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  • Title: True/False Paths: Cover Sheet
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  • Title: True/False Paths: Contents
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    • Kingdom in relation to Man's States of
    • Differentiation of the historical Epochs of Mankind and their
    • Consciousness of Man.
    • of Rudolf Steiner in the original German
  • Title: True/False Paths: Complete Edition
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    • the works of Rudolf Steiner in the original German. Published by the
    • Letters, drafts, manuscripts,
  • Title: True/False Paths: List of Literature
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    • Theosophy: An Introduction to the Supersensible Knowledge of the World and the Destination of Man
    • (by Rudolf Steiner and Dr. I. Wegman)
    • Man's Life on Earth and in the Spiritual Worlds
    • published works of Rudolf Steiner in German and in English
  • Title: True/False Paths: Publisher's Note
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    • supersensory experience, and with the need for new insight in many
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  • Title: True/False Paths: Synopses of Contents
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    • Man
    • man's inner being. In the ancient Mysteries this was sought in the
    • conditions of consciousness in man.
    • ordinary consciousness of today man distinguishes clearly between
    • Man today
    • man.
    • Nature are united in man.
    • Man's centre
    • intensification of consciousness and in shock man loses
    • ‘second’ man arises. He has emerged from Space into Time.
    • of “metallity” to other forms of consciousness in man.
    • constitution of man is different. Today the method must be a
    • an unconscious manner in the world of the dead. Balance is restored
    • copper condition of man.
    • consciousness enables man to perceive his pre-earthly
    • existence. In this state of consciousness man perceives the
    • on Mercury. Man is isolated from the physical world and the
    • world of elements. Mercury stimulates the astral body. Man becomes
    • cosmic activity. Man becomes permeated with the
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  • Title: True/False Paths: Lecture One: Nature is the Great Illusion; Know Thyself
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    • discuss in these lectures how the world in which man lives may be
    • inherited from the earliest days of human thinking and aspiration, is
    • as man has always felt during the course of his development, the
    • Illusion’ to find ultimate truth. But why did man look upon
    • the source of man's knowledge and activity? How is one to account for
    • question can only be answered if one reviews man more
    • arose the quest for spiritual knowledge amongst later humanity. But
    • the world is illusion and that man must attain to
    • however, only through life itself that man can come to terms with
    • accessible to us as human beings. Neither in full consciousness, nor
    • in clear understanding, but with deep emotion, every man the world
    • too, how many plants absorb from the soil certain substances
    • road we saw many extremely old plants which had absorbed quantities
    • And it is given to man to observe how these plants grow, fade and
    • observes the animals, he realizes their impermanence; so too with the
    • that they too are impermanent. And finally he turns to some
    • wondrous and complex orbits — all this, too, is impermanent.
    • But apart from impermanence, the kingdom of nature has other
    • attributes. These are of such a kind that man, if he is to know
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  • Title: True/False Paths: Lecture Two: The Three Worlds and their Reflected Images
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    • consciousness which it is possible for the human soul to experience.
    • In his normal life on Earth today man enjoys a well-defined state of
    • Many things are bound up with this form of consciousness, amongst
    • of man — that you could sit down on the thought of a chair. You
    • And many
    • changes in human consciousness. These Chaldeans who intercalated a
    • would have indicated the human beings.
    • man, to a period of twenty-eight years
    • strikes at the very roots of human existence. We must be quite clear
    • man. We do not survey the world simply through a single state of
    • physical aspects of man and depict them in this guise is prosaic.
    • ancient Chaldea man was perceived both as a physical entity and as
    • were in communion with the spiritual home of mankind.
    • historical perspective, I wished to indicate to you how mankind came
    • dreamless sleep of present-day man and examine the ordinary
    • force their way into man's consciousness in the most varied
    • the depths of uncorrupted human nature emerges something which does
    • Again, a man
    • finger one of his teeth. (I am referring to the present-day man; the
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  • Title: True/False Paths: Lecture Three: Form and Substantiality of the Mineral Kingdom in Relation to the Levels of Consciousness in Man
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    • LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS IN MAN
    • is a coined word not in usage. The Romanic suffix
    • when, through spiritual training and meditation, man develops higher
    • manner already described, we are able to confirm that the
    • accounted for by the intervention of terrestrial, Ahrimanic
    • are many types of crystal formation — cubes, octahedrons,
    • crystals is formed in the way I have described. And there are as many
    • different cosmic forces, indeed, as many worlds in cosmic space as
    • in the universe. The salt crystal is a manifestation of that
    • the world of space; the crystal is the impress, the manifestation of
    • world unto itself. As human beings here on Earth, we conclude
    • that the Earth-sphere is the focal point of the activities of many
    • universe. Through Anthroposophy man shall be able to perceive in
    • knowledge and understanding begins to flood man's whole soul. The
    • faculty alone, but to enlighten the whole man and show his total
    • the heart and soul of man. And this selfless service will be rewarded
    • out of the manifestations of the crystal-mineral kingdom, we feel a
    • experiences demands of us courage and we confidently proclaim:
    • how man is related to the Cosmos. We learn of the different
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  • Title: True/False Paths: Lecture Four: The Secret of Investigation into Other Realms through the Metamorphosis of Consciousness
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    • consciousness in man. Before extending my observations to include
    • immediate demands of life intervene and they find they are unwilling
    • physical organization of man was differently constituted. In
    • A man of the
    • than days of training were demanded of him before the highly
    • physical constitution of man in those times and that of today. Then
    • present time the only valid method is for man to have an inner
    • because it would be a mistake for the man of today to follow
    • approach. With the development of his physical organism man's whole
    • understand the nature of the human body, we know that its functioning
    • of nutrients. Every such disturbance in the human organization
    • man of today his normal condition of waking consciousness lies in the
    • the dead after death. Man always participates in this state of
    • example, in that region where man is spiritually in touch with the
    • administering copper. I have already pointed out that man's body
    • important that the man who is familiar with the physical side of
    • methods. The human organism has changed radically with the passage of
    • review of man's whole attitude to knowledge over the centuries may
    • at the evolution of mankind in retrospect, when the interpretation of
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  • Title: True/False Paths: Lecture Five: The Inner Vitalization of the Soul through the Qualities of the Metallic Nature
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    • attempted to show how man can develop states of consciousness other
    • provides abundant evidence that in the fields of human knowledge and
    • action, man did not possess the consciousness we have today.
    • twelfth centuries and the manner in which knowledge was fostered in
    • tried to recall man's relationship to the universe at an even
    • substantiality of the mineral element, is related to man and
    • his conditions of consciousness. Having shown man's relationship to
    • of consciousness we are detached from the world which man normally
    • illustrate my point. A man is born at a certain point in time. If, at
    • human beings.
    • and discover something which is of supreme importance for mankind,
    • experience. Our human status is determined by the fact that we owe
    • this is of any significance. In the second world all manifestations
    • born out of the four elements. We had a better knowledge of man; we
    • knew how man's external vehicle with its sense organs was built
    • formerly appeared static and inert now manifests that indwelling
    • human beings, have yet to learn.
    • what I have already described, we realize also that in man the
    • back upon itself in man is of importance only for the life between
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  • Title: True/False Paths: Lecture Six: Initiation-Knowledge, Waking Consciousness and Dream Consciousness
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    • can be developed out of the forces of the human soul.
    • propose to ascertain how man's relationship to the world is
    • existence. In our present epoch man has the possibility of developing
    • the state of dream consciousness in which man experiences
    • aid of Initiation-knowledge, we wish to know what realm man inhabits
    • life man possesses a physical body, the body which is perceptible .to
    • first member of man's constitution, the member which everyone
    • imperceptible to ordinary sight. It can be perceived only when man
    • member of man's constitution — it seems best to adhere to the
    • man possesses a physical body that is perceptible to the
    • concentration and meditation in the manner already indicated. But if
    • spiritual vehicle, the astral body of man.
    • member of the human organization is the Ego itself. We perceive the
    • of man's evolution we find that in ordinary life his astral body and
    • through the insight born of Initiation. Then man withdraws from
    • a certain sense, the etheric as well. The man who achieves this
    • Imagine what this demands of him. If we are to speak of spiritual
    • stage through which man passes in ordinary life is that of dreamless
    • and astral body that man inhabits the spiritual world. But, having no
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  • Title: True/False Paths: Lecture Seven: Knowledge of the World of Stars. Differentiation of the Historical Epochs of Mankind and their Spiritual Background
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    • OF MANKIND AND THEIRSPIRITUAL BACKGROUND
    • lecture we saw how man learns to command his different life-periods
    • world, he realizes that the historical evolution of mankind
    • played their various rôles in the evolution of humanity. I have
    • person who wishes to investigate the history of mankind from the
    • it is imperative to consort in the spiritual world with human beings,
    • with discarnate human souls; he must meet face to face,
    • metaphorically speaking, the human souls living between death and
    • Today we are living in an age when man, indeed the whole of humanity,
    • associated with the spiritual world, otherwise mankind will not be
    • in human evolution. And when we speak from the standpoint of genuine
    • spiritual forces emanating from the Sun which must exercise a major
    • which were the driving forces behind man's life, activity and search
    • man were grouped round a Being called Gabriel, to adopt the ancient
    • man that is derived from the world of stars. If, through
    • Initiation-knowledge, we ascertain what works in man from birth to
    • by forces which man acquires when he reviews in retrospect what is
    • Between the time of the change of teeth and puberty man is a child
    • When man
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  • Title: True/False Paths: Lecture Eight: Potential Aberrations in Spiritual Investigation
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    • nature of man's perception and the different spheres to which
    • become aware especially of the healing forces inherent in human
    • perception, its appearance is different from that of many others. Let
    • understanding of poison when we realize that man's astral body
    • Cosmos there are many beings belonging to different regions. In the
    • permanently surrounded by such beings who are spectators of our
    • death, the world where we contact the dead many decades after death,
    • all these worlds lack everything that man acquires through his
    • to our own. They have to keep an eye on the activities of man. From
    • with human nature and to preserve what they learn in that field for
    • As human
    • mankind has laid the foundations of something that would be
    • preserving for the future that which man cannot carry over from one
    • past ages it has been most difficult for many of these beings to
    • has again been lost to humanity. The salient point I am trying to
    • into the future that which man himself is unable to transmit from one
    • libraries, for example. The spiritual beings with whom man is in
    • direct contact cannot do it and therefore we as human beings cannot
    • evolution from the spiritual beings associated with man. These beings
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  • Title: True/False Paths: Lecture Nine: Abnormal Paths into the Spiritual World and their Transformation
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    • consciousness, the consciousness which man experiences in a
    • will examine our dream life once again. We have seen that when man in
    • because the man who does not penetrate more deeply into the nature of
    • the woof of higher consciousness. We therefore envisage man
    • find these primeval spiritual teachers sharing the life of mankind.
    • in this sphere where they have subjected to their purposes all manner
    • elementary beings and work upon human beings who have passed through
    • the primeval teachers of humanity on Earth and the beings whom they
    • human beings. We can then discover personalities who once lived on
    • very easy to show the difference between the Initiate and the man
    • conditions of sleep man's physical and etheric bodies are left
    • more or less the condition of man in earliest times. Today we have to
    • The make-up of primordial man was such that, in contrast to our
    • Imaginative perception. When confronted by another human being a man
    • difference: if, in ancient times, a man looked at his physical
    • Angels almost in the likeness of human beings, the Archangels with
    • features. Since man has gradually lost his clairvoyance, he must
    • was natural to primitive man, and relatively easy to regain through
    • which is similar to many societies of a kindred nature that have been
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  • Title: True/False Paths: Lecture Ten: Influences of the Extra-Terrestrial Cosmos Upon the Consciousness of Man
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    • OF THEEXTRA-TERRESTRIAL COSMOSUPON THECONSCIOUSNESS OF MAN
    • manifestations of somnambulists and mediums by methods which
    • those cosmic influences to which man's consciousness and his total
    • to see that amongst the influences working upon man, apart from those
    • life and to the physical and etheric bodies of man. Sun activities
    • are vitally necessary to the higher members of man's being. Less
    • middle of the nineteenth century there lived in Germany two
    • man and in the wider kingdom of nature. He collected data and
    • we have virtually exhausted all that modern man in normal
    • consciousness can know on this subject. Modern man lives, so to
    • the primordial teachers of mankind. The Sun sphere also harbours a
    • just as the Earth is the cosmic colony of humanity. As I have already
    • indicated, man lives today almost exclusively under the influence of
    • and physical conditions in which man lives under the influence of Sun
    • consciousness of sleep, of dreamless sleep. If we observe man during
    • the Ego and astral body of man follow the same pattern. In the waking
    • in waking life man lives under the influence of the external Sun
    • therefore, when man's astral body and Ego are outside his physical
    • phenomenon of sleep. The Sun shines from the human Ego and astral
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  • Title: True/False Paths: Lecture Eleven: What is the Position in Respect of Spiritual Investigation and the Understanding of Spiritual Investigation?
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    • distinction will be clear to you when you recall that man, as
    • experiences are derived from different worlds. Man as he is
    • understanding man penetrates in his dreams into this world concealed
    • already pointed out. In his psychic life man contacts the world
    • Man knows
    • has many mansions. His physical body lives in a different world from
    • willing than it can explain the origin of sleep. When a man performs
    • through feeling, so that a man wills in the whole of his body,
    • When man
    • performed by man, we have the impression that we are watching the
    • and from feeling — it follows a downward direction in man
    • — proceeds a sensation of warmth, a flame in man. And this
    • place, for example, we investigate the world of the human organs as I
    • utilizing the emergent forces in man as he draws near to the
    • with the necessary objectivity. In the course of human evolution
    • mankind has become inured to a scientific outlook that is related to
    • Mankind feels an imperious need to know something about the spiritual
    • amongst the theologians of the Roman Catholic Church who have
    • hand, man's intelligence, power of comprehension and ideation,
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