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Title: Evil and Spiritual Science
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under humanity there is a kingdom of animal, plants and
underground of being, which can only be reached after a certain
deepest underground of the world, and how evil and wickedness
rooted in the underground of the world and of human existence.
the simple world of the senses and the understanding related to
to the senses and to the understanding that is related to the
perfect human being. This should not be understood at all
being used in the sense world, and they undergo a kind of
present time one could say at once: for the underlying soul
only see under the pressure of materialism, what the senses and
understanding portray. But he must assume a spirit world. But
may laugh more or less at this; whoever better understands the
say, under a “psycho-biological viewpoint,” a point
humanity must undergo a period of spiritual starvation. This
the power to visualise errors, and not that which underlies our
correctly understand our soul, must live up against the
Whoever wants to understand life

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 1: Popular Occultism, Introtroduction
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asleep”, or when we underbind, tie off extremity. When a finger
is underbound a clairvoyant perceives that the finger's etheric body

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 2: Man's Ascent into the Supersensible World
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by little you will have learnt to understand these images. There is
it ends with thunder-step ,,,

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 3: The Different Conditions of Man's Life After Death
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astral world. This will give us a basis for an understanding of reincarnation
year! Your temperament undergoes a far weaker change. A passionate child

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 4: The Devachanic World
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appears as a terrific tempest, unchaining itself in lightning, thunder
wonderful atmospheric phenomena, in the sound of thunderstorms, lightning

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 5: Life Between Death and a New Birth
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we no longer live under the same conditions — he only consisted of four
filings in a box a magnet underneath it. The filings arranged themselves

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 7: Effects of the Law of Karma
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for each time he underwent an essential transformation. He returns to
the warm-blooded animals are concerned. Everything that undergoes a
will be a hard one, he may have a strong shock, and under certan

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 8: The Evolution of Man and of the Solar System; the Atlantic Evolution
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meaning, thus reaching again a literal understanding of the words. For
the sentence: “With the growth of knowledge and understanding,

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 9: Lemurian Development
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underwent a rapid transformation. The Atlantean soul-characteristics
The lungs developed out of this bladder, under the influence of the

Title: i Spirituality: Lecture 1: Historical Symptomology, the Year 790, Alcuin, Greeks, Platonism, Aristotelianism, East, West, Middle, Ego
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The constitution of the human soul has undergone a tremendous evolution
into decadence. In Plato, if we are able to understand him properly, we find the last offshoots,
human being as the spiritual. But it existed in a — I beg you not to misunderstand the word
soul-constitution was completely different from that of later humanity when, for an understanding
It was only through misunderstanding that there
then arose what occidental civilization gave itself up to under the leadership of Rome —
man's being. He had little understanding for what took place between birth and death. And now,
towards the 'I', but he cannot reach the point of really understanding the 'I' philosophically.
far as he can understand it, Kant, if he could really think to the end, would have to think the
still only a reaction, a last reaction to something else. For one can understand Kant only when
understand? There entered into Kant here — it fitted badly in his case because he was too
One will only be able to come to an understanding
respectively. But we have arrived at a point of humanity's development when understanding, a
common understanding, must spread equally over all humanity. How can this come about?
depths of spiritual science. No good will come from instincts, but only from the understanding
Entente. Understanding must be developed here for what is to become a unified culture containing
follow those who also understand something of politics and economics, who do not work only in
evolve is understanding of the political-state element, which has other sources than the economic
But for this we need the understanding support of the widest circles.
ten such Waldorf schools and then others'. The world did not understand this, it had no money for
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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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The constitution of the human soul has undergone a tremendous evolution
We know that, under the influence of our modern
life held in die West, especially in the Anglo-Saxon countries. In these countries, under the
socialist conception of life, however, developed in such a way that it stands entirely under the
has no understanding at all of the foment of deeper forces in the whole of our present
world. The more recent life of humanity can only be understood if one understands this
State has absorbed the economy, because industry and commerce have submerged and bowed down under
after all, basically brought to the visible surface only from the underlying depths of the
different types of beings do indeed work through human beings and we understand human character
the spiritual foundations underlying the differen-tiation.
2. Karl Marx (1818–1883), founder of scientific
Die okkulte Bewegung im neunzehnten Jahrhundert and ihre Beziehung zur Welikultur,
'...to remove the bitter enmity that has arisen under the influence of patriotism...' and to

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 3: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 2
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The constitution of the human soul has undergone a tremendous evolution
personalities who, under the influence of beings from the past who appear to them in
one wants to understand how the human beings of the European Centre are wedged in, as it were,
between the West and the East one must look more closely into the underlying spiritual conditions
thinking. And one can only understand the role played by what then developed out of the Roman
Roman element. Rome as such, the Roman human being, went under. But what remained of the Roman
understood by looking at it in this way. This human being, as regards his soul-configuration, his
prejudice at the results of Darwin's research will understand that something was present there
understanding. One saw how the German element evolved into the Magyar in an artificial way and
If you go to the East there is no understanding at
understanding at all for what is called rational in the West? Let us be under no illusion here.
The Russian has not the slightest understanding for what, in the West, one calls rationality. The
understands nothing; that is, he does not feel in this word what Western people feel. But what
worlds into human beings — this he understands well. Through the nature of what is spoken
by nature not the slightest understanding for what one must refer to as the relation of the
slightest understanding for this. For this is something quite different from what is given
Empire wanted more and more to creep under the umbrella of the State. Militarism, for example,
re-fructified. The Orient will understand the spiritual life that blossoms in the Occident only
Occident; as soon as this is allowed to cross into the Orient, it will be understood there, even
have a great deal of understanding for an independent spiritual life. And it will also take
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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 constitution of the human soul has undergone a tremendous evolution
reason, to logical necessity; for then he is coerced under the tyranny of the laws of logic. But
is filled with underlinings and marginal comments knows how Goethe had really studied
organism, one should be under no illusion that the economic thinking of the present is a
were little understood in the time that followed them. I have often spoken about
really able to understand something like
American life, into which our emigrants dissolved, stands today under the influence of the German
Thus, Herman Grimm is under this double illusion,
November in Mainz. His articles opposing Anthroposophy were published as a collection under the

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 5: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 4
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The constitution of the human soul has undergone a tremendous evolution
people to undertake the Crusades to Asia, to the Orient; especially when one bears in mind how
what people understood as knowledge.
under the dialectical-legal spirit. It is out of this that intellectuality was born. Spiritual
it had to develop further and could only do so under the influence of the dialectical-legal life,
under the influence of the economic life arising from the West, and in the decadent continuation
tied to the soil under the influence of an economy based on the exchange of nature-produce, a man
is a matter here of gaining a true understanding of the child one is educating so that one can
perceptive understanding of practical life is brought to bear — especially of the practical

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 6: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 5
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The constitution of the human soul has undergone a tremendous evolution
If an understanding for what one can call the
create a preparatory understanding for the course that the Christ-idea, the image people have had
occurrence of the Mystery of Golgotha. The Mystery of Golgotha is to be understood in the first
Thus the Mystery of Golgotha was understood first
by those people who, out of the remains of the old clairvoyance, had understood what had really
Thus the first understanding of the Mystery of Golgotha
before the intellect broke in and understanding for the Mystery of Golgotha could no longer be
the original understanding of Christ. The first understanding occurred in Gnosis with the remains
of a completely different constitution of soul. The Gospels can only be understood through a
something to be understood as one understands things of the physical plane. After all, with an
event on the physical plane one cannot understand why it ought to be described in four different
ways. For an event that has to be understood by higher forces one is concerned with how it looks
Modern humanity has actually developed under this
untruth. This humanity has absolutely no inkling that, fundamentally, it lives under the
those circles who had no understanding at all for the Mystery of Golgotha, who had only tradition
still see how theologians get hot under the collar whenever there is any talk of Gnosis! We have
to understand this on the basis of the development of European humanity. One must, for example,
understand the development of the universities. How have the universities developed? One should
social authority principle. One must only understand how deeply this has penetrated into the
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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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The constitution of the human soul has undergone a tremendous evolution
nineteenth century and our own time, the soul-constitution of humanity as a whole has undergone a
general consciousness. People underestimate this today. Just think how rapidly, especially in the
the usual theory of evolution expounded under the influence of
world-views. But this science has not been capable of raising man's power of understanding to the
learn of nature, the less we understand of ourselves, the less we understand of the human
weight on the soul. It is here that the inability of natural science to give man an understanding
and yet understood nothing of the situation mankind is in - when these people began talking about
understand that this has to happen. He can already embrace the thought that it must
understand.'
the earth who has united Himself with earthly humanity. People will have to understand that the
energy as a vague hypothesis — for no one in science today can picture anything under the
specialized science, is well able to understand what this man can understand. One simply cannot
things are freed. The case here is that this man has not understood a single word of what is
is what is working under the name of 'scientific conscientiousness' in official science.
not understand and does not wish to understand.
understanding it as such.
expectation, develops an understanding for the great experience of the twentieth century that is
that, in all reality, we can move forward to an understanding of Him.

Title: Abbreviated Title: Lecture I:
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But for one who wishes to understand the
readily understand that what thus surrounds us when we are born into
understand that someone who takes no interest at all in what surrounds him
with which he must live in order to learn to understand their gradual
understand their destruction and disintegration. Those people, however, who
it will be interesting to see whether it will be understood or whether even

Title: Talk To Young People:
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the world as it is today must get a new foundation underneath it.
the world as it is today must get a new foundation underneath it.
crisis” they can hardly understand.
describe — please don't misunderstand the phrase — as filled with
underneath did not rise to the surface. Rather than appear in
anthroposophical movement. A singular understanding came about
understand other people in the most human way. Otherwise we won't get
beyond the endless unproductive discussions. The will to understand
agree. What is so necessary is that we fully and heartily understand
understanding. You see, it was an attempt to search out and explore
have made it impossible. Anyone who cannot understand this is an
as it is today must get a new foundation underneath it. This is
narrow-minded man on the street will understand what you mean when
with Michael what he once had under his dominion. Young people will
begin to understand this when they begin to understand themselves. To
begin to understand these gestures of the spiritual world we can
is truly young, if today's youth, with understanding, can lay hold of
heart of ours. It then will help us to understand spiritual science.
an etheric heart. It is our etheric heart that will understand that

Title: "Heaven and Earth will pass away but my words will not pass away"
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under any circumstances. That is definitely provided for, and is a
You see, under these
down under his feeling of defeat. That is the idea. What its completion
without any sort of attempt to understand the other — to

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture I: Tree of Life - I
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understandable, one might even say justifiable. But something else
has already been said that may bring us again some understanding of
been enacted without any of the men on earth having understood or
gradually to reach an understanding of what had happened through the
took pains to understand Nature around them. And so we can say that
understanding and which then gradually dried up and withered into
conception in order to understand what hid behind this Mystery of
despairing struggle towards an understanding, a real understanding of
understanding what is flowing to him from the Christ Impulse. And so
understanding of the Mystery of Golgotha, then this would have been
understood: it looks as if in this ancient Europe a number of human
humanity were, in a way, protected from understanding anything that
wither ascends this Mystery of Golgotha: but it is to be understood
living. It would have dried men up. Under the influence of the after
the whole human life would have remained cold under these fine spun,
had settled in these regions had merely developed further under the
fundamentally only another way of pointing to the understanding of
One cannot understand Europe if one does
not bear this connection in mind; one can, however, understand Europe
of Europe, if we are to understand this European

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture II: Tree of Life - II
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undergone, he has the following experience. A definite consciousness,
convince himself, is understood when we take the wonderful primeval
which exists under the present ‘normal’
say, the arms of Lucifer. And one can understand the deep mystery
that underlies this whole world of facts when we see: in the same
comes in which we must unfathom if we would understand the necessary
world under the circumstances of our earthly existence. But the
realm; and indeed that is very easy to understand since Ahriman as we
developed and strove for an understanding of the Mystery of Golgotha.

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture III: The Power of Thought
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to meet with full understanding when one speaks out of the sources of
difficulty of being understood among the individuals whom we
forces within us we can hardly reach a right understanding, based on
many centuries to speak of spiritual science or to be understood when
has neglected to acquire an understanding for the Mystery of
the West as in the East. One is less understood in the West, since in
forces of thought; in the East one is not understood aright, since
papier-mÃ¢chÃ©; they have little understanding of
Hence we may understand as living
as one has received it to relate it to the world with understanding,
being, then you will understand: In Greece the evolution of humanity
misunderstand what is meant when I speak about it. It is of course
that which has undergone a certain completion in Greece, with the
understood that when something in the world is criticised, one does
then, under the influence of the Roman Republic. One must in fact
radically different, and one does not really understand the age of
divine. You only arrive at a real understanding of this
consciousness, under the influence of the Athenian initiates in
understanding of the Mystery of Golgotha, that he only saw how human
understanding of the fact that something entirely new had now arisen
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Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture IV: Harmonizing Thinking, Feeling and Willing
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nature of that which he must undergo during the Earth-evolution? I
earnestly you will understand that something of immense significance
solved in any case with earthly understanding. But we have seen that
it flow into the world of our concepts and understanding. Thus,
what a man must really understand to comprehend Christology. Why do
so many people not understand it? Why do they connect no right ideas
open to ideas which permit an understanding of the Mystery of
has died, and that they are trying to learn to understand the living
the dead, they are trying to understand and explain the living from
must take pains, always take pains to replace an understanding
through the dead by an understanding through the living. The whole
science must disappear. In its place must arise an understanding of
be wanting in an understanding of the Mystery of Golgotha. For we
it is necessary to recognise that only under specially abnormal
be understood, must be really grasped, as standing outside everything
that is derived solely from the Moon-existence, it must be understood
understood, be embodied in a single human beings.
understanding of the world must take in the future. But for a long
by other races if they say things that these people do not understand
or have no intention of understanding — another
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Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture V: Tree of Knowledge - I
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were a worm or some little creature, that lives and burrows under the
earth and has its home under the earth and never comes above the
which the plants are undergoing naturally also bring about changes in
when this worm is creeping about underneath, up above, caused by
which will give a proper picture of the condition under the earth,
picture will emerge, which classifies all the processes under the
that what he himself underneath has had as perceptions of
something comes into the sense-world which cannot be perceived under
unless you first come to understand where these proofs originate. For
conditions for the worm are such that he lives underground; the worm
human being lives with his senses to the world under the earth. Show
not merely under time-conditions, but under conditions, for which
already, if one understands things aright, one finds the enduring
because the human being, under the impression of his senses, forms
sense-exhalations but that which underlies as cosmic foundations such

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture VI: Tree of Knowledge - II
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organisms, which then underwent changes and only through the various
be understood as the incorporation of the entire sense apparatus in
and what is now being said is understood, only then will the time
undergone.
therefore, to undertake one's self-development from this standpoint,
my dear friends, is necessary: to understand how the impulses of
Lucifer-being. This is what underlies the words
can only understand this through spiritual science. The question is

Title: World Downfall and Resurrection
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that is why it is so difficult for us today to understand the
Indeed, this understanding can only come from Spiritual
many things were no longer understood at all, as, for example,
now we must try to understand the kind of thinking in which such
try to understand the attitude of men living in the first
wine). There was a real understanding of this mystery in those
found their way into the Roman Empire, became the founders of
under this ancestral sway. These bodies are all related, they
growing faculty of human intellect to understand this teaching
Only in the light of this knowledge can we begin to understand
understood the thought-life of the earliest Christians
understand the thoughts of the early Christians but out of this
the Spirit was not understood by men who once again were imbued
about, but little understood.
recognised and understood. It must be realised that in very
Understanding these things was hardly possible any longer in
understand John Scotus Erigena when he speaks of the Godhead
only a question of understanding the real meaning of the
begin with, men would be capable of understanding them.
men were not supposed to understand. These dogmas are not
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Title: Lecture: Philosophy and Anthroposophy
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Under
The human soul, under
under particular conditions, in the course of the development of mankind,
easily be shown. [Under “Wisdom of the
the soul, sought to gain an understanding of the world by the rational
Scholasticism, it should be clearly understood that no philosophical
misunderstood, because a positive and most intolerant ecclesiastical
misunderstood Thomism. There is no question of discussing here what is
conceived and understood. It was a task imposed by the trend of historical
increasingly thrust asunder and that Aristotle and his technique of
the founders themselves presented in the right way. Instead of looking to
arguments gathered from a different but equally misunderstood book —
may be better understood. A deep chasm had opened between reason and its
of cognition who pride themselves on understanding Kant, consider every man
real understanding of Aristotle enables us to find that an entirely
intellectualistic undergrowth which is the outcome of Kant's influence. We
to understand Aristotle's teaching of “matter” and
definitions in the Scholastic writings. We must understand what is meant
one with a dubious impression: men no longer understand each other on
completely misunderstood in accepted philosophical circles. Kant was
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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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to make it fully understandable, but it will become clearer if to begin
sufficient understanding for the Threefold Social Order, so that on the
basis of this understanding, the peoples of the West will take it
understanding it. We must know how to guard it, with a certain confidence,
undertone to our state of soul. Of course happy moods can arise also. The

Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture II: The Three Fundamental Forces in EducatioN
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later appear in the child as his powers of understanding and intellect, and
understood figuratively thus: as if someone were to play a sonata and were
help you understand the matter still better, I should just like to mention
bring the matter closer to your understanding, if you know that the music a
battle is taking place more under the influence of the consciousness,
didactic-pedagogical way. But such things can only be understood if we know

Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture III: Spiritual Knowledge of Man as the Fount of Educational Art
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But if you undertake a study of the being of man, and learn to understand
is essential that we really understand these processes right down to the
point where we understand what is actually going on in the body. You will
streaming through the sensory nerves to the centre for instance, undergoes
to distinguish understanding. And here we have to be clear about the fact
that all understanding is conveyed by man's rhythmic system, not by his
nerve-senses system, and we only understand a picture process, for example,
vibrations that are the actual bodily conveyers of understanding. We can
understand, because we breathe.
The belief is that understanding has something to do with man's nervous
the rhythmic system is connected with understanding, understanding becomes
closely will see the connections between understanding and actual feeling.
Actually we have to see the truth of something we understand before we can
place for our understanding of knowledge and the soul's element of
distinguish perception, understanding, and sufficient assimilation for the
understand at a pinch, because he is breathing all the time and therefore
have to understand in great detail.
the realms of the will. The place where musical perceptions are understood
understood in the rhythmic system. Everything we perceive is understood in
intimately connected with the organs of speech, understanding only comes
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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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understanding from a different point of view and it was said: with the
understanding only if we bring two such aspects to a synthesis. In
This is what people who understood something of these matters in bygone
understand the utter seriousness of this matter when I tell you that the
painting understand the meaning of what he draws: when I let the child draw
of it, taking it in, perceiving it, and so understand it and, as I
cell and the head, which in the unfertilized human cell is still under a
under the direct but only the indirect influence of the forces of
the rest of the organism undergoes, you must feel yourself a musician doing
will be heavier than under normal circumstances. It is not their form which
are teachers who are inclined towards an understanding of Karma and less in
understand him with greater and greater love. And precisely through that we
dilettante tirades through a deeper understanding of the human being. Even
love so strongly that, under our guidance, they will do things that do not

Title: Social Understanding: Lecture II: Social Understanding Through Spiritual Scientific Knowledge
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UNDERSTANDING THROUGH SPIRITUAL SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE.
our time. In that case it is vital to understand what its connection is
to remember something. Looking at memory is the best way to understand how
into material existence so that material existence can be understood and
they despise material existence instead of understanding it and looking for
understand man. There is no way of really grasping man if you look at
under
understanding are supersensible, that is, everything we make use of for
understanding. And these are the same forces that also form our head. So we
understanding.
earth. The forces of understanding come to us from the world's periphery,
child absorbs something that reaches beyond his understanding, purely
yet understand what he has taken in, as people say in superficial life. Yet
re-experiences it. He has become mature now, and he can understand what he
is able to release from the depths of his soul; he can understand the thing
in your younger days with inadequate understanding, and which you can now
takes in what it understands — for that will disappear
difference if you understand the kind of things that are being put to
practical use by spiritual science. Because if you understand them in the
understand it properly, you will find an opportunity to make use of the
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Title: Buddha and the Two Boys: Lecture I: Buddha and the Two Boys of Jesus
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for the understanding of the Christ Mystery.
Gospels, which can be understood correctly only with the help of the facts
himself. He would not have understood such laws at all, if they had been
century before Christ â€” sitting of the Bodhisattva under
himself into that child in his Nirmanakaya. Under the Nirmanakaya one does
held together in the higher worlds by the ego of the respective underlying

Title: Buddha and the Two Boys: Lecture II: The Gospels, Buddha and the Two Boys of Jesus
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for the understanding of the Christ Mystery.
other Gospels, that in a certain sense one would get the same understanding
especially to the understanding of the outer, present physical world. Above
just in the abstract. If you want to understand how this happens in
understandable for the writer of the gospel of Matthew, who added the
understand Christianity in all its deep meaning, we have to realize that
above all, go out, so to speak, to an understanding mastery of world
to understand the most original of the ancient Hebrew spiritual current.
compassion and love. If we want to understand this, we must tell ourselves
pronounce certain moral principles; man then understands them. When he
people are picked who have understanding for the teaching. Perhaps one will
One usually understands as development that
a completely different current had to unite. Under certain circumstances

Title: Lecture: Art As A Bridge Between The Sensible And The Supersensible
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understanding. The proletarian masses have increasingly had to regard
the human being undergoes a bourgeois education, donning superior civic
literary. Ever less understanding showed itself for the pictorial, for
human beings became less and less capable of understanding each other in
understand each other so little — indeed to an
conceived of as born out of the entire world. Understanding the human
being presupposes understanding the world. Yet, how little is a real
understanding of the world actually sought (and hence a real
understanding of the human being) in a natural scientific age that enters
to have nothing to do with understanding the social question, it
intimately connected with understanding the social question. This will
once more of calling forth a common understanding between beings that
understand that. A “casting” actually
acquire understanding for the many-sidedness of human beings, and gain
not notice such things. But it is easier, self-evidently, to understand
social understanding and the social interest will develop. For when do we
have no social understanding? We have no social understanding only when
understanding awakens at once when we take an interest in what lies
allied to understanding the social question. In many respects the social

Title: Raphael's Mission in the Light of the Science of the Spirit
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really speak of an education the human soul undergoes in
the spirit, in wanting to contemplate what underlies the
aspires to in wanting to ascend to an understanding of
veritable “spring-time birth,” undergoing an inner
Perugia, where Raphael underwent his youthful development,
made the impression of being tired people, having undergone
ideas, but the entire city-state. Florence stood wholly under
come to an understanding of the characteristic soul quality in
buried for centuries under rubble and debris on Roman soil were
undergone this internalizing and had lived for a long time
Perhaps it is not too audacious, in attempting to understand
serenity in Raphael. Then we come to understand why he had to
see the ancient Greek culture, buried under rubble,
continues underground, out of sight, far below a mountain,
humanity had undergone we see infused with the Greek creative
understand the profound empathy with which he contemplated
understand Herman Grimm when he relates that he once hung a large
inwardly in lives that follow upon each other. In undergoing
by means of spiritual science — do we come to understand
We can understand our relation to Raphael and such thoughts as
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Title: Leonardo's Spiritual Stature: Lecture
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his age, and yet he was often misunderstood or out of sync with his time,
spirit of his age, and yet he was often misunderstood
received this impression of the underlying idea of the picture
soon these oil colours were undermined by dampness, the
refectory of the Dominicans, was completely under water on one
the picture. They found the door too low that led underneath
richly endowed to be able to fully conclude what it undertook
to secret and never finished. One has to understand this
understood on the basis of the existing lighting, but not the
of this hypothesis, one understands that in striving everywhere
to ask: what really is the underlying secret of this figure of
understood quite differently than otherwise. We can make clear
times, but to indicate the underlying facts.
only a “by-product” of what they undergo
understand! — In order to be able to reveal various
soul had to undergo, in that “Leonardo existence,”
becomes understandable when Goethe states: “Of regular
cosmic existence — but alone, forsaken, not understood,
having undergone much suffering, initially entering into life
from this human countenance. We begin to understand the age,
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the underlying sources, he makes use of the fairy tale once
the need to understand the specific human beings presented to
approaching fairy tales with sympathetic understanding,
pictorial expression of underlying experiences. The
complicated, hidden processes this food undergoes
organism. What the food undergoes initially evades human
day-consciousness. Awakening from sleep under especially
person does nonetheless undergo these conflicts at every
subjected to thunder and lightning — in experiencing how
and every soul stands under the impression of this battle
of our understanding, our reason, feeling and will. This
feeling such as the following only under quite
understanding them, it sensed more or less consciously
the inner battles it had to undergo, giving pictorial form to
undertaking actually to examine individual fairy tales in
experiences the fact that it has undergone an existence,
only do so under the influence of the sun's light and warmth.
concerning the deepest underlying strata of human
Grimm, understandably had the feeling — even if
just taken as theory, but becomes an underlying mood of the

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underline its overall importance for Rudolf Steiner: Held January 16th 1913
Des Knabens Wunderhorn [1806] [The Boy's Magic Horn].
he understood himself to be, lo to say, the spiritual
undergone something of the development of German Romanticism.
to leading individualities, undergone a spiritual
enable one to understand the Greek world. Yet what the Greeks
something like an undertone in his manner of characterizing the
the Christ figure had undergone changes over the
to demonstrate how the Christ impulse undergoes changes. He
have characterized the sweeping cultural horizons underlying
becomes understandable that such a spirit had to struggle in
be described more wonderfully, in having been undertaken by a
even those distance themselves from him, if they but understand

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historical evolutionary epoch and that we can only understand this
was of course a question of power. And in order to understand what
motivators dominating the Assyrian empire cannot be understood
We cannot understand the old oriental
ruler or the rulers. It is very difficult to understand the feelings
more or less forgotten. Even Catholics understand little of the fact
If we wish to understand such a
necessary because only thus can we understand what tasks and what
done, for under the surface, especially in the western countries, the

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understand the contemporary world under such disagreeable conditions,
under their feet if such things have become platitudes. People love
character of the half-understood, the
not-to-be-completely-understood. It had the character of colored
“emperor” was invented. Perhaps in France under similar
conditions the “empereur” would be understood,
half-understood at least, because there was some substance left in
the underlying reality of economic life. But that talent did not
exist in Central Europe. And in order to understand what happened in
societies organized outwardly under very sympathetic rules, and have
secret societies, whose members usually don't understand them —
within are totally united under the slogan: We are all brothers.
a matter of indifference under which viewpoints people come together
external power — dead power. But when they come together under
people under a more or less unified faith, must always reinforce its
many men together in the lodges under such laudable viewpoints? It
someone is a powerful minister, say, and needs an under-secretary of
him. This kind of cooperation is justified under the circumstances in
life driven underground and a rights life wrapped in a toga of

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necessarily justified, but understandable — later continued on
understanding of what is necessary for rights in society is
new spiritual life. And it is therefore understandable that it is
burdened with the most ridiculous misunderstandings. For this new
will understand me better if you imagine that we try to paint this
is still not understood that in the second stage the statesmen of the
west still suffer under a great illusion. Woodrow Wilson would no
exist forever, do not consider being permanent. Of course under the
platitudes under which only economic imperialism glimmers —
is not understood that everything which appears is subject to life
tell the truth. And we will understand each other best when our
mutual understanding is based on the desire to hear the unvarnished

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contemporaries find the most difficult to understand, is this,
development something else needs understanding, if one wants to
arrive at an anthroposophic understanding, than that which one
phenomena in nature, in order to understand it. You would want
organic nature. This is what is usually understood today, as
regards under such an idea as the expansion of thinking. A
entire scientific world view. This is usually misunderstood and
second item which commonly leads to misunderstandings is
understood.
he wanted to arrive at a certain causal understanding of the
while X is the cause under the influence of the working called
then misunderstandings arise — somewhat in the sense that
told Goethe. Goethe said he understood how a certain
understand this way of thinking at all, and finally the
it — misunderstandings developed relating to battles
is very easy — I understand totally where
misunderstandings come from — to find such phenomenology
underlying to obtain clarity. In this way phenomenology wants
mathematical thinking. It is quite understandable that Du
understanding” in which he, I could call it, celebrated
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come under scrutiny, namely in his treatise entitled:
understanding through biological differences, by finding a
beings. For those who want to understand if one could speak
inner understanding it doesn't involve mere judgement, but a
of the animal. Here the most impossible misunderstandings come
naturally understand quite well, and said: ‘When we sleep, we
When you think about this, you would understand the innermost
organisation work in a different way under the influence of the

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in science to determine certain steps to understand concepts,
organism is bound to what it can develop under the influence of
wisdom. Hegel would simply not have understood how one could
grandiose manner, he wanted to understand actually only on the
level of thinking, that he wanted to understand the experience
wanted to attain a true understanding of the Logos, then the
wisdom. We understand that in ancient times, philosophy could
thinking in physics in contrast to them taking shelter under
on an understanding of a mathematical nature. Time was short to
the understanding of nature. So it happened that certain
believes this then it is a misunderstanding. However, I must
understand the scientific way of thinking in its purity and
will now understand.

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view understandable, it is always accused of having its ideas
ordinary human understanding and ordinary healthy logic. In any
understanding. One of these areas in which results can really
science”, the attempt was undertaken to represent certain
are simply verified through healthy human understanding, is not
— life skill, on his understanding of life, and it is this
understanding which enables him to grasp the most varied of
to a self-understanding which one can't achieve in
all teaching is based on the understanding of the human being,
follow how under healthy conditions speech is learnt under the
is meant by the power of authority is not to be misunderstood
principle comes under scrutiny in a certain phase of life. This
the warmth in a body is hidden and can become free under
of what had been understood as abstract concepts earlier, but
childish nature into what is understood as the syllabus and
conscious than one is aware, and suffers under a system where
can readily understand how the spiritual utterances which were
understand the child — and even young people!
the possibility to fully understand the child and enter into
have a civilization which we simply don't understand, when we

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life in its relationship to the area coming under discussion.
where it was first misunderstood in the worst possible way. I
can only say I fully understand these misconceptions which have
been given to these underlying intentions; these
misunderstandings are phenomena of our time. However, I must be
discovering and understanding: real problems exist here,
an ever wider understanding for them.
involvement in economic life — in the old sense; under the
is the least understood from that side and that everything
external symptoms are wanted. It has little understanding that
sense with the “Key notes” to understand them
point of view object according to today's understanding of
arrived into the soul constitution; the drive to understand the
understanding the phenomena of human life and human nature as
really distinguish what works and what can be understood as a
can be taken up every day. It was a call to the understanding
about really understanding how each day the members of the
the social question but to search for conditions under which
a natural organism under the influence of its relative
only; we need to understand them in a lively form. If
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misunderstood in the most profound sense, if it is regarded as
dealing with today could be understood as an “unequivocal
of misunderstandings will again be linked to what I have to say
new misunderstandings to arise; I will renounce some of them in
Once you have understood this in a lively manner then there is
which is considered popular, which we call understandable. You
speak about radically, should not be misunderstood.
this basis one can understand the entire medieval theology,
systems in order to understand them and not to oppose them.
understandable why Catholicism has become Catholic, Protestants

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book and the mind, which understandably I didn't wish to
rarely done. If such preparation would be undertaken then one
undergo essential psychological processes first, to experience
understand that human evolution already existed as a deep
thunder, lightning flashes, in the rolling wind and so on. An
This is something which can certainly be understood and
understand the content of older words. We must realise that
This experience does not underlie the older revelations of the
which is also understood by most Germans. New High German
wants to really understand literal fluency. One can't
(Wundertheorie) which assumes that at a certain stage of

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undermined — must be imbued, especially in this School.
humanity and this fact should not cause us to undervalue those
own obstinacy, which hinders understanding what the School
undermining forces which are increasing day by day. The members
attempts at undermining it.
understanding. We shall begin with the words:
understanding, and can only be revealed by the countenance of
which he achieves when he understands what the Spirit-Messenger

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deeds, still he can find no answers, no satisfaction if, under
undertake some task related to anthroposophical life, and how
number of our friends were to undertake something in this
are - which under the surface of life work today as always -
Rather the earth is to be sundered from divine intentions and
echoes. [The word is underlined.] And if you observe and feel
underlined], and if you correctly sense how all three are

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world, which in a certain sense slip under your thoughts,
overestimation of one's self and underestimation of others.
misunderstood the Guardian of the Threshold. If you use a
world of cosmic feeling, again you have misunderstood the
understand.

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Guardian of the Threshold. And we must understand this meeting
world cannot take place without this understanding of the
should be understood as merely in preparation for a
in understanding true esoteric life as we continue. For what
the esoteric, our very understanding of it brings about a
is recalled. If you had wanted to undertake something together
With this kind of attitude it is not possible to understand
esoteric truths correctly. Such truths can only be understood
we do not understand them if we do not use pure thinking to do
merely pours through our understanding, when it should immerse
then we will understand something else. Yes, my dear friends,
words. And when we understand the words, the thoughts they are
in ordinary life to the deeper understanding in the soul. And
trochaic rhythm, and we should understand how this rhythm,
I said last time, it is not a question of understanding the
thunder: it is I. I contemplate the lightning: it is I. I feel
drawing under, except that one specifically describes the
future this should not be understood as a mere manner of
not been understood by everyone. But the School's leadership

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is able to approach and come to an understanding of the
spiritual world in any form, depends upon understanding the
undergoes a substantial transformation in the Guardian of the
needs to be understood as being not only extremely important
with these words, words which must be understood anew in every
the senses, and how reason understands it, it is certainly not
is more difficult for normal consciousness to understand light.
understood in all seriousness by anyone who strives toward
Then we must do our best to understand, with spiritual
matter, our thinking is extinguished. By understanding this,
between warmth and cold is what one must understand as the
undertone to be present. One looks back the few days after
instinctive clairvoyance that he could understand the words
understand what was being called out to him. And now we live in
understand the words called out to them in spirit-language.
out to him and he does not understand them and must therefore
live through the torments of not understanding. And what do
and our willing will be able to understand and to grasp the

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They are too close to us to be understood as very sharply
metamorphosis that salt and sugar undergo in his organism, how
the Light; but beware of the underworld - Water, Earth; beware
don't merely understand this theoretically, as is mostly the
lessons, my dear friends. You should not understand the things
will you experience the heart of the matter if you understand
those who realize that the light is there will understand the

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entity. This is not generally understood. So something must be
the human being is at first unconsciously asleep. Under normal
thinking is only capable of understanding the earthly - we must
three lines are underlined in yellow.]

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based upon an understanding with the Vorstand at the
unless an understanding with the Vorstand at the Goetheanum has
Goetheanum be understood as the center of the anthroposophical
Anthroposophical Society must be clearly understood by the
cannot agree to work together with someone as a member under
understood not as having been established by a human impulse,
possible. So that this School is to be understood as an
be understood to be. It is obvious that all the previous
Goetheanum, they must either reach an understanding with the
esoteric work under conditions other than those just mentioned
unrecognized by it, but must clearly understand that it cannot
with the School must be clearly understood. So the members must
understand that [the leadership of] the School must be able to
universities are organized. But that doesn't work under certain
reveal the grand cosmic script. For one who understands the
healthy human understanding of what he has been told, for both
we can understand the human being so that we look through the
should therefore try to better understand and bring closer the
[“behind” is underlined]
must not pretend to understand these things with the intellect,
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desires to understand in the right way must do so inwardly.
With common sense we can understand all of anthroposophy, but
to understand inwardly means to transfer more and more what is
understood to inner life. Whoever wishes to do this must decide
to undertake a really intimate exercise of these three
to bottom on the earth and feel the earth under the soles of
[Certain essential words are underlined later, as described in
first mantra sentence “support” is underlined.]
sentence “formers” is underlined.] Still somewhat
“nurture” is underlined.] It already has a certain
underlined], comrades, beings similar to us.
truly religious cosmic sense which can be undergone through
if it is really undergone, if we really end up being pious
understanding, that is, with ever greater cosmic experience

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individual must find the way to understanding what it means to
understand everything offered by anthroposophy, if it exerts
common sense which understands anthroposophy, then at the
common sense which understands anthroposophy is the beginning
starts with this understanding through healthy common sense and
due to purely external circumstances. They do not understand
therefore in a certain sense undergo a cosmic evolution. Many

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brothers, if we are permeated with the will to understand
[creates is underlined.]
underlined.]
[“will” is underlined.]
[the three words are underlined.]
[the three words in quotation marks are underlined.]
understand what the content of this esoteric school is meant to be.
was an English sculptor. She belonged to the innermost circle of founders of

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been said that understanding must exist for true spiritual
that we must understand that the person who is able to transmit
at first by means of healthy human understanding – then
And you will have the sensation: I feel this under the region
of speech, I feel it here below, under the region of speech
experience it under the region of speech.
spiritual understanding. But a substantial seclusion from the
is to be understood.
The word “thinking” in the first line is underlined
undergoes there it is returned to us so that we can then also
“feeling” is underlined, and the last lines of
Parts 1,2 and 3 are also underlined.]
cosmic thunder; that a softly admonishing voice intervenes

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memory-thought can be felt under the region of speech.
Archangeloi; and in remembrance, under the speaking, the
understood at first. Because the profound sense in which it
cosmos comes an urgent voice like thunder, then the Guardian
underlined.]
“being” underlined.]
blackboard, with “tools” underlined.]
underlined.]
undertake them earnestly.
And to your understanding's power,

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undertaken as it is carefully described in my book
normal human understanding, first in knowledge and also through
may lose the everyday capacity for understanding, which holds
You must understand, my dear friends, the reality that this

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events and cosmic beings, if they can truly understand with
in order to grasp with full understanding what the content of
on the other side of the abyss, but still under the influence
enable us to understand our situation once we have flown over
not originate, we have the solidity of the earth under
from out of the darkness, as if they came from under the

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who correctly understands the world. But before doing so,
From this you will understand that membership in the School
the School be understood in such a way that the member feels
heart to understand them: the admonition to self-knowledge,
and the waves, the thunder and lightning. We see everything
Has your spirit understood?
understood?” Our inner self becomes warm. It
your spirit understood?” with pride and arrogance:
“I have understood”, but the I feels: divine
prepares us for understanding.
Has your spirit understood?
Has your spirit understood?

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understanding of the universe, resounds to human hearts from all
Has your spirit understood?

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fountains ripple, how the lightning flashes, how the thunder
understand the connection between his earthly existence and that
passes through the gate of death will only be able to understand
And what is extremely important in understanding
— if it has been heard, otherwise it cannot be understood
understand what is resonating there.
should already have heard here. They don't understand it. When
understand what is resonating there, if we can only hear the
incomprehensible sounds instead of the understandable words of
understand the spiritual world into which he enters if
And your power of understanding,

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Spirit-Word that underlies the creation of the world. We
fleeting thoughts understand as “I am” is only
point out to our souls the path to understanding the true

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noted in everything undertaken within the Anthroposophical
Archangel under whose impulse the spiritual life of the present
life under the rule of the Archangelos Raphael, who bears the
against a profound spiritual darkness on earth — under
only then, my dear friends, can you correctly understand what
our true humanity flows. To really understand these words means
understand the inner meaning of the esoteric path. This
that it be understood; for such understanding is in itself the
work for each individual. And the first thing is to understand
turbulent thunder.
that crawl under the earth, the stars that glitter above in
underlined.]
and if we correctly understand the words which resound:
are underlined.]
beings in our surroundings say, if we understand them

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Which sunders you from the knowledge fields
[The mantra, with underlining's, is written on the blackboard.]
Which sunders you from the knowledge fields
the future of the earth under their power. If they were able to
[The mantra is written in the blackboard, with underlining.]

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strength; how, however, we should understand that not only what
Your selfhood then should understand
Your selfhood then should understand
Your selfhood then should understand
Your selfhood then should understand
we then “understand”, where we gradually come
“understand”; It is “grasp”, which is
which must be felt so that the gestures are understood as:
must be understood, so that these things are not thought to be

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must to do so under the conditions which I will mention at the
then, if we understand what striving towards the light is, we
We have here the escalation [the words are underlined on
[underlined on the blackboard] “touch”,
lightning, every thunder has called to us:
understanding impossible. Least of all in esoteric matters

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death in order to understand the things of the physical-sensory
underlining:]
But it is just this understanding of ourselves as earthly human
underlined on the blackboard:]
Thus, we may understand what is spoken as having been

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[The following words are underlined:]
underlined:]
“limbs” is underlined.]
[Now the following three words are underlined:]

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Alexander, which was under the impulse of Michael, was followed
nineteenth century we are again under the sign of Michael's
understood as my words, insofar as they are the content of the
fact that this Esoteric School exists under the direct force of
under and on the earth as worm-life, from what speaks in rocks
and springs and fields and thunder and clouds and lightning;
are underlined.
underlined, and in the second part “Life”.]
underlined.]
underlined.]
[This third verse, with underlining, is written on the

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under the fear of the question: ‘What will happen if the social
on the one hand and under complete misunderstanding of some
fear and misunderstanding were not there. Then again, in the
possibility exists for the understanding, the mutual
understanding of the classes. The middle class has difficulty
can hardly understand how it came about, one could call it,
different after the elementary, underlying aspects have been
understanding of themselves, whereas before they had been
understood. The historical development of humanity is basically
to is that basically it is hardly appropriate for understanding
the nineties we see under the influence of this impulse which
being itself, is understood, not out of economy but quite something
members of the social organism. Only when the understanding is
together. If one can't understand the human organism in this
reform it, not understand the social organism correctly. Today
an understanding of the function of human labour in the entire

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nothing other than undermine the other elements of the social
understanding in order to orientate it towards the healing of
a real understanding of this organism it is necessary to
understand that this social organism, if it is to be healthy,
misunderstood. Since Schäffle wrote a book about
natural organisms. In order for you to understand me I have
order for no misunderstanding to arise in a belief that the
understandably also start on the side of the spiritual life but
understand it more closely.
exist in our production line also, under the production line
to understand that the human organism can only be alive as a
could, to make myself better understood as far as it is needed
but the deepest sympathy and deepest understanding for the
are just what work together in a unit. Through an understanding
social organism and who have understood some of it, that they
actually underlies the complete freedom flowing out of single
wish to say I can understand every objection raised but ask you
understand objections being raised as I'm just trying to
not yet clear. I must say I can understand every objection
can say that these things have been understood in a certain
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made an understanding between different classes of humanity
discuss the underlying impulses rather than see how they
between them, how difficult understanding is; this failure to
understand is both a world historic and also a social fact of
dismissed by the proletarian, does not understand that the
thoughts also want to penetrate the understanding and
comprehensive reformation, reforming the understanding of the
understanding is too closely meshed. They can't grasp the
present. Whoever is, in full earnestness, able to understand
truth, they were either not understood or misunderstood or
of the world and takes on an inner soul understanding into
to understand it in depth, that the development of modern
to not make myself misunderstood, I'm mentioning almost in
social understanding, out of a certain inclination to purely
life's branches should be conceived with social understanding,
and this is important — be placed under some or other
circulate as goods on the market and stand under the law of
what Karl Marx said and this is how they understood the modern
Proletariat. This understanding, while it has altered in some
understanding or out of national economic created ingredients
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able to understand their position within the human community
which heaves and pulses with social impulses under examination,
found towards understanding such things by doing what one
misunderstood conception that nature makes no leaps in a
order to really understand the history of life. As much as
understanding of life and to point out such things with radical
linked to what we have placed under the three members I have
understanding, to find a mutual understanding between both the
newer times, that social understanding, an understanding for
enters, but that this understanding brings no learned aspect
in their current situation to understand it in a lively way,
order to make it understandable, say the following: in economic
under the influences and impulses, that the consumption for
way under the historical points of goods-price development
coalitions which essentially exist on the understanding of the
actually to be understood under the essence of laws, laws which
understanding of the difficulties when one looks for instance
of law which I've just been speaking about. An understanding,
but not an understanding for some or other general abstract
definition of law, but an understanding for the effectiveness
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necessary to make the following clear, in order to understand
capitalism today has not yet understood the concept of a
Brotherhood, then it is easy to understand that it is being
fixing of working hours, only underlying the state corporation,
speaker's words as follows. Understandably with every lecture
rightly understand out of which omissions my talk should come
misunderstood.
statements. Understandably I don't want to discuss such
I don't quite understand what this whole irrational element has
question possibly contains a misunderstanding with Dr
convicted by a Czech in a language he fails to understand. He
a Czech who can't understand German. What I am indicating is

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concluded that now again an understanding needs to be
addressed, an understanding so strongly yearned for which has
those who are searching for such an understanding, it is so
quickly come to an understanding; how far humanity has come
come to such a frightening expression for those who understand
hand, hardly an understandable word can be heard in response.
those who really understand the Proletariat, not merely think
resisted everything which presented itself as an understanding
understand its needs to be considered as a question of human
understand these things correctly, how they have developed,
of humanity with an inner understanding for what has emerged,
to understand as science.
times, under the influence of the leading circles of mankind,
that the following needs are to be counted under the heading of
on the free understanding of those who need the acceptance.
out of a free understanding with their colleagues and with a
certain capital fund, to undertake nothing related to their own
needs but directed to a social understanding which has been
would face, through a free understanding of all colleagues,
right down to the last worker, the free understanding of their
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and try to discover the laws underlying its growth and life? Is not
this the very thing that helps him to understand its nature? And will
which help us to understand the achievements of an artist need not be
this simply means that they have never taken the trouble to understand
uses his intellect when he endeavours to understand the laws of the
deeper underlying truth, he would be using a phrase when he writes:
after certain trials and tests had been undergone? They were able to
underlying all his work — an idea that had arisen from profound
organs of creation, we can well understand why in his musical dramas
action and the music — albeit in a form not always understood. I
all. The deep laws which underlie the soul are spun from the
help you to understand these things. We know that the world evolves
Wagner realised and understood the mysterious thread that binds soul
under the direction of Haeckel. True, it only spoke of animals and
the Atlanteans themselves. They understood all that was living in
But even nowadays it is quite easy to understand the real origin of
We can never understand such marvellous interweavings by reference to
existence. — Such is the deeper truth underlying the myth of the
put such questions shows such a lack of understanding of his mission
to be by those who understand the mysteries of the Grail. In the

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sense in which the latter was understood in the Middle Ages), he would
strained every nerve to understand how a Being like the Christ, Who
Europe, was less and less understood. People spoke contemptuously of
Very little real understanding of Plato is shown in modern text-books
is little real understanding of Platonic philosophy. Modern
intellectualism is incapable of it. Nor is it possible to understand
understood — is said of Ammonius Saccas, namely that he tried to
would understand the universe let us not pay heed to space, for space
learning in those days, and one can readily understand that Plotinus
also tried to understand the descent of the Christ into Jesus of
crown of wisdom was to understand how the Christ Being had entered
where they were able to understand the essence and being of the
of understanding the value and worth of personality, of
develop to a point where he will understand how the Christ took up His
realised that Roman culture was rapidly falling to pieces under the
been so splendid a preparation for an understanding of the Mystery of
third and fourth centuries A.D. to gloss over a deep misunderstanding.
The less men understood Christianity, the more they spoke of the
those days there were still some who understood what was, for example,
words were uttered which have never since been understood, not even by

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out of various underlying conditions — and must reflect
guard against such a misunderstanding as this. One who has
ought really to be carried out under the influence of this
underlying causes — by many of our friends. There reached
understandable to anyone who knows that he can achieve that
But, my dear friends, there is something even profounder than
And the Movement for Religious Renewal understood this; it
understood in our feelings. It is simply a matter of necessity,
however, to understand first how a community-building element
human heart, in essence, understands the language of the
understand that other element which must play a corresponding
the like, we do not thereby as yet understand the spiritual
world. We begin to develop the first understanding of the
other person. Only then does real understanding of
start from that state for the real understanding of
within the earthly world and learned to know and understand
awake that we then understand Anthroposophy for the first time
this understanding, you receive Anthroposophical ideas into an
that it shall be laid hold upon by a true understanding of
Anthroposophy. If this true understanding of Anthroposophy is
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understanding this phenomenon. And what I have to say in these
that this person does not understand other persons and that
they likewise do not understand him unless they simply consider
Therein lies the difficulty of mutual understanding between
reach mutual understanding with a person who is telling him
their understanding of the teaching drawn from the higher
Thus, does it become understandable, precisely from a
are not willing to undertake this. For this reason, there has
never been any understanding when I have said that there are
understand from what I presented to you yesterday and today
simply fails to understand its innermost impulse. All the more
be understood.
Please, understand that I am not asserting in a
member. But, under the present social conditions, this cannot
— undertook in the year 1913 to build a home center for
under the noses of people — that everything which
understanding of the higher worlds requires a consciousness of
understanding of the Anthroposophical world view.
An understanding of the nature of religious

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quite clear on a number of occasions that to understand
clearly understood if we gain more profound insight into
the 15th century. Humankind has to undergo a major
evolution to get a real understanding of the origins of
clearly understand this in the case of a plant, for it
understand it’. My reply was: ‘Reverend
understand. All the time they want to describe their
magnetism is more easily understood. It does not take as
we want to understand human life; all we would be doing
humankind is concerned. We cannot gain understanding of
know of the earth? It was the ground under their feet.
human understanding in the vertical direction to become
with the purpose of undermining and destroying this

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know that under the influence of that disaster — in
live. We relate in some way to the soil under our feet,
nurtured entirely at soul level. You cannot understand
and understood by minds that were the product of Asian
understanding of the Mystery of Golgotha, out of the
oriental tradition. Christianity was understood in the
oriental wisdom is little understood by the people who
understand little, if any of it. The point is that it is
understands. Europe can only be made to rise if people
Europeans are far from understood by Western Europeans;
Western Europeans are far from understood by Central
this, however. They think they understand each other.
to understand the Mystery of Golgotha in the new and
to understand the presence of the Christ in huMan
make no progress in social understanding. It is no longer

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that the individual undergoes a complete change. Above
was right among them, made absolute and visible under the
their heads with illusions, wanting to understand history
limited ideas. Yet it is only possible to understand the
understand the way things were said in works written and

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that are understandable and indeed also justifiable. In
fountainhead of everything that usually comes under the
clearly understand — making it the centre of both
than that humankind should today gain true understanding
them say: ‘It would take the ground away from under
goes 01 in lightning and thunder, in the movement of
misunderstood Platonic ideas, saying that a fresh soul is
in their articles have not properly understood what he
underestimate it! You have to realize that it is going to

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number of people to fully understand the following. To
managed to get a real understanding of the physical
misunderstood. This is just one of many examples.
whatsoever under the influence of materialism. The heart
absolutely essential if one wishes to understand the
then, is the rest of the organism which has undergone a
understand it in its transformed non-physical form, our
understanding of this today. It is a serious matter when
that it is fully understood if there is to be even the
matters is to gain a clear understanding of social
relations in this world. Real understanding of the
little understanding will say: ‘You are using
undermined in the human organism, the head will suffer.
undermined in the social organism. Nothing in fact
us understand the essential nature of the human being. It
understand that because our friends Molt, Kühn,
way, it is not at all healthy if something is undertaken
understand what I mean if they want to — could be
think at least some of you will understand what I mean.
human understanding, must be there as well; it is the
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made that when any work is undertaken or any proposal
we must clearly understand that the fruits of mysticism
can be understood as follows. At a certain point in life,
we are under an illusion concerning the basic phenomenon
be understood in the present age. The present age must
understand that human beings must hold the balance
clearly understood that whereas materialism leads to
want to understand the language of heaven. Since it has
people to understand the language of heaven.
cultural life. If we understand what the present age asks

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our human environment. This can be clearly understood on
understand nature in a way when we use the intellect to
understood that all that exists in the outside world is
to understand on the basis of different facts. Modern
completely misunderstood by people who want to proceed in
misunderstood.
only be properly understood if we grasp the conditions
gets a clear understanding of the spiritual paths, using
the whole human being in arriving at such understanding
them, will indeed make use of it and try and understand
therefore a question of having the will to understand
anthroposophy is so difficult to understand. We shall
never understand spiritual science by merely thinking it;
we shall only come to understand it if every one of its
alive in this spiritual science is understood and felt,

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is to help us understand why in the present age humankind
totally under the influence of luciferic powers.
numbers of people who were under the influence of the
clearly understood that the true aim we have at the
be clearly and firmly understood. It must also be
understood that Protestantism as it has evolved out of
understood. If I were to present the things I have to
image of this Christ, if one even undergoes militaristic

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undergone a change from the way it was in the waking
changes the human brain had undergone. If you take an
not have far to go to understand what happens in
of this outside world; we merely need to understand
underlying impulse is still to focus attention on the
divine human being. Echoes of this underlying trend are
decadent culture but, as I said, the underlying trend is
understood as a whole. Take Hegelian philosophy, for
understanding of the body, this materialism, will one day
We must understand it before we can consciously take our
understanding of the physical, sense-perceptible world.
understand very clearly how a balance is achieved between
with our understanding of the threefold nature of the
understanding of what is in preparation there in a
and understand what is in progress there.
be clearly understood that Western culture is in its
understanding for the things of the earth, for the things
The West understands earthly things only, the East has no
understanding of them. Because of this, the heavenly
luciferic; Western culture is still entirely under the

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understanding of current events. We must above all understand where the
in human evolution have undergone in very recent times, compared to times
that objectively speaking were not under their control. Some of these
soul came to an understanding with the phenomena Of nature, and the
human being cannot be understood and that this failure to get through to
life in its immediacy? It has to be clearly understood that human beings
us to understand that humanity has created a completely new world around
to praise the beauty of those speeches, we fail to understand the signs
mystical heights for moral uplift will not understand this language. The
is the new understanding we must gain for the Christ event; otherwise we
during the first half of the 20th century?’ If we understand the
new understanding of the Christ must be found so that humanity may be led

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understand human beings if we add other aspects to these
Imaginations. The two men understood each other in a way.
properly understood, but it represents the Goetheanism of
impersonal under the strong materialism of the 20th
spiritual understanding of the outer world must arise. To
Brazen King, but with firm understanding for the three
] — undermine the whole of human culture. What are

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mysteries if one wants to understand the human being at all.
and a new birth, but in order to be able to understand what is
the outset in order to prepare ourselves for a complete understanding
lecture, you will understand that those people who are able to see into

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energy if we would understand our place as man within
would argue a very poor understanding of the future if we
hard to understand as to be incomprehensible, and I have had to
and we can really only understand what has entered its
times people understood them as being spiritually controlled.
work together upon the pattern, or picture, which underlies the
they brought forth the model which to-day underlies the
mankind, in so far as it underlies the physical organization of
“So difficult to understand,” people comment on all
this! They must take the trouble to understand it, however,
bring genuine social transformation. The best understanding of

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proved that old age no longer understands its own youth,”
and went out. I replied that I quite saw we had not understood
to understand what is meant by the spiritual world. But the
already abstract, but will become more so under socialist
death”; he will not understand. He has been made wholly
unaccustomed to direct his understanding to such a
disentangle them again. To understand that these three strata
should not be undervalued, seeing that it had contributed to
— unless we can understand these things from their

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shall get the best understanding of my subject to-day by
power. It is in this sense that we must understand the feeling
post-Atlantean epoch, and was thus understood by the men of
that time. It was natural for this instinctive understanding to
understanding of the Event of Golgotha which existed in the
that the understanding of what really happened on Golgotha
less and less understood, more and more materialistically
Here, too, we stand at a turning-point. A new understanding of
sensible. The new understanding of Christ must arise from
understanding of Christ Jesus. Nor will
understanding be complete, really satisfying the needs of
how they long to understand reality by means of abstractions.
nations, torn asunder by hatred and misunderstanding, can only
way. Until men realize the duty of this understanding there
understanding of what is included in our idea of the Threefold
world, but the real, fundamental understanding which will lead
understand things deeply enough. All that is connected , with
and fire, so that the necessary understanding may be given to
understanding for our time. So it is that as we pass through
survey humanity's historical development and understand
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understand their times by adopting a wholly new conception of
going on under the surface? He was “an unpractical
time from some knowledge of its underlying idea. What did these
evolution of mankind has moved under the influence of the
and soul, that under the influence of technical science and
latter. We do not even understand adequately what is the demand
proletariat. We may understand the form of the words when they
years under the influence of an economic order based on private
science, religion can only be understood if they issue from
produced by the leading classes, did not understand them, and
and must be under its own control.
understand him. As it fell to me to give the preliminary course
to the teachers working at the school, there came under my
should be under State control, and its authority should be even
undertaken economic management, at the same time it controls
understood.
themselves instead of being under the aegis of the State:
control which has hitherto been under the direction of the
the purpose, a procedure which could but undermine all
undertaken to found a school for Spiritual Science, the
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