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Title: Evil and Spiritual Science
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they could say to themselves: if a human should strive through
working for themselves, that is organise our working the way
evil and wickedness show themselves as black spots, one could
themselves to be completely blunt against such an enigma, which
surroundings, we become aware of ourselves. In general, a human
accessible to him/her. Maybe we should ask ourselves here: what
then follow up for themselves with the further run of thoughts
except when we fundamentally educate ourselves away from
and a new birth. There we transpose ourselves into a world,
prepare for ourselves such a physical sense being, so that in
before our birth in the spiritual world to work upon ourselves;
we must look upon ourselves in such a way that we can become
are able to live not only with ourselves alone, but with the
ourselves: where lies the wisdom in the world order, that
they love, and do not concern themselves about anything else,
world. So let us not try and conceal from ourselves here: why
themselves: and catch sight of the longing for the spirit

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 1: Popular Occultism, Introtroduction
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interest for those who are now themselves giving lectures to a
body and astral body separate themselves from it and ascend. It is not

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 2: Man's Ascent into the Supersensible World
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interest for those who are now themselves giving lectures to a
world, the senses of the astral world disclose themselves. When we become
But when we begin to meditate in a serious way, when we school ourselves,
towards them and throwing themselves upon them. In reality these shapes
and picture to ourselves a German town of that time. There everything
that never clothed themselves in flesh. They continually hover to and
to incarnate themselves, to form themselves an astral body; these Beings
have a real lust to materialize themselves astrally.
very evil Beings occasion to incorporate themselves, and these Beings

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 3: The Different Conditions of Man's Life After Death
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interest for those who are now themselves giving lectures to a
violently severing themselves from the life of the senses, they will
earthly life is the expression of what we worked out for ourselves.

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 4: The Devachanic World
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interest for those who are now themselves giving lectures to a

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 5: Life Between Death and a New Birth
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interest for those who are now themselves giving lectures to a
does not quite resembled experiences themselves which we had here on
forces which impressed themselves upon the astral body. They transformed
themselves as if they were some kind of nourishment for the astral body.
their effects on ourselves. In the case of every action we now experience
another person, we must experience this injury ourselves in Kamaloca;
filings in a box a magnet underneath it. The filings arranged themselves

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 6: Man's Return to a New Earthly Life
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interest for those who are now themselves giving lectures to a
karma. Also the character, the inclinations and habits express themselves
elaborated in the physical body. They transformed themselves into forces

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 7: Effects of the Law of Karma
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interest for those who are now themselves giving lectures to a
Devachan. We ourselves prepared the nest where we were born. In Kamaloca,

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 8: The Evolution of Man and of the Solar System; the Atlantic Evolution
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Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 9: Lemurian Development
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themselves. The higher expels the lower, in order to rise still higher;

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 10: Paths of Occult Training
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interest for those who are now themselves giving lectures to a
We ourselves live in the fifth

Title: i Spirituality: Lecture 1: Historical Symptomology, the Year 790, Alcuin, Greeks, Platonism, Aristotelianism, East, West, Middle, Ego
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Now we can ask ourselves: So what was living in
way of thinking that we ourselves find religious feeling permeated with a legalistic element. In
express themselves, spread out, in imaginative pictures. In the Western culture we find that, in
in themselves what was divided between three spheres. They themselves organize it in the social
— the grave situation —in which we find ourselves.
cannot progress properly because in the autumn we found ourselves in great money difficulties.

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 2: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 1
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how these differentes within humanity express themselves in the civilized world.
North America. She lost these colonies to England. The colonies freed themselves again. The
that set themselves the task within their sphere of action of suppressing consciousness of self,
desire not to call themselves to account concerning the real motives behind their actions. One
probably perfectly upright men in themselves (I do not impute strong Ahrimanic impulses to them)
— are themselves bearers of such premature beings; but the pupilship to such beings lies
And what then, in total, is the task these beings have set themselves?
They have set themselves the task of keeping life
allow themselves to be convinced a little of the existence of the causes!
East, who fancifully attribute to themselves all possible selflessness — a selflessness

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 3: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 2
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past, but wish now to work into and to influence human lives, assert themselves; not, indeed,
through human beings themselves, but by appearing to them. We spoke of how these beings influence
the human 'I' and astral body — and then asserting themselves, without the people realizing
human beings who have permeated themselves to a lesser degree with the Roman element than have
make themselves felt in the world. In the East this is different. A different stream moves
human constitution of those peoples who have gradually asserted themselves in the centre of
described yesterday to assert themselves in the leaders of the people of Central Europe. But this
separated, beings asserted themselves in them of the kind that often worked unconsciously on
attacks of the spirits of the West that asserted themselves in his will, that surged particularly
people allow themselves to be absorbed by the
themselves.

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 4: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 3
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where things go on in the usual way, the Greeks considered themselves dependant on their gods, on
the Greeks concerned themselves when they wanted to receive social impulses. Here they ascended
We modern human beings must certainly also endeavour to lift ourselves up to inspiration; an
post-Atlantean epoch, people were to hold on to capital even when they themselves could no longer
ourselves over to the foreigner and, no sooner having done so, then exercising an unconscious,
influence on the foreigners to whom we had subjected ourselves.'
prevent this spiritual science from arising assert themselves. And, basically, there are only a
willing to engage themselves absolutely whole-heartedly for spiritual science, nothing beneficial

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 5: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 4
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nature. People felt themselves to be in the realm of knowledge when gods spoke through the
knowledge again only when they concern themselves with what lies at the basis of
us, out of ourselves, to open the doors again to the spiritual world; to come to a perception of
particularly among those who pride themselves on being practical, who, for example, go into
and prefer to get along with the old. The machine age has arrived. Machines themselves show how
— a life certainly which he can still deny because they manifest themselves to begin with
beings have not diverted into machines, are still in human beings themselves and manifest as the
themselves.
qualified him really to control the spirits which assert themselves in the economic life. An
practical.' Of course it cannot be practical if people do not engage themselves in it; just as,

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 6: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 5
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Today we will remind ourselves that there were
here people could no longer themselves behold the Mystery in the sense of the old spirituality,
was placed in this social order by the gods themselves through the recognizing of this fact by
and so on, who set themselves against the bare principle of
themselves about the Mystery of Golgotha through the Gospels. The Church opposed this because it
authority, on absolute faith in authority — it is only that people delude themselves about
way the majority lost the power to face the truth for themselves and in the last resort this has
visionary gift and say all sorts of things they do not understand themselves against this modern
Gospels were a unity. Even today it is strictly forbidden for Catholics to occupy themselves with
how, in what is actually going on, significant things proclaim themselves. And, for the most

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 7: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 6
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encapsulate themselves in their habitual ideas so that nothing can penetrate which conflicts with
learn of nature, the less we understand of ourselves, the less we understand of the human
article; it is meant as a force for life and people will have gradually to accustom themselves to
make themselves mature and ready for the Christ-event of the twentieth century. But everything

Title: Abbreviated Title: Lecture I:
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not given themselves up to egoism alone, but who have spent their life
Picture to yourselves that when we enter physical existence we are born
Science prepare themselves to appear in earthly existence again as soon as
guide the world by devoting yourselves to what lies in their intentions.
evolution are furthered through what people take up into themselves who
concern themselves with something which is not, so to speak, the culture of
people of the present time; that they concern themselves with something
Earth-existence busy, themselves with something which has a significance
concern themselves with the fact that they will also be eaten; that does
grains let themselves be distracted from preparing those of the next year,

Title: Talk To Young People:
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young people, doing everything ourselves. Couldn't you help us?” “I
century find this sort of thing, if they are honest with themselves,
to ask themselves the reason for their suffering and what they were
clearly and honestly perceived in themselves “hunger for a truly
people, which you yourselves may have read by now: “How do you
descend more deeply into themselves, while giving up all their
begin to understand this when they begin to understand themselves. To
nature to tell ourselves over and over to wake up, otherwise all the
to tell ourselves with a certain amount of courage: “Whenever we seem

Title: "Heaven and Earth will pass away but my words will not pass away"
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Moon-stage. And we must remind ourselves of the fact that, in a certain
they win for themselves the impulses which they then ray forth into the
and human beings; we ourselves — as mankind — would find it
prepared by us when we raise ourselves to the stage of Spiritual
biologists, thinking themselves particularly advanced, say: As many
ourselves entirely with this idea. We must not expect that we can carry
“think ourselves into his mind”, as it were. All this must
confirm ourselves in those feelings and perceptions that we can make

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture I: Tree of Life - I
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at its starting point have been formed by human beings themselves. It
given themselves up more and more to thought, but the human heart,

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture II: Tree of Life - II
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element in which they felt themselves to be actually cleverer than
to themselves: Yes, this or the other came; it placed itself before
we cannot ourselves bring our night's experiences into our
day's knowledge, from what we have gained for ourselves from waking
to going to sleep. We can thus say: Ahriman, instead of ourselves,
— and we say to ourselves: I know this person. But

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture III: The Power of Thought
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something like a shadowy outline, a phantom, of ourselves; not
ourselves must be inserted, for we are continuously losing something,
at that time rebelled against, showed themselves in antipathy to,
at home in the existing evolution; they felt themselves to be
result which arise from ourselves and pour themselves into the
ancient Rome they did not say to themselves: One man rules other men,
themselves: if the Republic is said to have a significance in the
Such men said to themselves: Yes, we

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture IV: Harmonizing Thinking, Feeling and Willing
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confined to us ourselves, to live only within us as our impulses of
relate thinking to ourselves as we do now, but we should look back to
of the earth. Only through first feeling ourselves to be identified
foreign and hostile to such an aim. We must not deceive ourselves
and only for ourselves. We should develop not a single altruistic
medium, they would most certainly bethink themselves that there were
themselves: what it is will soon be evident. They wanted to know
earth from that otherwise taken when we do not ally ourselves to such

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture V: Tree of Knowledge - I
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World-conceptions can have ever such fine proofs in themselves, they
themselves in a really extraordinarily logical way, they have an
worlds permeate our world, for the way other worlds allow themselves
persons concerned are prevented from coming and excuse themselves; so
because this heart of ours received its rudiments when we ourselves
illusion we now ascribe our feelings to ourselves as I have shown,
secrets of art too gradually reveal themselves to us. They unfold as

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture VI: Tree of Knowledge - II
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Luciferic-Ahrimanic beings have asserted themselves. And here we can
ourselves persecuted, develop no antipathy against anyone
unintentional untruthfulness. We must never flatter ourselves that
Society might not speak of themselves, they always spoke about
much we are inclined to attribute far more selflessness to ourselves
in the first place thoroughly work ourselves out of our dependence on
So we have furnished ourselves with a

Title: World Downfall and Resurrection
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out their own thoughts for themselves. Now the kind of
Father God in the days of antiquity. Men said to themselves:
themselves created. These other Divinities are the Beings
insinuated themselves into the things of the Earth. The things
said to themselves: The Godhead works through the blood,
back again to them. The Gods desire the blood for themselves.
themselves. Christ directed the minds of men to all that
beings who subsequently had insinuated themselves into the
themselves, only they must be understood in the right way,
very fact that we need no longer allow ourselves to be led
intellect. They allow themselves to be misled by this intellect
ourselves may labour. The fourth condition is upon us. It only

Title: Lecture: Philosophy and Anthroposophy
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able to say to ourselves: neither method can lead our soul whither we would
ourselves and reality is not thereby lessened, but increased. The results
reach the point of admitting that we do not, in truth, devote ourselves to
they can themselves take their stand upon true reality. Others, who aim at
Master of Logic. The medieval thinkers would say to themselves: whatever be
thirteenth century) to concern themselves with Aristotle. The first
concern themselves with his teachings, for in the interpretation placed
the founders themselves presented in the right way. Instead of looking to
ourselves. In the Kantian sense, we see external things as through a
coloured glass; we receive them into ourselves, grouping them according to
lawful connections which we ourselves evolve. Our cognition has certain forms
to ourselves. A picture resembles its prototype, but in so called
experience within ourselves is “symbol” of the thing-in-itself,
of cognition who pride themselves on understanding Kant, consider every man
only concern ourselves with a few of Aristotle's fundamental conceptions in
however, begin to think, the things group themselves; we gather diverse
Aristotelian lines, if we, like the Scholastics, exert ourselves to conceive
(Entelechies). The latter (universalia in re) have incorporated themselves
ourselves to think in concise, finely chiseled concepts, in concepts which
immediate access to the things and identify ourselves with matter. This
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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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these reveal themselves quite simply in the choice that must result when
truthfully, if we were to ask ourselves whether we should be more on the
ourselves with this unfolding being of the child, then out of this
do not say to ourselves — who is it now that has really
say to ourselves something like this —
we began teaching a year before. We say to ourselves at the end of the year
proper sort of inward modesty, this sense that we ourselves are still in
hand we are always patting ourselves on the back over the perfection of our
must quickly cast off our narrower, personal selves like a snake's skin,
around with us. As teachers we must train ourselves to lay aside these
surrendering ourselves completely to the subject. The important thing
arising as we surrender ourselves to the content), then bring about in the

Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture II: The Three Fundamental Forces in EducatioN
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immersing ourselves in the other human forces. A Dionysian element
ourselves the necessary reverence and the necessary enthusiasm, so that we

Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture III: Spiritual Knowledge of Man as the Fount of Educational Art
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digested by us in a suitable way; but we would not be feeding ourselves
there. By preparing themselves for this the eurythmists are, as it were,
making themselves into organs for receiving processes from the spiritual

Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture IV: The Art of Education Consists of Bringing Into Balance the Physical and Spiritual Nature of the Developing Human Being
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known to you, which manifest fully only in later years, reveal themselves
work in one direction or another, when we acquaint ourselves with the means
separating themselves out from the mixture, while the lighter parts remain
they are the way in which we express ourselves in our human-social
are able to free ourselves from such behaviour and to direct our
of his soul, then we are occupying ourselves with a child in a different
which can be acquired only if we learn to overcome ourselves. There would

Title: Social Understanding: Lecture II: Social Understanding Through Spiritual Scientific Knowledge
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after we have reached the age of twenty-one, we have to draw on ourselves.
out consciously. We have to educate ourselves to do consciously what was
once, and you may even have experienced this yourselves
of acquiring relatively more for themselves from other people compared with
what they produce from out of themselves. In earlier times it was
of thinking we develop when we accustom ourselves to working with
these days. Yet these people who do not put themselves out to accept the
one another, but live entirely within themselves. Human beings can only

Title: Buddha and the Two Boys: Lecture I: Buddha and the Two Boys of Jesus
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in the course of time. We ourselves may have once lived in ancient Egypt,

Title: Buddha and the Two Boys: Lecture II: The Gospels, Buddha and the Two Boys of Jesus
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We ask ourselves now, how did this flow into
compassion and love. If we want to understand this, we must tell ourselves
from within themselves the teaching of compassion and love, the teaching of
Buddha's appeal to develop from within themselves the teaching of

Title: Lecture: Art As A Bridge Between The Sensible And The Supersensible
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leading classes and social ranks have allied themselves with certain
themselves as excluded by virtue of their entire life situation from what
the leading classes have essentially concocted for themselves. As regards
what people claim for themselves today as religious content is after all
earth in human physical bodies. Let us remind ourselves as before, of
hardly come to any other judgment than in asking themselves,
let us remind ourselves again and again, that it is actually quite absurd
attempted to do in various fields, making clear to ourselves what the
earthly human being. If we make concretely clear to ourselves, in detail,
reality. In this manner, human beings have torn themselves away from a
proceeding to such concrete ideas do real thoughts reveal themselves
and supra-physical world. And only in permeating ourselves with such
that, nothing else is implied than that we should train ourselves to
quite differently than what we ourselves have thought. For we should have
ourselves within the totality, then we join in hastening toward the
feel ourselves standing within what is comprised by the genius of
further, in other words, in learning to overcome ourselves more and more.
within ourselves, circling continuously around our own self, we
widening of interest it is necessary for us to educate ourselves to
experience to act of themselves as necessity demanded. In speaking to one
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Title: Raphael's Mission in the Light of the Science of the Spirit
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themselves into cultural life as a whole, as into a great
from the things themselves, from making use of their sense
immerse ourselves in Raphael, in following the various stages
Savonarola reverberate in us if we give ourselves over to them;
only be comprehended in raising ourselves to the supersensible,
raise ourselves to super-terrestrial regions to see the
whole soul — we abandon ourselves to what affects us in
present themselves to us again in sleep, upon awakening or in
felt, we have to say to ourselves: In looking at a picture such as the
We give ourselves over entirely to the moment seen here. We
in themselves.
progress of humanity. We can say to ourselves, these works
in the widest circles people were unable to immerse themselves

Title: Leonardo's Spiritual Stature: Lecture
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not exactly conduct themselves with special piety in regard to
can acquaint ourselves with other works of Leonardo, by means
— or to where the horses are left to themselves. In this
hypothesis to which anyone can come on familiarizing themselves
to ourselves that the human soul returns again and again in the
orient themselves to what is presented to the senses, to reason
become ready of themselves to feel drawn to spiritual science.
elevated themselves in the ancient manner to apprehending the
transpose ourselves, for example, into how a Greek artist
human beings felt themselves the immediate creators of their
own bodies, feeling themselves at one with the soul forces of
supersensible existence. We can then say to ourselves: We
Leonardo are themselves real life-enigmas, embodying cosmic
understanding, while immersing ourselves in spiritual
acquaint ourselves with this aspect of Leonardo in order to
able to say to ourselves, all development takes its course in

Title: Fairy Tales: in the light of Spiritual Investigation
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spiritual secrets themselves.”
not revealing themselves in their totality.
the elements vent themselves upon the defenseless human
presenting themselves as boundless in relation to
themselves off. They do so much as a single drop of water
passing through the soul and felt themselves much more
fairy tale, let us remind ourselves that, as shown by spiritual
We may remind ourselves of the relationship of the
world and tell ourselves: The plant grows, but it can
that manifest themselves in the fixed stars and planets. And
often find themselves up against giants in fairy tales. Why do
amazed, they agreed among themselves that they would only be
was some blood. The giants had said to themselves: Awake,
spiritual investigation — yet, in immersing ourselves in
the roots of existence. Since, even in giving themselves
Hence, those who have concerned themselves for a long

Title: A Mongolian Legend
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closer to the spiritual worlds and were themselves still able
themselves off in love-lessness from what is outside them and
beings have to redeem the planet along with themselves.

Title: The Worldview of Herman Grimm in Relation to Spiritual Science
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period, numerous other things asserted themselves in the
is required for someone to submerge themselves fully in the
assembling external facts. In this way, the facts themselves
such research themselves.
human beings did not yet incorporate themselves in physical
Christian one, in which we still find ourselves today. It is
feel ourselves transposed, in an immediate way to what had
speak for themselves, giving expression to these powers that,
acquaint themselves prefer with what happens on the earth by
even those distance themselves from him, if they but understand
themselves aright, who differ from him in their ideas and in

Title: Imperialism: Lecture 1
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themselves gods. They didn't think it was a superstition, oh no,

Title: Imperialism: Lecture 2
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the old realities had not transformed themselves into platitudes,
to deceive themselves, and when they recognize the deception as
themselves to be adrift when they can really feel the solidity of the
deceive themselves as to what is real. What good does it do to
to motivate ourselves to think big. We will discuss this further

Title: Imperialism: Lecture 3
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how everything in the world is alive, and how to express ourselves
that is, cultural life, are dependent only upon themselves.
our evolution. How could people let themselves be deceived by
hindrance. We should ask ourselves why this is so. It is very

Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture I: Anthroposophy and Natural Science
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corners add up to 180 degrees by themselves; when I have seen
used, is this: remaining stuck in the phenomena themselves. I
in every instance the phenomena themselves would be contained
themselves — just as by reading a word, the meaning is
of relationship to thoughts themselves; one comes to the
ourselves to enter into these thoughts we no longer have the
with the things themselves. This is how Goethe could say
themselves.

Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture II: The Human and the Animal Organisation
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about the sense of equilibrium we turn ourselves more towards
ourselves into the vertical position. What we have experienced
as something woven out of ourselves. This is not so. It comes
what is sensed with the five senses, extricating themselves
themselves from the bondage of the sense world, they become

Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture III: Anthroposophy and Philosophy
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ourselves with philosophy. This vague experience is extremely
philosophic zealots found themselves in the last third of the
a person delves into the spiritual development of someone from
we find ourselves today in the following situation. In the West
which they express themselves, and as a result remain in vague,
we could realise due to this, what we have to do ourselves,
the reality by looking at ourselves in our own inner being. As

Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture IV: Anthroposophy and Pedagogy
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every other individual can prove it for themselves, simply with
life, where they felt themselves particularly ready to actually
people, when they allow themselves to be directed by these
ourselves in a place which was obviously hardly suited — it had
themselves.

Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture V: Anthroposophy and Social Science
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question and as a result, prove themselves to be abstract
ask ourselves how this human evolution relates to the economic

Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture VI: Anthroposophy and Theology
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others — defends themselves. Anthroposophy wants to
themselves in our midst whether in connection with religious
themselves in the sensory physical world. When a person looks
ask themselves: What have you actually done? What justifies you
that for example Jewish confessors found themselves in the most
themselves, except through a revelation.
enthusiasm to have such an imagination. Still, ask yourselves

Title: Impulse of Renewal: Lecture VII: Anthroposophy and the Science of Speech
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objects present themselves, or one can clean them up through
our current epoch differentiations show themselves in this
regard. The Greek always felt words themselves rolled around in
resembling consonants depends upon people placing themselves
we restrain our gestures and they transform themselves within
do today in our soul life, because people felt themselves to be

Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 1
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Warm themselves in joy of existence;
Warm themselves in joy of existence;
senses, it is futile to ask it what we ourselves are as human
ourselves, although it does give us a huge amount of
evermore repeat to ourselves: what we feel as our innermost
and sternness: We must first make ourselves truly human, warm
this it is necessary that we prepare ourselves, without levity,
revelation can rise in us. We must say to ourselves: If we
all those who consider themselves members of this School should
the human heart, so deep that we can only fathom ourselves:
seat of this fear. We must tell ourselves that we were born and
Warm themselves in joy of existence;

Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 2
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correctly prepare ourselves for creative thinking, the
ourselves in order to enter the spiritual world as genuine,
themselves the following question: How often have I resolved to
is neither meaningless nor unimportant to ask yourselves such a
wish to belong to the Class ask themselves: Isn't there
To continually remind ourselves of this belongs to the
the worst possible way. Because people feel themselves as only
relatively easy to achieve clarity about ourselves. We don't
ourselves in our souls. We are always convinced that the
intimately into our souls if we wish to know ourselves as
feeling human beings. Only by facing ourselves directly with
complete conscientiousness do we lift ourselves up, do we lift
ourselves up over the obstacles which the second beast places
mockery even to themselves, but they are still mocking the

Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 3
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themselves in joy of existence;
ourselves with this lifeblood for the soul that wishes to tread

Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 4
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with ourselves. We should develop the idea that the esoteric
Yes, the gods have raised us to themselves by giving us
In that way, we no longer depend only on ourselves, but we grow
Words whose meanings alone are grasped leave us unto ourselves.
of ourselves. For only so, by coming out of ourselves, are we
willing. Within ourselves, our corporeal “I” holds
through which we can say to ourselves in all honesty and
raised ourselves to that higher part of our humanity which
ourselves to be one with the world.
ourselves, as in this mantric verse [Feel how the earth's
ourselves, we are only prompted to be aware of where the beast
and lift ourselves up in flame, the other verse exists -

Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 5
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when we look within ourselves, concerning an external nature
nature. We must stop saying to ourselves: Out there is nature,
are ourselves within the element of warmth - we become more
accommodate themselves within the earth's world of light. And
ourselves for the next earth-life, the spirits warning us at
instead find ourselves with alien powers where the human origin

Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 6
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a part of ourselves. We do differentiate a table or a chair
which exist outside of ourselves. We do not consider what is
consider it as the content of the world and of ourselves. So we
profound admission. This admission to ourselves is progressive,
out of their own being. And then we say to ourselves: All that
which encourages us to always wish to raise ourselves over this
process. We take the carbon into ourselves. And carbon is the
[?] ... just as we feel ourselves to be plant-like by the watery
ourselves.
according to the guidebook as events present themselves. We
Guardian of the Threshold as to how we can save ourselves from
beings. If we completely fill ourselves with inner dedicated

Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 7
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Furthermore, all those who consider themselves to be legitimate
yourselves for the first time: I want to take the Guardian of

Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 8
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the fixed stars and feeling, is the sun in ourselves [the sun
dear friends, we only need to immerse ourselves in these truths

Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 9
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the forms the constellations possess. When we immerse ourselves
by their movements - so that having felt ourselves to be at
rest in respect to the stars, now we feel ourselves to be set
feel ourselves bound to the earth by the force of the earth
yourselves as human beings standing amidst the earth's forces.
we can feel ourselves as the ones touching, sensing. We can
then during the third stage we can immerse ourselves in what
Thus, do you measure yourselves, radiate, strengthen yourselves
for us. Then we say to ourselves with total certainty: the
this spirit. And if we feel ourselves as spirit in the
but threefold. Then it is as though by binding ourselves to the
themselves.
[Translator's Note: in German the stars themselves can be
we say to ourselves when we have arrived on the other side of
must look up to the stars and with devotion say to ourselves:

Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 10
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comes to meet us. But as long as we confine ourselves to using
the planets, behold the stars, fill yourselves with the
far greater thoughtfulness we can imagine ourselves into the
ourselves carried away by our soul's vision.
immerse ourselves in it. When we have this feeling — I
here on the earth [inner circle]. Then we draw ourselves up to
most sublime, where we feel ourselves in dialog with the gods
themselves, where the gods not only let us read, but

Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 11
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themselves to the School with great diligence, Miss Maryon
saw how we place ourselves in the world process and how in
What is actually going on? When do we see ourselves
dwellings of the gods, then the gods themselves who live in
the beings of the higher hierarchies themselves, at first
which the godly beings themselves speak, and should let
allowing ourselves to be impressed by the radiance of the
happening and when we free ourselves from the theoretical,
from the intellectual content, go out from ourselves, so that
striving and vibrantly radiating so that we feel ourselves

Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 12
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And when you have sensed this, ask yourselves: When I think
[yellow]. And you will then say to yourselves: When I speak, I
ourselves as being transferred to where we hear what is being
“I” to ourselves, where are we looking? Yes, this
say “I” to ourselves we are confirming that we are
way, and if we experience ourselves within the spiritual world
Hierarchies, then we will find ourselves in possession of true

Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 13
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So if we can always feel ourselves in this situation
saying it; we should transpose ourselves into the situation I
Each leg is placed before the other. Thus we carry ourselves
around us, but also how we experience ourselves in the
ourselves for this mantra by using the good German word
than the Thrones. They do not show themselves in the
reveal themselves by their being; the Cherubim reveal
themselves by their tools; the Seraphim reveal themselves by
though we are not ourselves speaking, thinking, feeling and
willing; rather that we completely forget ourselves and feel
ourselves: this normal consciousness has meditated. It has
ourselves to be meditants, and when there are moments when we

Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 14
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and willing can strengthen themselves after having consciously
ceases. We enlarge ourselves, we expand, and at the same time
Now he delves deeper into himself. And — note the
ourselves speaking the words after the Guardian has been

Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 15
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Every night when we sleep we find ourselves in the realm to
Now we to situational meditation: how to see ourselves already
asking. This answer, which the cosmic-powers themselves
with each of the elements, so that we may feel ourselves to
how we will comport ourselves in respect to the earth's firm
moments we give ourselves over to the spirit. And Ahriman
possible for the soul. We must not only expose ourselves to
Ahriman. In meditation we must imagine ourselves in this
strongly feel ourselves on the other side of this threshold
ourselves the essence of plants, we have it in our earthly
ourselves. Only we elevate it to the level of humanity.
Thus we find ourselves here in the sensible world
Archai. We feel ourselves to be in this situation. The
ourselves to be complete and enclosed. We do not feel everything
beyond the abyss, still trying to orient ourselves, we feel
to develop the kindling force of our own selves, the kindling

Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 16
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the Anthroposophical Society than that they feel themselves
esoteric situation in which we feel ourselves: first of all,
by a dark, night-bedecked wall. We see ourselves entering
ourselves in relation to the four elements. He tells us how
Who answers? The hierarchies themselves answer
hearts, to the extent that we feel ourselves to be within the
element. We must immerse ourselves in it as the all-pervading
We feel ourselves most intimately united with
the warmth element. We ourselves are what is warm or cold in
We must feel ourselves completely within this
And we find ourselves in the situation where we know that we
ourselves are within this glimmering light. We feel ourselves

Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 17
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themselves, to the even higher spirits, to the spirits of the

Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 18
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heart may resonate with it, we must feel ourselves to be within
the all-moving, all-pervading cosmic light in which we ourselves
through the teachings of Christ men should protect themselves

Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 19
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feel ourselves surrounded by this Spirit-Word. We feel the
world penetrated by this Spirit-Word. We feel ourselves
ourselves spiritually immersed in the spiritual world
voice. And in experiencing ourselves in this blazing
may experience in ourselves the true “I am”,
themselves; we have let the images and inspirations which
founded by Michael. We feel ourselves to be in it. They are
When in September we find ourselves again in
We should feel how we ourselves go through all

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disposition and attitude, feeling yourselves to be members not
Anthroposophical Society other than what they themselves
Warm themselves in joy of existence;
Warm themselves in joy of existence;
(We feel ourselves impelled to take a few steps closer to the

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pictures. We imagine ourselves in front of a corpse which has
themselves, then I ask them to only keep it for eight days and

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souls, he makes us aware of how we should integrate ourselves
ourselves, remaining in our own skin, if we do not go out of
ourselves and let our body become the whole world. Then will
ourselves free by inner striving. Our gaze goes earthward if we
want to localize our will. We must feel ourselves one with the
free ourselves from the earth's gravity if we want to let our
through us, and we will feel ourselves to be in the wide
where we must feel ourselves to be if our feeling wants to

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speak; the darkness wants to make us lose ourselves in matter.
not letting ourselves be overtaken by light, nor letting the
lose our Selves in the cold. We must find the equilibrium
ourselves in equilibrium between light and darkness, in
devote ourselves to the darkness alone, for then we would lose
ourselves in the substance of darkness. We must strive for what
will be light within by means of the force which we ourselves
yourselves to these mantric worlds with the right conviction
equilibrium in the soul is present in the words themselves.
ourselves united internally with warmth. We feel the earth
subconscious. The powers of air thrust themselves in only when
inner meaning with which we should unite ourselves in
one with the cosmos if we bring ourselves to live into the
universe, if we wish to feel ourselves to be members of this

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thus showing us an image of ourselves, which in turn shows us
ourselves: This corpse could never have come into being the way
ourselves unilaterally to it, how the darkness can be dangerous
if we devote ourselves unilaterally to it, how we must seek our
sensual embers of feeling if we surrender ourselves to the
when we seek willing in the earthly depths we find ourselves in
Thirdly, when we feel ourselves to be in the air element with
earth and the air in thought and imagine ourselves wanting to
fear of ourselves and know that we are nullified if we only
ourselves a very long time, especially at this point, so they
should comport ourselves in respect to the outer world.
But it is just this understanding of ourselves as earthly human

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is, in ourselves.
of love towards the being, we let ourselves grow wings of love,
to ourselves — because we sense that the kind of thoughts
ourselves: There is our flowing, living thinking. It doesn't
shape of the universe. If we can say to ourselves in all
beside ourselves. Then the will's thinking becomes the thinking
are to prepare ourselves — and we feel this preparation
must create the feeling that we are not speaking ourselves, but

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we said to ourselves: our own humanity is not here; we must
the earthly man, which we ourselves also are during earthly
the person who stands over there, who we ourselves are, in a
that other person, who we ourselves are, has waves of will
figure, which we ourselves are:
ourselves are, and he admonishes that we are to see this
appears to us from out of sleeping feeling. We feel ourselves
which we are ourselves in earthly life, but this time after
the person over there, who we are ourselves, telling us to look
who we ourselves are. We make the picture and develop the

Title: The Social Question: Lecture I: The True Form of the Social Question
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within the social movement, call for hope in themselves and
consider themselves practical you can certainly doubt that a
in placing themselves into the souls of the proletarians, they
understanding of themselves, whereas before they had been
call themselves practical, by saying: ‘Oh, from such

Title: The Social Question: Lecture II: Comparisons at Solving the Social Question based on Life's Realities
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Whoever can consider things for themselves and stay far away
develop an independent life for themselves, such as the
themselves. Shrewdly he referred to the example of how
compose themselves and say: ‘It all sounds a bit like a dream
themselves with the course of events. Not a revolutionary

Title: The Social Question: Lecture III: Fanaticism Versus a Real Conception of Life in Social Thinking and Willing
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in the modern social order and how they feel within themselves,
this modern proletarian experience themselves as the criticism
themselves have the answer and that it does not come from some
themselves. It is a criticism. That the modern proletarians
complicated phenomena of the social life by themselves. They
sides by fanatics who see themselves sometimes as good
themselves in practical life. Today it does not involve people
may reveal themselves. Someone might create poems, as many as
label themselves as practical might soon give way to knowledge

Title: The Social Question: Lecture IV: The Evolution of Social Thinking and Willing and Life's Circumstances for Current Humanity
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Proletarians didn't involve themselves as much within the real
Proletarians themselves, and on the other side that the
situate themselves in the human community. For this reason, it
because modern humanity, even though they consider themselves
political bodies manage themselves, whether along their own
themselves independently because they are working side by side
connection of people with economic powers themselves. The
themselves in the sense of the Threefoldness of a healthy
They have started already and will show themselves in other
themselves to work towards an understanding of these things, at
that it is necessary for thoughts themselves to change. Only

Title: The Social Question: Lecture V: The Social Will as the Basis Towards a New, Scientific Procedure
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opinions, they want it carried out themselves, which means,
themselves, how they live together in the community and bring
themselves. If I want to briefly express what I mean, I must
herself enlightened, call themselves atheists, can acknowledge
everything connected to them; such laws found themselves best
or she can do themselves, in the economic process. Isn't it so,
place themselves within the economic life as a constant factor,
yourselves, what I have been stressing the entire evening
varied areas of life, tendencies which focus themselves in the

Title: The Social Question: Lecture VI: What Significance does Work have for the Modern Proletarian?
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those laws which they have created themselves, as equals.’
capitalist entrepreneurs today and reveal themselves in regard
their own thought patterns, considering themselves practical in
pose the question: Who can actually implicate themselves as
Proletariat themselves to utter the fundamental questions,
healing is not brought about by the Proletariat themselves, by

Title: Lecture: Richard Wagner and Mysticism
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the Atlanteans themselves. They understood all that was living in
this Ego-consciousness expressed in the opening notes themselves, in
themselves? But if they were to do so, the world would enquire about
upon it took something of the Eternal into themselves.

Title: Lecture: Spiritual Wisdom in the Early Christian Centuries
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the Ideas subsist in and through themselves. Plato could not
had been fulfilled the training whereby men could themselves have

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say to themselves, “We have suffered a common
themselves, for the very purpose of regaining the right vehicle
to be so definitely within ourselves, so woven around and
that is said about ourselves, our etheric and astral bodies and
the supersensible, we then lift ourselves with our soul life
in such a way that we say to ourselves: “What you have
to raise ourselves to the level of grasping such real
theoretically even for ourselves — when we are able to
ourselves unexpectedly in the midst of genuine Anthroposophical
considerations. Matters of the daily life flowed of themselves
modus vivendi between themselves. But it would be
foundations out of existence. We must inform ourselves as to
Central Executive Committee would express themselves in regard
to the matter. It is not a question of defending themselves, or

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will occur if we do not say to ourselves: “You must look
themselves with their whole inner feeling to the supersensible
become egotists among themselves in the most natural way
themselves established, have caused one difficulty after
of the technique of this proving. Those who acquaint themselves
adjusted themselves in recent times to the need for finding
For, if this does not occur, we present ourselves in the world

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 1: Evolution and Consciousness, Lucifer, Ahriman
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question we must ask ourselves is whether anything still
human soul a long way back we find ourselves going beyond
our soul is active in thought we find ourselves rather
ourselves entirely outside them. Indeed we often feel
processes if we keep ourselves well isolated from them,
withdrawing into ourselves. The human ancestor who was
something is thinking in us but that we ourselves do the
nature. When we speak of nature we base ourselves on such
ask ourselves what it was that made human beings grow
not about the plants themselves. It is important that we
to feel themselves connected, in forming those ideas that
themselves to our dreaming, our life of the imagination,
the facts speak for themselves. We must learn to look to
necessary for us to tear ourselves away from our
knowledge to be gained there if we do no train ourselves
spheres can only be achieved if we train ourselves as far
ourselves on the facts.
course become aware of the need to base ourselves on the
body we have absorbed into ourselves as the instrument
earth concerning themselves only with material things.
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 2: East, West, and the Culture of Middle Europe, the Science of Initiation
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descendants, that is ourselves, we have to say that the
say to yourselves: Asians are thinking more with their
ourselves: European ideas do not make it easy to grasp
themselves. You will find that when genuine initiates in
ourselves on initiation. Yet we have need of social

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of ideas by which people allow themselves to be governed
Europeans we believe ourselves to be part of European
civilization. What we should ask ourselves is what it is
themselves for centuries—he said something that was

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 4: Western Secret Societies, Jesuitism, Leninism
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have to admit to ourselves that many things are coming up
at least tell themselves that they go along with it.
age, we may well ask ourselves how many people reading
themselves to us as pictures. The relationship that
confessions address themselves? They address themselves
shelves; I said that one cannot really accuse people of
themselves: ‘What was the person [
courage to say to themselves: ‘If scientists

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 5: How the Material Can Be Understood Only through the Spirit
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prevent the decline into which we have got ourselves in
is important that those who call themselves friends of
impulses of those who consider themselves the bearers of
sense of reality we cannot base ourselves on the
of the reality. We really only give ourselves up to

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 6: Materialism and Mysticism, Knowledge as a Deed of the Soul
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firmly on the ground, considering themselves to be
in evidence even in people who themselves are quite
as we develop and that we restore ourselves to health
considering themselves superior to such things — as
given up to our egotistical desires that allow themselves
are in fact rather pleased with themselves when they
can make a discovery when we observe ourselves in the
therefore, we can make a discovery. Observing ourselves
observe ourselves we shall have no experience of these
if people apply to themselves what it says in my book
when people concern themselves with mysticism nowadays,
expressing ourselves no longer work; things that normally

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 7: Materialism, Mysticism, Anthroposophy, Liberalism, Conservatism
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found within ourselves. We shall find it particularly if
this now. These things present themselves to human minds
abstract spirituality within themselves. Someone looking
something-ists. We base ourselves on an abstract notion,
for parties always base themselves on manifestos, systems
physical brain. People must tear themselves free. It is
the old faculty of tearing themselves away that lies in
of losing soul and spirit and of losing themselves as
things, and this is also where we find ourselves in the

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 8: The Opposition of Knowledge and Faith, Its Overcoming
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themselves to be united with the gods, and being given
deny this. They therefore did not call themselves
your soul and spirit. You will then find yourselves the
leaders of certain parts of humanity gave themselves the
themselves to the material world; it is a deliberate aim
people who are now supporting materialism call themselves
spirit that was no longer justifiable called themselves
call themselves representatives of the spiritual world.
widespread societies now say: ‘We declare ourselves
longer called themselves Christians or followers of
Christ; they really ought to call themselves Jesuits,

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shall base ourselves on facts relating to the nature of
question we want to ask ourselves today is what kind of
themselves unconsciously in the outside world of soul and
and spirit environment in which we find ourselves during
found themselves in the outer world and their souls and
did the people of those times have of themselves? It
form. At that time human beings experienced themselves as
and spirit, and themselves as soul and spirit within that
cosmos. Exactly how did they experience themselves? They
perceived themselves as their own deal model. Please pay
did not have the experience of themselves that we are
beings, and at the same time experienced themselves as
did the people of the ancient Orient take themselves very
themselves. In the Middle, human beings see themselves as
see themselves as merely physical; it is to be their
that people want to stay asleep, want to let themselves
of the social organism out of what lies in ourselves. The
her. The people of the Middle need not limit themselves
themselves if they give thought to mystery wisdom —

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 10: Transition from the Luciferic to the Ahrimanic Age and the Christ Event to Come
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ourselves, and work for the real progress of humankind. Unfortunately far
into the present and will still make themselves felt for a long time, we
to the powers that were active in the objects they themselves had
outside themselves that did the same amount of work for every individual
outside themselves in modern civilization; forces that work for them day
they are ahrimanic. Human beings find themselves in the middle between
are ahrimanic by nature. Human beings are thus surrounding themselves
making themselves felt in strikes and revolutionary movements. They show
themselves in life and they arise out of the work done in industry, in
themselves that states were Christian. The truth is that they were not.
pretended to themselves and others that the modern states which had
using the titles conferred on them by the state, imagined themselves to
We live through repeated earth lives. In earlier earth lives we ourselves
ourselves have produced are considered in the same way. All we see are
ourselves to be human beings. Today we look into a nature empty of human
we now find ourselves in, is also the starting point for future earth
is something we make part of ourselves, for it is something that was
show itself in the growing generation is to prepare ourselves for the
have totally given themselves over to something that is no longer human.
beings themselves will no longer be able to influence these elements. We
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 11: Modern Science and Christianity, Threefold Social Order, Goetheanism
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ourselves that if we were entirely dependent on the earth
ourselves we would have to do without spirit-self,
having to say to ourselves: ‘As human beings we are
of holding. We must be able to ask ourselves in all
should already be able to say to ourselves that the earth
rightly if they are able to ask themselves questions like
have to say to ourselves: Longing to become complete
ourselves that the earthly realm itself does not contain
Christ and say to ourselves: The Christ has brought to
concept of ourselves as complete human beings with this
on the library shelves and wait for someone to come and
when we are able to say to ourselves that we have the
achieve this, we must fill ourselves with the Christ
see what we have to do in order to defend ourselves
forced to defend ourselves. But that is a familiar bad
have to defend ourselves? It may seem regrettable that we
have to use sharp words to defend ourselves, but just
in a way embarrassed to declare themselves openly for us
if we freely and openly profess ourselves for the truth.

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permitted to say something about the higher worlds themselves, and we
the outset in order to prepare ourselves for a complete understanding
themselves the changed scene for a new incarnation.
the attraction of a magnet and arrange and group themselves around it,

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