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Title: Evil and Spiritual Science
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in the world. And though in our time many people are of the
our soul just from theoretical or scientific viewpoints; it is
that our questions have always been issues for the deeper
and of our time, and we will find that even with these
existence to our sight which cannot be reached by external
behave, so that their behaviour corresponds to their deepest
same answer in our time: Campbell, who described the
our situation more precisely clear. I will refer to a thinker
us try to call up others before our souls, from amongst our
working for themselves, that is organise our working the way
we must work our way out of the worst, at the same time as
mentioned here only as being typical. I will only draw your
boundaries of our knowledge. It must indeed be wisdom, which is
a position so to speak, to unfold our soul-spiritual being to
an unlimited extent from our soul-spiritual activity. There we
hit up against our environment with our soul- spiritual
activity. Through this, that we hit up against our
surroundings, we become aware of ourselves. In general, a human
source of evil in the world. And accordingly, I could also add
that it is a beloved prejudice of our own time, to take our
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Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 1: Popular Occultism, Introtroduction
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there are about three or four hundred people and all who have this clairvoyant
body with our hands. Let us now leave aside the etheric body. Where
when spiritual science will be included in our educational system. It
to fourteenth year we should therefore work upon his memory and develop
itself wholly from the fourteenth to the 21st year. It begins to unfold
know the four members of man's being: the physical body, the etheric

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 2: Man's Ascent into the Supersensible World
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world which we perceive through our senses: it is the one which man
perceive instead things which escaped our notice before, which had remained
with also after death. If we no longer open our senses to the physical
of our moral qualities, such as pleasure and displeasure, pain and joy,
But when we begin to meditate in a serious way, when we school ourselves,
our materialistic age. Let us look back into the 13th or 14th century
and picture to ourselves a German town of that time. There everything
city the things we see no longer appeal to our feeling, nothing touches
may attract our attention. Nothing sacred, nothing having a religious
it. Of course, this does not imply that we should long for the things
of a thought. For example, we first have in our soul the thought: “This
our responsibility in life. Imagine a room where men sit around enjoying
you relate rays out a thought-form. If your thought-form corresponds
thought-form streaming out of your words does not correspond with that
Man has a short sojourn
Our eyes and ears, all our sense-organs, are merely instruments used
interrupted. Restless dreams are therefore bad for our health.
which hovers around him. The souls of men lie open before your eyes.
and its prescribed journey
Of course, learned men say

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 3: The Different Conditions of Man's Life After Death
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The further courses is that
grow more refined. — If we had never enjoyed colours sensually,
through a process of transformation. Think of your childhood years!
And how your thoughts and concepts changed from the 10th to the 20th
year! Your temperament undergoes a far weaker change. A passionate child
We should strive, above all, to change our temperament to a certain
After death, our spiritual
out of our earthly life becomes interwoven with the soul, with the spirit.
This enables us to shape our next incarnation, as far as the body, and
earthly life is the expression of what we worked out for ourselves.
lose our friends in Devachan; our connections with them are simply of

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 4: The Devachanic World
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that our language, our words, are only coined for the physical world.
In the fourth region we
as the starry sky surrounds us here on Earth, so in this fourth reason
stage in our inner development, we shall be able to recall our past
will impress these pictures so deeply upon us, that our ordinary memory

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 5: Life Between Death and a New Birth
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Earth. There, our experiences were linked up with feelings and soul-impressions, the
cosmos. A clairvoyant to observes a person with course feelings in this
themselves as if they were some kind of nourishment for the astral body.
we no longer live under the same conditions — he only consisted of four
every detail of our past life in reverse order, brings with it that
we can only now have a true knowledge of our own actions, for we experience
their effects on ourselves. In the case of every action we now experience
which does not become our own experience. Here we must apply this sentence:
another person, we must experience this injury ourselves in Kamaloca;
Our experiences at Kamaloca are of a lasting time and are great upon
the soul. In the continental region of Devachan all our experiences
of our own deeds, the feelings and moods which we experience, stream
experiences which we had during our proceeding earthly life appear
last a short time, generally a few hours. The bell-shaped is a general
at home and soul master only in the fourth part of his being, in his

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 6: Man's Return to a New Earthly Life
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influence our next one by cultivating noble inclinations and feelings,
thus rendering the body of our next incarnation strong and healthy.
by the Huns and Mongols, cannot harm those who are fearless and courageous.
physically in the next generation, we not only work our own benefit

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 7: Effects of the Law of Karma
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Let us continue our considerations on
itself when we study man's life of thoughts. Our thought-life is an
activity of the astral body. The nature of our thought-life influences
the etheric body of our next life, that is to say, the lasting moral
with the objection that there are our families in which all generations
elaborated by his Ego. During the course of the incarnations the Ego
Devachan. We ourselves prepared the nest where we were born. In Kamaloca,

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 8: The Evolution of Man and of the Solar System; the Atlantic Evolution
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lived on the Atlantean continent, is a fact advanced by Occultism. Our
forefathers, the peoples who lived on our continent descended from the
Atlanteans. Of course, the Atlantean human beings, whose organization
be viewed from four aspects. 1) By taking them naïvely and literally.
in the same way in which our railways are fed with coal. In this field

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 9: Lemurian Development
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lived in a sleep-like condition which may be compared with our dream-consciousness
course of development. But the ape-like forms have partly degenerated
course entirely different from the plants of to-day. Nevertheless when
the first original source, from which everything descends. And man is

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 10: Paths of Occult Training
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Our root-race (5th
of our modern one. To him everything external and visible was Maya, Illusion;
truths concerning our earth: The earth too is a being subjected to
these "Planets" are not identical with our present planets, but refer to
the planets after which they are named. The first incarnation of our earth
special constellation. A fourth epoch of culture is the Graeco-Latin one. It
We ourselves live in the fifth

Title: i Spirituality: Lecture 1: Historical Symptomology, the Year 790, Alcuin, Greeks, Platonism, Aristotelianism, East, West, Middle, Ego
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In the lectures given here during the course on
time, it is especially important to consider. With regard to the historical course of humanity's
the course of the nineteenth century it was precisely the opposite historical mode of thought and
of humanity and we will do so today in such a way that, through our considerations, certain facts
symptomatology constituted from the fact that one is aware that behind what takes it course as
say for Western Europe, was of course at work before this and worked on afterwards, but it did
significant point from which the neighbouring areas can be viewed and from which much can be
theological argument between the man who was a sort of court philosopher of the Frankish realm,
Now we can ask ourselves: So what was living in
the `I am'. It was as if it were dull and hazy, as though poured out in a broad perception of the
who lived at the court of Charles the Bald, one
being as a physical being moves and acts. And it was also not contained in that time in which our
this space in which physical things are extended and move, and beyond this time in which our
lived in the Greek who, at the court of Charlemagne, had to debate with Alcuin. And in this
significant moment when Alcuin debated at the court of Charlemagne with the Greek. For, what was
way of thinking that we ourselves find religious feeling permeated with a legalistic element. In
thoughts concerning the course of the world. This was completely alien to the oriental way of
this I-culture. For what is it that arises through Kant? Kant looks at our perception, our
from Kant's. Kant, of course, rejects this. He wants nothing to do with the conclusions drawn by
Those individuals did not, of course, think in this
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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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what comes from the spiritual world and plays into our physical world will take such a course
a course that the individual human element can work into it.
course of human evolution developed some particular quality, just as now it is that of
consciousness-soul is, as it were, giving itself contour, becoming integrated in itself —
which, from our point of view, must have deep inner foundations. This must take shape despite the
West, the European Centre, and of the East are placed in the whole course of human evolution. We
We know that, under the influence of our modern
into being in our technological age, our intellectual age. I have presented all this, insofar as
differentiated, the social views of, let us say, the proletariat, which then, however, colour
its terrible aspect will show itself throughout all Asia, because it works with all the fervour
political, and works with a religious fervour eastwards from Russia over into Asia. Over and
has no understanding at all of the foment of deeper forces in the whole of our present
impulses that have arisen naturally within human development in the last three or four centuries.
of the new age, political affairs, even if they take an unfavourable course, do not
conceived contrary to the course of human evolution. And thus it could be shown, with regard to
follow the regular course of reincarnation.
life. Such reincarnations form the regular course of human evolution, but there are exceptions.
three kinds of forces, of beings at this particular stage of development, is encouraged by the
know how one must act with regard to these things one must be equipped with an armour of

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 3: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 2
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I have drawn your attention, from the most varied
regarded as new Saviours, as the continuers so to speak, of earlier religious-spiritual striving
in which Rome developed to particular splendour and in which the Roman Empire arose — were
Byzantine Empire were a kind of symbol of the decay of the fourth post-Atlantean epoch, the
of the older development of humanity, but I should like to draw your attention to a few things.
of the Latin, of the Roman, element to assert itself beyond the purely human in the course of
frequently referred to in the course of the past years). These are traditions stemming from the
fourth post-Atlantean epoch, from the Graeco-Roman times, which, to be sure, are borrowings from
favourable, then this situation
enabling them to incarnate into the human being. But particularly favourable for this incarnating
taken from more recent science — which is international. But what coloured his whole
forms of the fourth post-Atlantean epoch — were to be stronger. What would arise then?
Centre that over the course of centuries it was barely possible for any individual who attained
gives the leading personalities of the Centre — and the other human beings, of course,
the sense-world — for our physical world — soul and spirit should be made manifest by
religious form. All this happens, of course, in parallel. And towards the Centre there develops
study the strange course of the Germanic humanity of Central Europe. Look at the two branches of
natural-scientific view of life, could pour it into his language, which is only a vessel. The
colour, revealed through colour, what has inspired and worked through different human cultures
earlier epochs as it is today. It is actually appropriate to our times. In contrast, matters of
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Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 4: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 3
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(The Hours)
to have been able to take works such as these purely as study material, so, of course, he could
threefold social order is given here by Goethe still in the form of an image. Of course, the
takes this course, be continually new impulses
higher level of the Personality — which I will colour with red (see diagram) — was
have come into wild, fantastic daydreams. The subject would no longer have had definite contours;
remain within firm contours. He did not go off into wild fantasy or ecstasies. He gave himself a
new and fruitful stimulus through his journey to the South where much of the legacy from the
We modern human beings must certainly also endeavour to lift ourselves up to inspiration; an
course, destroys itself. This is how we must look at things. Thus we must see how at the end of
Goethe: I want sharply contoured images, not excessive vague ones. For if I were to go any
spiritual and political unity and, on the path towards this, the incessent interference by our
German. And he describes this further as 'Always the same way in our nature to oppose where we
ourselves over to the foreigner and, no sooner having done so, then exercising an unconscious,
influence on the foreigners to whom we had subjected ourselves.'
American life, into which our emigrants dissolved, stands today under the influence of the German
would give American life a German colouring. For already, long before this, there had been
during the course at the School of
course, highly superfluous. And this philosophical hollow-headedness working at Karlsruhe
Four Mystery Dramas,

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 5: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 4
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eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth centuries of European development, it is possible to
elaboration of the intellect. This, of course, did not happen all at once. The intellect was
spiritual appeared to the human being through nature. In our transitional condition we have the
us, out of ourselves, to open the doors again to the spiritual world; to come to a perception of
took its course there and was shone through with wisdom — everything, fundamentally,
a matter of course according to the place and rank into which the gods had placed them through
much human labour they save. It is simply that 500 million people would have to do the work
revolutions are nothing other than the result of not recognizing the demonic element in our
intelligence, he can appropriate freedom to himself in the course of cultural development. It is
general way valid for all human beings. In the years between seven and fourteen, in which the
recognized is what then emerges as the astral body at the age of fourteen or fifteen and which
nothing is forced upon it by the economic life. It is when one inwardly grasps the whole course
a spiritual science can only be born from a knowledge of the course of human evolution.
Things are described there of which they do not have the foggiest notion. The fact is of course
four post coaches a week and no one travels in them. If people really want to throw their money
out of the window why don't they do it directly! Of course, the railways looked different from
the post-coaches of the 1830s of the honest post-master of Berlin. But, of course, the
first place, our lecture course this autumn has been striving towards. And even if this is only
realms. But it would only be something incomplete and therefore unable to aid our declining
the so blatantly visible signs of our declining economic life. This old economic life cannot be
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Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 6: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 5
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create a preparatory understanding for the course that the Christ-idea, the image people have had
of the Christ, has taken in the course of human development. We remember that human development
Today we will remind ourselves that there were
During the course of Greek and Roman history, when the Mystery of Golgotha was accomplished on
course, have made no impression on humanity at all.
wave which had already taken root in Greece, as I have described to you, which had its source
civilization, nourished at first by Rome, took shape primarily in the sign of the intellectual,
From what source did this ancient oriental vision
wanted to speak only of the man Jesus. But as this whole development took its course it gave rise
consists of four Gospels which contradict one another. They knew that if they gave out the
event on the physical plane one cannot understand why it ought to be described in four different
classes of the people. And for dialectics one could not simply give out a fourfold mutually
try sometime to hold in mind for yourself everything that people accept nowadays as being true,
look at history from the eleventh to the fourteenth centuries. They developed out of the Church.
without a belief in Rome itself, is the mentality of our universities today. It is also the
soul-constitution of those human beings living at the dawn of our modern civilization. In this
Thus, the course of man's image of Christ is as
the four Gospels because, of course, the moment one goes into the four gospels with the modern
also experienced how in the course of the nineteenth century, under the philologizing of
after puberty — although of course in a personal, individual way, different from the way it
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Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 7: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 6
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how European conditions are bound to develop in the near future, and we saw that the course of
disappearance of what, in many areas of our modern times, is still considered by people to be the
Christ there really is at the present time. The course of human evolution has brought it about
nineteenth century and our own time, the soul-constitution of humanity as a whole has undergone a
scientific learning when we held our course for scientists and we saw that none of these has
But there is, as yet, no unified feeling for it. Such a feeling will arise with vigour from
learn of nature, the less we understand of ourselves, the less we understand of the human
of the spiritual world but merely a child of characteristics inherited in the course of earthly
gathered strength during recent centuries and then came to a climax in our own day. The great
organizing mankind according to the will of its individual nations. It was indeed in our recent
This, of course, is a truth which for many people
today is highly unpleasant. And this is why so many lies have to be harboured in the deeper
denies the spirit utterly. I put you through a trial yesterday. In order to spare your delicate
You know that spiritual science shows how our
embodiments so that our earth, schematically, is in a midway state.
essentially an inheritance from the first, second, third and fourth conditions. What he bears as
his etheric body is a result of the second, third and fourth conditions. What we call his astral
body is the result of the third and fourth conditions. And now, in our present earth-evolution,
future, this feeling will arise: The children will feel that, despite all our intellectual
of course, symbolically — the human being will ask: 'Who can decipher for me my nature as a
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Title: Abbreviated Title: Lecture I:
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further course of our considerations, in order to enable you to find your
something external, our soul-spiritual has to bring about destructive
processes in our nervous system, and these destructive processes mediate
during the time after death. Through the fact that our soul-spiritual
the process of death, our soul-spiritual creates the power to be able to
phenomena. No doubt the following question has often arisen before your
But the following question should burn, as it were, in our souls:
Picture to yourselves that when we enter physical existence we are born
with our souls into quite specific conditions. We are born into a
quite specific conditions. You should consider deeply that our life between
born. What we think, what we feel, in short the whole content of our life,
our thoughts to continue, we may say that we are also able to pursue a
certain current which goes beyond our birth. This current hp brought with
it, as it were, everything that constitutes our environment during the life
a point where our preceding incarnation can be found. Thus, when retracing
the time before our birth, we would have a long period during which we
these conditions we mean of course average conditions. Exceptions are
look back to our former incarnations, we were surrounded during our time on
existence. Just as, in the second half of our life, our life is a kind of
erosion of our physical existence, so there must occur, between death and a
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Title: Talk To Young People:
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Rudolf Steiner raises the social challenge for youth of our time:
it necessary to be honest, what is needed above all? Courage! Something
one learns very fast or not at all. Real courage! The courage to say:
Rudolf Steiner raises the social challenge for youth of our time:
it necessary to be honest, what is needed above all? Courage! Something
one learns very fast or not at all. Real courage! The courage to say:
with all the questions and problems in your hearts that assail young
unconsciously guided by creative spiritual forces that led our souls
begun to influence our development. Young people
see me but was being discouraged away; people in the house thought
to begin something our High School doesn't have, a publication for
young people, doing everything ourselves. Couldn't you help us?” “I
than any in our own time. What was the result of that early 19th
been moving them into the various youth groups of our
that our hearts recognize what the others are feeling. In this way we
be able to accomplish very much with our Youth Section.
people, which you yourselves may have read by now: “How do you
and sensitivity. How we are to proceed depends actually on our honest
of the century there has been a completely new impulse entering our
honest, what is needed above all? — Courage! Something one learns
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Title: "Heaven and Earth will pass away but my words will not pass away"
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Moon-stage. And we must remind ourselves of the fact that, in a certain
We must, of course, not
reality, of course, the Moon man does not sit inside as if he were
the evolution of the earth, we say: The first, second, third and fourth
deciding point came with the fourth post-Atlantean cultural period in
the progress of man, and in our fifth post-Atlantean cultural point we
this our fifth post-Atlantean age mankind has gradually replaced the
— and that, this materialism we endeavour to impregnate with the
faculties, because our psychic-Spiritual is reflected on our physical
body, so that in our waking life on earth we are able to perceive
medium, which, in turn, constitutes the content of our consciousness.
As we thus possess a certain content of our earth-consciousness between
life on earth, we experience by means of our physical earth-man, but we
usually perceive these dreams within our subconsciousness, we fail to
take notice of them. As we go through the world with our waking
conscious ideas, which, for them, are imaginations. Our dreams are
is our Saturn man; so deep is it that it can be likened to the sleep of
intuitions are no mere abstract things like our own thoughts, concepts
more densified. In our own age they still are extremely attenuated
continuously work there — penetrate — into our Saturn man;
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Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture I: Tree of Life - I
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course of evolution of earth and humanity. Above all, a certain
sanctity. That is to say, we can expect in our future incarnations
concealed something which cuts deep into life. Today we will turn our
the evolution of earthly history, fell in the Fourth Post-Atlantean
endeavoured to grasp what had taken place through the Mystery of
— how the ideas of Greek philosophy endeavoured to
plays so great a role in the education of youth even up to our own
behind the Mystery of Golgotha. We see how endeavour was made in
it goes on, and this is the whole endeavour of Rome: to obtain in the
Middle Ages, when Scholasticism flourished, the greatest efforts of
this Latin knowledge would have been able to pour itself out over the
course, the Suevi in the region where today Silesia and Moravia lie,
Rome were displaced and there was poured into this region where
journeying of the Franks to the West by saying: the Wile-element
For much of what I have said is still fulfilling itself in our own
phenomena. One can observe how an endeavour appears among the most
physiognomy of Europe shows that up to our own day there is an
poured itself over these peoples in such a way as not to enter the
therefore dying and withering. So an endeavour was made, especially
left, there has poured in what came from Central Europe and the
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Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture II: Tree of Life - II
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out how the after-effect is to be perceived right into our own times,
the same facts somewhat more subjectively, will give our attention to
will place once more before our soul the familiar fact of the
alternates in the course of his daily life between the union of his
four members — the physical man, the etheric man,
separation of these four members into two and two
condition of these four members and their separation. We have already
conditions are favourable, that they do not awake from sleep as if
have to say concerning these words if you bring before your soul in a
mingled in his earthly life. This means: in our earthly life we
things with our intellect and reason in order to get certain
the Luciferic influence, a knowledge that represents the course of
Knowledge of Good and Evil. All our knowledge is the sort
circumstances, where Lucifer works within our existence.
When you keep in mind that our whole
temptation, that our everyday knowledge is the fulfilment of our
our nightly sleeping non-knowledge, the darkness of sleep which
spreads out over our consciousness, is simply the effect of the
how we actually spend our life between going to sleep and waking. We
come to our consciousness (because Lucifer claims it for himself) has
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Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture III: The Power of Thought
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My dear friends, it is really difficult in our time
to meet with full understanding when one speaks out of the sources of
actuality in our inner self as man, that we do something by thinking,
I called your attention here once to the
moulder. Every thought that arises in us seizes, as it were, upon our
inner life and shares (above all so long as we are growing) in our
whole human construction. It already takes part in our structure
before we are born and belongs to the forming forces of our nature.
away in us. So it is not only the case that we perceive our concepts
externally, but we are always working upon our being through our
thoughts, we work the whole time anew upon our forming and fashioning
something like a shadowy outline, a phantom, of ourselves; not
ourselves must be inserted, for we are continuously losing something,
the thought inserts into our human form, preserves us, generally
speaking, until our death. Thought is thus at the same time a
definite inner activity, a working on our own
the moon from the sun there now took their course side by side the
descended upon our Earth naturally contained in their ranks this kind
consciousness arise, in our Western thinking, that thinking is
Thus they falsify our thinking.
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Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture IV: Harmonizing Thinking, Feeling and Willing
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connected with the forming of our ideas and concepts, is in a certain
cosmos. We believe that in our feelings we only bring to expression
our inner life, we believe we are experiencing something which is
through, in as much as they take part in our earthly existence. They
interpenetrate us, interweave in us and shut off our feeling and our
and willing of ours to our inner nature.
confined to us ourselves, to live only within us as our impulses of
with our intellectual life (Diagram 1 yellow) which turns to the
our form. On the other hand we have an element of will and feeling
as is the content of our thoughts.
link between these two centres in us does not actually come to our
however, give our chief attention to this: that as a matter of fact,
our thinking, our intellect and conceptual life, is connected with
in which we, as human beings, apprehend our thinking and conceiving
those are now living in our intellect, so that something Luciferic
lives in our intellect and shuts us off from looking into the inner
moving and forming. Thus Lucifer, as it were, dwells in our
angels that are in our intellect want?
relate thinking to ourselves as we do now, but we should look back to
the Moon-evolution and say: ‘Long ages ago our
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Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture V: Tree of Knowledge - I
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speak of in connection with our present subject.
say: worm-world-conceptions. When we let this really work upon our
our time, it is truly a matter of getting a feeling for the way other
worlds permeate our world, for the way other worlds allow themselves
us something, anything at all, that limits, truly limits our ordinary
this point quite seriously. In the course of the process of
however, we have our mental concepts in time and space
within, runs its course in time — we are thereby
time are our boundaries, just as the earth substance is the worm's
observes is our soul, which itself lives in the concepts
one sees the reality. Insofar as our soul is enclosed in the body, as
that which takes its course in time is nothing but an outer sign,
neighbouring planet (you may read this in my
of materialistic thought (I will suppose what is most favourable for
our Spiritual Science) could prevail on himself to believe in these
processes, happen in order to make possible our life on earth; they
say: These processes are the roots of our earth-life; this life is
that we have to do with separations so that our Earth could come into
should like to show that our inner soul life has taken on quite
certain role in the whole state of our earth existence, is the idea
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Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture VI: Tree of Knowledge - II
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the time of ancient Saturn, and that of course they were not then
revealed with particular clearness, when we regard the whole course
not concerned with them. If we had our eyes open during sleep, it is
our organism. And if I now include the etheric body, it naturally
our periphery. And it is on this reciprocal action with the outer
world that we first build up our soul process, insofar as the process
always have a pictured image: in my eye is a colour, in my ear is a
thrusting them in from outside. And in our senses there is the
meeting between our own etheric activity, life activity, and that of
through, he takes possession of the physical part of our senses,
pictures as the effect of what the Gods give us, but our senses are
along the nerve strands. If one wishes to draw the course of a nerve
‘Ye shall be as gods, your sense shall be opened
ourselves persecuted, develop no antipathy against anyone
unintentional untruthfulness. We must never flatter ourselves that
myself, for that would be personal and against the rules of our
this endeavour than he was before. At least, he did not say before
we are clear that Lucifer and Ahriman are necessary in our
much we are inclined to attribute far more selflessness to ourselves
in the first place thoroughly work ourselves out of our dependence on
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Title: World Downfall and Resurrection
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fundamental change occurred in the 4th century of our era. From
the 4th century of our era. It never occurred to men in those
at the world had changed in the course of that century. And
discussion and debate. But as the centuries took their course,
spiritual investigation — was a matter of course in the
case. The Moon is working in the neighbourhood of the Earth. In
Such is the substance of the fourth section of the work of John
This fourth section treats of soteriology and eschatology. It
Christian only when we reach the fourth. The first three
of the Earth we perceive with our senses, the things that are
man is nourished. He takes bread into his body. It is a means
of nourishment and passing through the organism reaches a
conceptions of the blood, of the body, of flesh. Turn your
the Moon; turn your minds to what comes from the Sun! For we
direction of the Sun, to the forces poured down by the Sun to
and from no other source. Men were directed to the Spiritual
that it was the source of your conception of the Divine. But
anything. Your own forces and your own forces alone must lead
the power of your Ego, of your Spirit.
it is our own time. The modern mind will find it exceedingly
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Title: Lecture: Philosophy and Anthroposophy
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of the means of ensuring inner security and our true alignment in the order
two cliffs, between which we cannot advance in our pursuit of knowledge
acquire a knowledge of humanity depends upon our developing the strength to
able to say to ourselves: neither method can lead our soul whither we would
of our own human reality produces quite a definite experience. The latter
comprehension of our own human self. Man as a natural product consists of a
by Natural Science become increasingly foreign to all our inner experience
be to our inner life, with its thirst for knowledge. True to its ideal,
ourselves and reality is not thereby lessened, but increased. The results
reach the point of admitting that we do not, in truth, devote ourselves to
the case in our conscious self, but the unconscious origin of our efforts
in the life of our soul. The knowledge is brought home to us through inner
experience that we were bound to follow the course of Natural Science, but
that we were disappointed in the expectations raised by our diligent
us concerning our own being, is a sign that we have not sufficiently
the first obstacle against which we strike in our effort to attain
Our
Mysticism, proved to be no fulfillment of our efforts to find reality, but
merely the starting-point of our path, for we are shown the chasm that
that brings the material outer world nearer to our inner life, and at the
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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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our introductory educational courses. However, the days are so few, and
the educator. Of course what I shall have to say about the nature of the
your own thinking and feeling.
— and in doing so we are taking our stand on an
anthroposophically oriented spiritual science, and it is our intention to
In our
time — an age of democracy and journalism
— it is of course true that we hardly have a real sense,
unfold a certain kind of effectiveness in your actions only if the impulses
entire civilization of our time. If we think of the education of young
clear that our present work is to prepare this next generation for definite
journalist, as a writer of best-selling books, or the like)
gradually worked out in such a way that our whole civilization has been
flooded by impulses arising from the world view of the western peoples; our
source in the views of Herbert Spencer or men of his sort. We do not pay
sensible pedagogy today; it is fact that the men of our time are hardly
precisely the opposite of what it ought to be. Let me draw your attention
reason that our textbooks are written with this in mind (and it would occur
zoologist. If, on the contrary, we could plan our lessons, when presenting
our insight: in this child a botanist is hidden, in that one a zoologist.
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not possible, naturally, to educate or give instruction if in our education
the astral body, the etheric body and the physical body. These four members
of our human nature are of course not subject to uniform development but
the female organism) must also be given our close attention in education
draw forth from the child for our authoritarian purposes, what the child
forces had taken their course unconsciously within the body. If later on
death and our new birth. We acquire the reverence we need in our teaching
itself slowly throughout the cycle of years from seven to fourteen or
secret music pours through every natural occurrence —
testimonial to the ignorance of our philosophers, who know nothing of the
modified our organs, as deeply as into the skeletal system. A person who
should develop. If our reverence grows, as we cultivate our connection and
intercourse with pre-natal forces, (as we have already characterized this)
so do we gain more animation and enthusiasm in our teaching through
immersing ourselves in the other human forces. A Dionysian element
irradiates our musical and language instruction, while we acquire more of
not retarded before the fourteenth year. This you must not take to mean
our own forces with these, knowing that we are fertilizing the
after death. We gain a certain enthusiasm for our teaching by this, knowing
ourselves the necessary reverence and the necessary enthusiasm, so that we
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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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digested by us in a suitable way; but we would not be feeding ourselves
hand and see on the other, of course, and in certain circumstances these
run from our periphery more towards the centre, and we also have nerves
a drawing, a form of any kind living in our environment, that is, anything
that becomes the property of our soul because we have eyes. We must now
agree with it. For it is our rhythmic system that supplies the meeting
place for our understanding of knowledge and the soul's element of
there is a third element, which is the absorbing of information so that our
helping his memory would be to bring about a rhythm for him, in our
experience as audible is perceived by the nerve strands embedded in our
limb organisation. Everything musical has to penetrate deep inside our
organism first of all — and our ear nerves are organised
to seize hold of the nerves deep within our organism those nerves in which
organism, that these things intertwine in such a remarkable way. Our
perceptions of visual things meet with our perceptions of audible things
both worlds meet in the rhythmic system something arises in our soul
you of Goethe's theory of colour. Quite apart from the fact that
cold, let us recall how he brings the perception of colour and the
man more in the style in which Goethe describes the theory of colour, we
'coloured' when we speak. The same thing happens within us as it does in
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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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astrality, the ego being of man; and turning our attention to the first
fourteenth year, that is up to the time of puberty, we can say from a
that is up to the age of about fourteen or more, we are concerned with a
organisation. That we must avoid. Through our education we must try to
work in one direction or another, when we acquaint ourselves with the means
develop your story in such a way — this is of importance
right age and for that reason it is good to keep our eye on such a child
altitudes on earth, or by introducing anything into our teaching of
and cosmic-musical forces. This interplay unfolds of course in the most
at one moment in our body, at another outside it; we breathe in, we breathe
breathing process. In truth, with every falling asleep we leave our
physical body and our etheric body and enter then into a more intimate
connection with the surrounding air, because our ego and our astral body
are then directly in the air. When we are awake we direct our breathing
out of our soul. From the fact that on the one hand the air, a certain
that carries our ego on its descent from spirit worlds through birth into
say, the carriage in which the ego journeys into the physical world. And
there movement is our native element. Should we want to continue this
speaking, our head organisation becomes a carriage in which we ride into
between their seventh and their fourteenth year a distinct differentiation
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Title: Social Understanding: Lecture II: Social Understanding Through Spiritual Scientific Knowledge
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our time. In that case it is vital to understand what its connection is
course in three stages: from birth to the change of teeth, from the change
different seven-year stages. The pushing through of our permanent teeth, as
are not merely confined, let us say, to our jaws or their neighbouring
organs, but fill our whole physical body. There is work in progress within
our physical body between birth and the seventh year, and this work comes
to an end with the pushing through of our permanent teeth.
forth from your being when you do the sort of exercises I describe in
the forces that are active from the seventh year to the fourteenth year and
the source of youthful ideals between the fourteenth and the twenty-first
forces as those we grow with from our birth to the age of twenty-one. So
through the fact that the force we use in our souls to remember with is the
same force that transforms the food we eat into the kind of substances our
transformed inside your body into the sort of substance that serves life,
bit between your soul and your body if you want to dwell in memory. If your
neither perceive these supersensible forces by means of our ordinary senses
nor by means of our intellect bound to our ordinary senses. We perceive
understanding. And these are the same forces that also form our head. So we
from our point of view, the forces of the earth. Yes indeed, the forces of
the earth are perpetually working into man. And it is our forces of will
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Title: Buddha and the Two Boys: Lecture I: Buddha and the Two Boys of Jesus
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In the last Basel Course it was
touched upon within the German Section until then. Of course, the Christ
of Nazareth before our soul and has taken up that being, can be said more
has happened in the course of time. The course of spiritual communications
in the course of time. We ourselves may have once lived in ancient Egypt,
to our world. By about three thousand years from now, enough people will
â€œLord, now let your servant depart in peace, for my eyes
have seen your Savior.â€ â€” Thus, after five
besides this one. The other parents, however, had other children, four boys

Title: Buddha and the Two Boys: Lecture II: The Gospels, Buddha and the Two Boys of Jesus
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became Buddha. We could emphasize that what we call our occidental esoteric
We ask ourselves now, how did this flow into
compassion and love. If we want to understand this, we must tell ourselves
this in himself up to his fourteenth year, there he hangs on a chain that

Title: Lecture: Art As A Bridge Between The Sensible And The Supersensible
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widespread human suffering. The correspondence to our own times
question asserts itself in the most decisive manner in our time, as a
historic challenge. However, at the same time, it has to be said: Our
existing in our time between the leading classes and social ranks and the
proletarian masses. In the course of recent historical developments, the
the human being undergoes a bourgeois education, donning superior civic
cultural life of the ancient Hebrews, there were of course the scribes
here and elsewhere in our Society, that nowadays, on the basis of no
Further, in the course
should in fact imbue us inwardly and resonate throughout our entire life:
Humanity of our group statue the aim was not only to portray the
something like this? Because in our time the endeavor has to take hold
earth in human physical bodies. Let us remind ourselves as before, of
what the dead learn of our language — what they
perceive, in so far as they perceive anything of our earth.
with our eyes. It is actually rather difficult to point to what the dead
dead see nothing at all. Our sculptural figure could only be made visible
let us remind ourselves again and again, that it is actually quite absurd
attempted to do in various fields, making clear to ourselves what the
earthly human being. If we make concretely clear to ourselves, in detail,
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Title: Raphael's Mission in the Light of the Science of the Spirit
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since we have need of him for our well-being.
fated to die early. Whose death all Rome mourned. When the works of Raphael
Raphael's own age, up to our own day. He was able to show that
to think of yourself as the centre of this eternally existing
And, by the same token, if we direct our gaze to the biblical
Our
soul was poured, as it were, into the bodily nature. It had
immerse ourselves in Raphael, in following the various stages
of his development, let us turn our attention for the moment
Herman Grimm how he enters upon certain four-year periods. It
is remarkable how Raphael advances in cycles of four years. And
if we contemplate such a four-year period, we see Raphael at a
higher level each time. About four years after the
four years later the frescoes of the
and so on, in stages of four years, until the work that stood
Savonarola reverberate in us if we give ourselves over to them;
desire for splendour and lust for power. Raphael becomes the
our innermost nature was already there, only later to unite
only be comprehended in raising ourselves to the supersensible,
raise ourselves to super-terrestrial regions to see the
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Title: Leonardo's Spiritual Stature: Lecture
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his discourse on “Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper,”
less indistinct damp patches of colour merging into each other.
also by virtue of Leonardo's expressive colour! In these
colours the inherent nature of each soul, indeed the very
course of time! [It should be noted that from 1978 to 1999,
wall. He therefore attempted to use oil-based colours,
soon these oil colours were undermined by dampness, the
the Saviour were eliminated.]
colour it once had. Even so, standing in front of this wall
can acquaint ourselves with other works of Leonardo, by means
what he wrote, as well as the course of his life from 1452 to
to what he placed into the world than these patches of colour
Directing our attention once again to the picture in the Santa
in your soul?
course. Such a question arises of its own accord in
picture in which three or four figures were to appear, he went
court. One task is the “Last Supper” and the other
see Leonardo supporting the court in Milan in every conceivable
brooded for hours in front of the wall. Then he took the brush,
a question as a matter of course, seeing how he strove again
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Title: Fairy Tales: in the light of Spiritual Investigation
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the difficulty of the subject itself, since the sources
convoluted paths before these sources can be
sources lying at greater depths of the human soul than is
up from seemingly unfathomable sources of the folk-spirit or of
soul, one arrives as a matter of course at the conviction
explanation remains something that touches the source so
of these hidden sources.
the sources of existence, in having something to communicate of
the underlying sources, he makes use of the fairy tale once
aforementioned sources from the standpoint of
sources from the standpoint of spiritual research finds that
these fairy tale sources lie far deeper down in the human soul
than do the sources of creativity and artistic appreciation
threads spun in the course of the tragedy and unraveled again
sources of fairy tales and of the moods out of which they arise
as a child in the first years of life, whether in our middle
throughout our lives in the deepest recesses of the soul. Only,
radiates and pours forth out of itself joins forces with the
take their course in the soul when free of the body, in leading
course of waking consciousness as an ongoing dream-experience
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see physical forms around them with defined contours.
looking at physical objects in our surrounding world, as with
them and to redeem it. The redemption of our inner self cannot
Redemption can only occur if human beings pour their forces out

Title: The Worldview of Herman Grimm in Relation to Spiritual Science
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recognizes it as a spiritual stream open to new sources will
relates to Goethe, and to our own spiritual life.
inexact, being colourfully mixed together in various ways
personality, Herman Grimm's whole demeanour as though compelled
to dismiss you!” As though a matter of course, it
immersed himself in the course of his life. A certain isolation
the endeavour to pursue what Goethe experienced in life, what
course, since with Herman Grimm nothing intrudes that can
in question. For Herman Grimm, the course of humanity's
sense of the actual course of events in the development of
becoming the most important constituent of our cultural
Christian one, in which we still find ourselves today. It is
apparent at the source, in the ninth or the tenth century
before our era, with Homer. Thus, Herman Grimm addresses
himself in an immediate way to the human soul, in drawing our
work. In considering with him the arrangement of colours,
lived, as a matter of course, within this spiritual stream, and
courage and boldness are required to a greater extent than in
sense of a modern spiritual discourse. Just as the Gospels
of world-history; He is like one of the four rivers that
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Title: Imperialism: Lecture 1
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interspersion into our considerations, because I would like our
historical course of events, that we stand in a very definitive
said about them, a more profound observation of the historical course
has been glorified. Our
in Switzerland, for what Woodrow Wilson is today, he was of course
During the last four of five years, an enormous amount of pretty
was of course a question of power. And in order to understand what
ruler or the rulers of that empire. Because of course our words for
of people in general of the third to fourth century before the
— but rather what we today call ministers or court jesters,
archangels and angles, super- sensibly of course. So above we have
course it became ever weaker in consciousness. But it still retained
written in that pastoral letter is of course an impossibility for the
Certainly Mohammed never said: Mohammed is your God — as it
life of the Anglo-American peoples in the law books — of course
anointed, now the empty platitudes. From majority decisions of course
court councilors — who anyway have little counseling to do
— but what about the titular court councilors? Just

Title: Imperialism: Lecture 2
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real god in human form. In the course of time such things have lost
“reputable” in the third or fourth generation and
we maintained till now. Reality for us is what we do for our stomachs
their external social position. In our society people are divided
course superficial, but wherever you look you will find such things,
platitudes encourage the falsification of realities. And what
reality is not truth, but platitude. Of course one can force
matter of standing in reality. Of course the taste of lemonade can be
suggested, but your thirst cannot be quenched that way. If you go
possessing reason. If with our reason we do not achieve anything
for physical existence, then we are prostituting our reason, then we
are using our reason to accomplish something which the animal does
Hungary. But in this journey from west to east, the remarkable thing
journey — only from Nuremberg to Berlin, but also from west to
to motivate ourselves to think big. We will discuss this further

Title: Imperialism: Lecture 3
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public discourse was a characteristic of the second stage. Today we
speech, and involves lawyers and courts, is essentially a
system in public discourse.
Only in parenthesis I would like to draw your attention to what
is absolutely necessary in the course of historical evolution in
subject and predicate in our speech is only useful for our view of
how everything in the world is alive, and how to express ourselves
took what still remained from older times and poured it into the new.
Thus the imperialism of the second stage was poured into the
freedom has been poured into the state. And those who were educated
older, and he will also die, as does everything in the course of
exist forever, do not consider being permanent. Of course under the
we prepare our food, when we make our clothing, it is all reality.
the cultivation of a true spiritual life must be poured into this
the social organism. That is the awareness which our British friends
— or spirit will be poured into this economic empire, in which
our psychological and social life. We must be clear about the fact
our evolution. How could people let themselves be deceived by
some day and things will get better then, even with our hands in our laps.
something for himself, for his soul. Of course he can have that, but
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Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture I: Anthroposophy and Natural Science
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This course was organized by the Federation of Anthroposophical University
anthroposophy." For each course day, Rudolf Steiner gave the introductory
each day regarding the course which will take place in a
various things related to Anthroposophy which our
This is of course quite the opposite of what Anthroposophy
way in which you can position yourself internally to what can
It is self explanatory that in the course of the
is significant in what happened: we have seen in the course of
it had developed in the course of the 19th Century,
problems. That may of course be admitted. I also don't believe
course — and how one can see that these three corners at
thought but in reality, it has no source. Goethe couldn't
is quite obvious that we as modern humanity have developed our
it was also the result of, or course, when one enters the
ability to shift our belief system towards change, to
circumstances this temptation increased much more in the course
anyone to start a fight against this. However, in the course of
nature and how they now appear in our thoughts. If we allow
ourselves to enter into these thoughts we no longer have the
When you position yourself in this particular way
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Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture II: The Human and the Animal Organisation
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This course was organized by the Federation of Anthroposophical University
anthroposophy." For each course day, Rudolf Steiner gave the introductory
differentiation, primarily watch the course of life of a person
feet or only one, whether we move our arms in one way or the
other, and so on. By our position as humans in the world, we
much duller position than that of our perceiving through the
about the sense of equilibrium we turn ourselves more towards
our own organisation, we perceive inwardly, while with our eyes
while by contrast, humans in the course of their life make
total dynamic of his being in the course of his first year of
contrast to the animal, who stands on four legs, in quite a
our limited time I wish to speak only with indications, but
Turning our eyes away from what we looked at, we then retain a
senses. The one which is the most dependable is of course the
don't observe the colour outwardly but we experience the
qualitative aspect of the colour, of colour tones, and what
colours strongly within myself.
through the sense of equilibrium in your own organism, rising
through the image perceptibility of your sense of equilibrium.
equilibrium in the cosmos. Then you could say to yourself: With
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Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture III: Anthroposophy and Philosophy
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This course was organized by the Federation of Anthroposophical University
anthroposophy." For each course day, Rudolf Steiner gave the introductory
content. Because our feeling regarding philosophy is not as
ourselves with philosophy. This vague experience is extremely
difficult to lift out of the depth of our consciousness if we
its course in the consequential development. To such an
Besides this is the endeavour to develop something out of
questions and overall, basically failed to acquire the courage
the philosophic situation, our glance which we have homed in
our soul eyes, namely such sharply differentiated philosophic
flowed through our experience of the philosophical approach to
front of us we have the representatives who can epitomise our
before the eyes of our souls.
thorough I would have to give an outline of the entire course
the West, but of course had been prepared by predecessors, both
how he rejected Newton not merely in terms of the colour theory
the Newtonian colour theory. We can see how the Hegelian system
content of our own philosophic striving, who must now become so
European-eastern way of thinking, which is of course not
we find ourselves today in the following situation. In the West
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Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture IV: Anthroposophy and Pedagogy
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This course was organized by the Federation of Anthroposophical University
anthroposophy." For each course day, Rudolf Steiner gave the introductory
Lecture Four by Rudolf Steiner given in Berlin, 8 March 1922
of Anthroposophy in detail. It will of course not be possible
are being created out of an anthroposophical source, this is
person, this makes love more intense, transforms human vigour.
and teaching of our children. In the present it is repeatedly
ourselves in a place which was obviously hardly suited — it had
previously been a tavern — to begin our teaching and education.
For this reason, our Waldorf pedagogy is developed upon an
coloured theory assumes that the bodily-physical should form
can simply say our sphere of observation of the soul-spiritual
When you direct your gaze in order to learn what really happens
there between the seventh and fourteenth year — those are of
course only approximate numbers — the hidden forces within the
is often just a result of the intellectualism of our time. This
remain abstract, they can't obtain any kind of favourable
often believed — to take our world view as it is conveyed
to grownups, and to stuff it into our children. As a result, we
sharp contours in its soul. This is false! With anything which
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Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture V: Anthroposophy and Social Science
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This course was organized by the Federation of Anthroposophical University
anthroposophy." For each course day, Rudolf Steiner gave the introductory
a direct encouragement for practical activities — practical
contradiction is namely nothing other than what permeates our
entire social life and consists in our social life being in the
course of modern time mixed up, chaotic; only viable if it
misunderstandings are phenomena of our time. However, I must be
social life in general. At that time you could say to yourself
our expertise and see if we can handle these issues by finding
characteristic common to our age if one wants to discuss the
everywhere, which our contemporaries express in single
Conference”. With this once again our daily situation is
the course of human development gradually enabled us to arrive
ask ourselves how this human evolution relates to the economic
in various arguments, which during this course have already
organised and while organising yourself also enjoy life and
we observe and experiment with our entire scientific way of
detours through the State, tried to actualize some of these
“fourteen points”
entered. What were these fourteen points actually? They were
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Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture VI: Anthroposophy and Theology
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This course was organized by the Federation of Anthroposophical University
anthroposophy." For each course day, Rudolf Steiner gave the introductory
Anthroposophic University Course will take place in Berlin. The
course which didn't come out of my initiative. I'm least
program item of the course) by thinking that what we were
observations in the world — due to our limited time now,
in the course of the last centuries adapted to the outer
example by one of those present here today, a very honourable
them, after they had heard a course of my lectures at that
themselves in our midst whether in connection with religious
combined with this behaviour which is not freely done but which
dear friends, it is of course natural that people of all
beliefs come to Anthroposophy, it is natural that simply in our
in this course. It also wants to point to what happens through
of course radical to say because illness is ordinarily seen
intervened even in our modern time. We see how in the west,
found anything in your lecture which could be challenged from a
said: “Reverend, it doesn't come down to how our
into our work in evolution, that we don't imagine we speak for
enthusiasm to have such an imagination. Still, ask yourselves
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Title: Impulse of Renewal: Lecture VII: Anthroposophy and the Science of Speech
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This course was organized by the Federation of Anthroposophical University
anthroposophy." For each course day, Rudolf Steiner gave the introductory
dear venerated guests! The organisers of this university course
aphoristic manner to open our discussion. I am aware that this
course to a smaller circle regarding the items I want to talk
things about the spirit of our reflection which is required by
the course of thought. What is presented as an object of
object essential for our observation. One can, if one remains
for. When it became known that this course was going to take
lectures. Because this course couldn't contain the 900 visitors
education. I tried in the course of the lectures to show how
was this so? Yes, while I spoke about duty during the hour from
the German language; I had spoken in the first hour from 10 to
obey a law which penetrates you, you must devote yourself to
our current epoch differentiations show themselves in this
we restrain our gestures and they transform themselves within
in ancient times, in which Sanskrit had its original source,
with our sharply outlined concepts, but dreamlike instinctive
apply colour to a surface. Then one lives into the consonants
through the vocalization, just as when, by placing one colour
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Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 1
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which our movement — which is daily being endangered and
which can provide for the revealed spiritual needs of our
full responsibility towards the spirit revealed to our times
course be what it is possible for the spirit to give us. It
have gone into these things in our weekly periodical, What
First of all, I would like to present to your hearts and to
your souls what should stand over our School as a kind of
life of the spirit onto our soul's ear and our soul's
Where you, O man, your bodily being
There your true being enters
For your own being the day grows dimly
Where you, O man, your bodily being
There your true being enters
For your own being the day grows dimly
lives in leaf and blossom flows to our eyes with color on color
forms at our feet, in the water and air, in clouds and stars;
And it reminds us that we owe our own bodies to all those
senses, it is futile to ask it what we ourselves are as human
ourselves, although it does give us a huge amount of
evermore repeat to ourselves: what we feel as our innermost
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throughout the ages, encouraging man to perform his noblest
Where you yourself, O Man, derive
Your bodily existence from earth and air and light:
There you do enter, for your own true-being,
For your own being, this light of day grows dim
Then do you turn your anxious seeking soul
can now observe and feel in our souls the beauty, the greatness
that we can never find our own being in this world. For the
In your own likeness manifesting you,
The solemn spirit-word your heart can hear.
Can lighten up your path.
From the tread of time's onward course
spiritual cosmic knowledge of the being which is one with our
knowledge which reveals the contamination in our own thinking,
illusion, and the real world, should appear before our souls as
the fourth sensation.
Otherwise its beasts will devour
Your cosmic age has placed them there
Your fear of creative spiritual being
Begat the monster in your will;
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From the tread of time's onward course
what terrible insecurity that would cause in your life.
our times, when people no longer pay much attention to how the
physical eyes; in our times, when people are completely attuned
world, which in a certain sense slip under your thoughts,
acquire the correct feeling of your own true reality. Then you
in the physical world? Because in the physical world your
thinking, your feeling, your willing are held together by the
which have nothing to do with your willing; but these thoughts
with your willing; but these feelings contribute to your
undoing, not to your advancement.
in time, back to your previous earth lives. That is something
feel as though your thoughts, which were previously confined by
cosmic thoughts. Your feelings seem to go back in time in the
spiritual world between your last death and your present earth
life. And with your volition you feel yourself in your previous
difficulties upon entering the spiritual world, because your
have gone, so to speak. So your feeling can only turn
whom you pass your life between death and a new birth on earth.
Because when you dedicate yourself completely to meditation,
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Lesson Four
well, to the extent that its earnestness can really occupy our
be clear to you that I am thus appealing to everything in your
of the gods with all your thinking, all your feeling, all your
willing. You must receive these words with all your soul's
receive them with total alertness, to the limit of your mind's
Your memory. And I will be satisfied if you do not hold in your
usually call your memory, and what others call your memory, is
speak to you, appealing to your thinking, feeling, willing, and
to all your enthusiasm, all your warmth, all your inner fire,
to your mind's alertness, then these soul forces will be
said that I do not appeal to your memory, to your capacity for
not preserve it in your memory alone. You should wait and see
what your memory makes of it. What should lead you to me
tomorrow in a new attitude, however, should be your feelings,
the innermost feelings of your soul; they should preserve what
direct experience. And inwardly, in deeper levels of our souls
the esoteric, our very understanding of it brings about a
than our everyday consciousness is accustomed to.
your memory and permeate your feelings. When you are together
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through our senses, but which at first indicate no relationship
our thinking, feeling and willing, aware that our thinking,
nature. And we feel a deep chasm between our human nature and
threshold itself. And our being able to perceive the threshold
depends on our ceasing to simply accept this unconsciousness,
when we look within ourselves, concerning an external nature
nature. We must stop saying to ourselves: Out there is nature,
powerless. Our thoughts are at first things we own which allow
no power. Our feeling is our inner life. To a certain extent we
are separated through it from the world. Our will does
We can become aware of how an irregularity in our breathing
However, we also know that in dreams our consciousness is
obvious to even superficial observation. If we dab our skin
with an object that is colder than our body, a cold knitting
other. We are very sensitive to the cold. If we touch our skin
with an object that is warmer than our body, we don't feel the
cold because we are creatures of warmth, because warmth is our
have often pointed out how in every moment of our lives, also
for normal consciousness, we can become aware of our
relationship to the universe through our relation to the air.
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can say: our feet stand on the ground of the solid
animals, plants and minerals and also in our physical human
bodies. And when we lift our gaze from the ground beneath our
feet to what is to a certain extent at our own height, what is
which we see before us in sharply defined contours. But in the
a part of ourselves. We do differentiate a table or a chair
which exist outside of ourselves. We do not consider what is
inside us as having clear boundaries. We do not see our lungs
as we are related to our own bodies, we are also, to a larger
contoured in the world.
consider it as the content of the world and of ourselves. So we
effect on your organism. The effect of light is the same.
how your perspiration, that is, the secretion of the watery
I'll put it this way: We walk into fog - and our own watery
element. And with this easy transition from our own watery
element to the outer world's watery element we feel our
from our watery element to dry outer air. Dry air lets us feel
more human. Watery air lets us feel our dependence on the
the organism when the sugar's sweetness courses through his
body, or the saltiness of salt courses through his body, he is
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Society will, as a matter of course and according to the
three classes, the same freedom must of course apply as it does
which of course, when it is established by such prominence,
in the physical world; here with me you are as your inner being
recall that your round head is a true image of the heavenly
which encourages us to pause at this line of the mantric verse
vastness, and of course that direction is always upward from
and other earthly forces. In our thinking - which as earthly
will transport yourself to the sphere in initiation which in
work on us the following will penetrate our being:
accompany our spiritual vision of the Three, which derive from
admonishing and yet encouraging:
yourselves for the first time: I want to take the Guardian of
first admonition, which you give to yourself, is earnest. The
of your souls, then you will have an inkling of what it means
as a transforming verse in our souls.

Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 8
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members of our Free School for Spiritual Science must be aware
can and should be obtained for our present time directly from
from the spiritual world. Only when our anthroposophical
emphasized during the Christmas Conference. Of course, there
a concrete beginning is made within our society.
step after the fourth, not the seventh step after the first; we
School for our times. Thus, it will be the soul of the
For this School is the esoteric foundation and source of all
new people come, we would never get anywhere. Of course, one
on the earth and in which we partake through our skin, through
our senses, through everything in us, that enters into us and
acts in our bodies - earth, water, fire, air - through them the
will element pours into these words.
humanity, act on our souls through the mantric words:
Into your senses' sense of being?
Into your life's evolving stream?
Is it you yourself who,
inmost source of my being is not present. It is elsewhere. Full
surrounds us in earthly existence the primal source of humanity
order to see in the light the origin of our own being. At first
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Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 9
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Into your senses' sense of being?
Into your life's evolving stream?
Is it you yourself who
can, my dear friends, look up to the distant stars and let our
the forms the constellations possess. When we immerse ourselves
direct our gaze toward the heavenly bodies. By
stars so often and have stored the vision in our hearts and
heaven's vault effective in our inner consciousness. If this
picture arises from our own inner being, if the soul empowers
we again create a picture in our hearts of all this, the
becomes a facet of our soul, and it is the third aspect.
then when we merge with the path of our earth in the universe,
by their movements - so that having felt ourselves to be at
rest in respect to the stars, now we feel ourselves to be set
feel ourselves bound to the earth by the force of the earth
intimate sensory-being ends. The human being of course does not
in us more and more, be able to feel and experience our whole
continually touching in that you place your whole body from top
your feet. Only you are so used to it that you don't notice.
yourselves as human beings standing amidst the earth's forces.
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Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 10
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gradually rise above our earthly existence to an experience of
comes to meet us. But as long as we confine ourselves to using
our senses and reason only in connection with the
plants in our environment to the extent that we feel them
that due to our wearing a physical body we are directly related
its physical elements? We must deeply feel our relationship to
our physical environment starting from such a personal enigma.
change the direction of your gaze from what surrounds you on
the planets, behold the stars, fill yourselves with the
universe, and say to yourself: as human beings we are related
from life in the darkness by rising with our soul-spiritual
far greater thoughtfulness we can imagine ourselves into the
ourselves carried away by our soul's vision.
perceive our ether body as belonging to the universe when the
in darkness. When you rise up with your sensibility then you
But at the same time you take your own etheric being out into
immerse ourselves in it. When we have this feeling — I
then we journey out into the distant universe [yellow rays], at
we have journeyed out we are together with our etheric being
here on the earth [inner circle]. Then we draw ourselves up to
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Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 11
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course how far one or the other comes along this path depends
hope, never lose patience or energy, but continue on our way.
according to our time and to the future. The flowering time
Lesson, then what I have just said can live in your hearts.
saw how we place ourselves in the world process and how in
the meditation we confront not only what resounds from our
soul but also what resounds to our soul, which in a
head. We can feel this directly: when we think, our head is
What is actually going on? When do we see ourselves
— in our heads — in the right way? Only, my dear
enclose in our heads. And out of it sprouts our human
activity on earth: our thinking. And so we must imagine:
Outside are the stars; our heads receive the effects of the
sending their rays down to us. Our heads receive these rays;
so what has been received is within our heads. From here is
the whole starry sky rolled together, so to speak, within our
force of our heads, the gods of cosmic space and cosmic time
angeloi in our descriptions of the
allowing ourselves to be impressed by the radiance of the
say from the depths of our souls, from whence in the
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Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 12
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Into your senses' sense of being?
Into your life's evolving stream?
Is it you yourself who
are familiar with. For your meditation select any mantra and
And then, once you have recited such a mantra to yourself,
difference in your bodies between when you are silent and when
you are speaking. Try to sense the speaking in your organism,
And when you have sensed this, ask yourselves: When I think
[yellow]. And you will then say to yourselves: When I speak, I
but at the same time within it, purely by means of your inner
ourselves as being transferred to where we hear what is being
That is how the mantra which is presented to your souls today
Behold your senses' shining radiance.
Your soul conveyed to souls
Behold the forces working in your thinking.
First we had “Behold your senses' shining radiance.” This
in reality, though, our senses also shine, except that while
our senses are shining we are not aware of it. So the being who
“Behold your senses' shining
admonishes us: “Behold the forces working in your
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Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 13
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for knowledge of our being:
Into your senses' sense of being?
Into your life's evolving stream?
Is it you yourself who,
which can bring our humanity into contact with what is
human spirit is closely related. We placed before our
Not meant is our everyday thinking, but
we can only achieve from our whole being by meditating deeply
Behold your senses' shining radiance.
Your soul conveyed to souls
Behold the forces working in your thinking.
So if we can always feel ourselves in this situation
saying it; we should transpose ourselves into the situation I
Feel in your breath life awakening.
Feel in your blood's weaving waves.
created between everything in our humanity and the beings of
Imagine yourself walking, and perhaps moving your
arms. Normally we think that we move our legs and the legs
have. We think that an unknown force – it is of course
Each leg is placed before the other. Thus we carry ourselves
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Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 14
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Lesson Fourteen
Guardian of the Threshold and have led our souls step by step
to see what our relation is to the Guardian of the Threshold
And from what has entered our souls through the mantras, we will
deformities when carried to an extreme. Of course it must be
emphasized: When the journey to the higher worlds is
on the solid earthly elements. The ground is beneath our
feet, it is our support. Around us is the watery element,
which also participates in the formation of our own bodies.
it interpenetrates us, transforms itself into our blood.
It is contained in our growth, in our forces of nutrition.
us. Warmth is all around us: the warmth ether, the fourth
ceases. We enlarge ourselves, we expand, and at the same time
these four elements have ceased to exist. The earth is no
longer our support, for it is no longer solid. The water no
separate element in the blood vessels, but our blood becomes
the four elements: in earth, water, air, fire.
That applies to all four elements in the Guardian of the
elements. All that we consume for nourishment must first
become liquid, from which the organs are formed. All our
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Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 15
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Into your senses' sense of being?
Into your life's evolving stream?
It's you yourself who,
world in which we have our true being, our humanity.
correctly, how this world demands our intense attention. We
part of us. And we have every reason to deeply feel in our
also be aware – and we can be aware of it if we put our
conscious of the fact that our true highest human self cannot
nobility; that we must seek it in a world separated from our
Every night when we sleep we find ourselves in the realm to
which we belong with the most inner, true being of our
and to enter the world of our origin.
of the Threshold who first admonishes us to look back at our
Now we to situational meditation: how to see ourselves already
enable us to understand our situation once we have flown over
our whole bodies when we are on it – the first, the
all our organs are formed – the second, the
Regarding what we inhale through our breathing, the
with each of the elements, so that we may feel ourselves to
than our presence in that spiritual world endures.
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Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 16
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to be receivers of anthroposophical wisdom. And, of course,
always spoken at the beginning of our deliberations,
Into your senses' sense of being?
Into your life's evolving stream?
It's you yourself who,
esoteric situation in which we feel ourselves: first of all,
recall it to our souls too often. We see before us everything
appreciate what our eyes see, what our ears hear, what the
other senses perceive, what we can grasp with our reason.
grandeur and awesome beauty in your surroundings, you cannot
find there what the inner nature of your being is. So you
must say to yourself: the inner source of my being is to be
as we look all around us we find our own self nowhere. Then
by a dark, night-bedecked wall. We see ourselves entering
darkness is our self's true origin; but we cannot see
over the abyss, for with our thinking, feeling and willing
spiritual world in which our real self originated.
our I and our astral body, because we can only enter this
These verses have not only shown us how our
existence, they have also shown us what our souls will feel
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Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 17
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Into your senses' sense of being?
Into your life's evolving stream?
It's you yourself who,
Once more let us review in our souls what summarized the contents
the Threshold stands, appeared before our souls. We heard the
your I?
Has your spirit understood?
Has your soul apprehended?
Has your body experienced?
left together with our capacities for knowledge.
your eyes, to prepare the substance with which you will penetrate
our imagination more profound through meditation, if we wish
Pass through your eyes,
Your I penetrate the circle,
Pass through your eyes,
Your I penetrate the circle,
sisters and brothers, and you must put yourself correctly in the
Pass through your eyes,
Your I penetrate the circle,
Sense our thoughts
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Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 18
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and spiritual life, will pass before our souls again at the
beginning of our considerations.
Into your senses' sense of being?
Into your life's evolving stream?
It's you yourself who,
that it contained the source of our being — expanded and
Pass through your eyes,
Your I penetrate the circle,
Sense our thoughts
And then — impelled from within — we must turn our
In the willing of your worlds
Feel our world working:
heart may resonate with it, we must feel ourselves to be within
the all-moving, all-pervading cosmic light in which we ourselves
This stands before our souls as unshakable, all-pervading truth:
spirit is. And we do well to place this truth before our
is outside this red is nothing. This is placed before our souls.
spirit revealed to our souls. Over there we did not see what is
earth we give names to nullities, we fall with our nullities into
strength of our hearts has remained there, we can feel deeply,
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Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 19
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through our souls which can bring to mind how everything
Into your senses' sense of being?
Into your life's evolving stream?
It's you yourself who,
mantric verses pass into our souls which, through their
felt, which then becomes light for our spiritual
The Guardian brings it to our attention; we
Pass through your eyes,
Your I penetrate the circle,
Sense our thoughts
second hierarchy, creating the world, approach our I; then
In the willing of your worlds
Feel our world working:
feel ourselves surrounded by this Spirit-Word. We feel the
world penetrated by this Spirit-Word. We feel ourselves
our humanity. Finally we feel this cosmic Spirit-Word
streaming into our hearts; we feel our whole humanity
ourselves spiritually immersed in the spiritual world
him as he softly speaks a last word of warning to our
which resounds from that other worldly reality. What our
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Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XX (recapitulation)
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about three to four centuries. And when we consider the
Previously, again lasting for three to four centuries —
through three to four centuries — was the reign of the
disposition and attitude, feeling yourselves to be members not
is of course therefore a condition that every member of this
so now we want to bring to our souls the words which resound to
at the thinking kingdom of humanity on earth; let us direct our
Into your senses' sense of being?
Into your life's evolving stream?
It's you yourself who,
our true humanity flows. To really understand these words means
human soul flows — to seek the source of human life.
the extent it lies in your karma. But the first step will be to
desire arises to direct one's attention to the sources of human
We must seek: Where are the sources of what lives in the human
soul, what our humanity actually is?
is not by being ascetic that we can solve the riddle of our own
senses and becomes our perception: beauty, truth, purity,
heaven's space. But your being, O man, is not among them. You
are not in what your senses reveal to you.
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Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXI (recapitulation)
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First, however, let our souls again hear the words which
Into your senses' sense of being?
Into your life's evolving stream?
It's you yourself who,
spiritual path in our times. For this School is the true
earnest countenance. And he shows us how our willing, our
feeling, our thinking appear before the countenance of the gods
result of the errors embedded in us by our times, our cosmic
we carry within us from the spirit of our times, is shown to us
first beast — the true spiritual form of our willing,
having the courage for spiritual knowledge.
Otherwise its beasts will devour
Your cosmic age has placed them there
Your fear of creative spiritual being
Begot the monster in your willing;
Your fearless knowledge alone overcomes it.
Your hate of spiritual revelation
Begot this weakling in your feeling;
Your burning thirst for knowledge must subdue him.
Your doubts in the power of spiritual light
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Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXII (recapitulation)
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dear sisters and brothers, we will again begin by letting our
Into your senses' sense of being?
Into your life's evolving stream?
It's you yourself who,
has shown us how the forces of our inner humanity —
awakened to our full humanity in respect to these forces if
Threshold has placed this shattering view before our souls, he
After he first showed us how we should stand in respect to our
down into our thinking, but that this thinking is of a seeming
nature [Scheineswesen] that cannot bear our true Self; but how
feeling being and seeming are united, how there our being
is perishable and seeming in our being arises, but also the
into our selfhood. Seeming transforms itself into being. It
streaming through our will.
light in order that we find the light that can illuminate our
which only becomes dark because we cannot find our actual being
See in yourself the weaving thoughts:
Guiding Beings of your spirit.
Your selfhood tends towards the seeming;
So plunge into your seeming being:
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Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXIII (recapitulation)
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Volume Three, Lesson Four
shall begin by again letting our souls hear the words which are
Into your senses' sense of being?
Into your life's evolving stream?
It's you yourself who,
dark powers in the realm from which the force of our thinking
streams into our humanity. The Guardian of the Threshold thinks
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 right track and lead it along paths of aberration. Our
speak; the darkness wants to make us lose ourselves in matter.
not letting ourselves be overtaken by light, nor letting the
darkness transform us into matter, but to stand firmly in our
selfhood and find the equilibrium for our thinking between
then when we consider our feeling, we must see — in that
to give us divine forces without our own effort. We would be
lose our Selves in the cold. We must find the equilibrium
maintain our equilibrium between both of them in order to find
Then, when we observe our willing, we must look below. There is
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Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXIV (recapitulation)
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so, we will also begin directly today to inscribe in our souls
Into your senses' sense of being?
Into your life's evolving stream?
It's you yourself who,
world can never reveal our own being to us; how our observation
extent we can perceive it with the senses and with our reason
— all that offers nothing to clarify the being of our own
gloomy for our true self-knowledge.
thus showing us an image of ourselves, which in turn shows us
what the true shape of our willing, feeling and thinking is
nevertheless in us, because the character of our times has
driven it into us. He showed us the animal form of our willing,
lead to true self-knowledge in our souls.
however, how our thinking, as we use it in normal life, is the
descended to physical-sensory existence. He showed us how our
corpse for our usual abstract thinking between birth and
ourselves: This corpse could never have come into being the way
our thinking when we become aware of its deadness, and realize
Then the Guardian reminds us that our feeling is only
half-alive, whereas our willing is fully alive, but we are only
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Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXV (recapitulation)
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Into your senses' sense of being?
Into your life's evolving stream?
It's you yourself who,
which leads us to where we become aware that, when we seek our
all that creeps and flies, in all that our senses perceive in
all that does not contain our being, the true source of our
humanity, that it becomes gloomy when we look here for our
illumine before the eyes of our soul our own being, and
is, in ourselves.
us look, my dear sisters and brothers, at our human existence
our human earthly existence. If we want to carry out something
is already present as a seed in our thoughts. We see it flowing
of love towards the being, we let ourselves grow wings of love,
thinking, feeling, willing — is closely related to our
the truth is that we are only really awake in our thoughts.
Our
will, however, as it emerges from our being, remains at first
completely unclear to our normal consciousness. We have the
itself rests in deep sleep, as do the things in our soul rest
to ourselves — because we sense that the kind of thoughts
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Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXVI (recapitulation)
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the course of time this will of Michael again and again
in our times as a spiritual institution. All those who want to
for our age.
lesson, your attention is expressly drawn to the fact that the
claiming that he was unable to avoid it. Of course, if someone
our friends come to Dornach, a will to sacrifice is involved,
kingdoms, what sparkles down from the stars, what acts into our
Into your senses' sense of being?
Into your life's evolving stream?
It's you yourself who,
Our
light and will illumine your own Self. With the last
stands there in the region, in which we first were with all our
we said to ourselves: our own humanity is not here; we must
as humans are in the sensory world, together with what was our
the earthly man, which we ourselves also are during earthly
return to our earthly duty. For we may not become dreamers and
the person who stands over there, who we ourselves are, in a
way that at first draws our attention to what this person is.
thinking, as seeming thinking in the coffin of our bodies. And
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Title: The Social Question: Lecture I: The True Form of the Social Question
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course of the terrible catastrophe of war. In these
course of the war we see how personalities, who are active
labour in the minds of mankind. Never before has the social
to recognise what lived in the labour unions in the most varied
consider what happens between the seventh and fourteenth years,
enter our present time in full consciousness, it must be
felt and acted, what they treasured for their honour, their joy
personal honour and personal will impulses. They were to some
discourse at the centre of various forms of the social question
words his own labour.
this idea that labour is sold to the employee just like goods,
this disgust grows because his labour is dependent on supply
and demand, it comes down to disgust for the labour commodity
made people a form of goods, namely labour. A method needs to
labour as goods. Humanity will only realize what hides behind
way can be found of how the labour of individuals can become
reached that labour belongs to the economic system as much as
an understanding of the function of human labour in the entire
side by side. The attribute linked to goods by the labour force
this hour, are also dispatched and made harmless by those who

Title: The Social Question: Lecture II: Comparisons at Solving the Social Question based on Life's Realities
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take these four lectures as a unit. This means the content of
our time here, it is relevant to reveal and substantiate my
evolution of knowledge. This means however that our thinking
meeting the natural organism, as you would place yourself
regarding the earnestness of your observation, will stop.
want to call your attention now to how this play of analogies
course of these lectures see it has to be an independent member
Our economic life is connected to all that takes place in the
nourishment is transformed in the third natural system within
capitalism have given a stamp to our modern community life, it
Economic life has in our modern time taken on particular forms.
human labour and any spiritual cultural life lie at the
locally produced bananas present a source of nourishment, how
specific destination. Compare the human labour involved in
exist in our production line also, under the production line
labour needed to bring the wheat in an appropriate manner into
Just as one can make such data for the measure of labour needed
regions, so comparisons can be made for the labour needed in
course of the lectures give more details with proof —
labour needed according to different relationship of the
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Title: The Social Question: Lecture III: Fanaticism Versus a Real Conception of Life in Social Thinking and Willing
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all sides into the thought habits of the bourgeois circle
in the present to connect the bourgeois circles to those of the
marching classes favours him so that when he has power in hand
the modern bourgeois social and economic order and it relates
encounter this in the course of the lectures what possible
reality, everyday circulation of capital, the cost of labour,
because we have not sharpened our gaze in this area.
instance in the course of the last few years looked at some
harboured fanaticism, such things imprisoned and limited
super-sensory experienced world, as real as what our eyes can
see, ears can hear or touched by our hands. This viewpoint is
bourgeoisie.
to these things, to actualize the Christian “change your
place these interests scientifically in the world. Our life in
for an entire year. The question can of course be made less
which has just been newly reprinted, perhaps in a favourable time,
determines the inner content of spiritual life itself. Our
out to the Proletariat that labour equals goods, labour could
the experience of human worth be conquered? That human labour
nothing other than his own labour. For each unit of goods, a
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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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thinking and social will have been adapting in the course of
the powers of the most individual behaviour. People are hardly
shifts in the course of recent times — into social
actually gives a social form to our current life.
course of events, or rather better said: of the presence of
crises during the course of events — are similar to what
corresponding way by observing time and again how in the course
course of human life can show how such critical changes also
such critical changes in the course of life is necessary in
in the previous lectures — in the course of evolution of
does not enter deeply enough into the historical course of
Proletarian world. The leading intellectual bourgeois circles
These bourgeois leading circles are through their interests
scientific relationships, the leading bourgeois circles linked
endeavour took on a certain course and we see that within
the leading bourgeois and intellectual circles became
of social thinking and feeling of leading bourgeois and
which are essential in order for, on the one side the bourgeois
extraordinary way which is the productivity and labour of the
lectures: to turn our focus on to the totality of striving in
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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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negotiated regarding the social question in the course of the
over a long time, up to our present times and to notice how the
appear now again when you engage yourself deeply in the second
Ages don't rule our current thinking as such, but it appears to
instincts of many of our contemporaries who want to address the
course of history up to the present resulted in thoughts
social structure of a community is determined, in our more
our more recent times is that humanity can no longer remain
see, as technology and capitalism moved into our more recent
the course of time a belief has developed within the
start of our more recent times, the bourgeois working class has
following which is often heard with corresponding colouring is
dowry from the bourgeoisie. This last and big belief which the
nourishment it received, spiritual nourishment for the soul. It
bourgeoisie: through belief, dogmatically — I could call
it — it acquired ideology from the bourgeoisie. It hadn't
clearly being experienced: ‘We have met the bourgeoisie with a
have brought us the salvation of our souls and the strength to
which our world view or something similar can bring salvation,
This is something which blows and runs quietly though our
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Title: The Social Question: Lecture VI: What Significance does Work have for the Modern Proletarian?
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in our time.
direction in our modern civilization. However, modern
life give us what our human existence is worth? Why have we
foundation as their labour, towards a social order in which
the course of modern economic life brought the economic life as
Christian-social side, from the bourgeois-socialist aspirants
permitted, did they accommodate the bourgeois leaders, allowing
Proletarian can give, and that one thing is Proletarian labour.
which human labour may flow into the social organism.
circles: through the modern economic order, labour has become
consumption of goods. However, it has happened that the labour
human labour in the healthy social organism. Here the question
intense manner. It must be asked: Can human labour ever really
will in fact ask: How can human labour legitimately be
rewarded? How can human labour in any way come to its rights?
One can add further: it must be in such a way that human labour
goods called ‘labour power.’ However, the power of labour may
never be goods! Where the power of labour in the economic
labour can be no goods because it can't have the character
something. The value of human labour can never be compared with
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Title: Lecture: Richard Wagner and Mysticism
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Spiritual Science lived in one of the greatest artists of our time. In
lead us too far, but a comparison will show that our method of
uses his intellect when he endeavours to understand the laws of the
of spirit, just as a blind man is surrounded by the world of colour
his eyes, colour and light are revealed to him. It is possible for the
our interpretation of these words will be put down as inartistic
alike of religion, science and art, they were the source of new
course of later evolution were destined to separate into three
to them through colour, light and sound and to such men the laws of
of the inevitable course taken by evolution. He believed that the
place in human nature in the course of the development of art?’ Man's
more deeply connected with the sources of life than can be expressed
and that in the course of its evolution certain beings are continually
find that the mystical life is the source of them all.
Our remote ancestors lived in a region lying to the West of Europe,
of our ancient forefathers whose form was very unlike our own. As I
sun's rays in the air. The air was permeated with vapours and clouds.
forefathers of ours were possessed of dull, instinctive clairvoyance.
Instead of objects in space, colour-phenomena arose before them. They
of course, only be indicated here in the briefest outline. As
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Title: Lecture: Spiritual Wisdom in the Early Christian Centuries
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the end of the fourth century A.D. I have often referred to one aspect
by the time of the fourth century A.D. and which in the later
four centuries of Christendom — for example, of the way in which
certain personalities in the first three or four centuries after the
man, in direct personal intercourse. Something else — again not
— but these concepts poured down as it were from the world of
more hours in the year. And these hours are directed by forty-two
universe, whereas nowadays we begin our physiological studies by
four centuries after the Mystery of Golgotha. With this wisdom men
in all, four hundred and seventy-four Divine Beings of different
Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans — all will name their Gods. The four
hundred and seventy-four Gods include all the Gods of all the
or maybe seventeen Gods from the four hundred and seventy-four,
another race has taken twenty-five, another three, another four. The
number of racial Gods is four hundred and seventy-four. And the
totality, one great system — the four hundred and seventy-four
Greece, in Egypt and in Asia Minor. It is, of course, true, that
And then, on the soil of Italy at the beginning of the fourth century
School — which lasted beyond the third on into the fourth century
savoured of the ancient wisdom, little more than the names of men like
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Title: Community Building
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communities we can experience our first awakening to the spirit in our
eyes toward the spiritual, such as our Anthroposophical
different. It was not just an ordinary structure for our
the case of our Anthroposophical Movement. For the matter in
constructed in one or another traditional style. In our case
source which gave form to the Anthroposophical ideas, as the
set it up, in a certain sense, as a memory in our hearts.
the more intensely seek for a spiritual home in our hearts to
means must we strive to set up for eternity in our hearts this
building which has been removed from the reach of our external
course, yet nevertheless a great amount of work which we had
striven to achieve for Anthroposophy in our present age.
especially if it takes root in the hearts of our
on our hearts — they direct our attention to one of the
facts upon which we should earnestly fix the eyes of our souls
been poured into the Goetheanum; and the impulses to this
found bis way to the Anthroposophical Society in the course of
sorrow, and with suffering: “For us in common has our
duration, — this makes a difference. Our deliberations
underlying causes — by many of our friends. There reached
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Title: Community Building
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communities we can experience our first awakening to the spirit in our
Anthroposophical themes. But the whole course of this meeting
it can flow into our daily purposes and the attitude of mind in
which we do our daily work. And so, I should like to give
wish at first to point out that there have, of course, been
— marked by gradations, of course, in accordance with
of course, according to the possibilities available as
course, with the meeting.
we are led by the natural course of external events, and let us
consciousness. Of course, there are many other ways of entering
will occur if we do not say to ourselves: “You must look
what is in the sense world. You must learn to transform your
thinking and your feeling. Just as the dreamer must enter
our ordinary science, and that which must be imparted by
tolerance of soul. But this has, of course, to be brought about
course with respect to Theosophy, one simply dreams
things into itself, as our Society has done since 1919, one
the situation within our Anthroposophical Society has become
An article appeared in an English journal beginning somewhat as
Anthroposophical point of view. It does, of course, come from
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 1: Evolution and Consciousness, Lucifer, Ahriman
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poignancy how Christ is pouring a new spirit into human evolution.
challenges presented by our age really have to be faced
globe. The whole course of human evolution can only be
the powers that intervene in the course of earth
said to be taking its normal course. Spiritual science
powers who desire to guide humankind in the normal course
of evolution, a course during which the earth repeatedly
serious view of these things today, but our hearts and
process of education in the course of Earth evolution.
We are living very much in our thoughts, though we are
the source from which this way of thinking, the
question we must ask ourselves is whether anything still
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
dreams, when a whole world of images emerges from our
waking hours come to resemble the mental activity we know
in our dreams today. Present-day thinking is the fruit of
human soul a long way back we find ourselves going beyond
our soul is active in thought we find ourselves rather
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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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poignancy how Christ is pouring a new spirit into human evolution.
moment. We shall then have to act out of our realization
of the gravity of the situation, irrespective of our
by taking this state of mind and spirit as our basis. To
the course of its preparation and later as it proceeded
live. We relate in some way to the soil under our feet,
went further into Asia in the course of those
the whole of our evolution, particularly in
descendants, that is ourselves, we have to say that the
say to yourselves: Asians are thinking more with their
organism. Using it as the instrument for our intellectual
ourselves: European ideas do not make it easy to grasp
written by university professors. There is of course no
beginning of our Christian era could not be directly
was thus poured into the conceptual world of the Orient.
body growing more and more dead. Our physical bodies are
1st, 3rd and even the 10th and 11th centuries. Our
our faith only in the Word, the Word as it is written.
independent of this body. Our future salvation entirely
depends on our ability to grasp the spiritual world in
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 3: Political Empires
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poignancy how Christ is pouring a new spirit into human evolution.
which we must base our actions more real. I am looking
in its appendage, America, over the last three or four
Of course
course that regents were prepared for their office by the
forerunners of our present-day priests. People had quite
practically all our ideas today on development, education
given in the mystery cult. This must of course sound
necessary to stop harbouring confused notions about these
hold today, ideas only three or four hundred years old as
prehistoric evolution, do of course give way to other
very well, of course, why they keep throwing such things
happened in our times. Humanity, fast asleep, has said
that are radically different from our modern ideas. If we
something in a spiritual realm next to our own realm that
say, something was taken as a matter of course, was the
in our external life, exist because they once had
course.
drawing your attention to things that give our public
put forward in the words we use, in our customs and
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 4: Western Secret Societies, Jesuitism, Leninism
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poignancy how Christ is pouring a new spirit into human evolution.
that must inevitably take our present civilization to the
have to admit to ourselves that many things are coming up
going on at present. On the other hand many of our fellow
and pay genuine attention to the forces that shape our
fact quite considerable. They are of course clever people
and the like, but still large numbers of our fellow
fail to recognise of course that there are many people
our own world does. It is however an initiation that also
involves the whole of our life, taking note how much
age, we may well ask ourselves how many people reading
be our will to consider those wider interests of
merely in theory, using our intellect, but instinctively.
should be our special meditation every morning, as it
direction or another how we are endeavouring to bring the
more bullets whistle around our ears from certain
know that our aim is to speak of the Christ Mystery out
our feet if we were to go for the truth; let us therefore
else today? The essential point is that our powers of
down to us from our life before birth or life before
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 5: How the Material Can Be Understood Only through the Spirit
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poignancy how Christ is pouring a new spirit into human evolution.
prevent the decline into which we have got ourselves in
has come to Europe over the last three or four centuries,
like this: The whole of our rhythmical circulatory system
water kept circulating with the aid of a pump. Our
rhythmical circulatory system, our blood system, is
spirit. Our blood system is set in motion by entirely
of their circulation, just as the eye perceives colour in
the nature of the human heart. Of course, if doctors had
cause real havoc in our thinking processes. It certainly
does. Our thinking is utterly ruined because it has been
thinking. How can our thinking grow purposeful in social
The human being thus perceives in four
Our two legs are merely directions in which we perceive
through the eyes to perceive colour. Elsewhere we
our weight and we step on colour, we could say, if we
terms, of course. I hear the blackboard chalk, I touch a
my eyes step on colours, my ears touch sounds; I know
being is organized on the basis of these differences. Our
transformed body of our previous incarnation, our
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 6: Materialism and Mysticism, Knowledge as a Deed of the Soul
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poignancy how Christ is pouring a new spirit into human evolution.
more and more of our members to come to feel this in
evolution of science over the last three or four
course materialism most heavily disguised as something
journals where people are informed as to what is
from Catholic or Protestant sources. This materialism on
religious confessions must of course attack anything that
serious account when we form our ideas of the present,
about in the present time, though they are of course
everything our eyes see, our ears hear and so on, is not
take a living comprehension of spiritual entities as your
living comprehension an abomination and base yourself
are located. As soon as you base yourself on atomistic
ideas you find yourself in a materialism that must lead
anthroposophical literature — that when we use our
(mineral, plant and animal) and also the fourth kingdom,
span in seven colours — but see it only as a
things we encounter through our senses as phenomena,
course be taken hold of, whilst in the case of the
it may affect our sense of touch, it should still be
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 7: Materialism, Mysticism, Anthroposophy, Liberalism, Conservatism
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poignancy how Christ is pouring a new spirit into human evolution.
our human environment. This can be clearly understood on
through spiritual science. Our eyes behold the outside
world, our ears hear the outside world, and we come to
very clear in our minds that however far we extend our
found within ourselves. We shall find it particularly if
certain mysticism coming to our awareness —
processes involving our physical organs. Considering the
try — in our thirty-second year, or perhaps at
another time in our lives — to become inwardly
our thinking if the decline is to become an upward
origin lies inside our own skins. Anything we see outside
same way we are in error If, due to the fact that our
reality, sometimes of course seeking it in the place
if they see matter as point sources of energy or as tiny
with sickness and health, very real things in our lives.
merely change our views but produce inner organic
are to get them clear in our minds. Consider the parties
which have formed in public life in our everyday world.
liberal element which is to the left takes on some colour
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 8: The Opposition of Knowledge and Faith, Its Overcoming
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poignancy how Christ is pouring a new spirit into human evolution.
way we perceive colours and sounds outside us. There was
humankind was taken as a matter of course when this
activity out of their own resources. In a way the gods
course of progress. We really have to use spiritual
divine source and origin. By that time however the
investigate the influences that made people endeavour to
world, to make it part of oneself, had of course been
your soul and spirit. You will then find yourselves the
honourable title ‘fighters for the material
Certain defects throughout the course of Earth evolution.
bottom of our hearts, the only viable aim for spiritual
Jesuit sources. The approach, the way of thinking, is as
ways of knowing that in the regular course of events
world to encourage people to associate knowledge with the
between knowledge and belief. There are of course large
The most powerful source of materialism today does not
Vogt. The most powerful source is Rome and anything that
encourage materialism’, but by keeping people bound
to deeper sources than merely living in words and
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 9: East, West, and Middle
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poignancy how Christ is pouring a new spirit into human evolution.
shall base ourselves on facts relating to the nature of
twenty-four hour period and have done so from many
know of course that this is only an approximate way of
occupied. We have to be clear in our minds that the
to the whole human being. We base our characterization on
our dream life shines into our souls, in a way. If you
interrelations and connections that exist in our waking
we discover as we consider our dream life — and
the physical basis of our life of ideas, must have
state. In the waking state the situation is that our will
In our dream life we have no such control. What is more,
our senses have ceased to act and our dream life only
question we want to ask ourselves today is what kind of
and spirit environment in which we find ourselves during
our own brains — except that their brains were
of view, that on the whole our time no longer has the
to put yourself in the state of soul of someone living in
have said. In daytime life, during their waking hours,
to live in accord with our age. Orientals were left with
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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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poignancy how Christ is pouring a new spirit into human evolution.
ourselves, and work for the real progress of humankind. Unfortunately far
forces coming from quite different sources than the form of energies used
This change determined the course of events in recent years. Yet there
work — labour — had taken on quite a different form to what
those energies were of course used in the war industries and therefore
were of course limited to a channelling function, or at best to stopping
beings are capable of producing. Indirectly they are of course connected
course, human actions had caused the forces of destiny to be surrendered
rest of our life as well. So you see what goes on in a world constructed
machines, with human labour made into something quite separate from the
to the ahrimanic sphere — yes, it has to be said that the course of
ahrimanic sphere. Luciferic elements are of course still present in many
great problem of our time is that people slide into the ahrimanic sphere
‘States will know honour and dishonour, ambition, egotism and so
of course, for the whole is at a subconscious level, but a mood will be
teaching children in your school and you will note that these children
We live through repeated earth lives. In earlier earth lives we ourselves
brought the fruits of those earlier earth lives into our present life.
Then, we knew that nature spirits around us determined our destines, and
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 11: Modern Science and Christianity, Threefold Social Order, Goetheanism
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that there are four major aspects to the human being and
four. Essentially the first four refer to aspects that
call our I or ego relates essentially to the earth as it
principle that activates the ego. Our ego is intimately
time of the Ancient Sun, and so forth, and that our ego
to develop it without taking the earthly realm as our
guide. As human beings we are part of this earth and our
earth, served as our guide in developing the ego to the
ourselves that if we were entirely dependent on the earth
and its forces in developing our essential human nature,
makes reference to this by showing that our evolution
ourselves we would have to do without spirit-self,
whole weight and burden of the riddle which lies in our
having to say to ourselves: ‘As human beings we are
in which it can shape our destiny can provide what we
of holding. We must be able to ask ourselves in all
should already be able to say to ourselves that the earth
is not enough for our needs, and that as human beings we
Christ we are able to join our own essential nature to
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Title: Life Between Two Incarnations
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the outset in order to prepare ourselves for a complete understanding
senses, which we can feel with our hands and which is bound to the
is, during our physical lifetime, a second member of the human being is
with our eyes, touch with our hands. And each of us knows it also quite
there is a fourth member in the human being, the crown of the earthly
kingdom, the crown of human nature. We can catch sight of this fourth
the God-being reveals itself. The revelation of God in man is a fourth
I-bearer, the fourth member in the human nature, makes man the first
four-foldness, the first member of which is the visible physical body,
member of which is the astral body or sentient body, and the fourth
member of which is the ego. These are the four limbs we want to
daytime consciousness, in waking, do the four members of human nature
physical body. Then we have the astral body, the carrier of our
oval. And then we have the ego-body. But the four members of human
when man awakes, the former two of the four limbs descend again and
body during the waking hours of the day and thus wears it out, appears
also of the etheric body. You will not only have observed it from your
own life experience in yourself and in other people, you will also have
body leave the four-membered human being with the ego, as in sleep, but
a here and there, but an everywhere; it is as if you yourself slipped
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Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture I
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The Problems of Our Time
these rooms, which are to be used for our work and discussions.
development. So strong is their demand upon our will and
energy if we would understand our place as man within
of the present do, of course, wear a “democratic”
which runs through our earthly civilization as artistic
space and time should tend to encourage appreciation of the
philistinism. So the simple beauty of these rooms, which our
great events throbbing through our time.: Out of such feelings
I speak, as from you all, to thank our friends most heartily
be the case. The three or four centuries ending with the
turned our thoughts to this — how valuable it is,
amongst the vehement, egoistic strivings of our times, to find
drawing that seriousness into our souls, as well as fostering
in our hearts thoughts deeply concerned with human evolution,
Looking at our own time critically, yet not captiously, we
should be dishonest if we shut our eyes to the many forces of
words and the truth is lost in many of our contemporaries and
have been prevalent in the world during the last four, five, or
which has flourished so much in the present age, as
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Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture II
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The Problems of Our Time
the last lecture the endeavour was made to show how necessary
impulses that they worked in human evolution. In our times,
must occupy ourselves with them in the near future, for the
can only arouse their interest anew if out of our own souls we
again concern ourselves with the spiritual world, fostering
foundation on which we can rebuild onwards into the future our,
shall realize if we put before our souls one question of such
man's egoistic instincts. Of course there are deeper
our future discussions on immortality, but the way in which
this also is important: that people of our day must hear a very
passed between our last death and that birth through which we
recognize that our real humanity lies in the depths of our
him, for the simple reason that his speech and behaviour had
our own inner being in
to experience our life as capable of development not only in
look back at our own schooldays evokes few pleasant thoughts.
invigorating source of life. Now this will bring, as you can
life. Only when the feeling of this fact fills our inner being
course of daily life. Let us assume that a man has something
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Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture III
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The Problems of Our Time
or to-morrow but in course of a longer period of time —
tasks of our age to make these changes part of our
the conscious waking hours.
really important feature of our post-Atlantean age is
is man's duty to-day to become aware of these things. At our
concrete facts work upon our souls in order to acquire a
consciousness of what forces are dominant and active in our
spoken of this from our own point of view. We must educate
Wherein will consist the success of our efforts towards a
into humanity in the fourth post-Atlantean epoch, which began
the first instance, to the instinctive conditions of the fourth
the course of the last four or five hundred years so proceeded
regarded, until in our times it has become possible to take as
mankind, will be as wreaths of vapour. These differences lie in
must all long for if we are serious and worthy in our wishes
will be no remedy for the wounds of our times. What is designed
Directly we touch on these things, the seriousness of our times
things to be found in our twenty years of lecturing, you will
even what we relinquish to the Earth at our death is important
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Title: Problems of Our Time: Main Features of the Social Question and the Threefold Order of the Social Organism
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The Problems of Our Time
PROBLEMS OF OUR TIME
FOUR
through the last ten years with our eyes shut we must have
last three or four hundred years, developed no ideas which can,
their own course. Their thoughts and ideas had become so
not see it. Three or four hundred years of routine in business
a social tumour, a malignant social illness or cancer; and this
illness within our economic and. social life must express
Cabinet took no heed of the publications of the Press, and our
strongest indication that for the healing of our social
three to four hundred years — especially during the
course of years, various things have eaten into the feelings of
poured out over the proletariat by its leaders. “In
no meaning in the clamour “produce only for
That is the conflict to which I would draw your attention
course of human history, we can only rightly estimate
our leaders” and “the unpractical theory of
pouring in the present-day development of humanity with such
vigour and mutually destructive force. The existence of such a
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