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- Title: Knowledge of Soul and Spirit: Lecture VIII: The Soul of the Animal in the Light of Spiritual Science
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- another significant example. The sand digger wasp has a weird
- the sand wasp, and you take away the prey and lay it down far
- concerning this requirement. We take that sand wasp which as an
- Title: Metamorphoses/Soul Two: Lecture 5: Sickness and Healing
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- bullocks created hornets, donkeys, wasps. It was in the 17th century that the
- Title: Lecture: Life and Death
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- from the decaying carcase of an ox; wasps from a donkey's
- Title: Lecture: The Human Soul and the Animal Soul
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- existence. — When he sees the wasp building its nest, he says
- when men succeeded in making paper. But the wasps have been able to
- do it for thousands of years! For what is to be found in the wasps'
- Title: Lecture: The Hidden Depths of Soul Life
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- constructions, and wasps too, we see that intelligence governs the
- Just as the beaver building his lodge, or the wasp, displays an
- Title: Lecture: The Origin of the Animal World in the Light of Spiritual Science
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- corpses, drones out of mules and wasps out of donkey corpses. And as
- of the beaver's dam, of the insects, with the wasps, etc., we
- Title: Ascension/Pentecost V: WHITSUN: The Festival of united Soul-Endeavour
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- to such paper, but the wasp group-soul invented it thousands of years
- ago. The material of which the wasp's nest consists is exactly the
- Title: Theosophy and Rosicrucianism: Lecture VI: Man's Descent into an Earthly Incarnation
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- may serve you as a simile: A wasp. consists of two parts, a
- the wasp nevertheless, drags it along with it. This is more
- Title: The Influence of Spiritual Beings Upon Man: Lecture VIII
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- But the wasp knew it much
- earlier still! You all know wasps' nests. They are made of the same
- wasp spirit discovered paper! The individual wasp does not do it, it
- Title: Gospel of John: Lecture III: The Mission of the Earth
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- But wasps had already produced paper many thousands of years
- ago, for what the wasps build into their nests consists of
- produce paper and it is produced by the wasp in exactly the
- wasp-spirit, the group-soul of the wasps, which is a part of
- Title: Apocalypse of John: Lecture VII
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- its totality this appears in a different light. The wasps
- could do this long before, for the wasp's nest is constructed
- thousands of years before in the nest of the wasp there
- subjective wisdom. Not the single wasp is able to make paper,
- group of wasps. It possessed this knowledge long before man.
- Title: Universe/Earth/Man: Lecture VIII: Mans connection with the various planetary bodies
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- intelligence but wasps knew how to do it long before man. A
- wasp's nest, however, is not built by individual wasps, but by the
- group-soul of wasps; it is built of exactly the same material as our
- Title: Buddha jesus Boys: Lecture I: Buddha and the Two Boys of Jesus
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- this in natural life as well: for example, in the gall wasp, the front body
- Title: Manifestations of Karma: Lecture 2: Karma and the Animal Kingdom
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- external works; beavers build their homes and wasps their nests, but
- Title: Lecture 9: Spiritual Beings in the Heavenly Bodies and in the Kingdoms of Nature
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- certainly is a sign of human progress. Yet the wasps knew this art
- millions of years ago; for the material of which the wasps build their
- Title: Chance/Necessity/Providence: Lecture 6: Imaginative Cognition Leaves Insights of Natural Science Behind
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- stuck our heads into a wasps' nest and our thoughts swirled and whirled
- Title: Riddle of Humanity: Lecture Thirteen
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- pointed out that a wasp's nest consists of the very same material; it
- of wasps' nests really discovered this substance millions of years
- Title: Memory and Habit: Lecture III
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- such a zenith of achievement! But as I have said before, a wasp's
- of a wasp's nest, had already forestalled man in this discovery. And
- Title: Lecture I: The Difference Between Man and Animal
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- The wasp has been able to do it in building its nest, for millions of
- Title: Driving Force: Lecture VI
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- produce such phenomena. You know that a properly formed wasp
- wings. That is a properly formed wasp.
- also wasps which look like this (lower form in diagram). They
- Title: Study of Man: Lecture IV
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- the wasps and bees, also the so-called lower animals, and we shall
- Title: Education as a Social Problem: Lecture II: The Social Structure in Ancient Greece and Rome
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- nature. When the wasp builds its house this natural activity
- Title: Young Doctors Course: Lecture I
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- they cause a certain species of wasp to lay eggs in a fig, an
- ordinary fig. A wasp maggot comes from this germ and passes
- young wasp is caused to lay a second lot of eggs in the same
- season. The result of this second lot of eggs from the wasps
- wasps has laid eggs. In the South, people take figs that are
- branch. The wasps come and deposit the eggs in the figs; the
- wasps develop very quickly; then the wasps go over to other
- that happens when wasps, or, if you will, bees, take nectar
- going in the fig by way of the young generation of wasps. A
- inoculated by the young generation of wasps.
- more quickly, and the generation of wasps arises more
- wasp's sting and the laying of an egg. A sense for nature is
- Title: Health and Illness II: Lecture I: Fever Versus Shock; Pregnancy
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- beaver lodges and wasp nests, crossed eyes, vegetarian and meat diets,
- Title: Health and Illness II: Lecture II: The Brain and Thinking
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- beaver lodges and wasp nests, crossed eyes, vegetarian and meat diets,
- activity in wasps, not beetles. Wasps have brains that are no
- soon as they hatch. Now, these wasps are weaker than beetles,
- without help. This is why such wasps gather little animals like
- of the nineteenth century, observed a wasp who needed such an
- animal, a female wasp, heavy with eggs, looking for an insect
- for her. What did the wasp do? It bit off the fly's head and
- the wasp could now fly. Now — as I said, Darwin watched
- all this — a strong breeze was blowing and the wasp could
- what did the wasp do, laden with the fly? It landed on the
- but deliberate, since the wasp, after all, accommodated itself
- to the wind. This cannot be inherent in the wasp, to bite off
- motivates the insect. The wasp tells itself that if the wings
- wasps' nest. A wasps' nest is built like this (sketching). It
- is attached to something and formed so the wasps can fly into
- — and this wasps' nest is real paper. If one asks, what
- is a wasps' nest made of chemically, chemically it is identical
- Wasps, however, have been building their nests for thousands
- see, therefore, that wasps manufactured paper much earlier than
- humans. That's simply a fact: the wasps' nest is made of paper.
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- Title: Health and Illness II: Lecture III: The Effects of Alcohol on Man
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- beaver lodges and wasp nests, crossed eyes, vegetarian and meat diets,
- Title: Health and Illness II: Lecture IV: The Power of Intelligence as the Effect of the Sun; Beaver Lodges and Wasps Nests
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- Beaver Lodges and Wasps' Nests
- beaver lodges and wasp nests, crossed eyes, vegetarian and meat diets,
- Beaver Lodges and Wasps' Nests
- facts. I have already referred to the wasps and told you of an
- observation about wasps made by Darwin. Today, I would like to
- wasps make ingenious nests for themselves. Though faintly
- resembling beehives, the walls of these wasps' nests do not
- differs from that of the bees. There are wasps' nests, for
- twigs or whatever wood the wasps can find, which they work and
- This is the story, then, with wasps. You can imagine that wasps
- one year's wasps survive until the following spring, but it
- Interestingly enough, a special variety of wasps hatches from
- all these eggs in spring. These wasps that are hatched in
- wasps construct the cells there.
- wasps that hatch from eggs laid in spring have a specific
- reproduce. With these wasps there is no reproduction. Their
- the question. So, the first thing the wasp does in spring is to
- leaving reproduction to a select few as with the wasps.
- Well, the fact is that the sexless wasps toil away all summer.
- sexless wasps are quite robust workers. The males turn out to
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- Title: Health and Illness II: Lecture V: The Effect of Nicotine; Vegetarian and Meat Diets; On Taking Absinthe; Twin Births
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- beaver lodges and wasp nests, crossed eyes, vegetarian and meat diets,
- What is the difference between the ages of wasps and bees?
- naturally refer only to bees and not to wasps. Bees differ from
- wasps, so my statements refer to bees, not wasps.
- Title: Health and Illness II: Lecture VI: Diphtheria and Influenza; Crossed Eyes
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- beaver lodges and wasp nests, crossed eyes, vegetarian and meat diets,
- Title: Health and Illness II: Lecture VII: The Relationship Between the Breathing and the Circulation of the Blood; Jaundice; Smallpox; Rabies
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- beaver lodges and wasp nests, crossed eyes, vegetarian and meat diets,
- Title: Nine Lectures on Bees: Lecture I
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- to the difference between bees and wasps.)
- of the bees and that of the wasps. There is much that is similar
- here, and I have recently described the life of the wasps to you.
- ants and wasps, work so completely together, so arranging their whole
- the wasps and ants we can say they are creatures which, in a certain sense,
- less necessary when we study the ants and the wasps for we shall see that
- Title: Health and Illness II: Lecture VIII: The Effect of Absinthe; Hemophilia;The Ice Age; The Declining Oriental and the Rising European Cultures; On Bees
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- beaver lodges and wasp nests, crossed eyes, vegetarian and meat diets,
- absinthe and also concerning bees and wasps.
- lives of wasps. There is much that is similar. I recently
- described to you the life of wasps, and it is quite similar to
- wasps, life in the beehive is based on the bees' cooperating
- we can say that when one describes the wasps or the ants, they
- This is much less necessary with ants and wasps. When their
- Title: Health and Illness II: Lecture IX: The Relationship of the Planets to the Metals and their Healing Effects
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- beaver lodges and wasp nests, crossed eyes, vegetarian and meat diets,
- Title: Nine Lectures on Bees: Lecture III
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- the scientist applies to ants and wasps what he has observed with
- Title: Nine Lectures on Bees: Lecture VI
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- wasps.
- The wasps do
- but first, will we consider a certain species of wasp. There are
- wasps that have the peculiarity that they do not deposit their
- oak-leaf, and the wasp with its ovipositor which is hollow, (the
- surrounding the little wasp-egg, we find the so-called gall-nut or
- seen on trees. They are there because a wasp deposited an egg at this
- plant-substance which entirely envelops it. The wasp egg would perish
- because this protective substance encloses it which the gall-wasp
- steals from the plant. The wasp robs the plant of this substance. You
- of the plant, and elaborate it within themselves. The wasp does this
- at an earlier stage, for in the depositing of the egg the wasp
- were, waits a little longer, the wasp does it earlier. In the case of
- instance what the wasp has to take from the plant is provided by the
- see how close is the relationship between the wasp and the plant. In
- districts especially rich in wasps one can find trees almost
- entirely covered with these galls. The wasp lives with the
- hairy, but everywhere the small germ of the wasp is in the centre. At
- the relationship between the wasps and the plants with which they
- When the wasp
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- Title: Nine Lectures on Bees: Lecture VII
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- I was told that if anyone has rheumatism and gets stung by a bee or a wasp,
- this man the right dose of bee or wasp poison, his ego-organisation is
- remedy prepared from the bee or wasp poison; only one must combine it
- bee or wasp poison. If the heart is not sound (but here one must
- careful in the use of this remedy. Bee or wasp poison acts very
- — I make a certain preparation, a remedy; I put wasp or bee
- wasps, and ants. These small creatures are related to one another, and I
- have already told you the interesting story of the gall-wasps which
- wasps. There are also other kinds of wasps beside these gall-wasps,
- honey-comb. There is, for example, an interesting wasp which
- these attachments the wasp goes on working, mixing these substances
- know, is made of wax, but when you take a piece of this wasp-comb it
- time of laying, the wasp in a most curious way, makes a kind of loop
- an opening at one side for a flight hole, so that the wasps can go in
- wasps build themselves this cone-like structure out of paper, and in
- wasp nests are, as you know, covered in with a kind of skin, and have
- the wasps, and most especially the ants. Though the ants and wasps
- The wasps also have a discriminating taste for the aphis. But when we
- as the wasps, they must set to work quite differently. The ant makes
- In the case of the wasps, it is already a harder material that they
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- Title: Nine Lectures on Bees: Lecture VIII
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- creatures, bees, wasps and ants are related to one another, though
- Let us go back to the wasps, among which I told you, we find creatures
- gall-nuts are then formed out of which the young wasps emerge. But
- hairs. The following can happen to these caterpillars. One or more wasps of
- wasp lays its eggs into the caterpillar, it is really very remarkable. As
- caterpillar's stomach, the whole affair of the wasp's development
- wasp grubs show their intelligence by not biting into, or feeding
- ill; but the wasp grubs can still go on devouring it. It is most
- wisely arranged that the wasp grubs do not bite into anything that
- would say, as it were; out there are those robbers, the bees, wasps
- if the bee, or the wasp or some other insect, did not come to suck
- no wasps for instance, but from the surrounding regions there
- then a third and so on. Now comes a wasp. This wasp immediately bites
- rose petal is simply bitten out by the wasp, and carried there, Well,
- inflammation; if one is stung by a wasp, it is sometimes even worse.
- This business of wasp stings can be pretty bad. Brehm describes how
- pasture was full of wasp nests. The cow-herd's dog ran about;
- the dog had probably done before, and the wasps sting him too, and he
- ants, bees and wasps, which are the preparers of these poisons, what
- dilution, bee poison, wasp poison, ant poison, once descended upon
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- Title: Nine Lectures on Bees: Lecture IX
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- bees, wasps and ants. There is, may be, little in Nature which permits us
- considering these insects, the bees, wasps and ants, we were at the
- Bee-poison is an excellent remedy; wasp-poison is the same, and the
- air. What the wasps have is a poison similar to formic acid, but
- ants, wasps and bees. Externally, they are doing something extremely
- intelligent and wise. This also applies to the wasps and the
- the connection of the decaying wood and the wood-bee, wasps, etc., then you
- Title: Evolution, Earth, Man: Lecture VIII
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- By whom, then? Not by human beings at all, but by wasps! Just look at
- any wasp's nest you find hanging in a tree. Look at the material it
- on, for the wasps are not yet in the habit of writing, otherwise they
- what the wasps use for making their nests. The wasps found out how to
- Title: On the Development of Human Culture: Lecture II
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- human beings at all, but by wasps! Look at any wasps' nest you find
- Not, however, white paper, not the kind you write on, for the wasps
- drab-coloured paper for parcels which is just what the wasps use for
- making nests. The wasps found out how to make paper thousands of
- Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 4: Western Secret Societies, Jesuitism, Leninism
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- like; in short, paper of any kind. Well, wasps and
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