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Title: i Spirituality: Lecture 1: Historical Symptomology, the Year 790, Alcuin, Greeks, Platonism, Aristotelianism, East, West, Middle, Ego
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associations. If only one would apply this thinking to the economic life! That is its proper
than the economic life. There it is great, is of genius. And had Spencer, John Stuart
Mill and David Hume applied to the institutions of the economic life what they wasted on
same time, also wanted thereby to include the spiritual life and the economic life, something
economic life and the spiritual life, there arose only caricatures in the place of a true form
Mill, from the Western culture which is particularly suited for the economic life.
economically than the pupils of Fichte, Schelling and Hegel. When they began to create a State
thinking and economic thinking were apportioned to the East, the Centre, and the West
really experience the spiritual sphere, the political sphere and the economic sphere as three
significant points. We talk of associations which are necessary in the economic life, and use a
thoughts from that sphere and apply them to the economic life, they would fit there. The
spirit, politics and economics. For people must get away from a one:sided tendency and must
follow those who also understand something of politics and economics, who do not work only in
dialectics, but, also being engaged with economic impulses, have insight into the spiritual, and
have in the future with regard to forming economic associations. The skill in forming
evolve is understanding of the political-state element, which has other sources than the economic

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 2: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 1
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aegis of economic strife, for it is permeated by economic concepts, thoughts and struggles that
life as a whole has hitherto been the economic life, it was from the economic conditions of the
has taken on fully the nature of a philosophy. What in the West are economic impulses leading to
economic conflict, were diverted and fixed into legal-political concepts which lived then in
character of the East. But here again it expressed itself in another form. Economic in the West;
of a religious impulse. The social impulse in the West is economic, in Central Europe is
differentiation — a differentiation into the Western economic element, the Central European
economic nature; purely economic aspirations can have no success in the Centre because all
economic aims there assume a political character. The great outer failure in Eastern Europe has
a completely economic way of thinking, out of the impulses of economic ideas. This is why
everything which comes from Central Europe and is conceived not out of economic points of view,
Cromwell's Navigation Act. This Navigation Act was conceived and created entirely out of economic
arose. On the other hand, in the West where thinking follows the lines of economics in the sense
The English colonization in North America was entirely out of economic impulses. The political
longer existed. But the economic connections remained intact.
same. When Cromwell, at the right time and out of economic impulses, created his Navigation Act
brutal — this arose nevertheless from an economic thinking. When, in modern times,
politically, purely politically and without any economic impulse — in fact, against all
economic instincts. Today it has been wiped off the face of the earth because it was planned and
what preponderates here is economic thinking. Whereas Germany has gone to pieces because the
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Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 3: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 2
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experience of the spiritual, the experience of economics, the experience of the civic-political
activities — spiritual life, political life and economic life — get mixed up
West where a new element of economics establishes itself as something especially appropriate for
exceptionally suited to the economic life. I have shown you how this scientific way of thinking
over the civilized world, is taken hold of in the West by economic life — the element that
has actually arisen only in modern times. For economic life was never such a topical question in
the economic life without having economic thinking. For everything that the economy did in this
therefore take up neither an economic life nor a spiritual life truly alive in itself and arising
Orient but only in the Occident, must put economic life, political life and spiritual life side
by side, quite distinct from one another. Then the economic life of the West, for which the West
anthroposophically-oriented — an economic and spiritual life. And then the Orient can be

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 4: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 3
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Power, the Copper King, would correspond to the economic aspect, and how the Mixed King, who
Silver King; and to the economic element, the Bronze, the Copper, King.
soon as it gets hold of the economic life in the uniform State, in the Mixed King, destroys that
economic life.
have just this task of bringing the intellect into the economic life. What does this mean? We
cannot order modern economic life imaginatively, in the way that Goethe did in his
Because in economics we cannot but help to go further along the path
the intellect. We have to establish an economic life which, because it has to come from the
there is no economic life that could be run imaginatively like that of the Orient or the economy
an economic life which, whether existing alone or mixed with the other limbs of the social
organism, works destructively. There is no other way. Let us therefore look on this economic life
there also has to be a balance. For this reason we must have an economic life that is one part of
clings today to the uniform State, the economic life will absorb this uniform State together with
destruction because the intellect is directed solely to the economic life.
I will come into the economic life and will have
destruction would break in. People of today invent all sorts of social economic systems but are
not aware, because they lack the sensitivity of feeling for it, that every economic system like
element in relation to the destruction, the excretion, of the economic
life. The working together of the spiritual limb of the social organism with the economic element
manage it, the economic life itself would cause it to circulate. Destruction would inevitably
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Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 5: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 4
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under the influence of the economic life arising from the West, and in the decadent continuation
economic element, which from the West has conquered the world with the aid of technology, is
which were permeated by the divine-spiritual. People did there in the economic life what arose as
the proclamations of the Mysteries. And then the economic life, which began again only
the beginning of the so-called Middle Ages, the Romans above all had no money. Economics based on
technology from the West permeated this economic life that the new age arose. The life of this
machine technology with its stupendous transformation of the economic life and the social life
that (in this mechanistic element which they have incorporated into the economic life) those
his technical machines of the economic sphere the human being will perceive that, although
only in the economic sphere. But he will notice more and more in what he himself creates that it
that is trying to build an economic life in Russia. Despite Lunacharsky,
ideology arising from the economic life. It can hardly be said that there is a very strong
towards the economic. The desire is, in a certain sense, to embody the intellect in the economic
suppose that it were possible — the economic life would grow over peoples' heads. It would
intellect would not be able to cope with all the economic demands that would surge up! Just as
what he himself produces in the economic life. For the time being these demons, which human
economic life. Elemental spirits
economic life just as in ancient times elemental beings (elementarische Geistigkeit)
economic life he is also not free because the machines only overwhelm him. But when he develops
spiritual itself and, on the other hand, to find in the economic element what people in earlier
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Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 6: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 5
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dialectical element, belongs to the West and is only developed today for the economic life. The
still entirely restricted to the earthly economic, human reason that wishes to occupy itself only
cope with economics under the old conditions. What do people do? They either squeeze out of the
bogged down in economics. And yet they talk as if of a future perspective — as though the

Title: Social Understanding: Lecture II: Social Understanding Through Spiritual Scientific Knowledge
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mentality based on the life of the state or the life of economics creates
sphere of economics and the life of the state. That is why our
economics or on the life of the state had to stop, and thought life had to
economics and the life of the state what economics and the state cannot

Title: Lecture: Art As A Bridge Between The Sensible And The Supersensible
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mutually shared economic genius. Only this living feeling of being within
economic spheres, people listened. On many such occasions, it initially

Title: Imperialism: Lecture 1
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economic imperialism. But most important is the fact that
everything said about this economic imperialism is untrue,
have two imperialisms pushed together, the economic one of a

Title: Imperialism: Lecture 2
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dealing with an economic life which only becomes
the underlying reality of economic life. But that talent did not
economic basis of physical life, something which animals do without

Title: Imperialism: Lecture 3
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possible. The third stage is when economic life is the essential
the fact that the only reality is economic life and how it is
stage, which shows itself to be economic imperialism, especially in
the west. This economic imperialism is connected to a background
economic imperialism of Great Britain and even a certain idea of
platitudes under which only economic imperialism glimmers —
economic forces of the economy itself are active. I doubt anyone will
threefold nature. It is just those whose favorable economic position
allows them to spread an [economic] imperialism over practically the
imperialism. It is ironic that an economic empire which spread over
economically conquered and exploited. [India — Tr.] The
moment, in all the world's economic institutions where English is
the exterior economic empire. It's an either/or situation: Either
— or spirit will be poured into this economic empire, in which
church, not some state, not some economic empire can create this empire.
not downtrodden politically, economically and, obviously, not

Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture V: Anthroposophy and Social Science
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indications in the following lectures to details of the economic
situation of the economic life existing in the civilised world
that time, I urged everyone to observe the social economic life
this economic life at present which is intimately intertwined
social question can be separated from the economic question.
question here, where it will be pointed out how the economic
according to economic principles, economic opinions and
written out of observations of the European economic life over
which leads to the economic life becoming separated in a fully,
from the spiritual life, so that the economic life becomes, for
such a situation doesn't exist, in which the economic life
European economic relationships — it is in the widest circles
throw an impulse also into the economic development which would
the economic life, who know about this or that branch of
involvement in economic life — in the old sense; under the
here as also being related to problems of the economic life,
which economic problems could take on. Going on from here, some
quite honest about healing central European economic life, and said:
economic relationships, that with such a cure of a symptom the
much deeper social economic conditions today if one wishes to
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Title: The Social Question: Lecture I: The True Form of the Social Question
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out of economic powers, out of class clashes and out of class
not directly related to what surrounds them and the economic
capitalistic economic regulations, having been torn out of
however scientific battles, economic causes; they represent
into the pure materialistic reality of economic events. Even
though it works back on economic events, it still has had its
origins developed out of economic events.
only as economic events. When the modern proletarian had to
to such a science; the economic life. He now started to believe
that this economic life could be the only reality because for
only truth for his economic life.
to economic life. They no longer believed a spiritual or soul
the development of the un-spiritual, economic life void of soul
revolutionizing economic life to such a degree that all the
be steered towards a pure economic process.
economic life. This is an important, penetrating fact of
was believed to have come out of economic life itself, but
which did not originate from economic life but developed much
modern capitalistic economic order basically only knows about
building wealth of goods within the economic organism. It is
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Title: The Social Question: Lecture II: Comparisons at Solving the Social Question based on Life's Realities
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technical operation of economic life and its relationships and
through the capitalistic process which organises this economic
economic life supported by technology and modern capitalism
the health of the social organism as it was with the economic
— and also his economic or business life develops within.
analogy. See, the social organism lies opposite the economic
production and consumption, opposite the economic circulation
between the public rights and the economic system stand the
for now we will start on the economic side as this obviously
organism as business life, or economic life, will be looked at.
This economic life, we will partly today and partly in the
Our economic life is connected to all that takes place in the
the state. Meanwhile economic life involves the business of
own production, because the economic life involves the
of one human being to another, while in the economic system it
individuals. Similar to the first system, the economic system
Economic life has in our modern time taken on particular forms.
organism, the economic life, rests primarily on a natural
economic life depends on certain natural foundations. This
natural basis gives economic life — and through this the
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Title: The Social Question: Lecture III: Fanaticism Versus a Real Conception of Life in Social Thinking and Willing
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be found just like economic- and community building in the old
of modern technology, capitalism and the economic order.’ This
in the modern economic order.
the modern bourgeois social and economic order and it relates
capitalistic economic order is, then I involve his very life
able to work back into the economic life, then it remains an
economic order and their world view.
economic life and how these meet in people's lives. There is no
as a third independent member the economic organism. A
spiritual organism, state organism, economic organism —
Spiritual life stands opposite pure economic life just like the
human organism. Economics has its own laws. The character of
modern economic life has been identified through the
it to become clear how proletarian science, just like economic
this point in previous lectures. What is striking in economic
consideration of economic life, is, and also in relation to it,
here — the human focus is as if hypnotized on economic
evolution that only economic life needs to be referred to. We
have seen how this economic life has become quite committed,
how through economic life a particular active impulse in the
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Title: The Social Question: Lecture IV: The Evolution of Social Thinking and Willing and Life's Circumstances for Current Humanity
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modern economic life became ever more complicated which through
certain circles single economic sectors were gradually drawn
into the state structure. I pointed out such economic sectors
interests: the encroaching complicated economic life.
structure of the economic life in the most radical way. Their
economic life. Thus, the social impulse of the Proletarians
humanity, the economic life, just like the social impulse of
their interests are experienced in an isolated economic
life in a narrower sense and lastly, the economic life. Only in
economy. So we see the so-called social or national economics
of thinking, ways of presenting the interweaving of economic
as the so-called physiocratic national economic ideas. Earlier
thinking had the intention of organizing economic life out of
in such a way that there was a need to change economic life not
being tyrannized by the state in a narrow sense, that economic
of his own interests guide the economic life. Experts had
economic life? Either the laws are to be the same as those
which economic life gives when it is left to freely play with
others are not needed and economic life develops its own laws,
particularly state laws do not need involvement in economic
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Title: The Social Question: Lecture V: The Social Will as the Basis Towards a New, Scientific Procedure
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like a question of law and the third as an economic question.
What has arisen out of the modern capitalist economic life has
people's focus in recent times only on to economic life, and
beside the economic question to above all also a spiritual
capitalist machine of economic order tore a number of people
machine of the modern economic order. Here was no kind of
than what the machine age and the economic ordering imposed at
social organism: namely the economic life. This economic life
see in what follows, the economic life couldn't tolerate being
the tendency started of economic life being ever more drawn
of the economic life with a number of laws. Now, these laws
of law, what spiritual life actually is and what the economic
economic life, also out of the purely isolated economic life,
circulation of the economic processes.
you stand in the more modern economic process as goods.
come about through the objective laws of the economic life
taken completely into the economic process. This he felt was
How else is it at all possible to organise economic life than
economic process. If we divide the entire social organism, or
independent spiritual life, into legal life and economic life,
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Title: The Social Question: Lecture VI: What Significance does Work have for the Modern Proletarian?
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saying they lived in a capitalistic economic order and felt
comfortable living in this capitalist economic order. One hears
the course of modern economic life brought the economic life as
the economic life strived for a dignified existence and on the
trade unions the modern working community within the economic
scraps of what human dignity within a healthy economic order
the other hand, the economic and political power of the
economic life, because the modern life of the Proletarian was
offered by economic life, among them really live the basic,
itself with sociology, with national economics, that it
economic system.
the cause and which can only be given from the modern economic
circles: through the modern economic order, labour has become
goods among other commodities. It is typical of the economic
never be goods! Where the power of labour in the economic
economic process, because in reality something is added which
which goods is necessitated to have. In the economic process,
economic process. Does this not make it clear that he would
want to bring about through this mere healing of this economic
process and the circulation of the economic life itself, the
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Title: Community Building
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and economic life, and generally in a very harmful way, but

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 5: How the Material Can Be Understood Only through the Spirit
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sphere of economics.
the social and the human organism. The economic sphere of
be compared with the metabolism. This means that economic
There is no way round this. Economic life is the head of
we can say: But in that case economic life, if it really
ideological elements arising from economic life. Quite
the contrary, in fact. Economic life is dependent on
economic life arises out of cultural and religious life.
the stomach, and in the same way economic life is fed by
social organism and economic life must fall into decline
depends on economic life; primarily everything depends on
sphere of economics. Economic life is constantly bringing
economic life is the basis for progress is not speaking
the truth. The truth is that economic life is the basis
play a large role in modern economics are quite useless

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 9: East, West, and Middle
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tone for political and economic life. Greatness for the
that developed instinctively. Political and economic life
to material things, to economics, will one day have to
of rights and on political life. Economic life, as such,
apparent at the point where economic processes sprout

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 10: Transition from the Luciferic to the Ahrimanic Age and the Christ Event to Come
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the sum total of these things influencing not only economic life but the
economic life in future earth lives. The roar of cannon fire at the front
about the economic situation, and no bridge exists to words that take
economic life based on associations can develop; though this, too, cannot
economic life that is controlled by human beings and not by horse power

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 11: Modern Science and Christianity, Threefold Social Order, Goetheanism
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evolve a political or economic life of that kind, nor
sphere, in the economic sphere. Goethe also represented
(Silver King) and the economic aspect (Brazen King). My
the Silver King. In economic life, on the other hand,
spirit brought into economic life, spirit-man will come
economic life — in that ‘low’ economic
spiritual scientist cannot refer to economic life without
i.e. the state, and the economic element.

Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture I
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of economic life, political or juridical life, and the cultural

Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture II
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real lies only in the economic forces. All
economic life and all other changes will ensue, since
economic sphere, which is the “only reality.”
feel that the economic life was the “only reality”
economics — as Maya. The Westerner, on the other hand,
an economic life, gives them everything prescribed, and then
economic life, which can only be modern. It is possible to chew
Greeks and Romans have eaten. Economic life must be modern. We
have gradually woven into our economic life the Greek life of
the one half-truth that economic reality is the only reality,

Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture III
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hand, what we ourselves develop within the economic life,
the economic life, all that provides the most important
developed in the economic life by human love and brotherliness
all that is spiritual on earth; and looking, in the economic
derived before birth or conception; the economic life we

Title: Problems of Our Time: Main Features of the Social Question and the Threefold Order of the Social Organism
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the economic and other social facts of human experience. The
had been evident for some time, especially in the economic
the economic life solely with regard to production,
illness within our economic and. social life must express
economic life in detail as about the wider institutions of
economic institutions. That does not much matter: what does
closely confined within the economic system, so confined that
saw of the reality of the increasingly extending economic
private capital, developed by the new life of economics,
fundamentally alien to economic and other social facts,
real insight into economic conditions. The chief thing in
in the soul the idea of how beautiful the economic life could
as to how the structure of the economic life could be arranged
economic because it first meets us in the economic sphere,
economic life during the epoch of private capitalism and
in the economic field; therefore the social question appears to
him entirely in an economic perspective.
years under the influence of an economic order based on private
technical science and new capitalist economics, arose an
have been formed into single state-economics, the intellectual
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