritual organism of the
whereas the other's speech is vibrant with the warm light that will
Twilight, and so on. All of this offers itself to our spiritual sense

Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 19: The Relationship Between Occult Knowledge and Everyday Life
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of a child? It seems like an undifferentiated cloud of light which
the light in the atmosphere. Similarly, [the reverent thought makes
flame appears to you to have a blue core that is surrounded by light.

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arranging colour, light and shade. And even the statesman gives
just as man has already conquered gravity, light and electricity in

Title: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture II
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between birth and death, that because of the very slight degree of

Title: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture III
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Whenever a plant turns even slightly, one starch granule falls towards
light forms which are however only to be observed by the consciousness

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through which eventually he became inwardly suffused with light,

Title: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture V
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ether: warmth, light, chemical and life ether and their life on the
kind of ether, the Light Ether. Bodies which shine send out a form of
matter which is described in Theosophy as Light Ether. The third kind
between wisdom and light. When in dream consciousness one experiences
the light, one experiences wisdom within it. This was always the case
when God revealed himself in the light. In the burning thorn bush,
that is to say, in the light, Jehovah appeared to Moses in order to
‘Light on the Path’:

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is in the light and discloses itself in all sense impressions. Behind
light and darkness and so on. In the same way every Kamic quality also
shadow when light enters it from outside. We incorporated cunning into

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always slightly changing. Eight hundred years before Christ the sun

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warmth ether, light ether, chemical ether and the life ether. These
Buddhi plane, the Light Ether on the Mental plane, the Chemical Ether
Light ether
The third stage is to be found in the Light Ether. There sight
brought about by the external light.
sixth sense is the Kundalini light radiating warmth;

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The individualised astral light. Reading in the Akasha.
ether densifies further to the Astral Light. In this Astral Light
radiates in the purest Astral Light, and this Astral Light is in fact
Astral Light, fourthly Earth, fifthly the Auric Egg.
increasing densification, the Astral Light became individualised after
the individualised Astral Light. One can therefore read in the Astral
Light, not the deeds, but the emotions bound up with them; these one
can read in the Astral Light. For example, Caesar conceived the idea
the Astral Light, but the impulse which drove him to it has remained
physical plane remain in the Astral Light. One must accustom oneself
in the Astral Light, for the impulses of the great initiates were
passionless. Whoever therefore reads only in the Astral Light, for him
been found in the Astral Light. Such impressions are only inscribed in the
Ether. What one can read in the Astral Light in connection with what
initiates and these have remained in the Astral Light. But it is so
further and works its way into the Ether and the Astral Light. The

Title: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture XI
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‘Light on the Path,’

Title: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture XII
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researches with the help of the Kundalini light. The pupil was
condition that the Kundalini light was awakened within him. This is
for the inner being what sunlight is for the outer world. Actually we
do not see external objects, but reflected sunlight. The moment when,
with the help of the Kundalini light, we can illuminate the soul, it
what they had perceived through the Kundalini light.

Title: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture XIII
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The present lecture is inserted into this course to shed light on many
the thoughts of the Devas, but it was all in deep twilight

Title: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture XIV
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the Earth he takes into himself as light and warmth and all physical
wisdom. Warmth and light will then have become wisdom. Between the

Title: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture XVI
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light shines against a stick, a shadow arises behind it. That is
light and shade; he does not paint what is actually there. He does not

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this Lemurian human being. In his astral body he had a dull twilight
unsympathetic to him, there arose in him a sensation of light which
Already on the Old Moon man had some slight power of using both his
this way in the Cosmic Light. When man himself works into his sheathes

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intensified, they become visible as light-beings. This explains why,
light-phenomenon appears (the mollusc-crab for example). This is a
coloured phenomena make their appearance. A glimmer begins to light

Title: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture XX
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‘Light on the Path’
Light on the Path

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become so slight as to be non-existent, our life comes to an end. The

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plant-like. The beings lived in the light of the Sun. Light came to
possibility of emitting light and warmth. The Old Moon retained the
had been on the Sun, but they had to be dependent on the Sun for light
and warmth. Because the Old Moon itself possessed no light, the beings
towards knowledge, towards the light. In Devachan the human being can

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things are brought to light in this way. Such people then can draw
reflected light. The rays of the sun are reflected in a certain form.
mineral kingdom that light and sound appear through such forms. Let us
Kingdom. These are the elements light and fire, permeating space. Man
the power of light within themselves. They are like bodies of light

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filling the forms with light and colour. Here are to be found all the
solidified sunlight. Silver is solidified moonlight. All mineral
place the separation of the Sun. Gold is condensed sunlight, hence the
Golden Age; Moonlight and silver: the Silver Age; Mars and iron: the
this sheds its light into the next Round when man will have passed

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fourthly ether (warmth ether, light ether, chemical ether, life

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touch perceives the warmth ether, sight perceives the light ether,
The sense of sight perceives by means of the light ether the objects
which the eye receives from outside in the light ether, pouring
streaming light; this light streamed from within outwards. Then man
When as yet man had no intellect it was possible for the active light
light to make the solid objects visible. Because the light passed
through him, man himself was formed. Before the light had passed
through the human being the Godhead had no need of light, because the
light. That is the condition described in the Bible: ‘And darkness was
form and light became necessary. God said: ‘Let there be light and
there was light.’ Then it was that man too first received his form.
That is the moment when the Light Ether was introduced and the solid
that everything was of a watery nature. In the same way as the Light
when God said: ‘Let there be Light.’ The Earth began to densify. Light
condition when man let the light pass through himself. Then a complete
reversal took place. Man began to perceive the light as something
The light ether.
Perception of the light ether.
Now man receives back the light from the world. (Reversal of the
spiral.) Formerly he was a source of light, now the light streamed
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We will now throw yet more light on the hidden working of Karma and
Secondly Chemical-ether, Thirdly Light-ether, Fourthly Warmth-ether,
light of its spirit. Thus outwardly we have oxygen and inwardly the

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from the Sun. Everything irradiated with sunlight, blossoms and fruits
of mining, which brought to light what is under the Earth.

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necessarily have to decline. There the Twilight of the Gods was taught
reach their downfall, the Northern Gods approach their end (Twilight
only points to the past, but to the Twilight of the Gods, to the time
to be understood in the light of these great considerations.

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“clever”, became “enlightened”,
appear as lightning flashes. The peculiarities of temperament
the light of men. And the light shineth in the darkness, and
through this life — through this light? We must take
higher knowledge. Where does this light shine? In the
literally. The astral light shines into the darkness of night
light dawned and he saw who He was, He whose disciple and

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creature can see the sunlight unless its eyes are opened so

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“Light on the Path”. *[“Stand aside in the
warrior.” Light on the Path, Mabel Collins,
unto them, ‘Yet a little while is the light with you.
Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you for
While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the
children of light.’”

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a new property — that of reflecting the light.

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future will awaken to the full light of consciousness and he will live

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slightly beyond it. The etheric body is more or less luminous and
man. When Manas works upon the etheric body, light and power for the
works upon the physical body, light and power for man's divine Spirit

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Light on the Path,
then the inner astral light awakens in the soul who perceives other

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brilliant a light — a light that is nowhere so pregnant with life
that the full power of the light is made manifest.
that it may behold the light.’ In this sense the Rosicrucians

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world of shades, but then the darkness breaks and a new light —
the astral light — shines out. The veil of the temple is ‘rent
in twain.’ This light has nothing in common with the physical
light of the sun. It rays forth from the inner being of man. The
impression it makes is wholly unlike that made by outer light. The

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scientific works there is a wonderful passage on the essence of the light
“The colours are acts of light — its active and passive
explanation respecting light itself. Colours and light, it is true,
excited, and from the lightest breath to the wildest din, from the
astral light the cipher 365 must be read backwards: 563. If an event

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three super-sensible types as living images into the astral light,
the astral light.

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of light. They are not, as yet, the garment of living beings, but they
sensitive. Waves, gleams of light and sounds arise in response to our
reverberates in colours, light and sound. Whether it be in sleep or
Strife and passions appear in the form of lightning and thunder. Thus
events occurring in the higher worlds. The light of the Logos —

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Logos? — This question would seem to demand a flight into the

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mineral elements and reflect the light, in other words, objects which
in the physical world, but it must none the less gradually light up in
light, fire, air. Only in the fourth condition does consciousness

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consciousness or deep sleep. He was not yet the being of light which
Mars not the slightest trace of iron existed on this earth. In fact,

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Let us try to envisage this future in the light of the cosmological
perceived the physical light of these celestial bodies; he perceived
ruling principle is not light but sound. The hallmark of the

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the physical light of these heavenly bodies, they perceived the planets'
that will come to light.
in a devachanic condition, where tone, not light, will rule. The end

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time except that the etheric body slightly projects above the head.
This form of light soars around the human being and sends out rays.
body fills the physical body like a dense cloud of light. And until

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whereas joy appears as a kind shape in a light yellow color. Little
to recognize the different pictures. Lightly-colored pictures always

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Earth. In Devachan everything appears in a stronger light. We do not

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appears as a terrific tempest, unchaining itself in lightning, thunder
wonderful atmospheric phenomena, in the sound of thunderstorms, lightning

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rather that the parents resemble the children. Let us throw light upon
and marked, resemblance is slight. Let us take a human nucleus with

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between ape and man may be viewed in this light. On Atlantis, the human

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reddish-blue light like a phantom, but with radiance a little darker
what we shall see will be a delicate cloud of light, inwardly full of
intense passion flashing like rays of lightning out of the astral body.
the spots are not static but keep on lighting up and fading away. This
the light around it, so this empty space appears blue because of the
auric light streaming around it. This is the outer form of expression

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light and sound are for ever closed to her, she retains an impressive
courage for living and takes delight in the beauty and splendour of
Light spreads tumult through the air.
plate. Where a physical object exists, there is nothing; what is light
a battle appears like a great thunderstorm, fiery flashes of lightning,
to him like the heavy clouds and lightning-flashes of a thunderstorm.

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broken, particularly in the region of the heart. A sort of light shines
the physical body is only slight. But when the separation is as sudden

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and had only the most primitive knowledge of how to light a fire or
by the light for the light.” He means that light is the creator
observe how the eye degenerates in the absence of light. For example,
light of the eyes, and their eyes atrophied. The vital fluids which
because their whole world was without light: the absence of light destroyed
their power of sight. Thus if there were no light, there would be no
eyes. The forces which create the eye are in the light, just as the
past life, but now they come before him as clouds, thunder and lightning.
until light or sound brings them a message. Spiritual organs, on the

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by Theosophy is in the highest sense practical. The light it throws
is it that we should look at the world in the light of this law and

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Sun and was himself part of its body. The Sun was a body of light, composed
of light-ether; man was still plant-like, his head directed towards

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and this led to the development of an organ of sight, for light is truly
God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light
that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.”
day and night. When we read the Bible in the light of occult science,
in glorious colours in the light-ether, and gradually condensed.
gods. Man would have been wise, but not independent; enlightened, but

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Brown-man hears the thunder and sees the lightning and this language
of lightning, he was aware that part of the Godhead was displayed before
light. We shall not say that we possess absolute truth; we shall say

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said that Edison once dreamt how to make an electric light bulb; he
remembered the dream and made the light bulb in accordance with it.
he has the whole picture-world present before him in daylight and not
through symbolic images. Wisdom, for example, may be described as light:
man and other beings always appears as astral light. Passions appear
eye, for example, is at rest; it allows the light to enter and only

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the slightest awareness of doing so. Suppose you have money and deposit
Light on the Path:

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it in the light of Goethe's saying: “Everything transitory
heavy step of the melancholic, the light, springy step of the sanguine
part of the eye; through this one learns to know the inner nature of light
the eye leads him — the light. In this way he comes to the creator

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the astral body. It fills and surrounds his body as an aura of light in which the impulses,
— these are things which can be seen lighting up in the astral body and then
Whatever lights up in us
explained in the light of karma, is particularly important here. It is the concept of
executed. Occult investigation of his destiny in the earlier incarnations brought to light
throw light upon our future. We must think less about the past than about the future. It
that of peoples, will experience in the light of the law of Karma. If efforts are made

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Should but the slightest mistrust arise between teacher and pupil,
and light, warmth and cold, smells and tastes, and impressions from
world of light seems to detach itself from physical reality. When
life-rhythm only very slightly in everyday life. They live carelessly
formation of the human physical body. The eye was created by light,
by the spirits who work in light. Every point of the physical body

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veiled by a sum of images, the incarnations of the rays of light
light. When one looks at this, one will say to oneself: In a certain

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with thesymbols (see text), thirty-three lighted
Softly to greet the ethereal twilight leaping;
Unfolded lies the world in twilight-shimmer;
A very Paradise about me lightens!
The early radiance of the light eternal,
he beheld the world of spirit around him, radiant with light and
external sun gives out least light and warmth — at Christmas time —
spiritual being. No sunlight fell from outside upon these spiritual
beings, for the sunlight was within the earth itself. This was not the
sunlight that shines from outside upon objects and beings to-day, but
it was inner sunlight that glowed within all beings of the earth. Then
came the time when the sun separated from the earth, when its light
light will again be radiant within him. Man must learn to know the
From light, through darkness, to light — such is the path of the
Light within them; their eyes of spirit were opened. This sacred
moment came when the outer light was weakest, when the outer sun was
together and the inner Light revealed itself to them. To those who
pupils knew: This is the Music of the Spheres. Then a faint light
represents the earth; the sun, which otherwise radiates light to the
him, dispelling with its light the darkness of matter. The most holy
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Now lies the world revealed in twilight glimmer,
But in the gorges sinks a light from heaven,
They early may enjoy the light eternal
Life is but light in many-hued reflection.
forces in colored radiance, in brilliant light. He was permitted to
whom no external sunlight shone. The sunlight was within the earth
itself. Its nature differed from the present sunlight, which shines
sun separated from the earth and its light fell upon the earth from
that future time when he is to find the inner light again radiating in
From light, through darkness, to light — such is the course of the
awakened spirit organs, the spiritual light within them. This holy
moment came when the outer light was weakest, on the day when the
and the inner light revealed itself to them.
only light emanating from a dimly lighted disc. Those who saw this
eternal light freed from darkness. Year after year, at midnight on the
coming Christ, of the Spiritual Light, whose festival day falls in the
simultaneously with his decrease the force of the coming light waxes,
them in the conquering light. This they felt and experienced when they
saw the light arise and shine in the darkness. They beheld in the
time when the earth will have completed its evolution and the Light
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the deepest truths. Seeking these truths brings to light how wisdom-filled
Observe a plant. It delights you, though you may know nothing at all of
As light is manifested in the world in seven colors, and the Fundamental

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purview in order to shed light upon a single sentence; in the totality of her (Nature's) manifold
result of the Sun's reflected light. It is the Sun that wakens in the soul the power to behold
for the light. In still earlier times, when as yet man had no outer vision, he had inner vision.
astral light. Men were then endowed with a faculty of dim, shadowy clairvoyance. It was still
gradually passed away altogether. It was extinguished by the strong light of the physical Sun
vision in the astral light, that is to say, perception with organs of soul. Those whom we have
anew, so the astral light in man's constitution was obliged to slumber in order eventually to be
when, in man, the slumbering astral light is reawakened. The Sun's power wakens the seed-corn
occultists call the astral light is born within him. Therefore, Easter is also the festival of

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have given you here slight
that he might be able to behold the inner light, to see it
light up within him.
and more refined, the intellect begins to cast its light

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light upon the occult wisdom of thousands of years ago, an the
him was life and the life was the light of men.
the light shone in the darkness, but the darkness comprehendeth
same came for a witness, to bear witness of the light, that all
was not the light-, but a witness of the Light.
the true Light that lighteth every man was to come into the

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Only in our present epoch is it possible once more to throw light upon

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delightful way it speaks of the Rhine and all these rivers as waters

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you study the flight of the birds, you will find that the birds that
etc. The spring migration is a kind of wedding flight. The regularity
of these flights is guided by the group-souls; they arrange
flights: One species flies in this way, another in that way ... some
rules the flight of the birds.
aspect, but which will appear to us in a new light.
upon the earth with the light that comes down to us from the sun and
light-phenomena. He would follow these through thousands of
meaning; they really existed, when as yet the light of the intellect
did not enlighten man. This light drives away the goblins. Such

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the light of a genuine spiritual method of observation, we
a true delight for the minerals. Thus, in their case, we find
body of man was very slight indeed.
arrived, however, not even the slightest detail concerning
Essentially speaking, they are wedding-flights — for
the birds take flight in order to breed in better climates.

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or on our earth, all he saw as thunder and lightning, as storm
movements of the stars, the light that streams down from the
receiving the spiritual light, the Christ-light, which streams
Christ-light.”
the moon reflects the light of the sun, but more feebly than
the sun's light itself; and he said to himself: “If I look
light; if I look into the moon I am not dazzled; it reflects in
a feebler degree the shining light of the sun.” In this subdued
sunlight, in this moonlight, pouring down on the earth, the
to send down on earth this light of righteousness, toned down
Jehovah-principle, in the old Law — the spiritual light of
spiritual light of the higher Christ-principle. And with the
sun the expression of the spiritual light ruling the earth, the
Christ-light, and in the moon the expression of the reflected
Christ-light, which would blind man in its full strength. And
veiled for him, the blinding sunlight of the spirit. And for
Through the transparent earth he saw the spiritual light of the
sun, the Christ-light. This fact, which marks a profound
the goal. Whoever possesses these will find the light that he
Until again by sunlight warm enveloped,
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Title: Lecture: The Group Souls of Animals, Plants and Minerals
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at the birds in flight, how they sweep over the different regions,

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in this migrating flight of the birds there are wise powers at work;
When the clairvoyant looks at an animal, he sees a glimmer of light
is enveloped in a glimmering light, in innumerable streams of force
as the plants stream towards the sunlight. In that together we turn

Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture I: The New Form of Wisdom
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wisdom. But this Rosicrucian wisdom lit up like a flash of lightning

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particular combination of sunlight and rain clouds. The rainbow cannot
be absent if this combination between sunlight and rain clouds
form of light extending everywhere, but only slightly, beyond the form
The conscious process of transformation lights up for the first time
The “ I ” lights up in the souls and then begins the work on

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bathed in a kind of light, draws out of the other two bodies. To
and sparkles of light and the whole appears like two intertwining
To take delight in the beauty or harmony of things means growth and
development, for this leads us beyond the material world. To delight
Kamaloca state, whereas delight in spiritual art lightens them. Every
noble, spiritual delight shortens the time in Kamaloca. Already during
senses perceive, vanishes, and light flashes up in the sphere

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eye has been formed out of the physical Organisation by light. Light
light-if we perceive the light not merely in a material way. The light
bodies woven out of light. The light that enfolds the earth is
plant nourished by the sunlight receives into itself not the physical
light alone but in very truth the activity of spiritual beings, among
upon the plants as light, weaving as spiritual beings around the
and weaving around it in the light. When we observe how the vegetation
answer is: The souls of the Dead are working in the light which
of Kamaloca we pass into this realm of light. Only those who are able
discovery. When he stands in the sunlight, his body holds up the light
first time when he looks into this shadow. The body holds up the light
etheric body extends only slightly beyond the physical body, in the

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obtain here. These significant facts shed light upon a great deal that

Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture VI: The Law of Destiny
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out a loving thought to someone the seer perceives a form of light
The tendency or disposition comes to light, in the case of the

Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture VII: The Technique of Karma
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differences are very slight, a particular inner form of the organ of

Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture VIII: Human Consciousness in the Seven Planetary Conditions
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sketch or describe what they have experienced, they bring to light

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quality of reflecting everything, such as light, tone, perfume, taste,
threw all light that came from outside back again. Within this Saturn
Among them are to be found two kinds, apart from slight deviations.
sunlight. The plant takes up the sunlight, permeates itself with it
matter without light. So it was with your own body on the Sun, it
permeated itself with light and with other ingredients too, and as the
plant sends back the light after having drawn strength from it, so did
the Sun once upon a time ray back the light after having worked it
over inwardly. But it not only permeated itself with the light, but
own light. Since they were enclosed in the Sun-mass surrounded by a
mass sending out its own light, they worked as dark places. We must
as physical and etheric bodies. These light streams divided in

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and disappear, and after further millions of years light up again
after a twilight state. That is the beginning of the Moon Cycle.
death of Baldur. The Germanic Sun-god or god of Light had once a dream
light to the Earth; Loki, on the contrary, the representative of the
who gave light to the Earth, for they were his equals, they had
the god of light. The mistletoe is also a definite curative remedy, as
Spirit; one also calls them Spirits of Twilight or the Lunar Pitris.
Twilight, to let these blood-juices flow into the human beings.

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a flight into the air, we have the nearest approach to some memory of
“Spirits of Twilight.” We have designated the outstanding
marvelous development of which we can nowadays form not the slightest

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beyond birth and death. Now, for the first time, with the lighting up
protrudes slightly beyond it, in the old Atlantean the etheric head

Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture XIII: The Future of Man
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dignified movements. These are but very slight relics of how man has
Such things throw a definite light on phenomena in our surroundings
two things are interconnected. Thus occultism throws light again and

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nothing into which theosophy cannot shed its light as an
devastated, and when it looked out into the world, no light
development. Even official theology has not the slightest
EXPERIENCE this world of colours and of light.
and it throws light upon the life-path trodden by man so far,

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by a kind of shape of light, and this is the above-mentioned
man appears as a shape of light which corresponds almost
of light, but it more or less resembles the shape of the
can see his etheric body protruding only slightly above the
What a tumult brings the light!

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light of the sun. Even as the light consists of these seven
slight degree when an extremity falls asleep (pins and

Title: Theosophy and Rosicrucianism: Lecture IV: Man's Further Destinies in the Spiritual Worlds
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him to see the light, but an organ enabling him instead to
with light, but he would perceive electricity in every wire,
as a kind of shadow-form, and round about it radiant light.
surround by raying light.

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just as little sad as lightning or thunder in physical life.
the light and for the light.” What does this mean? The
eye must exist in order to perceive the light. If we did not
the light itself, and similarly the eye would degenerate if there
were no light. It has, for instance, been possible to observe
Light is the
the light of the sun. All the other sense organs developed in
slightly idiotic. In reality this is based on the defective
except that there the light plays the same part which the air
midst of light, which is spread out everywhere. A clairvoyant
through the light and change the plant. In the spiritual
we retain the physical light, we perceive the spiritual in

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viewed in the right light, mother-love does not suffer in any

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of sunlight. The substances which are generally used for the
Karma does not throw light upon abstract riddles of the
understood in the light of this law. A contradiction can only

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transformed all its beings into Beings of Light ...
light of the planetary evolution.

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phenomenon did not only consist of light, but also of tones and
observed like a dark mass, like dark forms against the light, like
attention to one point: If you take the words, “I am the Light
great Sun Hero, and that the Light which belongs to the Sun
Twilight”. The whole host belonging to the Holy Ghost is

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but this phenomenon did not only consist of light, but also
dark forms against the light, like obtuse. caverns in the
“I am the Light of the World”
the Christ is the great Sun Hero, and that the Light which
Fathers” and “Spirits of Twilight”. The

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coincide, but the etheric body slightly protrudes above the
light flooding through space as the etheric gold, and gold is
looked upon as the condensed light of the sun. The ancient
connection between the light of the sun and gold, and they
took in the following image: “The light of the Sun, the
they perceived the masses of water still permeated by light;

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process (but in the light of spiritual science it is an
the extent of enabling him to participate in the light raying
in the light of spiritual science this presents strange
whole development of the earth. In the light of occultism,
light of spiritual science.
science thus throws light upon that which surrounds us. We

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in the true light, we may therefore perceive that upon
light is it possible to understand the words of Christ Jesus:
Him was the life, and the life became the light of men. And
the light shone in the darkness, but the darkness did not
witness to bear witness of the Light, that all men through
him might believe. He was not the Light, but a witness for
the Light; for the true Light which lighteth every man had
is born through the light for the light. Light is the source

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baby. Such things must simply be explained in the light of

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this light.

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the “clever, enlightened men”, who have
Light of men.
5. And the Light shone in the darkness,
witness of the Light, that through him all men might
8. He was not that Light, that came to
bear witness of the Light.
9. For the true Light, which
enlighteneth all men, was to come into the world.
(in the Vulcan Period.) If in the light of this we study the

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bodies, one which throws a strong light upon human nature.
him the world of colour and light does not exist. Man is in

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their forces to us with the physical sunlight. These two
“Light” streamed forth from the Sun-Logos, but
principle, was still weak and dim. The “light,”
a few men who had already received the light to a high degree
“light” from their own experience, those who were
would offer the light to all, were in the occult teaching
(was John.1:7 The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the LightChapter 1:6-7).

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schools did not look upon this enlightenment, as wrong; the
Christian occult schools the true Light-bearer, the true

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9 Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world. \
10 But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him. \
were called Children of God; in such men “the light
shone into the Darkness and they received the light.”
built by light for light;” in the same way this inner
inner light in man, just as the physical Sun has enkindled
the light of the eyes.

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understood they throw light upon much that is still dark in
electric light. An immense amount of mental power has been

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the forest and in the rippling of the brook. In lightning and
turns chastely towards the sun, towards the light. It opens
its flowers in the light of the sun and lets it ripen the
light is described as the touching with the Sun's sacred
Man turns his head to the sun, to the light; and
what the plant turns towards the light, its organs of

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karma, and it seems quite in order to lighten the karma, of
that is to say, it can lighten their karma and can thus be
all men, because this deed lightens the karma of all those
enlightenment from it.

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religions light is mentioned in the sense of wisdom, of spiritual
speaks of light and would thereby point to wisdom, this he does not
be developed. This image of the light, therefore, has a deep
body hold within it the seed of light. This will stream out into the
only through the reflected light of the sun. Someday, however, it
astral bodies will stream out as light into world space, as it was
correctly, calls these beings, Spirits of Light or Elohim.
become that being of light of whom we spoke is called the
our bodies, so wisdom relates itself to light that streams out into
cosmic space. You see, the relation between light and wisdom is not
Thus is it to be explained that religious documents speak of light as
he should picture space as dark, shutting out all light either by the
of light. If he does this exercise in the proper way, a visualization
can be built up of a fully lighted space. Through inner forces light
can be engendered, not physical light, but a precursor of what later
perception. This inner light in which creative wisdom appears is also
called the astral light. When the student engenders light through
meditation, the light will truly become for him garments of spiritual
light, such as the human being will one day also become, are even now
light, but will also sound forth. In the ancient Pythagorean

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would come to Light. What we, in the occult sense, term Earth, Water,
could be compared with a Fata Morgana, so light and fleeting were

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itself without being related to the number two. Light alone cannot
a duality. There could never be a world filled with manifest light
light and shadow appear in the manifest world, and behind these lies
what is now to be said about one will appear in the right light. The
because that is the colour that will be reflected. But in white light
separate red from white light without leaving the other colours

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Fairy Tales in the Light of Spiritual Investigation

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like beams of light streaming out from Saturn. The best way to picture
this is to think of ancient Saturn encircled by beams of light, just
itself these light-masses developed into the present star clusters comprised
existence went forth in the light-streams, and out of a small portion
comes to light when we compare planetary existence with zodiacal existence.

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no opportunity of throwing light upon the higher realms of spiritual
ancient Sun planet had an extraordinarily fine light substance, far
lighter than our present substance. At that time there was no kind of
we call “Uranus,” and which therefore has but slight connection
at things in the right light.

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have seen Saturn, for in the earliest stage it sent out no light at
all. To shed light the cosmic body must first become a sun, or be united
you and you look into his eye; you send your light into the eye of the
lightning flash or heard thunder pealing, but round him in the astral
light he would have perceived the passions of spiritual beings —
have been before!” If any particularly “enlightened”

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plant, and mineral kingdoms. Origins of light and air, heart,
out of the Pralaya, the twilight condition which it passed through after
same time light arises. — Warmth-matter is still dark, not permeated
by light. But when a portion of the warmth in such a cosmic sphere condenses
to gas or air, then a portion of this matter can let light come through.
the ocean depths, where it is impossible for a ray of light to penetrate,
there are beings which shine, shedding their own light. And thus at
that time the human being began to radiate light.
of the light is there too and is manifested in the first beginnings
just described as the human beings radiated an individual light, and
this light became the total light that shone out into the uni-verse.
warmed but sending its light out into space.
and spread out light, it went out of the earth.
a portion of the light-force. This was an interesting stage of humanity's
evolution. I. have shown that the light laid the foundation of the nervous
system. The nervous system is a creation of the light. In all your nerves
you have the original streaming-in of the light. Now the light, the
had the power of creating inner light-pictures, visions; clairvoyant
of the earth, left the earth without light, but the beings created an
inner light. Formerly they had shone out to the light that shone towards
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to an airy-state and light arose, on the one hand a sort of air-system
the influence of the light a kind of inwardly perceiving nerve-system
and the nerve-and-light system was at first a kind of glandular system,
attacked. Enlightened circles will not be able in any case to understand
Rotation of Time, the actual Spirits of Light. Through the fact that
and must again decline, how it attains its highest point in the flight
which begins with the words: “In the beginning was the Light,”
in humanity's evolution. For in referring to the light that arose,
one speaks, in so far as one can speak of light, of something externally
as a manifestation of the light. The “Word,” however, is
of light had appeared there existed in man “what was, what is,
Primal Beginning was not the Light, but the Word. The Gospel of St.
to knowledge, in the future full knowledge will shine with light and

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Ragnarök, the “Götterdämmerung” (Twilight of
the significance of this ‘Twilight’ of the Gods was everywhere made
Anyone in the slightest degree capable of interpreting the signs of
meaning of Christmas in the light of the Mystery-knowledge. If from a

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and shedding more light on it.
in order through His mission to throw a light upon the whole succeeding
Darkness; people thought: Darkness is a negation of light, light is real,
They ascribed reality to the Spirits who manifest in light, but to Satan
well a reality even if he is only the negation of light.
together with his companions, the Elohim. The Spirits of Light belong
which reflected the sun's light to the earth, but he is a companion
Angels, Archangels, and a slight idea too of the Original Forces and

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denied in our enlightened age, for man in his present phase of development
The enlightened man knows nothing of them. People, however, who have
further light on the beings that stand below man. But first we must

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the elemental beings whose existence is naturally viewed by the enlightened
enlightened person says that people talk of elemental beings and call
lights up. This condition of daily waking in consciousness, nightly
for instance, Egypt and Rome. This is only in a very slight degree true
not the slightest idea. All these things are founded on good grounds
— who is a positive reality — has just slightly contacted

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only when viewed in the light of spiritual science that events in the
The enlightened materialist can at any rate see that an impression is
to confront the free soul, but employs, even in the slightest degree,
as a flight from the physical world. All that happens here is taken

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that may seem to the man of the present enlightened age — as one
says — which is not in the least enlightened in regard to many
or mind soul takes flight into the astral world every night, something
What a tumult brings the light!
to earth the light of spiritual life. Such a life impulse must increasingly

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mode of thought, it appeared to them in the light described
philosophical things, of the Logos, of Life, of Light!

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are to appear to us in the right light. We must recall to
surrounding the human being. It is a body of light, only it
when seen with clairvoyant vision, it appears as Light,
spiritual Light. Our physical light is only transformed
spiritual Light and the physical sunlight is the embodiment
of the divine-spiritual auric, cosmic Light which is its
source. In the present world there is a light streaming down
upon us from the sun. But there is yet another light which
light-body is added: Life becomes Light! Here we have the
living, the Logos which was Life and which became Light. What
now able not only to live in Light and in Life, but also
confronting the Logos, Life, and Light. Therefore everything
Light; then when the human creature became endowed with an
ego, the Logos as Light confronted him. But he had to learn
Logos which became Life, then Light, and this Light lives in
darkness, into the ignorance, the Light shone. And the
recognize the Light of the Logos.
became the Light of men. And the Light shone into the
Light is recounted later on in the Gospels.

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passing through its existence as the Sun, and it became Light
Light. Within this creature's inmost being, during life upon
the Earth, the light of the ego itself was now enkindled and
by a mist, by a kind of light-aura, when we walk through the
upon the earth, revealing to him by means of visible light
in the outer sunlight. But the sunlight is not merely
material light. To spiritual perception, it is just as much
sunlight, you should consider it just as you consider the
inner nature. The sunlight has the same relationship to the
Logos as your body has to your soul. In the sunlight
streams down upon the Earth. Not alone the physical sunlight
die if the physical sunlight did not act upon them —
but together with the physical sunlight, the warm love of the
light, that light which at the same time enkindled love. The
light shone into the darkness, but the darkness was unable
yet to comprehend it. If this light, which is at the same
grasp this light of love. But love streamed into human beings
of light. Because the light of the sun streams down upon the
exalted existence. Seven principle Spirits of Light, who at
physical light of the sun contains within it the spiritual
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Title: Gospel of John: Lecture IV: The Raising of Lazarus
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just as animals who have never been exposed to the light have
no eyes. The light forms the eye, sound fashions the ear.
acted like light upon the eye and sound upon the ear. In this
incarnated Logos, the Light of the World, etc.” It is
and Life was the Light of men.
And the Light
came as a witness in order to bear witness of the Light that
the Light but was a witness of the Light.
Light which lighteth every man should come into the
the light of day. I have already pointed out that when the
Christ said, “I am the Light of the World,” He
those into whose individual egos the Light of the World might
not yet able to apprehend the Light of the World. What
appeared as Life, Light, and Logos in Christ-Jesus, has
matured did not recognize it. The Light was always there, for
Only because the Light became transformed into that light
maturity. “The Light shone in the darkness but the
existence at all, had not the Light been rayed into it by the
knowledge of the Logos, of the Light, and of Life and could
they could not as individuals receive the Light which had
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Title: Gospel of John: Lecture V: The Seven Degrees of Initiation
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was active as an inspirer. But it was the true Light, the
soul-spirit nature, so too is the light of the sun the
expression of a soul-spirit light. All that occurs apparently

Title: Gospel of John: Lecture VI: The "I AM"
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he beheld the dazzling, astral light. When he plunged into

Title: Gospel of John: Lecture VII: The Mystery of Golgotha
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by an aura of light, for he would be perceiving the earth's
physical sunlight is falling upon the earth. Therefore the
light of the sun appears to us like the outer physical body
which formerly could only stream down upon the earth as light
physical light which can be seen with physical eyes depart,
stood the Elohim, the real Spirits of Light, the denizens of
consciousness, or the light of those worlds is flashing up

Title: Gospel of John: Lecture IX: The Prophetical Documents and the Origin of Christianity
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the aid of the God of Light this substantial field of reality

Title: Gospel of John: Lecture X: The Effect of the Christ Impulse Within Mankind
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very easily proven historically, and light could be thrown

Title: Gospel of John: Lecture XI: Christian Initiation
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through which they can distinguish only light and darkness,

Title: Gospel of John: Lecture XII: The Nature of the Virgin Sophia and of the Holy Spirit
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surrounded by light, spiritual light. This second power that

Title: Apocalypse of John: Introductory Lecture
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brilliant light than they showed first to the mere believer,
radiant points, gradually evolved until light itself dawned
which the light shines and tones resound out of the
world of light and sound. And so the time came when normal
the spiritual world, but not in a dull twilight state. The
brought through Christ Jesus then a lightning-flash illumines
very lightly to-day that theosophy should seek the common
give more than a slight sketch. When through Spiritual

Title: Apocalypse of John: Lecture I
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light was to ray into that knowledge which could be given in
irradiated with a new light through the anthroposophical
sunlight plastically moulded the physical eyes, and the world
receive impressions of light, these influence the etheric and

Title: Apocalypse of John: Lecture II
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or life-body which projects very slightly round about the
flashes of lightning, many in curious twists; all this
of light. The astral body is the expression of his passions,
night. It manifests different light-effects; it shows that
slight perception when his inner organs have been developed
first and last “days” are twilight days. We are

Title: Apocalypse of John: Lecture III
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Light.
once the God of Light who had an enemy, external matter, the
dark Ahriman. At first I was united with the Spirit of Light,
Light, I shall work upon matter and embody the spirit in it.
Deity, the Spirit of Light, will reappear.” “I am the first

Title: Apocalypse of John: Lecture V
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externally to light up; so that if one follows it, it appears
glimmer, and towards the end sends forth a dim light into the
so far that it radiated light. This was because it consisted
usually called the Spirits of Twilight or Angels. They also

Title: Apocalypse of John: Lecture VI
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twilight, man would have been unable to find the path of his
light to us to-day is inhabited by spiritual beings, just as
Genesis they are called Elohim, Spirits of Light. For a time
the earth from the sun. These Elohim, these Spirits of Light,
same light which later shone down physically from the sun,
to the same extent arose the external light which represents
the deeds of the spiritual beings of the sun; the light of
prepared himself to look upon the external light as something
material. The light shone in his then darkened inner being,
but the light was not then comprehended by his darkness. This
appears in a new light; and this takes place extremely
event in the earth's history, which will throw light on the

Title: Apocalypse of John: Lecture VII
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its totality this appears in a different light. The wasps
time the Earth came forth from the twilight. All things are
the true Light-bearer; for Lucifer means the Light-bearer.
Why is Christ called the true Light-bearer? Because through
humanity by the true Light-bearer, Christ Jesus. He brought

Title: Apocalypse of John: Lecture VIII
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love, even if only in the slightest degree.

Title: Apocalypse of John: Lecture X
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pictures and is but slightly related to the real external
like delicate flames, partly like a cloud of light. All this

Title: Apocalypse of John: Lecture XI
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Gospel holds good: “The light shone into the darkness and the
order that humanity might be led forth into the age of light.
Then appears the age of which it must be said, “The light
shines in darkness and the darkness comprehends the light.“

Title: Apocalypse of John: Lecture XII
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slight indication of the way in which black magic is
new light. It will no longer call forth anxiety and

Title: Reading Pictures of the Apocalypse: Part 1: Lecture Two
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astral light, not the darkness, nothing of what today's human being
by spiritual light and beings that are incarnated within the spiritual
light. These beings became visible in the astral light. Then, after
awhile, the astral world full of flowing light began to resound with
the “Gotterdammerung,” the twilight of the gods.
the I lights up in the course of evolution then the astral and etheric
see groups of beings undergoing transformation in the astral light:
The quality and being of the astral light is indicated by the
transparency. In the astral light we can see through objects; they
the spiritual beings in the astral light for awhile, they begin to sound
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Title: Reading Pictures of the Apocalypse: Part 1: Lecture Three
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light that shoot forth from a human being, and are then united in a
refresh humankind and begin to pull it out of materialism. In the light
on the other days of the year as we send out our thoughts as rays of light,
in the proper light will say: If someone places their weak spiritual
not yet have found the light within. Because egotism is the fundamental

Title: Reading Pictures of the Apocalypse: Part 1: Lecture Four
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this world of light is penetrated by tones.
letters to the seven communities. Then the enlightenment achieved through
a world flooded with light, pictures, and forms. That is described to
did not have eyes — they couldn't perceive light and color. Human
organs previously — by turning to the light they developed eyes.

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the initiator led the etheric body out of the physical body, enlightenment
occurred and the enlightened one experienced the spiritual world; after
the supreme moment of the initiation — when the enlightened Hebrew
to them in a glorious light. What they had experienced as a future event,

Title: Reading Pictures of the Apocalypse: Part 2: Lecture Three
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earth's productive powers. The Nordic myth of the Twilight of the Gods

Title: Reading Pictures of the Apocalypse: Part 2: Lecture Four
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of death. In this original home it became light and bright around them.
light between death and a new birth. The teaching of
in this way: Only by uniting with the Light of Osiris, the Osiris impulse,
light and brightness for them.

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if the light coming forth from this event had not had its effect. After
not meant to undertake such lofty flights of the spirit and see the spirit

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But, just as we do not see the light of the sun directly on the
moon but only reflected sunlight. so ton Moses saw a reflection
of Christ. And just as we call sunlight that has been reflected
by the moon, moonlight, so Christ, at that time was called Yahveh.
essential being, just as sunlight announces itself through the rays
of moonlight at night when, were it not for the full moon, the sky
as reflected light.” Lecture of September 21, 1909, Basel, in

Title: Reading Pictures of the Apocalypse: Part 2: Lecture Seven
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in this light.

Title: Reading Pictures of the Apocalypse: Part 2: Lecture Nine
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by human hands. The rider with a bow is as innocent as bright sunlight.
them. Only through the event of Golgotha did light again penetrate into
impulse, the astral body becomes brighter and more filled with light.
We can imagine how an astral body that is permeated by the light of the
the light of Christ. [Gap in manuscript]
and light-filled
and spiritual life blood in the future. It will be the light that will

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18:1 And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory. \
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Title: Reading Pictures of the Apocalypse: Part 2: Lecture Twelve
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provide the light. We read, “And the city has no need of sun or
(is the lightRev. 21:23)

Title: Universe/Earth/Man: Lecture I: The Egyptian period, and the present time
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of light fell from Osiris upon Isis, a kind of miraculous birth took
which the sunlight penetrates; think, how many of those who were able
tones ring forth, whose outward image was the wonderful light split
humanity in separate rays of power, split up like the light which
streamed in through the coloured windows. The partition of the light
may be seen towering upwards as a form of light above the horse's nose

Title: Universe/Earth/Man: Lecture II: Ancient Wisdom and the new Apocalyptic Wisdom
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destruction. At this second stage of evolution light and darkness were

Title: Universe/Earth/Man: Lecture III: The Kingdoms of Nature
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peculiarly formed rays. Picture to yourselves forms of light, or rays,
clairvoyantly you see this physical form surrounded by the light of
world hung on thousands and thousands of threads of spiritual light
by the light-forms of the etheric body, these rays of light appear to
forces within our astral bodies. Physical light is but the external
body of the astral light which radiates from the sun, and the
of the sunlight, allow to sink through their bodies into the earth.
psychically in the plant, which longs for the soul of the light that
the realm of the Angels; they are also called Spirits of Twilight. Then
the Angels, or Spirits of Twilight. In fact one such Spirit watches

Title: Universe/Earth/Man: Lecture IV: The Outer Manifestations of Spiritual Beings in the Elements
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Anthroposophical parlance Spirits of Twilight; they may also in
whom we have described as Angels, or Spirits of Twilight. Their
towards us in the light for light to us is a still finer condition
than warmth. Wherever there is anything that sends forth light we
recognize in this light the garment of exalted Beings, those to whom
the sun originated and now sends its light down to the earth from
outside. In the sunlight the spiritual nature of the Spirits of Form
streams down to us, hence I said that light is the garment of these
Spirits. When we see the bright light of the sun streaming down to us
matured Powers shone in the sunlight upon the earth as Spirits of
light. It is true that he did see in a certain sense, in a spiritually
time when the sun forces sent their light to man, although he could

Title: Universe/Earth/Man: Lecture V: The sacrifice of substance by the Thrones, Kyriotetes, Dynamis, and Exusiai
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Jehovah, and the Sun Powers, those who sent light to earth from
outside, are called in the Bible the Elohim, or Spirits of Light.
sent down their forces to us with the light — the Spirits of Form
light, it did not shine; only towards the end of its development did
of the Sun, radiated forth the illuminating power of light into space;
before him. Everything around him becomes light and clear because he
Exusiai; they are the Elohim, who give to us their Sun-light, also
divine form. The Elohim poured the sun-force as light upon the earth.
The God Jehovah renounced the outer form of light; he streamed to earth
death. Through the air, which the light penetrates, the Spirits of the

Title: Universe/Earth/Man: Lecture VII: Animal forms - the physiognomical expression of human passions
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The Light of Christ.
Animal forms — the physiognomical expression of human passions. The religion of Egypt — a remembrance of Lemurian times. Fish and serpent symbols. The remembrance of Atlantis in Europe. The Light of Christ.
developed a certain light. This lantern, when the pineal gland was
fishes which at times develop a light remind us of them) when there
physical sunlight. Ever stronger will that light become, which as
Spiritual Sunlight, or Christ-light, will irradiate mankind from
within as the physical sunlight illuminates him from without.

Title: Universe/Earth/Man: Lecture VIII: Mans connection with the various planetary bodies
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those forms of the mineral kingdom through which the light passes, to
man dimly during the Sun period, and to a slight extent he has it

Title: Universe/Earth/Man: Lecture XI: The progress of Man
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were outside the physical body and etheric body, the direct sunlight
did not fall upon man, only sunlight that was reflected from the moon.
Man absorbed this reflected light, not the direct sunlight. This is
case of the Christ, Who lived as the spiritual part of the sunlight,
and with Jehovah, who reflected the true Christ-light until such time

Title: Universe/Earth/Man: Lecture X: The reflection in the fourth epoch of mans experiences
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no clouds which reflect the light to us, our ego as it is now would
his connection with the physical world was very slight; because of
full of spiritual light where he perceived spiritual beings; where, to
nature of the Angels and Archangels. Just as light is still light
Light, the Sun-God, This was the same being who was called Osiris. It
“Twilight of the Gods.”
throws light on much that had taken place in our time.
during life, could he take over with him that which brought light

Title: Universe/Earth/Man: Lecture XI: The Reversing of Egyptian Remembrance by way of Arabism.
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lightning, and if anyone found occasion to mock at the Apocalypse
earth 'mid lightning and thunder!”

Title: Egyptian Myths: Lecture 1: Spiritual Connections between the Culture-streams of Ancient and Modern Times.
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will throw more light upon these relationships; we will consider not

Title: Egyptian Myths: Lecture 2: The Reflection of Cosmic Events in the Religious Views of Men.
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when we follow them more closely they will throw light into the depths
all like it. It is a wonderful light-form, containing streams and
seed is only a shadow of this wonderful spiritual light-form beheld by
example) a light-form, a beautiful form, which in reality is not there
We must realize that a sublime light-principle, that of the sun, was
light-aura. What one would have sensed as a light-principle, one would
allowing this light to go forth, would suddenly have appeared
when the street lamps seem surrounded by a light-aura, we will have a
like an inner lighting-up, an inner repetition, in ideas and feelings,
light and darkness we have the religious consciousness of the primeval
moon. Ahura Mazdao or Ormuzd, the Light-aura, is the being whom the

Title: Egyptian Myths: Lecture 3: The Old Initiation Centers. The Human Form as the Subject of Meditation.
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but earth and moon still formed one body, came to light during the
system in the opposition of the light-principle in the sun-aura to the
enlightened persons, were successors of men who had already lived in
sketching out the whole of evolution and mentioning the light-form in

Title: Egyptian Myths: Lecture 4: The Experiences of Initiation. The Mysteries of the Planets. The Descent of the Primeval Word.
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itself; but then, also, what lights up in you as your innermost
of the earth came upon me did the spirit become filled with light, and

Title: Egyptian Myths: Lecture 5: The Genesis of the Trinity of Sun, Moon, and Earth. Osiris and Typhon.
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There was a translucent vapor, permeated by warmth and light. Think
condensation of the gases the light grew ever stronger, so that
earth was still irradiated by light and rayed its light into
world-space. But this light made it possible, not only that man should
fullness of the light there should also live all those other high
only were these present. In the fullness of the light lived still
fullness of the light, more and more detaching themselves therefrom,
into space as light, the light with which the earth-body was
permeated, was not light only but also what was later the mission of
the earth: It was the force of love. This contained the light as its
most important component. We must imagine that not only light was
rayed forth, not physical light alone, but that this light was
though it were a gaseous ball that simply radiates light. Such a
on the sun, and in the light of the sun there descends the force of
heart. The sun can never send mere physical light to earth; the
sunlight. With the sunlight there stream to earth the forces of the
than the light. But since all this that is present in the sun today
permeated by light. If we imagine a cloud formed with some regularity,
glowing with inner light, we have the men of that time who, for the
chalice-like form, illuminated and warmed by the light, with no firm
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Title: Egyptian Myths: Lecture 6: The Influence of Osiris and Isis. Facts of Occult Anatomy and Physiology.
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light of the sun, while Osiris worked only as the light of the sun.
Why has the being whom we know as Osiris become darkened? The light
the force of the sunlight in such a way that, when the moon later
sunlight from the moon to the earth. Thus at first we see the sun
sunlight from the moon to the earth. Osiris is laid into a chest,
“Osiris, it is you who from the moon send me the light of the
But this light of the sun is reflected in a different form every day.
fourteen phases of growth, in order to guide the light of the sun to
yet withdrawn, man in his light-form did not have the foundation for

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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the sun, the inner part of this human formation began to light up and
with the eyes of today, on approaching such a light-form one would
completely filled with fire-flies raying their light out into cosmic
consisted of an air-mass, of gleaming light-disseminating bodies,
parts, although above he still had the last remnants of a light-form
possible for the light-beings to work into man. He moved about in the
primal ocean, floating and swimming, with this remarkable light-form
protruding out of the water-earth. What was this light-form? In the
transformed light-organ. Attached to this was the spine, from which
was then such that one still, saw that light-body, that remarkable
moon, whence he reflected the light of the sun. What this god did was

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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light-organ, was entirely etheric, an illuminated air-form. Only the
taking hold, from the moon, that influence of the moonlight which the

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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however, today we must throw a little light on certain other facts of
an aura of light. In his sleep man rose to the spiritual worlds and
hovering above, and all of this in the full moonlight. Now the
day-consciousness began to light up. The night was without
task to be fulfilled. He also looked up into the regions of light,
powers of light and the powers of darkness. The physical world became
the beneficent fullness of light, the god Ahura Mazdao or Ormuzd, and
to the heavens, and the light of the stars was not merely Maya for
gods. In the blaze of the lightning, in the rolling of the thunder, in
number of cosmic truths light up in the soul that can simply feel how
throng, when the pious congregation is assembled, when the light of
preacher in the cathedral pulpit would say, “Even as the light
is split into many colors, so is the single spiritual light, the

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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this in myths and sagas, was it possible for a ray of light to
are only slightly infected with some form of materialism, what I am
light-flowing astral body was permeated by the ego. Before the ego
permeated with golden light. The search for the astral body is

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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rayed through by the astral and etheric light. This was accurately
will be raised to light one day, wisdom that mankind formerly

Title: Egyptian Myths: Lecture 12: The Christ Impulse as Conqueror of Matter.
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dawning, a few months after the first full daylight, a few weeks after
sayings take on light and meaning when one senses the spiritual
of people. We look with legitimate delight today on such things as the

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suppose that two individuals see a flash of lightning and have a quite

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enclosed astral structure; yet, in spite of having not the slightest
can be brought to light with the methods of occult research. You will
reflections. When you shed light there with the facts of occult research

Title: Lecture: History of the Physical Plane and Occult History
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other side this was a flame of light which sprang up like

Title: Astral World: Lecture III: The Law of the Astral Plane: Renunciation
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light up that express what is taking place in astral space. One does
is the content of Kamaloca. Just as light may be differentiated into

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pain through this sense in the same way in which he perceives the light
throw light upon the most primitive aspects of things in order to grasp,

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qualified anthroposophy is to throw light on life in the widest
it also throws light on the great span of human existence that
only throw light on forgetting by turning our attention to its
forgetting assume a slightly different form. They change in such a

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these concepts gain new meaning in the light of our latest

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 3: Original Sin
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it light or sound, heat or cold, hardness or softness or this or that

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bring light into the most everyday things of life. One must have the

Title: Mephistopheles and Earthquakes
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upright and pious man and of how the sons of the Lord of Light present
themselves before Him. Among them is a certain enemy of the Light. In
a conversation between the enemy of the Light and the supreme Lord,
this enemy of the Light says that he has “gone to and fro in the
thou my servant Job?” and the enemy of the Light — for so we will
earlier to the stage where he said: This delights and attracts me,
the Divine whence he had proceeded, beholding the Gods of Light
enable them to perceive that part of the spiritual world of light
parallel with initiation, figures which from a world of Light
opponent of these worlds of Light, it was inevitable that he too
When part of the world of Light was accessible to these Atlantean men,
part of the world opposing the world of Light was also visible; the
figures belonging to the world of light were as fascinating and
of the heavens, thunder, lightning, clouds, air — all would have been
(“Angra Mainyu”), the Being who opposed the God of Light proclaimed
were taught of the workings of the sublime God of Light to whom they
to the influence of Ahriman are brought to light in that the evil
by the ancient Initiates concerning the Spirits of Light who are the
air and water, in cloud formations, in lightning and thunder — all
a reaction on the earth against the good Beings of Light.
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of enlightenment in his previous life, but he could not get through
overcome the blockage, and the awaited enlightenment ensues. The
must not necessarily think of spiritual enlightenment every time;

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would have taken no delight in what surrounds him on the earth;
‘I’ or ego — for the ‘I’ lights up in the
spirit with radiance and light; we have said that the appearance of
Christ is verily the Light which leads out of error and sin, the Light
men after Him, and in the light of this Spirit their labors must
proceed. What is it that works onward in the light of this Spirit? The
lifts into the full light of consciousness that in Christianity which
blazons the way for Christ. Lucifer is the bearer of the Light —
Christ is the Light! As the word itself denotes, Lucifer is the
“Bearer of the Light”. That is what the spiritual scientific movement
Himself reign as the Light over the Lodge of the Twelve. The
that Christ is the Spirit Who fills the world with light. And the
light of the world's foundations, apprehended as a real and active
not be altered in the slightest, no matter whether I do or do not
radiance and light before his soul.
Patmos amid thunder and lightning is held to be unintelligible
in a new form; Luciferus, the sovereign Bearer of Light, will be
not unaware of the significance of thunder and lightening as an

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significant events if we want to throw light on the real nature of
them apart from man, appear on the one hand as the happy light of

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 8: The Manifestation of the Ego in the Different Races of Men
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forces, like the sun sends its light, from outside on to the earth.
its surface are exposed to the sunlight, gave rise to innumerable

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light permeating it from top to bottom. In the lily of the valley,
light or etheric body of the lily of the valley. When a spiritual
Catholicism or Protestantism. If, through a slight turn of the wheel
old causes will have disappeared, and out of which new light will
concepts that both enlighten man about the world and engender in him

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actually became a delight in this career for those whom he
with delights, allowing his soul to experience an elevation
impressions, even the impression of sun and light, only formed
surreptitiously sending away the light of day during the night,
appears illuminated in a dazzling bright astral light when
soul, back into the light of a spiritual observation, if one
spiritual spheres above the being of the spiritual light, this

Title: Lecture: The Theory of Categories / Kategorienlehre
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the place of light the non-light comes, through the
obliteration (obscuring??) of the light the shadow-picture

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the joyful message filled your soul with delight and pleasure
plane. You can imagine light images in the astral world which
one moment either light or less luminous, less radiant or
there on the astral plane. However these light bodies show not
mere light and different colour images but also all other
on the physical plane. In contrast, what meets light there, has
it lives within these light bodies and experiences warmth and
intelligence in such a flight of birds. Various birds come from
and adversity rule, where every animal group has a light-form
from the light-form of evil and ugliness, which had been at one
light soul form can only be acquired through treading the evil
light filled being is with an upwards reach while connecting
colour, the world of light: the human being expands, he or she
lives into this light world. In this manner the sensory world
that they belong to one another, and experience an enlightening
slightest insignificance here, it is totally valid that you

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ever lighter, so through actual knowledge of cosmic

Title: Lecture Series: The Rishis
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Side, that life in the spirit can defeat death. Like lightening
taken to the Other Side. Before the Fourth Epoch, light shone
That which is won here on earth serves to lighten up the world

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because perhaps through spiritual science the right light may
to imagine him for themselves as a spiritual light Being.

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emitting clear light. To the early Atlantean, every object on
light and clear after death.
lightning-flash in that other world. It was as though the
lightning. Now, for the first time, something could be made
dawn upon you there. In yonder world they become a light
which lightens the spiritual world anew. And so it was when
time, that world was flooded with light. And more and more,
the underworld, comes the great impulse of Light. Existence

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was no bright sunlight to reveal to them in clear outlines
fog through which the sunlight could not penetrate to the
lightning and thunder, whose expressions are the plants and
force of the Sun's light, Feeling that in it you are
of Greece when with all their delight in the physical world, men
was as though light flashed through the spiritual worlds. For
ever clearer light. Everything existing in the physical world
the light of which shone before his eyes of soul as it had

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and when the blood ran out they were delighted, for now, they
appear and act and enlighten man as to what happens in the
went out one evening and sat under the poplar tree, lighted a fire,
home. The next evening they went out again, lighted a fire, and lay
same thing happened; they lighted a fire, and the youngest brother
surprise, so he set about finding a light. He saw a little light
day might not begin. Then he went further to fetch light and fire,
the magician who had imprisoned her noticed their flight, he mounted
the spiritual world is approaching its twilight. Human beings are

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sun surrounds our entire earthly mass with warmth and light.
beings and that in each ray of sunshine not only physical light
beings these are, who live in the light and warmth of the sun
and who work into the earth from there, flooding us with light
reported story of Christianity in the correct light. We can ask
united with the earth. One can well ask: what was this light
objects in colour and light. When in the night, the physical

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slight the wealth of observation and discovery that has been accumulated

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us in our daily life — our attitude should be slightly different.
Goethe was delighted with this description. Heinroth meant that

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things have an enlightening effect on our understanding of
it, sun light was not something physical, but rather every
the light of spiritual illumination fell on Saul-Paul near

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development. When observed in this light, a perspective of the

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only slight discussion about it, but it was accepted in a
light, there opens before us from the spiritual-scientific

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the right light on the issue. Let us begin to characterize
modern form will bring about the twilight of our culture.
sunlight. But together with the physical sunlight, a
were thrown, its flight could not continue unless the air
time who will be intelligible only when studied in the light
Jesus will increasingly light up in human beings as the
intellectual enlightenment of human beings; it is a reality,

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memory of which ours cannot have the slightest notion. We
surrounded by a circle of light similar to that we see around
the light of street lamps in the evening fog. And during
the head was open, and rays of light penetrated this opening,

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lightning struck nearby and killed his little sister. This

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also by the magnificent sunlight that shines on us
message must be delivered in the light of sincerity, even
long for the light of anthroposophy. And especially a strong
guiding light of this great individual, for those who, like
their spiritual light radiate into the areas of spiritual
harmonizing light of Francis of Assisi, which he received as
of Nazareth. Something of this light will radiate into this
depart. Let us look up to the light of Francis of Assisi; let
light that shines into our souls from the outside. In such a
sunlight. In times when nature renews itself or when she

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the Easter tidings, the light kindled by the Easter Festival, are
to light, that the wisdom of the Mysteries is now emerging to become
Enlightened One. Whereupon a miraculous fire would stream down from
Enlightened One, would be lifted from earthly into spiritual
the second the fire which amid lighting and thunder appeared to Moses
on Sinai amid lighting and thunder when the Ten Commandments were
cosmos, to the rolling thunder. When the fiery lightning is generated
it is true, rings out in the thought. Lightning in the clouds
life pervading our nervous system. And just as lightning in the action
Lightning in the formations of the air, and we hear the rolling
upwards, men see the lightning, hear the thunder, and say to
through the universe, Whose warmth is in the lightning, Whose nerves
fiery lightning.
nerves. As you have lightning and thunder in the macrocosm, so you
fiery lightning on Sinai, was present as the Christ in the blood of
announces Himself on Sinai in the thunder and fiery lightning; and the
enlightenment could not yet find complete redemption. The
streaming from the Mystery of Golgotha is also able to shed light on a
at first we cannot see. But if we kindle a light the objects in the
darkness. But when the light that streams from Golgotha is kindled,

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mighty lights and emblems on the horizon of the spirit
second is the fire appearing under lightning and thunder at
the burning bush, and in the lightning fire of Sinai. And you
ignited, when either the simplest or the most enlightening
rolling thunder in the cosmos. Likewise, when lightning
lightning in the clouds corresponds to the fire and to the
as lightning in its counterplay with the elements produces
into the world that surrounds us, saw lightning flashing up
lightning, hear the thunder, and to them this will be a true
His warmth is in the lightning, His nerves in the air, His
Moses in the burning bramblebush and in the lightning fire of
lightning and thunder are in the macrocosm. By analogy, the
spoke to him in the lightning fire of Mt. Sinai appears as
lightning fire, and the same microcosmic God who is embodied
inner human being. And that is why we can utilize the light
However, when we ignite a light, it illuminates the whole
but darkness. However, once the light coming from Golgotha is
the light of the stars, the splendor of the sun, and with

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riddle, the legend of Kashiapa, the great sage and enlightened pupil
Himself from two poles: from the macrocosmic fire of lightning and from
thorn-bush and in thunder and lightning on Sinai; that it was the
the I AM.” Out of the lightning on Sinai He gave the Ten
the lightning on Sinai, but only inwardly could he be made aware that
it was the Christ Who spoke with him. To the enlightened eyes of Paul,
stupendous occurrence of the gradual enlightenment of the Buddha, as
the great Ideas could light up as examples. These were persons into
How did the prototypes for these pictures that still delight us
hitherto has been known only to those who reached enlightenment. They
fire of the thorn-bush and of the lightning on Sinai, so He will be
spiritual fire to those who have allowed their eyes to be enlightened
their sorrow the Eastern sages feared: that the Enlightened One of the
through being able to look back upon it in the Christ-light streaming
is light.” Now he can make his way up into the spiritual worlds
in the Christ-light which was revealed to Paul on the road to

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poles: on the one hand through the macrocosmic lightning
lightning fire on Sinai. No other force but Christ spoke to
from the lightning fire at Sinai gave the Ten Commandments to
and in the lightning fire on Sinai — and only his inner
other hand, Christ appeared to the enlightened eye of Paul
bramblebush and in the lightning on Sinai as a prophecy of
wisdom of the world by looking back at it in the light of
light.”
purification in the wonderful fire, in the great light of

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light. Many other personalities in the world, such as Columban,

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this light, Spiritual Science is capable of working in life
in a comparatively light-filled world. In the Persian
Greece and the Roman states possessed so much to delight and
the underworld and kindled the light that once again gave
can find the light of Christ — that which has immersed
taught that the time is approaching when the light will
they have been in a world illumined by the Light of Christ.
stay in this world for the simple reason that the Light of
human personality had to develop to such an extent that light
could descend and say in a human body: “I am the Light
of the world!” The Light of the World first came down
universal light and sacrificed itself so that these
human body: “I am the Light of the World.”

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its own, provided we put wood into it and light it. It could
different from the stove, into it and lighting it, we bring
the sunlight.
bright light of the sun.” We can also take it literally
bring light into this icy separateness. He had to become a
the fire of the burning bush and in the lightning on Sinai.
am the Light of the World!”
the earth. Through the Christ-Principle a new light has been
can draw on nature for a number of enlightening examples.
lightning struck and killed his little sister in the room
interpreted this lightning bolt next to him to the effect

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turn to my essay, The Education of the Child in the Light of Anthroposophy.
could say of Himself, “I am the Light of the World.”
Before then, nobody could have spoken these words, because the Light
child. He is born, sees the light of the world — this is the usual
be like a play of light, is particularly strong here. It is wonderful
the forces radiate in a living play of light to become an astral-etheric
can be seen working together. The body of light is composed of these
weeks of life. This body of light gradually presses into and is then
This was surrounded by a body of light from which the etheric body gathered

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like a spiritual ray of light. The etheric body of the mineral encircles

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slightly to the left; the corresponding organ in the etheric body is
gleams and glitters in shades of rosy red, dark and light, becoming

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etheric figures of light. Try to visualize a crystal. When consciousness
from physical connections, to that extent his consciousness lights up
physical world? The fact that light comes to him and forms the organ
is formed by the light for the light.” The truth of this is confirmed
would be no eye; the light has produced the eye. Our organism is a product

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of teeth. But now, every external factor — light and color, for
happen if you were to allow the sunlight to work upon the eye of the
embryo? Precisely in order that later on the sunlight can have the right

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so that on the Old Sun there was now warmth and air, and moreover light.
of light — burning gas — warmth ether and air. Through Saturn
in itself. It is now a vibrant warmth egg in which forms of light gleam
When the separation of the Sun takes place, warmth and light go with
Moon, therefore, there were warmth, light and water. Man has his etheric
or light body as on Old Sun; the new element that is added on Old Moon

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from the cosmic night, from the darkness of twilight, it was gigantic

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on them were slightly similar to our present animals and plants. During
That was his mission. In Ormuzd and Ahriman light and darkness are
physical world was full of brightness and light for a man but when he

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that the present can best be understood in the light of the past and its
with its light is only the external body of a sublime spiritual being
with light. Just as the objects in a dark room suddenly become visible
when a ray of light shines into the room and you see the objects that
did light pour into the world of the dead. The souls there were again
the qualities of love and brotherliness. Thus a new light came into
the longing for seclusion. For the light that then streamed into the
Luciferus) or Light-bringer, and finally the opponent of the fallen
light to the world stretching between death and a new birth; so a man

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draws attention to such facts. He reveals them in order to shed light
mental pictures, choosing subjects that tally only slightly or not at

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saw space resplendent with the brilliant light of the sun in the
colours and light, yet for the blind this remains mere theory; and
the actual reality-laden, concept, of colour and light to one who is
undergone a successful operation can the world of light dawn upon
light the fire, then it will fulfill its mission.
Rome, above, in the daylight. And below? Let us descend into the

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East, but also a great deal of that which streamed as a clear light
losing anything, to blend it with the light which has been kindled in
if we looked at a light through a thick autumn fog. The eye of the
are going out into a thick fog; we do not see separate lights,
the separate lights are visible, but their aura becomes invisible ...
wisdom, can still be understood in the light of that wisdom.
Gita, where a sentence throws a very significant light on the
death enter only into the light of the moon, and return again to the
he dies in the sign of the light, by day, with the waxing moon,
illuminated by the light of spiritual knowledge, by the light in
which it was received and written, the light which streams out of the

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called light, and the spiritual scientist saw the fire in the middle
between light and smoke. The teacher said: ‘Out of the flame
are born simultaneously light on the one side, smoke on the other.’
very far-reaching fact, which has to do with the light, which is born
see the light would answer: ‘Yes, of course.’ And yet
can see light. Through light one sees objects which are solid,
liquid, or gaseous, but the light itself one does not see. Imagine
the whole of universal space illuminated by a light the source of
that light. Would you see the light? You would see absolutely
within that illuminated space. One does not see the light, one sees
the solid, the watery, the gaseous, by means of the light. One does
not see physical light with the physical eye. This is something which
science says therefore: light makes everything visible, but is itself
invisible. This sentence is important: light is imperceptible. It
outwardly. This one can also begin to feel inwardly, but light
you see the sun you see light you are mistaken: you see a flaming
body, a burning substance out of which the light streams. It could be
substances. You do not see light, you see that which is burning. But
water, from air to fire, and then to light, we pass thus from the
one side light appear, which is outwardly imperceptible and which is
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the following lectures will throw light on many points. One thing
light on one side, and into smoke on the other. In the reborn Saturn
have called it on one side; and on the other side appeared light,
the other side light! If traveling through space you had now reached
afar that which had formed itself into light, because behind it was
smoke. If not the light itself, you would yet have perceived a
side they cause that gas to turn into light; they shed abroad light
through space. Thus, light was really first formed in the
transmutations of our earth, light appeared then for the first time.
the possibility of becoming human; in the light which now streamed
clairvoyant man, you would not only have perceived light streaming
from it — not light only — but also the actions of the
Archangels would have streamed towards you with the light. But the
of warmth into light, and they joined to these soul-bodies the gas
rayed forth light, and an outer physical body which consisted of gas
they consisted of light. The fire element they, of course, brought
and light. The whole of their being consisted of light, warmth or
fire and smoke or air. By means of the light they let their shining
time light came forth. The interchange of conditions on the Sun was
forth its light outwards — it was the Sun's day. Thus
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burned in such a way that light streamed out into the world; and it
light, who inhaled it and poured it forth and had their being in the
light. As I have already said, if you could have then taken a voyage
Sun's day, of the inhalation and the exhalation of light. If it
out light to universal space.
light out into the Universe, would expand to the Universe and would
an inhaling and exhaling of the light, together with all the
narrowing, inferior existence. Life in the light-ether pleased them
light-ether further than a certain limit, if something had not come
light, who knew how to live in that element. But this element of
light could be influenced only during the Sun-days, when light
when light did not stream out. The Cherubim were then also in the
characterise as Cherubim, took into themselves the light which sprang
forth into this Universe as a force of light.
universal bodies, and have more and more light thrown upon their

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Esotericism, ‘bask in the light of God's countenance,’

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also in the winds and the lightning flashing through the air, in all
dissolving into spray, I stand in the blowing wind, I see lightning
Whenever you see the flashing fire of the lightning you may say to
sees the lightning flash through the clouds, he sees in that flash of
lightning the reflection of the Spirits of Personality, for in it
body, they were enabled to send their light through, and ensoul the

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with descriptions of spiritual facts, when the light is turned on
light. Just think, how would a thing that is unilluminated appear if
you looked at it through a space full of light? It would appear
bluish to you. You can observe this with common candle-light; it
illuminated space. All that is dark, seen through light, appears

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depths of such representations, truth which comes to light more or

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and in the thunder and lightning on Sinai. For it is the same Being
spoke to Moses in the burning bush and in the thunder and lightning

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events of surpassing importance shedding a stronger light than others.
the beginning with God, and the Light, it is further said, shone in
the darkness but the darkness comprehended it not. This Light was in
In what light did this event appear, for instance, to the writer of
thenceforward sheds its light over all the circumstances of his life.
Life was the Light of men. And the Light shone in the darkness and the
was not born of the flesh, comprehended the Light that shone in the
Darkness. Then the Light became flesh and dwelt among men in the
Zarathustra's time. In earthly thunder and lightning Zarathustra's
upon earth. His light shone in the burning bush and in the fire on
himself to Moses in thunder and lightning — the same appeared in
prepared, the inner spirit-light must shine forth ever more brightly,
midsummer day. But He, the spiritual Sun, will increase and his Light

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import as to throw a stronger light than others. From epoch to epoch
ignoring all outer historical forms, has endeavored to bring to light the
told that the light shone in the darkness, and that the darkness at
first comprehended it not; that this light was in the world among men,
to comprehend the Light. Then the Word made flesh appeared as a Man,
and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in the darkness;
comprehended the light that shone in the darkness. But then the light
was manifested in earthly lightning and thunder, it was not Ahura Mazdao,
in the sun, Who revealed Himself to Moses in thunder and lightning —
light is to shine as a result of right preparation, is to become ever

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evolution, with a view to throwing light on the accumulated facts, on
most important) to light the fire! Is there any guarantee that the
others which perhaps served to light the fire?’
road seen by the historian, above which rise (but only slightly) the
to the test, as it were, and brings to light firstly the fruits of his
entered into him; then, in the radiant light of this great Being he
unfolded all that other men develop without this radiant light: the
there be light, and there was light.’
pass? We are told: ‘And God said, Let there be light, and there was
light.’ Now let us again turn to the Gospel of St. John.
‘In Him (the Word) was life; and the life was the light of men.’

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have been used for lighting the fire?
of various erudite scientists regarding the shining lights of humanity
Orient that at the moment of birth Buddha was enlightened, that he opened
of one who has trodden the path of enlightenment at all will quite of
along the path of enlightenment: the stage of the so-called Wanderer,
as a great initiate, and who gradually, in the light and radiance of
radiance, this light; namely, the etheric body, the astral body, the
there be light: and there was light.
there be light: and there was light.
the life was the light of men.

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thrown light upon it from one standpoint or another. Now, to prevent
light. When we take the most profound document of the New Testament
on the Moon, he calls Light; for this is the spiritual light, the
astral light. This astral light causes a densification on the Moon,
‘In the enlivened Logos was Light.’
The light developed further; on the one hand, to the light of
should have received the Light, man, being darkness, comprehended it
not. Thus when we throw light from the Akashic records upon the Gospel
Light. And from out of the Logos filled with Light and Life, there
arose, on the Sun, during Earth evolution, Light in a more glorious
down as Light upon the Earth into the developing human forms. But
these were darkness; they could not comprehend the Light that shone
down upon them. (We must not confound this Light with physical light;
this Light consisted of the combined radiations of the spiritual
the spiritual evolution on the Moon in continued form.) This Light
that streamed down was spiritual Light. Men could not receive it; they
‘The Light shone in the darkness, but the darkness comprehended it

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from one realm or another and were shown in different lights. In order to
light on them from many sides. It is necessary to say this because certain
of our world system these materialistic flights are undoubtedly useful,
Light, for it is the spiritual light, the astral light. On
the severed Moon this astral light effected a hardening, but on the
Logos Light arose.
the light developed in two directions: on the sun into a clairvoyant
light, among men into darkness. For when man was to receive the light
and out of this living Logos there arose Light during
the Moon evolution. Finally, out of the living, light-filled
evolution, the Light in heightened luster — but men walked in
Lion, Eagle, and Man, shone down as light from the sun to the earth
darkness, and they could not comprehend the light that shone down upon
them. — Naturally we must not think of this as the physical light,
but rather, as the Light that was the sum of the radiations from the
spiritual Light that streamed down. Men could not receive it, could
their consciousness taking part. The light shone in the darkness; and

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that delights the eye in spring and summer disappears in autumn, and,
great Sun-Spirit, who, as Spirit, is active in light. He would have
said: ‘I am the light of the world!’ What would Ahura Mazdao have
said, had he spoken of himself? ‘I am the light of the world!’ What
how does He now speak from out of a human being? ‘I am the light of
‘I am the Light of the world.’

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we may acquire, it is slight when compared with that of the Thrones.
as the earth shall have further lightened and rarefied its physical
in light as spirit, would have had to say, I am the light of the
am the light of the world. And what did the same Spirit say when
I am the light of the world.
I am the Light of

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latter extends only slightly beyond the physical head on all sides. In
slight extent. The human being of those times cast his tenuous
Viewed from this standpoint a new light falls upon the deed of the

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counterpart: the latter protrudes only slightly beyond the physical
a different light on the deeds of the Luciferic spirits. Are we still
on the Moon can also be regarded in the light of a sacrifice.
to the enlightenment which will show me that on a higher plane this

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portal of death, the spiritual world lay open before him; light and

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blurred. Just as nowadays in a foggy autumn evening the street lights
the observer were even slightly the weaker of the two he would have
So the slight or loose connection between the etheric and physical bodies
had been dry land only to a very slight extent, arose out of the water,
of death the spiritual world lay open before him, as it were, in light

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bush and in the lightning of Sinai, as Jahve, as ‘I am the I AM’, as
Gospels, and we shall see what comes to light through such a literal
There is, however, not the slightest hint that the same disciple is

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perceived in the fire of the burning bush and in the lightning on Sinai
cognition of spirit. The one who refuses spiritual enlightenment will
perish for lack of adequate nourishment which such enlightenment alone
this sheds light on all else. It is a picture with a central figure
in the Gospels, and you will see what all comes to light. Do not speculate
be brought to light through research, independently of any documents.

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flight into Egypt, and the return. These and many other details might
particularly struck by the ‘Flight into Egypt’? One who knew such a
‘Flight into Egypt’; the writer of St. Luke sees the whole course of
We realize therefore that light is thrown upon the Christ-figure from
the Cross, but let us think of it today in the light of the question:
enlighten us with its revelation of the realms of the spiritual world.

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by Herod, the flight into Egypt, and the return. These points and many
light of what we have thus learned. He reasoned as follows: A lofty
struck by this Flight into Egypt? One who knew it from his own life;
light upon Him from the aspect he knew most intimately; and in view
in the light of the question: What feature of it is characteristic in
light on these events. Verily, it is only through anthroposophy, through

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light of spiritual science, as one of the most marvellous documents in
wine, as one might say, by slight of hand. This explanation is
read the most significant words, which throw a light upon the whole
power comes to light in the individuality of the sick man and

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that throw light on the whole subject. They are these:
be viewed in the light of present-day consciousness. Had those who wrote

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qualities. Man's command over his circulatory system is very slight;
Jesus in the light of day, crept through the window at night. Anyone
profound occult truth: ‘The eye is formed by the light for the light.’
the eye there is no light.’ Yes, but where does the eye come from?
Goethe quite rightly says: ‘Without light there would never have been
an organ sensitive to light — an eye.’ The eye is created by the
light. A single instance will demonstrate this. When animals
see, through lack of light. The eye was formed by light. If Christ is
his eye sensitive to light, then Christ must have in Him the spiritual
force which is in the light. This must be indicated in the Gospel of
‘Then Jesus spake again unto them saying: I am the light of the
words ‘I am the light of the world’ have been spoken. Now turn to the
with the Father-forces. Having said previously ‘I am the light of the

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faculties. Man has control of his circulatory system only to a slight
conditions, that magical forces would come to light. You would be falling
that the Jew was simply afraid to go to Jesus by the light of day, so
of influence we discussed yesterday. It comes to light in the next intensification,
of light, for light,” [1] which proceeded
that there can be no light without the eye; but how does the eye originate?
Goethe says truly that had it not been for light, no organ sensitive
to light, no eye, would ever have come into existence. The eye was created
by the light. A single illustration proves this: when animals equipped
lack of light. Light is what formed the eye. If Christ is to imbue a
for making the eye into an organ responsive to light, such as it had
that lives in light. Let us see where this is indicated in the John
unto them, saying, I am the light of the world.
light of the world.”
force. As earlier He said, “I am the light of the world,”

Title: Gospel of St. John: Lecture XI
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From my mother a happy nature and delight in telling fables,’
course not apparent when things are considered only in the light of
of love. In what light therefore must the future have appeared to an
and causes the physical death of Him who is the Light of the World,
and who brings about the light of the world in the healing of the man
in a new light in the ‘new annunciation’ in the Gospel. The Gospel

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bring about the physical death of Him Who is “the Light of
the World” and Who enkindles the Light of the World in healing
inadequate is brought to us in a new light through the new revelation,

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but the light of this wisdom had grown dimmer and dimmer. Formerly all
From my mother a happy nature and delight in telling fables.’

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the lights, so there are spiritual beings everywhere in space. The Atlantean

Title: Gospel of St. John: Lecture XIII
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nature of the Mystery of Golgotha is only possible when light has been
It was necessary that man should be enlightened regarding death on the
rays of light streamed for the first time from the earth into
to picture to ourselves rays of light, created at that moment,
colours. The deed of Golgotha suffused the earth with astral light
astral light will become physical light and the earth will be a
light into the etheric bodies of men. A short time after this event
the Christ-light. The Christ-light streams into the etheric bodies of
And now the Christ-light being always present, to some extent, in the
which has absorbed into itself the Christ-light? What is it that has
itself in the etheric bodies of men, as an effect of the Christ-light;
etheric bodies endowed with light. As the Christ-light streams from
Christ-light in the circumference of the earth. The Christ-light which
knew that ‘Once the earth was devoid of a certain light; now I see
that light in it; therefore Christ must have been there. Therefore He

Title: Gospel of John: Lecture XIII: The Cosmic Significance of the Mystery of Golgotha.
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only by throwing light on its cosmic significance as well.
light: a steady aggravation of illusion was bound up with the blood's
a true conception of it was enlightenment arrived at by means of the
blood flows on Golgotha — and the earth begins to radiate light.
suffused the earth with an astral light that will gradually become an
etheric and then a physical light. Every being in the world continues
only to the seer; but in the future the astral light will become physical
light and the earth will be a luminous body, a sun body.
since — the earth's new radiance. They have taken the light of
Christ into their etheric bodies. The Christ light streams into the
What takes place, now that there is always something of the Christ light
in which the Christ light has been received? What happens to it after
at that time, as an effect of the Christ light, for something new to
light radiates from the earth, but there is also a kind of reflection
light, appearing as a consequence of the Christ event, this is what
of that sort with the Gospel?— Christ enlightened those who were
until then the earth had lacked a certain light, but now he saw that
light in it; hence the Christ was present; hence also, He Who had hung

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was the Sun, and who shed their light upon him in the Sun's rays. For
it was not merely physical sunlight that streamed upon man; in that
physical light, beings came towards him, beings whom he beheld. And
us approach some being, say, a plant that delights our eye with its
the second group of seven lights we have a symbol of the forces which
of seven lights we have a symbol of the forces which built up the
the evolution of the earth. We see the central light still burning in
then, where you see the central light, is the point of time when the
Christ-light flashed upon evolution. Had not the Christ-impulse
intervened, the other lights would never be kindled, nor could the
symbolical way, we must allow the first light to die out, when the
light next after the central is kindled and begins to burn brightly;
and when the next following is lit, we must let the second light die
When the lights have all been kindled to the last, the first will have
lights and into the future. Thus we have a past evolution in which the
work as before, the lights would have to be extinguished one by one,
Christ-impulse has come; a new light now shines and a new cosmic Sun
created therein a new centre of light. He penetrates the Earth, sends
the mystic union with Christ, a preparatory step. This is the light in
to lead to a true union with Christ. These things can only be slightly
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The Earth as Christ's Body and as a New Light Center.
toward him in the sun's rays. For not only did physical sunlight come
to man, but in this physical sunlight he saw beings approaching him;
that delights us. There we have a being that gladdens our eyes with
and light it step by step, and let us consider the first flame of its
evolution. Now let us imagine the middle light as burning brightly,
while the next three are but very dim. The middle light represents the
thus: as the light following the middle one kindles and increases in
luster, the first one must be gradually extinguished; with the lighting
lights are burning it is fitting that the first three be extinguished,
held to this course, all the lights would have gradually faded out,
the Christ impulse kindled a new light — and a cosmic sun begins
created a new light center; He permeates the earth, shines forth into
their true light only if we discern in every atom something of the Christ
union with the Christ, the preparatory schooling. That is the light
or Jehova — in the burning bush and in the thunder and lightning
world in which, since the event of Golgotha, there shines the light
His enlightenment is such as to demand no further proof: he now gazes
new light, to think of his own body as something external — when
to the enlightenment that enables you to see spiritually the scene in
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The East in the Light of the West
belief to our right understanding; but the star of the light-bearer,
the star of Lucifer, if we surrender ourselves to it, can enlighten
is light, even when to human eyes and understanding all is dark. It
bearing the light which comes not from without. This light, which
into a vessel capable of again receiving the light which lives in a
permeate ourselves with the light which rises for us when we
understand the light-bearer, the other spirit Lucifer, then will our
night be turned into day. Our eyes cannot see if the outer light does
throws its light on what only seems to be night and changes it into
light of the Light-bearer, and on the other hand to make us lean
pre-Christian wisdom, of the light of the East, must be lost to us.
We look up to Phosphoros, the Light-bearer; and indeed we revere this
Light-bearer as the being through which alone we learn to understand
we shall further recognise that there is a light of the West, that
through the light by which it is illuminated. Therefore let no one
when the light of the West shines on it. It will appear that what is
illuminated by the noblest light. If we feel this idea and receive it

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The East in the Light of the West
of ancient wisdom in general, in the light which may be kindled by the
outer sounds in the right way or see the outer light in the right
form on the etheric body implies that in a spiritual sense, light
light, and behind what our ears perceive as sound, are active beings
sun physically because it radiates physical light. This physical
light is sustained by physical matter. Man sees the sun from sunrise
that which otherwise is darkness becomes light, when he attains to
illusion, one ascends into the light. At this time one beholds those
wisdom. And in making this comparison, we shall be shedding the light

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The East in the Light of the West
light into dark.
upon the Earth. In the physical sunbeams as they lighten and warm the
from without. When the seer observes the light, when her perceives
light that will reveal it in its true aspect.

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warmth and light of the sun. This was the gift made by Zeus to the
slightest objection to be raised to this statement; it is true, but
the light of the West. [This seemingly rather sweeping
only possible to throw light on antiquity by starting from the
lightning effects of storms. For these things, too, prayers may be
of time when there is an appearance of rays of light falling from an
by the spiritual light of another being which was shed upon him. It
perceptible to Earth evolution, although the Christ light shone upon
first the Christ light did not ray back from him. Since the point of
time in question, Indra has not shed his own light into the spiritual
evolution of the earth, but has reflected the light of Christ, just
as the moon reflects the light of the sun. The light thus rayed back
people. Moses gave the name of Jahve or Jehovah to this Christ light
rayed back by Indra as the sunlight is reflected by the moon. In
is the name of the Christ light rayed back by an ancient deity. It is
stage of evolution through this contact with the Christ light. He did
lightning and thunder, even so does Jehovah manifest himself therein,
Jehovah therefore was manifested in lightning and thunder.
this example I have tried to show what it means to throw light upon

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light over the earth, and according to the different conditions set
cases where the inner life is corrupt or but slightly developed when
and enlightenment. If a man is immoral and his conceptions are bad,
world of Lucifer, the Light-bearer. It is a world, spiritual and
divine in its nature, illumined in the inner being of man by a light
cultivating that which represents the light of Lucifer. In this way
through the light received by the soul from within, out of the

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The East in the Light of the West
became a new light within them, an inner, astral light. Historical
tradition, and that the light from Lucifer's kingdom must be thrown
letting the light which streams forth and may be gained from
the Christ Being, which permeates the world, and to allow the light
his light was overpowered by the Christ light. The Christ entered the
must allow himself to be borne to the light by the ‘Light

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The East in the Light of the West
once more to receive the light out of which it originally sprang
forth, the light from the realm of Lucifer. Whereas by an inner
whole nature of man again to understand the light of Lucifer's realm,
of sight is a very different thing. What is perceived through light
perceive light as colour, we perceive it spread out in space; but we
relation to light. The light surrounding us has not only its external
came to perceive light as a fluid pouring into his Organisation from
all sides, and within this light streaming through him, he felt its
soul. Today the soul of the light is stopped by the human skin. The
light, and man realised the soul of the light. That light was the
beings, which has now withdrawn with the soul of the light away from
their breath signified. The soul of light had not as yet withdrawn
air as it was breathed in and breathed out in different light and
of the soul of the light which permeates the air. Man has parted even
the air to us being penetrated by light, but not revealing the light.
light of his assertions. If what I have said about the re-incarnation

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are not always in accord; light must be thrown upon a certain fact
In the great kingdom of the Light-bearer, of the beings of Lucifer,
beings who had given him inner light, but also and first, those
early time; how he felt the soul of the light stream in from all
and saw behind the physical sunlight the Christ spirit whom he called
like a soul-light pervading the world, and in it saw the primordial,
the light, truth and knowledge poured. Just as man of a later time
Soul-light, and moreover soul-light pervaded by spiritual wisdom, it
but among the most valuable things which can be learnt from the Light
must come to light.
Lucifer's realms of light. And that which permeated the human soul
as a tapestry of light around him, to be breathed in. He was
Jehovah reflects the light of Christ. Here we can clearly see the two

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observe the course of world events in the light of spiritual science.
took it in concretely, this soul of the light which was spread abroad
externally and was breathed in as light-wisdom by the holy Rishis,
signs of the Zodiac belong to the world of light, to the upper world,
must serve as a slight indication of the profound change that thus
lightning that is quite near the earth. And in the person of Jesus of

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considered in the light of spiritual-scientific Investigation.
The scope of Christianity itself is infinite and light can be shed
the Gospel of St. Luke viewed in the light of Anthroposophy.
colour-form but freely moving coloured light, glistening, sparkling,
grief, sorrow or delight. But you can discover this if you converse
light must be shed on apparent contradictions in the four
— nothing is said about a flight into Egypt — and a short
mind will be revealed as truth in the light of spiritual

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if light is to be thrown on this momentous proclamation. Above all we
the events in Palestine its light could shine down upon the Earth
seem to you, to the ‘Enlightenment’ of the great Buddha. The
light that shone out in India, setting men's hearts and minds astir as the
humanity — that light appeared again in the revelation to the
The East in the Light of the West
incarnation as Bodhisattva when, after his Enlightenment, he became
Another passes through life with very slightly developed intellectual
side!’ — These are the two teachings whose light shines from
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more perfect and his enlightenment complete.
when an all-pervading light appeared to me from the spiritual world,
pictures: my enlightenment was not yet pure enough. Then I began to
see not only the light, but single pictures, single forms, within the
light; but I could not distinguish what these forms and pictures
denoted: my enlightenment was not yet pure enough. Then I began to
enlightenment was not yet pure enough. Then I learnt to know to which
condition of soul: for my enlightenment was not yet pure enough. Then
times, nor how I was related to them: for my enlightenment was not
been. Now my enlightenment was pure!’
his own enlightenment, but he said to himself: ‘I must speak to men
enlightened to such a supreme degree, was needed in order that this
being. Only the highest degree of enlightenment could enable the soul
‘Enlightenment’ under the Bodhi-tree. This teaching was to
the outer world as the latter with its light, colours, sounds, and so
‘Enlightened One’ had experienced it as a profound truth
light. This was felt to be of special significance in regions where
explained. Light will then be shed upon the earlier as well as upon

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The Education of the Child in the light of Anthroposophy.)

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But this riddle will become intelligible if, in the light of the
to understand the Jesus of the Gospel of St. Matthew in the light of
physical sun sends down its beneficient light and warmth!’
that the enlightenment of the Bodhisattva and his ascent to Buddhahood
Cosmos. We should have no eye sensitive to light if the light itself
said: ‘The eye was created by the light for the light.’ This
is a profound truth. The light formed the eye out of neutral organs once
forces he had once relinquished. Hence the ‘Flight into Egypt’
And delight in telling fables.
There is a slight ambiguity in the German text and the reader will

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should be enlightened about the world out of which they are born.
apprehended only through enlightenment from without — through the
There is a slight ambiguity in the German text and the reader will

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The Education of the Child in the Light of Anthroposophy,
Zarathustra taught, namely that the light and warmth streaming from
the Sun's light; for behind the physical phenomena are hidden the
Light-Spirit; but when we look up to the Sun we behold the spiritual
light that streams to us is the body of the Sun-Spirit, Ahura Mazdao,
in the flame of lightning on Mount Sinai the revelations came to
Sun in reflection. It is sunlight that streams towards us, only we
call it moonlight because we see it reflected by the Moon. What Being
beheld the Christ! But just as the sunlight is not seen directly but
as we call the sunlight ‘moonlight’ when we see it reflected
unable to behold Him in his immediate reality, just as the sun-light
reflected light, not directly.
of the Sun's light. The great Teachers of humanity in ancient India
lectures. The Being formerly hidden in the light- and warmth-giving
second is the ‘light-ether’, or simply ‘light’.
body that corresponds to the light-ether. Because this is so, a
the feelings as forms of light. But the thinking that is experienced
Feeling ........................... Light-Ether
these four forms of ether only the two lower (light-ether and
fire; out of heaven there streams down light.
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can be understood only in the light of what has been said. It

Title: Gospel of Luke: Lecture Nine
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are in their generation wiser than the children of light.’ This is
their generation wiser than the children of light?’ ‘In their
their way are wiser than the children of light,’ that is to say,
light, wiser according to their own understanding — that is what
you perceive, in striving to become children of light, that you
the right light.
superabundance of warmth comes out of the stove. Here we light upon a
to the very essence of Christianity, will come to light through what

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we shall realize if the light of knowledge derived from the Akashic
knowledge be brought to light at the right time.
Powers allow that to come to light which the researcher himself does
fulfilled. In the other, however, Faith is like a faint light shining
the truth, for bringing to light the treasures of the spiritual life

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comes to light when the God within man says, “Let the God
degree. It was based on a clairvoyant twilight condition in man.
of the labyrinth of facts into the light. Anthropology cannot find
light to pass through it, that is, how it is colored. An object that
rays out green light is internally so constituted that it can reflect
green light and no other. The outermost surface of things is revealed
between hearing and sight. Scientists talk about light waves in the

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the human organism with the light of theosophy, it will not be able

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us slightly colored, toned down.

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Here the error comes to light. In judging external
facts. It is the mission of spiritual science to see that light dawns

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glimpses of a higher soul life, from which the light of theosophy

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light in the course of these lectures, but it is not too soon to
example, a curious phenomenon comes to light. At the moment when we
moment, but they will enable us later on to shed a wondrous light on

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will bring clearly to light a number of points connected with our
demanded in the light of truth. What is demanded by truth is
profitable and could lighten the burden of their lives enormously if

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enlightening as emphasizing the difference in the souls of the two
concept “consciousness” in the light of what we have
Next we ask how it is possible to throw light upon this
meet it. A powerful light will be thrown upon your soul life if you
backward to the old visualization, just as the light rays run

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Truth and Error in the Light of the Spiritual World.
Truth and Error in the Light
possible to a slight degree to convince our opponents by means of any
and right into our own time they have prevented the learned lights of

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seek enlightenment concerning our own souls and spirits.
capable of bringing to light out of the spiritual worlds, but merely
delight in arrogance, is transferred to the size of the beings he
discover that what we are, in the light of imaginative cognition,
single incarnation man is able only to a slight extent to make use of

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comes from the same regions as the Light.” Music — the song
from the realms of Light!
see Christ in a new light. Only when the last Bodhisattva belonging to

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Anthroposophists in the widest sense, subjects intended to throw light
the light of the Anthroposophical conception. It is by no means
but we must study life itself in the light of that law.’
will to-day confine myself to throwing light on one important

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In each of the Gospels light is thrown on the great Mystery of
necessary. Light shall be thrown to-day from one particular side on
with the old dream-like, twilight consciousness. The consciousness of
age men saw into the spiritual world with a dim twilight
They will arise within your own ego. Though the spiritual light may be
concealed from your eyes behind the external light which is

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understood, light can be thrown in different ways upon other riddles
We have often thrown light on the Lemurian Epoch, which experienced,
the great Cosmos. If we compare man, as seen to-day in the light of
look for it we must make ourselves to some slight extent acquainted,

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point to throw light on that of St. Matthew. It must be left for the
some slight extent grasp the great thoughts of the guiding Cosmic
humanity. We have now mentioned everything that can throw light upon
state of transition. We shall see that light can be thrown upon it

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a new light; but of what good would that light be if it were not to
while developed further in the light of conscience. We have already
result of the soul having for some time stood in the light of
in its true light. What thou thyself hast reduced to Maya, that thou

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Christ event will then come to us in a completely different light in such a

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more this present state of consciousness becomes a dreamlike, twilight

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Deeper Secrets of Human History in the Light of the Gospel of St. Matthew
words contained in that Gospel: “I am the Light of the
a light shining, have you, simply by gazing at it or even by discovering
sun, simply through perceiving its manifested light? One must realise
understand the light that is working within that radiance.
am the Light of the world”, it behoves us to grasp the meaning
the words: “I am the Light of the world.” Everything contained
verily the Light of the world. But this Being Himself is infinitely
to understand the words, “I am the Light of the world”,
my spirit.” Here Christ-Jesus is seen, not only as the Light
through the power of His light. Light and Love made manifest in the Being
Christ-Jesus was “Light” and what in Him was “Love
The meaning of what was said of Christ as the spirit-Light of the world
that it was united, in a single Being, with the Light of the world,
may call the universal Light of Wisdom and the universal Warmth of Love,
not alone the Light of Wisdom, not alone the Warmth of Love, not alone
John we speak of Christ as the sublime Sun-Being, as the Light of
Gospel. When we come to study this last Gospel, light will be shed on the
science, and three to deepening our understanding of them as a light that

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Deeper Secrets of Human History in the Light of the Gospel of St. Matthew
of cosmic significance, whereby immeasurable light is shed upon the
If in the light of St.
revealed when the historical aspect of events is studied in the light
to-day to give you a slight sketch of these deeper secrets and I have

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should not be taken lightly, but which we should look upon as an
to be told that there is a light; whereas he needs the light to light
up his room! He must have the light; mere belief is no use.
conviction. If we think of it in this light, we shall spare no effort

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Deeper Secrets of Human History in the Light of the Gospel of St. Matthew
hair — a sign that spiritual light was still shining down upon them
time of his preparation. The relation of hair to the light of the spirit
of an insignificant cipher, “light” and “hair”
something quite different came to light. Among those who were baptised
the approaching Christ Event. — Only in this light are the words
Viewed in this light,
Only in the light of what

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Deeper Secrets of Human Existence in the Light of the Gospels,
rights. (The East in the Light of the West, cloth, crown 8vo,
because the spiritual cannot appear in the light of the moon, or the

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In light of this, we can
individual, because the spiritual cannot appear in the light of the

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Deeper Secrets of Human Existence in the Light of the Gospels,
And now we must ask ourselves, in order to have, in a slight degree, a
Therefore, in Hebrew, the word HAIR and the word LIGHT are designated
the relationship between the astral in-streaming light, and the hair;

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lightning. They received their knowledge in their inner being; their
let his inspirations light up within me.”
this lighting up of the cosmic secrets within human souls, had to
“hair” and “light” are approximately the same
because people were conscious of the kinship between the light
moral laws from the outside rather than as something lighting up

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in it in a dull and unenlightened way could say to themselves, “It
into the unearthly darkness as divine light, was capable of carrying
humanity would not show the slightest understanding but would
man, who took delight in the daughters of the earth, that is, in
more as son of man to the divine beings, to the light of the
spiritual world, if he were not in the future to find delight in the
the son of man, he shall find delight in the daughters of the gods,
in the divine-spiritual light of wisdom with which he must unite
discussed today, when we attempt to shed light upon the more intimate

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shed light upon the riddles of life, upon the mysteries of existence,
taken place: that the Divine Light had shone into the darkness of
contemporaries fail to have the slightest inkling of the most
would show not the slightest understanding, and regard those who have
took delight in the daughters of the earth, that is to say in those
not to climb upwards again to the Divine Beings, to the light of the
spiritual world, finding delight in times to come in the daughters of
take delight in the daughters of the Gods, in the divine-spiritual
light of wisdom with which he must unite in order then to grow
When light has

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in our souls into warmth of feeling, into the light that shines forth
our souls, just as light and color stream into the eyes of a blind
man who has been operated on and had his sight restored. This light
see them. In the same way, light and color surround a blind person,
efforts, through appropriate training, is already being slightly
death. This event can bring light to human beings only if they awaken

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in reflection, in the lightning in which Jehovah appeared to
Moses, just as the light of the Moon reflects the light of
demonic possession, can only be understood in the light of
spiritual light which was to work — not the
physical sunlight (which is only the garment of the spiritual
light). It was when the sun had set that the sick were

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enlightenment under the Bodhi tree; he then taught that this world is

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we wish to shed some light on one main influence related to human
Enlightenment, which was also a certain stage in the development of
“Enlightenment.” What made Goethe so angry was that a few
was it that created the brain for this “Age of Enlightenment?”

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connection, it throws much light on the question that we can perhaps
lightning, thunder, etc. — are, in the last analysis,
light of the sun from that sunlight reflected back to us by the moon.
What kind of light do we have on a moonlit night? It is real
sunlight, except that it is reflected to us from the moon. We thus
can have this sunlight directly during the day or sent back from the
as moonlight is reflected sunlight, so did the Christ being reflect
in thunder and lightning, to find Him in what can stream in from
through his impressions of the burning bush and the lightning-fire on
evolution cast their lights ahead, as it were. (I do not wish to
their shadows,” but that they cast their lights.) Thus, in a
cast ahead in light in what we call the conversion of Saul to Paul —
predicted Messiah only when that forward-cast light manifested itself
— for more and more human beings, the light-woven,
light-gleaming Shamballa, abounding in infinite fullness of life and

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connection sheds a great deal of light upon questions such as: What
with physical eyes — lightning, thunder, and so on — are
be distinguished from Jahve otherwise than that the light of the sun
reflected by the moon is to be distinguished from the direct light of
the sun. Where is the light that floods a bright moonlit night? It is
actual sunlight, only it is reflected back to us from the moon.
So we can have this sunlight directly by day or rayed back by the
moonlight reflects the sunlight, so was the Christ Being
Divine World-Ego as Jahve, the World-Ego manifesting in lightning and
burning thorn bush and lightning on Sinai was experienced again
of humanity cast their lights in advance (instead of the trivial
“cast their lights”). Thus in certain respects a light
the predicted Messiah first came to him when the light cast in
arise the experience of the land of Shamballa — woven of light,
shone through with light, teeming with wisdom. Such is the event

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times, the etheric body had to be slightly separated from the physical
the thunder and lightning upon Sinai, He manifested himself to man's
lightning. They spoke of how the Ego-God revealed Himself to them when
last centuries in this light will be neither surprised nor exhalted
see its radiant light, as Paul saw above him the light that streamed
from Christ. This light will stream toward them, also. The portals of
this realm of light will open to them and through them they will enter

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etheric body had to be slightly separated from the physical body,
In the burning bush, in the thunder and lightning upon Sinai, He
bush, in thunder and lightning, and then to Solomon in the symbols of
lightning. They spoke of how the I-God revealed Himself to them when
of the last centuries in this light will be neither astonished nor
enter the land of Shamballa. They will see its radiant light, as Paul
saw above him the light that streamed from Christ. This light will
stream toward them, also. The portals of this realm of light will

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should gain from them the strength for daily work, a light that will

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nonsense to modern readers, especially the most “enlightened.”
that person I can see something like a bright band of light.”
the new faculties of soul. Clever and enlightened persons in that era
— you can put “enlightened” in quotation marks —
understanding for that freer and lighter age just beginning.
signs have to show them. Wisdom should inflame and enlighten its

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then it will become spiritual light, when outer physical nature is at
teach reincarnation to-day, we are fully conscious, in the light of

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him the world of colours and light. In normal life today man is shut
this world that we shall endeavour to shed light in these lectures.
presented to his senses. He sees colours and light, hears sounds, is
presented to him by colours and light, sounds, scents and so forth. A
and at most we can feel that colour and light, warmth, cold, and so
cannot, at a given moment, penetrate through the colours, lights and
when normal conditions have been transcended to a very slight degree
sense-impressions. We perceive the red of the rose; delight in the
in the light of the experiences of the other. If a normal person were

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physical world — colours, lights, objects — which will
However slight the pleasurable sensation may be on perceiving, for
by day. Far-off Saturn, with its slight influence, seeing to resemble
only a slight effect upon the sleeping human being. And similarly, the

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evening; he perceives how the sunlight illumines all the objects
but the sunlight which they reflect. In the dark we cannot see an
reflected sunlight.
sunlight. When we compare this state with the state in which the world
slightly developed in an ordinary, normal man, but it is present,
from autumn to winter is only slight.

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our physical and etheric bodies only to a slight extent. Nevertheless
capacities which the soul may possess are very slight compared with
with what is called light. We become inwardly illumined; what
streams into us as this working of Cosmic Feeling is inner light,
although without clairvoyance it is not outwardly visible as light.
that what is needed for his life of inner experience, namely light, is
light. A certain equilibrium must be established between the inner
light (feeling) and the will. If the right relationship between the
urge to activity and the inner light were disrupted, the bodily nature
described as the good or light side.
light. If this were not so we should not exist, nay we could not
united with what streams into us as light out of the Cosmic Feeling,
becomes, the more is it illumined by the inner light that has its
source in Cosmic Feeling. But darkness streams into this light of
into the inner light. Whatever a man neglects to do in the way of
himself draws something from his inner light and promotes darkness in
should become aware how light and darkness mingle within us. Up to now
upon the expectation that light will also stream upwards from human
life itself to the light that streams down from above. The Cosmic
Powers have no inexhaustible reservoir of light; their reservoir is
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death in the light of what spiritual investigation discloses. At that
himself within his own physical body is only possible in the light of
interesting that the path they trod can be explained in the light of

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lighter, as though he were growing out beyond himself. Then this
going to sleep. All the impressions of the day — colours, light,
saying of Goethe: “The eye is formed by the light for the
light.” [* See Goethe's Studies in Natural Science.
eye owes its existence to the light. Out of indifferent animal organs
the light produces an organ to correspond to itself; and so the eye is
formed by the light for the light so that the inner light may meet the
an eye we should perceive no light, that without an eye there would be
without the eye we could see no light is a one-sided truth. But if the
without eyes we could gee no light, but on the other side it is
equally true that the eyes have been formed by the light, for the
light. It is always essential to look at truths not only from the one
eye is formed by the light, for the light”, you will be able to
say to yourselves that there must be something in the light that
out of an organism which at first had no eyes. Behind the light there
contained in every ray of sunlight. From this we can realise that
Just as our eyes are created by something within the light, all our
the morning; after waking we see light through the eyes. In the light
light we perceive with the eye is an eye-forming power, our brain is

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investigation has already brought to light. It is therefore emphasised
Man in the Light of Occultism, Philosophy and Theosophy,

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clairvoyant sees as a kind of light-aura may be called the Ego-aura.
with sense-perceptions, such as impressions of colour and light? For
arises through the fact that our eye holds back part of the light from
“eye is formed by the light for the light.”
what comes to us with the light — and that is part of the
senses: light, sounds, and so forth. What does man know of the World
satisfied if he makes only a slight advance every day, having his
Two serpent forms, one light and one dark, wind around a vertical
staff. The light curves represent the experiences of the day, the dark

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lightning and you are terrified. No external thought intervenes

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of clouding; thirdly, the memory which lights up in a new form. The
way than they actually are. Imagine the Earth only slightly altered

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Only by bearing this in mind can we see in the right light much of
planet after a state of twilight, after a Pralaya, a condition of
soul suffers harm from the loss of the spontaneous joy and delight
under the influence of the Sun's warmth and light; with the plants the
Sun's light and warmth from long past ages are drawn forth from the
instructions given so lightheartedly nowadays about this or that mode
seen the same light and cherish the same love as we have in our souls,

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this places the matter in quite a different light.
light upon important matters. Except then for this period between
of humanity.’ Sometimes this intersection is only slightly
Finally, we can bring to light something, the elements of which we can
enlightenment of the French Encyclopaedists. That is the connection.

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sometimes marvellous. The light which proceeds from Spiritual Science
have so far been brought to light cannot bear fruit for the good of
that what has come to light in this field within the last twenty or
such as some detrimental influence in the ground, insufficient light,
may throw its very significant shadow or light on the later life. Here
lights or shadows into the later life, and which are now expressed in
manifest themselves only in light diseases? Because we are able to

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brought to light in regard to pneumonia and similar diseases. From all
Much light could be thrown by Spiritual Science on the suitability of

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as neurosis, neurasthenia, and so forth. A light is thrown even upon
are slightly indisposed, to be able to forget that indisposition,
throw some light on the word ‘chance.’
causes of illness, and of a light that is to be shed over the course

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light of the Ego. When man became earth-man, this consciousness was
place himself where he may be struck by lightning; with his ordinary
lightning may strike him. But there may be a consciousness active
consciousness leads him to the very place where the lightning may

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limelight, all this is the result of luciferic temptations. In other
descended into the twilight. But within the Earth existence works

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placed beneath, and where the lightning will strike. In this case the

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affects the inner being of man but slightly. And a materialistic mind
karmic connection will be essential if we are to throw light upon the
adheres to external appearances and external facts, brings to light

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been said, if we follow up what has been broached and had light thrown
Now I will begin by saying that in order to throw any important light
substance upon the earth is condensed light.’ There is
condensed light. Hence you see that to those who know the facts, there
light by methods which themselves are coarser than the light itself.
Light cannot be traced back to anything else in our material
have condensed, compressed light. All matter is, in its essence,
light.
of Spiritual Science. We have seen that light is the foundation of all
out of light. Inasmuch as man is a material being, he is composed of
light.
as all matter is compressed light, so all the different phenomena of
find also that his outer bodily part is woven out of light, and his
inner soul is woven spiritually out of love. Love and light are,
light interwoven?
Love and light are the two elements, the two component parts of all
earthly existence: love as the soul part, and light as the outer
Now, however, another fact comes in. For both these elements, light
weaving the one element into the other — light into love. This
thus weaves light into the element of love — a power which is
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be understood in the light of a ‘Life-account,’ in which on
an event in a reasonable light, could we possibly ascribe what each
light has its shadow, so must we clearly see that this Eastern
we look at the evolution of the world in the light of Anthroposophy.
throw light upon these questions how far inclinations and emotions,
lives! In our present age, enlightenment as to the luciferic and
ahrimanic forces may begin, and man must be enlightened regarding
how far removed men still are from a really true enlightenment of the
greater number of people do not wish for such enlightenment. You will
light of knowledge. Do you not think that Lucifer is frequently
have enlightened ourselves about Lucifer and Ahriman, we can gain a
nature of Light. At the present day science itself is subject to
manifold deceptions as to the nature of light. Many of us believe that
we see light with our physical eyes. That is not correct. We do not
see light, but only illuminated bodies. We do not see light, but we
see through light. All such deceptions will be swept away so that the
light will himself develop the psychic counterpart of light —
Light, Wisdom which can unite with Love, and Love when it is permeated

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throw light upon the way in which this web, which we have only

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Earth in the light of Spiritual Science, you will find that these
begin to throw light upon how this pattern is woven which we have

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in a certain respect, the saying which is so lightly quoted in

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be inwardly transformed, develops a certain inner light, a luminous

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a Folk-soul. If we wish to throw light upon the present inner being

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Soul. If we wish to throw light upon the inner being of man today, we
that event no doubt we might delight in the flowers of the field or
the light of this information we may say that in certain respects a
we approach the matter in this light we shall avoid confusion and our
people and study it, then, in the light of what we have said, we

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consciousness and in the form of Light and Darkness, of Ormuzd and

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wheel in our mind and have not the slightest understanding of
Spiritual Science we do after all light upon remarkable truths.
polarity of light and darkness, of Ormuzd and Ahriman.

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would hurl him with lightning rapidity out into space. The fact that
the sun. Light, therefore, is the element in which in the first place
light, with all they include, display themselves on the boundary
these forces of light, which we also call the Spirits of Form, no
organs with which to look into that which is woven into the light.
forces is here still interwoven with the light, and that is
of the sun, not as the giver of light, but when he says of it:
was to alternate as does the light, which at certain times when
training and development. Whereas the light streams towards us during
the day as light, and during the night weaves on further as light
in their activities from without and work into the weaving light and
formative light, the trinity of the second hierarchy press in from
Thus we have been able to throw light upon that which

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describe objectively. So long as one has the slightest tendency to
matters can only be discussed in the light of Spiritual Science. For
the slightest breath of wind, but of a viscous, semi-fluid
the Sun. Light, therefore, is the element in which the Spirits of
Form first weave and work. Since, however, the activities of light
forces of light, which we call the Spirits of Form, no organs with
which to perceive that which is woven into the light. Everything
chemical forces active in the Earth, is still interwoven with light
speaks of the Sun, not as the giver of light, but when he says:
this he were to experience an alternation similar to that of light
occult training and development. Whereas the light streams towards us
during the day as light and during the night continues to operate as
a reservoir of assimilated light, the Music of the Spheres sounds
who work from the surrounding Cosmos into the weaving light and into
formative Light, the trinity of the second Hierarchy, are working
These words are carefully chosen; they are no flight of fancy, but
we have been able to throw light upon that which weaves on the loom

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which then throws light on the matter from another aspect. We can
light, then you must seek for them in the Sun. You must always seek
them as streaming down to us in the sunlight. But if we want to
[The East in the Light of the West, e.Ed.]
evening twilight of humanity, whose development brings humanity in a
and lightning! That is the Spirit Who to us speaks truth. Oh, the

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immediately reject it in favour of another which throws light on the
shine down upon us in the light from our present Cosmos — then
in the sunlight. If, however, we wish to understand how the abnormal
The East in the Light of the West. The Children of Lucifer and the Brothers of Christ.
forces leading to the twilight of mankind, forces which set the seal
purling of the brook, in thunder and in lightning! That is the Spirit

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mysteries belonging to this evolution can only be lightly touched
This gives only a slight indication of an important

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evolution can only be touched upon lightly. From among these

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can at the present time bring to light. The point is rather, that one
passed through it in a sort of twilight. Then the ‘ I ’
going through a slight development, already read again in the Akashic
lightning. Speech is there before the’ I ’ is
man, is what as thunder and lightning goes through the sighing winds
wind, the flashing of the lightning outside is inwardly connected
He saw the inner relationship of fire and lightning, with that which

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their efforts to emerge from their old twilight conditions of
the spiritual world and what they had undergone in a dim twilight
thunder and lightning. The gift of speech precedes the birth of the
the pulsation of the blood corresponds to the thunder and lightning
pulsation of the blood in man is the thunder and lightning in the
and the flashing of the lightning are intimately related to the
and of outer lightning. He felt the pulse-beat in his blood and knew

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preferably called an opponent of the Good and an enemy of the Light.
Sun-Spirit, the Spirit of Light. He had therefore to begin by
Spirit of Light, the Spirit of Darkness, who dims our knowledge of
directs his gaze outwards and pictures the Asuras of Light as
light, i.e., the truth, appeared darkened to the old Northman, he
should everywhere find that these things throw light upon the matter,
was painted for man by the Initiates in the picture of the ‘Twilight
of the gods.’ Ragnarok, the Twilight of the Gods
in the wonderful picture of the Twilight of the Gods. That is the
occult background of the Saga of the Twilight of the Gods.
mysteriously, Who really plays a definite part only in the ‘Twilight
he plays it in the Twilight of the Gods. When we understand this rôle
Twilight of the Gods.’

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Loki - Hodur and Baldur - Twilight of the Gods.
and Baldur — Twilight of the Gods.
Light. What is the explanation of this? The explanation is that in
Sun Spirit, the Spirit of Light. He has first to show that this world
is compounded of Light and the Spirit of Darkness who dims our
Children of Light, the Spirits who are here the dominant Powers. He
Asuras of Light to be in opposition to the Asuras of Darkness.
expression for everything that implied darkening of the light of
experienced the darkening of the light of truth, they spoke of a
everywhere find that these things throw light upon the matter, down
overcome. This was their vision of Ragnarok, the Twilight of the
in the wonderful picture of the Twilight of the Gods. That is the
occult background to the Saga of the Twilight of the Gods.
what light, then, should man see himself? He should see himself as
fact first plays a definite part in the Twilight of the Gods because
the Twilight of the Gods the role of Odin's avenger is a
mighty vision of the Twilight of the Gods.

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of the ‘Twilight of the Gods’, it will be well to form a
folk-characters in their light and shadow sides, you will find that
and its light. The Slav element also has this Being, — although
compare with the world of the Elves of Light. It is that spiritual

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image of the Twilight of the Gods, it will be well to establish a
light. The Slavonic element also recognizes this Being — though
can at best compare with the world of the Elves of Light. The

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In that which has come down to us as the ‘Twilight
All these details which are set forth in the ‘Twilight
also is told us in the ‘Twilight of the Gods’.
forth to us out of the ‘Twilight of the Gods’, that a

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Twilight of the Gods.
Twilight of the Gods.
or pictures is no flight of fancy, but actually stems from the
different light to those who have not undergone occult training. But
twilight of the Gods embraces a significant vision of the future, and
the day of Ragnarok (the Twilight of the Gods) Odin is swallowed up
these details which are set down in the Twilight of the Gods will
Fenris Wolf. We learn of this too in the Twilight of the Gods.
the wondrous figure of Vidar shines forth to us out of the Twilight

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obtaining light upon the world it describes except through Spiritual

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obtaining light upon the world it describes except through Spiritual

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is an ascent to the light element. Thus, speaking of the transition
denser, the gaseous element, is added, but so also is light. The
light element makes it possible for the warmth and the air to
to life again. For it was without light; light had separated from it.
it the light, but only the coarser elements, the gaseous and the
warmth elements. True, there was no lack of light in what is
was no rarefaction, there was no light. We may then say that in one
were denuded, they lacked the light which had entered into evolution
earth evolution means that the light, which it still had so long as
to be, from which all the light had withdrawn with the
light from without. That its light comes from without is the
part of the Sun, not receiving light, but itself forming part of the
Being that is radiating light into space. This condition can be
receive light, but is itself a source of light.
of light. In the earth evolution that is no longer the case. The
earth has surrendered the radiant element, it has to receive light
from without; light has to stream into it. That is the essential
the haschamayim, the light went out too. All that is now
ha'arets as tohu wabohu has no light of its own. The
not make the earth light; it left it in darkness.
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is an ascent to the light element. Thus, speaking of the transition
denser, the gaseous element, is added, but so also is light. The
light element makes it possible for the warmth and the air to
to life again. For it was without light; light had separated from it.
it the light, but only the coarser elements, the gaseous and the
warmth elements. True, there was no lack of light in what is
was no rarefaction, there was no light. We may then say that in one
were denuded, they lacked the light which had entered into evolution
earth evolution means that the light, which it still had so long as
to be, from which all the light had withdrawn with the
light from without. That its light comes from without is the
part of the Sun, not receiving light, but itself forming part of the
Being that is radiating light into space. This condition can be
receive light, but is itself a source of light.
of light. In the earth evolution that is no longer the case. The
earth has surrendered the radiant element, it has to receive light
from without; light has to stream into it. That is the essential
the haschamayim, the light went out too. All that is now
ha'arets as tohu wabohu has no light of its own. The
not make the earth light; it left it in darkness.
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said, Let there be light: and there was light. They allude to an
light into space. Our planetary evolution, as I have called it,
an airy structure, so that the Sun flashes forth blossoms of light in
and sprouting light, living light, which causes the gaseous vapour to
light, warmth and air in the ancient Sun evoluticn. The laws of the
the air-warmth-light sphere of the Sun? With the senses of today we
the time when the air, warmth and light sphere of the Sun was in its
full splendour, when light, playing in the surface of the airy globe,
existence, and his bodily form was among those light forms in
still united with the solar substance, so long as the sunlight did
yesterday when speaking of the rarefaction of light. That is a very
then happened was that the element of light broke into all this; and
which followed the coming into being of light. In dry prose, what
happened was this: after the light had penetrated into the tohu
light and of air from without, of the separation of water from solid.
the airy and the watery elements of the Moon evolution. In the light

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said, Let there be light: and there was light. They allude to an
light into space. Our planetary evolution, as I have called it,
an airy structure, so that the Sun flashes forth blossoms of light in
and sprouting light, living light, which causes the gaseous vapour to
light, warmth and air in the ancient Sun evolution. The laws of the
the air-warmth-light sphere of the Sun? With the senses of today we
the time when the air, warmth and light sphere of the Sun was in its
full splendour, when light, playing in the surface of the airy globe,
existence, and his bodily form was among those light forms in
still united with the solar substance, so long as the sunlight did
yesterday when speaking of the rarefaction of light. That is a very
then happened was that the element of light broke into all this; and
which followed the coming into being of light. In dry prose, what
happened was this: after the light had penetrated into the tohu
light and of air from without, of the separation of water from solid.
the airy and the watery elements of the Moon evolution. In the light

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shall not get anywhere near it by striking a match or lighting a
call the condition next above warmth, light, or light-ether. Thus, if
light and air, and all life during that time manifested itself within
this condition of warmth, light and air. Now we must once more make
manifestations of warmth, light and air, we are only considering the
externally by means of warmth, light and air. It is somewhat as if we
Light once more makes its appearance above. Then, above the light, we
light to sound, but we do not confuse this sound with the external
without we have to see, in elementary form, warmth, air, water, light
we have air, water, solid; as rarer conditions we have light, sound
of rarefaction, to the element of light. Let us take the fact that
during the solar period light penetrates into our cosmic space, and
permeation by light of our developing earth. That is announced in the
mighty words: And God said, Let there be light: and there was
light.
which followed upon the coming into existence of light? We are told
Genesis account, following the intervention of the light-ether, we
light and organising sound had poured in. There should be some phrase
find all that clairvoyant investigation can bring to light —
light, sound-ether and life-ether, and in what these activities
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shall not get anywhere near it by striking a match or lighting a
call the condition next above warmth, light, or light-ether. Thus, if
light and air, and all life during that time manifested itself within
this condition of warmth, light and air. Now we must once more make
manifestations of warmth, light and air, we are only considering the
externally by means of warmth, light and air. It is somewhat as if we
Light once more makes its appearance above. Then, above the light, we
light to sound, but we do not confuse this sound with the external
without we have to see, in elementary form, warmth, air, water, light
we have air, water, solid; as rarer conditions we have light, sound
of rarefaction, to the element of light. Let us take the fact that
during the solar period light penetrates into our cosmic space, and
permeation by light of our developing earth. That is announced in the
mighty words: And God said, Let there be light: and there was
light.
which followed upon the coming into existence of light? We are told
Genesis account, following the intervention of the light-ether, we
light and organising sound had poured in. There should be some phrase
find all that clairvoyant investigation can bring to light —
light, sound-ether and life-ether, and in what these activities
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direction, such as light, air, water, earth, warmth, so we shall
in the direction of the etheric, to light-ether. We have said that
Elohim) said, Let there be light; and there was light is
light-ether.
By the fact that they had not acquired the light nature, which was of
of light, warmth and air, had darkness as well as light in it. And
stage, just as the weaving light indicated the Beings who had
light and darkness. We can call the manifestation of the more
advanced Beings, light, and the manifestation of the Beings remaining
earlier stage of evolution, they will appear earlier than the light
at the point where the Bible says: Let there be light.
light and darkness. Light and darkness permeate our existence.
content of Goethe's theory of colour is the mystery of light
light and darkness is effective. The physical notion of matter which
the backward Saturn Beings. And when it speaks of light, it is
these Beings plan the general direction of the activities of light.
something that the Elohim find already there. Light is something they
light. But just as out of the light the Elohim appoint the Beings
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direction, such as light, air, water, earth, warmth, so we shall
in the direction of the etheric, to light-ether. We have said that
Elohim) said, Let there be light; and there was light is
light-ether.
By the fact that they had not acquired the light nature, which was of
of light, warmth and air, had darkness as well as light in it. And
stage, just as the weaving light indicated the Beings who had
light and darkness. We can call the manifestation of the more
advanced Beings, light, and the manifestation of the Beings remaining
earlier stage of evolution, they will appear earlier than the light
at the point where the Bible says: Let there be light.
light and darkness. Light and darkness permeate our existence.
content of Goethe's theory of colour is the mystery of light
light and darkness is effective. The physical notion of matter which
the backward Saturn Beings. And when it speaks of light, it is
these Beings plan the general direction of the activities of light.
something that the Elohim find already there. Light is something they
light. But just as out of the light the Elohim appoint the Beings
Personality who reveal themselves not through light, but through
light of which Genesis speaks is not the light which we can see with
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these lectures I shall try to throw light
ignore external existence, to prize it too lightly, is also one of
earth, water, air and fire or warmth, light, sound-ether and
Genesis now appears to us in a new light. When we are told that what
thunder and lightning which bursts forth from them. This is not
activity. It would be utter nonsense to regard the lightning flashing
of electricity, which prevails in the lightning, comes forth out of
of tragedy. The very thing which should enlighten humanity upon the

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these lectures I shall try to throw light
ignore external existence, to prize it too lightly, is also one of
earth, water, air and fire or warmth, light, sound-ether and
Genesis now appears to us in a new light. When we are told that what
thunder and lightning which bursts forth from them. This is not
activity. It would be utter nonsense to regard the lightning flashing
of electricity, which prevails in the lightning, comes forth out of
of tragedy. The very thing which should enlighten humanity upon the

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that a fire external to ourselves appears as a being radiating light.
has been formed by the light for the light.” This saying should
the eye man could not perceive light. For the other important aspect
of the truth is that without light the eye could never have
superficial, because it only gives half the truth. The light which
through the sunlight which fell upon it from without, it was
period light works essentially on the plants, maintains plant
development. We see the outward result of this activity of light in
our flora. During the Moon evolution light did not act in this way,
felt themselves weaving and working in the light which streamed from
feel ourselves to be within this light, we feel how with this light
space with this light.” But they could never have said:
“We see this light outside us.” There was no such thing
Let there be light, it meant that something new had happened, that
light, but that light streamed back to them from objects, that
there be light he adds: And God saw the light. In this ancient
embellishment to enhance the beauty of the creation of light; he does
not make the Elohim say anything like this: “We see the light
say merely And God saw the light, but that He saw that it was
light, we can say that they convey the specific quality of earth
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that a fire external to ourselves appears as a being radiating light.
has been formed by the light for the light.” This saying should
the eye man could not perceive light. For the other important aspect
of the truth is that without light the eye could never have
superficial, because it only gives half the truth. The light which
through the sunlight which fell upon it from without, it was
period light works essentially on the plants, maintains plant
development. We see the outward result of this activity of light in
our flora. During the Moon evolution light did not act in this way,
felt themselves weaving and working in the light which streamed from
feel ourselves to be within this light, we feel how with this light
space with this light.” But they could never have said:
“We see this light outside us.” There was no such thing
Let there be light, it meant that something new had happened, that
light, but that light streamed back to them from objects, that
there be light he adds: And God saw the light. In this ancient
embellishment to enhance the beauty of the creation of light; he does
not make the Elohim say anything like this: “We see the light
say merely And God saw the light, but that He saw that it was
light, we can say that they convey the specific quality of earth
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Let there be light; and there was light. Within all this
directing powers in the lightning flash that issues from the clouds.
lightning — the Cherubim with the flaming sword. Man falls from
with their fiery swords of lightning. There we have a spiritual

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Let there be light; and there was light. Within all this
directing powers in the lightning flash that issues from the clouds.
lightning — the Cherubim with the flaming sword. Man falls from
with their fiery swords of lightning. There we have a spiritual

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lighter, that what previously had been etheric became transformed
flight from the earth he was united with them all the time. Thus we
causing this volume of smoky mist gradually to lighten, and to assume
“day” of creation: And God made two great lights; the
greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the

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lighter, that what previously had been etheric became transformed
flight from the earth he was united with them all the time. Thus we
causing this volume of smoky mist gradually to lighten, and to assume
“day” of creation: And God made two great lights; the
greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the

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life and light breaks into the text, and minor discrepancies in the
to air and rarefied to light, how air condensed to water and rarefied

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life and light breaks into the text, and minor discrepancies in the
to air and rarefied to light, how air condensed to water and rarefied

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in the other Gospels, it throws a remarkable light upon
pointed towards the sunlight as the external body of a high

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the two Gospels in the light of Spiritual Science. Those
realise that the outer sunlight is only the external body
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as the principle of Ormuzd, the beneficent Being of Light,
the principle of Light, and Ahriman, the evil principle of
flight of Time, the mystery of development and of evolution.
Zarathustra referred to the external sunlight and the
external physical light-body of the Sun as the outer sheath
sheath of Light — the body of the sun. With Moses it
Light, of the origin of the world, and how this was affected
by the Light; but we do not learn from him how, in all
opposition of Light to Darkness. Earthly wisdom, the wisdom
constellation of Leo and thence sends us its light. The
passes on to Venus desirous of experiencing the sunlight as
teaching it was exactly as if the sunlight were first taken

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Ormuzd, the Good Being of Light, and that of Ahriman, the
Light characterized as that of Ormuzd, and an evil
the external light of the Sun, explaining to them that
of the light — the solar body. With Moses it was
against the light and essential quality of the Sun; this
and the operations of the inpouring light. But in the
opposition between Darkness and Light. Earth-wisdom which
of Leo and radiates its light from there. In this example
of Venus in order there to receive the light of the Sun
if the light of the Sun had first been intercepted by
force and within their blood was able to light up as an

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should like to make a slight addition to something mentioned
evolving upwards towards light, where there was not only a
Sun, we find a globe containing air, heat, and light. At the
other hand light-ether, sound-ether, and life-ether. All this
heat and light, but among these influences which belong to
distinguish between light and darkness. Life is perceived by
the earth as outwardly it reflects its light.
earth as light and warmth, there was something else,
beneficial warmth and light flowing down to earth; but when

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re-enactment, of a cosmic process, viewed in the light of
development upwards, to light. Hence we can say: passing
light.
During the Old Moon stage, not only was there light but
other side, light-ether, sound-ether, and then
light are present for external life to-day since it is
sense that light is perceptible when through the senses
he distinguishes light from darkness. The active workings
just as outwardly it reflects its light. The separation
radiating its light and warmth to the Earth there is
warmth and light streaming from it to the Earth; but if
light of what is said in the book Occult Science we

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but to investigate it and to see in the physical light of the
sunlight, and said: ‘Behold, behind the sun is
be translated lightly according to modern methods which have

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must conceive of the Sun's body of light as thc outer
enlightenment to Abraham, the great Teacher of the Rishis
spiritual Being behind the Sun's body of light, saying in
be imagined that everything brought to light here from

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and if allowed to act on the soul, and not accepted lightly, it

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events shortly to be dealt with — the flight into Egypt
to hear the truth, nor wished that it should come to light.

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to them and was like a beacon light shining in from the
flight to Egypt and the return, nothing was more natural
want the truth to come to light. Something was

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enlightened perception of the world into which man
East in the Light of the West — great

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feeling of self was clouded. In the light of these lectures
overcome, and he could then enter the light spheres of his

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and had now passed into the light-filled spheres of his

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has come to light in our time should be so disconcerting to
existence, and wait until His Light streams down upon you,
Light to you, but that which is willed on high must enter the
this third Beatitude. Let us examine it in the light of
Spiritual Science pours light on the whole structure of these

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to light in the Gospels, and that the Gospels,
even more forcibly in the light of the following facts.
mean that a man endowed with clairvoyance to a slight
light of what we have learnt from Spiritual Science.
Infinite light is thus shed by Spiritual Science on the
Intellectual or Mind-Soul it lights up and only then does
convey the true meaning when understood in the light of
consciousness of self first lights up in man in the
Science sheds light upon the whole structure of these

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Mount, should not be taken lightly. They are the repeated
one has a feeling for the value of words, and throws light on
He will bless, and endow with light, those who through the

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Zoroastrianism when understood in the light of
and enlightenment, through the unerring insight into

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Details concerning these forces, which are enlightening
light on the Gospel of Matthew.
had gradually to learn to know him, in the light of the
must not be passed over as lightly as are the discussions

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picture him through the enlightenment that had come to
this consolation and enlightenment: Although they can no
indeed not be taken lightly. They can be understood only
intelligible only in the light of an ancient, yet ever,
Mystery of Golgotha. It is in this light that the

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there light-ether. This light-ether came with the
these as finer conditions we have light-ether, tone-ether,
light-ether. What he perceives as ‘sound’ is but
Sun certainly sends its light to the earth, in so far as this
resounded in him, because the World-Light — the great
understand that behind the physical sunlight there is a
Spiritual Light, just as behind physical man there is
physical sun as the light-body of a Being who will one day
gave to mankind the promise that one day the Light-being
of the Sun-light, or Sun-aura, for they were really
human personality. There is a desire to-day to bring to light
given concerning the descent of the inner Light-being, the
great body of light, the Spiritual Light whose power and
Baptism of John, when the Light of the World came
Luke tells us he is to be found, where his light streamed

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no light-ether — which first appeared during the
rarefaction: light-ether, sound-ether, and life-ether,
warmth-ether, and light. What he perceives as sound or
now ‘physical’ state sends its light to the
Light of Worlds, was proclaimed through him. Ahura
behind the physical light of the Sun there is spiritual
light. Just as behind physical man there is his astral
light-body of a Being who will one day descend to the
— One day the great Aura, the Being of Light, will
authors of certain poetic works into the limelight and
Logos, the Sun Word, the essence of Light in the Aura of
other hand, described the Sun Aura, the spiritual Light
the Baptism, when the Light of Worlds descended. The
repudiated can shed any light upon His life and nature,

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life. How many say light-heartedly: — “People speak here

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humility we shall welcome all ideas which throw light on any
light on things which cannot be investigated by our ordinary
us giddy or light-headed. In physical life our own organism

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lightheartedly but with precision. — If you have followed
meaning when there is light, such light as streams to earth from the
slight awareness of self, how little he is able to accomplish in
the light. Out of our own old ideas a kind of
undertaken lightly, for it is by no means easy to be unegoistic.
to be interested. People might for instance ask lightly: —
enlightenment. We must not apply such knowledge to our own personal
life, but merely allow it to enlighten us. It is well if we feel in
enlightenment!” For in that case we are in a position as soon

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more could be said to shed light on Anthropology. Last year I
light upon the nature and purpose of man. If you
just said will not, perhaps, be very enlightening to someone
for eyes have purpose only when light is streaming in upon
When does this happen? When does a spiritual reality light up
the eye confronts the light. A sort of organ is formed from
this must not be taken lightly. It is no easy matter to be
means of knowledge, of enlightenment, should attach to these
enlightenment then we are on safe ground, for in that case,

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begun to bring the light of spiritual knowledge to bear upon

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light, and who approach us in the warmth and light of the sun. The
warmth and light we perceive is illusion. All appearance is
as light meets in the rainbow — what remains is the human

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experience, known in those days to every seeker for the light
light streaming from the Sun. The warmth and light themselves

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Deeper Secrets of Human Existence in the Light of the Gospels,
intend, through a distinct shading, a distinct twilight.
That is the light which I wanted to place before you. And the shadows

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is the light in the picture I mentioned. The shadows are in our
sought enlightenment about the world, they employed their
yet forceful enough to get any enlightenment from the outer world.

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contrasts as it were of light and shadow.
side — the light side I wanted to convey. But there is also

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to bring to light the inner, spiritual truths they indicate.
of how light and darkness interweave. In this way I tried to
lightness of the I (ee) and the delicate significance of the
On the day or light side of the Zodiac lie Aries, Taurus,
the spiritual light of the Sun, which passes through the

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takes the form of sublime figures of light, is only a
in depth they are extraordinarily enlightening.

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things, by what lives in light and air and in the climate of
to man of the different kinds of air and light, of the various ways
thunder and lightning, in rain and sunshine, how one kind of food
see in them that which works on us in light, and that also works on
the plant creation as light.
in thunder and lightning.
but on his return, as he again beheld the light of the sun, Eurydice
disappeared from his sight. Why? Because when he beheld the light of

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light and air and climate of a particular region. One type of
air and light, of the different ways in which foodstuffs are
thunder and lightning, rain and sunshine, how one kind of
the Exousiai, for example, in the light that works upon us as
lightning. Knowing that the higher the rank of the
again encountered the sunlight, Eurydice vanished from his
sight. Why was this? It was because on seeing the sunlight he
which cannot really light up in the child because he is as

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In the light of Spiritual Science the
If we direct the light gained from
light upon them and interpreting them literally.

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continually like a new light within these bodies. These are the
a stone through the air, the line of its flight describes a parabole.
rather as throwing light on certain relationships. It is only to show
way we are able to throw light on the different ways in which our

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them like a new light. It is these latter forces which remain
such as the thyroid gland. Light can thus be thrown on the

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catastrophe comes fully to light in the Gospel of John if we can but

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the Gospels in the light of Spiritual Science we find
study his life in the light of Spiritual Science for we can
of an idea of only slight importance we shall always find
the light of St. Luke's Gospel, he recognises physical

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the sunlight to which your attention has often been directed; how
the moon at night, especially when the moon is at the full. Sunlight
comes to us from the full moon, but reflected sunlight, which is
somewhat different from direct sunlight. Were we to compare the
Christ with direct sunlight, then Jahve might be likened to sun-light
of Jehova into Christ, as men feel the difference between moonlight
and sunlight — Jahve being an indirect and Christ a direct
facts are seen in their right light, we realise that we have to
will never be able to throw light on the central facts of our
fact that the Buddha, or Mercury-stream, has as little light to throw

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the picture of the sunlight which can come to us either
especially at Full Moon. After all, it is sunlight that comes
from the Full Moon, even if it is reflected sunlight and this
does indeed differ from sunlight directly received. If we
think of Christ as symbolised by the direct sunlight, we may
liken Jahve to sunlight reflected by the Moon and that would
difference between sunlight and moonlight: Jahve is an
sight of the symbol of moonlight for the old Jahve-religion
place. If we are able to see these things in the right light
these side-streams will ever be able to throw light on the
different elements; it could shed no light on the central
light to throw on the direct development of the Christ-idea
light.

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of the light we must have, and must make use of, more especially in

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because they were a source of delight to them and a warm glow
inner delight, and the effects lived on in them. Their
this fact we shall be turning our gaze to the light we need

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I flash within the lightning,
Your light is quenched by its own power.
light, such bitter grief
to wake that light in others
that leads you to the light of truth.
We both must look for clarity in that light,
In light, in darkness,
There lives in me the light,
there germinates in me the light of soul,
The spirit's light will give me strength
and how its radiant light illumines them.
From light-filled heights a Being shines on me,
lets its light shine into my soul.
flight, however, merely leads the human being directly to
Things that once were a source of delight can assume a
physical body. Soul endeavor that has an effect like light is
with clearest essence of the light
into the radiant light
that they, with light of being,

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This flight, however, leads him all the more into himself. And
tired of it, we take flight in solitude. For certain stages of
physical body. That which works through the Soul, as light
With clearest rays of light
Through all the streaming light
Will beg their being's light

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light of the sun is flooding
the physical plane, a light begins to radiate in Johannes'
soul, a light that arouses terrible waves within him. At the
same time, however, this light kindles his esoteric
Johannes, lightly drawn in the Meditation Room scene (Scene
‘The heavenly powers of light are carrying me
For every force could come to light
the glimmering light within her eyes.
the senses' innocent delights.
You give me light,
but light that robs me of the power of sight
Your gaze has lost its light.
Light's weaving essence radiates
light's weaving essence
his soul with spirit light.
recognize in its frightening and powerful interweaving of light
I flash within the lightning.
Light's weaving essence radiates
light's weaving essence
therefore, thunder and lightning follow what they have felt in
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man who has not even had the slightest inkling of the way in which it
be enlightened about the things contained in other documents if he
fact. A ray of light can go out of the Gospels, and this is an
I wish to throw some light
from an occult standpoint in a very strange light. The occult fact
we consider matters a little in the light of Anthroposophy. We may
light, and here everyone must encounter the Christ! Anyone who is at
point of transition. It we pass through it, light begins to spread,
the Christ he will feel inspired, and it will grow light about him.
Christ, something leading them into a past filled with light, because

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physical sunlight descended during autumn. More outer physical
Let us greet them through sunlight and moonshine
and these candles, through the symbolism of their light, are meant to
fire, and as a light, filled with certainty of hope, will find its way
to all mankind at some future time. Then this fire and this light will
enlighten it! Thus can we feel here the Christmas mood as a mood of
Christmas time! The child of light is to be born, whom we have

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look at the lights that are intended to be invitations into
eyes the physical rays of the sun were reflecting the light,
but in his heart the sunlight kindled spiritual jubilation,
supreme light of the Spirit can be revealed; and how the
the highest light he must seek for it in the deepest depths
rightly, you can find an eternal, imperishable Light. And
this Light has been brought into the evolution of mankind
the new summer — in that darkness the light of Christ

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Probation there came to me certain enlightening points of
the golden sunlight glowed and glimmered,
When moonlight's silver glance,
in rushing water and in moonlight's glimmer.
She filled it with the moonlight's silver rays
beside the rock-born spring in moonlight's silver sheen.
then appear, like a darkening of the light-process, what
the regular formation of the end- rhyme for what was lighting
long as you say Licht (light)
wholeness, an abundance. Because a ray of light is a thin
characterization of those elements, light and air. Human beings

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history and will present historical facts and personalities in the light
And now a strange phenomenon comes to light, without knowledge of which
The East in the light of the West
vision of the great mathematical, light-woven texture of the universe.
to be received from that other Light, the new Christ Event. What arose
the light that outshone all the wisdom, all the knowledge existing in

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respect to-day it is regarded as the sign of an enlightened mind in
her. In order to throw a little light on the occult understanding of
he, with his stubborn-headedness, by no means always let off lightly.
and spiritual factors of the age — in everything that threw light
epoch twilight had already fallen over the natural human clairvoyance,

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the musical-aesthetic enjoyment of it may consist in purely human delight
entirely self-contained, comes to light as historical reality in the

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the soul and over which the shadows of twilight were only just beginning
repeated instinctively. Remarkable things come to light. Men may be
were already approaching their period of twilight. Such was the destiny

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in an earlier incarnation he was able to bring to light an untold fund
directions of the Zodiac, six directed towards the light side of the
with joy and delight towards everything spread out around him, and he

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knew himself to be connected. This is an attitude which also sheds light
the impulses at work in the epochs of time throw light upon the individual

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not the slightest inequality of the surface remains to indicate the

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cannot look upon a storm or a flash of lightning, he cannot hear the
over my seas, that they may come to my silent dreams, and delight my
lightning of heaven, flying westward from the morning's beam,
the king of Selma removed. Terrible is the light of his armor; two
the lightning of his sword, and as he waved we moved ...”
which had its branches blasted of old by the lightning of heaven. It

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We will concern ourselves with certain thoughts which throw light on
which must be regarded in a different light from that in which the
kindle light, words which we will take into our hearts: ‘I have yet

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order to feel and to experience: Now, when the light of the outer sun
spiritual Light. The lights on the Christmas Tree stand there before
us as a symbol of the inner, spiritual Light that is kindled in the
outer darkness. And because what we feel to be the spirit-light of the
reality, we imagine that the lighted fir-tree shining out to us on
remarkable, enlightened men who lived at the turning-point of the old
under the warmth and light of the sun in spring. But to begin with,
divine Heights, to divine Powers. — The lights on this tree are
symbols of the light which shines in our own souls when we grasp the
life's path to the highest goals of existence. May these lights on the

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the same way that it is impossible to portray lightning, since one
Just as it is never possible to paint lightning, so is it even less

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light act upon the optic nerve. So long as they affect the optic
our Self and are actually within the light-rays which penetrate our

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another rhythm that is regular only to a very slight degree —
slightest intention here of giving pedantic instruction in this
if only slightly, of what I have just been stating. For it is
ever-increasing number, one new fact after another comes to light
till it becomes impossible after a time to say, in the light and easy
this series of lectures we shall endeavour to throw a little light

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the slightest degree with the results obtained by external science.
light-currents streaming across from the one to the other of these

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spatial formation is very slightly differentiated in itself, contains
such an organ as this, the ether-body exercises only a slight force
of his body. Yet he has it only to a very slight degree, as anyone will

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the human organism entirely in the light in which we have had to do
just as he perceives light and sound through the eye and the ear.
We know, indeed, that even if we interfere only very slightly with
that, and so forth. The human qualities are sought for in the light
have here one of the means by which to throw light by means of

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diseased organ appear to us in the light of occult physiology?”

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instrument. It is outshone, as a powerful light outshines a feeble
light, by all that lives in our souls under the influence of the
forth his kind. We could go much further by throwing light also upon

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incident which may throw light upon our aims, for day-to-day
an idle one. Science has rendered good service; to throw light upon
figures appear like two beams of prophetic light: they are Persephone
already lights up the present with its challenge, the present age,
not to be blighted by her intellectuality we must remember the
indeed feel that his soul was enlightened by the spiritual inspirers
clairvoyant culture represented by Persephone must light up again.
allowed to shed its light upon our anthroposophical life in the
Eckhardstein. To me every flicker of light, be it red or blue, every
shade in the scenic effect, be it light or subdued, is important and
illumination of the footlights, while others have rather to be
be conveyed in the light in which they appear on the stage in bodily
word. These three feminine figures working in the silvery moonlight
beings whom we encounter in the silvery moonlight of the fairy-tale,

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incident which may throw light upon our aims, for day-to-day
an idle one. Science has rendered good service; to throw light upon
figures appear like two beams of prophetic light: they are Persephone
already lights up the present with its challenge, the present age,
not to be blighted by her intellectuality we must remember the
indeed feel that his soul was enlightened by the spiritual inspirers
clairvoyant culture represented by Persephone must light up again.
allowed to shed its light upon our anthroposophical life in the
Eckhardstein. To me every flicker of light, be it red or blue, every
shade in the scenic effect, be it light or subdued, is important and
illumination of the footlights, while others have rather to be
be conveyed in the light in which they appear on the stage in bodily
word. These three feminine figures working in the silvery moonlight
beings whom we encounter in the silvery moonlight of the fairy-tale,

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mythology has its correspondence in what we are bringing to light

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mythology has its correspondence in what we are bringing to light

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glimpse, how it throws light upon those great figures and images and
everyday experience, we have only to see it in the right light. Let
Spiritual Science. The same forces which cause thoughts to light up
lightning. And out of this feeling, which, as I said before, had not
the feeling that the forces which cause thought to light up in us are
causes the phenomena of consciousness to light up; without extends
rainbow, the sunrise, the sunset, thunder and lightning, clouds and
what lights up in us momentarily or for a short time as thought, as

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glimpse, how it throws light upon those great figures and images and
everyday experience, we have only to see it in the right light. Let
Spiritual Science. The same forces which cause thoughts to light up
lightning. And out of this feeling, which, as I said before, had not
the feeling that the forces which cause thought to light up in us are
causes the phenomena of consciousness to light up; without extends
rainbow, the sunrise, the sunset, thunder and lightning, clouds and
what lights up in us momentarily or for a short time as thought, as

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Now they emerge again from the twilight of existence and intervene
light upon the lesser ones. Everywhere these two streams intermingle.

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Now they emerge again from the twilight of existence and intervene
light upon the lesser ones. Everywhere these two streams intermingle.

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powerful dramatic allegory which sheds its light upon us from remote
looking at the matter in the right light we see that however much

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powerful dramatic allegory which sheds its light upon us from remote
looking at the matter in the right light we see that however much

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four-fold man, as we are accustomed to treat of him in the light of
the matter from another aspect, which throws quite a different light
any real intellectual light; man only acquired that later. This old

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four-fold man, as we are accustomed to treat of him in the light of
the matter from another aspect, which throws quite a different light
any real intellectual light; man only acquired that later. This old

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We have been trying to bring to light again in the impressive pictures
light upon the lot of the soul struggling for knowledge, living in
the depths; they shed light upon all the testings which the soul had
gentle trial; it is very slight, and since the organisation of
light is thrown upon them from several sides, and in a certain way
words in the light of present-day usage will believe that they are
not take such things lightly, superficially — as is done today
‘which charm I weave for thee in light

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We have been trying to bring to light again in the impressive pictures
light upon the lot of the soul struggling for knowledge, living in
the depths; they shed light upon all the testings which the soul had
gentle trial; it is very slight, and since the organisation of
light is thrown upon them from several sides, and in a certain way
words in the light of present-day usage will believe that they are
not take such things lightly, superficially — as is done today
‘which charm I weave for thee in light

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the light which it affords upon certain pristine truths. Pictures,
yesterday to the lightest, the gentlest of them. In general they
it to the light of day out of our own freedom. Thus we can let this
really not to be taken lightly. We come to the saying that knowledge
truth by throwing light on the facts from all sides. The paths of
with warmth, then with light, chemical and life ether. We can also
moonlight, which is reflected sunlight, is related to the direct
light of the sun. That Being who began to prepare Himself for His
of Jehovah-Christ, and in doing so light upon the true sense of the

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the light which it affords upon certain pristine truths. Pictures,
yesterday to the lightest, the gentlest of them. In general they
it to the light of day out of our own freedom. Thus we can let this
really not to be taken lightly. We come to the saying that knowledge
truth by throwing light on the facts from all sides. The paths of
with warmth, then with light, chemical and life ether. We can also
moonlight, which is reflected sunlight, is related to the direct
light of the sun. That Being who began to prepare Himself for His
of Jehovah-Christ, and in doing so light upon the true sense of the

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well, but let us begin by trying to throw light on them in relation
light upon zoology when once it is recognised and made fruitful for
noted that in the course of this study we have also thrown light upon
elements — in the warmth, light, chemical and life elements
form, from the warmth ether upwards to the light ether, the chemical
‘The warmth, light and chemical impulses in the sun are
— the lighter and more brilliant they appear. Thus the human
light which falls upon a mirror is arrested and thrown back. Here we

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well, but let us begin by trying to throw light on them in relation
light upon zoology when once it is recognised and made fruitful for
noted that in the course of this study we have also thrown light upon
elements — in the warmth, light, chemical and life elements
form, from the warmth ether upwards to the light ether, the chemical
‘The warmth, light and chemical impulses in the sun are
— the lighter and more brilliant they appear. Thus the human
light which falls upon a mirror is arrested and thrown back. Here we

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relates him fitly to things, either because it throws light for him
men's efforts to reach enlightenment about the world spring.
Greek enlightenment to a stage suited to the prosaic intellectual
Old Moon as astral body remains subconscious; it lights up in the
which ordinary science brings to light. The fiftieth anniversary of
tenuous the ideas are, or however slight is what our egotism enables
is only meant to give a slight indication of how it is possible to
goes on in the outer world in light and sound and so on, to
light and warmth, but it is not legitimate to attempt to explain
light and warmth themselves by means of atoms or atomic vibrations;
enlightenment on the Aristotelian definitions of fear and pity is

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relates him fitly to things, either because it throws light for him
men's efforts to reach enlightenment about the world spring.
Greek enlightenment to a stage suited to the prosaic intellectual
Old Moon as astral body remains subconscious; it lights up in the
which ordinary science brings to light. The fiftieth anniversary of
tenuous the ideas are, or however slight is what our egotism enables
is only meant to give a slight indication of how it is possible to
goes on in the outer world in light and sound and so on, to
light and warmth, but it is not legitimate to attempt to explain
light and warmth themselves by means of atoms or atomic vibrations;
enlightenment on the Aristotelian definitions of fear and pity is

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This, my dear theosophical friends, is intended as a slight
intellectual life, and see how it appears in the light of
which testify everywhere, when examined in the proper light,
gradually came to light that the theory of motion, or
light, etc., to the vibration of minute particles, or to a
to certain facts which have come to light by degrees,
and more subtle resemblances do not come to light.” And
only slightly metamorphosed. There are some, particularly
facts which have come to light, to relate the human being to
science, or even will not make a slight effort to arrive at a
wonderful facts that have come to light during the last few
great mass of facts now brought to light by science to speak
grandeur that radiates from his whole person, in the light of
light on our advance to spirituality, on theosophy in
healthy view of Goethe would be to regard him, in the light
lectures, to shed light, sometimes in a manner inconvenient

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If, for instance, we have put the light out at night and review the
body of its leaden heaviness and by some means making it lighter. A
Organisation altering, even if only slightly. So that in very truth
will become a Buddha: five thousand years after the enlightenment of

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light of Spiritual Science and to acquire the fruits of Spiritual
forces at work here too. And a very remarkable thing comes to light:
Buddha became enlightened under the bodhi tree, he will become a
after the enlightenment of Gautama Buddha under the bodhi tree that
Buddha was enlightened beneath the bodhi tree his successor will

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English books of reference give “lights” and
14:27 But Jonathan heard not when his father charged the people with the oath: wherefore he put forth the end of the rod that was in his hand, and dipped it in an honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes were enlightened. \
14:29 Then said Jonathan, My father hath troubled the land: see, I pray you, how mine eyes have been enlightened, because I tasted a little of this honey. \
14:36 And Saul said, Let us go down after the Philistines by night, and spoil them until the morning light, and let us not leave a man of them. And they said, Do whatsoever seemeth good unto thee. Then said the priest, Let us draw near hither unto God. \
Christ to men in the true light. Thus the Bodhisattva who incarnated
years after Gautama Buddha attained Enlightenment under the Bodhi

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Everyone experienced a spiritual eclipse. Even the most enlightened
instance in thunder and lightning. And they saw the forces of thought
and the rosy light of dawn. The rosicrucians sought the strength to

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through grace sheds light on the whole of the pupil's further life. He
in a moment of enlightenment, called this process the law of growth and decay.
enlightened under the bodhi tree, that is, about three thousand years

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magnet has North and South poles, just as light and darkness are
These facts can be considered in yet another light. On deeper scrutiny
clairvoyance, certain rays of light are seen streaming continually
a slight inclination towards moral principles the rays streaming into
form of currents of light, and what is of moral-aesthetic nature
pineal gland as it were a little sea of light. Moral nobility is
calm glow of light often extends as far as the heart. Two streams can
Light itself is being destroyed in this post-Atlantean age of the
process. Since then it has been a process of decay.* What is light?
Light decays and the decaying light is electricity. What we
know as electricity is light that is being destroyed in matter. And
Enlightenment, pure Akashic forms, bathed in fire, lit by the sun,
it possible for the Sons of Fire and of Light to move about the Earth,
after Gautama Buddha's Enlightenment, the Teacher will also be there
Fire and Light are. This teacher — the Maitreya Buddha — will
does not yet exist. The teachings of the Enlightened One will not
— magnetism arises. When light is thrust down into the
Answer: Electricity is light in the sub-material state. Light
be ascribed to light; light is itself at every point in space.
Warmth will expand in the three dimensions of space. In light there is
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us. Just as the magnet has north and south poles, just as light and
light, so there are two poles in man's life of soul. Both these poles
These facts can be considered in yet another light. On
clairvoyant eye, certain rays of light are seen streaming continually
These rays of light stream from the heart to the head
man who has only a slight inclination toward moral principles the
from below in the form of currents of light, and what is of
glimmering light appears in the region of the pineal gland. This
gland is almost surrounded by a small sea of light in the moment
moral character is reflected in him, and this calm glow of light
Light is destroying itself within our post-Atlantean
What is light? Light decays, and the decaying light is electricity.
What we know as electricity is light that is destroying itself within
achieved Enlightenment, pure Akashic forms, bathed in fire, lit by
Light to move about the moral atmosphere of the earth, not in
Enlightenment, so it was said, the teacher will also be there to make
forms of Fire and Light. This teacher — the Maitreya Buddha —
form of speech does not yet exist. The teaching of the Enlightened
the evil Devachanic world, magnetism arises. If one thrusts light
Answer: Electricity is light in the sub-material state.
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Only when delight or repugnance are associated with the thoughts of
light that exists behind everything — the spiritual world which brings

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Only when delight or
be necessary for him to be able to sense the light that exists behind

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for spiritual research today to shed new light upon the Gospels.

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down of ready-made dogmas that enlightened people are required to
these, light does not spread through space by means of ether
to, so that according to this the transmission of light appears to be
absurd proposition that thoughts are the bearers of light. Yet
soul life being shown in a wrong light and dragged down by the worst
conscious way. Christ will appear as a form of light to a number of
sound, and from His astral body of light He will fill their receptive

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research today, in shedding new light upon the Gospels, to go back to

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the East; of the flight into Egypt, and so on. All this leads back in
how this revelation is already in process of throwing new light on the
room until light is obtained, it is equally impossible for a human
Spiritual Science alone can help to throw light. Thus it is only now
light into the ego of man, so that into his ego the heavens are able

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true, and should not be treated lightly. On the other hand, those who
his personality. Everywhere we look to-day, the lights and shadows can
its light. Love in the sixth culture-epoch will show itself in a very
oriental tradition the Maitreya Buddha. His task will be to enlighten

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more light and love into its own being; so that the human being will
have to feel Light and Love as belonging to his very self. The

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human beings, even the most enlightened, and also upon the Initiates.
light. Then there came a time when for some days the soul departed

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human beings, even the most enlightened, and also upon the initiates.
body became transparent, as though filled with light. Then there came

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“enlightened” on such matters. Those who come after us will

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children, that children should be enlightened on such matters. But
this enlightenment itself is really a lie. Those who come after us

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are inclined to believe. Therefore, today, we will shed light on some of
during the course of our lives with whom we only become slightly
experience of life becomes enlightened if we look at it in this way. We may,
with other people in the light of this karma.
the science of the spirit enlightens us about our own self. Where is this

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Two Public lectures (6th and 7th February) had been given on “Death and Immortality in the light of Spiritual Science” and “Eternal Being and the Nature of the Human Soul in the light of Spiritual Science.”
for example, in our literature! It is often said light-heartedly that,
slightest thought that happiness or delight have been deserved,
This weakening effect of delights and joys in life is graphically
described by the lines in Faust: “And so from longing to delight
I reel; and even in delight I pine for longing.” Anybody who
own life. — A remarkable fact comes to light. About the middle of
fact comes to light. — Those human beings with whom we were
This conception of karma can shed light upon our dealings and

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lightheartedly that, after all, a man need only know himself, need
spiritual within him is weakened and paralysed; the slightest thought
that happiness or delight have been deserved weakens and cripples us
weakening effect of delights and joys in life is graphically described
in Faust by the words: ‘And so from longing to delight I reel;
and even in delight I pine for longing.’
A remarkable fact comes to light. About the middle of life the
fact comes to light. Those human beings with whom we were together in
light upon our dealings and companionship with other human beings.
enlightenment about our own self. For where in reality is the self? Is

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be ignored for if we obey them we shall find that more and more light
twilight that had obscured clairvoyant vision. Of these twelve wise
fanatics; they were full of inner composure, enlightenment and
lived in communion with the boy, twelve rays of light as it were went
a wall otherwise quite dark; in the half-light of the room. He sees,

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we shall find that more and more light will be shed upon life, so that
twilight that had obscured clairvoyant vision. Of these twelve wise
fanatics; they were full of inner composure, enlightenment and peace
communion with the boy, twelve rays of light as it were went out from

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what is really brought to light when the different teachings of the
light of spiritual science, he will never force its particular ray of

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Individualities, [footnote: See East in the Light of the West,
development can proceed without causing the slightest disturbance in

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[See ‘East in the Light of the West’,
esoteric development can proceed without causing the slightest

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the man may have been too indifferent, too easy-going; we can lighten
Venus-period, one side of the auric cloud lights up; and if, as
plane, it is bad for us; but if on the Earth we have lightly

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light about the Person of Jesus of Nazareth if we apply the methods
these days it is dry and abstract in character and regarded lightly,
sleeping; my spirit was quite light — so light that no one who
nor hear without ears; the Universe would be without light and sound.
that without light no eye could have come into existence nor could man
light.”
of light, so in order that there could be a Mystical Christ the

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here in the light of occult science; and then, if we
of knowledge of the Spirit, light and warmth are
lightly, or merely exoterically, but also

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Resurrection, we shall have to discuss it here in the light of occult
on the path of knowledge of the Spirit, light and warmth are radiated
Jesuitism is educated. Jesuitism is not to be taken lightly, or

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great world, marveling at the revelation of light in the sun, feeling
that what our eyes see of light is only the external veil of the
light, its external revelation, or, as is said in Christian
esotericism, the glory of light, and then yielding oneself up to the
thought that behind the external sensible light something quite
of, to gaze on, the light spread out through infinite space, and then
clearly to feel that in this infinitely extended element of the light
light in space; to concentrate upon these thoughts, to live in them —

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light which little by little will shine out from the individual
light of these facts, a name can be given to the consciousness which

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lightened by an understanding of the spiritual world. In fact, no one
light of occult truths we shall find many things comprehensible. Who,
the next few days will be to throw light, as far as is possible in

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And when we take the answer of Job's wife, still more light
this question in the light of the explanations you have heard today,

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contemplate the Christ-Being in the right light, we must seek Him in

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You will understand that saying this implies not the slightest
Jesus-child, who were accustomed to regard him in the light we have

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point must be reached in any trend before a new light comes in once
called it Zentralsinn (inner light). Oetinger, who worked in
what was called ‘inner light’. What in those days was
this ‘inner light’? It was none other than that which now
super-sensible world the darkening of a certain light; when you
light in the Macrocosm.’ The effect was shown to the pupil
conception of the universe. In an apparently enlightened way they say

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higher truths will be brought to light from out of Spiritual Science
advancement of mankind on earth. For this we need enlightenment, not

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have the slightest inkling that such an ego is to be alluded to. I
light, where it is quite devoid of sound, but we become acquainted
becoming lighter, but not a real illumination, more like a glimmer.
This glimmer does not give the impression of a glimmering light, but

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have the slightest inkling that such an ego is to be alluded to. I
light, it is quite devoid of sound, but we become acquainted with
becoming lighter, but not a real illumination, more like a glimmer.
This glimmer does not give the impression of a glimmering light, but

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it air and light, that again is depicted merely by an external
and “light” for something moral if we wish to understand
the air and the light which are added to the heat on ancient Sun. Now
of air and of light. But when we say this, it is as though someone
of a body consisting of light and air; but if we approach nearer, we
have no longer a body of light and air but it appears as the great
Spirits of Wisdom. It is light that leads back the radiations of the
of light. “Light” is not in the least the external
illusion presented to us; but wherever light appears we have the
whose existence must be presumed behind all light are the Archangels.
Hence we must say: Wherever light appears to us, behind it are the
Archangels; but they are only able to ray forth light to us because
they receive it back as light. Everything is illuminated. What then
reflected back as light, as the reflection of their own being.
Time, we must not even picture a body consisting of light, for the
light within it is only an inner reflection. We must think of it as a
the periphery as light, illuminating the interior of the Sun,
Archangels, the creators of the light, who later depict what was
first on the Sun; it then returns as light. What then, do these
the sacrificial incense spreading out as air, of the light radiated
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adding to it air and light, that again is depicted merely by an
‘air’ and ‘light’ for something ethical if we
wish to understand the air and the light which are added to the
consists externally of air and of light. But when we say this, it is
as the illusion of a body consisting of light and air; but if we
approach nearer, we have no longer a body of light and air but it
into space is the gift from the Spirits of Wisdom. It is light that
Archangels are at the same time creators of light. Light is not in
the least the external illusion presented to us; but wherever light
us. And the beings whose existence must be presumed behind all light
are the Archangels. Hence we must say: Wherever light appears to us,
light to us because they reflect back what has streamed out to them
that they receive it back as light. Everything is illuminated. What
reflected back as light, as the reflection of their own
consisting of light, for the light within it was only a reflection.
back the incense from the periphery as light, illuminating the
outer periphery are the Archangels, the creators of the light, who,
later depict what was first on the Sun; it then returns as light.
sacrificial incense spreading out as air, of the light radiated back
grace-bestowing virtue in its reflection in the light of the universe
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conception of fire and heat; for in fact fire, heat and light bear
outermost periphery of the Sun, in the form of light. But now besides
Archangels in the form of light, but also that smoke which was not
light. Let us try to form a picture of this in our minds. We must
conditions were immersed in a kind of twilight, in a sort of cosmic
back the light; and so on. And when in our next study we pass on to
into which flashes the lightning of the Seraphim. We must then pass

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conception of fire and heat; for in fact fire, heat and light bear
from the outermost periphery of the Sun, in the form of light. But
back by the Archangels in the form of light, but also that smoke
light. Let us try to form a picture of this in our minds. We must
existing conditions were immersed in a kind of twilight, in a sort of
Archangels sending hack the light; and so on. And when in our next
drizzling rain, into which flashes the lightning of the Seraphim. We

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not tenable! Even enlightened philosophers now admit that. For all

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they are not tenable! Even enlightened philosophers now admit that.

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light to be shed on these things by occultism in the West. So far as
slightest value, because H. P. Blavatsky had entered a sphere in which
Enlightenment and rose to Buddhahood, he “nominated” a
Orientalism that exactly five thousand years after the Enlightenment
light on Christianity; but no real understanding of Christianity was

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light, strong enough even to read by. During the day it looked like a
was combing her hair by its light. This displeased the star-stone and
substance. In the light of this interpretation we can perceive in such
Light can be shed upon a great deal that comes our way in life, if
concerning these ancient civilisations, were astonished at the light
preserved by the Chinese, coming to light again when they bring forth
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If in the light of Spiritual Science, we consider “chance”
right. After persistent efforts he solves it, to his great delight.
“enlightened” man, he will say: “The other boy did not
factor comes to light. I will ask you now to accompany me in your
will also, strangely enough, be too striking to be lightly put down to
fellows with his normal consciousness only, he can speak lightly of
deal may be learnt if it is viewed in the light of Spiritual Science.
light of the principles of Spiritual Science known to us? Because
you will speak of them light-heartedly as such, if you know nothing of
subjects which are dragged to light nowadays and which Friedrich
lightly be put down to “chance,” only then it is not so easy
slight compromise with the prevailing scientific mentality. Here and

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twilight denoting the disappearance of the old clairvoyance and the
light of intellect and reason in their present form. Before the
Origin of Man in the Light of Spiritual Science,” and “The
Origin of the Animal World in the Light of Spiritual Science.”)
so much scorn has been poured by modern “enlightenment” — as
delicately and lightly. And then, strangely enough, I discovered that
the light which illumines the path to the Spirit trodden by mankind
Education of the Child in the Light of Spiritual Science, it is said
understood in the light of Spiritual Science; for naturally, there

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the blessings and high lights of one particular epoch, this most
between birth and death. The light of understanding will thus be shed
In the lecture on “The Prophet Elijah in the Light of Spiritual
only say that in the light of occult knowledge, Elijah was one who
being described in the light of occult knowledge.
beheaded; his work came to light again in the achievements of his
Spiritual Science teaches concerning the Christ-Impulse. What a light
world. Deep insight may come to us when, in the light of such concrete

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because they are different from what I have seen before; enlightenment
although they are profoundly enlightening. But in a past by no means
far-reaching light upon what we know as compassion, and also, in the
widen and to gather from every side, knowledge that can shed light on
centuries, another is to succeed to some slight extent in expressing

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knowledge alone can shed light, namely, the tradition of the
to light by occult investigation. Nearly all the peoples who have left
Space, to the light of the Sun, to “Ahura Mazdao” or Ormuzd.
mode of perception which began to light up by slow degrees.
light of the inner world of the Spirit, and compels him to look from
very truth. We must learn to see life in the light of such a fact and
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does not take flight with the passing moment, but remains in

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repeated merely in slightly different form, but actual progress takes
Earth-existence as brought to light by occult research, will not speak
Man in the Light of Occultism, Theosophy and Philosophy.

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contemplation of the setting sun; he beholds the twilight deepen
point of view, he would take great delight in bringing forward
in a careless, light-footed way. It must, when it has passed the

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every error in thought a slight death process, and little by little
worlds. When man begins from out of the world of Imagination to light
up his sleep consciousness, when he begins to lighten it with

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in the nature of man. A very slight degree of clairvoyance will
slight degree of clairvoyance you will notice at once that there is

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lighting-up of the spiritual through the destruction of the material.
though sense perceptions are often very beautiful and bring delight
and that we can, unfortunately, only indicate very slightly in this
for the spiritual to light up and burst into flame. And thus if our
to become just very slightly material and then spray back into
far as to form as it were a skin of substance, fine and slight, it
designed to be a perpetual flashing up of light in the material. It
lighting up in the blood. In the lighting up in the blood man would
shine with a light-filled ego-ness — was that the ego was

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perpetually lighting up within it; and only a very few of these
in my inmost spirit all is light — yes, and all is glorious
hast thou become without, and within shines no light of the spirit,

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only by a true, deliberate self-perception do they come to light. If

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feel, to suffer or to delight in during our present existence on the
it actually looked like, but I know it delighted me! If this happened
in this way about the course of our own life, we shall see that light
those that really do shed light upon it, must be acquired slowly and
The Education of the Child in the light of Anthroposophy.
behaviour and that of others in a quite different light if we
life's relationships in such a way that light will be shed upon

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the light of Spiritual Science or Anthroposophy, it will at once be
you do well to preach that they should love, delight in, be devoted
doubt at all. Nor will those who have the slightest insight into the
enlightened man in the sense of modern culture, would not maintain
preceding incarnation. Viewed in the light of reincarnation, many
to see the matter in its true light. The parallelism goes so far that

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contended with. Anything that differs only slightly from what is
hearts of men. The light thrown upon the subject of Christ by the
be seen in the light of karma and then they will illumine life in an
to light by spiritual-scientific investigation. These facts can, of
although specific facts come to light there are countless exceptions
the light of the ideas of reincarnation and karma. That is why
light in which they must be approached if we assume that the ideas of
quality of our thinking, whether we approach a truth lightly or try
everything else follows of itself in the light of these truths.
but in the way thoughts and conceptions change in the light of the

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light and darkness, and who then through a special and different
feel a slight drizzle in the air. If we feel all this morally there
draw, just as little as we can really paint lightning. We can only
kind of theoretical knowledge, able to enlighten us as to that which

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their own at all. They appear flashing up like lightning, like little
Now air as free from moisture as possible, played upon by the light
light which permeates the air and which causes them to flash and
much more lightly than he did before his occult training. His
and as regards questions of conscience, they take things more lightly.
take things more lightly than before, — indeed if possible we
forces of nature, light, warmth, magnetism, electricity, and so on; of

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In this way I have given you a slight description of the way in which

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and then, as has been described, clairvoyant consciousness lights up
slightly touched upon yesterday — we find that sympathy and love
and imagination, as a sort of spiritual light, so is the fluidic life,
spiritual sound, not spiritual light as in the case of the Third

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flesh and blood, nor even of light and air; but of that which we can
Hierarchy. We can perhaps to some slight extent describe the Spirits
It will only light up in future earthly days as the real center of

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not manifest themselves, they take up the light of the higher
independent beings, retaining the actual light in their inner being.
Form. They have the task of bearing the power of light outwards from
Cherubim, become the bearers of light, they have now the same relation
to the light as the forces of the Spirits of Form to the etheric
forces work which carry the light, filling the whole etheric space;
so that the planet arrests the light. Just as it arrests the
forces of the Spirits of Form, so does it arrest the light, and throw
light which the spirits we call the Cherubim and Seraphim carry to it
Hence the planets have no light of their own, because they claim for
themselves the force of the light which would be their due as beings
Thus every planet has a cut-off separated light. It is not correct to
say that the planets only have light borrowed from the Sun; every
planet has its own light; but it has cut it off, keeps it hidden
light. We shall see that each planet only shares this light with its
question. But that light to which they ought to open themselves, which
no light of their own. Thus, as it were, with the light which flows in
that light flowing in from the Sun; arrests it and throws it back.
light, which is thrown back, because, when the Seraphim and Cherubim
carry the light of the Sun into cosmic space, the Luciferic Cherubim
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anatomists, because gradually facts will come to light in the

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it. Thus to clairvoyant consciousness those forms, those light-forms
in which the one will always throw light on the other. By means of
try in clear daylight to direct our occult vision to the sun, the
circumstantially in the Nibelung Saga, in order to throw light on
see nothing of the sunlight at all but, observe the sun at night. We
much of beauty has been brought to light; but, as the occultist would

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leads us to a higher stage. A flash of light breaks in upon our whole
light of initiation, is not something that has been thought out

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activities of the Spirits of the Planets came to light in that which

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that is, perceptible light first streamed towards him perceptibly to
physical light. Physical light can only be shed if there is something
underlying it which serves as a bearer to the light, when light is, as
in the fixed star which carries forth the light into physical
not attained their goal, as light-bearers in the lightless spiritual
from the fixed stars, from our own sun, physical light only reaches us
light-bearers: — Light — Lucifer — Phosphoros — we must also be clear that the
same cause which makes the sun visible, which sends light to us from
maintained. That is to say, the moon cannot ray out any light of its
own, only that reflected as sunlight. Quite normal Spirits of Wisdom
the sun. Hence the moon is excluded from having light of its own; and
has its own light which appears to us, but the moon has not; and the
reflected light which rays to us from the moon, and of which Lucifer is
has no light of its own. Therefore that which is Lucifer can only appear
sunlight is reflected. When for instance, the crescent moon reflects
the sunlight, there are then no Luciferic Spirits of Wisdom on the
Spirits of Wisdom is reflected as light.
sees the real being behind all visible light in the cosmos; sees the
light of its own into the world of the fixed star. When at night the
light, so, too, did his spiritual principle sink down into the human
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intensity of colour and light and shade — tend to disappear. When

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believers in authority are generally also those who in a light kind of
The first is the unmanifest light. Look around you in the
world! Can you not see light everywhere? It is of the very nature of
light to reveal itself and be manifest. And yet the first thing man
learns to know in the super-sensible world is the light that is
unmanifest and unrevealed, the light that is dark and does not shine.
The unmanifest light,
“unmanifest light,” the “unspoken word” and the

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unmanifest light, the unspoken word, and the consciousness without
describe by saying that it is like flowing light. You must not,
however, think of the light which is communicated through the eye,
light, without any outward manifestation at all. It is the first
light; for not the thoughts themselves are effective here, but the
more than flowing hidden light; forms begin to emerge, —
light, but experience in it forms that are far more alive than the
the flowing spiritual light, has not its source in Earthly conditions
and ego until these are able to live in the flowing light, — all
When we enter the flowing light, we do not feel as feel as though we
what we experience in the flowing light does not at all give us the
sea of light, forms emerge which are only perceptible in the way that
flowing sea of inward light. That we can perceive thought-forms
swimming in the sea of inner light, is due to the fact that we are
know quite well it is no more than a surging sea of light — that
What does the occultist discover here? In the surging sea of light he
perceiving with the eye of the spirit in the surging sea of light.
thought, the occultist sees the real and living light that is behind.
influence of moonlight upon the Earth.
The effect of moonlight, as you know, is due to the fact that the moon
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day and who brings us the light: fair is he, and he
Thou givest us light in the darkness; and he is
light; no, he suppresses his consciousness, he suppresses all the
If you will study the life of Saint Theresa in the light of our
light he must obviously experience them in a new and different

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orientation. Remarkable and significant results have come to light
of man in the light of occultism, philosophy and theosophy, the twelve

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external world by the middle man is nevertheless slight and
it not for the physical sunlight that illumines the Earth, the middle
come into him through the influence of the light of the Sun upon the
light of the Sun — comes to expression in the following way. When
its healthy normal state, then he has before him the flowing light;
all around him he sees the flowing light. As the dreamer is
aspirant after occultism surrounded by phenomena of flowing light. He
in perception — by means of the sunlight that is thrown back from
the external sunlight does to the things of the Earth; But now it is
what the sunlight does to him, what it does in making possible
light when he becomes a pupil of occultism. He beholds the Sun in
objects around him through the fact that sunlight is thrown back from
only outwardly in the objects, in the reflected light, but works also
man irradiated with light. Himself in total darkness (for his senses
Midnight,” — seeing, that is, the flowing sunlight within
sunlight, the true and real working of the Sun, so now can I perceive
deeper reason for it is a mere flight of imagination on the part of
in the world outside; it appeared like inner Sunlight, — yet as

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out the light and shut your eyes, then you can have before you for a
long time a picture or image of the light — as it were, echoing
colour or of light is by no means an appearance of colour or light.
Indeed, we can say that if it is colour or light, then it is illusion!
external object, never once had any external impression of light by
acquired under the Bodhi tree that great and high enlightenment which
source of Buddha's teaching, to a super-sensible enlightenment.
enlightenment. For the others, for His companions, it was an
enlightenment, but not for Him. For Him it was perfectly natural and
life of Christ and enlightening it. No, Christ was Himself an

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particular enlightenment that streamed forth from a higher world into
in the case of Buddha. You must study his enlightenment under the
corresponds to New Moon, the Moon that is bereft of light, the Moon
that does not ray back sunlight on to the Earth. The physical sunlight
their physical symbol in the light of Venus shining down upon us as
with her full orb of light, as in Full Moon. For you know that Venus

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to lead you to the Unmanifest Light and to the Unspoken
appears in a form that is extraordinarily full of light, — I
mean, of course, spiritual light. We have the feeling that all the
manifestation of light is weak and dim in comparison with the majesty
majestic figure of light — these contain a seductive element.
“Unmanifest light,” light that does not shine outwardly but
light. What kind of words were these? They were words — the word
light that was present in him and therewith come to a knowledge of all
and wants to found and establish everything with his own light.
Light,” lost thereby his kingdom, lost his Venus kingdom. On
kingdom of Venus gradually fell away from him. Lucifer with his light
quality of kindling itself to new light in the soul by which It is
in the Christ Light, and the planet of which the Christ was
have spoken of the Unmanifest Light, and of the Inexpressible Word;
Take Light! When we gave a description of the proud Lucifer, it
was all Light! Light is essentially an attribute of the
light — and then in its very weakest expression — in his
therefore the Light gradually becomes what is spiritual in man, the
Object, Inexpressible Word, Unmanifest Light. Down below, we find as
form, the word; and finally the light that is present in exceedingly
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Greek life appears in quite a different light, and human and divine
might be called the divine enlightenment of everyday life seems quite
darkest depths of life up to the light of the spirit, from deep sorrow
life into the light of the spirit.

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ideas as eternity and the passing moment, the light of the spirit and
The light of the spirit! In all the anthroposophical studies we have
spirit light has the fundamental aim of leading man out of the
darkness over man, that the spirit light, finding him immature, may so
the question may not only be, “What is the way to the light of
to the spirit light in the right way?”
connected with the words eternity and spirit light, all the great men
how men lived in them, and how the light streamed into humanity from
Zarathustra culture that, if seen in its true light, entirely differs
aspect in our last lecture. Everywhere we see the light of the spirit
Let us turn our gaze to the initiates who give light to mankind as the
Then, when some degree of spiritual light has dawned for him through
Zarathustra, better the more one lives oneself into spiritual light
light of the spirit.

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being according to the moral ideas that light up in his consciousness.
Let us assume that such a being has an etheric light-body, that it is
but who only in higher worlds take on a light-body or something of
that nature. This light-body may be the expression of what such a
be free, then the whole process in the soul lights up. Now, if we have

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call our sense organs, through which the world of light and colour,
initiation. It clings in man's love of and delight in it all, to which
disappear lights up again. This produces, however, the significant

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have done, is dark and gloomy, but light and clear is the part of the
picture. When in the light of his experience the clairvoyant reads
how you begin to understand in a new way and to feel fresh delight and
the words of Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita. Quite a new light floods
certain special way that one first lights upon when looking occultly
points of view, and have tried to throw light on His being. But all
Thus we have tried to throw a certain light on the concepts of the
‘Light-bearer’ as one of whom we should be afraid, nor is it

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to the light of the spirit. There are certain rules and instructions,
there as the great Light-bearer who leads, really leads, to bringing
Light-bearer. The dangers to which man is exposed when face to face
this we find Lucifer again. It is he who is Light-bearer, impulse and
to light? This happens the moment we think how necessary it is for
under the influence of the Light-bearer, lies a reflection of what
Hence, the light of life, spiritual light, can only shine into the
penetrated by the light of its spirit. The greatest mistake that men
of all that, as spiritual light from higher worlds, radiates into the
to let this spiritual light of super-sensible worlds work upon
light in our darkness will be our starting-point tomorrow. That will

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light when we come to certain refinements in occult observation.
bring to light most uncomfortable facts. But such men in the past
with the passing moment and has no wish to raise itself to the light
us throw light on this matter from another point of view.
light of the spirit that we must not misunderstand if we are in
us out of our darkness into spirit light. It leads us away from the
darkness becomes filled with light.
light out of spiritual worlds into the darkness of life.
that a ray of spiritual light has found its way into your souls,
its hold. Because the message of this ray of spiritual light becomes
light of the spirit to speak naturally to human souls, it will then be
the opponents of super-sensible knowledge, then, perhaps, the light of
any connection between the darkness of life and spiritual light. It is
light to learn something else again, which is to learn to observe with
light of the spirit for which we are striving and seeking in our

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the Orient threw light and shade upon everything that poured
that time humanity had regarded in a different light.
endeavor with the light that modern spiritual science can
only when we can throw light upon life through spiritual

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investigate the souls of these prophets in the light of
other peoples were to reincarnate. Like rays of light coming

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pointed out that we must interpret the Baptist in the light
entitled, “The Prophet Elijah in the Light of Spiritual
light. Then we see that Elijah was the spirit of the old
more natural than to expect something to come to light in
over it lightly, for the words of the Gospels are not written
is to us today. A slight veil has been cast over the others,
consideration.” And if one is a modern enlightened
the fading light of the era that was passing away, when such
during this era of the fading light, but that He healed with
Christ Jesus stands here beside us as an enlightened one,

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and the light and sun of the universe shone into it, with the
enlightenment under the Bodhi tree, and by allowing what he
Socrates did not make the slightest claim to go on living as
during his enlightenment, words which he wished to pass on to
one of the highest of the enlightened ones. Yet at the same
figures as the Buddha and Socrates in the light of some
enlightenment to his pupils; Christ in His parables gave
earthly enlightenment to the crowd.
not take it lightly when the truth is put forward in the
light of the teachings of Buddha, by what was brought forth
warming, shining light. Socrates anticipates what in his own
the case of the Buddha, the light-filled comet's tail
Socrates the comet's tail of light encircles the nucleus in

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twilight of human evolution: Krishna,
by the Buddha appears in an even brighter light, whereas with
development of humanity can in even a slight degree be
and the teachings of these men have a slight resemblance to other
idea of the strength of that spiritual light that shines over
among the stars; among the lights I am the moon; among the
among the stars the sun, among the lights the moon, among the
radiations of the sun's aura in many-colored light pictures
became immediately creative light. It is the sun, it is also
this ether-like, light-like wisdom aspires? Today people
comes to light when there begins to be active that feeling

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a higher sense clairvoyant. Enlightened as they were through

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light were thrown upon it from one of the other Gospels. And
Mark Gospel. In order to shed light on the Transfiguration we
inner self, penetrated the body so slightly that it could
so much that is of value! It is so easy to skim lightly over

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clear light on a particular point.
sat under the Bodhi tree and received enlightenment for his
say it was possible to receive enlightenment as the Buddha
Buddha had received his enlightenment.
on the tree from which the light of Benares had shown down,
but that hereafter the light would shine from the Mystery of

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seen in the right light only when their artistic composition
the light of occult truths. I have already pointed out how
into the matter, and at the same time to throw light upon the

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“research into the life of Jesus.” Enlightened
important mission of all time! Yes, our enlightened age has
after the flight. In ordinary life man remembers only what he
superstitious monists, I mean enlightened monists, “Why
end, and he dissolves into light, as it is described, and
different light if it is to be hospitable to the successive

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on earth in turn derive enlightenment and support from their former earth
receive the light of the Hierarchies. Generally speaking almost every
The influence of the Hierarchies, this light-giving that occurs in
light of higher Hierarchies could dim our consciousness. Then we
will keep our soul open to the light of the Hierarchies. Recently I
constitution sink into a kind of dim twilight consciousness.
physical world what would give him a light during the third phase of
should ask why I will never modify in the slightest the importance

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on earth in turn derive enlightenment and support from their former earth
by streaming physical light, but of dwelling in the pure light of the
should be considered an important moral element that throws light
sense impressions. I explained how the light of the Hierarchies falls

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on earth in turn derive enlightenment and support from their former earth
much that new facts come to light, but that one has the possibility
struck by lightning. Such events are by no means rare in history. A
flash of lightning can have the effect of shaking up the physical and
this summer. Much comes to light that eludes most people. I wanted to
wisely given in olden times. The Sun is below us and so is the light
of the Sun. Now we need a new light-bearer who illumines our path
with the earth, which up until now still continued slightly, has
illumine us as the golden light of the morning illuminates the things
cannot see the rose when it is dark. We switch on the light and
because the light falls on the rose we can see it as it really is. So
light of spiritual beings draws near to him. But there is one moment
when he is clearly visible, illumined by the light of the Hierarchies
illumined, then you ray back the light of the cosmos and then you
dissolve. There is a moment when man reflects back the cosmic light.
Actually, research in this domain is not particularly enlightened,
figure “Dawn,” of the astral body; “Twilight,”

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on earth in turn derive enlightenment and support from their former earth
to light. To the eyes of the spirit it is disclosed that the human
These findings of occult investigation throw remarkable light on an
this way the light of understanding can be brought to bear upon the

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on earth in turn derive enlightenment and support from their former earth
by making impressions of color and light upon our eyes, audible
cloud begins to light up as if irradiated by the rays of the morning
side by a glimmering light points to the approach of the hierarchies
our way in the Sun sphere a new Light-bearer appears there, a Being
into a kind of cosmic twilight. We cannot call it cosmic sleep, but a
cosmic twilight. Now for the first time the powers of the whole

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on earth in turn derive enlightenment and support from their former earth
twilight condition, and from then onward his life in the spiritual

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on earth in turn derive enlightenment and support from their former earth
themselves delight.
light and color, which for us can become a revelation of what lives

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on earth in turn derive enlightenment and support from their former earth
The light of the moon influences the plant. The lunar forces
the central point of the plant world and rays forth its light in all
directions, in the same way light must permeate the physical and
etheric bodies. The sunlight is not only physical, it is also of a
or ego. The human astral body contains an extract of the light of the
every morning. This throws considerable light on the interplay
Christ as the Sun Spirit. The ego has emancipated itself from the light
reflected the sunlight back. Then the sunlight would not be lost but would

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on earth in turn derive enlightenment and support from their former earth
and what shone from their souls was like the light of the sun.
night and delight in the grandeur and glory of the starry heavens,
much the physical light of the stars but what was spiritually

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on earth in turn derive enlightenment and support from their former earth
of life without the light-filled presence of my beloved companions.

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light effect radiate, which comes to the earth, but from it
light in the development of the earth as a counter-balance
Man in the Light of Occultism, Theosophy and Philosophy
today. For our time, however, it is regarded as enlightened to

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threatened by a kind of blight, a kind of cutting off
intellect. For the higher spiritual light is not that which
the darkness. We must seek this light in order to find our way

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on earth in turn derive enlightenment and support from their former earth
From whence comes the light by means of which we can illumine the
death and rebirth no one gives us any light. The beings are there and
we can only reach them providing we have kindled the light in our
taken the light with us through the gate of death.
existence. The lights for the life beyond must be carried upward from
that they are colored with luciferic light. Now following the dull
do all they can to place themselves in the limelight. A consideration
light-filled impulses of the higher hierarchies, and that then
kindling the compassionate, silvery moral light of Buddha on Mars at
Unless man is able to take with him the light to illumine his
the slightest intimation of the influences of Buddha during his next
with them depends on whether we kindled a light in our last earthly
it in the slightest connection with the beings who inhabit Mars. He
earlier, marks an opportune occasion for the spiritual world to light
spiritual science, not in a light-hearted way, as to something that

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on earth in turn derive enlightenment and support from their former earth
complexion when viewed in the light of spiritual science. It was
In the light of super-sensible cognition capable of beholding the
wander in darkness, without light (spiritual light, of course)
receive them in the right manner. The light that illumines so that we
to prepare it in this life before our physical death. The light is
tentatively, towards the super-sensible worlds. This light can shine
forth only from ourselves — the light that enables us to pass
The accepted view may appear plausible, but in the light of higher
light on the future of the many souls who, because of love of ease
Karmic connections are indeed complex but light is thrown on them by
and rebirth throws a special light on this thought. Everything we are
value, and yet it is so. Just as there can be no light without
darkness, so there also cannot be a mighty, light-filled impulse that
Thus much light can be shed on physical earth existence when we turn

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on earth in turn derive enlightenment and support from their former earth
either by the instreaming light or by anything else. Occult
and the Christ he wanted to portray everything through light and
was not intended to be conveyed by external contrasts of light and
light on His countenance was shining from within, radiating outwards
inscribe them as described, but they would have no light nor would

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on earth in turn derive enlightenment and support from their former earth
further light upon it.
Mystery of Golgotha. It is therefore our endeavor that spirit light
on earth begins to light up, to exist for the dead.
realm in which we are dependent on spiritual light. Previously,
spheres. Such spiritual knowledge throws significant light on

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on earth in turn derive enlightenment and support from their former earth

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on earth in turn derive enlightenment and support from their former earth
light; without a feeling for the spiritual, no perception of the
only arise on earth, and they ray forth like a light into the

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noteworthy then comes to light.
pick a flower that delights us because we have seen it, in the

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light.

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Please take particular notice of this difference, for it throws light
in the light of karma at his earlier incarnations. Hence the spiritual

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and which are brought to light by the free dance movements. In this
will serve to show how, if we have only a slight knowledge of the
flight to other parents, who cannot make his life happy. If he were to
it may throw light in many respects on various things. There is no way
Now the forces which can throw light on former incarnations, if we

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On Spiritual Light and Darkness of Life.]
happened to him; he was struck by lightning. This did not prove
contained in the lightning. It was then that he founded his Order,
flash of light from the spiritual worlds. Again, someone who rushes
anything is to happen, it emerges from the twilight. But when it is a
were radiant with spiritual light. Any sensitive soul will be moved
own soul something that is able to throw spiritual light upon the
important light that Spiritual Science can give will be the light it

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world, this amounts to a slight collision and the same holds good
when a child opens his eyes and light falls upon them. It is actually
the ‘I’ with the bodily constitution cause slight
shall now be mentioned because it can throw light upon the point

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slight because on the physical plane human beings live for the most
only through slight displacement do not meet, we should have a
and draws them in when the light fades. That which streams to the
sunlight withdraws; in respect of his Ego and astral body, however,
and if we then make a comparison with the plant and the sunlight, we

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experiencing. I think that even in this enlightened audience there
physical and etheric bodies and there is not the slightest reason for

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and in its light follow the course of evolution; then you will
this and you will understand in its true light the phase of evolution

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Gautama Buddha. Genuine enlightenment about the being of man and his

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new light upon many topics we have already studied from a different
The Education of the Child in the Light of Anthroposophy
The Education of the Child in the Light of Anthroposophy

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real light upon his essential nature and being. For when we look
that is to say when what lies behind a light- or colour-process is
will have lost real interest in the world of light and radiant colour

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enlightened, one could often hear a way of speaking that is
that may enlighten him about the super-sensible world — such a
through a world of darkness. For the light, the spiritual light we
the light of understanding for what is here coming to pass cannot be
be the light through which we must ourselves illumine the path
receive their forces, the ideas and concepts which are the light
what he acquired in earthly life but by the light which Lucifer sends
the light means that all the gifts have a particular colouring and
Here again light is thrown upon the fact that our life

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‘Soul-Light’ (Seelenlicht), of ‘Active
to an end in the region of Soul-Light. This region of
Soul-Light corresponds with what I have said about the Mercury
about the region of Soul-Light, you will
the Light-Spirit, with Lucifer, who on Earth has become the tempter,
possible side whatever can throw light on the nature of the spiritual
holds good, although light is shed upon it from the new points of

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our eyes we see the light and colour, light and dark, we see, too, the
colours and light; those of hearing, sounds, and so on. We are, as it
and warmth through the organs of touch, and colours, light and
cold, others as warm and full of light. We can therefore say that our
light and darkness in colours. He says: There are some colours which
have more darkness in them and others which have more light, and there
ranging between blue and violet the darkness predominates over light.
light, and it is green or greenish-yellow when light and darkness
the light-principle overrules the dark. In Sankhya philosophy we have
and reddish-yellow represent the Sattva condition of light. This
green represents the Rajas condition as regards light and darkness,
Tamas-condition of light and darkness. Even though Aristotle does not

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how, just by means of what is shown to us in the Gita, light can also

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without. Just as the light falls upon this object, so did the light of
enlightened it. After the Mystery of Golgotha we can speak of that
which works in the soul as Christ-Impulse, as the spiritual sunlight,
as though we saw a self-illumined body before us radiating its light
the whole connection, symbolically. If we take this circle (Diagram 1) as representing the human soul, we may say that the spiritual light streams in from without from all sides into this human soul. Then comes the Mystery of Golgotha, after which the soul possesses the Christ-Impulse in itself and radiates Forth that which is contained in the Christ-Impulse (Diagram 2). Just as a drop which is illumined from all sides radiates and reflects this illumination, so does the soul appear before the Christ-Impulse. As a flame which is alight within and radiates forth its light, thus does the soul appear after the Mystery of Golgotha, if it has been able to receive the Christ-Impulse.
Golgotha, is irradiated from all sides by the light of the spirit, and
spiritual light were hidden away in its innermost depths and as if the
soul-nature concealed it. The spiritual light appears to us as though
veiled by the soul-substance, that spiritual light which, since the
mighty light poured in on it from all sides — is that progressing
the manifestation of the Spirit, went along the path from light into
should grasp the legend aright, in the true light of knowledge, in
to light. We experience in its leaves that which grows upon it; the
light at its beginning, and then its descent into matter in order that
light had descended as far as the fourth Post-Atlantean epoch, there
is only mentioned by way of enlightenment, it is nothing with which

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LECTURE VThe spiritual nature of Maya.Krishna — the Light-Halo of Christ.The Risen One.1 January, 1913
openly to light. We are living in an age in which the spiritual life
consider them in this light. We know one other thing besides. We know
in to St. Paul? What, then, so to speak, was that halo of light in
appeared to him then was the Christ. The halo of light in which Christ
therefore in the light which shone there, in Christ Himself, there is

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because of the very slight connection which then exists between the
he will often find that the very slightest thing can work miracles.

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the right light; for were they rightly considered, there would be no
things pass by unnoticed; nevertheless they throw light deep into the
perhaps not at all. Anyone who ponders over this, even slightly,
unless they are able to throw light upon the fact that in previous

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usually regard them in the right light; if he did, there would be no
notice such things; nevertheless they throw their light upon the
else that throws light on this, concerned less with conscience than

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Psychoanalysis in the Light of Anthroposophy,
did realise that a light-hearted lazy man will not succeed in
anywhere, so that through the want of sunlight he gradually

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Psychoanalysis in the Light of Anthroposophy
sunlight, found that the sun did not shine upon him, could not
sunlight. A vain person cannot thrive. He will grow up with
is impossible for anyone to come easily or lightly to a real

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Psychoanalysis in the Light of Anthroposophy, or
we work them through in the light of what Anthroposophy is able to
a normal light to a blinding light, do we injure the eye. So that we
reality, cause us to see this eye, as if rays of light went out from

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Psychoanalysis in the Light of Anthroposophy
normal and blinding light do we injure our eyes. Thus it may be
into our eye that we see it giving out rays of light which

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enlightenment about Christ, we find on the other side, among numerous
deeply into spiritual foundations has the task of throwing light on
enlightenment. Thus in speaking of Christ today we speak of something
people. We know also that the most enlightened, the most critical
to instruct us. When we begin to understand the Gospels in the light
man has attained enlightenment on some subject. With this
enlightenment, he meets a second man and begins to talk with him. At
enlightened himself through the same or similar sources. So is it also
So if we consider the members of man in the light of the great
that loses itself in the twilight of the soul. Our memory reaches only
observe in the light of this fact. All that man can experience of
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possibility should come to light for every man, through a deepening of
consider themselves “enlightened.” The philosophers of
Let us consider in this light the death on Golgotha, which followed

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consciousness lights up, clear day-consciousness. The summer-like
wintertime; the warmth and light of the Sun decrease, and with the approach
this knowledge. The external physical light of the Sun, the physical
descent of the physical light and this withdrawal of the Spirit
naturally regarded as utter superstition by the ‘enlightened’
been an astrologer! Enlightened men of the present age see fit to
heavens. Indeed these enlightened minds even find an excuse for the

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Now the mood that bore me lightly over hills and dales to thee
Fled from the grave of unenlightened Man
the light of truth; no greater service could be done to her than to lead the Theosophical
Movement in the light of truth.
has come to light. Nothing is ever said to discriminate between the great cultures or
men with a new light of understanding. This can be illustrated by a particular example.
that he is connected with the event commemorated on Good Friday. What, in the light of
figure in the light of Spiritual Science, we shall discover that Raphael accomplished more
greatly from general concepts and doctrines, as from details that can throw light upon

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made possible. The darkness has enabled the light to come into our
man who delights in the flowers growing in a meadow were to wish that the
existence. In the light of this knowledge we shall be able to
true light and how it came to pass on the earth.
the light of love was able to shine; but it is love that enables us to
enabled the light to come into our ken. Only a man who is free in the

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The Birth of the Light, and
spiritual light or means of light to the dawn of the great
light of human evolution which is celebrated on this night of
the Birth of the Earthly Light, of the light which is to be
we need not be ashamed of them in the light of the feeling that
of the Gods, to the throng of the Light-Bearer, the army of
world. We see this mighty power in the world when the lightning
awaken the will to the spiritual light after which we strive in

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long tirade and a fly alights on his nose, causing him to sneeze
delighted with their greenery, with the wealth of flowers and their
grows out of the Earth and delights the eyes and perhaps the other
carpet of plants is connected with the activity of the light from the
however, it will emerge that sunlight, sun-heat, and also the other
the pouring out of the sunlight upon the vegetation of the Earth, and
again the withdrawal of the sunlight. He feels how it is with the
plants when the sunlight is withdrawn from them. As one feels sympathy
when the sunlight is withdrawn from the plants? This sympathy with the

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time the work appears in such a light that one asks: Wherefore all
towards you the spiritual Light that illumines souls between death and
a new birth, and when you feel how this Warmth and this Light stream
birth. You experience the force and the light which issue from this
before the silent Goddess from whom Warmth and Light come forth for
that are vitalised by the forces of Warmth and Light which pour into
the splendour of the Light and Warmth; that which deeply veils itself
he could also become acquainted with the Light which illumines the
Warmth and Cosmic Light. And the soul of the aspirant could not have
fulfilled by the Cosmic Light, which he perceived as Ahura Mazdao. He

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as Goethe's; but by the same token it brings to light many hidden
that he wants to deny Amfortas. For how delightful it sounds when we

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the central body of the entire planetary system. The lightness
plant the enjoyment of the sunlight, which accomplishes so much
changing conditions of heat, what it takes up in the light that
light and colour, for instance; that, however, is only

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of light, he then really learns to recognise that the eyes have
forces of light upon our organism. For during the time that he
the field of vision to be permeated by the etheric light-forces
know the forces of light. All physical theories are nothing as
compared to the knowledge of the inner nature of light and its
light.
ether, still finer than the light-ether. This also is not very
around the earth as such. The light-forces, the etheric forces
of light which play around the earth are inwardly connected
with the forces of the light-ether of the earth. In the same
penetrated us from outside. We feel the body of light as though

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in a different light. This was briefly indicated in the last
cleverness is not of the slightest value, although he must

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back at then would appear to us in a very different light from
world, throwing light on this structure of our physical body,
slight idea of how clairvoyance really progresses. We have seen
slightest idea of it.
light, the purest sound, the purest heat, here come in touch

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right light, this quality — let us calmly use the

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slight extent. And the dim feeling of those wishes that would

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sees things in a different light from before the development of

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wonderful flash of lightning into the Western world, so that a man
teachings emerge amid the battle like a cloud of spiritual light
alight upon something similar to what we are accustomed to find in
the immortality of the soul. In this picture there are but slight
who wants to see this in the light of truth read the
see them in the right light when we recognize that they set us the
from illusion into reality, into the light of truth. How this is

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you think then that we all are clairvoyant, if only slightly, or,
able to feel the deepest pain and the fullest delight in the external
through Yoga. Concepts only require to be placed in the right light;

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leads in the twilight consciousness of dreaming. What now is a dream
welcomed it gladly. Something lives in us that felt a kind of delight

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great turning-point in time, when, from the twilight of the old
in the ordinary world. Though we often imagine that we see light, in
reality it is not so. On the physical plane we never see light, only
color and different shades of color, darker and lighter colors. We
see the effects of light but light itself speeds invisibly through
light strikes through the window we see a kind of streak of
light-rays in the room, caused by dust in the air. We see reflections
of light from the glittering particles of dust, the light itself
begin to see the light itself. There he is surrounded by flowing
light, just as in the physical world he lives in flowing air. Only he
needs the light as in the physical world his body needs the air. In
this region light is the element of life — light-air we might
Further, that light is
he would speak of light-air, or air-light. On the physical plane
of this life element, to have insufficient light-air. We feel a pain
condition, a fullness of pure, holy light-air when we live in it and
clearness in this element of airy light and have their life in it.
light-air we need. We can say he suffocates our souls.
can reach us from the spiritual treasure, the spiritual light of the
away the light-air from us. We crave breath, and long for the
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trying to throw light on the new age of self-consciousness, and
that appear as forms of light. One finds that he hears sounds like

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majesty of the Christ-Idea. On the contrary, by shedding the light of
consider it with an open mind, in the light of external human
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though it is published and revealed in the light of day.
has just been said, we shall gain a ray of light to show us how
the ancient people of India was still permeated by the light of
call the spirit “light” then the tamas condition is
devoid of light. It is “darkness.” So long as our
is darkness, the words of the Evangelist, “The light shineth in
rendered somewhat as follows, “The higher light penetrated as
give up.” Thus the higher light could not find entrance because
man who translated it as “light,” though he translated
use a word like “light” in place of the word sattwa.
interpreted as “light.”
describing light. It is entirely correct to call the light colors —
blue, indigo, violet, tamas colors. One may say effects of light and
loving behavior by man. It is true that light falls under the concept
of sattwa, but this concept is broader; light is not really identical
with it. Therefore it is wrong to translate sattwa as “light”
Nor is it correct to say that “light” does not convey the
light, but it is wrong to say sattwa is only of light. It is a more
general concept than light, just as beast of prey is more general

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who receives the light of ideas, of feelings and sentiments streaming
ears. They must appear in clouds of light because such are visible to
lighted up man's soul; how there was hovering above it, so to say,
become a means of shedding light on all religions. He must learn to
present-day occultism must try to throw light on the different

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initiation not in the clear light of meditation but as intense
its light gains strength ... gains calmness too.
as if lightning flashes were crossing the soul's whole field of
vision, lightning whose terrifying brilliance was illumining the
light. Then from this expiring glance of cognition there come forth
destroyed by the lightning flashes; they then remodel themselves as
Hot light is wafted — out of fierce dark coldness. —
It flashes lightnings, this hot light of soul —
the light of soul — in cosmic fields of ice —
in truth take flight; they do not come earlier into earthly
at flowing nothingness — cold spirit light ...
my thinking wavers, reels ... cold light ...
in red flames storms my Self ... into the light ...
into cold light ... of cosmic fields of ice.
You'll find me in bright fields of light ...
You'll find me in bright fields of light
In understanding this, light is shed on something of an ahrimanic thrust,
confession coming from one of our recent or slightly older

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certain qualities that feel satisfied, or charmed, or delighted, when
light fall upon the scene. We see from this how much depends on the

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nature of man's being cannot be brought to light in any other way
spiritual knowledge throws new light on the true nature of thinking.

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nature of man's being cannot be brought to light in any other way
spiritual knowledge throws new light on the true nature of thinking.

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His objections should not be taken lightly, for if we wish to
Maeterlinck has not the slightest idea that there is a possibility to

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light on the questions we have already considered and on those ahead
same vision. First, they saw a powerful figure of light, which seemed
to come down out of the clouds. It was a figure of light bringing
the heights of heaven in this figure Of light from above.
light saw something more. They saw how from all sides, from all
single figure of light coming from above, there were many, many of
these other forms around the fortress. Whereas the figure of light
state. The figure from above divided into separate clouds of light,

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Whether you see a stone, a plant, a cloud, or lightning —
— where lightnings flash into existence, illumining even the

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lights up. But it often happens — and this is important —
self, because the latter brings these inner conditions to light. If
And the way these mistakes come to light is extraordinarily

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in a twilight state between consciousness and unconsciousness and
twenty-five times, actually without having the very slightest trace

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difficult meditation appears light-filled. One sees plants
higher human perception this knowledge had not enlightened,
time knowledge was not enlightening, but acted as a

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dominated. The gaze of clairvoyance lights, to begin with, upon
lights up and reveals that during a solar eclipse all
group-souls of the plants and of the animals lighting up ...
acted, not as a light-bringer or solver of riddles, but rather

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to see this in the right light, and to combine it with the

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the light of the knowledge that a life was once lived on earth
difference was too slight to enable them always to perceive it
Nazareth was only very slight. The Christ Being was still quite

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Bath Kol as an enlightenment which shone in his soul. In
emphasized, because it can cast light on the whole
of a slightly younger man who had joined the Essene Order,

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light upon the whole course of mankind's spiritual evolution.
flight; but the question: Whither are they fleeing? —

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that one point or another could be slightly modified. But the
His outward form ... only now the light in His eyes was
also come to light. What I have tried to do by means of the
among our contemporaries and they have not the slightest

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unlikely to be a stable. The flight to Egypt does not occur in
Zarathustra-I, to be enlightened, to receive enlightenment and
how inner enlightenment became richer and richer, and
especially enlightenment related to the evolution of the
enlightenment.
appeared again by means of inner enlightenment. I would rather
more inner experience, gained by enlightenment. He saw how the
enlightenment, as with Judaism, but through external
light.”
at me with its own light. I felt impelled to get closer to that
came at me like a light from the tree. It was death standing

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about such things, and people tend to take it all lightly. You

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the rays of the forgotten Light!”
pride. You met him on your flight.”
position! Then, in the dream, I took flight; I left all
light of the tree. Dearth himself stood before me, and
sheds light on the moment that is of such infinite
events if only they are understood in the right light. I
maiden, carrying a golden Cup radiating light more
brilliant than all the lights in the room. This Cup was

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lightening and asked: How are the Divine-Spiritual Beings
of Italy a piece of paper is lighted, clouds of smoke at
elements that come to light again to-day in our own
lightening, thunder, as their symbols? The meaning is
through the forces manifesting in lightening and thunder,

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German transcript has been slightly abbreviated)
sheds new light upon the great steps taken, as it were in
this Being radiated His light from the spiritual worlds
lightening strikes from one cloud to another, and so

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on the one hand full of light, while on the other it makes us
the light of Anthroposophy. It might become one of those
spiritual observation can bring to light. I shall leave aside
to restrain a slight smile if he is invited to think in the sense of
present mentality — a condition so delightfully explained by
live, there came to her something like a brief raying-out of light
from the Son of God; and then immediately the light vanished again.
granted in the primal remote past a glimpse of Divine light, which
us; it would throw no light on what is shown to the clairvoyant soul.

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see, in the light of yesterday's lecture, how grandly original
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light-filled concepts. From Ionia sprang the philosophy of clarity
and light, which with Plato — one might say — became the
be brought to light and renewed by the resources of spiritual
calmness of their souls. Daniel looks like a slight exception, but
a slight effect of transition from reading the world-secrets to
Earth. Above her head is a lamp; a naked boy is lighting the lamp
seen in a false light by anyone who fails to comprehend that through

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lead towards the themes and throw light upon them. One theme,
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light.
light-aether, they rightly ascribed to the planet Jupiter — in

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endlessly full of wisdom if they are considered in the light of true
If we look at the doings of Moses in the right light, we
of Himself. As the moon reflects the sunlight, so did Jahve reflect
light, we see that the event they prefigure is on the meteorological

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slowly and by stages, if at last our research is to bring to light
that all the lights in the hall are outshone by the light of the Holy
Grail, just as the stars are overpowered by the light of sun and
light. And in following up a problem it seems to me specially good to
Upon his knees in woeful plight,
right light, it yields for our hearts and minds something —

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fall on part of the moon and are reflected in gleaming light,
Occult History: Personalities and Events in the Light of Spiritual Science,
the sun does not only radiate light and warmth throughout the cosmos;
sooth-saying from the flight of birds was not merely an art of
all other lights, all other gods, shines the Holy Vessel — the
revelation, in the West? Was the sunlight of the Grail called upon to
outshone the other lights? Ought we to expect — quite contrary
light in the West? Should one light be able to unite with the other
light? But for that it will be necessary for us to be prepared —

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“In the Light radiates Wisdom”, that reflects no
“we will seek to live with Light that radiates
own forces. A special light then falls on the first lines of
“In the Light radiates Wisdom”; but now we form

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They live in what is around us as thunder and lightning and in the
In the blessed Light of Christmas,

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regards the Spirit, their contentions could bring to light some

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regards the Spirit, their contentions could bring to light some

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the divine Light, this soul-mood can be called Mysticism.
placing them in that light before the soul. We have an example of the
must have the light of the Sun brought to it, just as occult things
sing its praises. Just as one can bring moonlight into connection
feel sure that anyone who looks at the world in this light will be

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the divine Light, this soul-mood can be called Mysticism.
placing them in that light before the soul. We have an example of the
must have the light of the Sun brought to it, just as occult things
sing its praises. Just as one can bring moonlight into connection
feel sure that anyone who looks at the world in this light will be

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which could throw endless light on much other physiological knowledge

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which could throw endless light on much other physiological knowledge

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of an ocean and only from time to time is brought to light. In the
for instance, of the saying: Wisdom lives in the Light. This idea
‘Wisdom radiates in the Light’, and we feel inspired through
Wisdom of the World radiates in the Light’, we may now really feel
being united with the radiating power of the light, and let this
light shine and vibrate through the world. We must feel the impulse

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to take sunlight and moonlight as an illustration. What is sunlight,
what is moonlight? They are one and the same, and yet very different.
Sunlight streams out from the sun but in moonlight is reflected back
same. Christ is like the sunlight, Jehovah is like the reflected
Christ-light in so far as it could reveal itself to the earth under
with the help of occult knowledge we endeavour to shed light upon what
messenger of Jehovah, the reflection of the light of Christ; he was
revelations that will shed more and more light upon the Mystery of
can give us new spiritual light which may be regarded as a
transformation of the light that was given through him at the time of
light. If we can realise this we can grasp the significance of the
senses for knowledge, to us may be wisdom, light, and clearer

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tried to throw some light upon the character of our present
is a matter that should not be lightly passed over. For when we speak
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In the Word was the Life, and the Life was the Light of men.
“In the Word was the Life, and the Life was the Light of men.”
And the Life shall become the Light of my Ego.
And the Life of the Thought is the Light of the Ego.
May light-giving Thought fill the Darkness of my Ego,
It may well be said that “The Light-giving Thought did indeed shine
Christ will pour Light
In it shall be the radiant Light
Comprehend the Light of the Memory which has become Divine!

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humanity is aware of color and light without having to think of the seeing
of summer, or in any of the other delights of nature, will say to

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body of light. As regards thought, one sees at this time in this body
of light, the darkening waves of the etheric body - a spiritual
An entirely different light is
suns which inwardly vibrate with sparkling light, suns which sparkle,
whose light shines out and fades, giving forth radiant light —
light, sound and magnetic, electric radiations. These expressions are
sees the human being which sparkles with light, the whole skin
like a separate part within thy light body is thy thought-life seen
circulation, one might describe it as dark waves in the light-body,
sorts of things come to light, through which one not only feels as if
that light-body with the dark thought-circulation of the etheric body
thyself, looking back on thy light-body and thy etheric-thought body;

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spiritual teachers pour their light into us. The forces which our
remain in the Spirit; thou canst carry over into the spiritual light

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light and colour. With this comes Imagination, Inspiration, Intuition
the consciousness of man. Light and colour contain much more than
behind light, etc., there are material processes, vibrations of atoms
in reality the following comes to light: —
eyes, we perceive light or colour, and thus we have in our
consciousness the sensation of light or colour. The remarkable fact
being there appears not only this light and this colour, but, in
consequence of light and colour, there appears what we might call a
sort of light-corpse or colour-corpse. Our eyes cause us to have the
sensation of light and colour. Thus we might say: The light streams
towards us and brings about in us the sensation of light; but looking
light, our human nature is permeated by something that has to die in
us in order that we may have the sensation of light. We can have no
really is that comes to us as light. This light has a great deal
behind it. What manifests as light is only the forerunner, as it
behind the light that undulating motion which external physics
fancies, but behind the light, behind all sensations, behind all
moment we perceive all that lives in light, in sound or in warmth, we
the sensation of light or sound is but the outermost layer, only the
without our being able to illuminate it with the light of
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fills it with a sort of light, so that it feels more certain than it
important light is cast on what takes place in the spiritual world.

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means of the light streaming from within. We now reach half-way
between death and new birth, our soul-light now begins to grow dim.
slight degree a true spiritual investigator soon penetrates into the
soul-force, which is like an inner soul-light that must shine forth
illumine this spiritual world with spiritual light. Creative,
which we radiate as soul-light into spiritual space (if I may use the
them pictorially), this soul-light slumbers so deep down within us
nor can know anything during life. That which is liberated as light
call the soul-light streams forth from our souls illuminating
power, thy soul-light less and less, thou art obliged to let it
something which, as a new kind of soul-light, is able to give us an
now lie outspread before us, illumined by the light that is born of
life and by which, through our longing a new light may be kindled.
soul-light cannot yet stream forth from us, when world-darkness has
creating a new world-light which illuminates our being and by means
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throws light into spirit-worlds. The one in the spirit-world may,
light, for it remains a force in their souls for the next
soul-light. Up to this point we must have kept connection with our
it enkindles a new soul-light in us, so that it becomes possible for
in the spiritual world, there appears from the twilight of our
for only spiritual experience throws light up into the spiritual
our longing into a kind of soul-light. Up to this point we must keep

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These ideas were transformed into a true, spiritual light that
would mean we would have less light after death to illuminate our
the outside on the world around us then, the light has to come from
ideas, myths, and fairy tales gave souls light for the spiritual
casts light on the spiritual world. These are powerful Imaginations.
world. Light, for example, reaches us through the eyes. The process
because they do not radiate any light themselves. The rays of the sun
world we are the source of light; we illuminate the surroundings we
depths of the soul. Just as in the physical world sunlight comes from
world. We have to light in ourselves the spiritual fuel, the inner

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impressions of light. Away with them! These ears — they
part of the lecture — it will throw some light on the

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believe these words can throw much greater light on Hamerling's
shining forth in the golden light as follows:
sparkling in the sunlight.

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matters in the right light. What does it mean that some individual
the forces of the spirit. Seen in this light, we find Christ

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is shining elsewhere, giving its light to other inhabitants of the
world only become clear when observed in the light of the spiritual

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reached — of really finding in our souls that which is the Light
of Life, the Inner Warmth of life; that Light and Warmth which will
are false when looked at in another light. During the last few days an
within humanity, shall be the light which strengthens the feelings and
this light from the spiritual world for its own possession.

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here already, pervading all of nature and its light rises in every
depths of his soul, and its light became ever brighter the closer his
his wonderful poetry, but in the spiritual world we find lighting up

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Munich, preceded, to our great delight, by
clairvoyant sphere lights up again, as a cosmic painting, so to
looking at it. They think the shapes there may be slightly more

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life, calls forth our joy and delight. We become aware that the whole
ourselves, we have something which throws light on the meaning of
duchess, who at his death said: “A man full of light and truth
Anthroposophy, that life appears to us in quite a different light

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impressions of the nature of sounds, smell, taste and light. This
pace a manifestation of the spirit, but that it has not the slightest
develop huge flaming light-forms. In these the spiritual element is

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light that we can attain to a correct view of moral impulses

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Christianity to throw new light upon what Buddha had given to
light through external heredity. Hence there appeared in him first of
civilisations. When we look at the matter in the right light we

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throw new light upon what Buddha had given to humanity. If I
light through external heredity. Hence there appeared in him
matter in the right light we cannot even say that

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from the fire when we light a stove so it is true that interest in
in the light of these virtues, and they will be the constructive
have only been lightly touched upon, but you will develop further in
convinced that, when it is understood in the true light, the

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comes from the fire when we light a stove, so it is true that
increased. Anthroposophy will place moral life in the light
Naturally, many things have only been lightly touched upon,
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true that warmth comes from the fire when we light a stove so
place moral life in the light of these virtues, and they will
lectures. Naturally, many things have only been lightly touched
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quiet down, how a kind of twilight settles around us, how the activity
were striking like lightning and destroying my body, and I
light are not dimmed when we consciously penetrate the secrets of the
of faith, raised to the level of the spirit, need not shun the light

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the sunlight, we forget that through the whole pleasure and
satisfaction we derive from the sunlight, there runs the thread of
ideals, with ideals born from the fire and light of their hearts.
filled with Christ and wisdom that is illuminated by the light of
an inner depth of feeling and an enlightened enthusiasm she worked

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extent the tasks of life are connected with the sunlight, we forget
sunlight, there runs the thread of sure knowledge that, on the
the fire and the light of their hearts.
Wisdom that is illuminated by the Light of Christ. When we come
intimate activities. With an inner depth of feeling, and an enlightened

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and sin, and from this point of view throw light on the relation of
man. That, however, is only one phenomenon. The ray of light which
the rays of light if our eye did not set itself up against the ray of
light, as our lungs do against the air. The light that enters into
our eye dies in our eye; and through the death of the light in our
Corporeally we kill the air; we kill also the rays of light which
light-ether. As far up as the light-ether we kill that which
Earth-existence. We know that above the light-ether there is the
the light into his eye when he sees.
the light-ether downwards — the light-ether that dies in the
the light down to the depths of materiality. Christ had to be able to
pass into all that we bear within us as the corpse of the light, of
the light of the Sun conjures the plants out of the soil. Science
teaches us that light is necessary for the growth of plants, but that
The light dips down into the plants and rises again out of them as a
transform this ether into water-spirits. The plants transform light
by killing the ray of light that enters into his eye, and so on, as I
Earth from Lucifer. Within modern theology there is an “enlightened”
contrary imagines itself to be specially enlightened. It says: “In

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guilt and sin, and from this point of view throw light on the relation
That, however, is only one phenomenon. The ray of light which
the rays of light if our eye did not set itself up against the ray of
light as our lungs do in the case of the air; the light that enters
into our eye dies in our eye; and as a result of the death of the light
light dies when it penetrates our eye. The ray of light is killed in
ray of light which penetrates us, we kill it in many ways.
of light-ether; we speak also of the warmth-ether. As far up as the
light-ether, we kill that which penetrates us; we slay it unceasingly
the light-ether there is the so-called ‘chemical-ether,’
man in a sphere, where, from the light-ether downwards death lives in
corpse of the light into his eye when he sees.
human nature in earth-existence, from the light-ether that dies in the
spread out in the world, beginning from the light down into the depths
within us as the corpse of the light, of the heat, of the air, etc. It
upon the plant-world; he sees how the light of the sun conjures forth
the plants from out of the soil. Science teaches us that light is
elements rising out of them. The light dips down into the plants and
rises again out of them as a living spiritual element; the light comes
light into air-spirits; animals transform the spirit active in the
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object — for instance, we delight in a rose; we take the

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good. [The title of the lecture was: Evil in the light of

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have sense-organs for the spiritual world. A new light is now
inner men is only slightly developed externally in the second

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the fact that the most distinguished and enlightened minds of modern
who suffers on it, exposing them to the light of the sun." (Travels of
(Light is Love ... the rays of sunshine are the weaving radiance of
to kindle the light that can be kindled in those inner depths which
Christ Light will shine out in every single soul. This Christ Light

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Reveal the light of thine age

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Light of Spiritual Science
popular saying can be seen in a new way in the light of
the truth when we learn to look at things in the light of
delighted to have them. One accusation made against the
understand the world if we consider it in the light of
amber-coloured light of ultimate mystery — lifted
speak so much of reality, appear in the right light to us

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and light particularly into the aspects that are not
the light of this, let us look at what is happening on on

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how outward appearances have to be regarded in the light
with the light that comes to us from an understanding of
advanced for their time; they were much more enlightened
human skill, but — and enlightened minds may refuse
enlightened souls were unable to become bearers of the
forgiveness of greatly enlightened folk. It will be
way of throwing light on something which otherwise has to
brought to light by occult research in the present day.
necessary for the twilight we live in today to evolve

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filling it with light. And when we are taken hold of in
necessary for instance to design a lighting system out of
lighting, electric heating and so on. It is a matter of
cultivate the human soul in this way, the twilight period
light of day always arises from the night, so a future
filled with light will have to arise out of our present
will have to be filled not only with light but with

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enlightened are concerned, to believe in any such thing
light of his understanding of how the human soul is
light. On passing through the gate of death and entering
light, being able to illumine what he finds there out of
twilight state out of which a new Sun-state shall

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In light of life that ever is renewed;
The twilight state I shall discuss later returned and it
exactly through consciousness lighting up at a later
And to work in light of spirit
To reveal the purest light;
To reveal the purest light;
To reveal the purest light;
just as over-powerful sunlight has to be subdued. A
following: to get our bearings in this flood of light
ourselves in the flood of light. And so you see why a
become of it can all the same cast some light for us on
overturned to the left. Studying the case in the light of
twilight of war. Then the energies, the ether forces of

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souls which can throw light upon the whereabouts of beings in the
and also in the light; they also have their life-element in the music
with, colorless, shadowlike, and intimate — so light and
first something that flits away so lightly and fleetingly over the
knowledge, but only to things being put in a false light. This is
light, to receive impressions through the light. If one were to
to receive impressions through the light, then one could not
for instance, one cannot see objects illuminated by light; on the
contrary, one must be very clear that one streams with the light
light falls upon an object, one sees it; but in the spiritual world
one is oneself within the ray of light and it is in this way that one
of light, in the spiritual world; one knows oneself to be within the
streaming light. This knowledge can give an indication towards
awareness of self-knowledge in the luminous streaming light. For
thought is of the light. Thought weaves in the light. But one can
experience this only when one is really immersed in the light, if one
has passed through the Gate of Death as an enlightenment. Death is
teaching, through words, does not suffice. Yet great enlightenment is
Light I feel
What the power of light
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the light of the whole evolution of mankind is a path
and also light.
colourless to begin with, shadowy and subtle, so slight
be something so slight and shadowy as it flits across the
merely against such things being put in a false light.
example, and see light, to gain the impression of light.
spiritual world and gain an impression of light, we
illumined by light in the spiritual world. It must be
forth with the light. When light falls on an object in
light, touching the object with the light. One therefore
knows one is swimming with the ray of light in the
radiant light. This serves to indicate how we can acquire
reflect the light. Imagine now you are inside the sun's
be within the bright radiance of light. For thought
arises from light. Thought weaves in the light. But it
as becoming immersed in light when we are within the
Here all is light
And power of light
Here all is light and I feel power
feels light coming to life within him:
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process and also a subtle light process.
some of the light we have taken in; we consume light.
light. These things we take in make happen what I spoke
everything else, the heat, light, etc., we consume does
ether is cooled down when we meditate. Light is used up
light. The result is that when someone meditates in some
in that place a very slight coolness and a very slight
reduction in light. The general light state is subdued,
receive the light of the sun through their eyes. It is
its light, so organs will have to come to life out of the

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up from the dim twilight where all else in life is
those who live through them, a light entering deeply into

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at a certain moment the light will dawn, or a man crossing a
closest to us, and in the same way a light may be kindled in the
need — in the same way in which a light is needed in a dark
then be flooded with light. The light which illumines us is the
body, become a flaming light, when we live in the spiritual

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for whom an inner point of light may arise for events
in the right way, we shall just as we need a light to
illumine the whole of this life. The light which

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present age to present Christ in his true light.
have to let Wagner appear as a slightly caricatured
throwing additional light on certain points. I also

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of light which arise will then be directed at subjects we
say: ‘Well, when we see a planet, the light of the
light falls on objects and these objects become visible
through that light being reflected — should also
give off their own light. I remember how, as quite a
light?’ Even in those days I had listened with a
'real' origin of light, of all the tiny dancing particles
of ether and of light-waves. The other boy, who had had
came up as to the nature of light we were simply told:
“Light is what makes bodies luminous”.’
brilliant about light, to say that light is what makes
we see heavenly bodies because they radiate light. It is
radiates out into the whole of outer space. The light of

Title: Forming of Destiny: Lecture 1: Spiritual Life in the Physical World and Life Between Death and Rebirth
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to throw light upon life's riddles — will make us realise that,
facts as they gradually come to light, as they continually arise in

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to throwing light from one point of view or another on the connection
light. Everything which is visible is on this side (the physical), but

Title: Forming of Destiny: Lecture 4: The Connection Between the Spiritual and the Physical Worlds, and How They Are Experienced After Death
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it. The effort made is much slighter as regards a soul living on the

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events recapitulated themselves in imagination with lightning speed.
arose immediately to light the candle on the table, but he could not.
creaked slightly, the sound passing across the room from the door to
Neither writing nor signature betrayed a trace of even the slightest
events in the right light of their Cosmic connections, we shall point

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will repeat the same words in a slightly altered form:
of Death with the thought of Christ Jesus, the Divine Light-Bringer.
did, a night-light. We burn something else and illumine our rooms in
depths of darkness light must enter human evolution. The old light of
The source of all Delight,
The deep, the clear, the blue — pure flames of light
evolution of light. Darkness, the most intense Earth-darkness
light, its greatest time of growth begins.
slightly altered form:

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of death with the thought of the divine leader of light, the Christ
light at night in the same way that Goethe burned his. We burn
light in a completely different way, and we illuminate our rooms in
night let us think of how, out of the depths of darkness, light
must enter human evolution, the light of spiritual life. The old
light of spiritual life that was there before the Mystery of
light must arise again, must be reborn after the Mystery of
Of the Beautiful, the True, the Good, and of all delight.
Lightflame, I myself have quietly gazed.
symbol for the evolution of light also in its outer course. In
soul experiences her light, beginning to awaken to the highest

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clear light of spiritual vision. We shall now bring this Saga before
to the enlightened lawyers to think over what is good and evil, right
world, when the rays of light and colour strike the eye, and the waves
our epoch, of our enlightened age, is devoid of truth, and short
cleverness. There is no reason to despise lightly this critical
who regard themselves as the most enlightened feel themselves least
which with its lighted windows dominates the wooded village with the
children sat thus a pale light blossomed in the sky, in the centre
light, which moved and coated gently among the stars. Then arose
sheaves of various lights above the arch, like the spikes of a crown,
with light, gently scintillating, and traversing long stretches of the
silent glorious streams of light, or was it some other cause in

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about 4 p.m. and it grows light late in the morning, the
And also the light of heaven.
That threw its light afar.
penetrate more and more deeply into what comes to light

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though it is only indicated slightly. I said that in this nation we

Title: Lecture I: The Balance in the World and Man, Lucifer and Ahriman
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In the light of Spiritual Science it can be said that whenever we feel

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consider the matter in this light. For it reveals to one that the
light, and the right half is wrapped in darkness and gloom. Yes, that

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this appearance; one can perceive in it Luciferic light and Ahrimanic
of light. Here the etheric body is transparent and gleams and glows
with light. It is Lucifer who sends his rays into the etheric body of
is caught by a ray of light and melts right away. Hardening and

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place in the light of the fourth virtue. That is what will be brought
courage and the virtue of temperance are seen in the right light.
convinced that at this time the inner light, the spiritual light, has

Title: Mystery of Death: Lecture I: The Four Platonic Virtues and Their Relation with the Human Members
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himself in the light of the fourth virtue. That will bring the
the virtue of temperance in the right light. You have to
strength is the slightest, in the deepest darkness of the
wintertime because we can be persuaded that the internal light,
the spiritual light has its strongest intensity.
physical light with the physical eye, she experienced the

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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in consciousness, and as well as the strong sunlight dazes the
lighting up moment of consciousness. Then a state of daze came
again in the flooding light of consciousness to go in this
In the light of the eternal life;
To create out of spirit-light
For the revelation of pure light
The light that gives existence meaning,
Unlost, light our life
For the revelation of pure light
The light that gives existence meaning,
twilight in the turn of an era during these present,
light. Below, human beings must be who have learnt to send such

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a spiritual affair. Hence, we cannot make the slightest
6th January. If the external light has the slightest strength,
an inner enlightenment is possible. Thus Olaf
sunlight.
twilight of this war means a turn of an era. Human beings

Title: Mystery of Death: Lecture IV: The Intimate Element of the Central European Culture and the Central European Striving
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these three members. Just as little as the light can be
origin from the light, and without knowing that it is made up
green, violet ones, and if one cannot study the light as a
of the light simply in a mess. And they imagine themselves
light — when once the conversation turned to the
these three soul nuances like the light by the different colour
Central European spiritual light.
overabundant light, the human being is blinded by the
notice that the words spoken at the cremation lighted up the
To create out of spirit-light
For the revelation of pure light
The light that gives existence meaning,
Un-lost, light our life
For the revelation of pure light
The light that gives existence meaning,
For the revelation of pure light

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spiritual science. This enables us to see events in a clearer light
these events in a light as significant as possible can face them in
spiritual enlightenment, — when the human soul lives in forces
enlightened by the Christ-Impulse. In that case, the Maid of Orleans
is able to receive the first earthly-physical ray of light, he passes
physical sunlight and before she drew her first breath outside her
true light will it be possible to understand what is really taking
in the new light which spiritual science alone can shed upon
occurrence here in Dornach throwing light upon the path which at the
but at the same time it can throw light upon the divine-spiritual
Europe. Indeed, we may see strange, foreboding flashes of light! Did
strive to discover something which may kindle for mankind the light
greater than itself and of sending light into life; before it can
until it is fructified by the light. At present, however, it is

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sees these events in such a significant light as far as it is
however, the time of spiritual enlightenment, if they feel
also she would have gone through something like enlightenment
light, he spends a time as a nascent human being in a true
to her, before she saw the physical sunlight with physical eyes
this mysterious fact once in the right light, will
earthly phenomena in that new light spiritual science can
same time lights up the divine-spiritual secrets of the world.
In the light of eternal life-becoming;
To create out of spirit-light
For the revelation of pure light
The light that gives existence meaning,
Un-lost, light our life
For the revelation of pure light
The light that gives existence meaning,
which can kindle the light of the future for the human beings.
itself to something that rays light to life. It has to wait,
until it is fertilised by this light, and then it can fulfil
in single words that it can light up that what we are able to

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consideration in the true light. The human being goes in his
have the slightest resemblance to the signs we have on the
once. What lights up then in his physical body, is a mark which
enlightenment will spread over the earth.

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to our souls that is able to throw some light from the
sensations to certain points of view which can bring some light
and etheric body. Something strange comes to light then that we
science only shows in the right light. That unclear mysticism

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light upon the great events of our time. Next Sunday too I
certain aspects which can throw some light upon the events
the things which spiritual science reveals in a true light,

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phenomena of life are seen in the right light, you understand
throw some light on it in the series of talks about the
Education of the Child in the Light of Spiritual Science
The Human Destiny Seen in the Light of Spiritual Knowledge,

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in this light, can a right conception of the pathological
of life are viewed in the right light. The causes may lie in
present war, I already tried to throw some light upon the
the discharge of clouds which bring lightning and storm.
[Lecture of May 8th, 1915. “Man's Destiny in the Light of a Knowledge of the Spiritual Worlds.”]
events in this light, we are filled with the true feelings,

Title: Mystery of Death: Lecture IX: The Relation of the Human Being to the Realms of Nature and the Hierarchies
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spread light just about various matters which speak
but which would not disturb each other in the slightest.
the mother, before he sees the physical earth light. This is
opened her eyes to the earth light. That is why the sixth

Title: Lecture: Christ In Relation To Lucifer and Ahriman
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eventually bring to light the full content of the mystery, Christ in
surely bring to light who is to blame for the war! In reference to the

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the mother, before he sees the physical earth light. The human

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friends, may throw some light upon this question.
order to see this in the light of spiritual science, let me remind
heavenly light. That is why it becomes a mediator of the forces which
human life develops in the light of freedom. Let us then assume that

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have often done in our circle to show such a fact in the light
unused heavenly light in it. Hence, it becomes a mediator of
develop in the light of freedom. Assuming that Ahriman would

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ahrimanic art in the right light. If we do not experience this,
it in an opposite light, to see it as something totally
of the spirit over the material, this lighting up of the
spiritual light of the soul from the deep darkness of the
In the light of eternal life-becoming;
the spirit light. But she had a lot of strength in herself. You
could also say, they perceive light by us here below. This
light is for us symbolic at first, one would like to say,
light.
have often heard of spiritual science, of spiritual light and

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would see it as light, but there we would see impenetrable,
form. This appears to him as a light figure more or less, but
feels being gradually linked with this light figure, and then
“sees first the light of day” as one says, these
To create out of spirit-light
For the revelation of pure light
The light that gives existence meaning,
Unlost, light our life
For the revelation of pure light
The light that gives existence meaning,
For the revelation of pure light
For the revelation of pure light
this gate, took up that which is contained in the light of

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external physical ray of light can penetrate his eye, it is active
slight goose-flesh if one tells him that Plato and Aristotle did not
that comes to light so magnificently in the thought-structures of
Spirits of Wisdom and the Archangels come to light again on earth in
“I'll keep my light from light of your excluded,
I want you not, your light shall be precluded,
Until my light's my own and separated.

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was at work in Dante. But even in the light of outer history
light of our ideas, must fundamentally point out.
light when one has first made oneself familiar with that
These dogmas seem very strange to the ‘enlightened’ people of
forces which as spiritual light pass from the Sun into the

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light-filled beginning of experience of the Spirit, as that
slightest inkling that it is so.
and reach some enlightenment upon what is actually going on
lightning speed towards the house, and hardly had we got
furniture in the light of the lamp. Then the door sprang
me to her. I put a table with night-lights near the bed,
the lights burnt badly. I cleaned them, drank some wine

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is very significant, for it sheds light, in a most concrete
the light of Spiritual Science, therefore, let us observe
light was streaming into the room, was free and clear,
for a glimmer of light; but none came. the light from the
had changed into a point of light, visible to the eye.
light grow and expand, and suddenly seemed to divide,

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even in a slight degree adequate. I have, as you know,
over us like a light, flooding us from every direction, and
the other hierarch thinks; — this is the Light-Being
surging sea of light.
proceed that he has the Light-sphere of Thought around him
the surface of things. We paint light and shade. We paint
colours. Now outer nature is furnished with light and
back light and colour. That is between us and the object.
cannot receive light and colour, within, because
once; there he knows himself in light and colour, but here
Creation from the Spirit light

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the living light of the Angels and of all similar heavenly
desire especially to bring their light to man. The darkness
knowledge, an opposition to the light of the spirit.
that which spreads light widely, not to that which sends an
apparent light into narrow places only. In this connection,

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Art and Practical Questions in the Light of Spiritual Science.
Art and Practical Questions in the Light of Spiritual Science.

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Art and Practical Questions in the Light of Spiritual Science,

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are created by the sphere harmony and drawn out by light.

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Art and Practical Questions in the Light of Spiritual Science,
claiming to do more than throw some light from one or other aspect of
single rays of light can ever be thrown from the circuit of human
Roman age like a last great light from the stream flowing from

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Art and Practical Questions in the Light of Spiritual Science,
more etheric, lighter weaving and living than what we pass through

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Art and Practical Questions in the Light of Spiritual Science,
the Christ revelation means: to acquire light upon the world from

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Art and Practical Questions in the Light of Spiritual Science,
within us. It is a connecting link (light red) but in ordinary life
surroundings of earth appear to the senses there lights up in us the
would light up something like a connection with a star apparently
and makes us believe that what we ought to look upon as lighting up
spirit-light shining within feeling and will; then we should have an
insight into the cosmos precisely through this lighting up of the
spirit-light of the world. We should have a direct vision of the
is formed in him. Cosmic light penetrates feeling and willing like
the sunlight and unites itself with the intellectual life so that we
reached a consciousness of this relation (Diagram II, Light
this or that deceased person. They brought to light all sorts of
sure they brought to light very many things. But in far the greater
at least only in a very slight degree. Authority must dwindle in
light. That is absolutely essential. It is a reality, not a mere

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Art and Practical Questions in the Light of Spiritual Science,
That is, that the sun comes with its warmth and light and brings
light-rays shine on the object and are thrown back to us. Were the
Light,’ but we should not separate the individual

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Art and Practical Questions in the Light of Spiritual Science,
slightest illusion in this respect. He who believes when he hates
over such things very lightly. For how often a man says:
this danger is not a slight one. One is, of course, not to let

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that the probability of such a thing happening is so slight as to be
So one can light upon 100 symbols. Blindly
bug are all the work of man. That is true, looked at in the right light.

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the right light to bear on facts such as the secretion of exhaustion
two human states is all-important. And the proper light can be brought
light and darkness, bringing about the cycle of daytime and nighttime.
I once made you a light red drawing of man,
lights there appeared as though in a rainbow aura, without sharp outlines.
This impression of lights like empty spaces in the surrounding fog is
best means of studying this matter in the light of what has just been
entirely in the light in which they sometimes reveal themselves; and

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need to bring the right light to bear on the concepts chance, necessity,
slight difference in the situation.
bringing people slightly into motion and enlivening the dreadfully lazy

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searching out viewpoints able to shed light and guide them.
we now perceive in the sun's radiating light a decision of will on the

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perfections that delight the eye or the senses in general proves elevating.
not to pass lightly over things of this sort.) Mauthner traces various

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than could possibly be brought to light in a limited period of time.
long, once he has realized the situation. Most people like to skip lightly
water and then put them back in again, finding that they were lighter
due to atmospheric lightness or heaviness. He spent an endless amount

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deep hidden secrets that can be discovered if we train the light of
person streams out an aura filled with light and wisdom.

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of light, a material substance, or through the sense of touch. Such
spiritual world. Now that we have tried to form at least a slightly
restricted to the physical plane can enlighten us about the actual facts
some individuals take their connection with our movement much too lightly.
It is essential for us to have some slight
You see that we really cannot take these things lightly. We must not
We should not take our movement as lightly as is often done. As you can

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will repeat the same words in a slightly altered form:
of Death with the thought of Christ Jesus, the Divine Light-Bringer.
did, a night-light. We burn something else and illumine our rooms in
depths of darkness light must enter human evolution. The old light of
The source of all Delight,
The deep, the clear, the blue — pure flames of light
evolution of light. Darkness, the most intense Earth-darkness
light, its greatest time of growth begins.
slightly altered form:

Title: Lecture: The Christmas Thought and the Secret of the Ego
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of death with the thought of the divine leader of light, the Christ
light at night in the same way that Goethe burned his. We burn
light in a completely different way, and we illuminate our rooms in
night let us think of how, out of the depths of darkness, light
must enter human evolution, the light of spiritual life. The old
light of spiritual life that was there before the Mystery of
light must arise again, must be reborn after the Mystery of
Of the Beautiful, the True, the Good, and of all delight.
Lightflame, I myself have quietly gazed.
symbol for the evolution of light also in its outer course. In
soul experiences her light, beginning to awaken to the highest

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comes from the fire when we light a stove, so it is true that
increased. Anthroposophy will place moral life in the light
Naturally, many things have only been lightly touched upon,
understood in the true light, the anthroposophical life which

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course, in the light of a past spiritual wisdom, but these Mysteries
period, there was no longer the slightest knowledge of anything
lightly attributed to a mere human being. Furthermore, such people
without the slightest trace of discrimination, because we have not
says, “I think I see a light yonder” (which means,
approaching light, which will proclaim what must come through the new
help us seek the light in the midst of darkness. We must seek and
Man in the Light of Occultism, Theosophy, and Philosophy,

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— now in this winter time — to behold the light, which in
We really only see the world in the true light, when

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winter the light which only streams towards us, as inhabitants
really see the world in its true light if we perceive the

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is a great delight, to enter into the spirit of the age, to see how
your leave it is a great delight,
is a great delight

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light-ether,
turn our attention to the light-ether. It is true that the whole etheric body
which is light-ether; and in order to fix our attention on that part of the
etheric body which we call the light-ether, we have sketched it above.
movements. It is the light part of the etheric body that we are now
heat, chemical and life parts also vibrate in sympathy, but it is the light
light-body. Our etheric body, then, experienced certain movements, for the
light-body as movements — as inner light-movements; so that apart from
light-body. Thus the whole result of our meeting with the man consisted in
our light-body experiencing all kinds of movements. Picture this vividly to
light-body was in continual movement. What you said to him, what you felt and
thought regarding him, is all disclosed in the movements of your light-body.
we encounter this man again after five days. The etheric light-body, stirred
the outer light-ether; sleep only consists in that part of the astral body
movements; the perception from the outer light-ether of movements in the
inner light-body: that is, to remember.
meet again. They perceive each other, the one whose light-body is stirred to
light-ether from the light-ether. This is remembrance purely as an act of
perception. We can say: in the external light one perceives the movements
taking place in the inner light-body. But we do not see them as light
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there are those etheric bodies that have a strong tendency to light
shed new light on Greek art as it was developed so uniquely and
new light.

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Enlightenment. For his antinomian chart see his book
slightest way deny the great value and significance of progress

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Bible it says 'And God made light.' And only after he made the
light does it say 'And he saw that it was good.'“ To this
not see that the light would be good? Those gods do not even
only create light if I knew beforehand what light was like, and
pupils merely in the light of what they had done the previous

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aka: Angels, Man and Animals in the Light of
in one area must be looked at in an entirely different light,
point of view we can say lightly, “Well, we try to
significant a light as we should.
this is even the case with the Elohim. The Elohim created light

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the light aura surrounding the seed. And in the case of
connected gold with sunlight and silver with moonlight, this
is pure sunlight that has been condensed, silver is
moonlight,” and so on, they expressed what they saw
slightest awareness of the impulses that come to expression in
resolve to get up will not make the slightest impression. This
them enlightenment but a throbbing headache.
lightly. Freedom and necessity are among the most

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Light”; “The Lonely Stone”; “Have You
overpowering by the physical body. A light of understanding

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Europe actually did not have the slightest idea of how

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think in a very light-hearted manner about the significance

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light of the moon. Here we see that the unconscious soul
which comes into the earth with the light of the moon. Here
you have the moon with its light streaming in and it is
illuminated by the light of the moon is something different
than the earth when it is not illuminated by the light of the
March and that which is reflected back to us as sunlight from
the moonlight after the Spring Equinox than, shall we say,
method of receiving the light of the moon and then this

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enlightened members of Parliament should agree to recognize
enlightened Lord Justices had to decide what sort of
is the decision which these enlightened justices reached as
judgement that these enlightened lords issued. This was not
enlightened spirits in Utopia. Things were so arranged that
everything was governed by these enlightened people who were
placed in the correct light so that we can learn many things
importance of how spiritual acts can throw light upon

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science is something which casts a certain light in order

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the weight is lightened and therefore does not crush the
our waking concepts, a strong light overpowers this week
light. The Imaginations are always there and are continuously

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gates of the city because they fell down during their flight.

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slightest inkling of language of words. He criticizes the

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soul-experiences begin to light up when we see colours. There is then
Our Ego lights up in self-consciousness through the
That a thing like this does not come to light, but

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death. For only in the light of spiritual science, death becomes
the light of spiritual science, death becomes an event,
light upon them from many points of view. To-day I shall therefore
death, we dive down with lightning speed into that which forms our
become with lightning speed, also that part of our own experiences
necessarily appear strange in the light of a physical-Sensory
in this work. Your head, this slightly irregular and somewhat
the slightest idea that whole Hierarchies of Gods are at work in
slightest idea of this, who are, above all, NOT WILLING to have any

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man's passage through the portal of death. For only in the light of
portal of death. In the light of spiritual science, death becomes an
speaking of things repeatedly and throwing light upon them from many
Where do we dive down? Through our death, we go out with lightning
what our physical body has become with lightning speed, also that
higher mysteries at first necessarily appear strange in the light of
slightly irregular and somewhat transformed sphere, is a real
materialism, we generally have not the slightest idea that whole
not the slightest idea of this, who are, above all, not willing to

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the sciences revolve; for it not only throws light upon the
shine upwards as a light to the Angels — since the Mystery of
Golgotha — shine up to the Angels as a light. Men say: Christ
the fifth post-Atlantean period. In the light of these impulses we
must develop, for they are the true lights of our time. Many people
kind of fervour and delight. But then follows a description of the
power which has only to be released for clear light to pour over the

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pertaining to the spiritual worlds. The facts which come to light in
to light, as well as those of the physical world which can be
certain amount of light can be thrown upon the question of destiny if
science is really in a position to throw light upon such problems of
light on these things. Let us ask, above everything, what is violent

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world we have sensations of colour and light, perceptions of sound,
vague undefined feelings, slight inclinations or disinclinations.
grow intelligible to him when he views them in this light or that,
taking his light from spiritual knowledge of this kind. To use a

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herself, and that the lighting of the Christmas candles is a symbol of
They will come to light again when humanity has the will to acquire

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elemental nature; the lighting of the Christmas candles should be our
is delighted that he is now beginning to do so, had earlier written
and began to be an impressionist, people were far from delighted with
Bahr continued reading the literature on the subject. He lighted on
he is immensely delighted to discover in Goethe's writings the words
the inner Pentecost seriously, to kindle the light in the soul, and

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and the nerve substance in the light of spiritual science, you will
when the newspaper world was thoroughly amazed by the daring flight

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passage through these lower signs is hidden from outer light. It is
as the light fades into twilight when the sun descends into the sign
of the life in us; it sinks into the depths, just as there is no light
half-light; day begins to dawn in our consciousness. But you can still
people almost in the light of consciousness, though not quite; it is
of the light, the setting sun. This is the macrocosmic picture of our
light, and only after reading them does one understand the end of

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it to some kind of influence, for instance, the influence of light,
in your constitution, every time light reaches your eyes.
pathological or diseased in our organism, even if only very slightly
work on the soul when they are seen in the light of spiritual science.
and imitated its flight with their own arms, they could feel in their
to draw a bird in flight. In modern pictures, birds hover; they do not
flight and a snapshot of birds. This resemblance applies even to Japanese
or disparaging, but only to throw light on the way our whole movement
occurrences, for what came to light here is the same thing that comes

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the most noble and greatest striving that can light up in human souls.
These ideas are not to be taken lightly.
that are true on this opposite path, only then will light be shed upon

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so convenient as the usual way of thinking, but it throws more light on
Such events have to be seen in the light
skimming lightly over them. Here I would like to point out something
that this book presents everything in the darkest light and puts the
with supposedly enlightened minds. Now this book is trashy literature

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Well, the family went up there with a light
will find much that could cast a light on this question. If psychology
but when we go a bit further, then what is meant to enlighten humanity
in the light of reincarnation. Since then they had all been busy thinking
with it. I just wanted to show you that even the simplest soul can light
to is that the new good side of our movement comes to light less rapidly

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storms we experience as waking dreams or as lightning flashes of
to slightly more than 50 moon years. In such a year of reconciliation,
in dreams or in the lightning flashes of genius of a man like

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narrow sense. When the world is observed in the light of spiritual
light. In that, something of an unquestionably earthly nature is
In the light of these important truths about the human being that we
slightest thing to do with the content of The Divine Comedy.
delighted not to have to think and to be able to function like a

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spiritual-scientific results that come to light when one addresses the
I can work. Instead, consider the blood in the light

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through him. The light from the three spiritual realms shines over a
a kind of psychic physiology — forgive the slightly nonsensical
there is a slight displacement. Things are simply displaced upward by
O, Ye!, from spheres of light stream through this head,
First strive for countenance that fills with light,
Once lame-wingd senses move again in flight,
Through holy light to lead him where he wills.
strive for countenance that fills with light, —
flight, —
Through holy light to lead him where he wills. —
Return to holy light man's self.
O Ye!, from spheres of light stream through this head,
First strive for countenance that fills with light,
Once lame-winged senses move again in flight,
Through holy light to lead him where he wills.
Return to holy light man's self.
In the moonlight drenched with dew,
on Moon to understand how the silent floods of moonlight connect outer
In the moonlight drenched with dew,

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earth inhabited by the Greeks and their relatively slight knowledge of

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all, light must be thrown on this fact, because otherwise it would be

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would like to throw some light on what the senses were like during the

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himself with a pen while working in his office. There is a slight

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thought, what is held in the light of consciousness, needs to be more
I have not the slightest desire to promote teleology in the negative
shed light on this problem.
Such things are not to be taken too lightly. Let us try to refresh our
world. Only by understanding it can we shed lights on such things. One

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the slightest logical objection to be brought against it. Thanks to
It is a curious attempt in that what it brings to light is the
who is seeking for the spirit without having the slightest ability to

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valued lightly. I have already drawn your attention to this mistake,
about flight. They say, pulling long faces: ‘But is this not

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to speak, in all kinds of positions and has had light cast on it from
principles that will shed light on the more instinctive morality that
light will emerge — but, as goes without saying, only if humanity

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considered in every possible light, and judgment held in abeyance for
every aspect shed light upon the truth about the amount of
will illumine with the light of spiritual comprehension the
with a stronger and stronger light of understanding will emerge, if,

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light.
Matters have to be understood in an entirely different light. And for
not the slightest acquaintance with the impartial relation to truth
have just been ever-so-lightly alluding.
the light of consciousness. This is what Lucifer wants: his goal is to
lack of the slightest understanding for even the most harmless of
delights, if they apply to something external. Lucifer has not the
slightest understanding of man's harmless delight in what is around
learning to live in the innocent delights, delights that come to us
the proper light. We will never be able to discover the facts of the

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man in this light leads us to a knowledge of great cosmic
future gain enlightenment on the subject of his connection with
regarded in quite a different light and in order to understand it we
long time now in human affairs is only to be understood in the light
of a knowledge of secrets which have been lightly touched upon
the very least understanding pf any harmless delight or amusement
the remotest sympathy for harmless, amused delight aroused by
innocent joy and delight in the world outside. Lucifer cannot bear
this; it vexes him terribly, for instance, if we take delight in a

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like those we have just mentioned provide us with the light by which
In the light of the foregoing considerations, and in the sense they

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knowledge that is capable of bringing such things to light must be
the correct light when we recognise their character as idols, their
present it in a light that would seem paradisiacal to the
proceeding now in the full light of consciousness. During the fourth
things cannot be grasped unless they are considered in the light of

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western black magic mysteries centered in Mexico. New light is also
world. And running through all this, like light shining over it all
light in an external, exoteric way on what works and weaves inwardly
another light. It was Caracalla who did this, and he was not a man to
moon forces light up again at a particular time, thereby making
Greek world light up again in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries to

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western black magic mysteries centered in Mexico. New light is also
absolute super-sensible lightness, entirely given up to a life of
priest was intended to bring about a kind of buoyancy and lightness in

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western black magic mysteries centered in Mexico. New light is also
if, in the sphere of the spirit, one could light a paper over a
certain present-day phenomena as they come to light in other works
our times. What I am saying is naturally not directed in the slightest

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western black magic mysteries centered in Mexico. New light is also
has come to light from the most primitive beginnings of amateur
light was obtained from the spirits of the dead was something that
not merely see the light, the surroundings, people as they are
knowledge of what comes to light if one expels the best qualities of
not take it lightly that a wise man of today can find no way out for
nevertheless throw light on many impulses that are being enacted in

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western black magic mysteries centered in Mexico. New light is also
in the light of the science of the spirit, such as the discovery of
Sometimes they reveal themselves only slightly, but at other times
forces are discharged into the soul as lightning and thunder discharge

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western black magic mysteries centered in Mexico. New light is also
delightful to see from outside, but one does not see into his heart.
They brought a shapeless thing of iron to light,
For plough it was too slender and too slight.

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western black magic mysteries centered in Mexico. New light is also
bring to light what can be experienced when one passes through the
the outer world, will come to light when the time arrives. It is not

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live a life connected with the earth. The body that is woven of light and
air. The ether organism breathes out light, and this light it gives to us.
And when it breathes out light and confers the light upon us, we live by
means of its light. And it also breathes in light. As we breathe in and out
light, it uses up the light, just as we use up air physically. (You may read
The ether body breathes in light, uses up the light and
being that lives in us breathe light in and out. As we use up in us the
the light, shooting it through with darkness, so that it appears in colors,
And while the ether body prepares the light for the darkness and thereby
ether body draws downwards on the paths of light when these paths are guided
human ether bodies on the paths of the light and on the paths of the sound of
they come on the paths of light and on the paths of sound from out of the

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‘Tis delightful to transport
for aesthetics, was slightly disillusioned when he first called
another. As he was once ascending a flight of stairs, he met a
an inner light that radiated through a highly intelligent
higher one. What Schiller brought to light in a philosophic,
often; it is delightful because it corresponds with the truth.

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intended to light up each individual existence. His life, to be
instead of producing a light in an ordinary, mechanical way, he
magnifying glass to light the candle, kindling a flame to offer
had been fools instead of wise men because of a slightly
does not force it; he only helps with a light touch to elevate
These words by Faust himself are passed over too lightly. One
'tis delightful to transport
sense and in the right light, these first scenes of
we can study certain laws in an especially clear light, but we

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which are intended to throw light upon the narrower life of
with painting and with the art of the theatre. Thus lightly is
and kindles the light, not in the ordinary mechanical
if, as de la Mettrie thinks, through a slightly different
People pass too lightly over such a work. One who feels it in
right sense and in the true light the value of these first

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only part of anything we describe. We always need to seek light
lights the other side of the earth. So, likewise, is it day in
such animals can achieve. Something quite unusual came to light
light, working everywhere, even through the animal kingdom. In
had simply been trained to pick up, on a slight gesture or
indication through an equally slight sound, like the clicking
horses reacted to extremely slight cues made unconsciously and
perceive these exceedingly slight gestures only after he had
surrounded not only by air and light but also by governing
to light. To what in the world are the aforementioned forces

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only part of the full reality, and we must look for light from
our heads. Wisdom surrounds us everywhere, like light.
perceive a very slight sign made by its master, and
slightest signs, which the men who train them are quite
to yourself: All around us is not only light and air, but the
through the space of light, but through the space of Wisdom,
delights him in his calling, but through what unfolds without

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vocational life of man appears in quite a different light.

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Solfatara country when one sets a light to a piece of
bring to light mistaken notions. Those who take this standpoint
are then obliged to place it frequently in a distorted light.
himself. He should have enlightened his son more wisely than
‘Education of the Child in the Light of Anthroposophy,’)
— with a firm step in one case, tripping it lightly in

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light the fact that the plan he had for his life when he was
should have enlightened his son in a more intelligent way than
Education of the Child in the Light of Anthroposophy,

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however, is — as we might say — a rather flighty
our time who are gifted, in a way, with clear, light-filled
the searchlights which illumine life's situations. Now you will

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let us look at the matter in the right light. Friedrich Theodor

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‘Education of the Child in the Light of Anthroposophy’
light from Indian sources, that will not greatly disturb our
recently chose the example of a very ‘enlightened’ pastor and
Blavatsky remained sound and healthy, and yet brought to light
‘enlightened’ will be carried away by the good advices which a
necessary light be thrown on what belongs more to the every-day

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of humanity, in order to cast light on the direct relation to
The Education of the Child in the Light of Anthroposophy.
come to light. It must become possible for a person to consider
bring to light only what they considered suitable for their own
light from Indian sources, they are by no means able to disturb
especially enlightened pastor and professor,
perception is determined by the enlightenment one has received
enlightened should be captivated by the advice of a Chinese
shall soon continue these reflections. The necessary light will

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correctly in the light of repeated earthly lives.
tell you about in a slightly disguised way. As was the custom
considered the mark of an enlightened person to have risen

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all has become very slight indeed in modern time. The
no doubt seem mad to the enlightened modern man; but you must

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deeply significant light. But our characterization must become

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guide; Lucifer, who constitutes the light that guides him
light enough to do so.
extention wished to attain to the Light-giver and Ruler of the
struggle between Lords of Light, on whose side Mrs. Besant and
Leadbeater's Lords of Light, is a traitor. But still other

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Shining with the clear light of the speaker's courage, these lectures have
sensitivity, do people illuminate with the full light of truth what
especially at the present time — with the light that derives
quite indefinable if it is not viewed in the light of
their judgements without having the slightest inkling of even the
standing out for me; but in many ways I was delighted to hear how the
reached by people who make not the slightest effort to consult the
failing in my duty if I were to throw spiritual light on these
cloud-cuckoo-land. It is essential that I let the light of what can
scientific research; the sinister web will be brought into the light
a light that differs from that found at the periphery very frequently
me the slightest honour of any kind, not even the tiniest Little Red
As you see, there is not the slightest reason why any German
scientific research; the sinister web will be brought into the light

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Shining with the clear light of the speaker's courage, these lectures have
single phenomenon expresses something that throws light on decades,
illuminating like a flash of lightning what is really happening. To
throws light in the deepest sense. And if it had not happened
would never have come to light. The threads of karma run in
assume the rank of voivode himself. Because of the light that dawned
stream. It is necessary sometimes to throw a sidelight on this stream
suddenly illuminated as if by lightning. I should like to point out
one such lightning illumination.

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Shining with the clear light of the speaker's courage, these lectures have
of God's light, gathering the creative spirit and scattering it
bring light into darkness. Who in his life has not encountered people
light in them, and they help you to understand the ending of
having changed its methods only slightly. I am stating no more than facts.

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Shining with the clear light of the speaker's courage, these lectures have
century. Little is discussed nowadays which can really throw light on
Then an event took place which throws some light on a number of
light will be thrown on many matters by the chapter which mentions

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Shining with the clear light of the speaker's courage, these lectures have
ideas in this book by Brooks Adams could have brought enlightenment
that era. Thomas More was an enlightened spirit, even though, despite
his enlightened insight, he became Henry VIII's Lord Chancellor
an enlightened and great king, he meets a man he regards as
intelligent, enlightened man into contact with someone who is an
period was just beginning. The intelligent and enlightened man
delightful and friendly gentleman who has since died.

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Shining with the clear light of the speaker's courage, these lectures have
light, bears witness to objective laws. This cannot be turned and
these circumstances a variety of things are coming to light for the
Some quite bizarre symptoms are indeed coming to light. For

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Shining with the clear light of the speaker's courage, these lectures have
this puts everything into a false light. If someone admits honestly:
exclaims in delight, because her eye has fallen on one of her beloved
present there is not the slightest understanding. This is not a
Berlin, above nearly all, those of the most enlightened States in the
lightly. However, we had better not go on till midnight today, so let

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earth there shall be a beacon light for those Powers who accompany the
with its symbols. The Temple was like a star whose light enabled them
on the one hand we find lighting up in the Gnosis a sublime conception
lantern-lights gathered around the new-born child, they spoke of how
with this new life there had been brought to them the new light

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Shining with the clear light of the speaker's courage, these lectures have
course, the light of Gnosis has meanwhile gone out. But the
was for them a star by whose light they could accompany the souls
light up in people's hearts, that idea in which the Christmas
families gathered in their snow-covered huts in the lamplight around
them the new light which the heavens had announced to them in the

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Shining with the clear light of the speaker's courage, these lectures have
representative of understanding, of knowledge, of light —
namely, that light which shines in the human soul in the state of
working together of light and darkness. To try and make people
be totally good, is nothing but religious egoism. Every light has its
slight. Yet certain things would not be achieved by continuing to
officer next to him giving orders. The trooper only has to light the
and the trooper lighting the fuse without any will of his own. The
Would you say that the trooper standing by the cannon and lighting
Never forget that! The others may escape punishment only by flight!
This evening the daylight has not gone from the Aurelian walls and it
world. To belong, not to the darkness, but to the light which has
light, instead of to that inattentiveness which brings us only

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Shining with the clear light of the speaker's courage, these lectures have
thing that matters. This thing that matters is the flight from truth
things lightheartedly. When I say something of this kind it is based
be in a spiritual world. Light and darkness were not yet external,
with the spiritual world, immersed in the living weaving of light and
darkness, for I belong to the weaving of light and darkness.
priests and pastors think themselves particularly enlightened when
disappear through sophistry. They are delighted every time they
— was his wife's nose put slightly out of joint when he

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Shining with the clear light of the speaker's courage, these lectures have
shoe-shiners, polyglots and pulcinelli. Though they are delighted to

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Shining with the clear light of the speaker's courage, these lectures have
light-heartedly making derogatory judgements about what happens in

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Shining with the clear light of the speaker's courage, these lectures have
for its light falls only on the individual human being — so, by
capacity of throwing light on certain motives which are at work in
— which throw a profound light on certain existing things
— provides a poisoning by light.
orderly land, and the population is enlightened, disciplined, and
on this side or on that. In the light of what the world now knows,

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intention of raising even the slightest objection to his outward activities

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instead of having to light the stove. It is irrelevant whether an idea

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which can really throw light and reveal what is essential.

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of them together in order to throw light on aspects which can help us
expresses can come to light. Let me start, then, by describing quite
became ever more cynical though its aim was to enlighten, or the
occultist knows: When consciousness is damped down even slightly,

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recently, not simply to throw light on them in one way or another, but
ourselves that religious enlightenment is a duty of the educated man
enlightenment really only a matter of sober understanding and not to a
of heart might suffer if we let her take her own delight in the great

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of showing itself in a good light and consigning everything else to the
to behave in a dastardly, lying manner and place itself in the light,
to place oneself in the light and consign others to the shadow, and so
now going to tell you not from the slightest political or inflammatory

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for it is this knowledge that in truth must lead man to the light out
light when things are seen spiritually, especially the human being. The
particularly interesting to view history in the light of this. Take the
the light of national prejudices, but in all truth, objectively and

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but now they must light up again through spiritual science.
It is not easy to see these things in their proper light. People
lights, excitable flickering lights which interpose themselves in front

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is all very well as long as it is put in the right light in the way it

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will show you how complicated these things are. In the light of our
is an obstacle to growing into what gives us a clear, enlightened
light.

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over immediately into the light of daytime. You will perhaps be
not look out of the window and into the light if we wish to bear in
remembrance a dream, for if we look into the light we would easily
have not the slightest doubt when approaching these things, that
the Italian Folk-Soul LIGHT. In the case of the Italian Folk-Soul,
light corresponds to the air of human beings. Where man has heat or
word, a physical body): Air, Warmth, Light and Tone. — This
life-ether and instead of the light-ether it would have that element
being has his alkaline, solid substances, is the LIGHT ETHER, the
ether of light. And we would also find that the Russian Folk-Soul has
light reverberates in a certain way from that which constitutes the
earth. The light exercises certain influences upon the earth; it does
soil bears upon it. The light does not influence the individual
Russians in a direct way, but the influence of the light first
Folk-Soul; it-corresponds, to a certain extent, to the light, to
what the light is for us human beings.
the light of the sun-fertilizes it, contains the mystical runes, the
which rays out of the light. But again, do not think that these
Switzerland, but the light which the earth throws back is also to be
something relative and nothing absolute. For the light which is
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light of day. You know that there is a — shall we say — superstitious
window or the light because if we do, we will forget easily. This
the Italian folk soul has light which corresponds to air in the human
consisting of air, warmth, light, sound. From this you can see that if the
light ether there would be what I called in my
the light ether. The sound ether would be what corresponds to the
with the individual Russian human being. This takes place in that light,
streaming down, is reflected in a certain way by the earth. Light
soil. The light does not work directly on the individual Russian. First
and everything that grows and flourishes on the earth. And this light
corresponding to light in the human being.
sunlight, are contained the mysterious runes, the whispering runes by
from the light. Do not imagine that these things must be taken in a
Switzerland, too, there is light which is reflected by the earth. If
something relative, not absolute. For light above the soil of Russia is
light, as elsewhere. On the other hand the Russian folk soul — I have
the Italian folk-being is light for the Russian folk-being, and these

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In addition to what came to light in a sibylline way through Mrs
came to light through Sinnett and Blavatsky. However, all this was not
Light on the Path
through what came to light at the turn of the eighteenth to the
quite a different light, if it had not been made known that it stemmed
no one took the slightest notice, and no one felt moved to make known
bottomless night in which every light, every joy of my life has been
every pleasure in life. It will never grow light on earth and the
delight in geometry, and indeed of life on earth. I had resolved to
if we are idealists, be delighted when we read Hungaricus. For the
what has led to the plight of the world today. Proper thinking, which

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very slightly. The form of the head is simply pushed together after
possible, without the slightest idea of spiritual scientific truths?
the slightest idea that this knowledge must be drawn out of an

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our next lecture which will throw light upon important factors of the
which clairvoyant consciousness offers concrete enlightenment
out of the window into the light. These people tried to protect what

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like very much, indeed, to throw light from this background upon much

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thoughts able to throw light on the objects and aims of the Spiritual

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‘When you wake, you ought not at once to look at the light’;
who entirely desire to be realists, materialists, light could be
imagined,’ they say, ‘and such flights of fancy cannot
general karma of man; how these things — when observed in the light of
the Mystery of the present age, so as to obtain some light on the

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astral light of the head. This then, my dear friends, — which is no
premature deaths now occurring in the light of feeling or abstract

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astral light of the head. This then, my dear friends, — which is no
premature deaths now occurring in the light of feeling or abstract

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like heat which expands bodies, or like light which illuminates them
easily come to light. When a man wakes in a dream or out of a dream,
not learn to see that it is not of the slightest value to have

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opposite to what the superficial consciousness may lightly suppose.
lighted candle in the house when they left it in the evening. If the
lights.’
same way as the man who did not put out the lighted candle, but set

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outside, in the rising and setting stars, in the bright sunlight, and
fading twilight, there dwells something Spiritual; and just as we
Education of the Child in the Light of Anthroposophy,

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all that he said, de Saint-Martin stood in the fading light of the old
age, and not as we do, in the glimmering light of a new age. Unless we
stands in the fading evening twilight of that whole system of thought.
On the other hand we see that standing thus in the twilight, he was
nonsense) on thunder-storms, on thunder and lightning; in which he
lightning and thunder. As we have said, what is thus expounded by de
lightning, there is a flaw in modern physics, which is obliged to be
lightning to salt, or what he called salt. In short, he fights in his
history, in the light of the fall from Spiritual life into matter. I
twilight. But in studying de Saint-Martin, one does not feel that what
Paracelsus, de Saint-Martin and others descend into the twilight, it
see this phenomenon of the twilight of the human mind as regards the
himself standing behind a period of twilight, even as regards those
light and meaning come into men's conceptions. This Christian realism
falls on each one of us that quite unique and magic light which gives
trying to arouse conceptions of a still living nature in the twilight
Just as today, we who wish to throw the light of Natural Science on
in the evening twilight; and I also want to approach them now from yet
be able to understand us! Here, however, something comes to light

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enlightened Jews discussed certain questions with the
century. From that time even enlightened Jews became
accounted for in other ways are seen in their true light when
important because it sheds considerable light upon the

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and man in the light of the three principles of body, soul
light of the threefold principle of body, soul and spirit,
slightest interest in philosophical ideas, sees everywhere
presented in such a light that one would scarcely suspect
presented by an enlightened mind such as Aristotle. His
evidence which could throw light upon Aristotle's
enlightened Greeks had already begun in the fifth century
dirges reached their climax, a light shone in the darkness
light of Spiritual Science we find that it bears within it
organism in the light of Spiritual Science we find nothing in
“However much I may desire to enlighten you, the
not the slightest inkling of the inner conflicts with which
centuries before Christ, Aristotle, a most enlightened Greek,

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suggest the presence of an inner light, can never, if rightly
“enlightenment” envisaged Christ Jesus as an
enlightened man. Protestant groups or sects have created an
before mankind had the slightest inkling of it. They knew it
light. Dewar put forward this idea a few years ago in a
terminology is not of the slightest importance — for
approaches nature in the light of the education he has

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in the light of Spiritual Science, the more we realize that
interest in the slightly improper and frivolous passages of
the slightest understanding from those who think along the
be taken to cure them. This is no flight of fancy. Even the
the light ether. Admittedly he assimilates light ether, but
the Scribes, must approach the world in a new light, as
beginning”. Those who, in the light of Spiritual
the Gospels in the light of the Mystery of Golgotha demands

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colour, no light”. To this Goethe replied quite
logically: “It is true that light cannot be perceived
and silent. But, on the other hand, without light there would
be no eye; the eye owes its existence to light, it is formed
by the light for the light. Out of indeterminate organs light
and was therefore delighted with Schelver's theory of
action of light was such that, in the Goethean sense, it was
slightest attempt to probe beneath the surface. I promised to
participates not only in the physical sunlight, but that it
delighted, he said, to see the world go up in flames! This
matter further, some strange facts would come to light. In
Therefore if we really wish to dwell in a world of light

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did not have the slightest inkling of what the coming of
light when we cease to interpret them to suit our
priest-initiates of Troy. It came to light for the first time
Rome. It saw the light of day a second time when it was
will see the light of day a third time when it is transported
events in their true light. And we can only see many of these

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that Julian undertook must be judged in the light of his
describe in detail he lighted upon the idea of utilizing the
light from the forerunners of Constantine. Through his
phosphorescent light. And I spoke of the scientist who
emit a blue light and so on. These ideas are the inevitable
most enlightened minds such as Goethe felt an instinctive
in the light of the Sun, i.e. the spiritual Sun. This is what
slight knowledge — I do not mean of occult facts, but
Mass, or if ritual and dogma are studied in the light of this

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slightest understanding of the inner meaning of those
himself in a new light. But this knowledge made considerable
these enlightened mortals, one may come to the conclusion
particularly enlightened), but in the very air we
historical events in a new and different light.
spread her wings in the twilight’ was valid for ancient

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offer the slightest chance of solving his problem. It is a
and when the light of spiritual life must dawn again. It is
their hearts that this spiritual light is a necessity for our
your own reactions in the light of these words from the pen
contemporary critics, but the author has not the slightest
an abstraction. We shall never see him in the right light
sentiments; but many astonishing things come to light. He

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mankind had not been touched by the light of spiritual
the light that evokes the total mood.
inner experience. Just as we see scattered light when we
gently rub our eyes in the dark, light that seemingly
enlightenment he wrote a superb treatise on this subject. The
evident to the spiritually enlightened that the soul by
light upon what we called the Sun mystery (when speaking of
Aristotle, suffused in light”. Swedenborg spoke of this
alight. But we do not pursue our enquiries far enough in
is typical of the intellectual acumen of our most enlightened
dead, of how the dead dwell in the “Light”. In
“O Light supreme, by mortal
One single spark of all Thy glory's light

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investigation which throw light on this question. Let us try
come to light, especially this winter, which is of great
that today it is too lightly assumed that in former times,
dependent on it caused the spirit to light up within man.
threw its light over the whole culture. Young people were
complete man. This view is certainly not true in the light of
conscientious investigations, it will throw light on many
to light that much of what is happening has its origin in the
peculiarity of present events was like a ray of light helping

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facts. However, they are understood in the light of the old

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light. Today we sense the warmth in our environment; we are
Ahriman, about Light and Darkness, originated from this
not the slightest inkling that the character of the Russian

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from light which is reflected or transmitted through the
must be stressed that reflected light produces emanations
even slightly into the theory of color, he gets a little
the slightest understanding of what anthroposophy is or the
lectures with which Dessoir is slightly acquainted; these
and relentlessly, thus throwing light on the obscure and

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had produced “the evidence” that what lights up
plenty of confusion, and not the slightest possibility of
light up and become directly visible to the eye of the soul,
the light of spiritual science.
Education of the Child in the Light of Spiritual Science.
spiritual science can enlighten us about them.
in the same situation; their spirit's flight is inhibited

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question we must ask is: In the light of spiritual science

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light, let us look at an example which is of significance
by a slight majority. This was in 1890. Lloyd George was just

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throw light on certain basic questions, such as the
light of this general view. Today it is still difficult to
process, as if in a mirror in which light was not thrown back
in the light of the science of the spirit, but also to
evolution is to be understood, if light is to be thrown on

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knowledge alone can enlighten us about them.
explanation in the light of spiritual knowledge, we must make the following
the opening words of St. John's Gospel: “And the Light shineth
by “Fiat Lux” (Let there be light) which were his last words

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of this kind can be enlightening.
and must be brought to light. They delude the unhappy soul of man who
world. Just as here, in the physical world, we need light in order to

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such symbols as that of original sin and the like. Viewed in the light
to man, far too little attention is paid to slight differences, to individual
in the rays of light and color and in other sense perceptions. The reason
of light and color and on wings of sound — do not penetrate our
how these things, which I am now explaining in the light of spiritual
feel a slight pain. Every pain arises when something is exposed to any
has occurred which is felt as a slight pain. If now the heat of the
sun to places particularly sensitive to light.
we cannot lightheartedly distance ourselves from by saying “without

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is like a beacon, throwing its light far and wide, ahead of the one
in the light of a sublime thought such as the one I have just put before
itself brings to light. But we also see all around us other things which
so-called enlightenment which also played a decisive role in the 19th
truth. He rejects what in the age of enlightenment had been seen as

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at the slightest opportunity reel it off at breakneck speed. The writer,

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to light, need mediumistic communications. We are not dealing with this

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light, which is almost as dull as the old clairvoyance was and, when
in a different light from those who cannot do so. Furthermore the spiritual

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which will throw light on Luther's place in history. From the outset
when considering Luther in the light of spiritual science is the enormous
in the fifth post-Atlantean epoch he interpreted in the light of Christianity.
that if in the light of these thoughts you approach what, especially

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light on these profound problems with their far-reaching consequences
them in the light of spiritual science. Anyone with a feeling for reality
between man's intellectual and moral development in the light of spiritual
of experience should at least be able to produce a few enlightened ideas,
ideas that could, in the sense of spiritual science, throw some light
in the least that the person concerned has the slightest inkling of
human morality seen in the light of spiritual knowledge. It is easy
exhibit the corresponding vice. Seen in their true light these things
one. And why? Because at what should be the most enlightened places
for present-day cultural life, the most unenlightened, elementary ideas
1510; at that time it was considered virtuous to climb a very high flight
if the whole flight of steps were climbed on one's knees without getting

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the light of the present situation, woeful as it is, it seems
even if they have only been touched on lightly, you will find
lightly. Concrete examples given as an indication of what was
and looks at our time in the light of the serious truths we

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in the light of this science of theirs. They will analyse

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To take them in we must slightly loosen the etheric and
this would slightly loosen the ether body and the astral
light! This is what is so shameful about it all: The truth

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of Enlightenment in Europe, our present state of mind, or

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instinctive feeling for this in the twilight of the fourth,
right light, such doctrines do not seem entirely wrong. Many
different people shown to be what they are in the light of
own free will. Firstly in the light that the words are an

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or lying down — not only in the world of air and light
modern democracy and an enlightened parliament, three hundred
just imagine what the whole enlightened modern world would say

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I have touched lightly on some of these truths. Just a short
you cannot know if they are heavy or light as air until you
not as light as air, this knowledge has not come from looking
uniformity cannot be justified in the light of the spirit;

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enlightened today are often working with old ideas, without
considered it in the light of reality, that it has been
broke out. It was that in the light of the present world
reasons given by an enlightened group of medical men when the
cast a light on the enormous contrast between West and East?
many protests I made against the precious sweetness and light
coal in the stove, and put in wood and light the fire.’
really shown itself in a very pretty light in Mrs Besant, the

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paint the walls of a room with protein and have enough light
shine like electric light, so that one can read the paper.

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Enlightenment was at its height in the eighteenth century,
and, of course, enlightenment still flourishes today. Really
be nice and warm, yet failing to put in wood and light the
which should really be shown in a clear light.
at several hundred degrees below zero in the light of
from the flight of birds and the entrails of animals. In time
flight of birds and so on.
Greece. Of course, nothing could possibly delight modern
enlightened today are living with entirely unrealistic ideas.
physiology or biology in the light of the spirit, not exactly
things we do in the light of this, we build a place for the
your eyes become seeing eyes in the light of the inner

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in the cosmic order. ‘Enlightenment’, as it was
to be so wise and enlightened, remains at a childish level.
to take delight in stories which represent individual aspects
reality is flight from reality and no longer has anything to

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The Spirits of Light and the Spirits
spirits’, the spirits of light. Fundamentally speaking,
counter-force had to be set up by the spirits of light; this
light to counterbalance the luciferic stream. A weight was
times, when the spirits of light made it their concern to
with blood relationship, which is the stream of light; it is
reversed. The spirits of light who have been continuing in
light have changed their function. They now inspire human
sphere of the good spirits of light, was handed over to the
the authority of the spirits of light; under the authority of

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the progressive spirits of light guided humanity by means of
spirits of light who sent their impulses into human souls
centuries. The spirits of light were using the old measures
drive the impulses of the spirits of light from those human
and need to spread in such a way that the spirits of light
light.
clearer light on the impressive images Goethe has given in
of the progressive spirits of light as time goes on, to
To works which rise into the light,
Will not be told to unenlightened souls;
In the clear light which spirit gives to spirit,

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am referring to the Angels of Light, the normal Angels
period of civilization; according to the wisdom of light, the
of light for its impulses will gradually come to an end. The
and Angels. The normal spirits, the spirits of light, want to
until they are in their 20s; the spirits of light want to
spirits, the spirits of light, that the inner life should
The spirits of light only want us to reach maturity and be
real importance to see certain things in their true light,
light, the matter appears as follows. If you see a
logic. Being thus biased, it has, of course, brought to light
through human evolution, is just slightly over a hundred
certain cloud combination which generates lightning; a
similar combination will again generate lightning. Modern

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light of Spiritual Science can be shed into those regions that lie
that men shall become free enough to be enlightened about certain
meaning suddenly becomes clear in the light of the knowledge that
defeated in the war they waged against the Spirits of Light during
contain subject matter that can be imbibed very light-heartedly and
light up if one asks oneself: “How would it have been if that man

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Psychoanalysis in the Light of Anthroposophy
psychoanalysts bring to light today can be regarded only as an
anthroposophical orientation, and throw light upon it from a
must be placed in the light of anthroposophical knowledge.

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Psychoanalysis in the Light of Anthroposophy
of our examination in order to throw light upon one aspect or
but slightly understood —
reduced by loss of sleep and anxiety. The slightest thing might
light, he longed to have the effects of his work continued, and
darkness and the spirits of light. What Wagner wanted to do for
— what takes place does not bring to light the

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it as sign of religious enlightenment to repudiate ideas presented in
higher Hierarchies. It is considered to be a sign of enlightenment to
“enlightened” Church today, his relationship to the
is so. Protestant theologians who claim to be enlightened and inveigh
This, however, is merely what comes to light in crude, external form.
these machinations are in full swing. You will feel at once that light
in the times to come, he will not be able to see in their right light
proper light, with clarity of thought, with thoughts saturated with
in the proper light — as I tried to present it in the public
of Golgotha. And when man understands Christ Jesus in the light of
Spiritual Science, in the light of true thought, he finds the way to
Post-Atlantean epoch. Only then can light be shed on all the difficult
the Powers of Light, which ended in the sense of the picture of

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those considering themselves enlightened and cultured, not only bring
reading but a sentence that can pierce like lightning into the human
that people will be able to read a newspaper by its light alone,
since so much light will come from the white of an egg; and many
knowledge comes the light that illumines human destiny.

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that when associations are formed under the light of spiritual
to have light on the other side; otherwise everything is dark. For
what is acquired here as wisdom is light over there, spiritual light.
Wisdom is spiritual light. In order that it may not be dark over
concepts, we provide the best means to having no light in the
spiritual world. Without light, one then moves out of the sphere that
necessary so that one may have light after death. After death,
he cannot shed light on a being that takes over a portion of our
again shed light upon it. For wisdom becomes light after death.
that the Russian receives from the earth the light that is first
light about the historical course of humanity, for people want to be
historically lost spiritual science can bring to light. Otherwise
here are wisdom, unfold as light, of reckoning with that light.

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Psycho-Analysis in the Light of Anthroposophy
know and to see in its true light the fact that the fifth

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light had been presented as though one were dealing with the
as I pointed out yesterday. What came to light through the mediums
to light through spiritism. I explained yesterday that it was mostly

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light what they had set on foot, and they were above all
treating everything we perceive in the light of the didactic
They were guided and led in the light of what was to come about
they must be seen — in the light of the great issues

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hopeless. One should not be at all delighted with these utterances;
public, for example, the small brochure, Human Life in the Light of
observe them in the light that can come to you through such ideas. In

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Human Life in the light of Anthroposophy,
of this kind will of necessity come to light and will run their
light that can come from such ideas as those I have been
illusion can one get at the real struggle, but light can be
great deal of light on the present situation. We must really

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the slightest idea what mythological beings they conjure into
lifting of our hand — only with that slight intensity
enlightened, for this is by Professor So-and-so, director of
he is clear about it, now naturally he is enlightened.
this does not come to light so strongly and cannot be
from another. This is the same as if I said: Here is a light
object c. I do not notice the light itself, but merely the
b is lighted from a, and when I see that
lighted from b. This would be quite incorrect, for
do with a; they all receive light from a common
when exposed to light they become luminous and can give light
even when the source of light is removed — suppose that
then b would in truth be lighted by a, and

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and a new birth; we are paralyzed in regard to the light of

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the word “he” is to be read, a ray of light falls

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slightest idea of how the wheels of a clock work together,

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which is looked upon in the present age in the light of
investigate the idea of free will in a full light. It would
many things, if they are looked upon in their true light. For

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the Christmas tree should light up in our hearts an
eternal in the light of the Christmas candles.
— delicate and lively turtle doves, blue birds so light
Christianity has become in this manner a delightful pastorale.
many things about Himself of which not the slightest trace
— not God; He never made the slightest claim to that; He
reading this book (the New Testament) we hover in a twilight of
stands behind the lights of Christmas time. For can humanity
light kindled by wisdom, when he does not merely speak of love
but to act according to their light. Only then is the soul
this light, are done; then this love becomes a concrete thing,
light in which the true deeds of human love are performed. Just

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‘enlightened’ enough to believe in the mere play
of night, they flee the light of day.

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deceit; and that no man is truly enlightened unless he does
the Mystery of Golgotha in the true light, if we recognise in
enlightened theologians of the Roman Catholic Church about
light on his entire World-conception. “The blue of the
taking seriously things which if seen in their true light can

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the Light. Here too, however, as in the case of Fire,
Light.’ ‘The Light’ refers to that which
its language of Light. All astrological Mysteries in ancient
time were in reality Mysteries of Light, — in the
Mysteries of the Stars, the Mysteries of Light — they
Light’ the Star-Mysteries — the East Mysteries,
kinship of the Light and of that which the Light carries down
the less, able to shed its light into deep secrets of the

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Chronos could be brought again to the light of day, and be once more
lightning. If man, like Zeus, could hurl lightning, that is, if he
could inwardly and consciously hurl lightning, then he would use
when they said of Zeus that he could hurl lightning.
Martin still speaks of how thunder and lightning are really
and lightning arise; for lightning and thunder arise, as you can
one cannot find in what is said about lightning and thunder; for the
electricity which comes about through thunder and lightning! But if
had something to do with lightning and thunder.

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events in the atmosphere. (Today there are still slight remains of
being saw or felt before puberty the Light-Imaginations within the
environment the Light-Imaginations in the air up to the time of
the air was everywhere filled with Light phenomena; for the grown
was at the same time the bearer, the mother, of light. He knew that
strength to express the Light-Imaginations; the air has — one
Re-establishment of the National in the Light of the Sex-Problem’.

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world of the Greek Gods. We have lightly touched upon the inner
the second, the Zarathustra, the Old Persian epoch will light up, and
the original Indian epoch will light up again. That is a law in the

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not the slightest sense, and so by way of illustration a portion of
their true light then we can say: when the sun rose in the Spring it
the post-Atlantean world-conception which have come to light are
the one hand to the Light-nature, on the other hand to the
friends, merely to skim lightly over things.
wiped with dry cloths — issues the lightning — and so

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so-called Enlightenment, the atheistic Enlightenment of the 18th
utterly honest conviction. And he was in no slight degree a keen
again and again even in the most enlightened minds the illusion crops

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has but a slight feeling for what is taking place at the present
Christ-Jesus. On the other hand there is the quite delightful, really
it to have been lightly spoken if I have once again stressed the fact
understood and they must not be taken lightly. They can only be

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speaking lightly — that everyone has his own head. Man
for us now to consider a fact which can only be brought to light
all!) ‘among us who so delight in a “separate peace”

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and its fruition can only be studied in light of cosmic evolution.
cognition, should be taken very earnestly. People lightly reproach

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comes to light in the spherical form of his head, on the other, he is
light. We acquire knowledge, perception; it gradually comes to us.
slight contribution to the psychology of Johannes Müller, so

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the soul and is illumined by the light of the concepts, but it is a
could throw light upon the nature of his feeling and impulses of
older people, those dying in the twilight of their life. There is a
relations to the dead appear in the light of Spiritual Science, if we
light, these things will be lifted out of the abstract. For instance,
the spiritual life of the West in the twilight of the ninth century.
life, will only be seen in the right light when a true consciousness

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It is very simple to lightly overlook

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by the astral lotus flowers, and their light extends from space into
light of the lotus flowers. A sense of humour is useful in Spiritual
— and in similar cases — it only comes to light in an
impulses and inclinations — but what in her case came to light
came to light in this way in her case rested upon the fact that this
‘Nature and her Riddles in the Light of Spiritual Research’
significance when examined in the light of Spiritual Science. It
our lotus-flower organisation as a light going from us — and
this light extends very far. It passes over into time, it does not
a light before him in such a way that it passes into time, a
continuous light which extends far beyond death. Throughout life
light.
a searchlight. This must not be imagined spatially but in time. A man
is as though he were roused by a searchlight which shines far out,
rebirth, when that light already mentioned is discerned step by step.

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perception of what I described as the ‘light’ which is
— even to the slightest detail — and to think as one
our conscious concepts as is a weak light by a stronger. We can, as
superlative. There is, of course, not the slightest reason why it

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light from a certain side upon something which the lower soul always
may see in the right light the fact that the soul needs something

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Indians. But you should not picture this crudely, but in slight
works through light. In the vibrating light the nation-spirit
must say ‘the nation-spirit works through the light’ —
the light vibrating to-wards us; he works through the light shining
down into the ground, and reflected back by it. It is this light
East he works through the light. The light that streams back from the
detour through light.
partly still works through the light taken up by the ground and
well through something that is no longer light, that is indeed not
it depends mainly upon the greater or slighter activity of the
East and America becomes most evident. Light, and even what lies
beyond light in the ethereal, is what the nation-spirit uses in the
East to approach man, although this light shines back from the earth;

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work in the Russian Slavonic element through the light. In actual
of light. When once that which in the future will grow up in the West
although I must say that the Folk-Spirit works through the light, yet
the curious thing is that it does not work directly through the light
vibrating on to men, look through the light which is first sunk into
the ground and is then reflected back thence. This light which rises
light. The light streaming back from the ground is there the medium
of the light. What comes out in the Near East has presence to a still
also partly through the light which is taken up and reflected from
which is no longer light, and is indeed not visible at all: the
lightly over everything, develops less warmth of his own. This
light, and even to what lies above the light in the etheric, is the
man, even if it be reflected light from the earth; the subterranean

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different light, thinks Herman Grimm. Man would get to know every
light-aura becomes transparent, and the dark of the earth vanishes.

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lighted up the room from one point and look at it from there, this
turn out the light and make the room quite dark and touch everything
light, one who stands there has this view, and another who
certain ideal of natural science would be to turn out the light and
“turn the light” on to that. Thus the different points of
another light.” That was the fancy of Hermann Grimm.‘Man would
throw a deal of light on the way in which man can determine, by what
golden light on the one side, and the yellowish-red flashing on the
from external view, the aura of light becomes transparent, and the

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arrogance, all the self-conceit which comes to light at
the light to me; the light comes into the eye, and in that
slightly vexed or pleased by the beautiful or ugly
lightly: “Must I indeed except such complicated ideas
that reason they go so willingly to lime-light lectures, or

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within the human physical soul life. I need not enlighten you
put them in a false light. For centuries our social structure
the mirror, or that in the dim light he takes his own
according to the principle of Archimedes becomes lighter than

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were to allow Wagner to appear in slightly altered form but

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is not so very great, but there is a slight variation.

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correspondence came to light. In the carvings there are, of
f or the lighter parts. Such is the substructure of the
artistically intended, but complete only with the sunlight.
union with the sunlight which shines through, streaming from
conjunction of light and glass-etching there arises for the
vegetable substances which have their own light-force, to
produce the light-force necessary for the painting, of these
physical shape, which is drawn with light and shade,
according to the source of light. In the aura we have to do
the slightly hollowed rock stands the chief figure. Above the
lightning. The form of a spiritual being chances from moment
in slight indications; in it one can see how an asymmetry

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certain very enlightened circles amongst the English and
light of present events the tales about the Roman Empire of

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must do, in the light of the conclusions of spiritual
“enlightened” supposing that to understand their
the “enlightened”, not the mystical side),

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I have set forth, would bring enlightenment. A sudden light
them, a sudden light breaks in.
light the laws and the rules of method.”

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light through what has happened on the earth?” One has
to turn away from abstract ideas and say: “Daylight has
the Earth one sees the reason for the daylight. Similarly, if
can be understood only in this light. The peoples of the

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claim to be the most enlightened. They welcome only a will
earth. Everything, therefore, which enlightened spirits had
solutions as not to be lightly contented with what is so

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that there the slightest deed that man does, even if he only barely
cannot barely touch something, cannot make even the slightest
are not experienced in the light of consciousness that lives in the

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sleep, we shall find they shed great light on the spiritual world. In
the window through which light is pouring; you should remain a little
moment of waking not immediately to come into the bright daylight but
The sudden brightness of daylight is disturbing. In the cities, of
by the daylight but also even before waking by the noise of the
of the spiritual world, one realisation at least will light up for us

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they shed great light on the spiritual world. In remote country
immediately to go to the window through which light is
to come at once into the bright daylight but to remain inwardly
sudden brightness of daylight is disturbing. In the cities, of
not only by the daylight but also even before waking by the
world, one realisation at least will light up in us out of the

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events happen without taking the slightest interest in them, without
inevitable development in the evolution of humanity. Light cannot be
to survey your life and you will find in it some event of slight or

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glimpse its meaning, as far as He had enlightened them.
man's soul-life in the light of modern Spiritual Science, we
epoch, viewed in the light of Spiritual Science, began in the
judged only in the light of what takes place on the physical
enlightened about the Mystery of Golgotha, but that it should

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an impression on being brought to light — my dear friends, they buzz around us! I know that
that refuses to make a flight to the spiritual, is condemned in all circumstances to be narrow
can find them anywhere, these ornaments and lights of science, who at the same time are quite
the end of the eighties was counted a shining light in science at the Petersburg laboratory...
Such facts certainly like a flash of lightning illumine things that are working at the present
shining light in science, full of productive ideas in chemistry with a medal — a very rare

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simply upon the inner light of man's soul-and-spirit stretching out into the darkness. What is
spiritual element. Everything here (yellow) is what might be called finely woven light. Were I
obliged to show where this finely woven light is in man, I should have to go to what I have been
spirit light. This has no very strong connection with earthly matter; it has as little connection

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connections, to enlighten himself about the impulses, the
light on what is necessity, it is natural that one should
you can see in the way of stars, light-phenomena; see what

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incarnation. That is indeed so. There is always a slight
light of of ordinary consciousness.
we dream of this middle man. But when we bring to light
consciousness seven senses lie in the light (above in diagram
lying in the light, in what is accessible to the ordinary
light side and five for the dark: Scorpion, Archer, Goat,
of the ideals of the age of enlightenment to that of the

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life must receive enlightenment when we can really get down
effect as going through floods of light. But when we came
behind there is what is called soul-light (yellow in diagram
8). To a certain extent attached to this soul-light, pressing
soul-spiritual lights up and, from the other side, penetrates
his aura with light. And just as man is able to acquires a
the light. This light is that of the Sun, the original light

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life of the twilight of the 4th Post Atlantean epoch with
see from the quotes I have quoted, he lived in the twilight of
dualism, between Darkness and Light, Evil and Good; that which
perceptions, from which radiated all the light which rules in
the twilight of the age of St. Augustine, has to admit:
reach a concept of the world able to throw light on human
of Cosmology by saying, when the Moonlight falls on the Earth,
on what is represented through this light, depends
turned to the reflected sunlight, that is, to the Moon,
specially significant figure in the twilight of the 4th
representative of the twilight of the 4th Post Atlantean age,
few historical lights before you to-day, on which we can then
told you St. Augustine takes his stand in the twilight of the

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life of the twilight of the 4th Post-Atlantean epoch with
twilight of the 4th Post-Atlantean epoch which came to an end
polarity, an everlasting dualism, between Darkness and Light,
perceptions, from which radiated all the light which rules in
twilight of the age of St. Augustine, has to admit: “No
reach a concept of the world able to throw light on human
of Cosmology by saying: when the Moonlight falls on the Earth,
on what is represented through this light, depends everything
reflected sunlight, that is, to the Moon, whenever the
specially significant figure in the twilight of the 4th
representative of the twilight of the 4th Post-Atlantean age,
few historical lights before you to-day, on which we can then
told you St. Augustine takes his stand in the twilight of the

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Education of the Child in the Light of Anthroposophy

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in opposition to positive electricity, or as darkness to light, And
previously in that lecture all that throws light on the Ahrimanic and
rather darken understanding than shed light But what does this amount
Rome in the light of the dogma of Infallibility, then a powerful dam

Title: Three Streams: Lecture II: The Fifth Epoch, Semitic and Greek Cultures, the Christ Impulse
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decreases, becomes very slight, and disappears entirely in the
slight ascendancy; they were then particularly strong. And since the
moonlight lovers still stroll and sentimentally dream; in the
moonlight imagination grows and flourishes; moonlight is like
twilight — and poetry written in that key, both true and false,
moonlight, the men of old had, but much more intensely, when on
of the sunlight; they said something like this: “Out of
us with warmth and light, making of each one of us a

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decreases, becomes very slight, and disappears entirely in the
slight ascendancy; they were then particularly strong. And since the
moonlight lovers still stroll and sentimentally dream; in the
moonlight imagination grows and flourishes; moonlight is like
twilight — and poetry written in that key, both true and false,
moonlight, the men of old had, but much more intensely, when on
of the sunlight; they said something like this: “Out of
us with warmth and light, making of each one of us a

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— “I believe because it is absurd,” because no light
suited to spread light over the Mystery of Golgotha from another
people without seeing all that we are studying in the light of
light, but seeing them as a physically perceptible fact in a
super-sensible light; only when we relate them to the super-sensible
light we decline to fit them into a moral
“As souls approaching death we want to take flight to Lucifer,
shows us death and birth in a false light shall we reach the truth
mean? It really means putting a matter in the light where repose the
in a false light by human beings to-day.

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— “I believe because it is absurd,” because no light
suited to spread light over the Mystery of Golgotha from another
people without seeing all that we are studying in the light of
light, but seeing them as a physically perceptible fact in a
supersensible light; only when we relate them to the supersensible
light we decline to fit them into a moral
“As souls approaching death we want to take flight to Lucifer,
shows us death and birth in a false light shall we reach the truth
mean? It really means putting a matter in the light where repose the
in a false light by human beings to-day.

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enlighten ourselves from the most varied aspects concerning man's own
modern, self-satisfied men, enlightened, clever men, out of our consciousness
to be enlightened about such matters — to become conscious of
translated by Bishop Lightfoot. In the Introduction to this collection
always given light from various directions. You know we have to do
light in some sphere or other, and you told him about a matter of

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enlighten ourselves from the most varied aspects concerning man's own
modern, self-satisfied men, enlightened, clever men, out of our consciousness
to be enlightened about such matters — to become conscious of
translated by Bishop Lightfoot. In the Introduction to this collection
always given light from various directions. You know we have to do
light in some sphere or other, and you told him about a matter of

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all that is full of light, all that is full of shadow in this epoch
— all this is meant to serve the purpose of enlightening man
they then throw light on the most important matters. Here in life
connections that light comes.
schools which were the shining light of antiquity. So all the
Aristotelian concepts were imbued with an Arabian light, thrown over
and rose to actual perception. And so, in the light of this
we be looking for? Is there anything in nature itself to enlighten us? Yes,
tremendous harm could be done, if it were not developed in the light

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all that is full of light, all that is full of shadow in this epoch
— all this is meant to serve the purpose of enlightening man
they then throw light on the most important matters. Here in life
connections that light comes.
schools which were the shining light of antiquity. So all the
Aristotelian concepts were imbued with an Arabian light, thrown over
and rose to actual perception. And so, in the light of this
we be looking for? Is there anything in nature itself to enlighten us? Yes,
tremendous harm could be done, if it were not developed in the light

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since that time may not be seen in its true light: we need only
spoken out of the warmth and light of the soul — even if spoken
but an event that will come to men as a kind of enlightenment,
contemplation of nature in this light there will spring a feeling for

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since that time may not be seen in its true light: we need only
spoken out of the warmth and light of the soul — even if spoken
but an event that will come to men as a kind of enlightenment,
contemplation of nature in this light there will spring a feeling for

Title: Symptom 2 Reality: Lecture I: The Birth of the Consciousness Soul
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they are studied in their true light.
a trend that to some extent only came to light in a typically
without the slightest notion of his financial resources, a

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slightly different terminology.
enlightenment, in the nineteenth as the struggle for
attempted to throw light upon the future course of European

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true light. When we bear in mind the importance of these
in the light of super-sensible knowledge which is so necessary

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refused to make the slightest effort to develop a positive
bourgeois has not the slightest interest in deeper
slightest notion what it means. When they perceive something
throw a flood of light upon the deepest mysteries of life. We
just described throws light upon an important fact of man's

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of summer lightning, are harbingers of quite other things
that are destined to overtake mankind — lightning
different light. Today, when a little over a fifth of the
man who has not the slightest desire to accept these new
subject on which I have been asked to speak. In the light of

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he belonged to those elements who provided a delightful
delighted to learn, in jest of course, that perhaps after all
view, threw light upon what is, and what is not, the true
is simply a narrow-minded genius.’ Hartleben was delighted;
and he was delighted with many other things I said the same
one dares to say that) — then light would
establishment would signify for the world, then the light
which many seek today would lighten the prevailing darkness

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we are gradually led, in the light of the facts, if we
throw light on this situation from the standpoint of a young
marks, but of course one had not the slightest idea of the
Luther did not have the slightest influence on Goethe;
positions persist; not even the slightest attempt was made to
In the light of
light-weight. I could give many examples of this. But one

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We have attempted so far to throw light
today in the domain of the official sciences are light-years
itself, also sought enlightenment upon the personality of
that they do not bear the slightest resemblance to the

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Christ impulse. One need only be slightly mentally
the God, to the idea of whom enlightened thinking leads, the
to show that in reality all men, the more enlightened men,
clash between two things which never had the slightest
when it attacks someone. Socialism has not the slightest
‘light’ by awakening that which dwells in their hearts and
their inmost souls? Must they then come to the ‘light’

Title: Challenge/Times: Lecture I: East and West from a Spiritual Point of View
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to discuss it in any merely theoretical way. In the light of
brings to light.
the light that comes from the other side of the threshold.
must be viewed in the light of super-sensible consciousness if
medicine. Otherwise we shall never bring to light in the
viewed in this light.
out toward Wilhelmshohe, in order to enlighten the Kaiser.
in a clear light. The same phenomenon is common at the

Title: Challenge/Times: Lecture II: The Present from the Viewpoint of the Present
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viewed in a serious light.
light, this can happen only by means of spiritual science.

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these reflections has been to cast light upon the form that
viewed in the light of what underlies them. It is most of all
throw some light upon these things from beyond the threshold.
in Trieste, the good Rector Kaltenbrunner, in the light of

Title: Challenge/Times: Lecture IV: Social and Antisocial Instincts
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necessarily upon illusions. It is in the light of this
considered in the light of the presuppositions of spiritual
that can cast light upon the question as to how we stand in
between people must be viewed in the light of the impelling
in the light of the love that plays its role in greater or
delighted to have a confirmation of the point of view he
whole world in the light of its spiritual foundations. These

Title: Challenge/Times: Lecture V: Specters of the Old Testament in the Nationalism of the Present
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essential nature when the light of the spirit self shall dawn
expression goes, he first beheld the light of the world, when

Title: Challenge/Times: Lecture VI: The Innate Capacities of the Nations of the World
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light today as a social demand, constitutes in a certain way
in the light of the most important European differentiations
this knowledge that comes to light in those societies. Most
the past but is like a flash of heat lightning betokening the
vanguard, the heat lightning portending what is in course of
preparation. They signify in some way the heat lightning of
toward the East is brought into contact, heat lightning
side, which are in a certain way full of light. He does not

Title: Lecture: Social and Anti-social Forces In The Human Being
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himself, of lifting into the full light of consciousness much of that
light there is no room for pessimism — indeed it leaves you no time

Title: Fundamental Social Demand: Lecture 1
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question which Malthus brings to light, and the view which he
evolved under the influence of this flight from the spirit,
would fain take flight. It will be one of the most essential
things for modern man to overcome this instinct of flight. At

Title: Fundamental Social Demand: Lecture 2
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consciousness. What comes to light on the path of
truth consists. Today men ask so lightly: can this or
this light can that be understood to which I directed your
there is not the slightest possibility of your drawing even
it in the light in which I shall now place it.
throwing real light on the peculiar circumstances which the

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the present time are to be judged and considered in the light
on many things, need not be an enlightened man. But the
Party,” who say that this faith in enlightenment of
to be a wide-awake and enlightened man, has been suppressed
through, even when it happens in the light that is
and innocence as such has not the slightest meaning. I told
pass it over quite so lightly.
enlightenment concerning the religious needs of mankind with

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Spirits of Light, the Spirits of Personality. But over
that they possess extraordinarily clear and enlightened
would find that their “clear and enlightened

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people think. We have tried to throw light on the
gray ignorance persisted in a sense. It does enlighten us, my
enlightened man of today needs to be clear about these
said, we have no reason to comfort ourselves too lightly
Earth-existence. Seen in this light, a question fraught with
things lightly or superficially. True as it is, it is
of Christianity has only entered to a slight extent as yet.

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light for man's thought, content filled with power for the
revelations will cast a new light upon the Christmas thought;
before he beheld the light of the world.
life in the light of this thought, you cannot enter into the
conception stands there like a mighty pillar of light amid the
comes to light in the world — bearing mankind forward,
evolution in their true light.
other men. The light of Christmas, or the Christmas candles,
different light when humanity shall have been permeated
illuminated by the light which comes from the Christmas
light of the Christ who ensouled this Child; that all
will from this understanding, and light for our life of
feeling should be such that the power and the light of this
teaches us and gives us light regarding the Christmas thought,
in our epoch, as this event becomes a light and a power in our
He abides to give us light amid our darkness and helplessness

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revelations will cast new light upon Christmas, so that gradually it
he saw the light of the physical world.
it by these words: “Unless you live your life in the light of
of light within the Christian world.
for their entrance into evolution in their true light.
that are distinguishing him from other men. The light of Christmas,
will be seen in a different light when mankind has become permeated
illuminated by the light coming from the Christmas tree!”
we possess within the light of the Christ who ensouled this Child. All
our will from this understanding, and light for our life of thought.
to his thinking. And his feeling should support the power and light
language as He teaches and enlightens and empowers us through the thought
within us in this epoch, as it becomes a light and a power in our soul
— the eternal Light and eternal Power entering into time —
light for our darkness and helplessness, through the impulses coming

Title: How Can Mankind Find Christ Again?: Lecture 2
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a new light. When we consider the general course of development of an
itself, viewed in the light of Christmas thought.
from the light. It will be mankind's task from this present time
light in the right way.
Again the shadow must be distinguished from the light. Just as the shadow
in the churches generally, must be distinguished from the light shining
becomes the shadow of itself. And the shadow is not the light; it may
the shadows to the light.
recent years, surely cannot help wondering whether some sort of light
way from those lights which most people still wish to regard as the
to the light. For the shadows will assert themselves. They will become
today among men, will feel an impulse to seek the light. He should attach
even today's darkness with its lights. Whoever is pure in heart
illuminated anew by the Christmas light. This is the real aim of our
light, so that the Jesus Child, Who entered the world first to work
currents of humanity. People will not understand the light that this
spiritual science wants to recognize as its Christmas light unless they
the Christmas light. The light is truly small, and he who professes
dimly to become brighter. But even though the light is weak, it shines
evolution. The light illumines what we may call the birth of Christianity,

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These are indeed slight shades of differences; but happy is he in whom
on the one hand, not the slightest idea of what this Gnosis actually
studied with spiritual scientific methods, you will find a certain light
they are brought to light more abundantly in the pagan Gnosis than in
such a person has not the slightest idea how little imagination a primitive
so, in Augustine there appeared the first dawning light of what had
light in humanity. One finds it, for instance, in the Confessions
light of the supersensible world, and the fanaticism that then developed

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throws no light whatever upon it. In earlier times the human being could
that is real. The condition of soul in which an individual sought enlightenment
hours of sunlight, as consisting only of three hours. For the outer
the higher members of man's nature. I do not say that the enlightened
outer world. This appeared to him then in the right light only after
Egyptian was. But in the light of real knowledge, that is nonsense,
within himself that Being Who became the Light-of-the-World Being. When

Title: How Can Mankind Find Christ Again?: Lecture 5
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a way that the slightest idea of it is beyond the understanding of
that reflects light, with some black spots on it that do not reflect
the light, you see the black spots too, even though they do not reflect
the light. Similarly, if you follow your life in retrospect, not only
thought that fancies itself so enlightened? My dear friends, it is merely
to external mathematics; it can even shed light on many things —

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he can do so only slightly. There his being mingles with the outer world,
went out beyond them. He was now prepared to receive enlightenment about
had enlightened him about them while he was in the sense world was useless
the light of his ordinary consciousness, even though he may not be able
of man in the light of initiation science, it is even possible to present
remarkable comes to light. We see that the kind of thinking those persons

Title: How Can Mankind Find Christ Again?: Lecture 7
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of light may fall upon feelings that made our life seem more or less
illusion. It confronts us when we reflect upon all that lights up our
light out of our will. This again has another speed. When we consider
in life, to painting ideals so full of light for the future that they
their lights. Country roads are in terrible condition, woods have been
A true perspective of the new year can only be experienced in the light

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A ray of light illumines
this can only be a real interest if we let the light of spiritual science
we do so we cannot find a gleam of light, we can only succumb to Rathenau's
our intelligence to follow them; we don't have to form the slightest
in a very strange light. They write of human love, of Christianity,
With that kind of attitude, the people feel not the slightest necessity

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shining lights of protestant theology in Berlin strictly speaking in
years! And just look at what comes to light through animals in the way

Title: Goetheanism as an Impulse for Man's Transformation - Lecture II: St. John of the Cross
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actual lack of significance in the light of the greater demands of the
delights.”
no longer the light. It is really very beautiful how John of the Cross

Title: Goetheanism as an Impulse for Man's Transformation - Lecture III: Clairvoyant Vision Looks at Mineral, Plant, Animal, Man
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of such a nature that they can throw light, it may be said, from another
in the coherence, of the thinking, enlighten you about their being,
What in this way man begins rightly today enlightens him up to the stage
because he will then have the necessary strength of thought to enlighten
himself concerning man's life. For where this enlightenment about man's

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still more lightly. When such things are spoken of it must always be
In this way when we are sleeping our consciousness as a man is slight.
related to our real experiences in the same way as the sunlight, that
is related to the actual sunlight streaming towards us from the sun
overhead. Look at the stone the sunlight falls upon; you are able to
look at the stone, your eyes can bear the reflected, thrown back light.
reality with our environment has the strength of the sunlight, and what
the weakened form which the weakened light of an object reflected back
to us has of the strength of the real sunlight. In our innermost man
look at the softened down light of the sun because direct sunlight blinds
as things would be experienced in streaming sunlight but in light thrown
back from objects, light that no longer blinds the eyes. You can gather
cannot endure, you have the feeling you are in sunlight as if you really
would live with the sunlight. And in the actual experience, in the actual
practical experience there is indeed a very concentrated sunlight.
fact rightly grasped only when seen in the light flowing from this knowledge.
of what lights up in every man out of the eternal. We can have the same
relation to what lights up in every man out of the eternal, as we can
light up in human beings, when we see it is necessary we shall punish,
For let us not forget this—that thinkers looked upon as very enlightened

Title: Goetheanism as an Impulse for Man's Transformation - Lecture 5: Paganism, Hebraism, and the Greek Spirit, Hellenism
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one thing stands out concerning him that lights forth from the rest
of stones and bits of rock representing nature's processes, lights a
pastille from the direct light of the sun through a burning-glass and

Title: Goetheanism as an Impulse for Man's Transformation - Lecture 6: Goetheanism as an Impulse for Man's Transformation
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to feel what a delightful and precious personality has left us if one
slightest suggestion, of what lived in Goethe's soul—but merely
to throw light on to the fairy tale from the standpoint of Spiritual

Title: Lecture: A Turning-Point in Modern History
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the social life of the present in the light of our recent studies of
enlightened spirit — and today it is quite impossible. If

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the facts, throwing light upon reality.

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you to see that the following explanations throw light upon things only
be able to throw light on the four points which I have designated as

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to bring light and order into these things.
in a fearful darkness; light can fall upon it only if men overcome their
Light in thy spirit,

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of historic import, not to be lightly swept aside. The failure of the

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life too lightly. However strange and paradoxical it may seem, this
directly practical. It sheds light on the life around us, and at the
present time men have no other possibility of getting light on the real
Movement should let the light of their understanding ray out to others;

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Marx himself throws great light on certain aspects of this matter. Speaking
light in all this, it is all horrible! — Nevertheless it is our
the right light, and then a quite different shade of meaning is revealed.
to throw light for you on things of contemporary history. I have it

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a few moments the light effect may be suite different. In my desire
light not to come in from outside! This building points to all that

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The fact brought to light by the subject of our observations was that,
to reading the newspaper or light literature, and having perhaps some

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in her, in the light, in warmth, and in other forces, that of gravity

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observation of actual life, people pass lightly over all
of light and sound, but to speak of what illumines, of what
of light falling into a dark room which is blue-black except
light” I have in mind a dark room into which fall
bright rays of light. For how many people is it the case
spirit enlighten him in the right way, that is, when he is

Title: Social Question as a Problem: Lecture II: The Inner Experience of Language
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ate anything how much light he took into himself along with
it — son was ready to give up its light and in eating
food light was also eaten — everyone felt how much
light he was taking in: this feeling was an experience in
reality that comes to light in the overpowering human

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(1751-80) [identified with the rationalism of the Enlightenment],

Title: Lecture: Spiritual Emptiness and Social Life
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always had such high regard and whose ideas were able to shed light
light of the spirit! This is an impulse which must take effect in our
its light. Until the time of Goethe, men protected themselves against
significance than is usually supposed, for it sheds light upon the
that transpires while you see, hear, smell, taste, is light in the
cosmos, the radiation of light into the cosmos. From your seeing, from
have lost all spirituality — as bright, shining light raying out into

Title: Lecture: Social Understanding Through Spiritual Scientific Knowledge
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Education of the Child in the Light of Anthroposophy

Title: Lecture: Cosmogony, Freedom, Altruism
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see the old Asiatic spirit lighting up again in recent years.

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Asia, we can see the old Asiatic spirit lighting up again in

Title: Cosmogony/Freedom/Altruism: Lecture II: A Different Way of Thinking is Needed to Rescue European Civilization
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imperative that the light should shine in upon our whole life

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we examine, not by the light of illusion, but by the light of
had to do on earth in the light of this cosmology When one says
know that my eye sees the light, so I know that my intelligence
threads in our life who have learnt to read it by the light of

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to bring to light, it will be obvious that here we have to do with a
working for his future incarnation must be brought to light.
lifted into the full light of consciousness. Average citizens, who
light of such knowledge just think what would have to be said

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endeavouring to bring to light, it will be obvious that here
to light.
lifted into the full light of consciousness. The average
difficult to say these things to-day, for in the light of

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a piece of paper and set it alight. Vapors begin to rise from the
vapors lies in the physical process generated by the lighting of the
paper. In this case, the physical process is that by lighting the
normal air-pressure and this is diminished by setting light to the
(points in the diagram), a piece of paper is set alight. This shows
— do not represent pieces of paper that have been set alight;
not think now of the pieces of lighted paper, but of something else
intelligence which at a distance appears as light. If
as a light effect or something similar — they would detect what
impulses also light up in people is admitted but nothing is known
— and on the other hand have to admit that moral impulses light
to come down to the earth and observe it in the light of
concrete realities which must be brought to light again through
manifestations — in thunder and lightning. It is, of

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vapour if you take a piece of paper and set it alight.
physical process generated by the lighting of the paper. In
this case, the physical process is that by lighting the paper
setting light to the paper. If I merely want to give an
the diagram), a piece of paper is set alight. This shows you
have been set alight; in this instance they represent
think now of the pieces of lighted paper, but of something
light. If an inhabitant of the Moon — supposing in
— also perceiving it as a light effect or something
moral impulses also light up in man is admitted but nothing
moral impulses light up in man. That is the reason why Kant
it in the light of his premises. — I am not
must be brought to light again through spiritual intuition
thunder and lightning. It is, of course, a pictorial

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look at facts in their true light. To-day the tendency exists

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in the light of the knowledge that we have to battle for the wisdom
them away from the light they need. What is essential is that from
must be understood in the light of these facts. One who presents
through modern psychology you would not find the slightest trace of

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be understood in the light of the knowledge that we have to
into stupor and draw them away from the light they need. What
of humanity must be understood in the light of these facts.
slightest trace of any attempt to get to the root of these

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Jagow spoke at that time before the enlightened assembly
realized that the light from Spiritual Science alone can
slightly, then, has the spiritual life been valued that
human thought speeds like lightning over the widest
were not seeing sunlight except on Sunday, for the reason

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entity. Except for slight distinctions that arise through
spiritual-scientist such important enlightenment as to
lustre over life here by letting in the light from the

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aide of another so that one will throw light on another.
new light streams upon the whole being of man. We know it

Title: Social Basis For Primary and Secondary Education: Lecture I
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title The Light Bearer. This light bearer is admirably adapted to
a symptom that sheds light on this light bearer, sheds light on the

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means of the light gained from these things, we can illuminate
necessary today is for a light to be kindled in those who are responsible
but that it tickled his vanity; he delighted in such displays.
has to remain in the light of this petty habit of thinking, this petty

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faced by our inner judgment without the slightest concession. — If

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spirit of middle Europe has in its enlightened
for instance, that has actually come to light, in a
slightest understanding for it. Education has not yet

Title: Necessity for Spiritual Knowledge: Lecture 1
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not lightly dismissed with a few words. It must be quietly
this mean when grasped in the light of reality? Let us put it

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processes.” When something lights up and they speak of
must not be lightly uttered. But when someone comes and

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more lulling to sleep than an enlightening influence an men.
13th, and 14th years are told that lightning comes from
earthly replica of the lightning, it is found necessary to
when the lightning originates, is removed and yet the
lightning is the same phenomena as the electric spark!
problem which must be understood in the light of the very

Title: Inner Aspect of the Social Question: Lecture I
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In the light of
kingdoms of Nature — if we contemplate all this in the light of
everything is destined to be brought into the light of consciousness.

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organism presents itself in the light of spiritual science. Its
distinguished the three social spheres, in the light of spiritual
erroneous — the more light he receives into his own thinking
light of my responsibility towards the super-sensible spiritual world?
Can I justify it in the light of my knowledge that everything I do

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light of consciousness, the most variously-minded people have tried
the light that is able to illuminate physical reality, so that this
super-sensible world, and also visions which throw light on external
social order of ours which has developed in the light — or,
seen any longer in the right light. I have often pointed out how in
looks at things, that he is seeing them in the light of the spirit.
light of the spirit, and not merely keep on talking about the

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beside throw a strong light on our whole age. The present times can
must receive the light of the spirit through a free, inner
realise that we must let our life be penetrated by the light of

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time of the Mystery of Golgotha, an impressive wisdom shedding light
light and color! You will not understand it if you do not realize its
how many people struggle to the point of really shedding light in
enlightened man, one who followed modern religious development — at

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can be understood only if light is thrown by spiritual science upon
passed, figuratively speaking, into a period of twilight. A certain
less dim, twilight consciousness. In Asia and the then-known world,
remarkable came to light. It became evident — and there is no
in the light of spiritual science. But these deeper interpretations
Gospels in the light of spiritual science is essential today,
light of the truths enshrined in the Gospels. Many people, of course,
and that light must penetrate again into this chaos.
in the light that will dawn if they are taken in the earnest spirit

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civilisations can be understood only if light is thrown by
twilight. A certain dimness, a certain lethargy, spread over
existence pervaded by a more or less dim, twilight
remarkable came to light. It became evident and there is no
movement to study the Gospels in the light of spiritual
understanding of the Gospels in the light of spiritual
Golgotha in the light of the truths enshrined in the Gospels.
above the other, have created chaos, and that light must
should be seen in the light that will dawn if they are taken

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of the Bible we do not read: God sent a ray of light to man and
of light streaming down from sun and stars upon the earth, but if he
stethoscope, which we cut up, and of which we have not the slightest

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We speak lightly of the fact that we, as physical human beings, live
we are in the position to see these things in the right light, that
be a flight from reality. He must, boldly and courageously, confront
bath, discovered that he became lighter, and he was so pleased about
upward. Not by our brain being heavy, but by our brain being lighter

Title: Mission of Michael: Lecture IV: The Culture of the Mysteries and the Michael Impulse.
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their proper light, for our historical considerations do not reach

Title: Mission of Michael: Lecture V: The Michael Deed and the Michael Influence as Counter-pole of the Ahrimanic Influence
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enlightened spirit of the time of Dante, indeed, for the most

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is to interpret the things of the world as various shades of light,
the permeation of everything perceptible with light and its
benevolent and kind was experienced as a light, bright human being,
exist in his world of light and shadow. For him, the world was a world
of light and shadow; and in the world of tones, certain timbres of
sounding he designated as light, bright, and certain other timbres of
itself through this element of light and darkness constituted for him
this process of reception of the light impression and its eventual
become a certainty for us that with every ray of light, with every
so must it become self-evident for us to think of light as
ensouled; we must arouse this ability in us when we consider light the
with the habit of seeing in light that which our materialistic age is
space upon the pinions of light; and we must realize, at the same
which approaches mankind today through light approached mankind of
Light-soul-process. This is what may be observed in the
entered the light which embraces us from morning to evening. This was
the earth. Thus, also from the soul-spiritual aspect, air and light
light in the same manner, purely materially, throughout the millennia
in which Earth evolution unfolded. Air and light have changed
inwardly. We live in an atmosphere and in a light sphere that are
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environment. By following this interplay, we can throw a light on many
connections is nowhere within the scope of the ‘enlightened’
law. Our children's minds would be in a sorry plight if we did! What
the sun light goes out in all directions, just as from any other
source of light. And you will find that wherever people follow this
diffusion of light with mathematical ideas, they will say: You see,
the light spreads out and out into the infinite, and then — why
it returns to its source in a changed form. The sunlight does not go
light, but as something else. None the less, it does return.
So it is in reality with every form of light. And so it is with every

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The Mysteries of Light, of Space, and of the Earth
The Mysteries of Light, of Space,
what we say there is not the slightest impulsive force to control in
so-called enlightened philosopher of our day; the real underlying
This fact had first to be brought to light. If man
principles — which today are placed in a very false light under

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The Mysteries of Light, of Space, and of the Earth
Middle Ages had something which can be understood only in the light
a locomotive, or makes a telephone or a lightning conductor or a

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The Mysteries of Light, of Space, and of the Earth

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Lecture IV: The Old Mysteries of Light, Space, and Earth
taken much too lightly, as anyone can clearly see, for the questions
Mysteries of Light (Drawing). The Grecian spiritual life was
for the Mysteries of Light, or the Mysteries of the Spirit,
of the Spirit, or particularly, the mysteries of Light, were founded
kindling of intelligence, the inner light of man; and our
time, by means of the Mysteries of the Spirit or of the Light, and
Mysteries of Light were at the same time the economic administrators
enlightenment concerning these things through all the means at our
The Mysteries of Light in the present-day oriental culture, the
really to seek ways of enlightening as many people as possible. Today
the mission of those with insight is the enlightenment of humanity.
is to enlighten people in the widest circles.

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The Mysteries of Light, of Man, and of the Earth.
The Mysteries of Light, of Man, and of the Earth,
THE MYSTERIES OF LIGHT, OF MAN, AND OF THE EARTH
the super-sensible can throw light upon all that is so chaotic, so
Mysteries — I shall call them the “Mysteries of Light or of
Mysteries of Oriental Light. From these proceeded the Mysteries of
Oriental Mysteries of Light. He could be the aristocrat, because from
Light”. I shall call this second stream “the Mysteries of
Light, then passing down into Politics and Economics. Here, in the
of Light, is to be found in Eastern Europe and Asia. There, where the
the immorality of modern untruth in the right light, it will bring

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The Mysteries of Light, of Man, and of the Earth,
We light up our Christmas trees, we repeat the customary words and
extinguish the lights of Christmas, to destroy all Christmas trees,
at that time, in a human body. He it was who brought that human light
It is in this earnest mood that I wished to present the lights of the

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better to extinguish the lights of Christmas, to destroy all

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The Mysteries of Light, of Man, and of the Earth,
is to place them unreservedly in the light of truth. It must be

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The Mysteries of Light, of Man, and of the Earth,
thoughts with the Higher Light which we can receive from Spiritual

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The Mysteries of Light, of Man, and of the Earth,
his listeners as a mere amateur, who has as slight an idea of the
things in a light style, on subjects accessible to people with a
develop accordingly these capacities and forces, which come to light
slight accident. Yes, in Central Europe, men whose will was directed

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it like this: In clouds, in rain, in lightning and thunder, man will
worst plight; it is healthy logic, really sound thinking, and above
electric light — the sun, the light of the sun, illumines the
objects around us; the sunlight makes them visible. In a similar way
myself at the moment to the example of the sunlight, directly the
Threshold is crossed man must become one with the light in his inmost
being. The light cannot enable him to see objects because he has to
pass into the very light itself. Objects can be seen with the help of
the light only as long as the light is outside. When man is himself
moving together with the light, the objects illumined by it can no
light itself, then for the first time he becomes aware that thinking
is, in reality, one with the light weaving in the world.
weaves into the light, lives in the light, is one with the light. But
the moment our thinking is received into the light, it is no longer
crossed, it streams out into the light.
body, after earthly life he can make use of the light.
radiating light concerns himself with the things of the world.
electricity or magnetism, and through radiating light, inasmuch as he
is now living in the light, concerns himself with the things of the
are not regarded in this serious light, we shall make no progress.

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light shining through the stained glass windows of the churches. The

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this. But it is necessary to know which paths lead to the light. I

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the light of present events. But in this intellectual age, when people

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matter in a true light it will be necessary first of all to consider
essential to see in this light what he laboured so hard to bring to
light,

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In order to see the whole matter in a true light it will be necessary
cosmic happenings; it is essential to see in this light what he laboured
for man in a new kingdom of light,

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At the same time they have not yet themselves kindled the light which
In the light of these thoughts, the gravity of the present time

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in the right light, if we do not wish to found a sect but an
never done anything in the slightest degree aggressive, makes it
that. But let us go back a little way from our enlightened freedom

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Vorwarts,” which illuminates as by a flash of lightning the
lightly over things, usually asleep — how it passes over the
is doomed to natural decay.” The so-called ‘enlightened’
centuries as modern science, enlightened science — all that is
a flash of lightning.

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the Christ must inevitably come to light. But what the Church worked
abstraction. You see, with all this modern enlightenment one arrives
not take the matter too lightly. For in our anthroposophical
not be taken lightly. For it must be recognized that the Catholic
great lights if they were to appear as individuals and were busy with
enlightened, will not take these things seriously. That must be

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nowhere a spark of light pointing to a rise, nothing which

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mentioned here several weeks ago we must not take too lightly. I

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is allied with light, for ‘light’ too is
light. But what lives as light in the sense-perception of the
tones, just as the light reveals itself in different colours.
as the light, just as we speak of gravity in a representative
to the Earth. We are received into the extreme pole of light
between light and gravity; and every sense-perception, as we
experience it here on Earth, is half light and half gravity.
light into which we are placed, is something that is
into the light nor from sense perception down into gravity.

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joined to the light. For light also has a sense: “to the
light” is again used in a representative way, for we
when we have vision, and then we speak of light. But that which
lives in the sense-feeling of the eyes as light, is the same as
evidence of itself in single tones, as the light gives evidence
senses which one designates representatively as light, just as
taken up into the extreme of light when we transpose ourselves
light and gravity, and every sense-feeling, in that we experience
here, is fundamentally half light and half gravity. At the moment
and light, into which we are spanned, that is, for a great deal
break-through from the abstract concepts into the light or form

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achievement. Yet does anyone have even a slight understanding
naively but with a slight materialist tendency, when they
with thunder and lightning, where things are happening in a
light the significant, existing contrasts between East and

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pressure is only slight. You perceive nothing of the object,
taste, we are only outside ourselves to a slight degree; with

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slightest justification, all talk of moral and religious
due to this enigma. New light must be shed, after all, on all
by the light of freedom.
initiation wisdom, illuminated by the light of freedom, must
it in the light of spiritual science, and that is what people

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penetrated by forces whose origin is discovered when light is
lightly; they are brought up from the very foundations of

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phenomena when it lights up into consciousness.
right light. What has actually been produced from

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Eastern, this common element, which comes to light
for the purpose of bringing duty to light.
that can enlighten him in the sense world concerning the
described them in a somewhat unfavorable light. They can,
however, be depicted in a favorable light as well, namely, if

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pushes toward air and light, so we view what human beings in
way, offered up to air and light. Nevertheless, it is a
when enlightened spirits, such as Rabindranath Tagore,
brings about enlightenment. Here, we confront a very strange
archbishop. The enlightenment that would occur in a person,

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all its truth, purity, and light-filled clarity. Something
bright, light-filled clarity of universal ideas what minds
light-irradiated realm — and what pulls him down, on
written a work dealing with natural law. The most enlightened
same light as must be done in regard to later times. Within
light thereby is that today we have to do not merely with the
come to light through spiritual science. One must take a good

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chemistry; I even met scholars who were most delighted by
around this one atom, the permanent atom. It was the delight
room where a light was burning and saw how they dived into

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spheres were reached in a sort of instinctive flight. It does
thus become most interesting. All matters brought to light by
arrive at something that can throw light on the primitive
in mineral concepts and forms. Only enlightened minds like
appear very different in the light of initiation science.
what can be seen in the light of the concept of imitation

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to such a slight degree that not even the relations between
people can throw light on it. The domain of rights can be
young playwright, too, has slid into the limelight. In this
upon the human physical body, although only to a very slight
only to a very slight degree. Whereas the form of the
economic life in false abnegation, that we scorn and slight

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an inner light, and so forth. The present age is not suited

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casts its shadows — one could also say its lights
— into the present. One must take hold of these lights
explains the slight inclination mankind had for developing
earnestness. In general, it is no light task today to

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and the very slight activity — if it is even possible
develop the slightest understanding for the true meaning of

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will penetrate human beings with the light and with the power
insight is called upon to throw light even into the essence
movements of light or electricity. No, it is not the effects
star. The light that streams toward you from other stars is

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Waldorf Schools the culture has proved to be capable of bringing light into primary education.

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comprehensible only if they can be seen in this light. One can say: To a certain extent,

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The Russian has not the slightest understanding for what, in the West, one calls rationality. The
by nature not the slightest understanding for what one must refer to as the relation of the
slightest understanding for this. For this is something quite different from what is given

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the gods of the myths that can determine the matter; here something real must come to light. And

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noticeable. One can say that it is particularly in this area that what sheds light in such a

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of the soul there arose in St Paul, through a particular enlightenment which came to him at a
to light through the most diverse historical phenomena, through such people as Wyclif,
these theologians there is living not the slightest feeling for truth but only fear of losing
slightest spark of any sense of truth.

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inability of science to give man any light upon his own nature.
of man that lights up in me inwardly is far higher than anything I
cosmic being that can light up within him. Out of all that men

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proceed. The human being will say to himself: The being of man that lights up inwardly for me is
between his dwarf-like existence on earth and the experience that lights up within him of himself
But one can look at the following, and I will highlight a few characteristic points —

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light in a positive way upon matters with which medical science has to

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it reaches the surface, when it receives the effects of the light

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Copernicus, on slightly different lines. This was brought home to me
spraying out light to them, and the like; but that just as the
nothing, but less than nothing. What shines to us in the light is the

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dips ever so slightly into this other world in which he is when he
of the relation between Moon-light and Sun-light. This we can find
We generally speak of the Moon-light being reflected Sunlight. I am
on that these expressions are really very inaccurate. The Moon-light
direct Sun-light. Jahve is only His advance reflection. Jahve
is the Sun-light, but not the direct Sun-light. Of
course, here we are speaking not of physical sunlight, but of the

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that can be weighed. Light we cannot weigh; it does not belong to the
You see, here comes to light a fact intimately connected with the
will notice he asserts that the female brain is much lighter than that
delight of the ladies, when it was found upon examination, that the
the lightest of the female brains examined by him. This is only by the

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Now it cannot be the light-activity surrounding us all the time that
is meant when the eye is said to be sun-like or light-like, for this
light-activity can be perceived by the eye only when the eye is
light-activity as something intrinsically different. And it is a fact
light today gives pictures, yet what first built up the organs into
should find that not only does light appear as a result of the
conception and proceeding until he first ‘sees the light of the

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place concerning the contradictions which came to light between the
may be termed her own, but always a reflected light. In this fact we
which, as we see, throws so much light on the understanding of Man,

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These are things that must be brought to light by Spiritual Science.

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understood in the light of quite materialistic interpretations. The
light on the parallel between cosmic existence, historical existence

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so that you may see the necessity for an enlightened Spiritual Science

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and so a slight difference arises which, according to these ancient
beautiful saying, first ‘see the light’, we become involved

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‘enlightened’, they turn all to ridicule. What is given in
empty husks of words can never have the power to bring light to the
the slightest knowledge of what really lies in the actual stream of
this instinctively and said: ‘Light penetrates; through the eye
of my senses, but in my inner being I preserve the light of olden
the earthly elements, we see that Light was brought into relation with
the ancients could not think of Light without Air. Modern thinkers
with their abstract knowledge do not bring what they explain as Light
the Light passes. It is really most remarkable how little people
Among these stars are some whose Light needs millions of years to
reach the Earth. Night falls. Here is a star whose Light needs a
we in the rays of its Light? Certainly we do not see the star itself
when we look in the direction of the Light-rays. The Light-ray which
of years back; it may even have perished long ago, but its Light is
in the Cosmos. All we are told is how channels of Light are
Light-phenomena as such make themselves apparent in the phenomenon of
Air; for although the Light passes through the apparently airless
space, for only in such can we exist. Thus for us Light and Air are
Light. The nose and eye are divided. The nose is adapted to the Air,

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assume the Moon, as full Moon, to be here; then the light it
man. In this way the light of the Sun has an effect upon the
we have the new Moon, and no light then reaches the man, who
made upon him by the stimulation of the light from outside;
light upon the man than from the direction of the full Moon
Because of this the light is modified in a certain way
— I might perhaps say differentiated, for the moonlight
one behind which the Virgin stands. The moonlight is
bright moonlight sheds its beams on his mouth rather than
that was perfectly round. The face is formed by the sunlight
its light away, the basis for the back of the head is

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delightful treatise “Regarding the Will in Nature”
within that which speaks to our senses, which delights us in
the light, what we hear in sound, what warms us and everything
development, look at a light filled thought element in the most

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freedom. We talk about all kinds of natural forces like light,
what exists in the world like electricity, light, heat and so

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methods. Whoever verifies this outwardly will find that light

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this source, you will see, something comes to light relating to the

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only be due to the failure to realize that there is but a slight
Ether, Warmth-Ether, Light-Ether, Life-Ether, and in addition we find
Light-Ether. Earlier conceptions of the world always emphasized this
affinity of the outspreading physical air with the Light-Ether which
pervades it. This Light-Ether that is borne, as it were, by the air
constant contact there with the Light-Ether.
which it is related primarily through the Light-Ether. While he is
Astral body — Feeling — Air organism — Light Ether.

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is but a slight degree of difference between the airy
itself, consisting of Chemical Ether, Warmth Ether, Light
air organism. It is the Light Ether. Earlier conceptions of
physical air with the Light Ether which permeates it. This
Light Ether that is borne, as it were, by the air and is
air organism, and is in constant contact there with the Light
Astral body — Feeling — Air Organism — Light
through the Light Ether. While asleep we live directly in an

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source of light. Sources of light, as it were, are imparted to
upon the warmth-organism produce sources of light in the air-organism.
light are not in themselves luminous, but they manifest in man's
speak, still dark light, in the sense that the seed of a plant is not
yet the developed plant. Nevertheless man has a source of light within
be called a source of light which remains, to begin with, curbed and
tone and, in a certain sense, even the source of light. This is
into the air-organism as a source of light, into the fluid
in our air-organism, into which were implanted sources of light
tone and light into the universe and will become
assembling substances and dispersing them again. Light in the world
light within it; they have a deadening effect upon tone, and an
producing in the air organism — sources of Light.
paralyze the sources of Light.
light into the universe. But for the men of ancient times the sun was
This force of light that is on the earth

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source of light. Sources of light, as it were, are
of light in the air organism. To external perception and for
ordinary consciousness these sources of light are not in
are, so to speak, still dark light, in the sense that the
we have a source of light within us through the fact that we
what may be called a source of light which remains, to begin
light. This is entirely hidden from ordinary consciousness,
as a source of light, into the fluid organism as a
into which were implanted sources of light which
these will carry forth life, tone and light into the universe
them again. Light in the world has its source in the moral
effect upon the air organism and upon the source of light
Light.
paralyze the sources of Light.
radiates light into the universe. But for the people of
light that is on the earth (diagram VII)

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which the light of the sun, the air outside, and so on, must come, to
with the light of thought. At the one pole of man's being we

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blossom the seed to which the light of the sun, the air
pervade what is merely Power with the light of

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will-impulse, do we perceive in the right light what Whitsuntide
lightning; or whether we watch the sun in its path across the heavens
natural existence, who lives in thunder and lightning, in the motion
shepherds of the field? With the soul's eye they saw the light of the
living radiance of the cosmic light was mastered by that ancient
rushing stream, the murmuring spring, the lightning and thunder from
speak to us from the flowers of the field, from the lightning and
have spoken today. We must find the Christmas light within ourselves
as the shepherds did the Angel's light in the field; and as the Magi
speak to us: “Awaken the Christmas light within you, and the
Christmas light will then also appear to you and to your fellow-men

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want to consider themselves progressive and enlightened.
ahrimanic-typhonic light, so modern human beings, because they are
them in the sunshine and in the light of the stars, in the movements of the
because the common goal signifies union in harmony. The light of Christmas
should actually shine as a light of peace, as a light that brings external

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a form which is suited to our own age, in the light of Christianity.
progressive and enlightened.
light, so modern man, because he is ahrimanic, sees it with luciferic
sunshine and in the light of the stars, in the movements of the
a uniform white light that streams through the universe. It is that
light which Goethe combated in his Theory of Colours,
union and harmony. The light of Christmas should shine as a light of
peace, a light that brings peace outside, only because first of all

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olden times men did not merely see points or surfaces of light but
shepherds. The light-filled knowledge possessed by the Magi is of a
Through inner enlightenment man of today experiences a
was the ancient light-filled world of stars which has withdrawn and
alive, completely alive, that is to say, filled with light within

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light of the whole macrocosm, by means of that ‘qualitative
lightning in the oceans of clouds.
Varuna is he who causes the light
kindles the fire of lightning in the oceans of clouds — we look
light of the sun to shine in the heavens and who produces the
matter of seeing things in the right light.

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shed light upon an event like the Mystery of Golgotha. And it was
teachings were able to shed light upon the Mystery of Golgotha, but as

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the Christmas mystery in the light of the Gospels.
the wind through the woods; Varuna appears in the lightning flashing
solely of phrases, are capable of skipping lightly over such matters
but slight resemblance to its mother. And our mathematics, our

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understand life itself in the light of the principles of Spiritual
Yes, but if we look at the matter in the light of Spiritual Science,
and, indeed, we can only understand them in the light of this
actions and behavior of men of the present generation in the light of
idea in the abstract, it is quite possible to throw light on history

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light. Should we accept it offends someone if we oppose what is
naturally needs to be placed in the right light. Secondary it's
amongst enlightened men — certainly lit by a strange
light — who gather in Geneva, or whether it appears in
want to highlight a deplorable fact. This fact has many causes

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known as, Spiritual Science in the Light of Today, lectures one and
is advocating. One must bring enlightenment to the people.
Economists, they are all enlightened, but when they arrange
light into this working of the instincts, for that alone can be
give the force which can bring light to those instincts.

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the Light of Today.
Spiritual Science in the Light of Today.

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known as, Spiritual Science in the Light of Today, lectures one and
relatively slight sacrifice of dead and wounded our clever and
should withdraw from external things into a mystic twilight, I
comparison many details come to light. “None of the
be seen in quite a different light.
the following: — “Spiritual flashes of light, like
lightning-flashes are darting towards that wooden mousetrap,
one day a real flash of light does not strike that Dornach

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equilibrium between Light on the one hand and gravity on the

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known as, Spiritual Science in the Light of Today, lectures one and
him one-sidedly only in his relationship with the LIGHT; that
henceforth to find the equilibrium between Light on the one

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relationship with light, levity, which would mean servitude to

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humanity, with the light of a real, genuine, concrete self-

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Delights, there rested one afternoon the widowed Empress of China,
those forms of the Gods he introduced, however lightly, in the
intensive shadows; all the time exalting those lights which,

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being, and which then can spread light over the whole Cosmos.
have accepted of late, it comes to light in something which has

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obviously don't have the slightest inkling. This is what we
slightest illusion to come about in any way. It is necessary to
this in a truthful light.

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the sun. From the sun he received the light. He received at the same
light was being led on into his inner being. And when he was
thinking, he said: The light, the sun thinks within me. The Greek of
thinks within me: it allows its light to be drawn in by me. The light
Greek, the thoughts within him were the light of the sun. At the same
the earthly, when he thus experienced the sun's light within him as
sunlight. While he was digesting, he felt the earth's gravity. He
experienced what was thinking within him as the sun's bright light,
he walked as if led by a necessity of Nature, like the lightning

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day-consciousness, a consciousness fully permeated by light, by

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no share. When the Moon rises slowly in a dream-like light and
pours this dream-light over everything, one might say:
entirely extinguishes the light in which these Ahrimanic beings
When you consider the matter in the light of what I have told

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in a dream-like light and pours this dream-light over
extinguishes the light in which these Ahrimanic being move.
see, my dear friends, if you consider such attacks in the light

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can be understood only in the light of the knowledge that in the head
materialism begins to take effect — very slightly to begin with,
The Easter thought can be interpreted only in the light of

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light on this point. It happened at the beginning of the

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their interrelationship. Light must enter into this chaos of
enclosed by our skin; it is a cosmic event, like lightning

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something light-filled is contained in what anthroposophy

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soul-spiritual human being in his full light. After all, in
twilight of a magnificent world view which modern history
lightning and thunder in the sky, to the billowing clouds, to
has to experience the tragedy that the light that once had
light. The spiritual light had been rejected, and instead

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Greece gradually developed in the direction of this twilight,
world given to them. Out of it, they wished to receive light
the light of the super-sensible world. For him, the material
great problem. We see it light up everywhere in the Gnostic
only by way of occasional glimpses of light. In particular,
remained an individual glimpse of light. When a ray of the
ego, these individuals received such glimpses of light. It is

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considered in the right light. They were certainly not
You must be thus and thus — for they lack the light

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light. It then becomes evident that the human soul condition
known law whereby a floating body seemingly becomes lighter
artistic feelings, a slight touch has remained of what was
only a slight touch of them in the artistic realm. We no

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with its compromise between tradition and intellect, and enlightened
suited to throw light on the spiritual condition of the
did not stop short at merely sensing the light in his eyes.
He felt how the light rays streamed in through the nerves of
those who call themselves quite enlightened and dwell only in

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aspects, and throw light on them from a certain standpoint.
out of modern physics and physiology and speak about light,
we say that the light is within us. But even in his naive
mind nobody would believe that light is only in our heads.
is dark outside and light exists only in the human head would
becomes aware of light owing to his perceptions, so he
becomes aware of the intellect. The intellect lights up in
light-shaded crosshatching); in a sense, it gives the etheric

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together several facts that can throw some light on the
mankind's looking up to the light, encountered in a
We shall see how a light that clearly points to the
Twilight Hours in St. Petersburg,
speaking, we see the obsolete, archaic light of Ormuzd. On
Twilight Hours in St. Petersburg
“Petersburg Twilight Conversations,”
enlightened modern human being laughs at. Yet it is something
has actually appeared. Only the most enlightened minds,
however, can discern the light flashes that are the most

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we know that the Ego lights up within the Intellectual or Mind Soul
around them. When the Sun rises they see only the phenomena of light
thoughts of the Gods, which he connected with light. These worlds
rekindle the light within their own being. And they tried now to
experience the light by entering in spirit into the events connected
the heavens. But we must learn to think of the Sun in the light of
through. The Sun receives the cosmic light and radiates it to the
they become inwardly responsive to light and also to warmth. We say,

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how the ego lights up within man's
designated as light.
about the possibility of enkindling this light within their
being. The light such individuals had actually experienced
the fact that it reflects the cosmic light to us in its own
still had the right feeling when they experienced the light,
light and warmth. Thus, we can say that because of his

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event that can be described only in the light of facts which are revealed to us
reflects the sunlight back to us, is in truth deeply connected with our

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sunlight to us, has indeed a profound connection to our

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and was utilized by the most enlightened minds to comprehend

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first centuries of Christianity that throws its light into
things through the light of the sun; we eat bread and drink

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see things through the light of the Sun and when we eat the
Only in the light of this knowledge can we begin to understand
culture was brought to light once again and is still being
is there, but it did not come to light in the Renaissance as a

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increasing value on this soul element that lights up between

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least by warmth, light, and so on. In short, we are always

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body, which he really is not. Only the slightest portion of

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the slightest extent necessary to preserve the solid
delight that many people feel when they think of mysticism,
delight, which can indeed rise into consciousness as

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knowledge of the heart quite lightly. It looks upon the heart
world, one perceived, beheld, it more,as the world of light,
and light as the two polarities, if one wishes to express it
outpouring of a mere sensual delight in the inner world is

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Psychoanalysis in the Light of Anthroposophy
knowledge of the heart rather lightly. It looks upon the heart
of the upper world, viewed it more as the world of light, the
netherworld more as the world of gravity. Gravity and light
outpouring of inner delight is the aim, and the beholding of

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delight us, repel us. Feeling imbues our will impulses with life, and
direction changes and its light shines somewhere else. The picture
just looking at the light for instance, would know as much about the
slightest effort. Everything is revealed to us in form of
outside. The ray of light which penetrates into our eye
the ray of light has bored a hole. As a result hunger makes
light, in the moment of hearing a tone or a sound, we destroy our
reality he is a Luciferic Power, a God of Light. As though to make

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slightest real consciousness of what lies behind the wholly direct
If you see things in the right light, that is just where morality
may well imagine, it can only in the very slightest degree make

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in the light of what I have just told you.

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life is really the one that goes with the plight of soul to which

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were made to uphold Christianity even in the face of the enlightened
observe everything, from perception to politics, in the light of

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spiritual-scientific knowledge does not throw light upon that
this alone can throw light upon the conditions of the earth.

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bodies even during asleep. From this time the I lights up as an
we have. Probably only a few slightly sense the implications of
become healthy if it is enlightened in all areas, in all its
light which can come to him through anthroposophical spiritual
way and then drawn into the right light in which they are moved

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father's collection; how he placed a taper on the top, lighting
light of Spiritual Science. Benedetto Croce was one who spoke in a

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— delight in the world and love for the world.
wide-ranging and light-filled, was not yet permeated by this kind of
from the sun's light, and its earthly circumstances were also
seen in the right light. But with Bulwer it was because something lit
materialism has arisen out of fear, without men having the slightest

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penetration of this primeval element of joy, of delight in
conception, comprehensive and light-filled, was not yet
under a different effect of sunlight on the earth, and its
the right light; then such a thing can be understood. With

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enlightened world-conception of the ancient East, for it really
founded under another influence of the Sun's light on the
must only be seen in the right light, then also this will
appear in its right light. In Bulwer something shone forth that
slightest idea that it is so. This modern material

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we are able to look at it in the right light, is really a survey of a

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light of our thinking consciousness, our conceptual life
beneath the surface of the light-filled conceptual life,
lights up in Imagination as future karma.

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life penetrated by the clear light of thought. What therefore
of what has come to light through spiritual research, namely,

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thrown its light back on the mood of soul. If one goes into
future karma (light shading; dark shaded

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enlightened — penetrates but little with his moral
able to develop only an extremely slight relationship to the
slight that he cannot form any inner relationship to the
the light and then no longer distinguishes the eye from the
light, or the sound from the ear. By expanding himself out
truth will be fulfilled, the saying that sheds its light from

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consumed by a universal sea of light. I have intentionally
light, as if what was dead were being consumed by life. Feel
qualities are expressed slightly in the physiognomy today, in
members of the human being in the light of spiritual

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Light is
abstractly here on earth. He experiences this light by
light. But where is the light anyway? Man perceives colors;
a shade. But light — he lives in light, and yet he
doesn't perceive the light; through the light he perceives
colors, but the light itself he does not perceive. You may
our physics offers a “theory of light”; then we
theory of light.” It has no substance. Only a theory of
color has substance, not a theory of light.
open our physics books nowadays and there we see light being
not of a theory of light. One lives in light. Through the
light and in the light we perceive color, but nothing of the
light. No one can see the light. Imagine being in a space
with light streaming through it, but there is not a single
in the naked light, nor would you be able to differentiate
about the light for which we in our present-day intellectual
Light:
light, not light and air separately from one another but
light in the air, and so on. The human being experiences,

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straggler, even in more recent times. In enlightened
the Mystery of Golgotha cast into life the light that must
once more make the whole cosmos appear in a light that gives
way that this light enabling us to see will ray out from the

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Mystery of Golgotha throws into life a light which must fall on
light that gives man his place in the universe. We should
Vulcan, will take its course in such a way that the light

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substances which we take in as nourishment are so slightly
everything is slightly poisonous, Scorpio.
reality they do not have the slightest idea of what these
will then above all be unable to have the slightest
if they are set before you more lightly and not

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being. Feeling brings a certain light into, intensifies,
life, the mental life. The sleeping will lights up in feeling, and
affirmative judgment becomes experience of light. The same could be
been said in connection with the experiences of light and of darkness.
of negation, light in the direction of affirmation.
second Post-Atlantean epoch. — God in the Light — that is to say,
The sun as the divine source of Light — so it was experienced
experienced in light or darkness, but rather in the impact between
life. Men did not experience merely light and darkness but something
borne on the waves of the light through the whole universe. In the
— it was as though the light actually penetrated into them, into
the light into our eyes. For us the light is outside, phantomlike. Nor
ancient Persians the sun was the actual reflector of the Light weaving
sub-organic activity, must once again be lifted into the light of
would discover that the sun is not a globe of gas giving out light —
itself radiate light but at most throw it back. The truth is that in
the spiritual sense, light streams out from Saturn, Jupiter, Mercury,
Physically it appears as though the sun gives the planets light, but
in reality it is the planets that radiate light to the sun and the sun
regarded as the earthly source of Light — not indeed as the source
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bring to light the spirituality that is indeed contained, but allowed
lighting-up of consciousness. (See Fundamentals of Therapy,

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who studies life to-day in the light of anthroposophical Spiritual

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whole life of the human being to be viewed in the light of eternity,
the Gnosis, as it is called, to interpret Christianity in the light of
one or two cursory flashlights upon happenings among the peoples of
each particular people must be understood in the light of spiritual
to light. Norwegians have a definite gift — nor does this gift

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East and West in the Light of the Christmas Idea
THE LIGHT OF THE CHRISTMAS IDEA
thought, the purest, most light-filled form of soul life. But the
streamed down to the earth in the shining light, came down to
light, but in an abstract way.
that we can see the NEW CHRISTMAS LIGHTS OF A NEW SPIRITUAL LIFE.

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by the feeling of hope that once again the rays of light and love from
and light from the heavenly sphere of the sun, man felt that his own
was understood by the light of wisdom. But by the time of the fourth
as our so-called enlightened theology, has more or less lost sight of
be comprehended only in the light of super-sensible knowledge.
and physics, the Christ Being could never have descended. In the light
the Divine Light that is streaming upon the earth. We need something

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being, as well as each separate organ, are seen in this light. The
negative electricity, about light and darkness — we shall not

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cosmic beings and this was felt to be the light that flooded through
the universe, the primeval light, the primeval aura, Ahura Mazda. But
universe as the primeval light, but they had to unite their own
daytime brought them darkness. Light came into this darkness when
brightness; but light falls on the field of my daily work when my
earth with the light of the heavens, but you live in the darkness of
ancient Greeks experienced this darkness of earth as something light.
throwing light on today's differentiation of human beings into those
mentioned yesterday. It is also capable of throwing light on

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feelings which, in a way, even light up to some extent in our dream
also a part of the life of feelings — because dreams light up
which damp down this clear consciousness into a twilight. Human
enlightened view was taken to be that of Christ as nothing more than
present time must be illumined by the light of eternity, otherwise

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comprehensible in the light of a clear understanding of this

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appears in a light that is not all that pleasing, namely, in

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throw at least some light on what lives in the soul before it enters
cosmos. The human being takes flight from the cosmos. He senses that

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speak in a light-hearted way about achieving a consciousness of the

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we go up even further into the etheric parts, into the light element,
them in the right light.

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of the human struggles, to gain clarity about it. More light can
light, so does the perception of spiritual beings flee before
the earlier vision still plays in. This brings about a twilight
consciousness. People really did live in this twilight consciousness.
Such figures as Faust are, indeed, born out of a twilight
personality belonging to the whole twilight condition of the

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man is a spiritual being, but just as spirits retreat from light, so
another form of ordinary daylight; you will have to go about this in

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thundering and lightning, and whatever else is happening out there.
Our task is to illumine the whole of reality with the light of the

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decision is required to recognize or deny thunder and lightning, or

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into the light of consciousness.
eyes are used to perceive light and colour, the ears to hear
we become conscious in the lightest sleep, we are living in the
In this lightest sleep we float through the thought-forces of
the dream only from the lightest sleep, but, as I have already
dream can be clothed in the most varied pictures. In very light
case with the very lightest kind of sleep. Of deeper sleep
experiences this transition from light sleep to that sleep from
is so light that dreams can be brought back into ordinary life,
beings pass in light sleep, though they know nothing of it. The
pictures become distinct; their light is enhanced; they reveal
usually know that they can sleep lightly, and they know also
that dreams emerge from this light sleep. They know that there
are in the lightest sleep human beings are still actually
passes over from the light into the plant when it is developing
in the light of day. But when they are in the third condition
in bed and fall into a light sleep from which dreams may emerge

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I hope that they will not be taken lightly, but with the needed

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must not, however, be presented in the same light as other events
teachings. I hope that these things will not lightly be passed

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of such significance, that new light needs constantly to be shed upon

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beings would have found themselves in a terrible plight in

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light.
the feelings of our soul-life are far less clear and filled with light
less clear and have less light. But from what we know already in the
that slight additional element of will which is playing into the

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clouds and thunder and lightning, and everything physical in the world

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shining, as illuminating the Earth with its light. Men spoke
signified for them the Sun that moved round the Earth, giving light.
forces of light, forces of movement. What they saw was deeds, —
light, of the cosmic chemical forces, and of the cosmic life-forces,
aspect of the Earthly ether; secondly, the aspect of the light of
study of history can, however, bring to light something else in this
in error. But when Paul received enlightenment on his way to
“light” that is beyond, but remains all the time within

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preparations for reincarnation. With enlightening clarity, he
shining, as illuminating the Earth with its light. Men spoke
signified for them the Sun that moved round the Earth, giving light.
forces of light, forces of movement. What they saw was deeds, —
light, of the cosmic chemical forces, and of the cosmic life-forces,
aspect of the Earthly ether; secondly, the aspect of the light of
study of history can, however, bring to light something else in this
in error. But when Paul received enlightenment on his way to
“light” that is beyond, but remains all the time within

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absorbing the new light, the pure light, in our earthly

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indifferent to things we feel delight in the rose; it gives us
being physical. Speaking symbolically, we could say that light
obscura, which is a copy of the eye and into which light falls
light is unable to enter. Even in ordinary life we know that to
live in darkness through being deprived of light, will transfer
soul's experience of light. This soul experience of brightness
is diffused over our whole inner being. Light permeates
light weaving through the organism. Darkness, too, affects
In a sense, we are what light makes of us.
of the external physical world, its light and color, so do we

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must rekindle the light ever again. This is an indication of
where one must kindle the light ever anew. It is like going
described as joyful, satisfying, light-filled and also
that what we experience as happiness and delight goes with us
mankind's past evolution is contemplated merely in the light of

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right light we draw near to what actually takes place when the
which light falls but cannot penetrate and is therefore
thrown back. Let us say we have a mirror; light cannot go
It may last a few days and then cease. He has suffered a slight
organism; it does not enter the solid any more than light
penetrates a mirror. Light is thrown back from the
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we usually come together under artificial light. It can easily
to do with sunlight; but for the moment we will disregard this
kind of light. Let us imagine a lecture given on a beautiful
morning in an open field, where instead of this dreadful light
as light.
because they reflect the sunlight. But the moment we
existing within the light. Formerly we were always outside the
light, but now that we have plunged with our being into the
such that we are within the light, that our being is light.
Within the undulating, weaving light we touch the spiritual
beings with the organs of light which we now possess. We are
we know that sunlight mingles with moonlight. Externally,
the sunlight. The sun's light then comes to us from the moon.
When the sun's light comes from the moon there is a kind of
shadowing or dimming of light. This has an effect on everything
From the moon comes more than the silvery light which, when
with their sharp contours in daylight. More than reflected
sunlight reaches us from the moon; its influence is active in
If sunlight alone were always present the earth would be in a
urging flight. We see here how thoughts become ensouled by what

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simply on the basis of a statement without the slightest
be merely symbolic or allegoric or else flights of fancy, one
similarly about all nature forces such as heat and light, etc.

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lightning and thunder, in every star, in the beings of the different
manifesting in lightning and thunder, in springs and rivers, in wind and
and the swing and rhythm of red-blue, blue-red, light-dark,
dark-light — in short, if indications such as those given in my book
knows how modern man generally reacts to some slight hurt, then it is
religious life make light of these things. They declare the great
inwardly. Often it is only a slight accomplishment but it must be pursued

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now will throw light on matters of vital importance for
world than ordinary man sees today. In lightning and
manifesting in lightning and thunder, in springs and rivers, in
and rhythm of: red- blue; blue-red; light-dark;
dark-light — in short, if indications such as those
some slight hurt then it is clear that there is a great
Those concerned with modern religious life make light of these
achieved inwardly. Often it is only a slight

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moving cloud, in thunder and lightning — spirit and soul. On
Today's ‘enlightened’ people may laugh when reminded
head in what their soul brings to light.
elemental beings, so are the higher elements of light ether,
beings of light, and particularly those of life, do not aim at
warmth and light etheric beings stream down to earth; if man's

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thunder and lightning — spirit and soul. On the background
“enlightened” people may laugh when reminded that
brings to light.
of light ether, chemical ether and life ether. However, these
the lower ones. The beings of light, and particularly those of
sun's warmth and light ether beings stream down to

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spiritual conception must be found which throws light on

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thereby it becomes a being of Feeling. First we see a cloud of light.
Then we see the cloud of light creating itself in the centre as a
as it were a streaming, wandering light. And so it is with all the

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Sunlight and Moonlight, Eclipses and Man's Life of the Soul
[Sunlight and Moonlight, Eclipses and Man's Life of the Soul]
space is pervaded with light — but the idea that soul and spirit
down on their waves the pulsating, quickening light of the cosmos. And
rays of light down upon the earth, that is the best time for man to
were sent back to earth by the gods through the rays of light from the
the earth on the waves of the moonlight.” Thus the old initiate
“While the sun continually sends its light down upon the earth,
man allows the light of the moon to shine upon him, rays of thought
In our present age only lovers like to dream in the moonlight! Men of
related to the light coming from the moon.
again to earth by the moon, by the moonlight. He realises that his
we were to say: “Here is a light, and there an eye. If I place my
hand in front of the eye, the light will be darkened.” As you
of will which are altogether spiritual in their nature. The sunlight
Ordinarily, the physical sunlight unites with the radiations of will
moonlight, when the moon is full. There are, however, certain people
light towards us. When the sunlight streams towards us, the
space. When the sun sends its light down to earth, the earth sends
earth, and we look upon the moonlight in this way only, taking into
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to that of the light streaming from the sun to the earth. So it can be
light. On the other hand, the element of thought is borne to the earth
along the waves of the moon's light.
streams out into the cosmos towards its inflowing light; and that man
thought-element which flow along the lines of light together with
light-element, of the thought-element and the moon's light, and also
of existence. So when I speak of the light streaming to us from the
light, I am speaking of something that is preparing the future. The
in the element of Light, in the Light-Ether. He would become an
ever-expanding cloud of light if the Jupiter-forces were not present
Warmth, Light and Chemical Ethers. As you see, the effects are

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not to flow away in the light but to maintain himself as an
independent being of spirit-and-soul within the light. If the
maintain its own independent footing in face of the light. In its

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most in a very slight degree when fructification begins in the
the emanations of warmth and light radiating from the etheric-physical
rays of the sun, for the warmth and light are permeated through and
it spreads out and turns towards the light that radiates in all
radiates from the light of the moon, everything that streams as
reflected sunlight from the moon on to the earth, and also streams
the sphere of the direct light from the sun. But all that gives the
moonlight.
completely earth-bound. We could not have the slightest inkling of our
all, these deliberations will in themselves have helped to throw light

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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: Occult History (Lecture Four), Building Stones for an Understanding of the Mystery of Golgotha (Lecture Seven), World History in the lightNote 1]
only be seen properly today in the light of spiritual
were standing in a dark room with no light. However, if they first
throw light into the evolving souls of human beings.

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[Imanuel Kant (1724–1804), German philosopher of the EnlightNote 6]
[Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (1743–1819), president of the Munich Academy. In opposition to the thinkers of the EnlightNote 9]
especially for enlightened spirits, religion itself also flows into

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evident that Spengler, for one, had not the slightest
slightest understanding.
light; it moves whither it will,” and so on.
It has created the fatal contrast between the light-world of
concepts with slight but ever-present accent of light pursue
only distilled from the light-world, and concepts are only
somewhat refined, somewhat distilled, visions in the light,
only receives the light-world of the eye, but unites this
light-world with the whole man. It is an entirely
a sort of brain-dream and rarified light-world in man.
anything belonging to the light-world. A man “places”
we dynamically unite the light-entity with what we experience
light-air-organism, but also something which man has as
this light-world transformed into thinking is really nothing
surrounding light-world. The body moves in observable
into visible distances from a light-center. This
light-concept.”
who asserts that “I” is a light-concept has no
fact that abstract thinking has become airy, and also light,
that he reels about somewhere in the light and has no suspicion
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plants and stones, like thunder and lightning, which are, for us,
meditation but then neither should we think of it lightly. It
sentence: “Wisdom lives in the light.” To begin with,
lightning. When you paint a picture of a lightning flash you are,
life of other human beings. The slightest gesture encountered in
something happen that is as real as what happens when lightning

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light of this one.
spiritual form, the other is the Moon. The one is all alight and
holding the light as though more egoistically to itself.

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preparations for reincarnation. With enlightening clarity, he
light of this one.
spiritual form, the other is the Moon. The one is all alight and
holding the light as though more egoistically to itself.

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should be seen in the light of this one. This is what I wanted to
spiritualized moon. One sphere is a bright and shining light, the
holding the light more to itself in an egotistical way.

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more in the light of spiritual knowledge. Intellectualistic knowledge
mere heavenly body spreading light around, but a dwelling-place of
Sun not only pours forth light, but sends out radiant Wisdom into a
when they descended to this life through birth. In the light of the

Title: Mystery Trinity: Part 2, Lecture III
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is not merely a heavenly body radiating light. I was in a world in
space, a world in which the sun sends out not merely light but
when they descended to this life through birth. They saw in sunlight

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light on your faculties and capabilities. For the fact is, these
region below the heart, mingles its music and its light with the
hovers over a meadow whose blossoms are unfolding to the light. For

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preparations for reincarnation. With enlightening clarity, he
light on your faculties and capabilities. For the fact is, these
region below the heart, mingles its music and its light with the
hovers over a meadow whose blossoms are unfolding to the light. For

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between Jupiter and Venus into the light of your day
if this ray is then mixed with the sound and light from another ray,
that enlightens us about the human world, the world in which we live,

Title: Philosophy, Cosmology and Religion: Lecture I: The Three Steps of Anthroposophy
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ancient times, threw light on all the separate areas of reality

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speech, and in this form have a meaning which throws religious light

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outer world, e.g., ‘In Light lives streaming Wisdom’. It

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has already experienced in order to throw light on both, so, in
instreaming and inward lighting-up of cosmic processes. The
lightning, the rolling thunder, in the ever-changing clouds and

Title: Philosophy/Cosmology/Religion: Lecture IV: Exercises of Cognition and Will
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Cosmology’, only still more so. Whatever came to light as a

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the right light. For then we comprehend that the dead or dying
through observation. Philosophy, from what comes to light here
at least sheds a certain amount of light on man's earthly

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imagination, inspiration and intuition. Light can in this way
do this already — dreams do not throw light upon the

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brought to light. Only a few men achieve the former, but the latter is

Title: Philosophy, Cosmology and Religion: Lecture VII: Christ in His Relationship to Mankind and the Riddle of Death
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freely and lightly in his consciousness as our dream pictures
culture and civilization. It, therefore, could throw no light
has already been mentioned that through the lighting-up of ego
ego-saturated consciousness to light up. In this state of

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for me to throw light once again from a different viewpoint on
unconscious until it lights up in imaginative knowledge
Thus, when we observe it in the light of imaginative

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by its own nature on earth be so light that its antithesis which will

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light stream in through the eyes and through the ear, the world
Increasingly, cosmic-etheric awareness lights up in the human

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The process that only lights up as a weak reflection in
earthly life in the light of the above described conditions.
light and warmth, so, after death, the lofty Sun Being claims

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their physical reflection in the Moon and its light: the spiritual
the ordinary clear light of day, it is as if his ears were touching at
is undisturbed by external light, is wholly given up to the mysteries

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manifest, externally, in the Moon and its light. Certain Moon-Beings,
New light can here be

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Spiritual and they shed abundant light upon the world. Man lived in
more and more into twilight and man no longer had clear perception of
spirit had departed, he could receive enlightenment about nature around
receive from the Moon-Beings indwelling the mummies, enlightenment upon
the Initiates, to obtain, without further measures, enlightenment on
enlightenment about nature, about the animal, plant and mineral
turn, obtained enlightenment about the kingdoms of the plants, animals
receive enlightenment about nature; a science of nature is beyond our
enlightenment. As human bodies now are, men can acquire knowledge about
the Dead for a period in order that they may give us enlightenment
souls can give enlightenment only about spiritual truths which can be

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the slightest impetus would enable a man to perceive within a human

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viewed in the right light only when it is compared, as far as its
same impulse reaches into the sphere of the sunlight and produces the
very slightly. Then he will be able to visualize the one object beside

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and in full consciousness is only to be perceived in the right light
light upon subsequent happenings of incisive importance in Europe, is
only in the light of spiritual knowledge.

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light — the Middle European spiritual impulse — were, in
light must come that will flood this unclear seeking without making
it dry or cold. We must find this light, while preserving the heart's
closed his life by calling out to posterity: “More light!”
As a matter of fact Goethe did not say “More light!” He
perhaps far more apt than the mere phrase “More light”.

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although people did realize to a slight extent that they were not so
longer. Out of the darkness in the human soul, a light must be found
light today into the souls of the young. It expresses itself in the
see what has impelled you to come in the right light, you will find

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experienced the health-bringing light of the sun. And before going to
effect upon our dead cultural life. The Spirit must be the lightning

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Nietzsche, through his tragic destiny, clearly indicates the twilight
only form in which the light that pointed towards the future came to
One of his last works is called The Twilight of
being of the soul, we must seek for light; above all else we must

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men were no longer aware of a real light when they looked into their
activity, requires energy. There the lightning-flash of will must
strike directly into the thinking itself. But the lightning-flash of

Title: Younger Generation: Lecture VI
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slightest movement points in the widest sense to cosmic mysteries. —

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he devotes himself to knowledge is something that lights up in him or

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alighted as an independent possession into the human soul. It is of
Spiritual Science if that spark, that lightning, through which

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connected with the physical body. They cannot form the slightest

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bring an offering to the great God of Nature by lighting a
physical aging for lighting-up his spirit. He is no longer dependent
your soul, so to speak, in a pure flight of thought. But this pure
flight of thought is a flight of will. Then the exercise or the
a seven-year old? He really has not the slightest kinship with it. it

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pre-earthly. The pre-earthly sheds its light through every movement
sentimentally or with the slightest tinge of mysticism, but rather as

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of the fact that we have now entered an epoch of light, much will
reality of things which later as an artistic copy shed their light
being more in a form of light. Man had the faculty of perceiving this
form of light because atavistic clairvoyance was still present.

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Spirit can only be touched upon lightly.

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YOUTH IN AN AGE OF LIGHT
Age of Light has begun. Anyone who can look into the spiritual world
knows quite certainly that this is so. The fact that not much light
age to an age of light; it signifies a radical turning-point.
the 19th century as the most enlightened attitude has been given up by

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beginning of an epoch of light.
We don't see much light yet. You can
civilization, a flight to the powers which cannot yet be
observed it in its first misty light, when the youth of the 1870s
daylight it turned sick inside. Above all, it could not be brought
narrow-mindedness and pedantry: a strong light produces a strong

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begins to change into light, and it is possible to judge clearly of what
dreams are in reality misleading rather than enlightening. What the soul
lights up into consciousness, is felt as an experience of anxiety and
say that in the general sensation and experience of light we have

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change into light, and it is possible to judge clearly of what is
than enlightening. What the soul experiences in sleep it experiences
experience which, when it lights up into consciousness, is felt as an
of light we have something of an after-working of our share in the

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important light on a right method of education and teaching. It shows
turn by the vein, so that a slight flowing off and a reabsorbtion comes
that vibrates in too fast (see drawing 6, red, light), then the astral

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basically are still more important, as for example light, which we also
receive from our surroundings, as it is as light. But also the foodstuff
is connected with people receiving Light into themselves and contemplating
the world in this Light, and not in darkness. Today's physiology and

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an end and a light-filled age would begin. If one now examines the words
that they meant that the transition from the Dark to the Light Age would
from the Dark Age into the Light Age, present cognition has to completely
regarding the passing over into the light age, and what we also must
what the difference is between a Light Age — meant in this way
and Light Ages, looked at this dark age as at the continuation of an
earlier Light Age, and they expressed the opinion that, after the Dark
Age had lasted for some time, a Light Age would come again. It would
— the Light Age, which once existed (approximately in the 7th
one can see much by it. Namely, during that Light, or illuminated age,
at all. Altogether, one did not speak during that old Light Age of illness
one saw the ether body. Man was a being of light, and as one judges
On the light, on that which was Light in man. One has to take it quite
literally: it was the Light Age, it was the age in which one really
saw what was living in man as Light.
that today, also, it must be said: light has a tremendous strong influence
quantity of light into their organism. We know that children who at
a delicate age suffer from lack of light, will contract rickets or other
illnesses ,which are throughout related to a lack of light. Of course
connected throughout with lack of light. One can relate with certainty
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most of all to see in the right light that which one might call the
science shed light more and more upon the Christ Impulse in the right
way. For the manner in which light was shed on the Christ Impulse in

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derived. One part is warmth, light, chemical ether, life ether. But
behind all this, behind the warmth and light and chemical processes
the action of the sunlight. Note that I say the sunlight, not the
of its light it drives away the moral essence of the ether. And so it
sunlight has killed out the moral element. And when we fall asleep
in a world that has been irradiated by the light of the Sun. This
slightingly of the food we eat. It is good in itself and belongs to
light, when it is rising in the evening; and while you walk, repeat a
he knew that when a person goes for a walk in the light of the Moon,
lit up, will see the light that rays forth from it out into cosmic
space, — that is, of course, the spiritual in the light. In

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preparations for reincarnation. With enlightening clarity, he
derived. One part is warmth, light, chemical ether, life ether. But
behind all this, behind the warmth and light and chemical processes
the action of the sunlight. Note that I say the sunlight, not the
of its light it drives away the moral essence of the ether. And so it
sunlight has killed out the moral element. And when we fall asleep
in a world that has been irradiated by the light of the Sun. This
slightingly of the food we eat. It is good in itself and belongs to
light, when it is rising in the evening; and while you walk, repeat a
he knew that when a person goes for a walk in the light of the Moon,
lit up, will see the light that rays forth from it out into cosmic
space, — that is, of course, the spiritual in the light. In

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flashes of the lightning. They would like to make the whole of man

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preparations for reincarnation. With enlightening clarity, he
flashes of the lightning. They would like to make the whole of man

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not take such a statement too lightly. Consider that the
life, when we look out info our world, there must be the light
of the sun or some other light shedding its rays upon the
objects in our environment. This light, which is outside,
spiritually of course), we feel an inner light, the existence
of a light which sheds its rays upon our own inner being, in
the same way in which external lights ordinarily illumine the
ordinarily survey only in the form of pale thoughts, light
etheric world, within a world which is filled with light. The
clairvoyance and can therefore shed light upon their etheric
can then shed light upon our higher existence, and this enables
us to recognise within us that light which during the first two
as already explained. The spiritual light which sheds its rays
illumined, as it were, by that inner light which also sheds its
light upon the whole development of the human race during its

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statement must not be taken lightly. Let it be remembered that man owes to
the external world, the sun or some source of light must be there to illumine
the objects around us. Through the light that is outside us, we perceive
can become aware of an inner light ... not in a figurative sense but
as a spiritual reality ... a light which illumines our own inner life and
external source of light.
earthly existence lights up for him, but in such a way that he lives
world of light — just as the spatial body lives in a physical world.
filled his ether-body, or “body of formative forces,” with light,
is able to shed light upon his own higher existence and to realise that he has
within himself the light which during the first
days after death. A man must kindle within himself a spiritual light which
like the “time-body,” is illumined by an inner light, but with
of every single individual, sheds light upon the whole evolution of the human
Event — is revealed in a new and even more radiant light to souls who

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devotion. In order to throw light upon what, in the present age too, can be
in this twilight condition of consciousness humanity unfolded that feeling of
passed through the Mystery of Golgotha. But in this twilight condition of
who tries to approach it in the light of anthroposophical Spiritual Science.
power upon which anthroposophical Spiritual Science is able to shed the light
feeling, just as the light that is kindled within a man's being brings a

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constellation of Leo. It is the Sun now that sheds spiritual light on
longer must he work to make it light again. For we must enter right
fully into the light.
we are fully in the light, then comes the time between death and new
spiritual world, is most steeped in Spiritual light. Yet at this very
steeped again in twilight; the Spirit-sphere remains with him in
heart, the human soul. The more the light of Spiritual Science
unless he opens out his mind to spiritual enlightenment and
enlightenment. When he does this, then also will he realize with ever
bearing the light of spiritual knowledge, while after Him there comes
its light not only on the Earth, but out into the higher realms as
through the things we do. The light of judgment as to what we have
physical. Here too in future time the light of Michael will be

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preparations for reincarnation. With enlightening clarity, he
constellation of Leo. It is the Sun now that sheds spiritual light on
longer must he work to make it light again. For we must enter right
fully into the light.
we are fully in the light, then comes the time between death and new
spiritual world, is most steeped in Spiritual light. Yet at this very
steeped again in twilight; the Spirit-sphere remains with him in
heart, the human soul. The more the light of Spiritual Science
unless he opens out his mind to spiritual enlightenment and
enlightenment. When he does this, then also will he realize with ever
bearing the light of spiritual knowledge, while after Him there comes
its light not only on the Earth, but out into the higher realms as
through the things we do. The light of judgment as to what we have
physical. Here too in future time the light of Michael will be

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advanced by bringing to light the processes that go on during sleep
its earthly course. In the light of this comparison one gets a right

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stapes or stirrup, appears in the light of spiritual science as
‘the eye is formed in the Light and for the Light’. Yes, my
dear friends, but not in the light or for the light that we see.
gestures to the soul that lies behind. Likewise the sunlight: it
penetrates towards us. There is the outer sun, the sunlight comes to
‘other side’ of the sunlight — the soul, the Spirit of
the sunlight, and in this soul and Spirit we ourselves indwell between
death and a new birth. There the Light is something altogether
speak of the Spiritual in the light, I too mean what lies
the light. The finished eye sees the ‘front’ of the light,
Spirit of the light, by that which lies ‘behind’. Thus
eye which sees the light is formed by the soul and Spirit of the
light, ere ever it assumes physical existence here on Earth.’
sense-organs lights up between death and a new birth, and becomes your
an eye? The light is there around me in any case. The eye is only
there to see the light, and I have the light around me anyhow. It
the spiritual light will be around us anyhow.’ It is no wiser
than to say, ‘The light is there in any case. Why should I need
the eye through which he then perceives the spiritual light. And if on

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of the year are brought to light in these inspiring lectures, showing
Word — says to us, the Cosmic Thoughts light up
with this Being light up within you.
Word, and in the inner lighting up of the Cosmic
everything earthly from us — hides it all with light.
lighting up within him. And with these inner aims and
Logos and lighting up of Cosmic Thoughts inwardly, into the
Cosmic Thoughts light up as bearers of morality.
impulses. Just as it is permeated with light, so it is

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of the year are brought to light in these inspiring lectures, showing
earthly existence, earthly happenings. In the light of the
of sunlight. Physical knowledge, therefore, shows us what comes
Sun's warmth and light work upon the plants, forming in them
light to the Earth, is not merely a radiant globe of gas but
someone were able to look through the Sun's light, to regard
the light only as an outer husk and look through to the soul of
that is woven of Light.
sparkles upon the stones, upon the soil. The light is thrown
sunlight sparkles on the minerals, is reflected, enabling us to
see the minerals,’ or, ‘The light and heat of the Sun penetrate
ponder them in the light of Spiritual Science, in what
in so far as they are externally visible through the light
earthly existence the Sun gives light from morning to evening;
our accumulated acts of folly, the spiritual lights grow dark
light in which we must live after death. We go through our

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of the year are brought to light in these inspiring lectures, showing
if rays of light are sent down from Mars or Venus or the Moon,
only to a very slight extent, the moral constitution he

Title: Man/World of Stars: Lecture IV: Rhythms of Earthly and Spiritual Life. Love, Memory, the Moral Life
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of the year are brought to light in these inspiring lectures, showing
and immorality cannot really be explained in the light of
light of Spiritual Science, the moral world has reality —

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of the year are brought to light in these inspiring lectures, showing
in their chimerical lightness and evanescence, so that they are
the light of Spiritual Science. For at the very moment we begin
for all that, greater), or that we are edified and delighted by
is delighting in beauty — people have no inkling of how
these things speaks lightheartedly when he says that if men are
with everything that is delightful there.
foundation has not the right kind of delight in beauty.

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of the year are brought to light in these inspiring lectures, showing
real home to be what he called the Kingdom of Light, the
Kingdom of Light. He wishes to fight against those beings who
Kingdom of Light may not be hampered by these dark beings; he
Kingdom of Light. And if we then pass on to the Egyptian and
light of which he regulates his earthly deeds, he should at the
Spiritual Science. Therefore it ought to be able to shed light
must shed light into them by its way of looking at things.
should be realized that light, for example, is something in
not sit down inactively and desire to let enlightenment from
we genuinely pursue Anthroposophy in the light of Initiation

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of the year are brought to light in these inspiring lectures, showing

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Think of an area of the earth's surface. It absorbs the light and
light and the warmth sink down, as it were, into the soil of the
the light and warmth of the present year's Sun. In the sprouting and
twilight, the man of today who rightly understands the Christmas
light that kindles itself in man.
light in his nature is born out of the darkness prevailing in him.
The true light is born out of the darkness. And from this
darkness light must be born — not further darkness.
intensity that the light of spiritual insight and spiritual vision

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of the year are brought to light in these inspiring lectures, showing
absorbs the light and warmth of the Sun that have streamed to
it during the Summer. The light and the warmth sink down, as it
conjured forth by the light and warmth of the present year's
his thoughts were fading into a state of twilight, the man of
depths of midnight in order to find the light that kindles
experience that what is best and most filled with light in his
The true light is born out of the darkness. And from
this darkness light must be born — not further
light of spiritual insight and spiritual vision must pierce the

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of the year are brought to light in these inspiring lectures, showing
the night just beginning the Light of Christ shone into the
light of the Spirit, he celebrates Christmas in the stillness
endowed by him with the power and inner light enabling them to
light of the Sun speak differently from the cosmic expanse in
its light and warmth which now work in a different way, the
Word were again changing. At this time the warmth and light of
reveal. He read very deep secrets of the universe in the flight
from physical light into physical darkness.
illusion that there is light in external life, in external
must seek for the light which it was Christ's will to bring
will to seek in the darkness for the light.
explains the world but which instead of bringing light, sheds
take hold of the light!
strongest power of will to find in the darkness the light of
the Spirit, then that light will shine as did the Stars of
was of this Light, this radiant Star, that I wished to speak to
intimate stillness to permeate oneself with this Light —

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of the year are brought to light in these inspiring lectures, showing
waking life, the following comes to light. When the Ego and the
light of Spiritual Science, we pass, in the microcosmic sense,

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order to present something once and for all in its true light. I know

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of the year are brought to light in these inspiring lectures, showing
light. I know there are always some who dislike it when clarity

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of the year are brought to light in these inspiring lectures, showing
able only to let them surround it with light. The vegetable
the plant is the kiss exchanged between the Sun's light and the
Ego throwing light across into the future and able to unfold

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quite an indifferent matter whether people are slightly ill or
ordinary life of thought drowns in light

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was no longer the slightest inkling of the way in which the being of
inner experience. But if Anthroposophy did not shed light upon what
intercourse did not enlighten them only in regard to the vital fluids

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their consciousness became dim twilight, even unconsciousness.
through! Get up while the light of the spirit is

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conscious of an inner, glowing warmth, of a kind of inner sunlight. It
Yet delight in beauty must be paid for at the cost of realizing that

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grew thinner and thinner (light color). But below the surface,
a light color, we no longer believed ourselves connected with

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in the light of this thinking, acquired through the natural sciences as
that took into consideration a pre-earthly existence. In the light of
feeling. But modern man has not the slightest notion of what, for
metamorphosis acquires significance only in the light of spiritual

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flashes of lightning, as if from an elementary human emotion,
light, which is kindled during life on earth. Why is it so? Because
knowledge out of the depths of the soul; they bring light into the

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Moral Influences of Light and Unmoral Influences of Electricity.
Moral Influences of Light and Unmoral Influences of Electricity.
went still further. Even light, the honest
light that surges through the world's spaces, was gradually defamed
spheres of Nature. So long as man remained within the light, within
light, or as sound in the world of tones; it was not necessary to
greatest contrast to electricity is LIGHT. If we look upon
light as electricity we confuse good and evil. We lose sight of the
even the light is conceived of electrically, as has been done in a

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civilization was based. It meant that really enlightened people in those
with inner light, inner warmth, and he knows that this inner life, inner
warmth, inner light, has arisen in him during life on earth. He acquires a
And if man is sensible of the light and Life, of the love arising in him,

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poisonous, though only slightly. We would have to know that when
something, therefore, we may notice that slight visual disturbances
knowledge, casts light on all other earthly knowledge — just as

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lightning coming out of the cloud, the rolling thunder, the
facing the universe appears in the light of a spiritual
speaking, in a world of light. But this light continues to shine
were, a covering sheath for this divine light that continues to
light of knowledge which could be kindled within him came to him
gleam in his soul, the brightest light which his enthusiasm may
whole warmth and light of his soul. Inwardly he should again be
spiritual clairvoyance can bring soul warmth and soul light into
darkness, can receive the Cosmic Light, after having overcome, as
Nietzsche we find this longing for the cosmic light, the cosmic
a goal where we do not lose earthly warmth, earthly light, where
anthroposophical way with soul warmth and soul light, then we

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be enlightened about certain facts. Otherwise he cannot

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perceived in the right light, may even be noticed in
that Goethe inherited, as he himself says, ‘the delight

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today no longer have the slightest understanding of human
so-called enlightenment. We should learn nothing about things
souls if light is thrown upon it from another angle.
Art in the light of Mystery Wisdom,

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spiritual Beings of the higher Hierarchies, tremendous light
— which Schiller amended only slightly, particularly
it is grasped in the light of the super-sensible realities

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their thinking is abstract it is full of light and therefore
etheric body, it can be seen distinctly how a form lights up

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region of light.
‘Zeus lives in the clouds or in the light’—
needs the actual sunlight.
throws the light back. The expression is not quite accurate,
but in any case the light must not get behind the mirror.
a slight variation Dr Steiner was quoting the opening

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of his message was formed, not by looking at the sunlight directly in
sunlight was rayed back from the Moon.” And when the gaze was
vision — along with the flooding moonlight the manifestation of
down-streaming moonlight, was observed during the night hours in the
of the Sun itself, to the streaming moonlight. From the way in which
especially from the way they were oriented with the moonlight, there
be related to the flooding moonlight. The universe will speak
differently to earthly man in the future. The light of the Sun must be
welled and woven through by the force of the Sun, by the light of the
space, must be met now by the force of the sunlight itself. And the
to the light flowing back from the Moon; it must be related to the
the flooding moonlight, it was done purely in accordance with what
enlightenment; namely, the image of Christ arising out of the grave in

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after the physical body was turned to dust. In the light of spiritual
of the light.

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People today are like earthworms, I might say, looking for sunlight
under the ground, while to find the sunlight they need to come forth

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experienced a lighting up of his ego. It was as if the ego shone into

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when light and warmth reach their highest point.
enlightenment. And what he wanted above all to obtain from the heavens
a powerful storm broke forth with thunder and lightning, then just in
this outbreak of thunder and lightning men felt the moral admonition
the light-element. In these elements of warmth and light there weave
impulses which were implanted in man as Enlightenment (see
from Enlightenment to Knowledge. It was the right season
midsummer: “Receive the Light” (see diagram). By
“Light,” spiritual wisdom was meant. It designated that
sultry, light-filled element, he felt what came up then in winter as a
summer I stand face to face with Enlightenment; then the heavenly, the
Enlightenment, but something else. Just in that season in which evil
Enlightenment to Cognition, from Knowledge of Spirit
they had said: “Receive the Light,” and in autumn “Look
they had received through Enlightenment. With this, we approach
have Enlightenment, Cognition, Temperance, so for the spring
winter): Enlightenment, Cognition, Temperance, here we must write:
sought especially in the thunder and the lightning for what the
light;” and in autumn, at Michaelmas: “Look around
of light as Wisdom, that is, at midsummer they spoke in a certain way
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the most enlightened spirits even as late as the 18th Century. I shall
That was the feeling still cherished by many of the most enlightened
speak; so that on the one hand, in unenlightened experience of the
I concentrate my Gemüt upon this glowing figure, I let its light
striving for enlightenment would become inwardly and deeply religious.

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in former epochs of human evolution the lighting up of real memory, of
also feel it in the light of the full responsibility we thereby incur
beauty and loveliness of the plant world and finding deep delight in
must find in his Gemüt is the match wherewith to light
only a little match is needed to light ordinary wood, so

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impulse depend upon man's attaining to super-sensible enlightenment
To get a better light on this, let us consider a condition of
astonished at what came to light: he was amazed at sequences he had
But in any case, all sorts of things came to light that were summed
believes that a light shining at a given point in space will appear
the strength of light by the square of the distance, and he calculates
light in this way.
sunlight you have first the physical sunlight. But this physical
sunlight is wholly permeated by the spiritual activities of the sun;
and to speak of the physical sunlight merely as does the modern
holding sway within him. Light is by no means mere phos: it is
phosphoros, light-bearing — is endowed with something
active and psychic. But this psychic element of light is lost to man
July, August, or December. In July it is lightly tinged with yellow;
in accord with the enlightenment obtained by communicating with the
examine what was brought to light by an ancient semi-conscious,
reflects the sunlight that then, under certain conditions, falls on
this sunlight. For a time these observations were applied to the
not only the light-rays of the sun but all the external effects of the
became enlightened in the same way. — Doubtless many a modern college
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of a rose at all — even if it fills us with delight to see this
conceptions of today to that goal where the living enlightenment taken
derive powers from the enlightenment transformed in it, precisely
gap between the purely mental enlightenment anthroposophy has to

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itself in glimmering material light and other such phenomena!
Such truths must be viewed in their true light. It is but a slip-shod
waking life he lives in air and light. This again leads us to
which we bring out of sleep into the body lights up as the voice of
he returns to the body do the thoughts light up in his consciousness.

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(lightning) is uttered, something of the same experience he has
when lightning actually flashes through space? To-day we are inclined
a sign for the phenomenon of the flash of lightning. It was

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as little interfered with as whether he has light or dark hair.

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alive. But one considers this entire thing in the right light only
beheld the descent of Christ in the light of this view. Augustine

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if, through the influence of light during the waking period, the eye
as the influence of light and colour from outside upon the eye is
phosphorescent, glimmering light. It is not surprising that this
light, which streams into the interior of the human being, cannot be
at the same time radiant with light. But the impression made upon the
as warmth, light, and sound, and is thus difficult to describe —
living music, the glowing light, the streaming warmth, intermingled
phosphorescent light — the occult script corresponding to

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to light.* This content is for the most part in the form of pictures,
We will try to-day to overcome this seeming contradiction in the light

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light of day. As a rule the contents of the Gospels are
appertaining to the earth, and our ether bodies the lightness
saved the earth from this flight towards the sun. In this

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simply do not light up within our awareness. And if we look
slightest value if we think this or that theoretically about

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Grace from on high, this world of light revealed itself in and
through the light that filled the mind of man. A veil was then drawn
over this world of light. Yonder in Asia, decadent remains of the
mental life, for the light was now shut off by the wall of which I

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arises a slight difficulty: three hundred years ago this

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light.
the world are unable to form the slightest conception of

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And, if we see in their true light the experiences undergone by

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physical light of the sun.
beyond this locality. The sun, however, sheds its light on all
passage at the end of one Gospel taken so lightly? There it is

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light of the summer sun with the star movements at the season
then science will become enlightened. Then we shall be able to

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past, present and future, in the light of
quarter mystics, are often heard to say how an inner light of the
external world without letting thinking have the slightest influence

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in its purity, in its light-filled inner quality. At present it is in
carry the light of this brightness of the spirit into the darkness of
to-day has to start from the light thrown upon nature, in an
Kepler, Newton and others. This light has then to be rescued,
which in its own light must be sought on the opposite path to that of

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said through this spiritual investigator lights things up for me. It
lights up now in my dreamlike imaginations. I have clothed it in my
experience light unconsciously. In waking life we think about the
effects of light — how it makes shadows and colours appear in
behind. In sleep we enter into the weaving, living light; we
pour ourselves out into the light. And as in day time here on Earth
man, we enter the weaving, waving light, becoming ourself a being, a
substance, of the living light. We become light within the
light.
sleep he lives like a cloud of light in cosmic light. This does not
mean, however, living simply as the substance of light, but living in
thoughts. The light then experienced is everywhere permeated by
animals, besides existing independently as spiritual worlds. Light is
if we may express it figuratively — the weaving, living light
fellow-men so enclosed. But in our sleeping state we are light within
the light, and other beings are also light within the light. We do
not, however, perceive it as light in the way it is perceived in the
light that we ourselves are, perceive other clouds of light.
These clouds of light are either another man, or some kind of being
Light,
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still a certain amount of light, but it gradually becomes darker,
work out laws of nature. They also make experiments to bring to light
with the spreading out of light. As it spreads out from a given source, it
space, I am doing just the same as if I were to light a candle and
to the spiral nebula, the candle would give the same amount of light
those of gravity or of light, no longer hold good. If anyone wished
astral body there is spiritualised light, and cosmic warmth permeated by

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present civilisation. People consider themselves enlightened
whether this does not resemble — if only slightly —
that point with conscious Imagination, the further past lights up in a
go about here among these rocks and look at them in the physical light they
light, while in other parts of the Earth this has long ceased to be
other places. Everything, of course, has a light side and a shadow
rigorously maintained that even enlightened spirits are
foolish. If the sleep is very light — a far more common
comes about when we are in a light sleep without realising it and,

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light ceases and one finds oneself in darkness. But that is not the
whole story, for in reality it is not only light that ceases; light
senses. But in the science of the spirit the word light often
embraces not only light and colour, but everything audible, tangible
there was light, everything becomes dark.
ponderable, of light in the physical sense, which includes everything
man must provide his own light from what he has developed inwardly
light it reflects.
back from the Moon in light but to many other forces streaming from
absence of light, but of the blotting out of everything perceived by
light, by silence and stillness instead of the various sounds in the
a light sleep though still feeling themselves to be in the
this to yourselves. When other people have before them the light of the
physical light, enabling him to look into the spiritual. Then, if he
the darkness the inner light kindled in soul and spirit through
can illuminate it with the light of his own soul and spirit, then

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knowledge alone is able to throw light on this situation. No ordinary
and Inspired consciousness bring to light here things which can be
the external physical sunlight — are revealed to men of
light, he can see the hidden Sun-forces penetrating the otherwise

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well say, bodies of light — with which they move from the most

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thoughts living in light. Here on Earth a thought stays with
light. So that in the spiritual world we can never do anything
slightest movement of the hand involves the action of head, heart and
light. Hence when we look at the Moon and see its light most clearly,

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life is exposed to the light of cosmic judgment, and we learn the
sometimes throw light on the great. A few days ago I said that in

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light this learning to walk on the part of the child. Scientists have
Spirits then laid down the seed of the skill that comes to light when
look at man's future, in the light of present-day conditions on Earth, we

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besides other things which, until they are enlightened, they do not
of natural science in the right light. They are left groping for the
is not right to say: Light streaming from the Sun, for example, goes
The idea that light from a centre streams out into endless distance is
a certain point, and will then spring back, so light goes only to a
elastic, rhythmical. Hence the Sun not only radiates light but is all
life to-day. But its statements about light, for example, are
can show us, in the light of Spiritual Science, what should be rightly
are now able to see it in the full light of spirit and of

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fact that it reflects the light of the Sun is evident to the most
the light of the Sun which has shone upon it and is then reflected.
First and foremost, then, the Moon is a mirror of the Sun's light.
The Moon is not the mirror of the Sun's light only, for it reflects
light being, of course, by far the strongest. All the heavenly bodies
human heart, succeeds in relating himself to the Sun's light in such
to them clear and active light-filled thoughts of his own. And that
and freedom in the light which spreads out into the universe and

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black circle. Or there might be a hole with no light behind it; you
upon him is but a kind of symbolic light which they send to him of
is the reflected sunlight, not the Moon itself. So altogether, only
Sun's light to the Earth is but a part, nay, the smallest part of what
It did not merely reflects the sunlight to the Earth but mingled in
the sunlight something of its own essence. This is however not the
space. Even the physical sunlight is only just reflected on to Earth
shedding very little light. What outer Astronomy can tell us about
understood in the light of the Spirit.
In it there arises Light —
Living Light!
Who is this Light in the Darkness?
will towards the Spirit, a Light can dawn upon us, of which we may in
truth confess: This Light am I myself in my reality.

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while shaded from its physical light prepared them for the ready acceptance
within the Moon-being, not in the light that the Moon radiates back as
reflected sunlight, and not in all the rest of what the Moon radiates
physical nature of the light of the Sun was warded off, a dark space
and being of the Sun's light.
Here at the same time we have thrown light upon the fact that Wotan is

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while shaded from its physical light prepared them for the ready acceptance
of sunlight and the shadows it casts. The Druid priests and the stone
Thus, suppose that I have here some source of light. We all admit that
if I move thousands of miles away from it, the light will become
the light decreases with distance. Ordinary physics states the law
consciousness is so solidly encased nowadays that even the slightest
little chamber, where the light of the sun could be cut off, leaving
year. We are still sensitive to light today, especially if light is
associated with warmth or warmth with light. Present-day consciousness
can naturally also notice the difference between the light of the
differences we can notice in so obvious a fashion in the light, when
the physical sunlight which cannot penetrate there; its activity
the moon. And these are to be found not only in the reflected light of
onwards to the light of the sun. He could see as a unity the activity
she almost embraces one. It really is a delightful experience. I might
evolution lights up into contemporary humanity from a very distant

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while shaded from its physical light prepared them for the ready acceptance
lightning. Because they experienced the spiritual and spiritual
the blossoming of Nature, to the clouds from which the lightning
thought of the light of the Sun streaming down to Earth in the light
interior, after the light had been absorbed by the Earth.
The silver ebb and flow of the moonlight were experienced by man as
flowing moonlight. They knew that man is subject to gravitation as he
star-gods in the silvery light of the Moon flowing and surging through
where the light of the spirit does not shine but where the impulse of
and the Heavens became, so to speak, dark, for the light, though
man's whole mood. Then a light appeared which did penetrate the
light that shone forth on Golgotha. In this way the Deed of Golgotha
body, so that He might bring this light in a new way to men who could
lighter he must restore his heaviness by a strong exercise of will.
kindling of an inner light, it shone forth into the Cosmos and he
its light on these matters, it is possible accurately to describe how
they do not combat this increasing sense of lightness by exerting the
only the external-physical; that is, the physical light. But when the
physical light of the Sun's working penetrates into us, the
seeing the physical sunlight he sees darkness, the darkness then
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while shaded from its physical light prepared them for the ready acceptance
Nature ... the moment you enter, even to the slightest degree, into
that he has not the slightest chance of making such a robe as he now
slightest degree, into the spiritual world through your dreams, your
slightest, sign of the entry of the spiritual, it is assumed to be

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other world is a higher world, a world wherein a kind of light, a
kind of spiritual light or astral light, spiritual existence and
“signposts” there in the astral light, inscribed in
astral light. In the spiritual world and in its communications,
— one can read in the astral light, as one goes about
important spiritual signpost in the astral light. Time and time
light, presenting themselves first as a kind of riddle to be
earth, we share in the effects of its warmth and light. But when a
our overcoat in winter and lighter clothes in summer and taking an
being of light to the etheric eyes of other planetary beings. That is
glow-worms shine with their own light in the meadows at St. John's
majestically beautiful sight, for it is in glorious astral light that
shines out into the cosmos in the St. John's light, and on the other
human beings shining in the astral light and tries to ensnare and
stream down into the human shining in the astral light, has its
reveals itself in the astral light.

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sulphurising processes, which indeed occur also in lightning
light through it — though the light is less relevant to our
fact they do not; they have a certain lightness, adaptability,
though a light were shining out from within them towards men. And the

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out-spreading Intelligence woven through with light; the living
body of light out of the radiant Intelligence. And for this to
seeking to embody himself in a vesture of light, appears in the time
accomplished by Uriel in the radiant light — Uriel, whose own
light. Through the power of attraction residing in the concentrated
upwards, and in the light of this inwardly shining
sunlight, densifying into a glory of gold. One has the
characteristic raiment — the raiment which first lights up in
background for the cosmic, light-filled deeds of Uriel, and a clear
in the light, who calls up in us a powerful impression of the triune,
revealed in the form-giving beauty of the light above, must be
light-filled gold and directing his gaze and his gesture down to the
cosmic union with the living power of light in the heavens above. He

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golden light in the golden radiance of the Sun
the clouds, the rain, the thunder and lightning, and raying also into
— look of Michael. For if we see it in the right light,
lived at a time when twilight was falling over the knowledge of this

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spiritual light, indicating the direction they should take. What is
the near future, one finds in the astral light, as I may call it, such
light, as one such spiritual milestone, consists approximately of the
themselves in the astral light like a directing impulse or human
light-radiant, sun-warmed air; within this they aspire upwards. And as
lightning, too, and thunder, embodied in all the meteoric element
the Sun's warmth and light, is akin to the process that goes on in the
light: —
forth to meet us in the astral light, takes on the likeness of
we think of his countenance as woven from the golden light of summer,
outwards; like a ray of light from within which is sent actively out.
admonitions in the astral light, then to the material use of iron in
This is what calls on us from the astral light — to celebrate

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in this way: it is the slightly more complicated front part of a
the air — the eagle, let us say, in his majestic flight —
light and warmth of which we usually speak. When I described the Druid
are dependent on them, the rhythms of breathing become light because
they strive to rise up to the lightness of the formation of the brain.
light-irradiated air. This is the environment into which the
its death in the light. This light works upon the moth in such a way
of the action of light upon the living.
exactly — the caterpillar cannot rise up to the source of light,
Sun; the passing over into warmth, into light, remains for the
over its whole moth-substance to the light, so the caterpillar weaves
its caterpillar-substance slowly into the light, pauses at night,
flooding sunlight. And now the caterpillar, which has become a
casts itself into the sunlight, and from moment to moment weaves
woven sunlight, only the sunlight is embodied through the substance of
inwardly enclosed. The outer sunlight has in a sense been overcome.
That part of the sunlight to which I referred when I described the
forces of the sunlight make use of the substance of
spiritual light, weaves around the thoughts, as it were, an inner
shimmering in the sunlight. Yes, man is a Microcosm and contains

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atmosphere and to the streaming sunlight that our attention is drawn.
animal circle or zodiac, so that when the sunlight falls to earth from
reflects the entire cosmos in a wonderful light-filled way. There is
the lightning, what rumbles around him in the thunder, what wind and

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forces of the air, the light-imbued forces of the air, are actually
light-irradiated power of the air.
observe an eagle in its flight. We feel him as something foreign to
They have their significance in the universe. And the eagle in flight
other hand the eagle in flight, then you have their remarkable
flight have no purpose, apart from the fact that they can be used in

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fire-globe of Saturn — of the air-globe, the light-permeated,
light-irradiated, glittering air-globe, Sun.
is, however, imbued with light, glittering with light. Here we have
have (Saturn-and-Sun-condition) the essentially warm, light-irradiated
that the light of the sun itself shone in the earth which was still in
radiating light into cosmic space — only through this could the
air, which is irradiated with light, is Saturn-Sun. We look up and
fluttering in the air, in the light-flooded, light-irradiated air. It
light-irradiated air as the butterfly's wings was first formed in germ
the butterfly to be in its very nature a creation of light and air.
The sun owes the gift of diffusing light to itself. The sun owes the
gift that its light can call forth in substances what is fiery,
fluttering butterfly shimmering with light, carried up above the earth
the sun's warmth and the power of the sunlight, is, just during
sun radiates its light and warmth on to the surface. The warmth and
light gradually penetrate deeper. And if in December we wish to look
which are spun into it are spun in the direction of the line of light.
The caterpillar is exposed to the sun, follows the rays of light,
actually cosmic sunlight, sunlight which is interwoven with matter.
silk is actually sunlight, into which is spun the substance of the
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belonging to the light — to the light in so far as it is modified by the
and light, is active in this earthly existence. Actually a butterfly
centred on its joyous delight in the colours of its wings.
creatures, there streams out something still better than sunlight; you
radiate spirit-light into the cosmos! Our materialistic science pays
ever and again flash up into light — what the bird-kingdom, what
every bird after its death sends forth as glittering light, streaming
spirit-light of the butterflies, and a sparkling of the spirit-light
have the light-ether and we have the warmth-ether, which, however,
come chemical ether and light-ether.
light-ether; it is the light-ether itself which is the means whereby
the power of the light draws forth the caterpillar from the
butterfly's egg. Essentially it is the power of the light which draws
entirely a creature of the light. And in that the air is permeated
with light, in this light-air existence, the butterfly chooses not air
existence but light existence. For the butterfly the air is only what
the butterfly's element is the light. The bird flies in the air, but
in the element of light. For the butterfly everything of the nature of
being somewhat dilated, it can accumulate air during flight, so that
together with the air which it inhales, the light which is in the air.
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alighted, together with the dust, on its wings. We must, therefore,
was of the nature of air, undulating, scintillating with light, all he
that the butterfly is really a light-being and the earthly substance
has, as it were, only alighted upon it. If the butterfly itself could
formed of light, and that, as I have already said, it carries about
what has alighted upon it in the way of earthly matter like luggage,
still preserved their nature of light and warmth, and are really only
for earthly matter has alighted upon them. But if we conceive rightly
the fluttering, weaving being of light which is the real butter-fly,
thinking away everything of an earthly nature which has alighted upon
alighted upon it; if we picture the assembly of forces which makes of
spirit-being, as a being of light, to expand to archangelic form. In
essentially a being of light, continually sends spiritualized
air, with the warmth-light element, so what is now added during the
The butterfly rightly regards itself as a being of light, the bird as
light-being, and the bird a being of warm air, so the fish feels
and have built only a slight bridge over to the being of the plants.

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immediately arouses our delight, but it also provides access to
we turn our eyes towards the light and see, so do the root-spirits
root-spirits, that is something which the light has sent into the
of light are to us, the ideas of the universe, and within the earth
behold the roving, wandering gnomes, which are the light-filled
sun, of light and of warmth, they become the chemists who now,
designated as the sylphs. Because air is everywhere imbued with light,
light, relate themselves to it. They are particularly susceptible to
is set in motion by the seagulls' flight there is a spiritual
absorb what the power of light sends into these vibrations of the
another task. Their task is lovingly to convey light to the plant. And
light-bearer. The sylph imbues the plant with light; it bears light
Through the fact that the sylphs bear light into the plant, something
continually carrying light into the plant. The light, that is to say
inter-working of sylph-light and undine-chemistry. This is a
of the light an ideal plant-form. They actually weave the Archetypal
Plant within the plant from light, and from the chemical working of
the inhabitants of the warmth-light element. When the warmth of the
warmth together. Just as the sylphs gather up the light, so do the
the action of the light-ether into the plant's blossoms. And the
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inflowing, an actual inflowing of light. He would also experience this
were, spin and weave around him. He would feel as though the light
were attacking him from all sides, as if the light were something
light. But in all these things I only wish to indicate to you how the
light, with its upholding, gently touching quality, actually appears
a creature of light. The fire-spirits appear as beings which
have already described, where the light touches the surface in a
the creatures of the light, the butterflies, what leads him to the

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which he moves about. He even finds it slightly unpleasant when
slight degree. He likes to feel the earth as something hard, as
At full moon the gnomes are ill at ease. Physical moonlight does not
towards the boundary of their body. And in full moonlight, if one has
against the moonlight which so displeases them. But when the time of
blue lightning through the air, and into their blue lightning, which
lightning. And if one follows this beyond the boundaries of space, it
light and flame of the higher hierarchies as their sustenance; we see
the up-flashing of the greenish-reddish lightning, which is
emanates from dying birds, that which makes their lightning flashes
more vivid than they would otherwise be, for in itself the lightning
these lightning flashes, these phosphorescent and evanescent undines.
appear like shining armoured knights in full moonlight there resounds
inhaled, disappearing in bluish-reddish-greenish lightning into the
world-light, then, as they flash into the light and therein disappear,

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that they may see, so that they may receive the outer light-ether.
blood-channels invade the paths of the nerves even in the slightest
regard to what he himself does, and then to have the delight of going

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autumn crocus with soul-perception without having a slight feeling of
longing for the light-being of the universe, and how the form of the
stream towards this light-being of the universe, and how on the other
world a longing for the wide light-filled spaces of the cosmos; and
back to the spaces of the light.
in nature, the striving back not only to the light-spaces, but to the
wide spaces of light and spirit.
plants, strive towards the light. Man consumes the plant, but within
raise the plants into the sphere of the air so that in this lighter
had enjoyment in its material striving towards the light, has brought
the material up into the sphere of the light. For this it must now
brought the material into the sphere of the light, the blossom, must

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the earth, in what I may call the earth's astral light, there is to be
the astral light. They work into man, but not into what makes up the

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spectroscope and state how far the phenomena of light which reveal
shall come to see later, only in this light do the forms and
will be lighted up by the rays of the Sun, but not his good and evil
experiences after death, sends out a spiritual light which lights up
light of our sins and flaunt our good deeds. An inexorable judge
shines out from man after death, shedding a brilliant light upon the
passes away at death — can be understood in the light of
be understood in the light of Anthroposophy. And this is what we have

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perceptible, belongs, for example, all that streams to us in the light
the light of the Sun is merely what the physicists believe it to be.
The light of the Sun is the manifestation of the Sun-Beings. The
cannot interpret. The light of the stars, the light of the Moon and
other light beside that of the Sun and Moon and Stars is perceptible,
flowing, flooding light of the Sun and the Stars. One who has learned
to gaze into the essence of this light does not look up vacantly at
knows that in this moving, flowing light the threads of human destiny

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which found their satisfaction, their delight, their happiness
darkness is beginning to light up spiritually, that something
for such a light of self-knowledge and spiritual knowledge of

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physical world, or light, or electricity. That we imagine the moral
its true light and in its true being, when we try to understand the

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of the Moon reflects merely the light of the Sun. But for a finer

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gravity (and also the intensity of light) decreases in proportion to
and light in the immediate environment of the Earth have to be
happens when one learns Eurythmy? To-day we lightly utter words
truth, only to be understood in the light of a knowledge of

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super-sensible world, and let them light up again in our hearts in
rock is slightly transparent, slightly translucent. But when our
inner consciousness can light up within us which I may perhaps express
consciousness” with the light — even with the light that
penetrates the hard silicious rock, so that now the light enfills and
light that fills and pervades the silicious rock, the Beings of the
gate of death are only seen in their full and true light when we hear
see in material existence should delight and uplift us. Its real
special relation to these Beings when, following the path of the light
return once again in powers of light, radiations of warmth and light.

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the appearing of the sun out from the colours and the light, so that
certain sense to the sun existence and that you travel with the light
something behind the existence of nature, that the light with which
spiritual in everything. It sees, for example, in the light the
active spiritual beings of light, and so on. It sees in the darkness
light. But we do not see the dawn in this way, especially when we

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will therefore today consider in the light of spiritual knowledge
sunlight in the right way. To the Spartans it was a matter of
see the clouds upon which rests the sunlight. A few days ago you
could see in the late afternoon a kind of red-golden sunlight
In that radiating light which spreads out in the
Luciferic flowing ocean of light. That is a special relationship with
light. Man then feels his thinking, he feels it like a breathing in
the light.
where I speak of the Beings who breathe light.
light-breathing Beings are, if he undertakes the exercises I have
mist and the clouds bathed in light we see how the Ahrimanic and
the light which pours down upon the clouds and is retained by them;
the possibility begins for the light to rest upon the cloud —
while in that which is formed in the flowing light above the clouds

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the day with its interchange of light and darkness. We are related to

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the day only that the sunlight is of course too strong for us to
of the darkness and the sunlight does not confuse you, you can see
perception he became slightly unconscious. He would never be able to
space as the physicists imagine to be the case with light rays. They
heel, whether he treads lightly or firmly, whether he bends the knees

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on, all the lighter so-called metals simply did not exist in that
reflections of light, gleams of light, rays of light, sparkles of
light. And finally the whole was warmed through by the cosmic ether.

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the pupil fell on something like bodies of light raying inwards with
light. And in the midst the pupil then saw a female form, standing

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himself to the in-streaming, refreshingly in-streaming sunlight to
such an extent that the sunlight permeated his inner being with a
yourself to the sun so that with a certain pleasure its light and
as if each individual organ felt slightly different from before. You
as to inner experience of the in-streaming sunlight. In earlier times
his internal parts in reaction to the pleasant in-streaming sunlight.
organism is made sensitive to another through attention to light, you
astral light, he would not now pre-eminently feel himself, but he
in-streaming. The pupil felt the astral light all around him
shining of light, of the shining of soul-light, arose for the pupil.
comes to light in this case only, in a particular example often

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light comes from the constellation of Leo, works in such a way that
of light above him; he saw in the star the spiritual living being,

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meadow in the light of the impression they give of these elements of

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clouds, in lightning, in all these things some sort of spiritual
what he perceives as lightning, what he perceives on earth as rivers,
cloud-formations, thunder and lightning, trees, rivers and mountains

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in the dim twilight of the Inner Temple, and from this twilight their
dim twilight of the inner part of some Temple, and from thence sent
of the world, for that will lead me finally into the Light-region of

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skylight, so that at certain definite times of the day the sun could
be seen through a diminished light. Thus you must imagine that the
roof, in which a skylight was inserted and the window filled with
twilight at a certain definite time of the day. The pupil had been
dimmed direct light of the sun, prepared the pupil to understand the
not merely behold the sun through a diminished light, but for a
light. The physical light of Venus is something quite different from
the sunlight, for instance; for physical sunlight still has a
relationship with what can live on the earth as the light which
belongs to the earth, but as regards the light from Venus, it is
childish to think that it is simply reflected sunlight, for the light
his soul nature to this light he learnt to know what Intelligences
Faust addressed to the moon, the silver shining light of the moon in

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World History in the light of Anthroposophy
light; and in a certain sense, we can say: ‘The Sun lives in
the railway station for a certain place, alighted there and
these that light begins to be thrown upon history. To-day I
in their true shape when we can thus illumine them with light

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World History in the light of Anthroposophy
lightning (to take a simple and obvious illustration). You know
very well what a flash of lightning looks like to a man of
cosmic space. The lightning as such they did not see. They saw
lightning could become manifest.
as Divine will. And the Initiate, who saw the lightning come

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World History in the light of Anthroposophy
Occult History. Historical Personalities and Events in the Light of Spiritual Science
Stuttgart, a kind of enlightened cognition; clairvoyance,
sought enlightenment; and it came about that these Spiritual
receives intuitions and enlightenment from Eabani, and so
received a certain enlightenment; although, as is always the
enlightenment might be doubtful in some respects. Nevertheless
a degree of enlightenment was there, a certain insight into the
the enlightenment he had received was almost entirely
inwardly and was powerfully lit up from within with the light

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World History in the light of Anthroposophy
— one takes it quite lightly! But the training of
overwhelming feelings that trouble the clear light of
delighted especially in picturing it. It is indeed significant,
light. It shows itself in this, my dear friends. Owing to
light-ether, the chemical ether and the life-ether — was

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World History in the light of Anthroposophy
this slight connection with the Cosmos. Through the airy part
of the astral light is, comparatively speaking, easy for one
light, and he will at first be dazed and stupefied. He will be
there is a splendour and a light shed abroad over this
earth-directed tendency, a light of which we shall hear
Ages. In Greece, a light was there. Of the shadow-pictures,
even the fading shadow-pictures of the evening twilight of
clear enlightenment concerning what was present, as it were in
Ephesus was finally put out the light that had come over from
marvellous feat was thus performed! The light that had come
flaming torch of Herostratus, — this light, or rather its
to view in a true light that ancient chapter in man's history,

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World History in the light of Anthroposophy
makes no allusion, or at most very slight allusion, to the
make: the human soul took the greatest delight in fetching up
picture of it was present in the astral light.

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World History in the light of Anthroposophy
of those substances which occur in a slight measure only in the
condition. It is quite impossible to find even the slightest

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World History in the light of Anthroposophy
Golgotha in a true light, when we add to all else we have
gentle light of the physical eye. Then it was possible to find
the gentle light of whose eyes the pupil discerned the language
Spirit in the astral light. And when we look back into the
pain does not grow less when one beholds in the light of
Light of the Spiritual Cosmos are brought to expression. I know
flame lights up in our hearts. Yea, and the flame in our hearts
shall shed new light and warmth on all that was purposed and

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World History in the light of Anthroposophy
World History in the Light of Anthroposophy
in the light of these concepts and ideas. If with these
vigorous, light-filled Anthroposophical Society will come into
Spirits of Light!
World-Being's Light
the Beings of all Worlds, craving for Light.
The Spirit-Light of the World
Day-radiant Light
Light that gives Warmth
Light that enlightens
O Light Divine,
Enlighten Thou
world. And help will be vouchsafed to you, enlightening
us by the light of this star.
O Light Divine,
Enlighten Thou

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and there began to light up, in its place, the consciousness of the
element in consciousness, full of light, so that thought turns
directly into light, illuminating everything — such an idea
the Cherubim let their own light-filled being stream forth from this
Light. Saturn is dark; it gives warmth. And now within the
is inwardly shone through with light and at the same time it becomes
And in the revelation of Light we have the entry of the Second
perception would see the event as a penetration of Light; it
is Light that reveals the path of the Beings. And wherever Light
form of Light, shadow also comes to pass. What is shadow? It is Air.
Air comes forth from the Cosmos as the shadow of Light. In
Saturn warmth, the entry of Light and we have too the shadow of
Light, Air. And when we have this we have Sun. Such is the way one
Element of Light, Light that has drawn after it its shadow, the darkness
the darkness that is simply absence of Light, but the darkness that
is wrought out as the antithesis of Light. And now to this Element of
Light the Third Hierarchy — Archai, Archangels, Angels —
Archangel Being enters, and comes upon an Element of Light,
encounters, as it were, a place of Light. In this place of Light the
Being receives, through its receptivity for the Light, the urge, the
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Revelation a light, an enlightenment that comes from the Gods. If you
your soul has felt in the hollow clefts of the Earth, with the light
he must put forth in his soul to arouse to activity the light of the
light of all I have been telling you lately, it will not sound so
picture of something to which I have made a slight allusion in my
reality there were in those times many enlightened spirits, of such a
kind however, that the “enlightened” spirits of today
cannot understand their light and consequently remain in the dark.
of modern times, that men take light for darkness and darkness for
light. If however we can look into what lies behind the literature of

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times, shed its radiant light into the writings.

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overshone, as it were, by the light of the Sun, and thereby assume

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twilight. It is difficult to find any trace of that old wisdom in
pupil to learn to feel what lies in the words: “Light streams
very interesting. This teaching brought to light in a practical
interchange with the astral light, and to perceive by means of the
astral light his whole life long. The dog scents only that which has
everything that is in his thoughts into the astral light; and now he
into the astral light, then he learns to know the true substance of

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the type and standard: he reveals the way in which an enlightened
“the astral light,” — i.e., in the fine
light.
world. This knowledge could be written in the astral light so that
astral light. But the earth acts as a ground of resistance. In the
forth from their souls was able to be written in the astral light by
there were plants or stones, the astral light reflected back to him
the air. The Greek saw his Zeus, his gods, in the astral light; but
he had the feeling that the astral light only reflected the gods to
resistance to the inscriptions in the astral light. And so it
air in the astral light. Thus they had clear knowledge of the fact
the astral light, but only the element of the warmth-ether. It is
the astral light. They are written there indeed; but in this process
the astral light. What is thus contained in the astral light —
visions inscribed in the astral light by virtue of the air. This time
light. Now the warmth-ether is transient and fleeting; all things
wrote very much in the astral light with the help of the resistance
appeared, the whole of the astral light, destined for man, was like
astral light. To a certain degree the tablet was inscribed; yet
stood written in the astral light. But now, my dear friends, the time
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and standard: he reveals the way in which an enlightened spirit
called from time immemorial “the astral light,” —
in the astral light.
world. This knowledge could be written in the astral light so that
astral light. But the Earth acts as a ground of resistance. In the
forth from their souls was able to be written in the astral light by
there were plants or stones, the astral light reflected back to him
The Greek saw his Zeus, his Gods, in the astral light; but he had the
feeling that the astral light only reflected the Gods to him under
inscriptions in the astral light. And so it remained until the fourth
air in the astral light. Thus they had clear knowledge of the fact
afforded resistance to the astral light, but only the element of the
abstract thoughts are also written in the astral light. They are
the astral light. What is thus contained in the astral light —
inscribed in the astral light by virtue of the air. This time it goes
warmth-ether in the astral light. Now the warmth-ether is transient
old Persian epoch wrote very much in the astral light with the help
old Persian epoch appeared, the whole of the astral light, destined
astral light. To a certain degree the tablet was inscribed; yet in
experiences of theirs stand written in the astral light. But now, my
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the Earth, how the Sun increases in strength, how light and warmth

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embraced the physical body as well. In what light does one familiar
be reawakened to an enlightened
the ground, the Sun gaining power, light and warmth increasing.

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ground, the sun gaining strength, light and warmth increasing,

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coming of light and warmth; he needs the resurrection of Nature

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the true light. But I have to draw attention to matters which must

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the right light. But certain matters antedating the science based on
to true enlightenment, to initiation, was that everything offered the
when the candidate had learned to study Nature in the light of what
of gaining enlightenment or knowledge by earthly means alone is
that the craving for the physical body must cease if enlightenment
enlightenment must despair at the official chemistry of today,
wisdom saw the Mystery of Golgotha in this light when it took place.

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light. But certain things transcending ordinary science must be
brought to light since the study of documents cannot lead to a
of Golgotha saw that Mystery in this light. They asked

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spiritual Sunlight the power of Christ, the Son, was active,

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the radiating light of the stars, and so forth.
appears to us in the physical light as the Full Moon. Thus the Moon is
of this etheric body he needs the forces of the light, for along with
flowing light of the Cosmos. But Sunlight is useless for this purpose;
Sunlight can provide no forces enabling the human body to form his
etheric body. For this, the light shining from the Sun to the Moon and
reflection the Sunlight is essentially transformed. In effect, all the
light that rays forth from the Moon into the Cosmos contains the force
our Earth through light and darkness, and on the other hand we have
altogether within the Moon-radiating light. He had left the Earth. He
Earth and lived as a being in the Moon light. But this Moon light was
become a light being of the Moon. I do not mean it in a symbolic sense
into the light-radiating spheres of the Moon Beings, clothed in a
light body, and through his unison with the Moon Beings he had looked
became one with the Moonlight. But through the Moonlight life of his
sends its light to the Moon because he may not give it to man
directly. Thence we have the Moonlight in unison with the planetary
Moon is a bearer of Sunlight, so man became a bearer of the Christ, a
Earth and rose to the Light-Being as earthly man upon the way of
himself and said: “I can unite myself with the Moonlight”,
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movements of the planets, through the light raying forth from the
appearing as full Moon in physical light. So the Moon is present
outer side is being formed the forces of light are needed, for, like
out of the flooding light of the cosmos. But sunlight cannot be
enable man to build his etheric body. This calls for sunlight
the light coming to us from the Moon — in fact, all the light
outer light and dark of the Moon.
through light and darkness in its course around the Earth, and on the
in the light shining from the Moon. He had left the Earth, no longer
a creature of flesh and blood, and lived in moonlight modified by
observation he simply became a light-being of the Moon — not in
light-sphere of the Moon, and that he had borne a light-body; and
moonlight; but it was by means of his own moonlight existence
And now he reflected as follows: the Sun sends its light to the
moonlight in conjunction with the planetary forces, and out of this
a sunlight bearer, so man became a Christ bearer, a
light-being; and imagine this inner, human Easter experience of
said, I can unite with the moonlight. They looked at the Moon, the
from the Earth and up to the Moon. But it must be the light of the
It must be the light of the full Moon. ...
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wanderings of the planets, still others in the radiant light of
spiritual manner than when it appears in the physical light as
forces of light, for in addition to other substances the
etheric body is composed primarily of the streaming light of
the cosmos. Sunlight, however, is of no use for this. Sunlight
their etheric bodies. To obtain these we need the light that
in this process the light is essentially changed. All the light
we receive from the moon, the light that the moon sends out
between light and darkness. And this is possible only because
between light and darkness as it orbits around the earth, and
moon's radiant light. One actually left the earth.
moonlight, but in the moonlight structured and modified by what
kind of spiritual observation one actually became a light-being
spirit and soul. Clothed in bodies of light and united with the
moonlight, but looked at the same time toward the sun.
Initiates grasped that the sun shines its light upon the moon
because it may not directly transmit that light to human
beings. We then have moonlight in conjunction with the
sunlight-bearer, the initiate became a Christ-bearer, a
ascended to become a being of light.
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the light streaming from the stars, and so on.
spiritual way than when we see its physical light at the time
part of the etheric body he requires the forces of light, for
of waves of cosmic light. Sunlight is not fitted for this;
sunlight cannot supply the power which enables man to form his
etheric body. For this purpose light is needed that has shone
the moon again, and through this the light has become radically
changed. All the light coming from the moon, and streaming from
in periods of light and darkness round the earth; on the other
actually and entirely within the rays of the moon's light; they
had left the earth and dwelt as beings in the moonlight, but in
moonlight that was modified and transformed by what lived in
Light-being of the Moon. This must not be taken in a symbolic
light-sphere of the Moon, that he had been clothed with a
light-body, and, because united with the Moon-beings, he had
be one with the moonlight, but that through the
moonlight-existence
its light to the moon because it must not impart it directly to
man. He receives the moonlight united with the forces of the
bearer of the sunlight, so such a man was a bearer of the
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guided and instructed in the forming of his light-ether body.
We want to gain a true and vivid conception of how this light-ether
the Goddess spoke: “I delight in all things fruitful and creative
He knew what it was to feel himself as a form of light, for this
process of receiving one's form of light through the Moon was made
this creating of one's being out of the Sunlight that wove around the
then the approach of the light-ether body in the A —
sound J O A within the light. Then one was truly MAN -
light-radiant etheric body. One was sound within the light. And so
Offspring of all the Worlds! Thou Form of Light,
Offspring of all the Worlds! Thou Form of Light,
Offspring of all the Worlds! Thou Form of Light,
Here man is feeling himself within the power of the Moonlight.
And from Jupiter the light pours forth:
life in Ephesus was filled with radiant light and colour. In this life
of inner light and colour there was contained all that they knew of
with inner light and intimate joy how the harmony of the spheres had
from the standpoint of the Moon, how the radiant astral light of the
world had shone forth for them, how they had felt it in the Sunlight
quivering around the Moon, the Sunlight filled with the spirit of the
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enlightenment and a spiritual life of humanity is really not
other means of enlightenment. Today it must be the latter, for the
existence, is guided in forming his light-ether
If we would observe and rightly understand how this light-ether
everyone's own experience to feel himself as a light-being,
because the act of receiving his light-form from the Moon was
forming himself out of the sunlight that circles around the
A (the approach of the light-ether body), joining in J O A. Then,
time felt himself to be the sound J O A in the light. Then he was a
light-ether body. He was sound in light. That is the nature of cosmic
World-engendered being, thou art shaped in light,
World-engendered being, thou art shaped in light,
being feels himself to be in the power of the moonlight.
life in Ephesus was colorful and aglow with inner light. Epitomized
radiant astral light of the world shone on them, where they sensed it
in the spiritual sunlight flooding the Moon: in other Mysteries the
saturation of man's soul and spirit with astral light was not
centuries! What a wealth of spiritual light and wisdom had suffused
World-engendered being, thou art shaped in light,
whose inner power and light, however, remain to be re-disclosed. And
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speak, in words such as this: “I delight in all
hear the goddess thus express her heartfelt delight in
was able to experience himself as a figure of light formed by
out of sunlight transformed by the moon. In the midst of this
he felt himself living within the light. Now truly human, he
light-filled etheric body. Sound within light — such is
being, thou clothed in light,
being, thou clothed in light,
light permeated the spiritual life of Ephesus. In fact, all
moon. The most brilliant astral light of the cosmos
appeared to them there: they sensed it in the sunlight
glimmering around the moon, pervading that light with spirit in
experienced throughout the centuries, how much spiritual light
being, thou clothed in light,
this light-filled wisdom lies, as it were, in the grave,
is of course our mission, my dear friends, to bring to light
as a result of the astral light that streamed up from the

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feel himself as a light-form was an individual experience to
and living fact to them that their light-forms came to them
self-construction out of Sunlight that came to them, though
and they perceived the approach of the Etheric-Light-Body in
the J O A was such that he felt himself to be in the light,
luminous, shining etheric body. Man was then tone in light.
Thou Being, offspring of worlds, who in thy Light-form art
Enlightened by the rays of Jupiter's wisdom, And by the
moonlight.
the moon. In no other place had the astral light of the world
appeared so luminous as when perceived in the light of the sun
flooded by the softly glimmering light of the moon — and
spiritualized by this astral light as man is ensouled by
those who belonged to this Temple! How much of spiritual light
will once more emerge and find the Light of the world, men will
shall experience in full sunlight, not in the old-time
astral light ... this impulse works back again into the

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and more presenting Anthroposophy in a false light. This has been done
with all that streams down, as light and warmth, from the sun to the
spiritually — light around him; the moment he looks back upon

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seeing a distant object — a light, let us say — that shines
not ceased to be; it is still there. Just as, in space, light can shine

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the stars by their light. Now light, and all that we perceive in the
world by light, is an etheric phenomenon. Thus, no matter how far we
moon, except that it shows us reflected sunlight. He knows that moonlight
is reflected sunlight, and gets no further. He does not take into account
disposition — this directs to the moonlight, not only the instinct
us every morning, calling us from darkness to light, but is the source
relationship between them, for they send us the same light. Then we
of the sun begins. They now enter, to a certain extent, the bright light
earth with reflected light.
and interweave in our destinies, just as moonlight passes into sunlight,
and sunlight into moonlight. Indeed, the interweaving takes place in
between us. People of whom we cannot dream make only a slight impression
them in space, and things of real significance come to light. However,

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body. We see it light up and die away.
light up and fade away, yet are bound up with what is most valuable in
that lights up and dies down, and the body is recognised as coming from
I told him to think: Wisdom is in the light. He was to apply the whole
force of his soul again and again to the thought: Wisdom is in the light.
same way we learn to know what the rays of the sun, the light of the
see nothing; by day the sunlight from beyond the earth makes all objects
the light of the sun, but on earth I am only interested in the difference

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grammes at most. It is so much lighter because it floats in the cerebral
the physical leg is lighter in water by the amount that this water-leg
weighs. It is lighter by just this amount. Likewise the weight of our
together. Behind them is a source of light. You can have the radiance
of the light here, but the source is behind — it need
not move forward that its light may shine here.

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now know that man's astral body, when within the physical, delights
sparkling radiating light; in the latter the creative thoughts gradually
in regard to his inner life of soul which, again and again, lights up
world. He now sees in a new light the two thoughts that I have put before
of my inner life. Thou lightest up and diest down; and in my inner being
appear in a new light, for we begin to feel ourselves akin to the cosmos

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violent man. Seen in this light, dreams become extraordinarily interesting
moment just as we cannot paint a flash of lightning, but only its

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warming or chilling, lightening or darkening action (there are manifold
to the world of dreams, and see it in a new light. Perceiving man's

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can describe as the flight of our memories out into the cosmos. And
standing in the light or shadow of these beings in whom we are beginning
it is as if light were calling us to fresh spiritual life. We experience

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only need to touch them slightly, and they fall asunder into dust.
The rays grow-weaker and weaker, it is true, yet the light goes on
explained what nonsense it is to imagine that the light goes on and
the expansion of light is subject to a kind of elasticity. If you
same for the light: it does not go on and out into the endless void.
very idea — that the light does not go on indefinitely, but to
think, when the sun sends out its light, that the light goes
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is true, weaker and weaker. The light goes on and on and on, it
lectures that it is nonsense to imagine that the light goes out
light is dependent on its elasticity. If we take a rubber ball
into place. This I have said is also true of light. It does not
fact, that light does not expand out into the boundless, but
light, this continues on its path endlessly. Sir Oliver Lodge
that light comes to a boundary and then returns again. The sun
receives back its light from all sides, although in another
light. Let us now employ this mode of thinking on what we have

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senses. Our other relations to the mineral are very slight. You need
body has become lighter. And if you now investigate how much, it will
prove to have become as much lighter as is represented by the weight
the body — immersed in the water — will become lighter by
in his bath. He sat in his bath, and found his leg grow lighter or
thereby becomes so much lighter that it only weighs 20 grammes. The

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extremely slight. Just consider how very little of a mineral
the other pan becomes lighter. If you then investigate how much
lighter the object in question becomes, you will find that it
is lighter by an amount equal to the weight of the fluid which
leg became lighter or heavier, according as he inserted it in
lighter than formerly that it weighs only 20 grams. The brain

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greater; though outwardly they were perhaps slighter in build than
building of the house is due to you. Seen in this light, you will not

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correspondingly greater, although they were perhaps of slighter
this light, you will not feel your freedom impaired through the

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delight in the conduct of other men, if we understand their conduct

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the air and the light, from all that he absorbs in a very
finely-divided state from air and light, and so on. When this is
sympathetic expression — who did not take delight in beautiful

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Psycho-Analysis in the Light of Anthroposophy
finely diluted condition from the air and light, then we shall
expression, who did not take delight in the art of painting in

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We have the clearest and most light-filled consciousness in our ideas
cell-structure, and there the ideas are lighting up and vanishing

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was a man of medium height, not stout, in fact rather slight in
“Swabian thrashing”! Such expressions differ slightly in
service — and Spaun too, who had not the slightest taste for
level with the passions, the hopes, the blighted expectations, the
interesting only when we study them in the light of karma.

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alone brings reality to light and reveals the true, inner connections
real connection comes to light. The connecting threads running
spirit, he was always delighted when he heard the philistines running
vision, that one lights upon the Imaginations which lead behind the
elsewhere in a false light. For men assert that the mechanistic
so a representative personality, viewed in the right light, is an

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can throw light on the way in which destiny works through the course
arm. In the surge of the wind and in the flickering of the light in
Light
destiny. In this case, at any rate, quite a different light was
published writing at any rate, The Twilight of Idols, which
lights on a very apt expression when he speaks of him as having the
Twilight of Idols.
the truth, marvellous enlightenment is shed upon life.
can, I think, throw a great deal of light upon the nature of human

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that at every point some light is shed on the workings of karma.
the light of the fact that while Charles the Great did much to
in the astral light, as we say, when we have him before us as a
we shall find a light shed upon something that seems to come like a
bolt from the blue — we find a light shed upon it when we

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sentence a delight to read.
lightning, like a flash of genius. We cannot account for its
Dialectics of Hegel. Now he came to Vienna, a tall, slight man filled

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now, once we have been led in a certain direction, explanations light
delightful about his way of doing things! Fundamentally speaking, he
of enlightenment.” There is something in all this that stirs
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light in the Oriental culture of the 8th and 9th centuries. For he
8th–9th century, and you will find a new light falling upon
in the light of the repeated earthly lives of individual human
[Not St. Columba, but a slightly younger Irish monk
throw light on relationships belonging more to everyday

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the people who ‘understand’ him so light-heartedly.

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the revelations of the Spirit vouchsafed in the age of Light that has

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World-History in the Light of Anthroposophy.
open to one, the secrets of the evolution of humanity light up from
flight in Platonism. With his spiritual vision he could accompany
Plato in this heavenward flight, in this soaring above the earth, and
Platonic School, one takes too slight a hold of the body in the
appear in quite a different light when considered in the setting of

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to light which enable us to understand how certain decisive actions
Baden, near Vienna. Details gradually came to light and at first
alone would have precluded the slightest shadow of
came to light in a curious way.
investigation into the Nero destiny shed light on the subsequent
the consideration of good and evil, viewed in the light of karma:
the outward gaze lights upon the forms displayed in sacred

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little we notice any slight difference in the behaviour of another
light. We need a fine sense for the intimacies of life, which

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ultimately enable a man to perceive, in the light of karma,
impressions of light, of colour, of their own accord. We can at most
second, the third, the tenth, you get a slight headache. It is not
asleep; you get a slight headache from it. Only you must not regard
picture slightly changed, slightly transformed. You find it again ...
experience we may wish to see through in the light of
picture of what he has experienced, how he got a slight shock, and
slightest degree if one hopes to come to anything in the spiritual
reaching anything. This simply must be avoided. Even a slight
fancifulness, slight capriciousness, must be avoided. For all this
the light of absolute clarity of mind, of absolute soundness of head
very slight daily madness, than Anthroposophy. All madness would

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begin a series of studies which will throw light on the unfolding of
nothing in it were of the slightest interest to them. They have taken

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that the ‘magic of moonlight’ — to use a romantic
sunlight — bright in the spiritual sense. If you perceive what
is evil in him, it is dark, like a spot where no sunlight can

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nature in man can be understood in the light of the processes
man's life, something that throws light on the forces and

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in the lightning and the thunder. He knew too that under certain
experienced by a man in a previous earthly life, wisdom and its light
Saturn-sphere. Everything presented itself to him in the light of the
light cast by the Saturn Beings over the far, far distant past, and
their light into the future and came to expression in a

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totally misconstrued if they are associated in the very slightest

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light are reflected and refracted in a peculiar way so as to call forth
wonderful configuration of radiant light, the invisible and
certain stars suddenly light up at certain times, — processes
before, light up for a time, and disappear again. Thus in the Cosmos too
way from the astral world into the etheric, we behold new stars light up
astral body have feelings of delight and comfort in the most varied
not only radiate light, it radiates Space itself, and when we are
the light; the Sun creates the Space itself. And the movement of
of the Cosmos, and forth from the reddish light the stars no longer
streaming through and out of him in the lilac-reddish light. No longer
now are the stars glimmering points of light; they are radiations of
stars lights into the soul, and lights forth again from the soul in the
our anthroposophical understanding. Something must light up and shine

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lightning-like rapidity through all our earthly lives. This is a
thinks deeply will not put it lightly aside. As he ponders it all he

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which the sun sheds its light. And what is there in the whole compass
The sun is the source of the light and the life of
a blue, glimmering light arise from the evening twilight and
side of it with a bluish-red light. But this bluish-red sheen is not
first appears as a blur in the distance, then the bluish-red light
starry heavens with its sparkling points of light, perhaps with the
how this not only strikes, lightning-like, into the weaving and

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be viewed in the light of their inter-connections, which need not
taken place. Contemplating the event in the light of spiritual
of nature and of civilisation it is, in the last resort, light that
a dark, dense cloud. For the light which Lucifer kindled in human
background of existence. In the light of such knowledge, events do

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throw light on the mood-of-soul of the civilisation of the
the twilight of the Intellectual or Mind-Soul age.
souls they underwent the evening twilight of an age, and

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light on the mood of soul of the civilisation of the present
who lived in the twilight of the Intellectual or Mind-Soul
Deep in their souls they underwent the evening twilight of an

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contrast-of-light so great as it is to-day, in the realm of
the realm of Seraphim, Cherubim and Thrones, lighted up
vanishes, and we behold in clear, radiant light what became
dazzled by the light of the new Age of Light. But as a
not there before, — what is coming to the light of

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shines and lightens down upon us the soul-life of those who
in this light, during his life between death and new birth.

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World History in the Light of Anthroposophy.

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“I have been living in a world filled with light, in
waking. It was delicate, it was light and intimate, but it
meadow land as though there were spread over it a slight
height of noon-tide), it was as though a bluish-red light,
today, when a slight mist hangs over the meadow (which
astral aura. Slightly, delicately, and only intimately,
light was working in a rather gentle way; — but seen
times. But they still existed — though in a slight
the light-filled spaces of the cosmos in which I partook
awakened that in his sleep he had been in a world of light
certain conditions in the gently luminous light of the sun:
evening twilight of the living Word below. And they had the
feeling that it was the twilight of the Logos. “The
evening twilight of the living Logos.” Well may there
leaving the physical body to a slight extent. He was
true, men still had a slight feeling of being
however slight, of being transported — carried away.

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the Spiritual, however slightly.
mighty revelation under the influence of the slight
spiritual light, — they all of them entered into the
the same time with Platonic spiritual light.

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turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. An age of light has
say that this age has begun in a very light-filled way. It
human evolution, to reach the light of spiritual life. It
habits on into the 20th century; and just because the light
light was prepared for through the fact that at the end of
the new Age of Light beginning in the 20th century. For the
light-filled Spiritual Intelligence.
lightning flashes; one hears a mighty, rolling thunder. It
in spiritual lightning and thunder. Yes, it was so indeed.
worlds, surrounded by mighty lightnings and thunderclaps.
thunder and lightning. This should be understood, my dear
friends, for these thunders and lightnings must become

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— the clear, light-filled Intelligence.
take these words lightly or easily. We have but human words
sound, they are not lightly meant. Of all these Angels, the
lightning upon a spirit living in that age. I mean Raymond

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Now I want you to consider in this light the karmic

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consider in this light the karmic conditions of individual

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as a uniform disc of light. There were no Sun-spots.
transition from the dark to the light age — one did

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investigator brings to light requires only the healthy human intellect,
sunlight reveals itself by shining in through the window. He is still
consciousness is dimmed in any way, he often labours under slight
the streets, we see the lights of the street-lamps in definite outlines.
But if the evening is misty, we see these same lights haloed by all
give us an experience of the inmost nature of these lights, connected
earthly lives. In those times, when the sun's light by day grew weaker,
twilight.
twilight consciousness has passed away, has died out in the course of
Just as the sun's light is reflected to our physical eyes from all
a living reality in all physical beings. As the physical light is

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must contemplate life itself in the light of karma and repeated earthly
from other things he has brought to light. Indeed we ought not to have
life, a human being will naturally appear to us in the light of these
acquaintance. On the contrary, my seeing them together shed light as it
known, it shed its light still farther, and eventually I was enabled to
made. But once this has been done, a great light is shed on many things.
such is his style. Real light is thrown upon it when we point to these
acquired in embalming mummies, with his style so wonderfully light
a very remarkable light may suddenly arise, a light truly astonishing.

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effects only to a very slight extent.
in such an individuality in a former incarnation can come to light in
evolving out of the activities of the light and air, and of the foaming
light and air, water and earth, the elemental spirits. We see too how
light and air and water and in the earth, for even in these there lived
surface of the ocean. He saw what lived in the light nature of the sun,
the sunlight approaching the trees and the spaces between the trees
day, a Christianity before the Mystery of Golgotha which shed its light
a powerful convulsion of his soul, to which was added a slight attack of

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deep reserve with which enlightened spirits in the Middle Ages avoid
light, in their mysterious occult influences. Thus from the Goddess
post as an Ambassador in Spain suffered at the same time a slight

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the mysterious radiations of light from the School of Chartres which we
devoted to it, one felt as it were a twilight mood of the spiritual
things. Hence there was a feeling of evening twilight in the spiritual
the dim light of her writings, from the dim light that lived as a
who felt in Chartres the evening twilight mood of a living
supplement what I then said by referring to the evening twilight mood of
that shed their light upon the evolution and history of mankind,

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the substance of the ancient Mysteries at a time when their light was
Apostate had received light up again in modern time in Tycho de Brahe.
over him as an inspirer, we read the lightning-flashes of genius in the
But in each case we need the spiritual light
behind, the light which works within the super-sensible. For what came to

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to give certain indications which will throw light, not only on the
cosmos. On it he would find perhaps darker and lighter spots which he
they are real; they hit us if we knock against them; they send us light
we need to penetrate the facts of karma, is only possible in the light

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making light and joking about most important things that met him in the
mischievous delight when things in the world which look important turn

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Mazdao, the great Spirit of Light, who sends his impulses into the
zodiacal circle. These then are the light aspects in the dualism which
light of all his spiritual life. You will not find it in the
those years, looking out through narrow slits into the sunlight of
the strong tendency to intellectual enlightenment, repudiating his
raying in from without. Everywhere else and all around is light, only
— What is morality? Weiniger answers the question thus. The light
knows light knows true morality. Hence in the deep-sea fauna and flora
which lives without the light we must seek the source of all immorality
lighted surface. He took a special delight in doing so. Here you have

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certain ages only to light up again repeatedly. For Platonism is

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today — the day when the Michael mood of dedication must pour its light
art, which already on earth shone with the bright light of the stars. We
was so radiant with light, showed itself now to him in the great cosmic
And all that he has painted in shining light for the followers of Christ
again in all its spiritual light and glory.
in the light Michael Thought, have indeed received it with true and faithful
the light that through the Michael stream and the Michael activity will be
Michael may feel when, clothed in the light rays of the Sun, Michael appears
this Michael garment, this garment of Light, shall become the Words of the
To whom your Word of Light shines forth

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earthly and material domain simply through the light it sheds upon
remarkable confirmation of this fact has come to light.
investigations something else came to light. Because of the methods

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Initiation science which can actually bring to light the inner
source of enlightenment. A comparison I have often used is that just
for it brings wonderful things to light. But no real knowledge of man
took delight in his environment. But this quality, too, was acquired
this gift of taking delight in his environment? He has it if in a
too, odd things come to light. I have known men who had been talking
to a lady in the morning but in the afternoon had not the slightest
wearing a black or a light coat. There was no inner connection with

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leading lights of the Theosophical Movement who at that time regarded
inner, spiritual matters. At that period the leading lights of the
lights of the Theosophical Society. It therefore remained a task
can also remember how shocked the leading lights of the Theosophical
the most enlightened men in Asia. People to-day have little

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understanding of the karma of personalities known to us all, light
the socialist leader. Just think what a light is shed upon world history
he can make absolutely nothing. — We might vary slightly one of
Maeterlinck is certainly a high light in our modern culture and yet

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on Earth we experience the wind, the lightning, the flow of water,
where burning gases diffuse light and heat. For the eyes of spirit

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their light, and from the period between the fifty-sixth and the
mysteries. Merely through the light which radiates towards us in this
disturbed even in the slightest degree. This was intended to signify
past illumined by the light of Initiation, arrived on Earth, it
invariably spring from decadent Mysteries. This throws light on an

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that it sheds light upon his karma, upon all the things that at
When with great delight they brought their findings to me, I
these findings did not interest me in the slightest. The

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the plight of a good many people to-day! Very well, then: where
the consciousness of Inspiration, light is shed upon the
world. In order to perceive all these connections in the light

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it refreshes and delights us, or it may bring tragedy and pain.
to light from the depths of spiritual life by very penetrating
to light. The life of an individual is certainly not
studied in the light of such foundations, when we can perceive

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coming incarnation. This knowledge sheds light upon the
world-history, in order that light may be shed upon things that

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perspective of history, light will also be shed upon
investigation to shed light upon them, their explanation is
light that as Earth-evolution runs its course, human beings
think of how delightful it would have been to have lived in
geometry book that fell into my hands brought me sheer delight;
slightly later time, was the unknown geometry teacher. In that
something comes to light that I will put before you as a

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life like lightning. When we reflect upon the nature of the
feelings from the depths of soul into the light of
had remained. He alighted and took another ticket to a distant
the close of the nineteenth century when an Age of Light would
begin. This Age of Light has begun in very truth but men are
light and if we pay heed to what will reveal itself from the
spiritual world, we can become aware of this light. And because
understanding of their own lives in the light of
light on the inner nature and being of man and it has also been
brought into the light of day. Men will not be equal to the
the light of karma.

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formerly taught. He was delighted to be able to carry out the

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light upon it. The difference between the moment of waking and
accompanied by at least a slight feeling of pleasure. The
moment of waking, on the other hand, has something slightly
by a slight feeling of oppression, a feeling of lifting oneself
at once but away from it, so that while the light is still dim

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body radiating into cosmic space the light it reflects from the Sun.
and social respect in this enlightened twentieth century, there
go walking in the moonlight that the Moon has an effect upon
we had taken only a slightly different direction to the left or to
have now been saying is viewed in the light of Spiritual Science, it
relationship will go forward in the light of the Sun, in the light of
reflects the light of the Sun ... but when we
see this light of the Moon which is the same as the light of the Sun,

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a man puts up strong or only slight resistance to the healing of an
month's time. It has changed, very slightly. After another month the
change is again slight, and then he works out to what extent the
picture such Beings in the whole Sun sphere, in the flood of light
destiny for the future. It is not outer, physical light alone that
Moon, not only what normal consciousness sees. In the light of the
life, the light of the Full Moon radiates to him the recorded
light radiating to us from the Moon is connected with our
cosmic past and the light of the Sun is connected with our

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are embedded and from it the light streams down to the Earth from the
subject can be further deepened when expounded in the light of
bright light of day seem to take the place of the mysterious night.
in the light streaming from Anthroposophy when rightly

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previous lives. When we survey history and let it shed light upon our
and debilitated it, lighted upon it at once?”
destiny running through their different lives on Earth and the light
having had a slight influence upon civilisation in North Africa; it
time? Now an individuality with great spiritual enlightenment in an
light is shed from one earthly life into earlier incarnations.
of the girl he had seen through the telescope! A slight drawback was

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how different a light is shed upon the historical evolution of
impulses from earlier incarnations. Only in the light of his earlier
light of this loose connection between the soul-and-spirit and the
ancient civilisations must be seen in a different light from those of

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this again into one of light. With the exception of dreams which
becomes for the first time transparent, full of light —

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same time suffered a slight sunstroke. In this condition his etheric
must be brought to light, for mankind is waiting

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enlightenment to mankind in the form of ideas, of thoughts —
in the twilight period of Greek culture and was the impulse underlying
alight was Johannes Scotus Erigena. I have often spoken of him. But
some of the most enlightened minds of the present
has thrown remarkable light on the meaning of this judgement”
examples indicate how the most enlightened minds of the present age

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direction. For in the light of what was said yesterday, we look back
The real causes of that War will never be brought to light by
that twilight of the spiritual world which proceeds from the ruler of

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Anthroposophical Movement we accept the enlightening truth that all
be possible unless he studies the whole of life in the light of
enlightening the minds of men, a different element has taken root. In
life in some later epoch in the light of what he was in earlier
world, to bring these momentous questions to the light of day.
necessary earnestness. Such things must not be lightly taken but with
the enlightenment that needs to be shed upon them.

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Anthroposophical Movement we accept the enlightening truth that all
be possible unless he studies the whole of life in the light of
enlightening the minds of men, a different element has taken root. In
life in some later epoch in the light of what he was in earlier
world, to bring these momentous questions to the light of day.
necessary earnestness. Such things must not be lightly taken but with
the enlightenment that needs to be shed upon them.

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like the light, streams over the whole world, has been the Spirit
perceive a wonderful interplay between the light and the air, but
also between the elemental spirits living in light and air. One can
these two streams brings to light the great problem arising from the

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like the light, streams over the whole world, has been the Spirit
perceive a wonderful interplay between the light and the air, but
also between the elemental spirits living in light and air. One can
these two streams brings to light the great problem arising from the

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Everything was bathed in a dying astral light. The day-consciousness
“fading,” for in its power of giving light it was
vision in astral light had been much stronger and more intense.
enlightened by the communications that are given concerning the
in the dawn, and darting out again in the evening twilight — he

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Everything was bathed in a dying astral light. The day-consciousness
“fading,” for in its power of giving light it was
vision in astral light had been much stronger and more intense.
enlightened by the communications that are given concerning the
in the dawn, and darting out again in the evening twilight — he

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throw a light upon the background of very much that has happened in
example, if we follow it further, can shed a wonderful light over
illuminating. Think of the light it sheds upon history! The Order of
and in addition he had a slight sunstroke. In this condition and

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throw a light upon the background of very much that has happened in
example, if we follow it further, can shed a wonderful light over
illuminating. Think of the light it sheds upon history! The Order of
and in addition he had a slight sunstroke. In this condition and

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sunlight is reflected in manifold forms in the waves of the air. This
this interplay of the beings born of the light above and the beings
the earth and in which there was this constant interplay of light and
from above the Sun-forces playing down in the light and air, and
between sea and rock, air and light, there was revealed, as it were
in spiritual light, the Event of Golgotha.
looked and saw, here a gleam of light, there a curling wave, here the
have the Rulership on earth. This all took place in the light raying

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sunlight is reflected in manifold forms in the waves of the air. This
this interplay of the beings born of the light above and the beings
the earth and in which there was this constant interplay of light and
from above the Sun-forces playing down in the light and air, and
between sea and rock, air and light, there was revealed, as it were
in spiritual light, the Event of Golgotha.
looked and saw, here a gleam of light, there a curling wave, here the
have the Rulership on earth. This all took place in the light raying

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derive from earth and air and light.
Toward the light that from darkness streams.
derive from earth and air and light.
Toward the light that from darkness streams.
world and delights in its own existence and the warmth of its
arrive at this frontier unprepared and the full light of the
darkness for human knowledge, from which the light must be born
Can light for you the way;
Who experience existence in light,
Who experience existence in light,
Your doubts in the power of spiritual light
Your doubts in the power of spiritual light
path that leads to true, real, light-filled spiritual
spirit-light which expresses itself in the dirty-red form. This
derive from earth and air and light.
Toward the light that from darkness streams.
Can light for you the way;
Who experience existence in light,
Your doubts in the power of spiritual light
to experience in order to pass by the Guardian's light, and
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Delight in the warm glow of their existence;
Your bodily existence from earth and air and light:
For your own being, this light of day grows dim
Unto that light that shines out of the darkness.
Can lighten up your path.
which is to become light-filled, which must become light to us
Who experience existence in light,
Your doubts in the power of spiritual light
With light from the force of the sun
With light from the force of the sun
With light from the force of the sun

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Who experience existence in light,
of light emanate from the darkness - in which the Guardian of
Your doubts in the power of spiritual light
receive the light from the spiritual world and who is in a
With light from the force of the sun
from earth and air and light.
the light that from darkness streams.
if we wish to find the light that emerges from the darkness, we

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footlights and throttle these Shakespearean villains. It is
thunder: it is I. I contemplate the lightning: it is I. I feel
morning; it goes down in the evening; its light streams across
even less through the light which the sun lets encircle the
earth. We consider breath and light as things that have no
spiritual importance. But gods live in breath and light. And we
must be aware that godly forces are especially active in light
Godly forces let their spirit-light
as light, be it sunlight or starlight. But we are aware that we
can love the sunlight, love it as warmly as a friend, then we
also learn how gods in garments of light circle round the
earth. Then the opinion that sunlight is merely what
illuminates the earth changes for good; sunlight becomes the
shining garments. And what we experience from the light becomes
happen in daylight, but it is clearer at night. We feel at one
earth with the steaming sunlight and with every breath breathes
With light from the force of the sun
Godly forces let their spirit-light
we integrate our own being into the shining light-being of the
the sunlight.

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in the periphery of the earth through which the light
above the element of warmth we have the essence of light:
warmth-ether, light-ether.
light[is written above “warmth”]
is more difficult for normal consciousness to understand light.
light comes to him from outside himself.
we come to the light, in which we live and act. But we don't
the fact that the inner movements of light are contained in our
own thinking, that every thought is captured light - both for
the physically sighted and for the physically unsighted. Light
light present within us.
light. When you feel, your being is not in you, it is in the
light, his feelings are as wide as the warmth, his will is as
other. He would say: The light which envelops the earth is
differentiated [The cloak of light is drawn around the air and
beings are in the light. One must imagine that in this
earth-light, in the light that surrounds the earth, that weaves
accommodate themselves within the earth's world of light. And
cloak of light. And all feelings are in the cloak of warmth,
together in the light, warmth and air surrounding the
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light.
Light
[over “Light” is written]
effect on your organism. The effect of light is the same.
Nevertheless, man is very closely related to air and light.
and “light”.] He is extraordinarily close to
mostly unaware, save for the slight reflex of the saltiness or
Warmth. The influence of Light and Air are also strong -
lives closely with these middle elements [Air, Warmth, Light],
the Light; but beware of the underworld - Water, Earth; beware
Light
in Light, World Formation and World Life. We absorb the light.
Normally we do not know that the light unites with breathing
breathing of air combines with the light [middle part of the
arises. We live in light in that we form thoughts, just as
hold thoughts back from the light. We don't realize that
light, if breathing is illumined by the light.
breath illumined by ingested light, made vibrant by it.
the blackboard.] They are illumined by light. [Yellow marks.]
senses is designated as light. Not only what works through the
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of good intentions, which are often taken very lightly, but of

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consider it right that spiritual light, which can come through
that he will realize: In this light-filled kingdom of earth the
dear friends, my dear sisters and brothers, we seek light in
order to see in the light the origin of our own being. At first
darkness reigns. This light which we seek must radiate out from
behind thinking's sensory light,
light,
sensory light”, now it must be: “in
How in the twilight of dreams
How in the twilight of dreams
How in the twilight of dreams
how this thinking is light. Thinking as light streams through
Through the soul's vision of light;
Through the soul's vision of light;
behind thinking's sensory light,
How in the twilight of dreams
Through the soul's vision of light;

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into the liver. Just as the light which goes out from your brow
my warmth; one must say: I enlighten myself by thinking through
the soul light-filled
On the soul light-filled
On the soul light-filled

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the Mystery teaching and when I light upon a remedy I owe it to
the light of these examples, we can say: he who wishes to bridge the
bring to light when we delve into the history of past epochs. We must
enlightenment of his fellow men.

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the Mystery teaching and when I light upon a remedy I owe it to
the light of these examples, we can say: he who wishes to bridge the
bring to light when we delve into the history of past epochs. We must
enlightenment of his fellow men.

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points of light within it. Thus the difference in the perception of
the sunlight during the daytime and its absence at night. They saw
was permeated by a spiritual aura. Today we have a clear, daylight
sunlight disturbs us and we become uneasy, though normally we would
One begins to see the world in a different light and this is shown
blossoms and in the living green. We delight in the beauty of the
the flower-decked Earth delighted and enchanted me. But what did I

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points of light within it. Thus the difference in the perception of
the sunlight during the daytime and its absence at night. They saw
was permeated by a spiritual aura. Today we have a clear, daylight
sunlight disturbs us and we become uneasy, though normally we would
One begins to see the world in a different light and this is shown
blossoms and in the living green. We delight in the beauty of the
the flower-decked Earth delighted and enchanted me. But what did I

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the light and acts as resistance — for otherwise it could
faculty alone, but to enlighten the whole man and show his total
slight feeling of faintness overtakes us. As our consciousness
free of this slight subconscious feeling of faintness. And in
sensation of inner pressure. This sets up a slight pain that
the slightest interest in them. What did interest me, on the other

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the light and acts as resistance — for otherwise it could
faculty alone, but to enlighten the whole man and show his total
slight feeling of faintness overtakes us. As our consciousness
free of this slight subconscious feeling of faintness. And in
sensation of inner pressure. This sets up a slight pain that
the slightest interest in them. What did interest me, on the other

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light” has a decisive influence upon the inner life, if carried
help to throw further light upon what I have already
gravitation, heat, light, electricity, magnetism — the laws of
around, in the manifestations of warmth, light, colour and life. They
participants in the ceremonies had left the Temple. At the twilight
pupil. — It is now twilight, and sleep which reveals the
the lengthening shadows of twilight and the dim green light of the
flights of knowledge. When they shared these deepest insights, when
the East, sending shafts of light into the dark green grove whose

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light” has a decisive influence upon the inner life, if carried
help to throw further light upon what I have already
gravitation, heat, light, electricity, magnetism — the laws of
around, in the manifestations of warmth, light, colour and life. They
participants in the ceremonies had left the Temple. At the twilight
pupil. — It is now twilight, and sleep which reveals the
the lengthening shadows of twilight and the dim green light of the
flights of knowledge. When they shared these deepest insights, when
the East, sending shafts of light into the dark green grove whose

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distance it reflects the light of the Sun and we note its contours
slight attack of heat-stroke which opened up to him this intermediate
air, fire and light, and so on. For the specific characteristics of
fire. We would not have the slightest interest in differentiating
played a vital part in the ancient Mysteries and they also shed light
state of mind that a slight heat-stroke overcame him. The metallity
understand by a slight heat-stroke? It means that we feel the effect

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distance it reflects the light of the Sun and we note its contours
slight attack of heat-stroke which opened up to him this intermediate
air, fire and light, and so on. For the specific characteristics of
fire. We would not have the slightest interest in differentiating
played a vital part in the ancient Mysteries and they also shed light
state of mind that a slight heat-stroke overcame him. The metallity
understand by a slight heat-stroke? It means that we feel the effect

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realize that it is no light matter to stand in the presence of a
Indeed, a child would not have the slightest difficulty in entering

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realize that it is no light matter to stand in the presence of a
Indeed, a child would not have the slightest difficulty in entering

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sunlight radiates physically and etherically, are grouped round a
perception, emerges out of the spiritual twilight of this age (from
and artistic images. In their own way they delight and enchant us
emanation is the ever-present light emanation. In every individual,
light. Under ordinary conditions these radiations are so dim as to be
yellow and blue light emanations which vary at different places round
light and the other side under conditions that revealed the aura.
light and are subject to its influences. We must learn to make
— what is present in the fluid emanation, in the light
Light emanation.
easy to produce warmth and light emanations from the human being so
which can demonstrate in a dark room certain light radiations and
and light emanations who undertake the preliminary steps which not
light and warmth emanations of man. In the writings of Eliphas Levi
Light emanation

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sunlight radiates physically and etherically, are grouped round a
perception, emerges out of the spiritual twilight of this age (from
and artistic images. In their own way they delight and enchant us
emanation is the ever-present light emanation. In every individual,
light. Under ordinary conditions these radiations are so dim as to be
yellow and blue light emanations which vary at different places round
light and the other side under conditions that revealed the aura.
light and are subject to its influences. We must learn to make
— what is present in the fluid emanation, in the light
Light emanation.
easy to produce warmth and light emanations from the human being so
which can demonstrate in a dark room certain light radiations and
and light emanations who undertake the preliminary steps which not
light and warmth emanations of man. In the writings of Eliphas Levi
Light emanation

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organisation we have something that is much lighter than its real
within him were lighter as in the case of the brain, for everything
sensation of lightness and so the elementary being writes in those
emanations and light emanations. Only in the case of the chemical

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organisation we have something that is much lighter than its real
within him were lighter as in the case of the brain, for everything
sensation of lightness and so the elementary being writes in those
emanations and light emanations. Only in the case of the chemical

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world without the slightest suspicion of the existence of the

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world without the slightest suspicion of the existence of the

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their tender passion by the light of the Moon, but also sages have a
absorb the light and then become luminous. To spiritual perception
state they are to some extent overpowered by the external sunlight.
sunlight between sleeping and waking.
the sunlight stored within us. If we should omit to do this, if we
sense-organs with the sunlight stored within us, then we would soon
vitality of our organism by directing the stored-up sunlight from
with sunlight and then directs the sunlight through the eyes and ears
them as he would normally experience the light shed by street lamps,
or dim starlight were he to lie out in the open and look up at the
first, the normal man, seeks to wander around in the light of the
of this day the spiritual light of the Moon with its refulgent beams
the moonlight gradually loses its character of external radiance. We
wonderful glowing light of Mercury illumines this spiritual
spiritual moonlight becomes a universal life-giving force
into the day consciousness. Out of this sparkling twilight in which
At an earlier stage, when we experienced the light of the Moon within
phenomena of heat, light, electricity, magnetism and so
I have just described which seeks to throw light on the inner life of
hold these realities steady in the light when they are supported and
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their tender passion by the light of the Moon, but also sages have a
absorb the light and then become luminous. To spiritual perception
state they are to some extent overpowered by the external sunlight.
sunlight between sleeping and waking.
the sunlight stored within us. If we should omit to do this, if we
sense-organs with the sunlight stored within us, then we would soon
vitality of our organism by directing the stored-up sunlight from
with sunlight and then directs the sunlight through the eyes and ears
them as he would normally experience the light shed by street lamps,
or dim starlight were he to lie out in the open and look up at the
first, the normal man, seeks to wander around in the light of the
of this day the spiritual light of the Moon with its refulgent beams
the moonlight gradually loses its character of external radiance. We
wonderful glowing light of Mercury illumines this spiritual
spiritual moonlight becomes a universal life-giving force
into the day consciousness. Out of this sparkling twilight in which
At an earlier stage, when we experienced the light of the Moon within
phenomena of heat, light, electricity, magnetism and so
I have just described which seeks to throw light on the inner life of
hold these realities steady in the light when they are supported and
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this question is always seen in a false light, and is the more likely
finally the dim, twilight will-consciousness that resembles the state
lighting of a candle or even the kindling of a warmth-giving light.
his laboratory. People have not the slightest understanding of the
instrument of reason, not a single one gives the slightest
fact that man's experiences, as seen in the light of total human
In the light of this knowledge of the organs, birth and death have
originates; for fundamentally, obsession is inherent in the slightest

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this question is always seen in a false light, and is the more likely
finally the dim, twilight will-consciousness that resembles the state
lighting of a candle or even the kindling of a warmth-giving light.
his laboratory. People have not the slightest understanding of the
instrument of reason, not a single one gives the slightest
fact that man's experiences, as seen in the light of total human
In the light of this knowledge of the organs, birth and death have
originates; for fundamentally, obsession is inherent in the slightest

Title: Lecture Series: An Impulse for the Future
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words express, and a light may be felt which must be half veiled,
light veil through which the impulses
according to the times shining light into hidden depths. When a
Floods of light had to stream into the space; differentiated according to
weaving light colorings into the room. The delicateness of the

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Title: Community Life: Address 1: The Goesch-Sprengel Situation-1
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September 14, 1915) shed some light on the difficulties the members

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too, in the right light and not hesitate to look at them closely. As
too lightly to imagine that I can possibly do both.

Title: Community Life: Lecture 1: Requirements of Our Life together in the Anthroposophical Society
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not considered normal; instead, it is something people feel slightly

Title: Community Life: Lecture 2: The Anthroposophical Society as a Living Being
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that would not change in the slightest if the Society were dissolved.

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a personality like Swedenborg is not to be dismissed lightly. On the
not to be taken lightly. He was not one of those seers who lightheartedly
language of a document such as the Bible should not be taken lightly.

Title: Community Life: Lecture 4: Methods and Rational of Freudian Psychoanalysis
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I only want to highlight a few points.
pages for showing how new light can be thrown upon the facts of social
and seen in the right light so that psychopaths are not looked upon
the current case in the right light and assess what is actually involved
it was masked by the whole theory that came to light in his letter.

Title: Community Life: Lecture 7: The Philosophy of Psychoanalysis as Illuminated by an Anthroposophical Understanding of the Human Being
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bears the slightest resemblance to human physical existence during the

Title: Occult Movement: Lecture One
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however, that the mediums would bring to light all kinds of

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light, the only result was that nearly all the mediums fell
I have met scientists who were delighted with
the slightest inkling of them. But they had a genuine longing
geometry whose lines are drawn by light, and the light
conceptions of the world now come to him in a new light. If
Man in the Light of Occultism, Theosophy and Philosophy,

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on Earth to come to light. Wherever the mediums alleged that
let more of the truth come to light in order to overshadow
come to light.
utterly false light and distorted it with great subtlety. He

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Sphere, then he takes a far flight—but not in the
the true Spirit of Light; it is to him that men must adhere.

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light which even the brightest light of the sun could get
bears sources of light within herself and the external light
with quenched inner light she strove most loyally to fulfil
external duties; with the fresh shining of the inner light
and delight of her surroundings.
the newest with the opposite position of the lights of heaven
high light of heaven in the zodiac gave rise to
certain things to come to light. I said yesterday that if
coming to light. And whether we take the right stand in our
a fog whereby it is presented in a false light. If you
So the Powers that do not want the truth to come to light are

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Opportunities must never in the slightest degree be
world with the endeavour to bring to light knowledge of the
ourselves only slightly, this corresponds to the ordinary
else comes to light, and this is the point that may strike
knowledge of souls that can enlighten them on what it is that

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In reality, all symbols conduce towards bringing to light the
their delight is unbounded. They do not value the symbolism
so a great deal that cannot lightly be discussed would have
Viewed in this light, matters of immense significance open
to light more adequately than is the case at present, the
through the veil who still have the slightest inclination to

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this light, the method of materialism assumes great
destruction, and they destroy without the slightest benefit
may happen that through some slight incitement, particularly
allows delight in nature, delight in what lives in the world

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of twilight consciousness, when he feels not quite securely
man, anything that deviates in the slightest degree from a
to produce in him a slight touch of vertigo because it is on

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reality — that outwardly his face may only have a slight resemblance with

Title: Significant Facts: Lecture I: A Convulsive Element in Humanity in the Nineteenth Century
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interpolates it in a slightly different place in the story, but what
lightning and the clouds, the plants and the stones, and he explains
lightning and the clouds, how he has created and sustains the other
Dalai-Lama, is moved. Instead of sending thunder and lightning to
lightning and the thunder, that he has created the mountains, forests
gather all that lives in the light of the spirit and in the heavenly
who understand these things in the light of spiritual science. He
gleaming with the golden light of the sun that is setting behind it.

Title: Significant Facts: Lecture II: Ancient Occult Magic. The Ahasver Mystery.
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we are to understand them in the light of the conditions
soul that sees our spiritual science in the true light, to a heart
that feels it in its true light, I can impart no more esoteric saying

Title: Significant Facts: Lecture III: The Tragic Wrestling with Knowledge. The Secrets of the Future Sixth Cultural Period.
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knowledge in our time can only be explained in the light of facts of
probably quite rightly be called absurd by every “enlightened”
man. But that does not prevent this “enlightened” man
his etheric body and his facial expression take on a slight

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the rays of a new spiritual light now available to humankind. Perhaps
means. Yet, on the other hand, the catastrophe also brought to light
toward our cause came to light on that occasion.
the light of true humanness to shine out in thoughts that bear love's
possibility of receiving in his heart the light of the world spirit
to criticize the Movement for Religious Renewal in the slightest, for
world for me to be profoundly delighted should it succeed. Surely no
would be if the Society were to be slighted, if anthroposophists were
a connection between man and that radiant spiritual light from

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own spotlight on the outer world, with everyone free to make of it

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suffuses this passive thinking with inner activity, he lights upon
fact that throws light on man's connection with the universe. One
physical moon. The moon repels rather than absorbs sunlight; it
leaves sunlight just as it was by reflecting it back from its
gives us the capacity to see. Light enables us to see, but the moon
rays back the light, refusing to absorb it. Thinking that lays hold
light in anthroposophical teaching. This led to the differences with
unfavorable light when anthroposophists engage in such unfruitful

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amounted to flight from the life of the present into a different kind
practice. He has taken flight into the Anthroposophical Society, but
us. They throw light, however, on the question of what must be done
exposure to the light. Other movements that claim they are similar
cannot endure light; they feel at home in the darkness of
sectarianism. But anthroposophy can stand light in all its fulness;
light with all its heart, with its innermost heart's warmth.

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amounted to flight from the life of the present into a different kind
practice. He has taken flight into the Anthroposophical Society, but
us. They throw light, however, on the question of what must be done
exposure to the light. Other movements that claim they are similar
cannot endure light; they feel at home in the darkness of
sectarianism. But anthroposophy can stand light in all its fulness;
light with all its heart, with its innermost heart's warmth.

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nature in this light. If we survey everything we have come to know
That is the light in
“If one looks upon the divine in the light of the present day

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much to many people if we could not see things in a different light
has. My effort today to throw light on what it is in the heart's
the outer world, through its light and tones and warmth. We awaken in
to light and tone and perhaps also to the words someone speaks in the
our fellowmen as we sensed light and tone on awakening to everyday
discussion. Matters that first appeared in an everyday light took on

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delighted by this characterization because it showed that there are
in this that it works like greased lightning. That is a good thing

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at length. Theirs is a lightning grasp; one need only touch on a
those most suited to a slightly humoristic treatment.

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into the other? It is light and sound and the natural environment
the same sense that light and sound and other such environmental
physical world through the stimulus of light and sound, etc.

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comprehension if light is thrown on the reasons for the breakdown of
to set forth in my second Stuttgart lecture in order to throw light

Title: Anthroposophic Movement: Lecture One: The Homeless Souls
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manner that the group felt as if struck by lightning. A new world

Title: Anthroposophic Movement (1938): Lecture I: Homeless Souls
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Raskolnivok in such a way that it struck like lightning
into the company, — just like a flash of lightning. A new
wondrous source of light to them. And, patched between it all,

Title: Anthroposophic Movement: Lecture Two: The Unveiling of Spiritual Truths
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theosophy. But we will only be able to throw some light on that if
the absurdities of its leaders eventually came to light in a rather
when taken as an insubstantial mirage, a play of the light. If one
the slightest inclination to become a member, I was called upon to
light.

Title: Anthroposophic Movement (1938): Lecture II: The Theosophical Society: A Common Body with a Conscious Self. Blavatsky Phenomenon
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that time to pursue Theosophy. Rut to have the requisite light
light-phenomenon, had yet, in a sense, a deeper
then can deny, that this book, like light itself, proceeded out
when one is not light-minded in such matters, but has a sense
memories, hazy memories. And now, a light suddenly flashes on
different light.

Title: Anthroposophic Movement: Lecture Three: The Opposition to Spiritual Revelations
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begin with, it had not the slightest meaning to the members of the
comes along to defend it! They had not the slightest idea what to
make of it. And yet they were among the most enlightened people of
likely to jolt very many people who were not to be taken lightly. And

Title: Anthroposophic Movement (1938): Lecture III: Critical Judgment and Colour of the Times
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than everything which in modern times has been brought to light
any of the leading lights of Psycho-Analysis is really —
to throw light on the other, as is done in psycho-analysis,
light out of the actual human being itself, by what I might
of the most enlightened brains, at that time. In fact, there

Title: Anthroposophic Movement: Lecture Five: The Decline of the Theosophical Society
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orientation. I wish to throw a little more light on this
an objective light. As the power of the ancient Mysteries was drawing
lives were lighting up within them, took the first thing on offer
established, remarked that it did not agree in the slightest with

Title: Anthroposophic Movement (1938): Lecture V: Anti-Christianity. - The Healing of the Gulf.
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little in a clearer light before going further.
then this might also throw light upon the old, primeval
Being excluded made not the slightest change in what had gone

Title: Anthroposophic Movement: Lecture Six: The Emergence of the Anthroposophic Movement
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way as modern physicists calculate light in terms of wave lengths, he
together without the slightest understanding. And the whole thing was

Title: Anthroposophic Movement (1938): Lecture VI: The Two First Periods of the Anthroposophic Movement
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the material was gradually brought to light, — the

Title: Anthroposophic Movement: Lecture Seven: The Consolidation of the Anthroposophic Movement
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the limelight the opposition would inevitably grow.
pass over these things lightly with the argument that not only are

Title: Anthroposophic Movement (1938): Lecture VII: The Third Stage: The Present Day. - Life-Conditions of the Anthroposophical Society
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and treasures of knowledge came to light one after another; so
imagine that it will do to pass over such things lightly and
whole time without deviating in the slightest from its true,

Title: Anthroposophic Movement: Lecture Eight: Responsibility to Anthroposophy
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rot = red; gelb = yellow; hell = light colouring
nature (yellow). Then there was the human being (light colouring).
about the law of gravity, the law of the refraction of light, and
rot = red; gelb = yellow; hell = light colouring
microscope for as long as you wished, but there was not the slightest

Title: Anthroposophic Movement (1938): Lecture VIII: Conclusions: The Anthroposophical Society and its Future Conduct.
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the refraction of light, and all these fine things, —
brought an enormous amount to light. They turn out well
which is this: — The leading lights of modern science

Title: Christmas Conference: Lecture 3: Rudolf Steiner's Opening Lecture and Reading of the Statutes
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that final enlightenment — that enlightenment which
forth as though with the shining of the sun, bathing in light
bring into life the teaching of maya and of the light of
Conference make the shining forth of the universal light
universe — let us make this flaming Christmas light,
this universal light of Christmas into a symbol for what is
world history in the light of Anthroposophy will take

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World-Being's Light
warm light, with light that spurs on our deeds, our thinking,
will cast its light on us like a reminder of the light of
our souls, and with it let us enlighten our souls. Let us
cherish this warmth of soul and this light of soul which out
feeling, shooting like light from heaven, was born the divine
bring strength to that warmth of soul and that light of soul
light that shone forth at the turning point of time as the
Light of Christ in the darkness of the universe. In our
forth into the world what shines towards us through the light
The Spirit-Light of the world
Day-radiant light
Light that gives warmth
Light that enlightens
Light Divine Christ-Sun !
Enlighten thou our heads,
hearts and the enlightening of our heads which we need if we
World-Being's Light
In the being of worlds, craving for light:
in the shining light of thoughts around the dodecahedral
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Title: Christmas Conference: Lecture 7: Continuation of the Foundation Meeting, 26 December, 10 a.m.
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World-Being's Light
resounded, you first highlight that part which can give you
most delighted to accept. For quite some time we have been

Title: Christmas Conference: Lecture 8: Continuation of the Foundation Meeting, 27 December, 10 a.m.
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World-Being's Light
aware of this, so a strong light does in fact need to be shed

Title: Meditation: The Foundation Stone Meditation (FTS Trans.)
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The cosmic being's light
light imploring, reign in cosmic being;
The cosmic spirit-light stepped
The bright light of day
Light
Light
That enlightens
Light divine,
Enlighten

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Light
In the being of worlds, craving for light.
In the being of worlds, craving for light.
In the being of worlds, craving for light.

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World-Being's Light
In the being of worlds, craving for light,

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World-Being's Light
The Spirit-Light of the world
Day-radiant light
Light that gives warmth
Light that enlightens
Light Divine
Enlighten thou our heads,

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World-Being's Light
The Spirit-Light of the world
Day-radiant light
Light that gives warmth
Light that enlightens
Light Divine Christ-Sun
Enlighten thou our heads,
In light-filled
Light Divine,
threefoldness once more tomorrow: how this Light Divine, this
be heard from East, West, North, South. To this Light Divine
Light
Magnetism with Light’.

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came to light then, when our friends revealed their
different rooms. At the top it will be possible to light the
whole space with daylight, so that we can alternate between
daylight, when it is there, and artificial light when we need

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delighted if only you had come up to our table at the front.

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of Golgotha in its true light only if we can add to
the light of the astral world, of many a scene resembling the
lessen our pain by viewing in the light of history what took
starry realms that express the will and the wisdom, the light
hearts, the flame which is to enlighten and warm that which

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World-Being's Light
In the being of worlds, craving for light:
In the being of worlds, craving for light.
In the being of worlds, craving for light.

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a window that takes in the light in order to usher it into

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World-Being's Light
In the being of worlds, craving for light.
The Spirit-Light of the world
Day-radiant light
Light that gives warmth
Light that enlightens
Light Divine
Enlighten thou our heads,
enlightened by what you all now want to be able to direct in
shall see whither the gods shall lead us through the light of
Light Divine
Enlighten thou

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to physical light, when maya's veil placed itself before the spiritual
mahadeva, into the light of Osiris. This initiation took place
world, the delicate seeds were cultivated away from blinding daylight.
brightest daylight. The initiation of all mankind took place

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to physical light, when maya's veil placed itself before the spiritual
mahadeva, into the light of Osiris. This initiation took place
world, the delicate seeds were cultivated away from blinding daylight.
brightest daylight. The initiation of all mankind took place

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light approaches me from outside, is absorbed by all of my skin's

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One who doesn't understand this and who sins against it even slightly,

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the solidification that it could now reflect light and there was a
story about the creation of light refers to. All heavenly bodies that
Plants not only live from the mineral world, but also from the light
this light, so men and animals live on the oxygen that plants exhale.
oxygen that plants emanate, and as plants live from light that's
breathing process, and the development of kundalini light. First the
a man learns to radiate back the light that the mineral kingdom
reflects. He develops kundalini light and radiates it into the world,
thereby giving light back to it — the light of the human
no longer live in an outer air. On Jupiter he'll live in light and
inhale light just as we inhale air now and inhaled warmth on old Moon.

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the Holy Grail, the holy love lance, the fertilizing sunlight that'll
particularly bright light must always arise in especially dark times.
spiritual light that was brought by Christian Rosenkreutz and is now

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Berlin, 12-18-1906
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on form; light and colors lit up. Then the third Logos sounded through
When our chain of planets first saw the light the streaming out of the
founders of religion into the world. When the light of the second

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Stuttgart, 1-20-1907
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this work. Just as light first created the outer eyes, and the body

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Berlin, 1-29-'07
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flower opens and lets in sunlight. High spiritual beings whom we call
color, light, sound, aroma and so on that are connected with the
colors, “In pure rays of light ...” One should get a

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the creative light. Man will also be a shining light later. Warmth
that's raised to a higher level becomes light. In the future man won't
light. The creative light is creative for our world as the second
world light. World sound is the third Logos, world light is the second

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more spirituality into life and make the light and life that the great

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itself to us in sunlight. It's his breath of life in the air
through the earth's plant-cover. We see in his light, for the
sunlight is his spirit-radiation. We live in his love, even
earth with his light and his love power, and everything that lives on
streams through us with his divine light-spirit, with his warming
soul-ground from which this purifying light-life can ascend. There we
must become pure and wise through his light — then it can unite
light.

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light and spiritual life during this time. Mammon, the spirit of

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look at an outside object it sends light (through Michael) into our

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If you condense feeling to light you'll reveal the forming force.
then the latter will produce a light phenomenon that goes from orange
to red into brown, whereas in the sun the feeling condenses to a light
bearers of this light appear in the colors and take on forms and

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Basel, 11-23-'07
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The world of light; that's the Son, the force of life.

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Muenchen, 12-5-'07
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But when dark powers rage most terribly, the brightest light also
before, spiritual light will shine into darkness brightly and
In pure rays of light,
one can imagine something like palely gleaming moonlight that represents
the soft light of the Godhead that flows through creation. This mental
In pure rays of light
Now one tries to permeate soft moonlight completely with one's love,
to pour it into oneself, so that the mild light begins to radiate
With these words one can think of a distant light tower that radiates

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nerve masses there's a combustion process and things light up.

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but no light. When Saturn disappeared, the Sun rose from the darkness,
into flames, and then there was light, as is symbolized by the
or body of a certain kind of spirit. The light rays that pass into our
eyes have a light spirit in them who works upon our eyes. Saturn

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personal interest he streams a spiritual light onto them; he becomes a
sun who illumines things. They reflect his light. The surroundings
that reflect his light become a moon.

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into us, enlightenment from higher worlds will come to us.
changes. The etheric body will light up from the other side through

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if it had light rays in the form of needles coming out of it that
by meditating intensively on the four sentences in Light of the
which light and life flow down to us. Our goal will then float before

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Muenchen, 1-7-1909
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In pure rays of light
life and light. He lives in this astral body as the astral light that
light. Thus the rose cross is the symbol for the light that conquers
reflect light. But when we attain vision through our meditation, the
see the astral light in them shine, the light in the darkness, and
build it up and spread red light over its surface through green light.
astral light. To be able to stand this astral light neophytes had to
astral light, Paul was without sight for three days.

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In pure rays of light
think and feel that light is the Gods' clothes, so that we live

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Muenchen, 8-27-1909
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take in the Christ light in the course of incarnations and
physical plane. Thus, while the Christ light shone in the Orient,
Then the sky became dark for him and lost its outer light, and
his head opened up like a chalice to divine light and in this light he
above, and through the radiant light that stood above him like a star
him: “This is the light of the Father, out of which you were
arrows 6/7 there are streams from the geniuses of light who bring us

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concentration. He learns to see the light world of spiritual beings

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in Christ as we let the force of our meditation become a light in us

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The lights of bodies.
That through them I may behold the light of spirits.

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By the light of your messengers.
That my I be grasped by an understanding of your light's shining,
a quite different light. We'll become aware of how often we

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By the light of your messengers.
That my I be grasped by an understanding of your light's shining,

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very enlightening but don't apply it. They let pains and joys
the red color? Through the fact that light falls on it. If the object
is in the dark, it doesn't look red. But when light shines on
colors that light produces and only reflect the red color it
pure rays of light … etc. and awaken to an idea of light in

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In your light radiates the earth's life,
By the light of your messengers.
That my I be grasped by an understanding of your light's shining,
do what the sun can, namely, send out light. It would be a dark,
black body if the sun's light didn't permeate it and it
radiant sunlight of Christ in us, and the red roses stimulate a force
light. If we imagine a rose cross with this feeling and let it live
it also becomes light in us, and the Christ-force will awaken the
In pure rays of light …

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By the light of your messengers.
That my I be grasped by an understanding of your light's shining,
Light and namely to the regular, good ones who are recruited from
the Spirits of Movement Good Spirits of Light have the task of
worlds, then one of the other spirits of light overpowers him and
But one who succumbs to the Spirits of Light can harm everyone with his
gravity and the Spirit of Light, and esoterics should always try to
The lights of bodies.
That through them I may behold the light of spirits.

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them. The words: In the pure rays of light are arranged in

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By the light of your messengers.
That my I be grasped by an understanding of your light's shining,

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The lights of bodies.
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By the light of your messengers.
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verse: In pure rays of light …
pure rays of light
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By the light of your messengers.
That my I be grasped by an understanding of your light's shining,
the time being completely colorless, lightless, soundless and so on. Any
into bright, radiant lines of light. Likewise, the red of the roses
The lights of bodies.
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towards us. But if we endure steadfastly, light will shine up out of
unworthily, can unleash earthquakes, storms, lightning and other

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Such untruths work on our astral body and then on our light ether.
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slightly. Whereas someone who loses himself in external things gets

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The lights of bodies.
That through them I may behold the light of spirits.

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pure rays of light
this spiritual will appear to him in the wrong light. One could
would see things in a red light so that they're quite different

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shouldn't forget that a light is always surrounded by a lot of
The lights of bodies.
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a light that illumines the objects in the spirit world that approach
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brain and activate the pineal bland) light up like flames in which
then the certainty lights up in us that we ascend to the spirit,

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pure rays of light … as a morning exercise.
see in the pure rays of light
its divine light in our thoughts quite objectively. Our ego
in pure rays of light, the moral impulse that suppresses the ego in
what we see comes about through a crossing of light rays, so that the
image of the real light phenomenon in us. From this we see that what

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really bright, and where it's light, it's really dark. If
face that has lighter or darker colors, with lighter or darker hair,
light, and so on. Also we should imagine hollows where the face
changes; think dark green where it's rosy and light green where
know the inner nature of this man. For instance, a light green color

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so slight that we're usually not aware of it. Say that we read
life body's light ether and then on our physical nerves.
The lights of bodies.
That through them I may behold the light of spirits.

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starry heavens there except for man to be delighted by it? This
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That through them I may behold the light of spirits.

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at the meditation: In pure rays of light … what could have
be found in light rays. The exercise is like a symbol that stimulates

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inner light and feel a stream of warmth. Our exercises and
radiate its light?
crumbles and dies, and another one that gives him light out of the

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beings in the meditation: In pure rays of light gleams the Godhead

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pure rays of light
radiating light rays that symbolize the divine — one should imagine the
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physical eyes that were formed out of indifferent organs by light. As
long as light worked on them, one couldn't see yet. This only

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Radiating with bright, white light.

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the light of the world,” and a particularly effective

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pictures, colors or light-effects appear. Whether the accessory

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experience them and feel them to be like an inner light. They must

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see exoteric life in an entirely different light.

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is to learn to pay attention to this brief lighting up of the
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I. This also sheds light on our verse and on the feelings that we

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white; but rather let them lighten my heavy karma as I am trying to
lighten that of my friend and brother ...” For occultism
ordinary life, but that come to light if one treads the perilous
an angel or light form that hands him a chalice, representing an

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appear to us in a bluish violet light and show us our errors
belong to the angels, whereas the upper, reddish yellow light

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change its position very slightly beings like men would no longer be
does not feel that without its mild light none of the love relations

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it's lighter and has more feeling to it.
light force streams in from Jupiter, a spiritual light that's
one feels this inner spiritual light that one can only grasp

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see sunlight as esoterics we no longer see it just physically —
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that sunlight has ego-creating power in it. And when we look at

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doesn't look at these experiences in the light of a still greater

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light is only based on waves is wrong. And it's quite wrong to speak

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of light, etc., that are created by a medium. If one feels that one
I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in darkness
but will have the light of life.

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consumes the oil is the astral body, the shining light is man's

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comfortable and light, as if one were in a kind of dream state. This

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only promote egotism. However concepts such as light and warmth that

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slightest sound — the falling of leaves, a sled's
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in as a light figure, walking towards himself, opening his eyes and
which his light form comes to him, there the Christ is also.
A man will then experience that the light form of his astral body is
floating towards him, and he'll know that this light form is

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light rays that they let fall on objects and that then radiate back
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consciously in sleep can experience the light that works on eyes and
with the word in John's Gospel, “And the light shone into the
warmth that's in us is darkness. Light wants to press in from
imagine that there are two kinds of light: the inner luciferic light
and the outer divine light that he sees coming towards him in
this comes with light — which is also from Lucifer, but from
let this light radiate into us.
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arises thereby, for it's the warmth ether — under light, sound

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developed our physical eyes into organs for sunlight. The germ for it
light warm me

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light warm me
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light warm me

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derive from earth and air and light.
Toward the light that from darkness streams.
derive from earth and air and light.
Toward the light that from darkness streams.
world and delights in its own existence and the warmth of its
arrive at this frontier unprepared and the full light of the
darkness for human knowledge, from which the light must be born
Can light for you the way;
Who experience existence in light,
Who experience existence in light,
Your doubts in the power of spiritual light
Your doubts in the power of spiritual light
path that leads to true, real, light-filled spiritual
spirit-light which expresses itself in the dirty-red form. This
derive from earth and air and light.
Toward the light that from darkness streams.
Can light for you the way;
Who experience existence in light,
Your doubts in the power of spiritual light
to experience in order to pass by the Guardian's light, and
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Delight in the warm glow of their existence;
Your bodily existence from earth and air and light:
For your own being, this light of day grows dim
Unto that light that shines out of the darkness.
Can lighten up your path.
which is to become light-filled, which must become light to us
Who experience existence in light,
Your doubts in the power of spiritual light
With light from the force of the sun
With light from the force of the sun
With light from the force of the sun

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Who experience existence in light,
of light emanate from the darkness - in which the Guardian of
Your doubts in the power of spiritual light
receive the light from the spiritual world and who is in a
With light from the force of the sun
from earth and air and light.
the light that from darkness streams.
if we wish to find the light that emerges from the darkness, we

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footlights and throttle these Shakespearean villains. It is
thunder: it is I. I contemplate the lightning: it is I. I feel
morning; it goes down in the evening; its light streams across
even less through the light which the sun lets encircle the
earth. We consider breath and light as things that have no
spiritual importance. But gods live in breath and light. And we
must be aware that godly forces are especially active in light
Godly forces let their spirit-light
as light, be it sunlight or starlight. But we are aware that we
can love the sunlight, love it as warmly as a friend, then we
also learn how gods in garments of light circle round the
earth. Then the opinion that sunlight is merely what
illuminates the earth changes for good; sunlight becomes the
shining garments. And what we experience from the light becomes
happen in daylight, but it is clearer at night. We feel at one
earth with the steaming sunlight and with every breath breathes
With light from the force of the sun
Godly forces let their spirit-light
we integrate our own being into the shining light-being of the
the sunlight.

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in the periphery of the earth through which the light
above the element of warmth we have the essence of light:
warmth-ether, light-ether.
light[is written above “warmth”]
is more difficult for normal consciousness to understand light.
light comes to him from outside himself.
we come to the light, in which we live and act. But we don't
the fact that the inner movements of light are contained in our
own thinking, that every thought is captured light - both for
the physically sighted and for the physically unsighted. Light
light present within us.
light. When you feel, your being is not in you, it is in the
light, his feelings are as wide as the warmth, his will is as
other. He would say: The light which envelops the earth is
differentiated [The cloak of light is drawn around the air and
beings are in the light. One must imagine that in this
earth-light, in the light that surrounds the earth, that weaves
accommodate themselves within the earth's world of light. And
cloak of light. And all feelings are in the cloak of warmth,
together in the light, warmth and air surrounding the
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light.
Light
[over “Light” is written]
effect on your organism. The effect of light is the same.
Nevertheless, man is very closely related to air and light.
and “light”.] He is extraordinarily close to
mostly unaware, save for the slight reflex of the saltiness or
Warmth. The influence of Light and Air are also strong -
lives closely with these middle elements [Air, Warmth, Light],
the Light; but beware of the underworld - Water, Earth; beware
Light
in Light, World Formation and World Life. We absorb the light.
Normally we do not know that the light unites with breathing
breathing of air combines with the light [middle part of the
arises. We live in light in that we form thoughts, just as
hold thoughts back from the light. We don't realize that
light, if breathing is illumined by the light.
breath illumined by ingested light, made vibrant by it.
the blackboard.] They are illumined by light. [Yellow marks.]
senses is designated as light. Not only what works through the
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of good intentions, which are often taken very lightly, but of

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consider it right that spiritual light, which can come through
that he will realize: In this light-filled kingdom of earth the
dear friends, my dear sisters and brothers, we seek light in
order to see in the light the origin of our own being. At first
darkness reigns. This light which we seek must radiate out from
behind thinking's sensory light,
light,
sensory light”, now it must be: “in
How in the twilight of dreams
How in the twilight of dreams
How in the twilight of dreams
how this thinking is light. Thinking as light streams through
Through the soul's vision of light;
Through the soul's vision of light;
behind thinking's sensory light,
How in the twilight of dreams
Through the soul's vision of light;

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into the liver. Just as the light which goes out from your brow
my warmth; one must say: I enlighten myself by thinking through
the soul light-filled
On the soul light-filled
On the soul light-filled

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the body — if only by means of so slight a jolt that you

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stars are there above; their rays of light approach us when
receive them. And what we receive of the rays of light we
astronomers of today who observe the points of light and
It is not a luster of light, it is a luster of love. For

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by the immediate present. It is lighter and more delicate to
It's a question of becoming enlightened concerning the true nature
On earth in spirit light does speak.
On earth in spirit light does speak.
On earth in spirit light does speak.
In the light of the divine heights
In the light of the divine heights
In the light of the divine heights
In the light of the divine heights

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earth in spirit light does speak.
the light of the divine heights
Now we imagine lightning [red] flashing through the
clouds, for lightning is the tool of the Cherubim, the fiery
swords of the Cherubim. As the lightning flashes through the
Now we imagine the entire sky above the lightning
lightning down with heat. And in this interweaving heat from
(lightning bolts)
(lightning bolts)
through”: the lightning flashing in the clouds. You
from the cloud flashes to the lightning bolts and to the
universal heat, from which the lightning bolts derive. You
We look up to the lightning bolts. Oh, the
formations. They show us their tools in the lightning bolts.
They do not show us their being in the lightning bolts, only
Lightning bolts – Cherubim – tools
Cherubim are hidden behind their tools, the lightning bolts.

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dangers await him, dangers which appear at first to be slight
occur, not even in the slightest degree. The person will
selfhood awakening force of warmth; he feels delight in
feel the delight of bliss in dissolving in earth, water,

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Waken! within inner light in your divine cosmic light.
Awaken within inner light in your divine cosmic
light.
fiery, lightning-strong Seraphim: “Awaken within
inner-light in your divine-cosmic-light”, how these
fiery words resound from the flaming lightning of the
by a glimmer emerges, then becoming lighter, a continual
gradually gets lighter. That is how it must be. We must try
fiery force of our own humanity – for it is light in
previously dark for us becomes light.

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and the waves, the thunder and lightning. We see everything
be radiant with the sun, we find it to be shining light. But
first night-bedecked, gradually becomes lighter. At first we
feel becoming lighter, and we feel that the elements —
darkness becomes lighter. The Guardian speaks to us, after he
Awaken inner light in your divine cosmic
light.
night enclosed darkness, is not yet illuminated by light for
wherever we reach out we begin to feel a glimmering light.
ourselves are within this glimmering light. We feel ourselves
light. In this weaving, moving light we make our way to the
experience: not yet light, but the light is making itself
felt; in this felt light the Guardian of the Threshold,
moving light. For now it is as though he no longer just
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threshold at first feels himself to be within light, and
light. Gradually it becomes not only felt light, but a kind of
light about which we can say that he sees it.
From feeling the light in waves, as in spiritual thoughts, so to
speak, light appears which is seen by the spirit's eye.
But the human being cannot enter already seeing into this light
moment when it becomes light enough for perception there in the
is becoming light, and the physical-sensory world, which we have
Light teeming round,
Let the light creating force
Light teeming round,
Let the light creating force
light.
Light teeming round,
Let the light creating force
rainbow as the cosmic bowl, it becomes clear to us how the light,
To the light-flooded bowl;
To the light-flooded bowl;
becomes filled with a soft, mild light.
humanity, it becomes light in the spiritual world. The mild light
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became light. And then, in the increasing light, we heard the
Light teeming round,
Let the light creating force
To the light-flooded bowl;
And we see how through the flooding light in the
the all-moving, all-pervading cosmic light in which we ourselves
we live and move in the light, and the spiritual
fountains ripple, how the lightning flashes, how the thunder
We need the light from the heights
Receive the light from the heights,
And the flooding light, the force of illumination in
Angeloi receive enlightens, without our knowing, human thinking.
illumination of the Angeloi. But the light force for this
We need the light from the heights
Receive the light from the heights,
the Dynamis act way up in the heights in order to give the light
We need the light from the heights
Receive the light from the heights,
Receive the light from the heights.
Receive the light of the heights.
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gloomy, night-engulfed spiritual world, where light is
felt, which then becomes light for our spiritual
Light teeming round,
Let the light-creating force
Into the light-flooded bowl;
lightning, where we now stand. The Word is flame, a flaming
In the primal beings' source of light
In the primal beings' source of light
In the primal beings' source of light
unusual. But just as one “enlightens” from
light, and can form the verb “to live” from
follow his line of thought deriving “enlighten”
from “light”, for example. If someone wishes to
In the primal beings' source of light

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reflects its light from all that grows and moves and lives, but
realm of sensory light and it becomes light for us there, where
Is shaped from earth and air and light.
Toward the light that from darkness streams.
beautiful and grand and sublime, radiant with light,
darkness, that darkness becomes light, so that humanity,
And from out of the darkness comes light,
Can light for you the way;
Is shaped from earth and air and light.
Toward the light that from darkness streams.
And from out of the darkness comes light,
the darkness comes light” continues.)
Can light for you the way;
first admonition: to feel light as darkness, darkness as light,
Who experience existence in light,
Who experience existence in light,
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in earthly life must become dark in order for the light which
Your doubts in the power of spiritual light
Your doubts in the power of spiritual light
Enlightened by the sun's spirit power.
Enlightened by the sun's spirit power.
self-knowledge, which can only be ours if light arises beyond

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light in order that we find the light that can illuminate our
their spiritual light in these pulsing waves from the
be light in our feeling. Then something goes through our
Godly powers their spiritual light
Godly powers their spiritual light
The light does battle with gloomy powers
You find, striving lightward,
are placed between light and darkness. Light wants our Self,
darkness wants our Self. We are to find the path between light

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above, where a battle is taking place between the light and the
however a terrible battle rages between the powers of light,
the light which wants to guide thinking along the right track,
want to be knowledgeable in the battle between light and
then, if we understand what striving towards the light is, we
involved with the battle between light and darkness: The light
not letting ourselves be overtaken by light, nor letting the
light and darkness.
ourselves in equilibrium between light and darkness, in
light. In light alone we would be benumbed, dazzled. We may not
Wherever you look, my sisters and brothers, light and darkness
intermingle. Look at your hair. The light plants it in your
hair would be entirely rays of light. Look at your whole body:
it is woven of light. But it could have no solidity if darkness
and brothers! Blossoming plants: they are created from light;
from light and darkness what the plants represent in their
Just as in all of nature a balance between light and darkness
will be light within by means of the force which we ourselves
enter the darkness, and there is light in the darkness.
The light does battle with powers of darkness
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light and darkness; how the light can be dangerous if we devote
direction and goal in the middle between light and darkness if
out of it must come light which illumines our own Self, which
draws our attention again up to the light, which however only
lives in us in what seem to be thoughts. It is light
that thinks in us. When the light pervades us, it thinks in us.
But in earthly life light is only the appearance of a thinking
From light's shining force
When shining light in you itself does think,
only retain the illusion of light if we don't consider the
From light's shining force
not yet gotten over forming mere thoughts about light's shining
When shining light in you itself does think,
light, if we only carry over the vague feelings about
world-form, then spiritual exaltation destroys the true light
the other side, we find “light's shining force”. It
Light's shining force

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water and air, in warmth and light, from what lives in the
path which leads from the sunny, light-filled world in which we
become bright there, and in this brightness the light arises to
belong to us now, it belongs to the world. Light on light,
bluish-violet, and the bright lights of thoughts above, between
both there is an interweaving, flowing warmth rising, light
descending. Light-enveloped warmth rising, warmth-enveloped
light streaming down: that is our feeling.
universe, we are Three: our thinking merges with light across
light-enveloped fire.
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these things lightly, for esoteric rules are strict; and when
and springs and fields and thunder and clouds and lightning;
light and will illumine your own Self. With the last
become lighter, at first most gently. You feel now the first
light around you. But turn around, look back!
beginning to be light, we should begin to look back on what we
creative light within it. The truth is that what you had as
to the senses - that is light-creating essence. The brain,
See behind thinking's sensory light,
See behind thinking's sensory light,
“feeling”; there “sensory light”, here
much more real than merely semblance of light.)
light”, and in the second part “feeling's”
earthly man, sinks down into the limbs. Then it becomes light
thinking sinks downward and light from below streams upward,
Let through the soul's vision of light
Let through the soul's vision of light
See behind thinking's sensory light,
Let through the soul's vision of light

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which all the light of our culture shines forth. It is only on
— a flight from direct reality. This is the exact
light. Just as little as the Greeks could gain a knowledge of
23rd August, 1794, he enlightens Goethe, in the following
together the whole of Nature in order to gain light on the
the feeling of delight in the Beautiful a feeling that is
delight. It would, however, be quite erroneous to hold that

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men act on their very slightest knowledge of me as exhibited
can, by their own soul-light, carry even into lifeless
spirit nature with the light of Zeus!

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a physical form — lights up in a form that is perceptible
sprouting life that delights the healthy souls in nature,
in Goethe's work still has to be brought to light, and that
fully to light by a more comprehensive development of natural
metamorphosis, throws light into the mysteries of human
has been set free, then with a slightly humorous touch it has
light in its variety of shades, and to discover how,
ultimately, every effect of light, every shade of colour,
light should be awakened to life, treated in such a way as to
set free what, when the light has to serve in bringing about
enchanted within light. We are only at the very beginnings of
life that is only to be held fast by the light. It should
lightning — still less to paint the air!
hand we have to admit that everything contained in light
gives an impression of something welling up out of the light,
wells up from the human organism. Every effect of light wants
to tell us something, every effect of light has something to
say to some other effect of light nearby. In every effect of
light there is a life which is overcome, deadened, by higher
want to have a form inwardly in movement — in flight, for
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The Sources of Supersensible Knowledge
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is full of light and has clear definition develops from them.
must bring the light of consciousness into the sphere of art,
knowledge. Just as it is important for seership to Pour light
quest for spiritual knowledge. The light of seership must

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in exactly the same way as color and light phenomena surround
cannot see color or light, so man of our age cannot, as a
what previously did not exist for him — color and light, now
compress all this, could see it all in a different light, with
light of letters which together produce the book of life and
art according to his lights. Faust is now of the same frame
deeper and deeper, but within is a bright light — a
light capable of illuminating the world in which lives the

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Such snug delights the wintry eve console;
outwardly the light has gone, the dusk has fallen. And into
the twilight Faust has projected the picture of what he
Bright gleams the light that erst had dwindled
being “enlightened by the Spirit,” whereas in
is nothing clear about it. It is not knowledge full of light,
about a legendary past, and they delight in the use of old
tincture of this blood delights marvelously in the
way in the piece of silver. Now, the enlightened man of today
says: Yes, of course, the Moon shines with a silvery light so
flight — something quite different, therefore, from the

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light. Things were not allowed to go to these lengths, hence
what comes to light when those experienced in such matters
flickering light should be blown out. The will-o'-the-wisp is
Nikolai was one of the most fanatical, so-called enlightened
off now! Don't you know we've been enlightening!” Today
foul of him also, as one of the enlightened. Hence Goethe
but as an enlightened opponent.
the house of the enlightened Wilhelm von Humboldt in Tegel
can find many shrewd and enlightened remarks. Everywhere he
“Go to! slight Reason, now, and
Science slight,
light of day.

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however, are not always seen in the right light.

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experiences just as on the other it throws light on the
light.

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slight extent transfixed. He sees a picture. One who is

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get beyond it lightly. For it is truly so if we look up into
described. No age was ever so little enlightened about itself
enlightenment about itself. Think only how proud it was of

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will enlighten this work. An objection is only natural that
huge, so all-encompassing and with expansive enlightenment that
that which is unknown, that in us which we could lightly deny,

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own, in a life not of sleep but of twilight, would build up
then to awaken to self-knowledge, But such a twilight
much more enlightened state than the one he actually enters
different light upon the nature of man than a man can gain
self-knowledge in a most interesting, most significant light.
being having no need of air, for he breathes light. Such
experience alternations of light and darkness — think

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rightly regarded, throws much light on spiritual secrets. We
Thou bosom-lightener [or bosom-widener], deeply pensive
only know light by its shadow, one must also be saturated
to shed light on the past, so that they may be prepared for

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soul the light of a deepened observation upon all that such a
of light — we need not go into that now. In essentials it
conceived as follows — that the light in some way
from the unified white light.
the words “light” and “dark” have
“lightness” and “darkness” being
lightness and darkness. If darkness laps over lightness, the
bright colors appear; if lightness laps over darkenss, then
over brightness, lightness any form of darkness is projeatd,
matter of any theory. Darkness and lightness are working
darkness and lightness work together, colors arise. No
was simply a putting together, as lightness and darkness had
which rightly to throw light on nature? And among the real
without the light of impossible theories and hypotheses. We
something, possibly to form a world-outlook, enlighten
plant, or anything else about which he sought enlightenment,
the sun with a burning glass, making it light his candle. He
that we are able to discover in the light of Goethe's world
himself could but slightly develop. For consider, if we
outlooks that reciprocally reflect and enlighten each other.
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who plunges lightheartedly into such matters. His whole life
as three lights cast their beams on a point — a circle
— and we see the fusion of the lights and then refuse
a mingling of lights is a unity and so deceive ourselves in

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those who light-heartedly piece together information from
knowledge thus light-heartedly. he knew that, even if he had
it hovers so lightly that the understanding, the intellect,
set, feel the warmth the sun sheds around, receive the light
when, instead of direct sunlight, moonlight is on the sea,
moonlight is reflected on the waves, is experienced half
dream. Man today looks at the way moonlight is reflected on
the waves; and all the physicist can say is that moonlight is
polarised light. That is an abstraction that says very
when the moonlight — that borrowed sunlight — is
there when the pulse of the moonlight throbbed in tune with
waves, the Greeks perceived in this light-enchanted weaving
standstill. Then fresh light flashes in. In contrast to all
eighteenth century that Goethe took flight to Italy —
for it was indeed a flight. Having studied nature in the

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regarded as scientific lunacy of the enlightenment period of
poured out over the whole universe, over all cosmic light,
conception would be an experiencing ourselves in light, in
light of the eye flames up instead of cosmic light, we begin

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Art in the Light of Mystery Wisdom,
Naturally I say this without making the slightest
study the natural world purely in the light of its abstract laws;
light of a spiritual contemplation of world-history, we realise that
Middle Ages. But this can be understood only in the light of what has
[Art in the Light of Mystery-Wisdom.],

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Art as Seen in the Light of Mystery Wisdom
spiritual-scientific truths lightly, as it were, for it is
Mystery of Golgotha in a spiritual world-historical light you
to mankind, and this comes to light in the happenings of the

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Art as Seen in the Light of Mystery Wisdom

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Art as Seen in the Light of Mystery Wisdom
out to us from them is like light coming to us from the far

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Art as Seen in the Light of Mystery Wisdom
in order to kindle the light of the spirit within him when he
least light and warmth to the earth, he learns the most holy
When Olaf alighted at the gate
And also heaven's light.
Light shining far and wide.
science, was something that people did not have the slightest
light: a sun that must bring light-filled warmth to many a
daylight grow shorter and shorter. And now in our time, when
thirteen days and to the time of increasing daylight.
bringing ever more light, soul light, vision, knowledge of

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Art as Seen in the Light of Mystery Wisdom
when you were experiencing the third, will live lightly in

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Art as Seen in the Light of Mystery Wisdom
taking place in the rays of light so that the glow of dawn
only with its light but also with its warmth. Then it will

Title: Art/Mystery Wisdom: Lecture Seven
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Art as Seen in the Light of Mystery Wisdom
only if you enlighten yourself as to the relation of modern
light-hearted with regard to the anthroposophical movement.

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Art as Seen in the Light of Mystery Wisdom
that dark shadows are thrown just where a strong light is

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Art in the Light of Mystery Wisdom,
Art in the Light of Mystery Wisdom,
where a strong light should arise, deep shadows are also cast. It is

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Art in the Light of Mystery Wisdom,
Art in the Light of Mystery Wisdom,
especially strong light should arise, deep shadows are also cast.

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from inrushing light. If one considers the relation of the soul to the
color is closely related to light. If we wake in pitch darkness, we
our ego. For that we need light between us and objects; need light between
light, in what has a relation to white, we feel our ego; if we wake
Though I say “light,” I could just as well take another sense
blind never see light. But the important matter is not whether or not
we see light directly; it is how we are organized. Even if born blind,
man is organized for the light, and the hindrance to ego energy present
in the blind is so through absence of light. White is akin to light.
If we experience light-resembling white in such a way that we feel how
living in colors. You experience the world as color and light if you
appear through light and color as described, then one realizes that
of space. When everything wants to change into light and color we become
in ideas, no longer to mould in forms, but use color and light to

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they have, in a sense, shadow natures. White, as dimmed light, is the
satisfied only if we paint it darker at the edge and lighter toward
in the center and gradually fading and lightening toward the periphery.
a blue garment — a blue which becomes gradually lighter toward
effect of a dull sound upon a preceding light sound, and a light sound

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which absorbs, attracts and condenses light? How — accustomed
to living amid earthly plant-condensed light — pass out into far
reaches of quite another condition of light? How, when I can no longer
world of light, of color, of tone; a world of qualities, not quantities;
the earth-encircling air, need the light weaving round the earth, and

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light on it, let us consider from a certain aspect the colorful dead

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of cognition highlights, on the one hand, the gravity of the search
his earnest endeavor not to take up the spiritual lightly in his writings,
other words, by changing only slightly the purely physical, he led it
He had to go to Italy and walk in the light of Greek art to elevate
in the light of Goethe.
the light which falls, from there, upon Ludwig Tieck's artistic creations.
glow of the ancient spiritual life was still lighting up the sky in

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transported him into stellar space. The sunlight which illumined the day,
sunlight as reflected by the moon. The following is ancient Mystery
wisdom: During the day we see light with the physical body, at night we
this sunlight, collected by the moon, was regarded as the soul's Soma
of sunlight poured into the silver moon-chalice, the reality with which
about the way sunlight acts on clouds to produce the evening glow, collect

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or to catch, above it, an interweaving of light and darkness. In other
paint a flower standing in front of a window; we paint the light which,
the sun's colored light; catch the sun.
color shows up in the ensuing radiance, how light and darkness intermingle,
task of showing how sunlight falling through a window struck the man's
of art. What is artistic is how the sun illumines him, how light is
holding fast to a transitory moment are light and darkness, the whole
human state; a face overcome by light. One could not imagine her clothed
by spirit, overcome by light as a revelation of the spirit. We do not,
out of red and blue and the light by experiencing the light, in its
for the reason that they are not born out of color and light and
connects her feet and legs with the earth; while, above her, light
radiates above it in full light, lifting it up. Thus are set forth,
in light and darkness and color, in order to contrast what is
no further in the treatment of light; we must halt. For we have reached
what is indicated by light, rather than contour. The moment we insist
where the colors disappear in light, and where, if one were to proceed,
more the angels might be taken for billowy clouds shimmering in light,

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experience in the Waldorf School, with what delight the
the very greatest delight in their Eurhythmy lessons. I say

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certain introductory remarks which in the light of such understanding
His step is light; that is to say, he lives in a continuous oo.
gesture by making a light movement of the left arm, touching the right
arm as if you wanted to push it away (left arm slightly pushing the

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delight?
ancient Atlantis; it was the interval that gave them special delight.

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delight not in the position, but in the bringing about of the positions,

Title: Eurythmy as Visible Singing: Lecture 4: The Progression of Musical Phrases; Swinging Over; the Bar Line
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a lighter person. This is less apparent in the case of rhythm. Rhythm

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is described. And I have always been most delighted when somebody said
arise out of the light and shade (see drawing on the right). Anyone
to arise either out of the colour, or out of the chiaroscuro [light

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upper arm too) together with the hand and fingers were quite light,
a slight current of air or a feeling coming towards you, passing through
at the same time only slightly indicating the same notes with the arms,
have been struck by the slight attention paid by eurythmists to that

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you have cast light on so many questions which we all carried within

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The character of the sounds is of course slightly different in the
art; I, for my part, have not the slightest wish for Eurythmy”;
expressed in a sentence, or joy, or delight; all these things can be
no effects of light. The lighting in varied tones and colours has not
The point is not that certain effects of light should correspond with
system of lighting, as this has been developed in Eurythmy, consists
of the interplay between one lighting effect and another. Thus there
arises a complete system of Eurythmic lighting which bears within it

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abyss to light-filled eminence:
strength and soaring flight.
translucent essences of light from sprawling space:
light’s hurrying flux
I will be filled with light’s
of light
their natures’ light
our world of light.

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so lightly, is something to which Homer, the great writer of Greek
hair was long, her foot was light,
With his delights; for when tired
As tho that deth were light in suche a
Their fluid bodies half dissolv'd in light.
Where light disports in ever-mingling dyes,
moon's pale light
Some dire disaster, or by force, or slight;
the light and shade of the language, in the high and low tones. In
the light and shade of the words, in the high-tones and low-tones.

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Steered without wind by their own light and might
Through dreams of light and dreams of darkness tost
of daylight’s dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in his
there be such at times in the twilight

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of rain and lightning: there are spread
Everything that comes to light in lyric, dramatic or epic
will come to light and the raising of what looks like a prose
thing is that everything which otherwise comes to light in the
only be brought to light by a soul such as that of Novalis, who
earth and her watcher, trembled as if they felt the strange light
trembling, trembling and unfolding, a breaking light, an opening
wave of light by wave of light, flooding all the heavens with its

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the depths to light-filled heights.
strength for soaring flight.
essence of the light
streaming light,
clearest essence of the light
radiant light
world’s delight,
they, with light of being,
world of light.
fallen, fallen light renew!
flower & every leaf rejoices in his light.
sunlight,
delighted, both she and her
Taking delight in the chase of the
after cave of light calved out of gloom,
rose and fell in waves delightedly: new sights
Grazing light
Delighted them.
lightning the thunder’s redundancy.
his feet into flounces of flight

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the needs of our time must cast its reforming light in some way or
really quite slight. It turned it into a poem that no longer lives
our secret sinnes in the light of thy
To mortall men of life and light:
Knows in its intricate mazes of delight artful
slight,
Light;
And, recollecting its own Light,
[Something of the same fusion of lyric flight
light
initiation are complex. Everything so far experienced in light or
flight, the epic power and the dramatic form that live in him can
striving light of soul
and sense the light.
empowering spirit light

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necessity of transmuting what comes to light as a way of knowledge
light
Gods silent, searching flight:
light,
Dusky, blue, in moonlight quiver
flight,
a gash of light,
she hears the light’s
In light is our

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spirit of light who, on the waves of the air, plays into man
We see Apollo, the god of light, carried on the billows of air in
declamation pays more attention to the force or lightness, strength
take a lantern, Child, to light
The lightning fell with never a jag,
Beneath the lightning and the Moon
body. For a clever, enlightened age which disregards such matters,

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delight as he warred with God,

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cast light on the very foundations of the soul.
The eye can receive only light impressions; it can sense only
something that is light. Likewise, the ear can sense only tone
standpoint of spiritual science, allowing it to cast its light on
with flowing colors and radiant light-beings surrounds him, the
and weaving in a world of colors and light. After his initiation, man
light and colors. This glimmering light and these flowing colors are
transparent, and the light becomes ever clearer and at the same time
color and this light, and if they do not surround him but rather he
himself is color and light. He feels himself astrally within this
then louder and louder. The world of colors and light is permeated
radiate colors as well. It is penetrated by light emanating from the
however, lies in tone. That which was light in the great stillness
during the night. Only this flowing ocean of light and colors, of
The artistic mysteries of light contained in the paintings are based
more purely on their effects of color and light. The painting of
Bacchus displays an unusual glistening reddish light that is poured
as if the body were imbibing the light and, permeated with its own
color is only playing about the body. The body allows the light only

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is called “light ether” by the esotericist. Continuing to
and air. What lives in the etheric body consists of fire, light

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submerged, a world of flowing light and colour. He knows that he has
clarity. He remembers that in this world of light and colour there
light and colour; it first announces itself as a world of musical
tones resounding, he loses the world of light and colours. The world
of tones is shot through with light and colours, but they belong to

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ocean of light and colors unlike anything he has known in the
recalls that in this world of light and color there were things and
formerly knew nothing. This new world is not one of light and colors
up he does not retain the world of light and colors as well. The
world of tone is permeated also with the light and colors that belong
a person is illuminated by light, he casts a shadow on the wall. The

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points or surfaces of light that are seen from the earth; instead, he
time.] who have delighted us with their fine talents. We shall

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see these points of light or surfaces of light which are seen from

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tone experience. We say so lightly that man is a threefold being:
somewhat more piquant, as it were. Music is driven slightly out of

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is a prejudice of contemporary, so-called enlightened human beings to
will understand this more clearly if we shed light on it from yet

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resounded the Word of the Godhead: “May Light become.”
And it became light. And the Godhead perceived the Light and
perceived that it was beautiful, and severed the World of Light from
only familiar with it as the gas we use for lighting. But we know
transparent; the light goes through. You do not even divine its

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in lines of electric light over a great

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one motive, in which we perceive the origin of the pure light-being
of man out of the cloud-light of the universe, as it were. This motive
Light from above, condensing into the pure light-body of the child Jesus,

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must open our minds and hearts to thoughts which shed light upon the
and the all-pervading light. Could there be any sight in the world
more radiant and glorious than that of the light weaving through the
indicate what this prototype is, and throw light upon the whole
human being, therefore, sheds light on the fundamental character of
will light upon something that seems to say to us: This
works of art, too, in the light of Spiritual Science, to explain the
pictures, cannot fail to delight us; we are carried away by a really

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lightly or deeper down into the wood. It would be nonsense to
Science must let in the sunlight through the windows in a way
detail has a slight resemblance, maybe to a nose! Although
this may be negative, he is delighted that he has discovered

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solid, and surfaces where the glass is thinner. The light
will be revealed. They will arise as light formations from

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In the light of
delight in forms that are truly artistic? We are passing out
the direct light of the sun. The influence of the direct
light of the sun on the astral body, however, is such that,
think now of a flowing sea of colour and light. All animals
light, hence they adjust their outer covering primarily in
accordance with this flowing colour and light. Man with his
light and the very fact that he can do this gives him his ego
outcome of colour and light, but of the conditions of warmth

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spiritual life. This quality came to light again in Goethe as
eddying vortex of attacks and longings, the sense of flight
light — all are dead as they are painted to-day; form
bring many interesting things to light in regard to the
light for which we strive in anthroposophy. The sorrow
connected with our Movement seems only slight when we look at

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down. And what a hindrance in following the flight of
will appear to humanity in the same light as the poet of the
wonderfully magical light. Homer is humorous enough to show
science. As the sun sheds its light over the landscape, so

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unconscious impulses remembers this Sun-element. In the light
study it in the light of the indications resulting from
only when it is seen in this light.
Frederick the Great must be understood in the light of his
feeling of elation, because in what is now coming to light we

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impulse of ancient Greek culture lights up in French culture.
to ballooning, but to flights of mind) — but
battlefields — for that must be judged in the light of
philosophy is not original and in a certain way is lightly

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— the sunlight battling as it were with the darkness
In the Roman world above them, in the physical light of day,

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light in the course of history — in so far as we can
burst into derisive laughter at this flight into the clouds

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the light of the sun is shining through them. At other times they are
as a thing by itself but that the light of the sun is imagined as unity
house which is to contain the apparatus for the lighting and heating.

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light with the engraving on the coloured sheets of glass may be dimly
lightly expressed in the abstract, the law of our time. When I tell
been lightly breathed into the colours on the walls. Such can only be
with Light where the consciousness is awakened through the irradiation,
in this figure of Ahriman. He appears as if slain by light, hence the

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slightly above or below it; one feels how living the colour itself
modern Art: air and water and light, as they are painted today are
by the spiritual light which can illuminate in the human heart. And if

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Thought and Will as Light and Darkness
Thought and Will as Light and Darkness
forth light.
experience is exactly the same as one has in regard to light in the
certain experience in connection with external light. He has the same
seen as light, or better, experienced as light. Being thinking men, we
live in light. We see the external light with physical senses; the
light which becomes thought we do not see, because we live in it,
see the thought-element as light. So that in speaking of the whole
world, we may say: We have the light in us; only it does not appear to
us as light because we live within it, and because while we use the
light, while we have it, it becomes thought within us. You control the
light, as it were, you take up the light in yourself which otherwise
This is precisely your thinking, it is a working in light. You are a
light-being. You do not know it, because you live within the light.
But your thinking which you unfold, is living in the light. And I you
look at thought from the outside, you see, altogether, light.
light — by day of course; but in reality you are looking at this
development. Seen from outside, it has light. In the Universe we have
light which is seen by the senses. If we come out of the Universe, and
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light-phenomena, that we therefore see in the outer world everything
which is apparent to us through what we call light. I pointed out to
surrounds us in the form of light: world-thoughts which one in the
meet these thoughts as light today, they are, as it were, the corpses
of thought, world-though that is dying. This meets us as light. You
from outside as their light-aura, that appears in the realities of
light. So that in the realities of light we have to see dying
light-realities, and opposite to the light there lives in the darkness
therefore, we see on one side the light-world, if I may so call it;
but we should not see this light-world, which was after all always
a clash of darkness and light, so our own inner selves, in so far as
they expand in space, can be regarded as light and darkness. Except
that for our own consciousness light is thought, imagination; the
former moral events, where light is “the dying world of
barren, abstract creatures, as the physicists do, and analyze light
“light” does not refer only to what is apparent to the eye,
ourselves: there the light and the sounds are the last presentation of
literally surround us as spirits of light.
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to make the red figures like lightning, they must be moving.
meadow; it remains as it is, not the slightest tint is altered.
proceed first of all to the light colours; we shall, however, progress
the light, if we simply throw light upon it, we feel that it has a
certain relationship to light. At first this remains a feeling. It
light — has the peculiarity that of itself it does not appear to us
us represents light, does not appear to us directly on objects. Later
that we are led by white first of all to light as such. In order fully
with light as such. In short, if we raise the whole consideration into
feeling, we shall find the inner connection between white and light.
If we reflect upon light itself, and are not tempted to cling to the
Between white, which appears as colour, and light there must be a
We know of light as such, not in the same way as other colours. Do we
really perceive light? We should not perceive colours at all if we were
not in an illuminated space. Light makes colours perceptible to us, but
we cannot say we perceive light just as we do colours. Light is indeed,
light to make the colours perceptible. We do not see light as we see
red, yellow, blue, etc. Light is everywhere where it is bright, but we
do not see it. Light must be fixed to something if we are to perceive
objects; but we cannot say that light belongs to something, it is
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flows together, to make a piled-up wave, as it were, round a lighter
the spiritual, to the light of the spirit in yellow; but they wanted

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sunlight. Just consider how plants, if they cannot hold up their
flowers to the sunlight, in fact hide themselves, curl up, etc. And we
produce that in plant-nature which sunlight as it were metamorphoses,
sun. This it does by pointing to the properties of moonlight as
opposed to sunlight, and above all, by pointing out how moon-light
Sunlight shines; moonlight is the pictorial image of sunlight. Thus
you find again the image (or shadow, Ed.) of light, colour as the image
of light, in the green of plants. And you have in the plant through
yellowish-white light, and only then you get in the right manner what
always bear in mind that a certain source of light, a dull source of
light lies in the things themselves. He must so to speak think of his
on his surface the glow of the light which he has to paint on it. If
lights from within.
colour the character of reflecting light; otherwise we are not
which is not covered with paint so as to have this inward light is, as
surface, for then we shall never be able to evoke the inner light in
light by using vegetable colours which can most easily be made to
inner light which we attempt to conjure up when we want to paint a
necessary, as in the act of giving light from inside. Now, how does a
mineral proceed to give light inwardly? If we have the coloured
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be closely related to light. If we awake at night in darkness we feel
our ego. For this we need light between us and other objects. We need
light between ourselves and the wall so that the wall can have its
effect on us from the distance. Our ego-feeling lights up in us if we
wake up in light. In the darkness we feel ourselves strange in the
I say, light: but I could also take other sense-perceptions. And you
never sees light. But it is not a question of seeing light directly,
light. And the limitation of ego-energy which is present in the blind,
is there because of the absence of light.
Whiteness is related to light. If we feel whiteness in this way, as we
colour and light, when we experience green as the lifeless image of
present themselves also through light and colour, as I have just
presses on one as light and colour; one becomes a painter. The source
reproduce in colour and light, the reflections of life and death,
four colours always contain something of shadow. White is the lightest
shadow, for it is shadowed light. Black is the darkest. Green and
the middle and lighter towards the edge. The colour itself demands it,
in any other colour, but in a yellow, lighter at the edges. It will not
from reason and understanding, by the light of which one can in no

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really only a slight jump from dreaming to living in beauty. And only
product of gold, which lives everywhere in light, and which streams in
representation. Light quivers through the universe, and the light
carries gold. Everywhere in light there is gold. Gold lives and moves
in light. And when man lives on earth — you know already that it
eaten, but these old teachers knew that the heart is built of light's
gold weaving in the light to build up the heart out of the whole
Cimabue, can remain Art only so long as the light of beauty streams
still sensed something of the gold weaving in the light, and at least

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completely purified element in the consciousness, full of light, so
that thought becomes directly light, and illumines everything; and the
element of light. The Saturnian element is dark, but warm, and within
the dark and gloomy world of the Saturnian existence arises light,
This is the case because the entry of the Second Hierarchy represents an inward illumination, which is connected with a densification of warmth. Air comes forth from the pure warmth-element, and in the revelation of the light we have the entry of the Second Hierarchy.
But you must get this clear: Actually Beings press in. Light is
present for a Being with the necessary powers of perception. Light is
circumstances when light appears somewhere, there also appears shadow,
Second Hierarchy in the form of light. What was this shadow? The air.
point of view air is the shadow of the light. So that with the entry
fact the entry of light, and its shadow, air. And where that happens
entered and found an element of light, or rather, a place of light. In
this place it felt, by reason of its sensitiveness to light, the urge
towards and desire for darkness. The Angel-Being carried the light
light. These Beings became the intermediaries, the messengers between
light and darkness.
The result was that what formerly shone only in light, an trailed
in all colours, that light appeared in darkness, and darkness in light.
light and darkness.
colour was a combined effect of Light and Darkness. But this spiritual
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Title: History of Art: Lecture I: Cimabue, Giotto, and Other Italian Masters
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those things to which they had hitherto looked up and whose light
things. He delighted in the splendour of external riches; he had
22. Giotto: The Flight into Egypt.
case it was a spiritual light which shone through all their
Christianity took flight into these tender pictures, so widely
however imperfectly — may still have brought to light.

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of Biblical history, we have the twilight of an ancient world-conception.
Christianity. And so he entered on the twilight of his life.
is marvellously placed into the whole. The colour and lighting are inexpressibly
have pure light — the colours together are pure light. Such is
34. Separation of Light from Darkness. (Sistine Chapel. Rome.)
first stage, which we might describe as the creation of Light out of
90. Flight of Heliodorus. (Vatican. Rome.)
91. Flight of Attila. (Vatican. Rome.)

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part that was played in the primeval Persian culture by light and
the midst of real and concrete forces. Real light, real darkness,
weaving of the World, light and darkness weave together. Influences
of light and dark ray out upon all that lives and moves on Earth,
as man and animal. Through light and shade, and through their
every step, with every turning of the head, new impulses of light
and shade appear. When we study this connection between light and
interplay of light and darkness; it is color playing over the
cast on to the surface, springing from the interplay of light and
shade, glistening forth out of the weaving and willing of the light
the interplay of light and shade — light and darkness —
elemental weaving of the light and shade that play around the human
relationship with the light and shade that play around him, and
with the glistening life of color that springs from light and
through light and darkness. Think how beautiful this feature is:
Faust himself working and weaving in the wondrous twilight of the
morning! Think how the play of light and darkness enters the famous
(above) bringing out the light and shade of the figure, modelling
all things moving in the outer world, — with light and shade
picture as a whole. We can only reproduce it in light and shade;
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time have to bring more and more light into these matters.
flow of the masses of light themselves, than any artificial
the southern people with a slight, suggestion of a sanguine
century, had been preserved. All that we now bring to light
lies inherent in the whole treatment of light and darkness which I
interweaving of the light into the darkness, man finds an element
51. Hans Baldung. The Flight into Egypt.

Title: History of Art: Lecture V: Rembrandt
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from the common soil under the influence of the common sunlight, so
artistic evolution, he threw many a beautiful and brilliant search-light
case of Dürer — the weaving in the elemental play of light
light and darkness of an elemental weaving on the waves of which the
lights up in the realm of Art for the first time in Dürer and finds
in the ever more perfect working out of light and darkness. Color to
him is only that which is born, as it were, out of the light and the
surging and weaving of the light and dark. Hence he delights to observe
how the play of light and dark brings forth its remarkable plastic painting
weaves in the element of light and shadow, tracing it with inner joy
life and movement of the light and darkness, a Cosmic, universal principle
I may so describe it) painting plastically but painting with light and
light and weaves in them is the element we must always seek in Rembrandt;
nearer to the secret of creating out of the light and the darkness,
were, to reveal the working of the pure distribution of light and darkness
of sublimer forms out of the light and darkness. The plastic forms of
distributions of light and dark. When we stand face to face with his
catch the light. The figures give him the opportunity to seize the light.
The essential is the play of light and darkness which the figures enable
out of light and shade. The colors are everywhere born out of the light
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light. Thus in the profoundly Germanic brothers, Van Eyck, we have the
By a mysterious power they flood their pictures with light, introducing
life of the Northern and Southern Netherlands. Influenced very slightly
The perspective is only carried through to a slight extent. You see the
51. Patinir. The Flight into Egypt. (Madrid.)
52. Patinir. The Flight into Egypt. (Berlin.)

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Shepherds and by the Three Wise Men, and finally the Flight into Egypt.
some pictures of the Flight into Egypt. This, too, is connected with
The Flight into Egypt appears in direct connection with the Mission of
is the Flight into Egypt; the two are together in this slide. Apart
from this one, we shall show the Flight into Egypt at the end of the
5. The Flight into Egypt. (Evangeliar of the 12th century.
the element of light. It is most interesting to study this in Dürer.
(In the Lantern Light. Etching, about 1652.)
theme: the Flight into Egypt. First we have a painter of the late 15th
51. Herrad von Lanndsberg. The Flight into Egypt.
52. Joachim de Patinir. Rest in the Flight.
54. Bernhard Strigel. The Flight into Egypt.
55. Albrecht Dürer. Resting on the Flight into
the Flight into Egypt.
57. Hans Balding (Baldung). Rest in the Flight.
58. Lucas Cranach. Rest in the Flight. (Berlin.)
59. Rembrandt. Rest in the Flight. (Etching.)

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very different it is when we consider in this light, say, the personality
had great delight in pictures such as these. This was the time when
by the crests, painted in lighter color. If you try to imagine a visual
by the distribution of light and dark.
to feel the quality of space by catching the light, using the spatial
virtue of the light itself. Here we do not take our start from the laws
light itself.
the spatial working of the light itself. Space is born, as it were,
out of the activity of light, and in this element the artist works with
once more to express the spatial by the effects of light. Here once
differentiation of the space through the effects of the light itself.
and quality which the light itself begets.
altar-piece. His fine feeling for light enables him to bring out the
in Art works out of the element of light and dark, and discovers —
connection of the world of color with the light and dark. Through the
laws of light and darkness which also contain the mysteries of color.
light and dark. And the possibilities in this direction can be extended
of Art must all be brought together. To create out of the inner light
— out of the forming and shaping power of the light — will
light. Anyone who has a feeling for finer, more intimate relationships
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of Greek Art which lighted forth in Winckelmann or in Goethe.
27. Figure in Flight, from the Niobe Group. (Vatican.
radiates from the Greek Art itself, and on the other, its lighting-up-again

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seeing everything that exists through the sun, through the light of
humanity of today must be sending the light if it is to lift itself

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grew in his soul and light fell on his soul depths from which
most important element for Central Europe: light-and-dark or
chiaroscuro? — How little meaning the distribution of light and
dark had in the old tradition! People lived in light and
because they experienced light bringing joy, sensing life in
light while darkness sank into rest, in darkness they withdrew
application of chiaroscuro, indicate a distribution of light
masses: in the middle the light is above the Child, we see this
light dividing itself right and left in single masses, becoming
lighter upwards, no longer completed as in earlier version only
Lochner's work, how the dark and light come to the fore even if
through the whole of Christendom, only with a slight variation
slightest inkling of spatial treatment and above all mixes up
light-dark depiction is consciously brought in. Solely

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cast many a light upon the soul-depths from where earlier only secretive
for Middle-Europe, the Dark-and-Light in which the human being lives. It
feels his life because the light brings him joy, because the light brings
time-space, this we see also in the appearance of the light-and-dark, in
the dividing of the light-masses. We see in the middle the light above
the child. We see this light dividing itself into left and right, into
individual masses, becoming light towards the height, not anymore just
lightness.
noticeable by Stephan Lochner, how in his work the light and dark is
space, to acquire perspective. But in the dark and light we see another
not see the slightest desire to look at nature. Here you find a person,
who, in spite of having not the slightest idea of any way to work with
look, how consciously the dark-and-light penetrates into the picture. Then,
certain beauty, through the dark-and-light.
-light entering. One can see that the effort is made to give form to

Title: History of Art: Lecture XII: Greek and Early Christian Art, Symbolic Signs, the Mystery of Gold
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the magic of gemstones which bring light into what had been
dark, where light is held in something material, material which
of gold, the delight in gold processing and the delight in
light. Out of the figurative dark animalistic realm the bright
animal and human. This becomes the light-dark artistic
place the telescoping of the Christian light into the old pagan
light contrasted by the gold. Siegfried was drawn to Isenland

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come to light in this time. We are living also within many an element
which brings light to what usually fills space with dark, where light
with the light. Out of the dark, animalistic, what is humane lifts itself
what is light and human when mastering the dragon through Michael. and
what is human. That later becomes the art of dark and light. All these
christian light and old, heathen darkness moving geographically into each
see the time placing itself against that which as supersensible light has

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referring to what I've highlighted before. I have stressed that

Title: Study of Man: Lecture I
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education has been done in the light of the old education; I mean in
which in the light of a spiritual conception of the world has no real
beginning to educate the child before it sees the light of the world

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yourselves: when I go out into Nature I have the play of light and
colour continually before me; in assimilating the light and its

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Soul reveals itself in sympathy and antipathy. Light of consciousness
cognition), feeling and willing in the light of antipathy and
in a certain way you are living in the light. You cognise, and you
entirely in the light; you live in a fully conscious activity, if I
permeated by the light of consciousness. If you had to assume that
do not by any means completely grasp with the light of consciousness.
need to light a ball of paper and immediately great clouds of smoke
because when you light the ball of paper and thus produce warmth you
ascending smoke: the very moment you light the paper ball and throw it
thinking-cognition. Here we are, so to speak, in the clear light of
his intuitions pressed upwards and this outer motion brought to light

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light, sound, etc. This is space aspect. In time, forgetting is
process is going on, vibrations in the light ether or waves in the
Psychologists make light of it; they glibly connect sensation with
seventies. After some years we met and had a conversation about light.
light has something to do with ether waves, and so on. This could at
least be regarded as a cause of light. My former schoolfellow then
added: “We have also learnt what light is. Light is the cause of
world. Let us suppose that light is working upon the human being
light are falling from this surface into your eye. There again
what is outside: the nature of light, the nature of colour. Thus, at
with what is outside us. Your eye changes the light and colour.
space, there light and colour do not change, and you yourself are
experiencing light and colour. It is only with regard to the sphere of
yourself become light, you become sound, the processes have free play

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relatively slight disturbance through sleep, or rather through lack of

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and spirit. We have at least thrown some light on these two aspects.

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further light on the subject from the side of soul and spirit.

Title: Study of Man: Lecture XIII
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matter is to light, so is blood to the spirit. It does not let the
to light. As transparent glass lets the light through, so, too,

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that collects the light? Now, you have such a lens in your own eye.
This, in turn, throws light on what the teacher must be himself. He

Title: Practical Course/Teachers: Lecture II: On Language - the Oneness of man with the Universe
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light )
oo as in room. For fullness, for whiteness, light, and
everything related to light or whiteness, including sound
related to light, we have the feeling-shade of marvelling
light of the social significance of speech. If you take it into

Title: Practical Course/Teachers: Lecture III: On the Plastically Formative Arts, Music, and Poetry
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to light even in racial terms during the course of the
shading of blue, the light and dark of blue, produces in the
of colour; less true is the experience of light and shade, and
people produce in their delight in beauty, to concrete art, to
excite pleasure in the beetle, delight in the way he runs, in

Title: Practical Course/Teachers: Lecture IV: The First School-lesson - Manual Skill, Drawing and Painting - the Beginnings of Language-teaching
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according to their lights! Something about as clever as our
well. But in the light of reality that is all nonsense. It is

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light,” for it can be proved that the beloved died before
relation to Novalis is shown up in a thoroughly trivial light
that the enlightened minds among the teachers were seriously

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light on the meaning of a thing. The will likes to sleep, and
draw a second conclusion: our age is actually in a sorry plight

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form: that the head is spherical, that it is slightly flattened
eye feels the constant need to look into light, and, when it
does so, can adjust itself to light. Because the taste-organs
slightly larger hind-feet, which enable the mouse to leap. Then
the light of which he considered the human being composed of

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You are drawing his attention to the way in which rays of light
refraction of rays of light. That is very easily explained by
the rays of light are refracted. But you are then describing
instance, about how light-rays are broken up, how images are
twelve the application of light-refraction and image-formation
wet instruments. Then you go on to explain how lightning is
lightning.” The child will believe it, perhaps, because
physics between lightning and electricity. But when we are
nature, you take a delight in it like the child himself,

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lightning,” “it is thundering,” etc., for
reason we isolate ourselves only slightly from the world, we
it slightly strenuous. You will not come to grief, because the
as much delight in inventing these examples as they previously
are really not quite sitting. And let us take a delight in the

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apply to man, as I have already explained: light refraction
but I will now assume rather ideal conditions and throw light

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factory, and yet, as individuals, have not the slightest
electric railway, get in and out of it with a slight feeling of

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experience never emerges into the ordinary light of reasoning
the twilight instincts of the soul, which we must overcome by

Title: Education as a Social Problem: Lecture I: Historical Requirements of the Present Time
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believe they have the most enlightened concepts have the most

Title: Education as a Social Problem: Lecture II: The Social Structure in Ancient Greece and Rome
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there is not the slightest interrelating between these

Title: Education as a Social Problem: Lecture V: The Metamorphoses of Human Intelligence: Present Trends and Dangers
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progress. A special light is thrown upon all the facts in
light of what is good. But human intelligence will more and
coming to light, which is perceptible to a person with insight.

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facts, which come to light through spiritual-scientific knowledge.
legislation, if the future were not to shed its light into these

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be brought to light through spiritual-scientific knowledge.
however slightly aware of it, a kind of rebellion against the
like to be enlightened on the most important aspects of life by

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managed to warm and enlighten everything that was being presented to
breath of air or beam of sunlight:

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green. All of this is called forth by the light. Light floods the
entire universe. Light and warmth are what call everything up out of
the earth, all those things that delight your eyes and hearts. What
persistence of your teachers, what travels through the world as light
everything that is human. In your souls, this turns to light. And
you love. Seek the light of the soul, just as the plants seek the
light and warmth of the sun!

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heaviness, to pass over into a certain lightness, not a forced
lightness, but one that arises because we are living in our

Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture I: The Pedagogy of the West and of Central Europe: The Inner Attitude of the Teacher
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heaviness, to pass over again into a certain lightness (not forced, but

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something comes to light in those regions of the

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exact quotation, but altered slightly to correspond with the teachings of

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that can throw light on the whole of life, must take place in miniature in

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always be carried out in the light of this gradual incorporation of the ego
in the wonderful vibrations, which we describe as vibrations of light, a
separating themselves out from the mixture, while the lighter parts remain
cause pain to a slight degree. We must say therefore: if the right kind of

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into delight in power, and second into eroticism.
Unfortunately pedagogy does not now consider this delight in power and
lightning! What's happened to the teacher! Up to now we've thought of
him as a pretty bright light who has plenty to say, but now he's

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away from him. Though I am always delighted when someone nods
because people take the matter much too lightly. There is
contact with the light, so that it actually lives in the
light-permeated air but at the same time expresses an
astrality, absorbs light. It is essential for the caterpillar
the sun, to the radiating sun with its light. Next you see in
form when you lie in bed with the lights still burning, and
moths fly toward the light. There you have the apparently
hear why. The moth dashes into the light and is burnt up.
Caterpillars have the same urge regarding the radiating light,
light. The caterpillar has the same urge to give itself up to
the light but cannot do so, for the sun is a long way off. The
the radiating light, gives itself up, spinning physical
materialized, spun light.
of the threads that the light has formed, that it has
wholly into the light. The light itself is the cause of the
into the light but gives itself up to it, creating the chamber
in which the light is enclosed. The chrysalis is created from
has prepared the secluded chamber for the light. There you have
butterfly, which is born out of the light, as all colors are
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and so forth. In the workings of light upon the eye we have
ourselves to a slight degree. The rhythmic system, however, is

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own defense and had not the slightest doubt that he would have
do so would throw a strange light on what goes on in these

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the dazzling sunlight, so must this sense-organ: child — for the

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expresses the sound E (EH) it has a kind of slight antipathy in its
produces a feeling of slight horror in many people to-day, for only

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impressions of light to the human being. What is the sole means
whereby the eye can make light perceptible to man? Imaginatively
to light to the fact that it shuts itself off from the being of man,
know nothing of light by means of an eye that has cataract. And when
of light when the eye lets the light show through it — so it is
accepted thing that if one sought enlightenment, if one wanted tidings
think clearly. This is no slight on clear thinking. But in an age
“If” in the light of this knowledge.]
when the body is as transparent to spirit as the eye is to light.
not understand it at all. Now it comes back. And now, in the light of
“The Education of the Child in the Light of Anthroposophy”
failed of accomplishment — according to the lights of parents and
by means of the nerves, just as we perceive light or colour outwardly.
one child has a firm tread, another will trip lightly, etc. Once we

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slight feeling of shame in face of the audience when speaking on
through it, just as, later in life, light acts upon the eye,
In other words, in an adult light comes to a standstill in the eye,
and only sends the idea of itself, the concept of light, into the
inwardly illumined, were transfused with light — to express it in
spiritually the matter appears in a very different light. The
order of the world. In face of lightning lashes in the clouds we feel

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initiation-knowledge we must really take flight from ourselves, that
we must become like the plants, the stones, the lightning and thunder
as a simple example: “Wisdom lives in the light.” At the
the same thing as painting a flash of lightning. If you paint
lightning, you are, of course, painting an instant — you are
above all in the life of other human beings. The slightest trait
lightning strikes through space or when thunder rolls across the sky.

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understood in the light of this proviso.
predisposition; or else what was a very slight predisposition has been

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Now this enlightens us as to how we should treat the soul in children,
felt slightly ashamed, and order was restored.
how something lights up in the phlegmatic child if we give him ideas
they haven't the slightest inkling. But people do not believe that

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actually light upon the most concrete educational measures from month
other.) So that actually, with slight variations of course (and as we

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pathologically sanguine child — a flighty child, one who flits
Among girls, in certain circumstances, you will find a slight tendency
predominates in him. And in the light of this knowledge, for every
inner character, — this that rays out from this slight
contracting: for this slight contraction sends rays throughout the

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the voice is very slight. On the other hand in connection with the
slight shifting of teachers for the following school year. At the
— with a slight feeling of antipathy; there is something
within him; and this gives the human being a feeling of slight
enlightened in the domain of natural science as we are; but earlier

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impetus it needs and deserves only if it is seen in this light
the slightest inkling that the activity of speaking could thus
scientific mode of thinking, and one that will also shed light
all he did was “crow with esthetic delight.”
sheds light on another. What we can see in the child between
light on one another. Think of how such things will stimulate

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the limelight, it nevertheless remains inartistic. The artistic
be regarded in this light, and if eurythmists choose to make
lighting to enhance the visual effects of the performing
eurythmists. These changing colored lights on the stage are
intended to work as a kind of “light eurythmy,” to
shadow cast by light. In order to give light its proper
light, the darker the accompanying shadow.
heartfelt satisfaction to you, I also wish to put the light
placed before you only to let the light shine more brightly.
anthroposophical cause, this light has been shining especially

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only if one can see the fundamentals in the right light that
exact copies of each other. The slightly younger one was a true
dogma without having the slightest notion of it. In order to

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can perceive the slightest facial expressions of its master,

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somewhat lighthearted view of these things may be of the
know-how to light it, keep it going, and control its heat. To
presented here in the right light, as a really practical form
There is not the slightest reason why a child should do so.
— even if only to a slight degree; the entire person is
light of this theory. It strikes one that people who spread
“religion-free enlightenment,” by appealing to the

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diluted and physiology too dense. Seen in this light,
pictures; but now something begins to dawn that will light up
changed. When seen in the proper light, this just shows that a

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abstractly, have a peculiar habit of never seeing the light of
slightest difference in the temperature of the room. But we can
also save our sermonizing, and, instead, simply light the stove
light, for, because of the prevailing materialistic attitudes
light or about the measurement of surface areas in a spherical
even reflected light is likely to crack a joke, or where a
Seen in this light, the processes of healing, set in motion by
question in the proper light. If teachers can feel moral

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may have adapted the entire organism to the slightly abnormal
that, should the symptoms of the slight heart defect return, a
the proper light. They had sent more or less the following

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light of the education spoken of here, one allows something to
These things must all be seen in the proper light before
because each sheds light on the other. It could even be said
light that shines for those who feel it their duty to care for

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lectures on education in the light of Anthroposophy. I hope,
was a great joy to welcome them there, and we were delighted to hear

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of itself unfold into blossom under the influence of sunlight and
right light. Greek civilization was really a continuation, an
receives proper care, both flower and fruit develop under the light
plant that pour out of the root and unfold under the light and warmth
as if we were to shut off all our plants from the sunlight, put them
into a cellar and then make them grow under electric light, possibly
because we did not consider the free light of the sun good enough for

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so the delight of those who look back with inner satisfaction on what

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upward-flowing stream of light, with that part of the chemistry of
thus united in education. Light is thrown not only on the question of

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but in wind and wave, cloud, sunshine and starlight. Everywhere the

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and other matters of which I spoke yesterday, will come to light as the
science of physics. When a candle is alight there is an external
this inner process of combustion with the burning of a lighted
combustion we see in the lighted candle. Yet a certain kind of

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the course of human evolution is revealed in a threefold light. We
the light of the Mystery of Golgotha, when through Christ Jesus an
gathering clouds, in lightning, thunder, in stone, plant and
awakening of knowledge whereby all our life is bathed in the light of
true religion, in the light of a moral goodness proceeding from

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earth and unfolds into leaf and flower by the light and warmth of the

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evening. When he wakes up in the morning he may feel slightly

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principle of self-consciousness comes to light in grammar and syntax.

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really delightful at the Waldorf School to find a kind of competition
of the nature of man brings the following facts to light. It is really
kingdom and also the domain of physics can be understood in the light of

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in this way in paragraphs 1 to 30 will be delightfully clever,

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do it. He only gets as far as a slight sketch. For this drama,

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light up and gain clarity. But fundamentally speaking the fact
to light in gesture, in movement. For gesture is what appears
things more lightly with his fingers has the tendency to
that, it does not influence the child in the slightest degree
reached, this is because Herr von Osten makes a very slight
to say that these gestures are so slight that he as a human
experience a slight sense of superiority: I am so clever

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famous comparison of Einstein) thrown with the speed of light
you think the differences are which come to light between human

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education comes up against not only slight pathological
what imponderable forces then come to light. When one studies
there is a light, shadows are thrown by objects; where there is
a weak light there are weak shadows, where there is a strong
light there are strong shadows. Likewise in regard to certain
had been taken hold of by the enlightened ideas which later

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happen. Because wherever there is light there are also strong
they will throw light on life's problems. It is just concerning

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There is a very slight, barely noticeable irregularity in the
thoughts. Swift as lightning they shoot thoughts upwards, only
extremely enlightened, intelligent man. Nevertheless he

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important and to pass lightly over the unimportant.

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fill him with such wonder and delight as to observe a little child.
is why the young child has it only in so slight a degree.

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has not the slightest relationship.
action we may radiate light on to his whole life.

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Light of Anthroposophy.]

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All that matters is that the child takes delight in the story because

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marvellous thing if we see it in the right light.

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slightest difficulty in bringing Eurythmy to the children. If they

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the text books of today, but simply by lighting a match for instance
Education of the Child in the Light of Anthroposophy.] The
the delight they have in it. For experiments have been made and it
take a watch and send it out into the universe at the speed of light,
this watch if it goes out at the speed of light and comes back again.

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How to teach children to draw a tree in shading, speaking only of light
colour, or else, if you like, in light and shade. What is actually
surfaces in light and shade, and out of these a face appears. To
Only when one traces the boundaries which arise in the light and
itself but from painting, working in colour or in light and shade.
drawing lines which are supposed to be rays of light. Where can we
really find these rays of light? They are nowhere to be found. What
colleges. One gets a slight shock in the case of the teachers of
side. The sun falls upon something and makes all kinds of light, (see
sketch). Light is shed upon everything. I can see bright patches. It
will perhaps be just a little light here. Then I look at something
which, when the light falls on it in this way, looks greenish in
colour. Here, where the light falls, it is whitish, but then, before
curious things to be seen in between the two. Here the light does not
I have spoken of light and shadow, and of how there is something here
on which the light does not impinge: and lo, I have made a tree! I
have only spoken about light and colour, and I have made a tree. We
cannot really paint the tree: we can only bring in light and shade,
must speak of colour and light and shade; and so indeed we shall be
speaking only of what is really there — colour, light and
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very slightly so in comparison with most other alkaline reactions.
by consideration of the facts in the light of Spiritual Science. There

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only a slight defect becomes an evident defect in Cardiology. For,
it proves that his medical practice had enlightened the author on the
biology can all be studied in the light of this principle; and thus
light is thrown, and only thus, upon the human organisation. As long
They say, for example, that from a source of light — for example, the
sun — the light radiates in all directions, and finally disappears

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sense directly contrary to one another, when looked at in the light of

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you to accept it provisionally, because it throws light on many
common knowledge — that the daily diffused light of the sun destroys
intestinal fauna or flora, the bacillus, to survive in the sunlight.
Sunlight does not suit it. Where can the bacillus survive? In the
ignored. We are continually surrounded by light; light — as you will
happens to light, that is, to something purely etheric; it becomes
light is interrupted in man. And so, if we seek for light within man,
it must be something transformed, it must be a metamorphosis of light.
metamorphosis of light. This means that man does not only transform
but also the imponderable element — Light itself. He changes it into
the human interior and perishes in the full sunlight, it is evident —
to a sound judgment of the fact — that the product of the light as
process of transmutation of light within the patient. Something occurs
something abnormal in the development of this transmuted light of the
sunlight, or he does not get enough sunlight owing to his way of life.
Thus there is not an adequate balance between the amount of sunlight
forces him to draw reserves from the already transmuted light stored
man, has a continuous supply of stored and transmuted light within.
between man and the external sunlight, does not take place properly,
his body is deprived of the transmuted light, just as, in cases of
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slight capacity of this kind. The lazy man is really, from the point
details for later addresses. Strictly speaking, in the light of the
You can throw a strong light on certain treatments of the human pelvis
corresponding substances from the inner workings of light and other
Light-bearer. Men saw that phosphorus does carry and contain that
imponderable light. What salt repels and holds at bay, phosphorus
principally light, but also others, for instance, warmth — and
shaping their leaves and flowers: the force of light, for instance.

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gravity and light. Light is that which continually overcomes gravity.
between light and weight, between that which strives towards ashes and
light of perfectly different principles, as they originate in regions
the opposite process, the light process, it is liberated from gravity;
light as the representative of all other imponderable forces, we must
between light and gravity, between the force that strives towards the
towards the centre. We have here the polarity between light and
equilibrium between light and gravity.
whole cosmic scheme, i.e., in gravity, in the light forces, and in
man, but also of that contest between light and gravity that fills the
If we are in quest of the forces akin to light, we must turn to the
of gravity and light. This offers only one possibility — the
the light and is therefore akin to the workings of light; and we
medicine of today, and only occasionally referring to the light thrown
to isolate the fire-bearing, light-bearing parts, then to try to
light-bearing substances in nature, in order to get extra-terrestrial
beyond this; so does the “open-air treatment,” which uses light and
of the light-bearer, phosphorus, and the air-carrier mercury. That of
anew in the light of our later knowledge. They thought as follows:
investigate anew in the light of our later knowledge. They thought as

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light of the true knowledge of man.
here. Help and light come from consideration of the factors already
also remember the case in which the patient is only slightly affected
All these things must be considered in the light of the complexity of
cosmic action dominates the cellular principle. In the light of this

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Here we have the “ratio” for finding remedies and light is thrown on
part of the body. And this will throw much light upon our further
And we may even find light thrown upon the remarkable interaction
solidification a suspended salt-process. This again throws light on

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“physical” methods. [e.Ed: i.e., open air, light, warmth, etc.] For the

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comparatively slightly modified in their passage as far down as the
prominent roles, and throw light on the curative process. What is put
organisation in the light of its dependence on the cosmic peripheral

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later on or under exposure to light. The reaction provoked has thus
organism actually produces primary light. In our upper man we really
generate light independently. In the lower sphere we possess those
enable the upper sphere to produce original light. There we have one
mankind; but they are not capable of generating sufficient light in
generation of light in normal human beings. This internal generation
of light meets the operation of the light from the external world. Our
upper organic sphere is designed so as to enable external light and
internal light to counteract one another, to operate alternately; and
of holding these two sources of light apart, so that they only work
that we are standing exposed to the light from the external world,
is a screen, so to speak, between the internal, inherent light within
us and the light that operates from without. This external light has
light; thus in letting light pour upon us from outside we activate
ourselves to produce inner light.
one hand, to the generation of light. You will realise the meaning of
is sent towards us as light.
It is a grave error to suppose that our light on earth comes from the
and astronomers. Our light on earth comes from this outer zone. There
power to generate original light of his own, it is due to the power he
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the light of the following facts.

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very slight or very acute, and leading possibly to ulcers, spiritual
or better, from the light workings of summer; there is something of
representative only of the light workings: but this subject forms a
slight ego-feeling, unless it is artificially-supplemented by some

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is a strong ego-influence over the physical body and only a slight
so that if it could be extracted and revealed to the light of day, it
something extremely enlightening in respect of these two parts of the

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consider in the light of the criticism quoted at the beginning of this
the counteracting forces of light. It goes further than that: just as
This fact is verifiable through observation of man. In the light of

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evident also by objective and systematic study of light and color
treatment for disease. This use of light and color should be more
upper sphere of the human being and light proper which has a more
portion of the body to the objective influence of color or light — we
of irradiation with colored light, the person is brought into a room
not distant future. Color therapy, not only light treatment, will soon
can find our way far better in the light of primary phenomena than by
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however slightly, has its continuance, or should have it, in some
employed. Careful interrogatories will bring to light certain things

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summarise some things calculated to throw light on the whole of what
put before you some facts which should throw light on man in the state
in the light of other processes in mankind, which appear quite remote;
the light. Yes, that is true, but it is possible to judge dental
chemism is so to speak rendered ineffective. If a beam of light is

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Examine much of what comes to light in these paintings, in the red and
his feet lightly on the ground or strongly, you may form an intuitive
on the solar activity — and note please, not the operation of light,
appearance may be very slight and delicate. In the case of such
those which act through light, and those acting through warmth. The
the action of light has more importance after approximately fourteen
this triad of organising chemism — organised light process, organised
even more strong light process has such a great influence on the very

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must be to some degree estimated in the light of that which is apt to
so that the slightest external scratch or prick may cause the
who have furnished us with a light on some profound — and medically
referred to, yet shows constant slight oscillations. Thence arises a

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we turn the light of spiritual science upon the whole constitution of
To regard the subject in this light would bring us further than the
professional literature of homeopathy brings to light something else

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generality, as a slightly differentiated misty cloud. It must
of four kinds of ether: warmth ether, light ether, chemical
ether, and life ether. Light ether is a term that is formed,
see, the aspect of this ether that is connected with light is
Light ether
drawing, light hatching). Of course, this element streams
light because, studied in its essential nature, it is a
creation of the light in Goethe's sense. That the eye was
born from the light is not only a picture but a deep wisdom.
organized by the light that they are permeable to it. It is
the human head is permeable only to warmth and light ether.
Thus only the warmth ether and the light ether can work on
of the light ether on the human organism must be regarded in
influence of the light ether, however, is much more
penetrating than that of mere light, so that its effect
only to warmth and light ether. This is only approximately
the warmth and light ethers radiates in from all sides (see
toward the instreaming warmth and light ethers (upward
warmth ether and light ether, streaming from above
aspect of the human organism that light and warmth ether may
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the extra-terrestrial — air, light, and
to conditions in which light is unusually active, the air
being strongly penetrated by light. He is thus surrounded by
light. This means that we place him into a region where the
sunlight we find what the earth no longer needs, what is
exposure to light.
with sun and light. Moreover, if we find someone particularly
“excess-sun,” an “excess-light,” and
shine, where it contains more light than is necessary for
strong sunlight or high altitudes. We must bear this in mind
magnetic field is applied we do not need a “light
something from man's environment: light, climatic influences

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by outer sunlight. In them an extra-terrestrial process has

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some light on pulmonary tuberculosis and we will see how such
him off. He is drawn toward that which paralyzes his delight
in the extra-terrestrial. This delight depends essentially on

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stronger. This is the slight influence of the ego acting
It is permeated with light, etc. Outer

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(see drawing, light).

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light up as inner processes when one does eurythmy. If what

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about the necessity for proper air, light, nourishment, sanitation,
pass each other by without either having the slightest understanding
life, they will be able to shed light on its problems, for they will
modern culture. We should be in a sorry plight if all that lives in

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to see the smallest constituents of solids through some process, light
could then be explained by means of movement, for then light would be
longer have the slightest idea what to do with it. If the human organism

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functions that stem from phosphorus, though from a very slight

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and anyone who has the slightest understanding of the
Galen was not able to see many things that are brought to light
example, that a man with slightly abnormal vision looks through
cell as the simplest thing in the organism. Viewed in the light
allowing for very slight differences. But now, think of it: one

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Anthroposophy can throw light into the realm of medicine. I shall
slightest understanding of the historical evolution of mankind, who
many things that are brought to light to-day by our scientific
in the light of Spiritual Science, the universe is the summit of
very slight differences. But now, think of it: one of the men may

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light that would have been shed upon the results of
describing here, wonderful things come to light, for instance
conditions and light conditions are at play dynamically under
light and the light conditions during the year when the plant
from the dynamic forces of light and warmth of at least the

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describing, wonderful things come to light — as for instance
dynamic forces of warmth and the forces of the light are at work
dynamic forces of warmth and light during the year when the plant
forces of light and warmth of at least the year before. These forces

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significant regulating principle will come to light if we

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highly significant principle will come to light if we investigate

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warmth and light from the previous year. We find the strongest
comes to light in a powerful way when we study the matter.
of this sort comes to light. This is why it is almost
slight. We must never over-stimulate the organism; whenever it
the devitalization is very slight in colchicum autumnale

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stored up by the earth out of the warmth and sunlight of the previous
something of the sort comes to light. That is why it is almost
and by studying a complex of symptoms of this kind in the light of
probably be adequate when the gastric trouble is slight. The organism
will realise that in what I call a spiritual-scientific enlightenment
devitalising process. That the devitalisation is very slight in

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in achieving lightness — particularly in the limbs — as
this will bring lightness into the soul-life as well. These ideas will
“light”; German “au”, “ow” as in

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gait. So when people walk in this way (lightly tripping; the ed.), that
to reach the stage where the children delight in the
in pointing the toes somewhat, but only very slightly, to the outside

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thus to light in view.
in the light of one's knowledge of the threefold order of the human
organism. This threefold order of the human organism sheds light in
the children delight. It must give the children joy; that is a part

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light, partial sleep overtakes the listener. The “I”
it. In listening man steps out of himself slightly. He is overcome by
similar to sleep in that the “I” and astral body are slightly
really meant only to enlighten, one must have time if one wishes to

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when considered in a higher light. However, one must be able to rise
notion of these peculiar processes which light up as inward processes

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simply replace, with a lighter eurythmy of the arms, the fingers, or

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man, the warmth man, is concerned, there is not the slightest
physiology and anatomy have not the slightest inkling because

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things can only be seen in their right light when we say to
of the light and the production of an image by an ordinary
draw a ray of light which passes through a lens, is broken up

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themselves; there is a slight pull of gravity in the downward
in the forward direction there is a very slight propelling
be a series of slight explosions which show the relation of

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happens to a slight degree during the embryonic period but in

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not only the warmth and light of the sun but also those

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The whole man vibrates, if only slightly; and the ear is not
there works light. Intuition reveals warmth within warmth;
inconceivable without some condition of light — for
darkness is also a condition of light. Light and air belong
together; light is an active, organizing force in the whole
soul. There is not only external light but also metamorphosed
inner light which permeates the whole human being, which
lives in him. The light lives within him together with the
Light
warmth, light, chemical forces, life — and we have the
only upon the warmth organism, the light ether upon the airy

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always slight organic disturbances as well, only these latter
such a way that both of them throw the same light on an
object. Sometimes the sun throws the light directly, at other
like the moon reflecting the sun's light; the uterus reflects

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the soul is light. You must learn more and more to realize
the body, is light. It belongs to what surrounds us as the
etheric elements — it belongs to the light. The human
soul belongs entirely to the realm of light. We see it
rightly when we see it within light.
heaviness is overcome, how the brain becomes much lighter
in a kind of pale bluish-red light. And in that moment I know
impression of radiance in the pale bluish-red light, you get
and is like light, the power of radiance; and you must
child shows a slight tendency to stuttering. I am not, of

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the Light.” If we think about this we can extract many
it. “Wisdom lives in the Light” is there in order
there lights up within you something you did not know before,
metamorphosis going on. You see the spirit and soul lighting
formed out of light and darkness, in colors, as it were. You
dark, quite dark. Then again comes the light, when the forces

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meditation should enlighten and support the other. It may
light of the following lines, you will learn to look into the

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Light is really dawning in the world, in concealment. An Age
of Light is shining into the world and its first rays must be
when the Age of Light began. This mere fact does not tell us
into a tremendous riddle. This comes to light in the urge to
indicated. You must not take these things lightly, for if you

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have been based on utter unenlightenment and
it does not come to light in earthly man when these
the other, was rarefied to light. Light and air intermingle,
of the air. We also take in the light, and light, in the
Light is a general expression for what works through the sun.
the light was known as spiritual tincture. The Sun evolution
how the human being lives within all that spreads out light,
Something of karma comes to light in the free choice of one's

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empty space with a slightly condensed earth at the center

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human being throws tremendous light upon knowledge of man as
consciousness would become slightly dreamy. He became more
became stronger — to a slight extent, but the effect
which shows itself only in a form of slight stupor. In
very slightly paralyzed, when the picture of the old man is
Yuga has passed, that we have entered a new Age of Light
spiritual universe, light is shining in; as human beings, we
are entering an Age of Light; only we must make ourselves fit
to realize the intentions of this Age of Light. Young people
Light, it will be possible for them to adjust themselves to
the Age of Light began. It was all abstract, however vitally

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would commonly be called abnormal. It may be no more than a slight
tendency to flights of thought, or an incapacity to place the words
to some slight degree, in the majority of human beings. We shall have
these slighter ones will be of importance as symptoms. And one must,

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suppose that the condition shows itself in only a slight degree. So

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light (in spiritual science "light" is perception of all
senses). This light is etheric. Mechanism of the eye correctly
slips in so far that it makes the physical body light. Through the
body is directly connected also with the forces of “light”.
of light is not identical with what modern physics understands by the
and it is something in the ether. Light is, in fact, an ether
force. Modern science speaks of light as of something that is
light in another way. It calls “light” that which
light of perceptions of sound. Present-day physics, when it speaks of
about the vibration of the air. Light lives also in the perceptions
of smell. In short, all perceptions have as their basis a light of a
kind that is much more all-pervading than the light that is spoken of
confused when we speak of light in this way. For, although it was so
“light”. Now the astral body is connected with this
light; that is to say, it has direct relation — not indirect
Outside lives the light in the ether, but we have also the etheric
within us. The light works upon our ether body. When we wake up, we
not only come into connection with the light that is within us; but,
turning aside as it were from the light that is within us, we member
ourselves into the light that streams through the external world. It
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associated with air, of the differentiations in warmth, in light, in
It happens quite naturally; but only in the light of what has been
with the light, with the chemical ether and with the universal
in the environment that may cause even a slight shock to the child —

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a little agitated, a slight tremor runs through it.
perhaps only slight, to fixed ideas. They are not transferred to
mania. The tendency need only show itself very slightly, to
they show themselves in a slighter form, and yet here too they are

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the demand for nourishment being so slight in this front part of the

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involved. Then a slight infiltration of poison is set up towards the
they all equally hold back the astral body. Hence the slight tendency
they are slight. They could, however, lead on to a more severe
this astral organism. You must invent the most delightful stories,
bubble, is also followed with pleasure and delight. And now

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of light — no precise impressions at all.
abnormalities of this kind throw great light upon the life of man as
speaking, send its light into all the events and doings that occur in
light of consciousness. He will relate the most incredible stories to

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is the idea of discovery — the idea that he has lighted
delight and interest. But there his capacity for forming ideas comes
new thing he has learned. This delight at acquiring something in the
these means, for the child is actually not yet responsive to light.
His sensitivity to light is exceedingly weak; on this account the
exclusion of light is of less importance than might have been
spread out in the organism, reaching the periphery with a lighter
weariness, the slight signs of depression, will, if we push too far
have the slightest hesitation in bringing to them just as much as

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the problem, he came up to me with great delight; but it must have
the sum, and was happy and delighted when he had found the answer.
the slight measure of perception that is present in a normal human
evening, but in the morning the truth of it comes to light. And in
would be shining out from you like a light.
delightful, nothing more fascinating, than the experience of truth.
light for us on all that lives in the atmosphere etc.; and so we

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transmits iron radiations only very slightly. A glass surface would
was really quite delightful to watch how he would sometimes at dinner

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elementary stage.) For Goethe took a special delight in the
by looking at the matter in this light. Starting therefore from this
into the soil of the Earth, has embedded itself right into the light.
free expanse of air and into the light. We can therefore say that
and a very fruitful and productive idea it was. Think what a light

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bring it about. But things have come to light that must be corrected
become in the slightest way theologians. It is purely a matter of the
work that cannot appear in the same light to us who are involved in a
light and air, or exposure to soul influences. In every circumstance
physicians need an observation that is trained to see the lighting up
is trained to see the lighting up of the physical reflection of a

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bring it about. But things have come to light that must be corrected
become in the slightest way theologians. It is purely a matter of the
work that cannot appear in the same light to us who are involved in a
light and air, or exposure to soul influences. In every circumstance
physicians need an observation that is trained to see the lighting up
is trained to see the lighting up of the physical reflection of a

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they may take slight notice of them, great abnormalities in the
four stages — the first very slightly abnormal, the others as I
enlightened, trained confessors have heard from certain penitents who
patients, the enlightened confessor is able to look into the
tremendously enlightening in regard to psychological abnormalities as

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they may take slight notice of them, great abnormalities in the
four stages — the first very slightly abnormal, the others as I
enlightened, trained confessors have heard from certain penitents who
patients, the enlightened confessor is able to look into the
tremendously enlightening in regard to psychological abnormalities as

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are stimulated by light from without and we receive the stimulus into

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are stimulated by light from without and we receive the stimulus into

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change of teeth because such individuals follow only slightly the
knowledge. The knowledge really sheds light on the relation between
streams to us from the stone — for a stone has no light of its
own, it can only reflect the sun's light to us. The natural
we can designate the light reflected from the stone as sunlight

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change of teeth because such individuals follow only slightly the
knowledge. The knowledge really sheds light on the relation between
streams to us from the stone — for a stone has no light of its
own, it can only reflect the sun's light to us. The natural
we can designate the light reflected from the stone as sunlight

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typical outcome. You must then think of the corresponding lighter
delighted by it. By the time the late teens come, the eighteenth,
delight the people. They say, “This child talks or acts like a
pathological stage: a slight tendency, caused by bad education,
There is an affinity between this slightly pathological condition and

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typical outcome. You must then think of the corresponding lighter
delighted by it. By the time the late teens come, the eighteenth,
delight the people. They say, “This child talks or acts like a
pathological stage: a slight tendency, caused by bad education,
There is an affinity between this slightly pathological condition and

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“enlightened” point of view may regard with derision. If
delighted to entertain Ferdinand Raimund. Gradually he abandons the
did have rabies, but it was a very light case.) Now Raimund travels

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“enlightened” point of view may regard with derision. If
delighted to entertain Ferdinand Raimund. Gradually he abandons the
did have rabies, but it was a very light case.) Now Raimund travels

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explores whatever can have the slightest relevance to it. But one
of breathing. But not only warmth. The warmth carries with it light,
macrocosmic chemism, and macrocosmic life, vitality. Light ether,
carries light, as well as the chemical and life elements, into the
and with it light; chemism, and life. This is different from the
warmth and the light, chemism, and life that warmth carries in with
being in a new light, for the following facts also appear:
and bringing light, chemism, and life. It connects itself with the
light to the breathing. It holds that back. The light stays behind
and floods the human being as inner light, becoming thought
process from above to below, we have light coming in by way of the
it comes to a “stop!” for the light. The light spreads
spread out as light. We carry within us a pure light organism, a
light organism that thinks.
light, chemism, and life are brought on paths of warmth, as you come
from the light to the life paths and see the general cosmic life

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explores whatever can have the slightest relevance to it. But one
of breathing. But not only warmth. The warmth carries with it light,
macrocosmic chemism, and macrocosmic life, vitality. Light ether,
carries light, as well as the chemical and life elements, into the
and with it light; chemism, and life. This is different from the
warmth and the light, chemism, and life that warmth carries in with
being in a new light, for the following facts also appear. Here is
bringing light, chemism, and life. It connects itself with the
light to the breathing. It holds that back. The light stays behind
and floods the human being as inner light, becoming thought
process from above to below, we have light coming in by way of the
it comes to a “stop!” for the light. The light spreads
spread out as light. We carry within us a pure light organism, a
light organism that thinks.
light, chemism, and life are brought on paths of warmth, as you come
from the light to the life paths and see the general cosmic life

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longer shine, there is no moonlight. There is no longer a clear
relation humanity has to the sun. When a ray of light streams into
your eye, the sun spirit is streaming in with that ray of light. The
stop for the light; second, they must stop for the macrocosmic
about the stop for the light, the Jupiter forces in their wisdom
us, that on the paths of the physical-etheric sunlight, the light
sun is given: the darkening that relates to the light, the constant

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longer shine, there is no moonlight. There is no longer a clear
relation humanity has to the sun. When a ray of light streams into
your eye, the sun spirit is streaming in with that ray of light. The
stop for the light; second, they must stop for the macrocosmic
about the stop for the light, the Jupiter forces in their wisdom
us, that on the paths of the physical-etheric sunlight, the light
sun is given: the darkening that relates to the light, the constant

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time from a standpoint that I think will throw greatest light upon
only to the slightest degree from so-called normal, something can be

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time from a standpoint that I think will throw greatest light upon
only to the slightest degree from so-called normal, something can be

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materialism. But truly this is slight satisfaction for those who see
to it through all the ages, for it moves slightly from year to year.

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materialism. But truly this is slight satisfaction for those who see
to it through all the ages, for it moves slightly from year to year.

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moment one reaches a higher level of consciousness even to a slight

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moment one reaches a higher level of consciousness even to a slight

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exert a slight action on it and a small antimony explosion will occur. In

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somewhere a source of light, we know that the more widely the
light is distributed from its source the more it loses in
‘light’ but as ‘twilight,’ and finally
when we have gone far enough it cannot be accounted as light
the world of space with the light of a candle. Directly we
its correct degree of anabolism in relation to too slight a
disintegration against too slight an anabolism, in which case

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suppose we have somewhere a source of light, we know that the
more widely the light is distributed from its source the more
longer as “light” but as “twilight,”
as light any more. It is the same with the laws of
illumine the worlds of space with the light of a candle.
relation to too slight a degree of catabolism, and then its
normal process of disintegration against too slight an

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simple examples — which are applicable either to slight

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applicable either to slight or in certain circumstances to very

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the Ego slightly out of the head. Thus we begin to understand
influencing others. Therefore in this case, slight and delicate
form any other sense-organ — even in the very slightest
to understand the shadow he must also gaze upon the light
spiritual processes to behold the light that is working in the
there is light, there must be shadow; wherever there is
upon the light.

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the Ego slightly out of the lead. Thus we begin to understand
influencing others. Therefore in this case, slight and delicate
form any other sense-organ — even in the very slightest
to understand the shadow he must also gaze upon the light
spiritual processes, to behold the light that is working in the
there is light, there must be shadow; wherever there is
truly gaze upon the light.

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lighter parts which lie more below the superficial
transparent substance allows light to stream through it, so all

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lighter parts which lie more below the superficial
transparent substance allows light to stream through it, so all

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shall at most be able to contribute a few side-lights which may help
“ether” or the like, as underlying the phenomena of light
justified to say that when we perceive a phenomenon of light or
light or colour for example, the objective wave-movement in the
light will interact with matter that is in its path. Goethe puts into
words how light and matter interact. That is no “law”; it
considerable light on what is seeking to come into our Science by way
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of light and colour rather as follows: — We ourselves are
affected, say, by an impression of light or colour — we, that
about the phenomena of light, you will find contradictory and
only happens to a slight extent we can still bear it; if to a great
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on that side. By immersion in water the object has become lighter,
— it loses some of its weight. We can test how much lighter it
balance. We find the object has become lighter to the extent of the
body becomes as much lighter as is represented by the weight of
is lightened, leaving only about 20 grammes. What does this signify?
exception of the spinal cord — are only to a very slight extent
on the other hand becomes light and clear inasmuch as we are able to
Will in matter and on the other hand the lightening of Will into
then see upon the one hand the lightening into Intelligence, brought
which comes about when we open our eyes and are in a light-filled
with pressure. When we expose ourselves to light, insofar as the
light works purely and simply as light, not only do we lose nothing
it at all, can fail to perceive that by exposing himself to the light
unite with what comes to meet us in the light; we shall discuss this
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and by. We shall have to go into the phenomena of light and colour
explain is in its essence a special kind of interplay of light and
dimming or clouding of the light. I was trying to show how through
the diverse ways in which light and dark work together —
induced especially by the passage of a cylinder of light through a
treatment of light and colour. The strange education we are made to
light and colour, let us now begin again, but from the other end. I
light came to his notice. Among other things, he learned of the
colourless light go through a prism the colourless light is analyzed
we let a cylinder of colourless light impinge on the screen, it shows
light, the physicists went on to say, we get the sequence of colours:
red, orange, yellow, green, blue — light blue and dark blue,
explain it thus, so he was told — The colourless light already
make the light go through the prism, the prism really does no more
than to fan out and separate what is already there in the light,
so: If then the light is analyzed by the prism, I shall see it so on
yonder wall. He really expected to see the light in seven colours.
the stain, the dark and clouded part, met the lighter surface.
If we let light pass
Put a prism in the way of the body of light that is going through
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follows: When I look through darkness at something lighter, the light
light colours, i.e. in the direction of the red and yellowish tones.
white — at any whitish-shining light through a thick enough
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water through which you send a stream of light so that the liquid is
illumined, you will be looking at the dark through something light.
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Ur-phenomenon: Light through dark — yellow; dark through light
sent a cylinder of light through a prism and so obtained a real scale
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cylinder of light, the light in some way goes through the prism and
path of the light — that is, a body with convergent faces. In
passing through the prism, the light gets darkened. The moment we
send the light through the prism we therefore have to do with two
things: first the simple light as it streams on, and then the dimness
interposed in the path of the light. Moreover this dimness, as we
said, puts itself into the path of the light in such a way that while
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solid body spreads its light and we let this light go through a
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obtain a luminous picture with the light that spreads from a glowing
light or little bands of light at different places, according to the
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light above all in 1859 by the famous experiment of Kirchhoff and
Bunsen. If we arrange things so that the source of light generating
quality of light which would be appearing at this place (i.e. in the
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must be at least equal to the strength of light that is just being
apparatus, we here generate the cylinder of light; we let it go
on to the screen. Into the path of the cylinder of light I place a
path of the cylinder of light the solution of iodine in carbon
disulphide, this light is extinguished. You see the spectrum clearly
that I cause the light to go through this solution — iodine in
relation to the light? How do they, simply by dint of their material
existence so to speak, develop such relation to the light that one
say: When colourless sunlight — according to the physicists, a
“phosphores” or light-bearers. This is what they meant:
exposed this to the light, a strange phenomenon occurred. After
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in the realm of light, it will also help us observe and understand
illustrated in the realm of Light.
phenomena of light in rather recent times, historically speaking.
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it diagrammatically, let me represent the latter simply by a light
through the glass? You were no doubt told that rays of light proceed
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the direction of the “ray” I am now drawing, the light
without the glass. Now this is said to be due to the light being
When the light passes from a more tenuous into a denser medium, to
find the direction in which the light will be refracted, you must
the light went on its way without being hindered by a denser medium,
it would go on in this direction. But, they now say, the light is
light” is seen through the denser medium.) Here then again, at
If the light went straight on it would go thus: but at this second
said to produce the final direction of the ray of light and thus to
glass. Here, to begin with, the light impinges on the plate, then it
ascribe this faculty ....) the light is somehow projected out into
discriminate, however delicately, between the darker and lighter
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that wherever colours arise there is a working-together of light
true conception of what underlies this interplay of light and
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VIIa), — candles as sources of light — and an
left-hand source of light. It is produced, in that the light from
arises where the light from the right-hand source is covered.
is illumined by both sources of light. Now I will colour the one
(the left-hand) light. I make the light go through a plate of
coloured glass, so that this one of the lights is now coloured
that the shadow of the rod, due to this left-hand source of light
source of light to red, you see the shadow green. What was mere
source of light to green, — the shadow becomes red. And when
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shadows. I darken this source of light and get green, said Goethe
I darken this source of light, the white screen as a whole shines
with colour. The light and darkness then work together in a
different way. We note that by darkening the light with red the
physical apparatus. This physical apparatus, mingling light and
by the red darkening of the light, and the green afterimage,
descend from Light to Warmth. Warmth too we perceive as a condition
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at some distance from you, you see the flash of light in the
thunder after you see the lightning. If you neglect that there is
such a thing as a velocity of light, you may then call the time
that elapses between your perception of the impression of light and
then put a very light and mobile dust into the tube that is filled
to apply to the phenomena of sound and light? This surely would be
sensations of light and sound are so. None of you are there outside
light and sound the inner life and being which you experience in a
Just as the light affects the eye and the optic nerve receives the
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of light. Having begun with the mistaken premise that eye and ear
eye and the phenomena of light. What comes into our consciousness

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enabling us to throw some light on the educational use of
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akin to the light that spreads through space, — the latter
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Figure IXb — were a source of light and here a mirror. A
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second mirror, and an image arises here. We may then say, the light
generally imagines wave-movements to spread out. Even as light
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extent. For sound and light, they were imagining wave-trains,
Hertz's discoveries were still the twilight of the old, tending as
the green light on the glass; that is fluorescent light. I am sorry
they thought of light for instance being propagated in the form of
the body of light that is going through this tube — this
fresh experiments now came to light, which in their turn seemed
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velocity of light, while the velocity of the α-rays is
about one-tenth the velocity of light. We have therefore these
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as we have seen, the phenomena of light had been brought into a
the raying light itself something like radiating electricity. I do
object, as we should do with light. Light throws a shadow. So do
to meet them, giving a greenish light. The velocity of the canal
greenish-yellow, fluorescent light. The rays that shew themselves
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of light, colours could be seen arising, but man had not enough
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and algebraic too) to the phenomena of light or sound, then in your
the wave-theory of light, or Newton's corpuscular theory, —
when you connect it with the phenomena of light. What you then do
different when we go down from the phenomena of light and sound,
tubes makes itself known to us in phenomena of light, etc. Whatever
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way. The phenomena of sound and tone and light are akin to the
intermediate between light and sound on the one hand, electricity
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to the four states of matter, to light, to color, and to the sub-earthly
opening. We will now warm the ball slightly. Now you see it does not
of starlight in cosmic space have been confirmed and could now be
made to make spectrum analysis showing the behavior of the light at
step is to seek a way really to investigate the light of the sun by
case of light. There is no isolated organ, we respond with our whole
the world of light as color, this is not the case for heat. We are
form as does the condition which gives rise to light. Our eye is
analogous manner to light because we are one with the heat. Imagine
speak of light and dark, but the colors would evoke in you no response
you perceive in the case of light on account of the fact that your eye
method we use of the objective being of light. Nothing had so
experiment is carried out: it is known that when light rays are
intensified light appears at the focus. The same experiment is made
as in the case of the light; therefore heat and light are
of light, Goethe brought some degree of order into the physics of that
this mutual bombardment. Now when one sums up all the various slight

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to the four states of matter, to light, to color, and to the sub-earthly

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to the four states of matter, to light, to color, and to the sub-earthly
phenomena side by side so that they throw light on each other, and
lectures on light.
dimension. So much for this side-light on historical development.

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to the four states of matter, to light, to color, and to the sub-earthly
light, we note this perception of light to be bound up with a special
therefore, speak of being related to color and light with our whole
instead of light sensitive, then when we turned them towards a
Electricity would be known not merely by its effects, but like light
we draw near the outer world — the realms of light and heat. How
working over of light and sound phenomena as residues in the form of

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to the four states of matter, to light, to color, and to the sub-earthly
sense qualities such as light and tone. But we saw that magnetism and
tone and light.
concepts have borrowed from light . But there is one kind of concept
look more lightly on the ideas of ordinary life. And therefore, anyone

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to the four states of matter, to light, to color, and to the sub-earthly
slightly) due to the rise in vapor pressure. We can again in this

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to the four states of matter, to light, to color, and to the sub-earthly
otherwise comes to light in solids as crystalline shape. Only, in the
And we may speak of the “dawn” and “twilight” of
WÃ¤rmetag comes a twilight condition where the earth again
to dissipate her forces through the cosmos until the twilight
we do take them into account today, with light phenomena at least in

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to the four states of matter, to light, to color, and to the sub-earthly
observations, let us throw a little light on this whole point of view.
where there is no light, but only heat, the infra red region. On the
other side of the violet, also, we no longer have light. We come to
not only the light from which the spectrum is formed, but also the

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to the four states of matter, to light, to color, and to the sub-earthly
beyond X to Y and Z just as, for instance, we go in the light spectrum
this by allowing light to shine through a pair of tourmaline crystals.
phenomena, apparently related to the passage of light through systems
order to bring out the phenomenon. And the light does this and makes
the 19th century in such a way that the light itself is
supposed to give rise to the phenomenon while in reality the light
source from the light itself. What is taking place has nothing
whatever to do with the light as such. The light simply penetrates the
consider light merely as ether vibrations. A person thus passes from
will help you, for instance, to see how light arises in matter, light
the matter is simply “overrun” by the light, as it were. And

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to the four states of matter, to light, to color, and to the sub-earthly
light by allowing a beam to pass through this opening, and into this
cylinder we will bring a sphere which is so prepared that the light
light we would get a spectrum. We do not form a spectrum in this
experiment, but we catch the light — gather it up and obtain as a
result of this gathering up of what is in the bundle of light, a very
which yields for me both light and heat, I separate out the heat and
permit the light to pass through. Let us keep this firmly in mind.
light-heat mercury that the light passes on and the heat is separated
this ice lens can be used to concentrate the heat rays just as light
Z. This is all similar to the manner in which we find in the light
alternately dark and light fields.
I think we can see here in a very enlightening way how an observation

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to the four states of matter, to light, to color, and to the sub-earthly
We will study today the light spectrum, as it is called, and its
light. The simplest way for us to bring before our minds what we are
spectrum by throwing light through this opening — you can see it
the spectrum, the real light portion, is cut out. We cannot do this
portion dark by simply placing the path of the light a solution of
stopping the light. It is possible to demonstrate the chemical effect
light the heat effect disappears and you will see that the alcohol
Now let us place in the light path the solution of iodine in carbon
the heat effect and the light remain, but the chemical effect ceases.
we consider light variation in our ordinary spectrum, but we have to
that a light placed behind the matter does not shine through. When the
matter becomes more and more rarefied, the light does pass through.
Now you see how I place the realm of light above the heat realm and
how the heat is related to the light in an entirely natural fashion.
effects of light take place, that we consider so little allied to the
such formulae leads us into the realm of heat and light. Heat is only
deeds of light. Then we must see how knowledge of the being of

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to the four states of matter, to light, to color, and to the sub-earthly
light.
reveal themselves under the influence of light. I have to express
light that fall on it and thus become a visible body. I cannot use
For to speak of rays, of light rays, is theoretical. I have dealt with
that in my former course. What we meet in reality is not light rays,
virtue of its inner molecular properties passes light through, and an
opaque body is one that throws the light back. For how can such a
the U region, and you can see that the light realm must have a
assumed X, Y, Z, we will find the essence of light. Now the question
light, nor from the relation of light to these bodies.
between heat, light and chemical effect in the spectrum. Yesterday,
ordinary terrestrial spectrum, in the middle is the light effect
must not think of light, heat and chemical effects as stretched out in
light effects if we wish to symbolize the heat effects; nor can we
opposite, then we have what is essential in light left in a plane at
chemical action, you cannot use either of these for light effects. At
this point you have to apply to the light effects a set of facts which
When you are dealing with light phenomena you have to say:
chemical action and light working in the same phenomenological field
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to the four states of matter, to light, to color, and to the sub-earthly
light spectrum, there are wrapped up heat effects, light effects and
in the same manner as we can the chemical, light and heat effects.
, as we think of it at least, has hidden away in it life, heat, light
How do we come in the one direction through the heat, light and
in the path of a light cylinder made into a spectrum by passage
The second experiment we will make is to insert into the light
light-portion proper. Thus, the light-portion of this spectrum is
light. This has the peculiarity of stopping the chemical effect
leaving the heat and light effects unchanged.
effect by means of an alum solution, the light portion by a solution
body glows. You can see that this body has been in the light cylinder,
because when I shut off the light momentarily, with my hand, it slows.
light cylinder passing through the esculin solution. The action is
realms of light and chemical action. From our considerations taken in
X light
many times seen in our lives. This is that light relates itself quite
light by corresponding changes in its material configuration. When the
light spreads, the gas does not do likewise, it does not show
Therefore when light is playing through a gas, the relationship is
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to the four states of matter, to light, to color, and to the sub-earthly
of tone by means of our sensations without paying the slightest
supposed to give rise to electricity which in turn produced lightning
light appears accompanied by heat. Space is torn apart. Space reveals
characteristic of light.

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life. We have, as it were, stepped out into the light but lost the very
one wanted to apply the laws of flight to swimming. One does not come to

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is placed behind the lighter colors or anything light, there appear
if I place light behind dark, there appear the colors which lie toward
denied that light, tones, colors, and sensations of taste are related

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as a dim light is “extinguished” by a bright one.
in a true light. Yet at a certain point in the development of Western
civilization there does come to light something of this sense of a special
spirit in mathematics. This comes to light at the point where Novalis,
to suffuse with light the one pole that otherwise remains so dark if

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in the next few days in the light of spiritual science. I had to lead you

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is to attain knowledge that can reflect light back into nature and at
if they are but slightly withdrawn from what normally binds them to
and stared at one like a complete idiot, but the light of his former
Inspiration. For me — and I do not hesitate in the slightest to

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draw the curtains whenever there is lightning or thunder. Then they must
truly be able to call forth in light-filled clarity the love that otherwise
to define commodities has not the slightest inkling what knowledge is.

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depths. One needs only slight acquaintance with Goethe's theory of metamorphosis

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that his Ego might in some way be lost during this flight from
Only a slight acquaintance with Goethe's theory of

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than warmth; light something other than light in the physical sense;

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But warmth, light and sound are not to be understood in a

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experience subjectively as light, sound, warmth etc. We carry
would sit in the middle, understanding both of them slightly,

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occupy ourselves with Astronomy without bringing new light to
third is ignored. This third axiom is lightly brushed aside
directions. In Polar regions the sunlight represses man's

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You only need see things in the proper light to recognize
Cosmos. You can reflect upon the special case of light. When
light and darkness succeed each other in the alternation of
itself by lighting up now here, now there, and so on. The

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shedding light the same causes must surely underlie the light
of the candle and the light of the Sun. Or again, if a stone

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for instance but a very slight idea — at least, most
which the whole starry Heaven sheds its light, — which
inner physiology of man. Looking at it in this light, you can
only try to make some slight corrections in the Copernican

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not often conceive the Deity as little more than a slightly

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approaching more by the light of reason, taking our start

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the world around us shining in the sunlight, but the way we
been lighting up and ebbing down again. This inner
alternately lighting up and growing more dim; it is a daily
light and darkness, or relatively bright and dim conditions.
inner alternation of light and dark in such a way that he
tends rather to connect the lighter period of his mental
moment his consciousness was lightened and filled with
respect different from Air or Light. For light, if we are
light, must bear a negative sign. For air or gas the sign

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say: Let us suppose that here as A, is a source of light, and
this source of light in a illumines a point M
The strength of the light shining from
the light shining from the point M, which is illumined from
A. And of course, the strength of the light would vary,
its light is always of the same intensity? This curve —
see in the beam of light — for the intensity of light
same way as is usually done with light. The result is a kind

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illuminated from a point B, it reflects the light to a point
relation between the effects of light at different points;
then, just as in this instance certain light-effects result
that a system of light-effects would follow if a variability
of the rays of light, — what we observe when there is a
but that we must regard them in the light of laws which are

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the light of a true science of metamorphosis. Then too we
we cannot look for enlightenment till in our efforts to

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become enlightened; the men of former times were simple, with
many childish theories.” And as to our enlightenment
to take some time for men to get as enlightened as they
very slightly, that it is somehow different with the Sun than

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perceived. (I say “perceived”, for in the light
Moon is here (Figure 1, lightly shaded area).
regain if we begin by looking at it all in the proper light:
on which at one place it manifests in a phenomenon of light.
head, whilst the indirect aspect of the sunlight, as it were
the sense of the Sun's light in the cosmos, not so
upon us, the light is sunlight. The cosmic opportunity is
being made then, so to speak, for the Sun's light to ray down
through the raying back of the Sun's light by the Moon.
light which occurs when the Moon is in opposition, i.e. when
it is Full Moon, — when the Sun's light, so to speak
the counteracting of the Sunlight via the Moon. — owes
animal. The influence of the Sun-light is weakened in its
very own quality (for it is Sun-light in either case), in
Sun meeting and countering itself in the Moonlight —

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intensity of light from another fixed point B
intensity of light will be the same as if reflected from D
same intensity of light should always be observed from the
original point-source of light is in A. You would have to
the ray of light goes out of space and then shines into space

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phenomena are so presented that the one sheds light on the
enlightenment. With the existing instruments our
ourselves first constructed, (yet the delight of it should

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light of empirical phenomena) In what we here see

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themselves in their true light if we then take our start from
a change of path, however slight. To apprehend the heavenly
a mere effulgence, a mere phenomenon of light; but please, I
when light extends in air. For in the latter instance too,
air, with light of a certain intensity passing through it.
The light spreads homogeneously; but if so be the light does
overlooked. From the realms of light and heat and so on,
reject the artificial insertion of “light-rays”
in the interpretation of the phenomena of light, where in

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we have in the field of optics and light theory, where every
we would experience in the formula itself the lighting up,

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slightly conscious way. Thus we recognize when we examine the

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light”), but rather “a reduced vision” or
living, we can construct a model to show how light falls into
to when we let light pass through a small hole in a wall and
What light
slightly altered, for the other senses as well. Thus we can
it. We are now able to see the problem in a new light.

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that such inner work brings to light, if they are
with each passing year we have actually become a slightly

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research to enter and throw light on all that cannot be
forward to inspiration. We will then not have the slightest

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instance, he does not take some light phenomenon and begins
light on one another, expressing themselves as a whole. His

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some light come in, as through individual windows in a
building — that light which we believe is present in
to see the affairs of practical life in the right light. The
Goethe's dying words, “Light, more light!” Well,
light, I call to you out of the spirit that led us to invite

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perhaps brought home to us most strongly of all when we realise the light
in the light of Spiritual Science. To-day I propose to deal with the
Enlightened minds before the fifteenth century would have set no store
man between birth and death are not to be explained in the light of
Science can throw light upon conceptions of earlier times. Not of course
aspect vanishes, until, brought to light once again by the Renaissance,
Manichæism is to bring the light of Spiritual Science to bear upon
things material. In the light itself they sought to find both wisdom
radiant with spiritual light. We must try to understand the meaning
Light and the Glory, and the all-supreme Love between men in the social

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for instance, is to place things a false light. What went on in these
twelfth centuries was very close. We see other events light up in this
places in a false light; and too little importance is attached
documents historical investigations can pour its light; but behind what
history, if we illuminate with the light of spiritual investigation what

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Meister Eckhart and one can delight in the fervor of his mysticism.

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longer even attempts to throw light on it with concepts. It is

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think: Unfortunately, on this point he wasn’t as enlightened as

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color, which is now lumped together with light. There must be
my eye and thus becomes my experience of light or color. It is the

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how light works on us; how something etheric (according to their
light on what is essential in this development. I would like to put

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is constantly active in light. It can really be said that man felt
that he had to thank the spiritual element indwelling the light for

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modern times. Now I will try to throw light from a certain standpoint
and inadequate sources. His inward enlightenment enabled him to
development in the light of initiation science, we gain the

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the light of the twenty-five years that he has been alive, —
will they throw light on those matters that natural science wants to

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light in the realms of Anthroposophia, we also need to live in it
consider, how Agriculture should be carried on in the light of
this subject: how Agriculture should be shaped, in the light of
subsequent light of the full Moon, or whether we sow it thoughtlessly

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slightest idea. And it was in order to defeat these

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doubt, that the Sun's light and warmth, and all the meteorological
the warmth and with the air; they take on a slightly living quality
Earth. But he knows practically nothing of how the light
receives the light into the Earth and makes it effective there.
the humus, does not receive it; it does not make the light effective
in the Earth. It therefore gives rise to a “light-less”
remember, the sunlight enters the sphere of the Earth in another way
direct sunlight; we have also to do with the sunlight thrown back by
the Moon. This sunlight thrown back by the Moon is quite ineffective
embryo life). The light that is rayed back from the Moon develops its

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is true, that the light and warmth of the sun, and all the
throw any further light on the matter because they do not
situation, as we shall see later on, is slightly
to light inside the Earth. He does not know that silicon, the
cosmic mineral» takes up light into the Earth and there
terrestrial life does not take up light and make it active in
the earth but produces a lightless activity there. But these
Now the light of the Sun also reaches the Earth indirectly, by
account. The sunlight that is reflected from the Moon is quite
things apply especially to embryonic life). The light*

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olden time they recognised in the out-spreading, sun-filled light,
“light-bearers” these substances — like sulphur and
phosphorus — which have to do with the working of light into
around him slightly poorer in nitrogen than it is in normal life. If

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bearer of light) because in the old days men saw spirit
spreading out through space in the out-streaming m the light or
with the working of light into matter, like sulphur and
phosphorus, the “light bearers.” And once we have
a small quantity of nitrogen, so that the air would be slightly
ours. Meditation as we ought to practise it only slightly
clay mediates between the two. Clay is slightly closer to

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all plant-growth has this slightly parasitic quality. It grows like
only the water should perhaps be slightly warmed.
machines, able to extend over whole fields the slight sprinkling that

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growth is slightly parasitic in character; it grows like a
“agricultural-individuality” in the light of the
should be slightly warmed. As regards quantities and dilution,

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press them together slightly, and use them in this case without any
slight layer of peat-moss or the like, so as to protect it from direct

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together slightly and then place them, not in a bladder nor in

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In considering the Moon's effect they only think of the Sunlight; but
Nature is not so cruel as to punish man forthwith for his slight inattention
Now light a flame — a simple wood flame is best — and burn
see the forming of mildew, blight, rust, and similar diseases. The over-intense

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the rays of the Sun, as transmitting solar light. But that is
which I have been speaking. We light a flame — that of a
formations appear in it. It is in this way that blights and
the fields for the purpose of fighting blight and similar plant

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kinds of birds from certain districts. Light must be thrown upon these
life a little more, so that it becomes slightly more mineral. While,
take delight; you may even study them in the way I have described. Theo

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Here again light can be thrown on the subject by
around the tree slightly more dead than it would be
throw light upon the nature of harmful influences. Just as

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what at first was only a slight slipshod way of talking into a brilliant
in the sunlight. The process that is there as an inner tendency is thus

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plant-life that always delighted Goethe, namely the fact

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years has thrown its dark light on the social question in
in just these areas always come to light. Perhaps the following

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necessary to make the wheat consumable is, lightly calculated,

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flashes like lightening through one's own soul as the vital
spiritual element must be born in the human soul in the light
bright light of the sun of human experience has moved the
question, urgent and burning, into the light in a relative way

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mean, that even in the light of consciousness the social
actually I would like to shed light on several things which

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herself enlightened, call themselves atheists, can acknowledge
so familiar with reality that it doesn't come to light when
Many people, even enlightened people, don't see the social

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side so that it doesn't appear in the full light but through
There are those who would admit they became enlightened by what
be quite an enlightened person in the leading and up to
This doesn't have the slightest relevance in the origins of the
if it takes place in the light of true freedom. Everything
which can't develop in the light of true freedom stunts and
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technical processes, to the soul-blighting capitalist system,
soul-blighting capitalist system, was paralysed by this yoke.
everything that came to light in these Fourteen Points —
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science, but which sheds great light on the mystery of man's being.
discover a delicate body of light between the activity of active
and a light-irradiated, self-disciplined will are not applied to

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coming to light in this socialist proletarian movement, either
and labor. If we are to regard this question merely in the light of a
has come to light in the course of this national-economic thought?
can only appear in its true light when we look at it as a whole,

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treated with indifference and lightly put aside; but that it
all who wish to see things in their true light, We say the capitalist

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their own ground. Thus there is now a slight indication — so
of law should be placed in the proper light. Of course we know that

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praiseworthy endeavors have come to light in the last few decades;
of historical evolution does not view the matter in this light. To
me then most necessary for the social enlightenment of today in my
to throw light on the nature of matter, as I have shown in the
light that the human being would be educated to face life and be able
marvellous light is shed on life by such an event, when through inner
understand at the time. That light, which is a force in life, is lost

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this separation. If we regard in its true light the actual principle

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light, especially if we wish to come to a clear understanding of the
materialism and even take a delight in it, on the other hand, they

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The Peoples of the Earth in the Light of Anthroposophy
OF THE EARTH IN THELIGHT OF ANTHROPOSOPHY
which, in the light of spiritual-scientific knowledge, can unite
understand the being of man in the light of Spiritual Science. In a
ideas. Today, as the result of an unenlightened science, it is
we steep ourselves in the Vedas that we pervaded by the light of the
light received from them may be kindled in the deeds, concepts and

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up several flights of stairs — just for the sake of a

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circumstances, place the slightest confidence. But, for all

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occupied his hearers in the slightest. When someone lectures

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occupied his hearers in the slightest. When someone lectures

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expression for the slight participation one has in one's own

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expression for the slight participation one has in one's own

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profession. I must admit I was really delighted, actually moved,
what is important is that you put the subject into the right light
middle-class, the matter must be put in a different light again, for

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Naturally, in all of England and America not the slightest
inner lightness, — with a certain modulation, with a
a light touch and matter-of-factness or else one does not

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confronts us in the social life as a mere desire to be lightly
learn in the form of light literature in the clown's costume, what
inner lightness, modulation, and with an amount of enthusiasm,
light and matter-of-fact, or else one does not further the ideas of
Blumenthal, 1852–1917; author of light comedy.

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should then make it evident how through a slight change in

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should then make it evident how through a slight change in

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cannonier has a match in his hand ready to light the fuse.
lights the fuse. The cannon goes off. Would any of you now
enlighten me. I took the dictionary and looked — and
when one hears it, one gets a light shock;
which, if one hears it, one gets something like a light
something like a slight shock; the whole is a public calamity.
gets a light shock, is “fear” (Schreck);
In this light
light and open air can enter into the development of humanity
are the ones who are to bring this light and openness into

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cannonier has a match in his hand ready to light the fuse.
lights the fuse. The cannon goes off. Would any of you now
enlighten me. I took the dictionary and looked — and
when one hears it, one gets a light shock;
which, if one hears it, one gets something like a light
something like a slight shock; the whole is a public calamity.
gets a light shock, is “fear” (Schreck);
In this light
light and open air can enter into the development of humanity
are the ones who are to bring this light and openness into

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ultra-violet rays. If, therefore, one speaks merely of light, one does
describe how the light is transformed in two opposite directions; we
must explain how, beyond the red, light sinks into the element of
directions the light, as such, disappears. If, therefore, we give a
theory of light alone, we are giving a mere extract. (The current
theory of light is in any case not a true one. It is significant that
as to result, among other things, in an untrue theory of light).
which is visible as light. That which reaches down into Nature would
Just as light ceases to appear as light, as we go on into the

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crude example the effect will be comparatively slight, for the amount
is to say, all that had to be done to bring it to the light of day, to
New values come to light: — the “Commodity-value” and

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At this point we begin to see in a different light, and from a

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out in practice. A slightly higher rate of interest for Capital
set in a glaring light the absolute impotence which prevails in the
material production. Considered in this light, the thing takes on a

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thing. We should not take the slightest interest in money if it did
him. It is time we began to see these things in their right light. The
slightly differentiated one from another — say, for instance,

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light by using this kind of logic, and people admire it! Curiously
we can best study in the light of England's economic destiny. Now it

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form of barter. That will throw light on what obtains in circumstances

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openly brought to light. You may not allow people to come to

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the spiritual world, the light filled spirituality which works
point of the earth as a mighty rose of light, permeated with
with the waiting, creating, living light rose in the earthly
light-filled but permeated with deep violet, which appears in
lightening is something which rules and weaves in spiritual
lightening was the arrow of the Gods, as an imagination far
throw light on you from above and forms and enlivens you, you
beings of light as a feeling which becomes real because the

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And now reveal me, Father, with the light of revelation which
for the right light to be thrown on the words. Is it not true,
reveal me, Father, with the light of revelation

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who shine their light to lead our work I am able to say: The
important matters to address in the light and in the warmth
If we want to understand the light in which the Act of
to receive through the Transubstantiation that shining light of
sacrificial substances in the jars were set alight, the smoke

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slight reflection in the literature, unlike the ones which I

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person was only a mediator of consciousness to a very slight
and if all the enlightenment which is gained by energetic

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slightly by these visions will also be touched by the holy awe
slightest inkling of the fact that one is leaping across a

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not like lightning flashes, for they come from above, but like
represented the light that lives on earth while at the same
Here the daytime sun was nothing special, and its light was
nor the light that is bound up with the earth, but the light
wonderful interplay, the way the elemental spirits of light

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can't say like lightning flashes, because they come from
represented the light which lives upon earth, which however is
divine light.
altar and the light which is connected with the earth, but what
interplay of elemental light spirits, which relate to the water

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of a moral lightweight, more insignificant for the universe.
lighter.
heavier or lighter.
entirely in the light of the fourth post-Atlantean age. On the
said, and that a plant growing in the cellar without sunlight
colourless from lack of sunlight. But what about minerals?

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one becomes morally lighter and less significant in the
and makes them lighter.
which makes one morally lighter or heavier. It's not as if
that one becomes lighter or heavier as a whole human being.
growing in the cellar where there's no sunlight, it has a form

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then throw light on the image, which can also be thought of as

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you can now let some light from the beginning of John's gospel
significance for us. If we enlighten ourselves through the

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the scenes of external happenings? What light does the entry of the
of why there had to be a flight eastwards from the West when
approaching out of Anthroposophy that can throw light on such a
whose light this community of priests must develop out of

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Which major events must be looked at in the light of this
modern way, and sheds light on precisely such a thing as
priesthood. This is one of the mysteries under whose light this

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enlightenment. The Book of Revelation is thus shown to be an
delight in spiritual research when one comes upon
always finely distributed in the air and light, and steers

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special event, a mighty enlightenment which enabled him to make
distributed in air and light, and it guides them into the

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being, but it is in us that he understands them; and the light
being he becomes this light — this gives the
light that comprehends the world, this One fills us with the
as being lit by the light that shines out when heaven is opened

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read in this light. One shouldn't distinguish between the
the Christ-insight of the Christ being in us gives the light
which is rayed out in us, because He becomes this light in us,
should give the light in us through his own understanding fills
look at it in the light which rays out here when heaven opens

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slight, that remain uncontrolled by the spirit, these are what
can see the shouts of delight as emanating from beings who had

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things came to light in this way in ancient Babylonian times,

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in the fluid-airy element of the clouds, in the twilight
shimmering in the dawn light and felt that there was something
was felt when the evening twilight came.
filled with living, shining light bubbling and moving in the

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the slight displacements which always occur in world evolution
formation of twilight conditions, etc.
twilight or the glimmering cloud formations at twilight stood

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always the seventh impression that provides enlightenment about
the first, and the fourteenth that gives enlightenment with
enlightenment. If you know a language, you can understand a
democratic are immensely delighted at being able to quote again
sensed as the inner kindling of a light, so that the divine

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of light which the human heart can feel, so that divine things

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cover a vast area, generating thunder and lightning. This is
lightning, forces that are formed in the clouds above our heads
and send lightning down to earth, and let the thunder roll.
You have to be able to see human beings today in the light

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thunder and lightning up in the sky over a large territory with
the heads of leading Russians are also in the lightning that is
lightning down to the earth and roll the thunders. This is

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light. When we observe the world in a genuinely occult manner
the being of inward love appearing outwardly as light.
being of inward love appearing outwardly through light. It is
abstract idea, appears as light. The outer appearance of beings
is love, and the outer appearance of love is light. This has
divine love unfolding in the light.
the pure light help being taken up into the age of materialism
appearing in the light, sucked up in the era of consciousness
human beings in storms of thunder and lightning that will last

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know as light. If we really look at the world in an occult way,
manifest outwardly as light.
outwardly as light. Essentially, because we have to do with all
sheen of love is light. That is something that one repeatedly
light weaves above all of this.
sponge. And the divine love that is springing up in pure light
can imagine that when divine love that appears in light is
lightning will pour out over the heads of men all summer long

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So let us now look at the nature of comets in the light of what
considered in the right light; their paths have merely been
1872 as they stood and watched the shower of light, and add to
returning, there was a shower of light instead. This means that
in the form of a shower of rays of light falling to earth. What
light.

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outdoors and observed this rain of light and you add the
this shower of light was there in the 1870s. The comet's
to rule it in a shower of golden light at the end of the

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lightnings and you will grasp colour. That is the language of
lightning appears, he sees it flaring up out of the cosmos, he
imagines this lightning becoming more and more suppressed and
lightning spreads out, in a way, and becomes a
initiate sees the lightnings striking. They are behind, and
what you occasionally see as actual lightning is breaking
in every manifestation of lightning. And if we look at this
lightning made mild and suppressed until it becomes the even
another manifestation of lightning, only here it lives as a
lightnings, and as the foreground grows dim, the red reaches
lightning work of the Seraphim evenly subdued. This is what in
forms of lightning taking shape. In place of the zig-zag
irruption of the lightnings, we now see, as we penetrate
see lightnings that move gently. We know the beings living in
world of lightning-like formations appears, shaping
begin to shine down. Like threads of light they can be
followed, and star threads, star rays, lights mingle with the
and mingling with the waves of air steeped in light, in that

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he might say: Dampen lightning and you will understand color.
sees flashes of lightning; he sees something flaming up as it
lightning becomes ever dimmer or milder he gets a dampened or
mild development of colors. Lightning spreads out, as it were,
warmth, an initiate sees lightning flashes behind it. The real
flashes of lightning that are sometimes visible simply break
spiritual world. Wherever lightning appears there is a
this lightning is dampened and toned down to an even display of
enduring, living revelation of flashing lightning. However, an
spray out above and below as tiny flashes of lightning, and
— it is only the evenly toned down lightning flashes and
similar to the true shapes of the lightning-like things which
sensory tapestry in a zig zag way, we see more gentle lightning
lightning-like and enclosed figures behind it form out of the
down and their threads of light enable us to see what they are.
Starry threads, starry radiations or lights mingle with things
hindrances which are slightly greater than normal are mixed
continuously holding back his growth very slightly. Fichte's
light. Thus one basically has to deduce the dying out of

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and if we can learn to place this into the light of rightly

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of thought, he would now make a slight movement and glimpse

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takes root and then offers them to the light, for hair grows
under the influence of light. All this occurs in the
influence of light and warmth, he grew hair all over his body,
in their first stage of growth utilize light and warmth from
the light and warmth emanating from the mother. Only later is

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slightly different suppositions.
filled with the slightly thicker fluid, the perilymph. The
— “man,” for instance — slightly
slightly different position comes under a different
Nor should he lose himself in fanciful flights of thought but

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they ensure our attractive light complexion. Also,
only slightly developed in the child, but when he or she

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tissue through which light passes. That the tissue looks black
completely transparent, permitting light to pass through
(sketching), which acts like a strong mirror. When light enters
like the wall of a mirror and reflects the light. A second
back all the light into the interior sphere. Thus, within the
vitreous humour we have actually only reflected light. A third
light that penetrates into the interior of the eyeball to be
mirroring device, when light enters, it is reflected. Thus, in
light-filled sphere around the earth, and then reduce this
miniature stars, radiate light toward the centre. If we were as
light is in fact spatial. If we had only one eye,
the eye has no element of the soul. People say that light
stops right there, or it might state further that the light in
reality, the light does not reach the brain. I have
mirror. The light remains in the eye, and it is important to
the illuminated starry expanse. The light remains within the
light did enter the brain, we would not be able to see anything
any kind. If the brain were only filled with light, we would
see nothing because it is not solely on account of light that
we see. Everywhere the light is kept in the eye and
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is located slightly off-centre to the left, as are the rest of
the right, the stomach is also pushed over slightly to the

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over the blossoms of the onions, so shines the light into the
only by stealing their light, so to speak. The human soul
steals the light from the nerves, and it uses what it has taken
libraries have been written about the flight of birds, but the
realize that everything goes into their flight. It looks
become extremely “light-sensed” beings, that is, no

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earth influences them. The moonlight that shines sometimes in
greenish-yellow light. From this we may conclude that light
explained earlier; something that radiates light must be
to radiate light through life. So then we have this difference:
that does not enlighten man as to what he really is as a human

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little indisposed. The person can tolerate this slight
fluid may be responsible for their slight indisposition.
nervous system. This can happen when some organ is so slightly

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was able to shed new light on a wide specture of topics, including the
slight fever and becomes well.
his brain. It is no slight to his dignity that, if man has an

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was able to shed new light on a wide specture of topics, including the
lightning against the wooden mouse trap. It will require quite
anthroposophical movement is by no means a slight matter.

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was able to shed new light on a wide specture of topics, including the
worse. I therefore believe that enlightening explanations, like
the same — only if true enlightenment in the widest
This enlightenment, however, can come about only when there is
something with which one can enlighten people. When a lecture
less important than thorough enlightenment. The public needs
this enlightenment; then we would have real progress.

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was able to shed new light on a wide specture of topics, including the
exposed to the sun's effects. The sun sends down light and
warmth to the earth. Direct exposure to sunlight causes one to
directly to sunlight; they are always in some cave-like
dwelling. In their holes they benefit from the sun's light and
the summer to the sun's heat and light and produces sexless
is quite obvious from this fact that the sun with its light and
spring comes and warmth and sunlight prevail, the wasps produce
the sun's heat and light no longer have the same intensity, do
ground in its solitary burrow, allowing heat and light that
actually absorbs all the summer sunlight and warmth. When this
house? The beaver gathers sunlight and the sun's warmth for
sun's light and warmth. In truth, the beaver gathers its
intelligence. Along with sunlight and warmth, intelligence
by the sun's warmth and light. They are contained in the tail
These tails are the means by which the sunlight and warmth
comes down from the sun to the earth with light and warmth that
other way around; then we must absorb warmth and light from

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was able to shed new light on a wide specture of topics, including the
course, these are average figures; they differ slightly in each
supply enough oxygen, and a slight shortness of breath occurs.
always calls forth a definite, very slight shortness of breath.
This slight shortness of breath causes with each breath a
anxiety than this terribly slight anxiety, of which one is
slight fainting spells, and so on. I have told them that it is
pleasure just enough food to give them a slight stomach upset

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was able to shed new light on a wide specture of topics, including the
Particularly through the influence of sunlight, the soft skin
with even lighting, because rest is brought about not only by
to its own devices with steady warmth and light, it can itself
This should by no means be taken lightly. I once had a friend

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was able to shed new light on a wide specture of topics, including the
through the body. Now, although it varies slightly in each
into the blood, if something is only slightly amiss with the
with the earth. When we consider the earth in the light of our

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was able to shed new light on a wide specture of topics, including the

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was able to shed new light on a wide specture of topics, including the
fall on the earth. As you know, man depends much on sunlight,
times, the diarrhea took a lighter course.
him. Since the light of Venus can't pass through the earth, the
Venus's light in addition to sunlight (see sketch on right).
that which the universe has in the moonlight.

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top always rocks to and fro slightly. Attention must be paid to what is
I can explain to you the flight of birds from another aspect than the one
very abstractly about the flight of birds in autumn and spring. In

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is lighted and in a room that is dark. Though it is so weak a
perpetually in a cellar, he would need the light. And there is
yellow windows, or into a dark room, or into a fairly light
idea of this wholly-lighted outer world. You get a true idea
when you imagine the half-lighted world in the morning and
are the clouds and the light falls actually on them. What is
see light through darkness. So that we can say it is the same
— one sees light
through darkness. And light seen through darkness
— looks red. Light
caught and make it light here, especially when they shine
there is light from the sun. The air and the moisture in the
the light. You look through the light, through the illumined
light is blue.
evening glow you say to yourself: Light seen through darkness
through light —
since it is light around you
This perception of light seen through
darkness being red, and darkness through light being blue, was
streak of light.
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light. When one sees the black of universal space through the
illumined universe, then it appears blue. When one sees light,
assimilates in itself all the light that falls upon it and
light that falls on it, absorbs everything into itself, and
no light.
not need the light, I will only use what is in myself, I send
all the light back. It is therefore white.
Thus a white body sends back all light and
we see its surface light, white. A dark body absorbs all the
light and also all the warmth and throws back no
which takes up all light. In the first place it gives
back a little light and so
time and takes up the most light possible. When it can take up
no more and one brings it into the light, then it appears
takes up a certain amount of light. But it absorbs a good deal
of both light and warmth. That goes on until the time when it
up so much light and warmth that
take up further light, it sends all back again, then something
reflects all light, it takes up no light and no warmth and thus
universe all light and all warmth. They take it up. Now this
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said to these enlightened people. As you can imagine, none of them
lunacy it is! But these same enlightened people participate in many
no desire at all to be mysterious but to bring into the light of day

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made based on the flight of birds, dragon-flies, and so forth, but
experimenting along the lines of butterfly flight has never been
on a large scale base its experiments on the butterfly flight. But
really belong to aeronautics but which will shed light on the
total darkness. The moment the caterpillar is hatched it meets the light
and remains in it. It has some organs, has reached the light, and now
produced in the caterpillar because it is exposed to the light and has
drawn to the light, and are even so stupid as to hurl themselves into
the caterpillar is drawn to the sunlight by the same urge as that felt
has the urge to follow the light. This is impossible, so what does it
that here is the beam of light and here the caterpillar (drawing). As
beam of light. It spins in exact accordance with the beam of light and
at night when there is no light it rolls up the thread. It spins it out
in the sunlight and rolls it up again at night. In this way it forms its
sheath. The caterpillar completely surrenders to the light, it dies in
the light. Just as the insect surrenders to the flame, so the
caterpillar dies into the light, but being unable to reach the sun it
called. The silkworm spins the silk according to the light, so when you
take its silk you can certainly say: This is spun light! Earthly matter
is spun in the pattern of light rays, and when you come across a
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that is connected with our thinking, with our head, with our inner light,
of light through the window of a dark room.
hole where the shaft of light enters. Here you place a glass prism so
that the light passes through it and in this way you can get the
when one uses a glass prism, or sunlight. When one uses other bodies,
flame, let the light pass through a small hole and take a prism, you
blue. It also is a material which has light in itself, which carries
light. Chlorine is very similar to oxygen.
comes from hydrochloric acid. Soda gives light to the head, and also
there may be light. For both soda and salt are carriers of light, are

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with its light once more gives it life, and the World Spirit implants

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It takes place openly, in the full sun-light and, though this may seem
marriage flight; they must strive as far as they are able, towards
flight which really needs the Sun? In had weather it cannot take
now mature and ready, sets out on its flight, visiting the flowers and
sense which is between taste and smell, on its flight it already, as
marriage flight must have taken place. The Queen goes out into the Sun.
of the Sun, and brings Sun-light with her own body into the hive; now
their little eyes. They cannot endure this light of the new Queen.
twilight is due to the poison.
bee lives always in the twilight, and finds its way about by means of a
sense between taste and smell; it lives in a twilight congenial to
the twilight of a June evening, and the little glow-worms are
their twilight seclusion from the world. It keeps within it even when
exactly the same way as in the human head, only with a slight
flight — is something the bees cannot endure; they prefer to go
olden times made candles of the bees-wax and lighted them, they knew that

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lights up. Thus, according to this article, I must state that barium
platino-cyanide I take ants; then I exclude the light. The ants
run towards the sugar; in the same way barium platino-cyanide lights
(into the sphere of the ultra-violet light) is strongly affected
the ultra-violet rays, slight chemical changes take place in his
takes place in the bees when they are in the ultra-violet light.
because they do something or other in ultra-violet light, then one
ultra-violet light — i.e., to the chemical components of
light. We can judge for ourselves if we only pay attention to these
I say, that generally speaking, twilight surrounds the bees. But when the
perception of light, but as in twilight. When it is in darkness
and there is too much light there (for the bee-master himself there is
always too little light), then the bees are terribly agitated.
strong effect of the light of the new Queen on their tiny eyes. This
right light.
can make her nuptial flight under the influence of the Sun.
element. For what takes place on this flight is an effect on the sexual
brought about by the light, but by the chemical working of the light.
that while at work in the bee-house, as a man one naturally needs light, and
vivid picture of the bee receiving chemical reactions from the light which
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slight facial movement when he counts; the horse observes the lines
horse; there stood Herr von Osten, very lightly holding the bridle.
has really come to light from these old peasant rules that has sound reason,

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the matter when people thought that moonlight had an influence on the
to it. He was a man with slight heart trouble. Perhaps Dr. Steiner
the remedy succeeded well, and with a slight alteration, it has also had
or fourth generations, but is then so slight that observation is not
insects, in the dark, bees will fly towards candle or lamp-light. I have
less attracted by electric light. When one goes to them with a pocket
the light at all. Only after some little time do they get restless
Lamp or candle-light affects them much more quickly, and in greater
a few years, but exposed to direct sunlight they would have faded so
to the electric light, they remained. We therefore, used these colours in
a way that a painter working in sunlight could not have done at all. In
the sunlight they would have faded completely away, whereas in electric
light they were permanent.
sunlight which has chemical properties (and you said bees were aware of this)
has effects quite different to those of electric light. Electric light
dissolve them. That is why the bees feel something like a very slight
cramp which they do not feel with sunlight, though of course, they

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climatic conditions of light and warmth, etc., are present.

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we have first the fertilisation of the Queen during the nuptial flight.
the remarkable point. Just consider this nuptial flight of the Queen.
everywhere in evidence. Thus the flight of the Queen is an escape
Müller then told us of a man who evidently had some slight
after which it disappeared. This summer he had it again slightly. He
an opening at one side for a flight hole, so that the wasps can go in
added, covered in, again a loop, a cover and a flight hole, and

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real source only comes to light when the passages are traced. Here
like asphalt, but rather lighter in colour.

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everything materialistically, but he also brought to light an
the bees. Previously they had lived in their twilight world; now they see
in bygone times men were always enlightened when they looked at the

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It is when the effects are only slight that we can best study how the
are the antidotes for slight mineral
confined to medical circles. In cases of slight mineral poisoning a
vomiting or diarrhoea. When the poisoning is very slight, the same
slight lead poisoning, and then the lead is induced to leave the
element. The body always has a slight tendency to develop poisons and
the direct antidote, produced in the blood itself. This sheds light
on animal poisons in general. The human being himself produces slight

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slight connection with the universe. Just as with us, for example,
the stomach is but slightly connected with the outer world — in
a different spirit! We delight in the rippling of the springs, in their
careful use of whatever light and warmth falls into the sea from
influence of the light and hence they become so golden. Fish take
universe. They must lay their eggs wherever some light can enter, so
the light and air that come into the water. They cannot breathe in
with their gills they snap at all the air and light coming into the
strongly as in the case of the halibut, but still slightly. The eye
fresh waters direct, the sole turns to the light by so arranging its
earth turns to the light. The sole, the fish, must turn direct to the
light with its own body.
light and air. And if we look at our own circulation, we too, in
beautifully coloured because it takes up the light. There in the
blossom the plant absorbs the light, in the root it absorbs the salt.
There outside it becomes a light-bearer, there beneath it becomes a
rich in light. In earlier times this was much better known and what
light, phor = bearer, phosphor = light-bearer; phosphor was actually
that in the blossom which carried the light. The mineral
gives out light when it is ignited. But the real light-bearer is the
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the Earth: he would simply see the Earth radiating a greenish light
they must be studied in the light of reality. What is it that the

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not want the real facts about Christ Jesus to come to light, but only
the determining factor, without having the slightest notion of
Christ. This is a survival, not of enlightened pagan wisdom which

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was only when men came to Him in the evening twilight that the words
Whether the sun is shining at the full, whether it is twilight,
great influence. Obviously, therefore, the effect of the sunlight
blood, so do the living forces contained in the sunlight flow into
light was already on the way to that condition of darkness which set
it may be said that just as Christ consciously chose twilight
longer known but men unenlightened in this respect actually pray to
come when these things must be penetrated by the light of reality. And here

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it “Moon” because it was slightly similar to our present
everything is still fluid, only slightly thickened. And so it was
and being lighter. Everything was fish-like. Now this is interesting:

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substances which it still contains are present to a very slight
in almost every flame whenever you light one, without having put the

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is by comparison a dancing through, one fleck lightly tossed on
light-filled air that has died, but this has allowed our eyes to be
as truth comes to light.

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There were then large, heavy animals. Our slighter, more supple
longer rise and sink so violently, but they still continue slightly

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ball, for example, if the light falls on it, then the ball is bright
light is falling beyond it. There again, on the light side, the ball
is rather bright because there the light is reflected. Then we say:
that side is in shadow, for the light is reflected on the other side;
have light and shade on the objects. When we paint a face, we paint
it bright where the light falls, and on the other side we make it
We have to do it that way. We have to show light and shade and also
light and shade, nor did they allow for perspective, because they did
not see as we see. They took no notice of light and shade and no
those ancient times it would have been nonsense to speak of light and
then had. And so the Chinese still have no light and shade in their
without light and shade or perspective. That is really the way they
there and light here, as we would do today, he would not have painted
light and shadow, for they did not yet exist for the Chinese. Nor
paltry thinking; we are slightly aware of our feeling but almost not

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example, if the light falls in this way, the ball is bright here, and
there dark for it is in shadow — the light is falling beyond
it. There again, on the light side, the ball is rather bright because
there the light is reflected. Then we say: That side is in shadow,
for the light is reflected on the other; and here we have to paint
characteristics of our painting — we must have light and shade
paint it bright where the light falls (a drawing is made), and over
light and shade and also with perspective. This is inherent in the
painting recognized neither light nor shadow, nor did they recognize
no notice of light and shade or perspective, for this is what they
it would have been nonsense to speak of light and shade, for there
Chinese it is a case of their having no light and shade in what they
into him with their own thinking — without light, shade, or
to him; he would not have made him dark there and light here, as we
would do today; he would not have painted light and shade because

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slight sclerotic condition — which in earlier years made one old and
worms, even the slightest tendency, he will do everything possible to

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stiff. The etheric body can control this slight sclerotic condition —
tendency to worms, even the slightest tendency, he will do everything

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mountain was to give the first signal by running up and lighting

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running up and lighting the three fires. On seeing the three fires,

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not only twilight but something else that is always a thing of
wonder. Around the sun there is a kind of radiating light. Whenever
radiating light is apparent as well as the twilight. Light radiates
around the sun. It has a name: the zodiacal light. People rack their
brains about this zodiacal light — especially those who think
but where does this zodiacal light around the sun come from?
account in any way for the presence of that light. So where does the
light come from?
seen the street lamps. On a clear evening the lights have definite
light around them. Why is this? The haze is caused by the mist. At
present in this fine mist is the zodiacal light. All kinds of
the reason why this zodiacal light that accompanies the sun is
This vacuum radiates light. And what they would find is spirit. We
substance we perceive in the zodiacal light, this universe would be
specific part of the earth. They radiate their light from the various
places where they stand in the heavens. The light of Venus, for
instance, works quite differently upon the earth from the light of
brought a great deal to light. It has been possible to see in a brain

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spread of sunlight over one part of the earth and the spread of
would come to light if one were to study how scents that are quite
because no sunlight is reaching them. The colors of the plants,
various ways to moonlight; then one would certainly discover it.

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completely dark, it will cease to radiate any light at all. Therefore
comparatively long time, the source of the light and life that now
every gaseous substance when it is warmed, becomes lighter and rises;
the sun because it is shutting out the light, an influence is
it; but the tiny amount of light that falls upon the moon from the
But now no light at all radiates from the earth to
Venus. Venus has to rely upon the light of the sun; no light streams
part of it is always visible as a dull bluish light. The sun's light
Venus; where Venus is not being shone upon by the sun, a bluish light
is a metallic element. If light is allowed to fall on these minerals
light being thrown off by them.
illuminated, becomes phosphorescent. It has caught the light, “eaten”
some of the light, and is now spitting it out again when the room is
but the light is then not visible to the eye. The mineral takes
when the room is light, just as a feeble candle-light is not seen in
strong sunlight. But the mineral is phosphorescent and if the room is
darkened, one sees the light it radiates.
the light of Venus comes from. While it receives no light from this
eats up the sun's light, so to say. Then, when you see it on a dark
night, it is throwing off the light, it becomes phosphorescent. In
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Question: Why does lightning not come in a
that when lightning is released from the air, as I described last
lightning actually comes about. I told you that lightning comes out
gas. I said that there is no question of lightning arising from some
you want to produce miniature lightning with laboratory apparatus,
supposed, therefore, that lightning is a true electrical phenomenon
toward that side and lightning flashes.
not clouds — the lightning flashes out. And it is quite correct
lightning begins where a concentration of heat exists, then in the
lightning and while it is streaming out it snatches up these other
zigzag of the lightning comes about because it does not arise in one
that's the story of the lightning.
sunshine is normal. Starlight is everywhere; one must not think that
been able to light upon these facts, but he was also very conceited,
peninsulas on the coast, the guides always delight in showing one the
following experiment. They take a piece of paper and light it and
burning paper and so becomes lighter and expands. The warmth caused
interesting to see. One lights a piece of paper and instantly the
independently thinking person? And yet it is slightly ridiculous to
delightful remark: he said, “Free thought does not mean that

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can still read about this in delightful old documents. But despite
in the world spiritually. That is possible only when light is shed
about it! Although people want to be enlightened, in practice they

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enlightened. That is the general opinion today and it is simply not
in the very age that claims to be “enlightened.”
other people's opinions cannot be treated lightly. All points of view

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available. But since that century some light has been thrown on the
Exoterically, the date itself throws some light; esoterically, the
the body. This is an act upon which light is shed by the last words on
the aura that glimmers with only a feeble light; such an aura cannot
is true, a flowing, up-surging light, but is not yet able to guide.
radiant guide. In Christ, the Star of Budhi lights up — the Star
which accompanies the evolution of mankind. The Light that shines

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and the light of the Sun celebrates its victory over the darkness. In
over the darkness. There was a time on the Earth when the light
times as the victory of the light over the darkness. Since then the
the Earth receives her light.
lighting-up of the conscious human soul is expressed in this simile as
Christmas signifies in the light of anthroposophical teaching. If the
harmony of the cosmos — light over the darkness had always been
Eternal, the spiritual Sun will flood the soul with light at the great
divine Self, in essence like the Sun, and radiant with light, will

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striving for the Light. This moral feeling, this reverence which we have for the wisdom
we now absorb, it will become a source of light and it will shed this light on its
environment, thus perceiving the wisdom which we take in here on earth, in the light of the
future light of the spiritual world does not yet exist, we may say: It has not yet come,
constitute the power enabling him to enter the spiritual world, guided by the light in his
could see the light, which shone without any effort on his part. But in the present time,
shining light, when in future we cross the threshold of death. We therefore take in the
Christianized Spiritual Science in order that our astral body may become a source of light

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enlightened because they read the supplement of their local
obviously enlightened meeting of scientists in Leipzig in the
the enlightened and impressive philosophers of today. It is
for acquiring enlightenment concerning the human being than a
the light of day as the basis of what we experience as hunger,
the soul and the bodily nature? And here he lighted upon a real
experiences. This comes to light when we set out to penetrate a
— will be seen in their true light.

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few of them, but they will shed light on everything else in our
brings nothing new to light and does not invent it, but the
every human being. The scientist of spirit only brings to light
interpret it in the light of the message, because the
what comes to light by means of this kind of intensification of

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And the chorus of “enlightened journalists,”
raised the flag in favour of the enlightened Science of the Soul
as lightly as Darwin and many of his followers, and that
the clay. But as now-a-days nobody with the slightest insight
throws a clear light on the character of the soul-spirit. It is
and that by its means, Darwin has thrown light into dark regions
themselves lead to light on the riddles of the soul. To them
“enlightened” man of modern days, when, in 1872, he
in the opinion of this Apostle of Enlightenment has become
as holding enlightened views, has ceased to believe, long before
dead.” But our enlightened friend says further: “Our
there, the true facts of modern science appear in a clear light,
light as to form a basis for Anthroposophical system. They
light on a few of these nooks. Above all, let us look at the
themselves so enlightened, on account of their having done away
carry our light into another nook of the “new
knowledge were to be a light on his path. The feeling of

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slight traces of them still remained. In the South of Europe there was
came the light.”

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Theosophy has brought to light the fact that in the various ages,
ever-day life. The Light of the Spirit, which is necessary to us when
the other. When we are worthy to receive the Light of the Spirit, we
relation, and say “We really are related on the side of light.”
when another light is there. Because the Serpent is luminous and
radiating light, — Goethe expresses these thoughts in another
it could not perceive the light.” Here he expresses in poetic
old man with the lamp, — the light of occult knowledge cannot
shines forth from within, bringing light to meet light, — the
brings his own light to meet it. When those two lights, the intuitive
light from above, and the light that comes from the personal, shine
become light, he then learns to recognise the highest Spiritual
understand himself when he meets with the light of the lamp which can
only shine when there is already a light. Then the three Kings appear
hidden, but shall be raised to the full light of day, when it shall
Spiritual can uplift itself in the Temple, in the clear light of day,
yield himself to the highest Spiritual light; but he is always drawn
twilight. What is this shadow of the great giant? Goethe went into
forces of nature. Its shadow is sometimes able, when the light is no
to overcome his passions in the twilight of his consciousness, when
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the Old Man has the property of only shining where light is, and it
then shines with a very peculiar light. Thus, on the one hand there
Man with the Lamp, which is also a light. Through this two-fold
now become visible through their own light. They are the three higher
by those who themselves bring light, when they also are selfless like
up into the light of day. Everything which is man must struggle
faith. Faith requires light from without, if it is really to lead to
so doing he also reaches the yonder realm, but only in the twilight,
the twilight of trance. Schiller also wrote on one occasion about the
must weave into our soul-life is taken from us by the twilight
debt she becomes invisible. The Ego can only be seen in the light of
shadows) which lead man across in the hour of twilight and belong to
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transformed in this way can perceive the light bodies of

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“The Twilight of the Gods” represents the
been immediately transformed into dead mineral by the sunlight.

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Things light up in us which we did not know before, helping us to
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when everyone will know in quite another light, what the Christ is,
man must consciously go forward to a future full of light, to a time
that, in time, the truth will come to light. If we do not want this
would light up in our age if the Christian Churches had a better
this profound passage becomes comprehensible to us in the light of
from out of the future which lights up apocalyptically before him; he
Light which comes to us from Christ Jesus, the greatest of our

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man, behind what comes to the light of day lies a deeper wisdom which
time in a condition between waking and sleeping. My spirit was light,
and the Life was the Light of men.
And the Light
witness to bear witness of the Light, that all might believe on it.
Light, but a witness of the Light.
For the true Light
which lighteth every man, was to come into the world.
Where there is no light, the organ for the light is also lost. The
light by the light, says Goethe. Whosoever allows the Saint John

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is then also seen in the right light. Spiritual science has the task
science seems called upon to give enlightenment, for spiritual
independent entity. In the light of spiritual science man stands
And my delight in yarning.
light, which turns everything luminously inward, sometimes is
strange glance even the sanguine child has; it quickly lights upon
connected with the individual's invisible inner light, the light of
Whatever he delights in, we must try to place in a special light; the
respect when we perceive him in the light of spiritual science. We
what we think when we consider the human being in the light of

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timidity which appeared in one incarnation as a slight karmic effect

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has been repeatedly expressed by an enlightened observer of the Iliad
Saga of Sigurd, the slayer of the dragon, but this is enlightening.
in the many national civilisations just as the white light of the sun

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slight gestures are made, expressing what the person thinks, expressing
the horse acts in such a way that at the slightest instigation, with
the slightest tap, the whole atmosphere of the earth is struck, as it
to the delight it feels in munching constantly at the sugar, it has

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summer, when the sun with its forces of heat and of light draws
needed for it. But it kindles in the soul the light of an
light and dark side. But where we need light, we do not take into
of Nature, such as thunder or lightning! This increased self-love
from us as if by lightning, taken away from us. Everything which
can really throw light upon human destiny, and they realize that
direct influence of the sunlight. Similarly the results of
the same as sunlight penetrating into the depths of the earth and

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mysteries will throw more light on this historical fact.
light. It may be of interest to describe what he can actually
eyes could not exist had there been no light to form them from the
could be no perception without eyes and also no eyes without light.

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brought to light by our normal consciousness. Of course, if we

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research has brought to light in order to prove that what
and grace in its lighter and thinner shades. — So we see
to see a weak light against a strong one. For it is above all
the things that Goethe brought to light about the
aspects are supposed to throw light on one and the same thing.
the slightest grounds for turning against such ideas as

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there lights up what lies before birth or conception. This

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evolution of humanity in the light of history. And one comes to
science of spirit can enlighten us, and only the science of
certainly do not pass this judgment lightly for I am quite
writing of history itself should enlighten us as to the real
but it can only become truly spiritually enlightened knowledge
light of this instinctive kind of understanding. And we can

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way as to throw light on what we consider to be the tasks of the
soul of man can kindle a light within — a light which, shining upon
the physical eye colours, or light and darkness, so with the eye of the
light of consciousness as is the life of thought and ideation. It is
clarity, light-filled clarity, is enjoyed by thought alone. There is
light that permeates thoughts and ideas — which, according to some
this lighting up of the world of feeling is brought about,
with the light of consciousness, we can know man not only as a created
But it is possible for man to kindle a light that shall light up the
darkness; and this light is the light that shines in the soul of man

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upon which natural science has thrown so much light, is, to begin
magnetic effects, with the effects of heat and light. We look out
eyes, through the Light that Christ brought down to the

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The Immortality of the Human Soul in the Light of Anthroposophy.
taken seriously, if we do not pass lightly out of habit over
the dream that had won enlightenment. One must awaken in order
slightly different way. Because he will understand, yes, that
human being only slightly, when he brought them down with the
humanity and the education of humanity in light of this

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spiritual power of the sun, the spiritual light, which bears you on
is the abode of the Sun-God. Look up to the sun which radiates light!
light of the sun rays forth to us. Out of the words of Jesus of
light and power into the world.”
Thus, in the light of Spiritual Science, the Pentecost-secret reveals
them to the light wherein is contained the living Christ — not
dawning in his heart, he will feel inwardly warmed and enlightened

Title: Easter/Pentecost: Lecture III: The Pentecost of the World
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light which carries you beyond death, and this power you
light; this sun is but the outer manifestation of the
Sun-Being; behind the light of this physical sun is the eternal
the light of the Sun, from the lips of Jesus of Nazareth speaks
walks among us it is as if the Sun itself sent forth its light
turn to a knowledge which leads them to the light in which the
himself enwarmed and enlightened through the flaming tongues of

Title: Social Understanding: Lecture II: Social Understanding Through Spiritual Scientific Knowledge
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“Education of the Child in the Light of AnthroposophyÝ

Title: Lecture: Richard Wagner and Mysticism
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the depths of existence with a light as radiant and clear as that of
light of the conviction that is characteristic of Mysticism. Again and
his eyes, colour and light are revealed to him. It is possible for the
astral world, or world of light, while a higher, purely spiritual
to them through colour, light and sound and to such men the laws of
turn to legends for enlightenment in regard to significant
stretches out its calyx towards the light, receiving its rays,
feeling which though mystical in essence is yet clear as daylight and

Title: Lecture: Spiritual Wisdom in the Early Christian Centuries
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Christianity in the light of the teachings of Iamblichus.
remain without enlightenment about certain mysteries, enlightenment

Title: Community Building: Lecture One
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manifested. Must we lightly forget the depths because of
world, with the light, with tone, with the phenomena of warmth,
through contact with the light, with the tone; we wake,
we feel light and tone in our soul life in ordinary

Title: Community Building: Lecture Two
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consciousness of daily experience, a very slight measure of
this deeper discussion, I should like to put in its true light

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 1: Evolution and Consciousness, Lucifer, Ahriman
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light and electricity, say. It is therefore possible for
even the slightest idea of the living connection which

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 2: East, West, and the Culture of Middle Europe, the Science of Initiation
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I presented the subject from a slightly different point
evolution of the human race in the light of spiritual
light of oriental wisdom, a wisdom of soul and spirit
necessary to see the Mystery of Golgotha in a new light.
then be seen in a new light. We shall have to say that
only interpreted in the light of the wisdom of spirit and

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 3: Political Empires
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to discover when we consider human evolution in the light
history, seeing them in the right light—not that
can be found by looking at things in the light of the
seen in the light of spiritual science I discussed during

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 4: Western Secret Societies, Jesuitism, Leninism
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light of such impulses in world history I do not think it
goes 01 in lightning and thunder, in the movement of
truth is coming to light and they all have an interest in
not letting it come to light. People will go on saying
light in its true form. Gnosis — one is supposed to

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 5: How the Material Can Be Understood Only through the Spirit
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present this to you again today in a slightly different

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 6: Materialism and Mysticism, Knowledge as a Deed of the Soul
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the present age have brought to light. We must be fully
we wish to see materialism in the light of the true
characterize in the light of reality the materialistic
mysticism in its right light when we realize that all the
light of spiritual science, rather than by the usual
spiritual science in the light of anthroposophy holds the

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 7: Materialism, Mysticism, Anthroposophy, Liberalism, Conservatism
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glittering light of the stars, we see rivers, hills and
the light in which everything should be regarded, even
in the light of the spirit.
School is not at all seen in the light of reality, that

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 8: The Opposition of Knowledge and Faith, Its Overcoming
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power filled with divine light substance, divine life
then also the whole of life on earth in a new light. Life
to Mr Rohm's Leuchtturm [Lighthouse]. They keep

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 9: East, West, and Middle
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alight and alive, the ideal image the human being had of
of despair it has to find its way to the light.

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 10: Transition from the Luciferic to the Ahrimanic Age and the Christ Event to Come
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conscious mind could relate to those phenomena. Today's enlightened'
now appears in a new light. Human beings remain limited to the non-human

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 11: Modern Science and Christianity, Threefold Social Order, Goetheanism
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bring light and warmth into all the ideals we are capable
inner strength, filling us with inner warmth and light.
light and know that it belongs to the present age. We
Anthroposophy. That is the delightful way people who do
today than show untruthfulness up in its true light when

Title: Lecture Series: Life Between Two Incarnations
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light-emitting cloud in which the physical body is embedded. Man has
up to the light. For when man enters this heavenly world, he

Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture I
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right light to make no mistake as to their character. Yet these
institutions concretely and in the full light of knowledge, not

Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture III
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things because they throw light on our times. A number of
in the true light, for it is no small reckoning we have to

Title: Problems of Our Time: Main Features of the Social Question and the Threefold Order of the Social Organism
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to the enlightened representatives of the people that the
events in the right light when we recognize in facts the
clear daylight. The lie consisted in setting up

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