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Title: Evil and Spiritual Science
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thinking and reflection unfolds, in order to fully persuade us
down into a kingdom that is not their own human kingdom, but
really a kingdom below their true humanity. And to want to
into such a kingdom that is beneath him/her: doing that is so
under humanity there is a kingdom of animal, plants and
minerals. The Stoics knew that there is a kingdom into which a
compared with what one might imagine is thinking that has
meet us in the most remote circles of human thinking. A thinker
would like to briefly portray the main points of his thinking.
working for themselves, that is organise our working the way
such an answer, does not take account of the animal kingdom
up to meet us in the animal kingdom, how does everything, that
kingdom! But whoever wants to lead us to the animal kingdom in
same animal kingdom issues? So Lotze turned away from the idea
can properly assume is the working and weaving of a divine
hit up against something. Basically, each morning in waking up
for it to create its own adversary. Now through taking part in
what we call selfishness. A great deal of careful thinking has
preparation for the kingdom of the spirit. Thus we must
strong that it hindered the soul from looking up to a spiritual
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Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 2: Man's Ascent into the Supersensible World
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his way of looking at things, his consciousness changes. When we die
we know what is taking place in the astral world. But when people obtain
for the sake of talking, thoughts are quite worthless. For a clairvoyant,
talking for the sake of gossiping, talk which is not born out of the
of the being you are talking about. But in the case of an untruth the

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 3: The Different Conditions of Man's Life After Death
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for good food, but the organ enabling it to taste it is lacking. The
terrible thirst looking in vain for water, for a possibility to quench
verse: unless ye become like little children, ye cannot enter the kingdom

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 5: Life Between Death and a New Birth
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and moods are lacking. I see myself, my relatives and friends within

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 7: Effects of the Law of Karma
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the method of working upon the astral body, but also that of working upon the
working into the physical body, and with the flashing up of Atma, which
kingdom cannot change of its own accord. Everything that changes within
the animal kingdom proceeds from the astral plane, at least as far as
change in the vegetable kingdom is directed from the sphere of Devachan.
Natural science traces back changes in the animal kingdom to adaptations
with the transformation of the vegetable and animal kingdoms of the

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 8: The Evolution of Man and of the Solar System; the Atlantic Evolution
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be viewed from four aspects. 1) By taking them naïvely and literally.
arbitrary). 4) From the occult standpoint, by taking the things described
of the sinking Atlantis. It was at this moment that the rainbow first
yet possess the capacity of abstract thinking, nor the power enabling

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 9: Lemurian Development
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the three kingdoms of Nature.

Title: i Spirituality: Lecture 1: Historical Symptomology, the Year 790, Alcuin, Greeks, Platonism, Aristotelianism, East, West, Middle, Ego
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which humanity will perceive the working of Christ in the etheric world.
points to a way of looking at history like this, a way which looks to significant moments, such a
and a Greek also living at that time in the kingdom of the Franks. The
theory that this Greek developed from his thoroughly Greek mode of thinking, which was now just
Now criticism of Alcuin's way of thinking is not
on speaking in the way he had just done, but moves the whole problem into a completely different
And we are directed, by looking at these two individuals, to that fluctuation which took place on
impulses. For what is expressed in these ways of thinking went over later into the feeling life
thinking right down to Plato — the impulse of eternity of an ancient world-view —
oriental way of thinking, reaching to Plato, and what followed later is expressed in this
spread of Romanism? There had entered that way of thinking which one has to comprehend through
of all, a legal one. The Occident brought logical, legal thinking so strongly into the oriental
way of thinking that we ourselves find religious feeling permeated with a legalistic element. In
thinking. There was nothing there like guilt and atonement or redemptinn. For
[in this oriental way of thinking]
the concept of karma. Later, however, everything was fixed into a way of looking at things which
within this occidental culture, the way of thinking which comprehends primarily what takes place
of dialectics, of logical-dialectical-legal thinking is there, in which everything is tending
— this is a pupil of Kant's speaking like this! And Fichte says:
in which he is actually asking: `How must the world be so that things can be proved
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Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 2: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 1
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which humanity will perceive the working of Christ in the etheric world.
importance. For it is not simply a matter of individual human beings thinking in an egotistical
way, 'we are individuals': it is rather a matter of the whole development of humanity taking such
action of spiritual powers working into the physical life of humanity on earth. But precisely
in earlier epochs, and very exceptional things are making their appearance within humanity's
scientific way of thinking about social life, a certain view of life has been developed. This
Strike movement are significant precisely as a characteristic of what is taking shape in this
This arises because the Bolshevism making itself felt there is in fact a foreign
all that was then forced upon the social life through the modern scientific way of thinking and
all its achievements. This way of thinking and its achievements, together with the inherent
a completely economic way of thinking, out of the impulses of economic ideas. This is why
arose. On the other hand, in the West where thinking follows the lines of economics in the sense
brutal — this arose nevertheless from an economic thinking. When, in modern times,
what preponderates here is economic thinking. Whereas Germany has gone to pieces because the
completely different spirituality is working into present-day human beings and it will be an
fact that it is given to the West to develop a specifically economic way of thinking. The
This is the characteristic we find when looking
expression of the present epoch — in economic concepts, economic thinking.
heritage and, on the other, there is also working in him that which comes out of the present
dreams, or simply during sleep, so that the human being in a waking state then bears within him
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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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which humanity will perceive the working of Christ in the etheric world.
soul-configuration of the people living in the Orient; by working as imaginations into the
consciousness of certain human beings of the East — perhaps by working during sleep into
it, in the after-effects during waking. And in this way they bring in everything they wish to pit
dialectical thinking. So what came from oriental wisdom penetrated then into Western
thinking. And one can only understand the role played by what then developed out of the Roman
understood by looking at it in this way. This human being, as regards his soul-configuration, his
pre-eminently suited to adopting and Anglo-Saxon developing natural-scientific thinking and to
Let me state expressly that what I am talking about
were the people of the West. Initially they left the spirit out of consideration, taking body and
artificial head on top as spirit, in the materialistic way of thinking that arises out of
in their true nature we can say: When they were awake there was working in them something of the
of thinking in the
inclination in the whole people to adopt the natural-scientific way of thinking, which is so
exceptionally suited to the economic life. I have shown you how this scientific way of thinking
from the working together of what pressed from the West as reason and what pressed in from the
and revelation from the East came together. Both influences were working in the human being and
the economic life without having economic thinking. For everything that the economy did in this

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 4: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 3
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which humanity will perceive the working of Christ in the etheric world.
the King of Wisdom (the Golden King), the King of Semblance (the Silver King), the King of Power
(the Copper King) and in which the Mixed King falls to pieces. Goethe wanted to deal with this in
it in these three kings; in the Golden, the Silver, and the Copper King. And what cannot hold
together he gives in the Mixed King.
a certain way — even though Goethe had not himself yet done so — how the Golden King
the King of Semblance, the Silver King, would correspond to the political State: how the King of
Power, the Copper King, would correspond to the economic aspect, and how the Mixed King, who
instincts and that of the free aesthetic mood — and in Goethe's three kings — the
Golden King, the Silver King, and the Copper King — we see a prefiguration of everything
in the social organism, the Golden King; to the political element in the social organism, the
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
life. The working together of the spiritual limb of the social organism with the economic element
organism, one should be under no illusion that the economic thinking of the present is a
could also be the preparation for acquiring that configuration of thinking
become Goetheanists feel how, in the very nature of German Central Europe, this singular working
between rational knowledge and revelation is attributable to the working of the spirits of the
Golden King; from the West the sphere of the Copper King. From the East, Wisdom; from the West,
Power. And in the middle is what Goethe represented in the Silver King, in Semblance; that which
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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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which humanity will perceive the working of Christ in the etheric world.
spirits are again working which in earlier times were perceived by the human being in nature. In
everything must be added to it which supersensible research is seeking to find.
will again develop a kind of group-soul, taking in hand what the individual at present cannot
who calumniate and slander one when, working out of the modern scientific approach, one tries to

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 6: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 5
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which humanity will perceive the working of Christ in the etheric world.
the form of speaking about the Mystery of Golgotha in the way that was possible with these
but in which this intellectuality already lived. Dialectical-legal thinking spread out and, in
turn, led to civic-political thinking. This spread from the South into those northern regions
forms. Many external facts show how this dialectical-legal, political thinking, in which the old
speaking of the time in which the Mystery of Golgotha approached or was already accomplished.) In
the kings and other princes — were ascribed with a certain authority on earth, and ascribed
dialectical-legal mode of thinking, calumniates everything which resists being fitted into the
the modern age arose. And we see this mutual interlocking particularly in the first half of the
old what is still left by a dreadful tightening of taxation or they fill what is lacking by

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 7: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 6
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which humanity will perceive the working of Christ in the etheric world.
habitually stick to what was once instilled into them. At most, one can notice a breaking out
and yet understood nothing of the situation mankind is in - when these people began talking about
this earth; a being who, not with theological mendacity but in very truth can say: "My kingdom is
For man will have to say to himself: 'My kingdom is not of this world.'
how lacking in knowledge is this official 'erudition which has the education of contemporary
is what is working under the name of 'scientific conscientiousness' in official science.
prepared to look where things are lacking, we will not make progress. All declaiming about social
born of deep need. But without also looking, in truth, at everything that is blocking this
inner pleasure-seeking, to bow down to tradition — and if people do not want to be aware
4. 'My kingdom is not of this world' John: 18,36. Return

Title: Abbreviated Title: Lecture I:
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wanted to apply materialistic thinking consistently, he would examine the
this thinking and pointed out that what is generally called materialistic

Title: Talk To Young People:
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earthquake shaking human evolution. But people merely say, “It's the
what is living and working today in young people, more or less
are taking up —
solid realization: that an earth-shaking change
of them claim to be taking part in — but they, too, haven't had much
strongly emerges, for one thing, on looking at a beautiful landscape.
not altogether what they are looking for. They feel that they did not
you notice that I'm speaking about these matters rather indecisively.
been talking a good deal here in Arnhem about the new education and
something new or get something done, we don't fall asleep sticking to
our old habits. Let us try to divide our sleeping and waking, to keep
To put it plainly, just about everybody and his uncle are talking

Title: "Heaven and Earth will pass away but my words will not pass away"
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kingdom through the Archangeloi. The dream-conception of the Moon-man
Jupiter's animal kingdom. The concepts of earth-man develop —
body, so that in our waking life on earth we are able to perceive
awaking and falling asleep, — by these ‘contents’ we mean
And so, during waking
clear perceptions of waking life. And yet this Moon man resides in us,
on the Moon: he dreams. And because, during waking life, we do not
take notice of them. As we go through the world with our waking
equivalent to our vegetable kingdom shall come into existence,
should produce a vegetable kingdom; in the depths of their souls they
laboratories, etc., we shall find that everything is working in the
production of the equivalent of our vegetable kingdom — is
adding, upon the mineral and vegetable foundation, another kingdom, the
imaginations, foundation of an animal kingdom through the
human being of the earth himself to erect his kingdom upon Jupiter, and
significance for the various kingdoms of nature, — for instance,
no means, the same process in the human kingdom as in the animal world.
human kingdoms this abstract manner as identical, one could with equal
biologists, thinking themselves particularly advanced, say: As many
only in an unreal, dead Ahrimanic thinking. And more and more will
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Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture I: Tree of Life - I
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two aspects: that which man receives as knowledge, as inner working
natural, has made use of already existing ideas in asking itself:
ever working in a living way. Hence it could only grasp the mystery
inwardly feels the continued working of the divinity animating the
should have experienced the after-working of the dried up, fading
of the old Romans, and the Latin culture had gone on working in them,
after-working of the Latin knowledge in the European life, and that
two-fold utterance and its working in early times in the development

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture II: Tree of Life - II
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The alternation of sleeping and waking
particularly in specially clear and aware moments of waking up, can
come before his soul that at the moment of waking he, as soul-being,
from waking up to going to sleep. It will certainly have already
struck many people, in waking, that they lived during sleep in an
they were when awake. The majority of men must on awaking have said
that I cannot bring clearly enough into the waking consciousness. And
waking up to going to sleep. One was with one's whole being
completely forgotten in the moment of waking.
waking life. This fact too, of which everyone can really very easily
evolution which has entered through the partaking of the Tree of the
sleep as for waking. But this was not to happen. And thus for the
how we actually spend our life between going to sleep and waking. We
spend this life from going to sleep to awaking —
echoes to us in waking, then this weaving and living in what does not
the Jahve-Godhead that on awaking he should possess in his etheric
that on his awaking the etheric weaving and living which has been
awaking. I have already in various lectures indicated that it is
sleep to awaking, in the element of which we men are to know nothing,
But in the moment of waking, something
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Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture III: The Power of Thought
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mere sense perceptions to thinking about percepts
every moment of his waking life — does not feel
world-conception that the thought, the act of thinking, is an
actuality in our inner self as man, that we do something by thinking,
that thinking is an inner activity, an inner work.
It goes on working continually and again and again replaces what dies
externally, but we are always working upon our being through our
speaking, until our death. Thought is thus at the same time a
definite inner activity, a working on our own
consciousness arise, in our Western thinking, that thinking is
the result that man does not get a conscious feeling: thinking is
connected with inner fashioning, but feels instead that thinking is
separated. Thus in respect of thinking they evoke a feeling that it
Thus they falsify our thinking.
thinking in this manner, alter it, externalise it, who endeavour to
in thinking one must seek for the inwardly forming, shaping of the
the living element of thinking about the external. What they get hold
applying thinking to outer things. Lucifer must of course cooperate
this element of making thought human into the external form and
actively working and weaving thoughts had been gathered up and poured
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Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture IV: Harmonizing Thinking, Feeling and Willing
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Harmonizing Thinking, Feeling and Willing
way — especially in the case of Western thinking
the same time as he is conceiving and thinking, something is also
willing, and as his outer world his thinking, which leads over to
our thinking, our intellect and conceptual life, is connected with
in which we, as human beings, apprehend our thinking and conceiving
lives in our intellect and shuts us off from looking into the inner
thinking.
conceiving and thinking in the right way with human nature. This they
relate thinking to ourselves as we do now, but we should look back to
thinking wished to unite with our inner being, wanted to belong to
the moment we now pass over to thinking, we look back to the Old
instead of merely looking to Christ Jesus, a whole cosmology is
with the Mystery of Golgotha? Because it is asking too much of them
and human kingdoms, it is not possible to observe such a birth. That
breaking in pieces. And so it is with the whole of outer nature.
and spoke with us, so, on looking at the earth we should look back on
working upon another person e.g., upon Man #1 (Diagram Pg 2) and if
already in him. But that reverberates below; during the waking day
whether the working upon the medium of the living, of what lives in
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Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture V: Tree of Knowledge - I
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causality, there need be nothing lacking in the chain of cause and
thinking of the Sleeping Beauty) passes out of time and enters the
only Lucifer who bewitches us into thinking that our concept is now
if we truly grasp what I have said, we are really looking into
thinking of possessing a piece of water, flowing along in a brook.
taking the red in an object, eliminating the space-boundary and
poet produces something in such simple incidents as a boy's plucking
describes the simplest incident of the plucking of a rose. For into
Boy declared: I'm picking
Rosebud said: I'm pricking

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture VI: Tree of Knowledge - II
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adapted for making perceptions as the human being makes perceptions
just as they are during waking life; only the ego and astral body are
obvious that just the same would happen as during waking. We can
is perception of the outer world and working-over of the perception
activities. Thus the direction of the Luciferic working radiates from
leave them that man in his thinking would look back to the old
Moon-existence, and in this thinking would apprehend what the
another. Only through the working of Lucifer is it possible for us to
other side. He penetrates not only speech but thinking, and out of
questioner to a gradual working himself out of the illusions of life
oneself be held back through this from making the way into the
this circle, Lucifer and his hosts were assuredly lurking
ordinary waking state, there meet together in the periphery of his
sense-periphery, my dear friends, we come to thinking, to the
in its turn on the physical body. And this working upon the physical

Title: World Downfall and Resurrection
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of John Scotus Erigena emanate from a mode of thinking
the middle of the 4th century onwards, the thinking of men
were attributed to the Angel working within the human being. An
soul. This very fact indicates that man's whole way of looking
mode of thinking of the first centuries of Christen' dom.
now we must try to understand the kind of thinking in which such
it must be remembered that the forces working in the body of
kingdom within it, the forces of the Earth are working
colder zones. The bodily nature and the forces working in the
is done — simply by sinking plates in the Earth. The Earth
the blood, in the whole human body, were held to be workings of
were working upon the being of man, but this is not the
case. The Moon is working in the neighbourhood of the Earth. In
short, the Earth is not working alone, but together with the
forces working upon body and blood were woven into this ancient
he saw an Ideal world. He beheld the workings of certain forces
Father God had never succeeded in working alone but had been
combined with the kingdom of Nature. It was from this
Nature Gods are working in Nature but at a certain stage they
by speaking of God not as essentia but as
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Title: Lecture: Philosophy and Anthroposophy
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mystic, while seeking to grasp an outer world reaches an inner life which
consciousness as, for instance, waking from the dull dream consciousness.
with that technique of thinking which Aristotle discovered. And, in fact,
the inauguration of the technique of thinking was achieved by Aristotle in
his technique of thinking, that became the standard of the central period
what Scholasticism in its prime felt of science, the technique of thinking
certain fund of wisdom which transcends the technique of thinking; that is,
by the thinkers as revelation, and the technique of thinking merely applied
Scholastic, therefore, pronounces the technique of thinking to be suitable
special technique of thinking, as applied by the Scholastics, sprang
which was eminently saturated with Aristotelian technique of thinking. Now
still paramount in the technique of thinking, yet another reason for men to
of thinking, so that ever higher and higher portions of the supersensible
thinking should also become the victims of this breach occasioned by
the founders themselves presented in the right way. Instead of looking to
technique of thinking was felt by those who, so to speak, sought to save
opinion that this technique of thinking was powerless when faced by the
“hypocrite, sycophant, and stinking goat.” These are, indeed,
technique of thinking on the one hand, and supersensible truth on the
of thinking, was able to elaborate true concepts capable of transcending
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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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Speaking to the teachers at the first Waldorf school in Stuttgart, Steiner
your own thinking and feeling.
— and in doing so we are taking our stand on an
the proceedings and debates taking place within the body of teachers. The
people today, we must always bear in mind that we are working on the
manner of thinking and feeling peculiar to western man. We can say that if
impulse living in Fichte, Herder or Goethe when he is active or thinking in
London, Paris, New York or Chicago. Fundamentally speaking, matters have
capable of bringing their souls into the way of thinking and feeling that
who have designed our education. People accustomed to thinking
sense to thinking scientifically — this he may do as a
from life and cannot issue from abstract scientific thinking.
fulfilled its purpose, if after working for a year with this first class we
much, but a certain capacity grows in me by working with the children. From
out of an attitude proper to it): I have now learned by working with seven,

Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture II: The Three Fundamental Forces in EducatioN
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Speaking to the teachers at the first Waldorf school in Stuttgart, Steiner
thinking begins to use his memories more consciously. The thorough
forces, working earlier within the organism, are from his seventh year
the time the teeth are changing, the most active of battles is taking place
is the medium — and I am in fact working with forces
into the organism. These forces, working from the outer world through the
All of this the child is taking in unconsciously, and for this reason are
children musical to such a high degree. All of this they are taking up into
years, when that battle is still present and you are working also upon his
years. And because we know we are working into the future in this way, this
But with the other forces we are working into the future; we are combining
concert once more before waking. Indeed, you experience it still better
now, on awaking in the night after the concert; the experience is most
eurythmy. We have to talk to people as if speaking the most primitive of
working from within outward, gives the appearance of a defence.
music working in man that counteracts it. Music is the means of defence
battle is taking place more under the influence of the consciousness,
a battle taking place wholly on the surface, a battle in essence between
two forces, the one working inward from outside, the other working outward
from within. The force working outward from within actually tends to
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Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture III: Spiritual Knowledge of Man as the Fount of Educational Art
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Speaking to the teachers at the first Waldorf school in Stuttgart, Steiner
taking a lesson. If you study education as a science, consisting of all
possibility of looking very closely into this whole organic process where
teaching, between just listening and working on his own. Now supposing you
and working individually. For retention will not be good unless the will
looking at the astral body which straight away passes its vibrations onto
the etheric body, thus making the two bodies work more closely as one. Now
speaks. Nothing is arbitrary, for you would solely be making visible what
instance, actually still thought with their souls; their thinking was still
thinking into the brain, if we make invisible eurythmy visible. If we did
making themselves into organs for receiving processes from the spiritual
inner process of digestion goes on in your soul and spirit making a teacher
works in us and makes us teachers, comes into being through our working
can be thinking about something when you wake up that could have taken

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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Speaking to the teachers at the first Waldorf school in Stuttgart, Steiner
then, looking at the ensuing age, the time from the seventh to the
can, on the other hand, fall a prey to making the opposite mistake. There
Geography, then, by making him for instance grasp the differences of
Geography which requires a more geometrical kind of thinking, we will be
waking and his sleeping condition. There is a subtle difference and in
between the astral body and the etheric body. It takes place in waking man,
nitrogen, is not a chemical compound but a kind of mixture. Looking at air
process of out and in breathing. Looking at this we can positively see how
of it, taking it in, perceiving it, and so understand it and, as I
speaking, our head organisation becomes a carriage in which we ride into
has arrived in the physical world; it has ceased making the movements which
a modern physiologist because his thinking works on a different plane
stream up and pour in from the rest of the organism. In your thinking you
organism. In forming the head you will feel the head is working on you from
pupil. Such a way of looking at matters differs from the views on teaching

Title: Social Understanding: Lecture II: Social Understanding Through Spiritual Scientific Knowledge
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Speaking to the teachers at the first Waldorf school in Stuttgart, Steiner
ask. That is why so little importance is attached to making knowledge of
to remember something. Looking at memory is the best way to understand how
they despise material existence instead of understanding it and looking for
the earth are perpetually working into man. And it is our forces of will
the twenty-first year. The will working in us up till the seventh year
see spiritual-scientifically that in everything working in the child up
important changes taking place in humanity at the present time are based on
into practice to the point of making us conscious that man's whole
are still working contrary to this requirement. For instance they are proud
right way you will find an opportunity somewhere in life of making
science. It is necessary to develop a totally new way of thinking. The kind
of thinking we develop when we accustom ourselves to working with
supersensible thoughts is the kind of thinking that has an effect on our
of thinking has done more damage in the field of education than anywhere
this is particularly true where it is a of people taking an inner step into
open themseIves to the possibility of making the transition to thinking in
lacking today, to bring down to a material level what we think of on a
it is virtually a matter of aiming towards a way of thinking that really
impulse. A way of thinking based on anything else is not adequate. A

Title: Buddha and the Two Boys: Lecture I: Buddha and the Two Boys of Jesus
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individuality, similarly as in us the faculties of thinking, feeling and

Title: Buddha and the Two Boys: Lecture II: The Gospels, Buddha and the Two Boys of Jesus
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what we are looking for within the spiritual-scientific research should not
any document. Without taking into account any document, he starts his
thinking, feeling and willing, then stands, so to speak, each for itself.
that the Davidic line of kings splits into a Solomonic and a Nathanic line.
just not so. What we today call human thinking, feeling and willing was not
there was a logical thinking, if one had appealed to his conscience, to his
thinking, it would have been like speaking to a stone or to a

Title: Lecture: Art As A Bridge Between The Sensible And The Supersensible
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wrong even so to see it as a matter of looking at this alone. Well into
standpoint with regard to even the most mature way of thinking. The
nature builds up the human countenance — making every
all have the mineral kingdom. We have this mineral kingdom to a certain
— we were talking about artistic monuments
said, much of recent art is formed on the basis of this way of thinking,
hardly come to any other judgment than in asking themselves,
naturalism, but strictly speaking it is
attempted to do in various fields, making clear to ourselves what the
Yes, my dear friends, in taking counsel with oneself quite honestly, one
experience to act of themselves as necessity demanded. In speaking to one
connection. In one's presence, while speaking, people
that one would be incapable of doing something, merely because making the
beyond our immediate circle; albeit really and truly! Taking these things

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drawn from many directions, asking himself: Is it permissible
looking back into pre-historic times, if we were not able to
something would at once be lacking for us if the creative power
human beings of that earlier time it was rather that in making
from the things themselves, from making use of their sense
taking effect as an ever greater internalizing of the soul.
looking to the future. Thus, we can foresee a time in which a
Raphael, taking account of his progression, we can sense with
working in his spirit, in his order.
from what Savonarola had been capable of. Taking account of the
its isolation (joining other artists and painters working in
kingdoms of nature. With the human being we have, in spiritual
that stand in relative proximity to him in the kingdoms of
the plant or even the mineral kingdom came into being. We look
itself with the kingdoms that stand below the human being. Thus,
being, taking hold of this human soul in inner battles. Hence,
felt, we have to say to ourselves: In looking at a picture such as the
the whole Christ tragedy within itself, in speaking its words
no effort in portraying the workings of human phantasy, we can
power, in taking in Homer's “Iliad” and

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precisely because he was already working out of the depths of the spirit,
making use of powers that were only to emerge in later centuries. --
was already working out of the depths of the spirit,
making use of powers that were only to emerge in later
Goethe refers strikingly to the moment in which Christ Jesus
become world famous through reproductions. Looking further
the impression, in Leonardo a personality appeared working with
picture, in making the final brush-stroke, depart from it
wanted to create and then begin making studies. But how was it
example, draw a countenance and see what would result in making
also working out all manner of war plans and other plans, as
covered in shadow and is quite dark. Looking at how the light
sleeping and waking, human beings looked into the spiritual
in combining in a strict manner in one's thinking all that has
looking even at the statue of
Michelangelo or Leonardo, making detailed studies from an
This can even be established quite externally. Taking a look at
sees this in looking at Leonardo's further achievements. The
how he is sent for by Francis I [king of France from 1515-1547]
of taking on form by means of art, and what he had been able to
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making life inwardly into a truly ensouled fairy tale!'
generally supposed, speaking to us magically out of every epoch
One senses how impossible any other approach is in speaking out
thinking, in which a kind of pondering has taken place,
be designated the battle of the solitary soul seeking its
taking place unconsciously upon awakening. Experiencing
time, as though a shrinking back, a sense of helplessness as
a purely spiritual existence between falling asleep and waking
However, it should not be supposed that these events taking
place in the soul's depths are not there in the waking state.
course of waking consciousness as an ongoing dream-experience
soul-life of human beings has changed. Looking back far enough,
clairvoyance. In the manner of looking at the world
normal today in the waking state, we receive sense impressions
states between waking and sleeping, human beings were able to
taking place in the depths of the soul, such as those we have
accompanying it nonetheless and taking part in the various
undertaking actually to examine individual fairy tales in
A miller asserts to the king that his daughter can spin straw
the king can ascertain her art for himself. The daughter goes
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making life inwardly into a truly ensouled fairy tale!'
possibility of looking into it. This longing is expressed in
mother of humanity, searches the world, seeking for what will
looking at physical objects in our surrounding world, as with
looking for, human beings of the future will again see the

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his own “kingdom” within this German cultural
appeared to him as though it lived on. And in seeking out what
anyone not accustomed to looking up to someone as to a lordly
and complete. In taking up the works of Herman Grimm, we
lived in his soul, and how this re-constituted itself, taking
purposes. Thus, in looking back for instance to the time of
striking, what a tremendous difference there is in the Homeric
portrayal, between the humans walking around and the nature of
research describes in looking to the lofty, purely spiritual
regular periodic stages taking place ~~ brings him especially
Greeks, as though he were to say: In looking to the Greeks,
entire second millennium of western cultural development taking
of speaking the spiritual constituents that become explicable
with the forces of thinking, feeling and willing. Initial signs
personal element. And in speaking the following heartfelt
working. All this is as though cast from the same mould.
which the world of old prejudices and rankings encounters the
that can only come into play in working over from earlier
describe this in speaking theoretically of “forces”
taking account of how the secrets of death, of the realm
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complete truth — that in America they are thinking of declaring
ruler or king and so forth no longer express the feelings about the
consistency, for the way of thinking was so different then from what
consideration. That a king has real divine power and dignity is
back to the oldest form of imperialism, we find it based on the king
priestly, where the priests were kings; on the other hand the
year 1806, but more as a shadow, retained in kings and paladins as
to crown them. Istwan I was also crowned king of Hungary by the Pope
were symbols for an inspirational kingdom of heaven.
the west that the Anglo-American people lived, the king, who earlier
The English speaking peoples bring other
king at the top. Naturally a person whose head has been cut off
imperialistic, without having a king. It has to do with the mood of
But the English-speaking peoples
during the first imperialism the kings, in the second imperialism the
earthly reality; the priest-king came from the mysteries. The second
Only then can there be a kingdom of Christ
on earth. For in that empire a reality must exist: “My kingdom
is not of this world.” In the kingdom of this world, in which
the kingdom of Christ will propagate, there will exist much that has
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be especially possible if all English-speaking peoples realize that
so radically, as they can be seen through by the English-speaking
societies which possess great power in the English-speaking
platitudes, so that we have, especially in the English-speaking areas
first in the English- speaking world, then in the rest of the world,
far east as they would go when they became the apostolic kings of
far. One doesn't advance today with small thinking. It is necessary

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write in: “The king's will is sublime law” — what
completely lost: that the spiritual kingdom shines through into the
physical kingdom. And then one arrives at such definitions as I
common: “The tree is green.” This is a manner of speaking
of human thinking and feeling will have to take place within the
influence of the thinking characteristic of the second stage this is
arises, when we realize that we are living in the kingdom of
for a knowledge of the spirit, one which speaks of an invisible kingdom,
a kingdom which is not of this world in which the Christ-impulse can
Apostolic King of Hungary, King of Bohemia, Dalmatia, Croatia,
titles was also “King of Jerusalem!” The Austrian Emperor
also carried, until he was no longer emperor, the title “King
real thinking again when the inner soul-life is filled with substance
were seeking mystical spirituality turned to those whom they had
the seriousness of life. We avoid looking at the truth inherent in
himself a Christian who has not grasped the saying: “My kingdom
This means that the kingdom of
Christ must become an invisible kingdom, a truly invisible empire, an

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inorganic nature you necessarily come to linking thoughts, to a
certain field of thought, which means the sum of linking
regards under such an idea as the expansion of thinking. A
looking for hypothetical, assumed reasons for explanations.
science was the following: The methodical, the way of thinking
developed, here the mathematical way of thinking forms a
while X is the cause under the influence of the working called
concepts, and he prized this way of thinking, which lives
understand this way of thinking at all, and finally the
of thinking as had been proven so fruitful for inorganic
different sides may appear taking on this or that, adapting
was looking for an actual plant to fit his Ur-plant. This is
not correct — just as when a mathematician, when speaking
symbol, for instance by taking the W and search for its
persist. When one moves from the mineral to the plant kingdom
mathematical thinking. It is quite understandable that Du
thinking constructing single phenomena into a whole, as far as
phenomena with the mathematical-causal way of thinking, or
totality of material phenomena, which we are looking at in a

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metamorphosis, then one has to, if you are looking for
looking at their sensory life.
twelve human senses. Now, we are only talking about human
walking and standing. This reflects in later life and becomes
created an organ for abstract thinking.
qualify. We are looking for such tools and experimental methods

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involvement they were looking for with philosophy was quite a
is essentially as follows. Looking at the time of German
in the rising scientific world view sees what should be taking
unique way by thinking of the world-all as totally mechanical,
expression — according to the plan of thinking. For him
level of thinking, that he wanted to understand the experience
of the inner power, the inner liveliness of thinking, but he
thinking is directly thought of. Whoever goes along with it
European-eastern way of thinking, which is of course not
Here we see how actually this method of thinking, found mostly
was seeking, could so to speak be illustrated. In comparison,
necessity to cling to observation, experiment and a thinking
followed the pattern of the Western scientific way of thinking.
thinking in physics in contrast to them taking shelter under
obtain a biology more appropriate to modern thinking than to
thinking. For example, that a thought, a lively thought, can
thinking was flooded by western thinking.
thinking can be. Anthroposophists resent it when this
scientific way of thinking is cared for with as much love as
said by me in opposition to scientific thinking; if someone
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other, without looking for any exchange taking place between
taking up a power which is as part of him or her, as growth
faithful continuator of the justifiable scientific thinking of
mind, but it comes down to the teachers working through
way into education, even working through unfavourable
thinking, which first needs to be experienced through others,
child finds its way into speaking, with inner pleasure and
Working from an artistic basis results in the child handling

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it in a utopian sense by asking: How will this be, how will
in some or other way arrive at speaking about problems
because it indicates the forces working among us which have in
these old cultures, that factual thinking, in the sense as it
place of today's scientific thinking then you will know that
first of all, out of this thinking the economic life could not
first become independent of human thinking, developed
thinking, and finally, what we have introduced into it which
synthesis between economic thinking — which has gradually been
the so-called social-political in economic law-making. This
expression in economic law-making; people now had, by taking
abstract thinking that one also takes this suggestion only from
the point of view of abstract thinking, which I'm only using as
time I had met as his real being, then I'll be making a
it is the way people are thinking along economic routes. They
these things. I always had to stress: I'm talking about social
method of social thinking in a realistic way, perhaps exactly

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program item of the course) by thinking that what we were
remain thoroughly neutral in its working sphere, I'd like to
its own working methods. On the one hand it wants to take into
account what can be achieved in modern thinking and research
working scientifically. This then holds true for all
immobilised in simple passive thinking, but that this thinking
thinking makes a person more free.
large audience, because you avoid actually talking in the way
impediment, taking part practically in the most important
Christ is searched for in this way, a person — by looking
Golgotha happened on earth — can see Christ walking; he
making the Waldorf School a school which will splice

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means that through a person speaking, something is unfolding
consciousness, also when one is speaking. I would like to
express them in three words — we're talking about
himself in speaking and speech.
unconscious substance which in speaking only partly comes to
power. If we go back up to the time we are talking about, one
experience. If today you hear someone speaking in Sanskrit or
speech, you are only looking at speech in an outer way, and you
down to Anthroposophy sticking its nose into everything, only

Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 1
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honest seeking. For all this can only constitute a basis for
Begat this ghost within your thinking;
Begat this ghost within your thinking;
the spirit, it resorts to mocking spiritual knowledge.
third beast is lazy thinking, the kind of thinking that would
the world's phenomena with passive thinking. Man is too lazy
and comfortable to activate his thinking. Humanity's thinking
cannot. And existence cannot be comprehended by thinking with
thinking if we want to grasp the spirit.
thinking and we want to activate thinking, if we do not wish to
Begat this ghost within your thinking;
the Threshold, what is necessary in feeling, willing, thinking

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Then do you turn your anxious seeking soul
sensation that by looking out into the external world we gain
such insight were provided to everyone walking down the street
Mightily working, in the cosmic ether,
that this looking back, the perception in looking back,
knowledge which reveals the contamination in our own thinking,
Begat this ghost within your thinking;
thinking. When we create with ordinary consciousness we create
correctly prepare ourselves for creative thinking, the
spiritual world streams into our creative thinking. And then,
our thinking, feeling and willing in order for the three beasts
to be defeated: thinking, the thought - phantom; feeling -
from real knowledge, firstly in our thinking. Normal human
thinking is reflected in the thought-phantom of the first
is the image of ordinary human thinking which thinks about
thinking is a corpse. Where did the being live whose corpse
this ordinary thinking is?
contemporary civilization - when thinking from waking in the
us in school and in life itself, our thinking is a corpse. It
human figure. You must imagine this related to thinking. A
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which one will actually take when seeking access to the
leads to the spiritual world, and provided the thinking is not
thinking, your feeling, your willing are held together by the
physical body. You are a threefold human being: a thinking,
immediately becomes a triple being. His thinking goes its own
thinking flies out into distant space and that his feeling goes
his feeling does not stay with him. Thinking at least goes out
Begat this ghost within your thinking;
this threefold splitting in which one's thinking goes its way,
Of thinking, that denies itself
Forsaking the spirit-force
The second beast's mocking countenance
our gaze within in order to be alert to what our thinking
that they instruct us what should enter into our thinking,
in our thinking to accept the challenge with our selfhood which
Just as through the first mantric verse we enter thinking, we
enter the inner world of thinking through the second.
aside thinking and try to observe your own feelings. In
thinking everything is semblance. But when we descend into
First of all, selfhood had to “revere” by sinking
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of the gods with all your thinking, all your feeling, all your
speak to you, appealing to your thinking, feeling, willing, and
different relationship of thinking, feeling and willing in us
everyday consciousness, thinking, feeling and willing are bound
closely bound together thinking, feeling and willing are in
possible to separate thinking from feeling in the artistic
esoteric is said, it must be possible to separate thinking from
we do not understand them if we do not use pure thinking to do
engendered through thinking. Such feelings should be developed
from thinking.
from out of the esoteric, he is speaking from the godly sphere
which pertains to thinking, can by grasped only when we feel
thinking:
able to withstand the separation of thinking, feeling and
thinking, feeling and willing together for everyday
the conception of my thinking also arose. If the tree didn't
exist, I would not be thinking today. My hand is only necessary
order that I can be a thinking being. Why should the hand be
in a field looking up at a star-bedecked sky. It becomes
heights are speaking. And just as we can grow in love together
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constitutes man's inner self - thinking, feeling, willing -
became clear to us how in a certain respect thinking, feeling
the spiritual world, in a certain sense thinking, feeling and
evening. Thinking, however, is the force which relates upwards
thinking the higher powers.
in the plant, mineral, animal kingdoms, to which we have access
to human beings. So here we stand, apart, looking inwards at
our thinking, feeling and willing, aware that our thinking,
materialistic age we have even ceased asking humans, because
also when looking into the inner human we see what for normal
consciousness is passive thinking, with which we can indeed
own thinking, that every thought is captured light - both for
thinking is in your head. Think that your willing is none other
than the moving, living, active air element working within.
thinking that you are, if you do not begin to experience the
fact that when you are thinking you are living in the entire
say to himself: If in my thinking I merge completely with the
I merge with the light in my thinking, light-beings grasp hold
thinking, make him one with the light, rend him from all the
aware of the true nature of thinking. Therefore we should
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gets to know the world by observing the kingdoms of nature
which are external to his own being - the animal kingdom, the
vegetable kingdom and the mineral kingdom. These relations
what is revealed between the things. We see the three kingdoms
friends, behind the kingdoms of nature we have what is called
them as we speak of the other beings of the nature-kingdoms,
vegetable kingdom. There is something in you that is as sleepy
toward the kingdoms of nature when we feel that we belong to
them as well. We feel the inner relationship to these kingdoms
look out at the animal kingdom. We observe the indolent animals
because we stand alone and the kingdoms of nature are beyond
can see how in reality all thinking - this is unknown to people
- is nothing other than a refined breathing. Thinking is
breath circulating there is known as thinking in the physical
world; sublimated breathing is thinking.
in this abstract thinking existing as a kind of tenuous
which we designate as thinking.
thinking. When breathing, completely refined, strikes the sense
refined-to-thinking breathing process is like an organized
rapid speaking ...] a mineralization process. One
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taking the School seriously must lead to the cancellation of
Generally speaking, it is not difficult for a person to leave
being which expresses itself psychically in thinking, feeling
and willing. In reality they are three humans: the thinking
naively appears physically to be.) In looking up you must
and other earthly forces. In our thinking - which as earthly
thinking is only capable of understanding the earthly - we must
verse is spoken while making the sign before the head:
speaks the verse while making the sign before the breast:
speaks the verse while making the sign pointing downward:
the sensory world we think that the site of thinking and mental
But this thinking in the head is always mixed a little bit with
the sensory world the whole extent of thinking and a small
reverse: a small amount of thinking and much widespread willing
know that when thinking is not considered as a function of the
that thinking does not belong to an individual, but to the
Thinking's germinal-waking cosmic-life.
thinking as feeling in respect to cosmic being, when you
thinking to be concentrated in the head, here [in the first
thinking is brought directly into connection with the limbs,
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questions about any field of life posed by honestly seeking
wish to begin today's lesson - without you taking notes, only
listening at first - by speaking the mantric formula which
world, in the kingdoms of nature, see the colors and the
star, cloud on cloud, creatures of the kingdoms of nature which
that he will realize: In this light-filled kingdom of earth the
soul-life, thinking, feeling and willing, here is this
earth-life are held together by our physical bodies. Thinking,
this. Feeling (green) extends into thinking (yellow); willing
following [drawing again]: thinking (yellow) is freed,
physical body had held thinking, feeling and willing together,
soon as we leave our physical bodies with our thinking, we
perceive this thinking as one with all that is manifested in
instrument of our thinking. But now we begin to feel the stars,
the other planets. Between what we experience as thinking in
What must be perfectly clear however, is that our thinking, our
thinking.
Dear friends, dear sisters and brothers, this thinking which
before we descended to this physical world a living thinking
earthly corpse-thinking. From it spring forth - but dead - the
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First - without taking notes - let us be reminded of the
my warmth; one must say: I enlighten myself by thinking through
man, see yourself in the kingdom of elements.
holds thinking, feeling and willing together through its own
experiencing, thinking, feeling and willing are no longer one,
thinking and separated from willing.
if we are able to grasp thinking in such a way that thoughts
are freed from physical existence, it is as though our thinking
the threshold: my thinking rests in the resting stars; my
unites with the earth forces. So thinking, feeling, willing are
not need to bind thinking, feeling and willing together,
unity. Thinking, feeling and willing would be constantly
other side of the threshold, they are divided so that thinking
doing this we must experience thinking, feeling and willing in
such a way that we can communicate to thinking, which has gone
thinking and willing; to willing, which is bound to the earth,
something of thinking and feeling. This something we indeed can
there is where your thinking lies. But I will bring the starry
incorporated feeling and willing into thinking, which is bound
system. Then I have assigned thinking and willing to
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within — if only by means of thinking — and become
to the mineral, vegetable and animal kingdoms around us. And
gawking, but of reading. And what we read are the spiritual
to imagine that someone is speaking to you from a spiritual
depth, as though you were not thinking it, but as though you
were hearing it, as if another being were speaking. You really
imagine that another being is speaking to you from an unknown
which you are doing. As though someone were speaking to you from
current streams through our thinking, feeling and willing. And
leave the physical body behind with our thinking, this magical
thinking which we experience through the gravity of our soul's
given here without first asking permission. Only with

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active. We notice that when the head is ailing, thinking is
about this; we are only taking into account what is visible
activity on earth: our thinking. And so we must imagine:
The angel answers, looking upward to the source of the trumpet
The Angelos replies, speaking to the gods in the circling
world is speaking” as we can say “We are
speaking”. This gradually enhances the character of the
walls. It is all becoming clear for the soul's senses, making

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this working and weaving.
the point where you can sense the speaking, that you sense the
you are speaking. Try to sense the speaking in your organism,
something, due to someone talking to me or some other event
Well, if you have learned to sense speaking, then you will
easily be able to sense the thinking which is directly induced
sense than speaking, but it can be sensed. And you can learn to
sense, to feel thinking by sensing speech.
thinking. Then you will be able to touch, touch internally that
profile]. When speaking is sensed so that it must be moved here
[red], you will sense thinking here above
[green]. That is, the sense of thinking is moved
speaking, but where we inwardly meditate hearing. We imagine
Listen to the field of thinking.
of thinking through a spiritually cosmic experience.
That is the Guardian speaking.
Behold the forces working in your thinking.
apprehend thinking; we do not sense it, we do not feel it. The
admonishes us: “Behold the forces working in your
thinking.”
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souls how by concentrating on the field of thinking we could
Not meant is our everyday thinking, but
the thinking which acts behind that everyday thinking, which
thinking.”
thinking can be perceived in the human organism itself
loud, we feel the speaking within and we can designate the
place where we feel the speaking within us. Then we have a
And over the speaking, more toward the
rear of the head, we can find the inner thinking through
which we can discover the Angeloi; in the speaking itself the
Archangeloi; and in remembrance, under the speaking, the
speaking:
Perceive the field of thinking:
Behold the forces working in your thinking.
– the cosmic distances speaking to us, the
Guardian of the Threshold speaking to us, the ranks of the
hierarchies speaking to us, if we can vividly imagine it as
come to sense the thinking above the place of speech in the
Cosmic being in spirit kingdoms:
Imagine yourself walking, and perhaps moving your
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normal human waking life.
Thus the person realizes that before he enters the kingdom of
from the physical, when one — symbolically speaking —
impure willing, feeling and thinking — that they first
willing, feeling and thinking appear in three animals —
Then the Guardian of the Threshold shows us how thinking, feeling
we associate with the beings of the three nature kingdoms and
that when we cross over with separated thinking, feeling and
are still present in this thinking, feeling and willing.
paralyzed, though otherwise in a fully waking state, has been
One gets to know this way of speaking in all its intensity, my
ourselves speaking the words after the Guardian has been

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kingdoms of nature, much of what is derived from them being
be found in all the kingdoms of nature; that it cannot be
asking. This answer, which the cosmic-powers themselves
abyss, warning us with his right hand extended, asking us
the higher spiritual beings as we do about the three kingdoms
outside of us the essence of stone, of the mineral kingdom,
standing among the three kingdoms of nature. We must also
kingdoms of nature. Just as we must learn to be physical
we have learned to know the beings within the three kingdoms
of nature. We belong to the three kingdoms of nature with our
etheric-physical nature. We belong to the three kingdoms of
three kingdoms of nature and to let them flow through us, to
kingdoms of nature.
Feel! as we feel in your thinking.
in our thinking; it is their feeling. They bring it to our
consciousness. And just as the Angeloi feel in our thinking,
something. Human thinking, human feeling, human willing, are
not mere processes in humanity. While we are thinking, the
Feel! as we feel in your thinking.
solidity the way minerals do. In our thinking we would not
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existence speaking to us.
belonging to the kingdoms of nature. We observe the glorious
over the abyss, for with our thinking, feeling and willing
Feel as we feel in your thinking.
Will the spirit's cosmic working in the
passed through the gate of death, looking back at our earthly
situation: the speaking Guardian of the Threshold — his
Guardian of the Threshold seeking help. It is a unique
experience: not yet light, but the light is making itself

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We saw how the Guardian then speaks to the I, asking three
— looking up from the earth
as it appears in memory, looking from behind, then the rainbow
colors, taking them into their own being.
resurrecting world comes into existence through the workings of
Thus we hear them speaking, not to us; we are witnesses to a
meditation that we hear the beings of the hierarchies speaking to
with the spirit's eye something else taking place. We have
Feel our cosmic working:
When we create thinking;
Feel our cosmic working:
When we create thinking;
Feel our cosmic working:
When we create thinking;

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Feel our world working:
When, thinking, we create.
Something. And we call the Nothings the kingdoms of nature. That
deeply, deeply: We now know that we have gone from the kingdom of
illusions to the kingdom of truth. Earnestness, holy earnestness
is silent. Now we are witnesses to the gods speaking to each
beings in their thinking.
That we may illuminate their thinking.
Angeloi receive enlightens, without our knowing, human thinking.
Now we realize what acts and weaves in human thinking: the
That we may illuminate their thinking.
human thinking. And we feel: everything in the compass of cosmic
kingdoms here in earth.
That we may illuminate their thinking.
person from olden times. When he was not working, and was resting
was thinking back, pictures arose which he experienced in his
Bearing with me thinking's legacy,

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hear them speaking in harmony as a chorus.
Feel our world working:
When, thinking, we create.
When human words resound, then human thinking
resounds, then cosmic thinking speaks through the spirit's
hierarchies. They form and shape everything in the kingdoms
Thinking soul-forming at work:
Thinking soul-forming at work:
Thinking soul-forming at work:
word-created cosmic thoughts. It is not mere thinking, it
is not mere speaking, it is force, forces streaming in the
Cosmic-Word, cosmic-thinking, cosmic-body; the
speaking, thinking cosmic-body is what the Guardian's third
Thinking soul-forming at work:
this in the spiritual world. We should always keep looking

Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XX (recapitulation)
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anthroposophy before the world with all his thinking, feeling
you — I'm speaking now to those of you who are here for
middle and below. Let us look at the mute kingdom of minerals,
at the sprouting plant kingdom, at the mobile animal kingdom,
at the thinking kingdom of humanity on earth; let us direct our
seeking, my dear sisters and brothers, you will be rewarded to
grows and exists and lives around us in the kingdoms of nature.
phenomena and instead seeking an abstractly chaotic path; but
cloud formation taking shape, it becomes human-like, not
in its threefold character of willing, feeling and thinking. We
force of healing: human willing, human feeling, human thinking.
feeling, thinking in their true form — the Guardian
Begat this ghost within your thinking;

Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXI (recapitulation)
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We heard him speaking: for everything spoken here resounds from
feeling, our thinking appear before the countenance of the gods
thinking is not yet human; it is still animal-like. There the
beast emerge, which represents thinking.
Mockingly it lies with warped countenance,
Begot this ghost within your thinking;
mockingly it lies with a warped countenance,
Begot this ghost within your thinking;
our thinking; about the second beast, which is interwoven with
earthly thinking.
this thinking by which we acquire the things and events of the
unreal. What is then this thinking?
must place what this thinking really is before our souls in
the thinking that we have between birth and death is the corpse
of the living thinking we had before descending into earthly
Only, my dear sisters and brothers, when we feel our thinking
true thinking, the dead afterimage of which lives and pulses
long as we consider thinking as something living, we are not
coffin of dead thinking, and we feel it deeply, are we
when we turn from thinking and observe our feeling, then we
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Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXII (recapitulation)
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true bridge to what the human being needs for his thinking, for
his willing, for his working in the world if he wishes to be
willing, feeling, thinking — appear to the eyes of the
thinking, feeling and willing, he shows us — in the
down into our thinking, but that this thinking is of a seeming
[While speaking the trochaic rhythm symbols
correctly in our souls. Only when this speaking down to us by
[while speaking, the iambic rhythm symbols
[While speaking the spondaic symbols ( — — ) are placed over the
speak to our thinking so that it integrates itself in the
grace, speaking about humanity's true wisdom.
The Guardian instructs us on Willing, Feeling, Thinking:
must look above if our thinking wants to unite itself with the
because he wants to instruct us about thinking, feeling and
In that realm, where your thinking
now we must again consider, looking back at earthly life

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of all the kingdoms of nature and all the kingdoms of spirit to
thinking as they appear before the visage of the spiritual
above, where a battle is taking place between the light and the
dark powers in the realm from which the force of our thinking
the right way, by seeking knowledge, the origins of our
thinking, the force of our thinking in our humanity — to
look up to that realm from which our thinking comes, where
the light which wants to guide thinking along the right track,
and the powers of darkness, who want to divert thinking from
thinking is rooted above. We must know it to be so rooted if we
selfhood and find the equilibrium for our thinking between
the warmth of soul are working all the luciferic powers, the
unfree and lacking independence if they were to catch us.
there we are at the yawning abyss of being, still looking, as
behind us the gleaming colorful kingdoms of nature, to which we
In that realm, where your thinking
In that realm where your thinking
O man, observe yourself in the elemental kingdom.
O man, observe yourself in the elemental kingdom.
powers. Then he lives with his soul in the spiritual kingdom of
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Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXIV (recapitulation)
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enough, from all the kingdoms of nature and the hierarchies of
what the true shape of our willing, feeling and thinking is
feeling and thinking. It must be a shattering experience for us
however, how our thinking, as we use it in normal life, is the
corpse of the living thinking which was in us before we
thinking, which lies in the coffin as a corpse. But we use this
corpse for our usual abstract thinking between birth and
Once we grasp how dead this thinking is, we can learn from the
our thinking when we become aware of its deadness, and realize
that it is the corpse of the living thinking that was in us
gradually find the transition to living thinking, we should
our thinking — when we look up to the cosmic thinking in
which our earthly-physical thinking is rooted — between
from this apparent thinking, from this dead thinking
into the living essence of thinking. For this we must be
When you enter the spiritual world with your thinking, you may
flying for your thinking when you are in the spiritual world.
strength to grasp thinking in a way that it can serve you in
Guardian of the Threshold therefore teaches us about thinking
realize that our thinking is at first animal-like. We must
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Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXV (recapitulation)
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him from all the kingdoms of nature and from all the spiritual
thinking, we grasp the world feeling, we act in the world by
willing. But thinking, feeling and willing are interwoven in
thinking, feeling, willing — is closely related to our
world. We are at one in thinking, feeling and willing.
illusion of thoughts as in ordinary thinking.
ourselves: There is our flowing, living thinking. It doesn't
thought, all our thinking, is there as the first brightness
thinking merges with willing? The thought — of what is
will be — in thinking, feeling and willing — no
universe, we are Three: our thinking merges with light across
thinking: All our senses and thoughts are distributed over the
(thinking, feeling, willing; man is split in three)
Look: thinking, the spirit's head, becomes the will; feeling
remains feeling, but rays out to thinking on one side and
will's thinking, your thinking's will, the awakening seed of
Will's thinking, thinking's will.
Will's thinking, thinking's will.
think that — the will's thinking, the thinking's will
beside ourselves. Then the will's thinking becomes the thinking
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Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXVI (recapitulation)
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asking the will of Michael, which since the last third of the
kingdoms, what sparkles down from the stars, what acts into our
not come walking with earthly feet, where one flies with the
been looking at what appeared to you as black, night-cloaked
his thinking through the impulse of the head.
is like looking into a dark cell, for you do not see the
thinking over there in the sensory world is mere seeming, mere
earthly thinking is the corpse - as we have heard in previous
lessons - of a living thinking in which we were immersed in the
There thinking lived! Now thinking rests as dead
thinking, as seeming thinking in the coffin of our bodies. And
all the thinking we use in the sensory world is dead thinking.
what has this thinking accomplished? It has created everything
which rests within as thinking's support, has been created by
living thinking. [The interior of the head, yellow, is drawn on
the blackboard.] It is living thinking that creates the support
for our earthly semblance of thinking.
brothers, observe the semblance of thinking in the dark cell,
then you will find in what is felt above as thinking [drawing:
thinking, so that each thought is streamed through with will.
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Title: The Social Question: Lecture I: The True Form of the Social Question
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something which thinking humanity has been occupied with for
balance in the disharmony which has entered in such a shocking
of all of this, a thinking person viewing life at present, who
looking at the spiritual efforts, at literature and anything
not lie in what they are talking about, but it lies in their
to today you have quite powerful evolutionary processes taking
Proletarianism penetrated into modern thinking, into modern
is wrongly given by modern thinking. This narrow minded, modern
thinking which needs to place the third independent member into
necessity to renew thinking, the necessity to not only develop
recreate a science, a new way of thinking which will become a

Title: The Social Question: Lecture II: Comparisons at Solving the Social Question based on Life's Realities
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operative systems working side by side in the human form. These
evolution of knowledge. This means however that our thinking
human thinking, human feeling to learn through observation of
learning and education, in relation to their gifts in thinking.
This can be made clear by taking extreme examples.
making bananas into consumables for the community with the work
of making wheat into a consumable product in the vicinity of
belief that modern technology and ancient thinking habits in
working together. The health of the social organism depends on
from the right towards law breaking, or towards the private
thinking can move in the search for solutions of the social
broken out like a plague, an illness attacking an organism
to thirty years in the civilized world. I'm not talking about a
members working outwardly in such a way to create an ensuing
independent state with threefold representatives working

Title: The Social Question: Lecture III: Fanaticism Versus a Real Conception of Life in Social Thinking and Willing
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Thinking and Willing.
Thinking and Willing.”
thinking and willing. One could say an abyss exists between
according to middle class thinking circles. Reports on the
One could say tightly meshed thinking characterises modern
humanity. This narrow thinking breaks in everywhere where one
wants to enter into real life, this very thinking has
result is that this kind of thinking becomes transformed into
able to lead into the future. Everywhere this thinking breaks
has thinking processes grown out of these facts. It is obvious
thoughtful and scientific knowledge seeking inner life like
inwardly find a distinguished manner of thinking, be it in a
goods, credit systems, banking and stock exchange systems. We
from quoting or making statements about personalities who in
importance is on the How, the Manner and Way in which thinking
thinking adhered to abstraction, totally strange in life where
thinking which I believe has been represented through many
thinks, the way one experiences it, is within thinking, it
acknowledge it not merely by thinking about it but living into
grotesque by working around it from other sides. One could then
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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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The Evolution of Social Thinking and Willing and Life's
“The Evolution of Social Thinking and Willing and Life's
thinking and social will have been adapting in the course of
thinking and social willing. As a result, the continuation of
usually does, by taking history as a straight line and
community. At that time, in the place of instinctive thinking
the taking up of the social impulse out of the instinctive and
indicating two diverging movements of social thinking and
thinking earned quite a particular form as a result, in these
entire thinking and feeling unfolded in such a way that it was
of social thinking and feeling of leading bourgeois and
particular relationship, to focus on really making the social
of the social organism depends on not making a chaotic jumble
exploring certain sides of human thinking, you can feel what I
— formed out of ways of thinking, habits of thinking. It
is not my purpose to present the social thinking of the newer
of thinking, ways of presenting the interweaving of economic
thinking had the intention of organizing economic life out of
opposition against the physiocratic thinking. It was developing
themselves independently because they are working side by side
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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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other side, having something sneaking into this social will,
taking abstractions drawn from outer life and forming something
Ages don't rule our current thinking as such, but it appears to
start of our more recent times, the bourgeois working class has
important trust. You see, we are talking about the Proletarian
believed they could bring the Proletarian will and thinking
development, the newer scientific way of thinking has grown
science but the newer scientific way of thinking — in
scientific way of thinking no longer involves the same
scientific way of thinking. The old-world view was capable of
way of thinking. Obviously through a historic necessity, which
towards the newer scientific way of thinking instead of
way of thinking.
thinking to their beliefs and to their concept of life; they
thinking still has been extensively accepted in middle-class
itself, was basically only a product of thinking in the last
psychological orientated circles still see that, but taking the
recent times, people are gradually not thinking like this anymore.
middle-class viewpoint and way of thinking.
us now examine what the actual laws represent. I'm not thinking
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Title: The Social Question: Lecture VI: What Significance does Work have for the Modern Proletarian?
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trade unions the modern working community within the economic
taking responsibility for world historical events. Capitalism,
administration and making of laws for the political state, a
speaking of true progress within the Proletarian world view,
from thinking-habits in this sphere, more than elsewhere, that
of this now, while we are speaking about these things in the
basically taking the most important spiritual areas of life and
You only need to think of taking the German history
talents, taking the lead in some or other venture. Just as he
beside the working hours there is included, within this
working wages and the nature of goods, this relationship
didn't get to understand the Proletarians through thinking
Just ask for once how many of those you blame for sticking one
association for the working class as they would not have
only manageable through the connection to the ancient thinking
bourgeois science out of their thinking and not to meet some or
details of every word. I am taking into consideration your free

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speaking of Richard Wagner, I certainly do not mean to imply
definite ideas. Whether or not one is justified in speaking of it, is
are talking about, speak of music. The ‘Music of the Spheres’
deeper than the outer eye can perceive are working between one
when the air was becoming pure and clear and waking consciousness
who is working from spiritual worlds, for the position of an Initiate
word is brought forth to-day by the waves of air working through the

Title: Lecture: Spiritual Wisdom in the Early Christian Centuries
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the impulses living in Plato and Aristotle were working on and of
thinking are making their appearance. In Plato's time, thoughts
sixty heavenly Powers are working and weaving therein, sending forth
abstraction, albeit working on in the guise of revelation, took its
of Iamblichus of the spiritual forces working down into every animal

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here were taking a far worse course than has actually been
when one is intensely engaged in purely logical thinking. But
dear friends, this is a third awaking or, at least, a third
through the external nature, there is an awaking at a higher
awaking.
Anthroposophy, which may be called the awaking of the human
dear friends, the power needed for this awaking can be created
that, through the whole process of taking in Anthroposophical
speaking, our sentiments, our thinking, our impulses of will,
hovering above us were looking down upon us and listening to us
somewhat further. This awaking is an awaking in unfolding and
other and that, out of their awaking, communities result. For a
into such a channel that only by speaking Anthroposophically
taking into itself the foundations which have existed since

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his waking consciousness of day, when he is together with other
organism should cause him to introduce into the waking
possibility of speaking of the physical body, ether body,
astral body, and ego. There follows the possibility of speaking
thinking and your feeling. Just as the dreamer must enter
some. But, when the Society makes the transition of taking
accordance with the most modern human thinking and feeling
noticed that the representative of Anthroposophy was speaking,
but might have supposed him to be anyone speaking on pedagogy,
be otherwise than by seeking to bring about a living
Anthroposophy itself. In this, likewise, much is lacking. If no

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 1: Evolution and Consciousness, Lucifer, Ahriman
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said to be taking its normal course. Spiritual science
before. Thinking of this you will want to be aware of the
intellectual thinking has developed since the middle of
lived when the emphasis is on intellectual thinking. They
people have always been thinking like this. That is not
people were thinking in a different way. They simply did
Their thinking was very much more vivid and concrete,
the source from which this way of thinking, the
this way of thinking, this intellectualism. Another
remains of the human activity out of which our thinking
our thinking. Reminders, echoes of thinking, of an
activity similar to our thinking are experienced in our
between the world of thoughts we evolve between waking up
waking hours come to resemble the mental activity we know
in our dreams today. Present-day thinking is the fruit of
soul activity we know as thinking. I would say that when
dreamy in his thinking, if I may put it like this, did
dreams what we develop in our way when we are thinking,
thinking. Our human ancestor did have the feeling that
thinking. This ancestor said — and I must translate
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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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by taking this state of mind and spirit as our basis. To
thinking, thinking as we know it, in a different way.
This type of thinking did not fully emerge until the 15th
of thinking as we know it today only developed in very
thinking as the soul itself became inwardly active. But
Asian peoples got more into the habit of thinking with
their souls; the Europeans got into the habit of thinking
say to yourselves: Asians are thinking more with their
came to thinking; they merely carried their bodies with
were basing their thinking more and more on the physical
thoroughly European in their way of thinking, people for
whom the physical body is the instrument of thinking,
making more enemies — for the gravity of the
thinking, but then this body gradually began to die.
Looking
thoughts and yet, whilst speaking in quite abstract
in Central Europe today walking over the graves of
what Herder, Goethe and others have been working towards.
came to be widely known particularly in French-speaking
rumour. I am taking note of this.’ And so on.
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 3: Political Empires
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which we must base our actions more real. I am looking
Looking at
striking characteristic of social life in the civilized
fundamentally speaking it is only now, in quite recent
English-speaking peoples has come about — I have
thinking that has become customary in Western Europe and
this more or less as follows: I am talking to someone who
times of which I have been speaking that would have been
something was speaking to them that had been made to come
later to become the kingdom of Egypt quite naturally
earth, not only ordinary human individuals were walking
the words modern rulers write in albums: The king's
ruler was the god. This way of looking at it was still
the ruler was a divine spirit walking on earth. At the
way of thinking when those words were symbols of
were looking for something that appeared in human form,
walking among human beings. It is not that human beings
earliest times to say: The kingdom of the divine is at
be told: ‘The Kingdom of the gods cometh not with
general way of thinking; yet if anyone were to say the
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 4: Western Secret Societies, Jesuitism, Leninism
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roots mainly among the English-speaking peoples and is
Ages. That was a great and significant way of thinking,
that assumes authority by simply taking a strong line
— and we are still thinking in terms of major
clearly understand — making it the centre of both
within the animal kingdom — I have often stressed
of this kind that exists within the whole animal kingdom,
and imagine ahrimanic powers taking this up and making it
involves the whole of our life, taking note how much
long run also come up in spiritual science working
against spiritual science working towards anthroposophy,
that go on today. The cultural movement I am speaking of
present life on earth. When we are thinking here and now,
your faculty of thought. What you are thinking now, those
thinking, the existence we had before birth influences
when I am thinking.
always need to assume that they are speaking to people
science working towards anthroposophy. What they are most
all the efforts we go to in spiritual science working
teacher, shaking in his boots if I may put it like that,
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 5: How the Material Can Be Understood Only through the Spirit
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example of this. The materialistic way of thinking has in
cause real havoc in our thinking processes. It certainly
does. Our thinking is utterly ruined because it has been
dinned into us and we have become used to thinking that
thinking. How can our thinking grow purposeful in social
thinking only starts when you enter into concrete events,
when you come to realize that looking at the human head
you are looking at the transformed body of your previous
talk about setting up adult education thinking that the
would be taking the easy way simply to teach
general way of looking at it. Let me go on to something
today. Authoritarian thinking and belief in authority
thinking that can also apply to social life. People of
succeeded in letting their thinking escape from the
thinking to the extent that it will be possible to think
thinking that puts the human brain side by side with the
comparable to the waking state for the earth and winter
effort for anyone whose thinking is in a strait-jacket to
round. Anyone speaking in materialistic terms and saying
economic life is the basis for progress is not speaking
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 6: Materialism and Mysticism, Knowledge as a Deed of the Soul
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knowledge, the materialistic way of thinking, into
cloud formations, the contents of the three kingdoms
(mineral, plant and animal) and also the fourth kingdom,
the human kingdom, we must not look for anything material
be speaking out of spiritual science working towards
to say to someone that they are wrong in thinking that
their views. That is just talking theory. To accept
materialists. Taking the opposite route, mystics mostly
at work in the laboratory, the processes taking place in
looking into your stomachs, hearts and so on. That is the
kingdom is the highest on earth and because of this
someone looking from outside would see what goes on
materiality. You must observe yourself, this time looking
flames of material processes. Anyone looking for
equivalent of kicking one's legs in the air in one's
still lacking in skills, is still undeveloped, but we
undeveloped, taking hold of it, working it, with the
into the physical world, a first taking hold of the body,
see I am speaking of something most sublime when I speak
audience which he himself has prepared by asking them to
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 7: Materialism, Mysticism, Anthroposophy, Liberalism, Conservatism
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Materialism was in error not because it was speaking of
erroneously looking for in the outside world, may be
in thinking that these men had a special faculty for
kingdoms. He would only perceive what goes on inside the
our thinking if the decline is to become an upward
merely a phenomenon, thinking it to be something material
spanning the heavens, is taking the wrong view. In the
talking about something adult minds have long since come
erroneous ways of thinking which had to be pursued for
spiritual science working towards anthroposophy presents
working towards anthroposophy always bases itself on
reality, sometimes of course seeking it in the place
concepts. It is concerned with reality. Anyone looking
feeblemindedness. Spiritual science working towards
abstract spirituality within themselves. Someone looking
infantile, to developing an organic illness taking the
science working towards anthroposophy is a very serious
science working towards anthroposophy can however only be
taught by speaking in the terms of the world beyond.
taking spiritual science seriously is, to begin with,
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 8: The Opposition of Knowledge and Faith, Its Overcoming
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science working towards anthroposophy is that a kind of
Fundamentally speaking, however, only initiation science
point of view of spiritual science working towards
empty, abstract thinking, or something like that, but a
my arms.’ When they were walking, they would have
knowledge, perception, thinking, feeling and will
that did not want human thinking, feeling and will
I am speaking wanted to prevent this, however.
science to be transformed into a way of taking hold of
science working towards anthroposophy, differs from
Jesuit sources. The approach, the way of thinking, is as
to do with faith. Spiritual science working towards
is to let people have only sense-bound knowledge, making
descending completely and taking up its mission on earth.
spheres and making sure that no impulse enters into
supersensible knowledge nebulous by making it a matter of
tree, for instance, by taking pictures of it from a
Christ, if one is shown the image of Jesus the King,
seeing oneself and other followers as King Jesus' army,
prejudices and taking too poor a view of theologians, let
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 9: East, West, and Middle
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sleeping and waking that human beings experience within a
waking.
looking at these things. We cannot simply divide the
brain organism when a human being changes from the waking
interrelations and connections that exist in our waking
imageless thinking of their waking life, and are able to
is as if the phenomena of ordinary thinking proceed in a
undergone a change from the way it was in the waking
state. In the waking state the situation is that our will
physical basis of dreaming — take it as a working
is in the waking state; or we may also say that it is not
waking and sleeping. If the brain becomes more like a
sleep and waking up. We know that, between going to sleep
and waking up again, the real human being — the
physical world we see around us between waking up and
sleep and waking up, the human being is in the outside
wisdom that was revealed in the ancient Orient. Looking
world between going to sleep and waking up. For them, the
going to sleep and waking up. In a way this was reflected
waking up and going to sleep. Human beings experienced
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 10: Transition from the Luciferic to the Ahrimanic Age and the Christ Event to Come
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today. Only then can we find the right way of taking effective action
that relatively speaking were not that long ago.
Taking a genuinely unbiased
that objectively speaking were not under their control. Some of these
striking example of it. Examples like this can be used to illustrate a
by day and determine their destinies? Looking at these forces and the way
Looking at it like this, you will have to admit that the power of these
relatively speaking.
Spiritual science working
an unconscious level, taking hold of the unconscious human mind. The
present-day thinking has led to a desire to militarize the economy and
human evolution is going in that direction. Fundamentally speaking we are
ways. The ahrimanic element is taking hold of people. The luciferic is
experiences and will then know that the etheric Christ is walking on
We are speaking of
indicate in a public lecture° that the scientific thinking of the
West, which is totally lacking in cohesive vision, reaches its limits
rails' when working in this field; their approach is ahrimanic,
making themselves felt in strikes and revolutionary movements. They show
It is therefore making itself felt in real life.
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 11: Modern Science and Christianity, Threefold Social Order, Goetheanism
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to develop it without taking the earthly realm as our
unless we are aware that there is no point in speaking of
possible at the present time. They are making attempts in
thinking has destroyed the spirit of Christianity that
thinking. Science will only be filled with the Christ
through the things modern spiritual science is seeking to
thinking as any other science. The aim is however not to
logical thinking and instinctive feelings. Schiller felt
beautiful we are not thinking logically, yet our thoughts
not be simply resolved by taking three abstractions and
Golden King as the king of wisdom, the Silver King as the
king of outward show — of a life setter please note
Brazen king who might represent life in the material
the centralized state in the figure of the King of Mixed
to the point of making sharp definitions. It was not a
King, the Silver King, the Brazen King and the King of
mind and spirit (Golden King), the political element
(Silver King) and the economic aspect (Brazen King). My
progressing in the world of the Silver King — in
external terms we call that taking one's doctor's degree.
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Title: Life Between Two Incarnations
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kingdom, the crown of human nature. We can catch sight of this fourth
daytime consciousness, in waking, do the four members of human nature
body during the waking hours of the day and thus wears it out, appears
been worn out by the waking life. The astral body also repairs other
alternating state between sleeping and waking.
independent in life and has acquired interests in looking at spiritual
the regions, the animal kingdom, the plant cover, all this changes
about from the other world. A person walking across a meadow may well
reshaping and reworking the face of the earth, in order to create for

Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture I
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subject (Towards Social Renewal: Rethinking the Basis of Society), he embarked
Speaking to you here for the first time in these rooms on an
Looking at our own time critically, yet not captiously, we
and that outside of him are the three natural kingdoms, the
the three kingdoms as outside of themselves, because their view
of the kingdoms of nature was essentially different. In earlier
which he looks at the three kingdoms, knowing that, as he is
three kingdoms of the Angeloi, Archangeloi and Archai. The
look up to the realm of these three spiritual kingdoms. Our
physical body has a relation to the three natural kingdoms, our
kingdoms of nature, so also, we alter our relation to the three
kingdoms of Hierarchies which stand above us. I want to
spiritual observation that, with the actual working out of this
physical picture of man is concerned. Looking back into the
thinking, feeling and willing, and showing how the three, which
What now acts in man unitedly in thinking, feeling and willing,
spheres of thinking, feeling and willing fall apart. This
not deceive ourselves into thinking it possible to carry over

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subject (Towards Social Renewal: Rethinking the Basis of Society), he embarked
new into their efforts. Fundamentally speaking, the
extension must take place, so that from making response only to
forms. Thinking of this sort is as sensible as saying:
civilized world in manifold forms. Looking at the West,
useful to it, taking good care that they are so. It gives them
Regulations. Looking back, I must admit that in the 'seventies
plant, and mineral kingdoms, is also connected in his spiritual

Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture III
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subject (Towards Social Renewal: Rethinking the Basis of Society), he embarked
separation of the hitherto-interwoven forces of thinking,
in a general way that on waking man returns to his physical and
the conscious waking hours.
scientific thinking which is wholly bound up with the physical
Whence is to come the impulse, working through the peoples,
League, announced at a time when America was not taking part in
if man had taken no part in it. Thinking logically on the basis
next baking that was a necessary part of the process. In the
maturity, 27 to 28, he is in his waking life, as regards his
us and are our most important impulses. Looking at what emerges
all that is spiritual on earth; and looking, in the economic
confessions, from speaking our mind about such fanatics, in
must have an end; it is only by looking honestly at these

Title: Problems of Our Time: Main Features of the Social Question and the Threefold Order of the Social Organism
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subject (Towards Social Renewal: Rethinking the Basis of Society), he embarked
their problem in all their thinking, feeling and willing, on
opposition, even a conflict. The facts of world-history taking
before his spiritual eye to-day's necessity of looking more
anyone looking with open eyes at what was going on in the
making pleasing progress, so that they could be assured of
arrangement, but a vast alteration in thinking and learning:
are thinking. It is comparatively extraordinarily easy to
prevented him from looking rightly into its ordering, into the
taking note of active forces and impulses, more essentially
cleavage between the thinking, feeling, willing and actions of
into their hearts. It is this sinking-in that matters, not the
decisive events were taking place within the social movements
feelings, speaking as man to man, will know what a spiritual
these problems in well-warmed, mirrored rooms, speaking of
was speaking of the relation of this Academy to the State. He
to the teachers working at the school, there came under my
everywhere. We need to develop a real practical thinking which
superficiality in making these remarks, which are, however,
must change our whole way of thinking and learning. The unrest
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