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- Title: Evil and Spiritual Science
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- influence on the forming of Western Christianity: to
- is not far removed from what in Western lands, at the time of
- Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 10: Paths of Occult Training
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- further west. This second culture is the ancient Persian one, whose
- still further west, namely the Egyptian-Chaldean-Babylonian culture. Man's
- Initiation is the right one for Modern people of the West.
- Title: i Spirituality: Lecture 1: Historical Symptomology, the Year 790, Alcuin, Greeks, Platonism, Aristotelianism, East, West, Middle, Ego
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- Aristotelianism, East, West, Middle, Ego
- Aristotelianism, East, West, Middle, Ego
- say for Western Europe, was of course at work before this and worked on afterwards, but it did
- to a fact in the history of Western European humanity which, from the point of view of the usual
- the West, debated in the following way about what the Greek had argued. He said: Ransom can only
- involved with the culture of Central Europe — that which is now the culture of the West.
- This came to meet him in the person of David Hume and it was here that the culture of the West
- express themselves, spread out, in imaginative pictures. In the Western culture we find that, in
- thoughts. In the West the 'I' is completely omitted because it is absorbed — soaked up by
- the human being of the Western culture the 'I' is already below this sphere. It is below
- Schelling, and Hegel. After them the culture of the West overwhelms everything that is there,
- image (Gebilde) of the State. But then a culture emerges in the West which proceeds from
- Mill, from the Western culture which is particularly suited for the economic life.
- thinking and economic thinking were apportioned to the East, the Centre, and the West
- particular thinking for this. This has developed in the culture of the West from letting thoughts
- do not want to create states in which the State itself can run the economy. The Western peoples
- people in the Western regions — one could not expect this of the Orient — will have
- Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 2: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 1
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- West, the European Centre, and of the East are placed in the whole course of human evolution. We
- Europe and the West. And we want now to turn to a phenomenon that can already show us externally
- life held in die West, especially in the Anglo-Saxon countries. In these countries, under the
- the socialist world of the Anglo-Saxon West. And because the actual character of modern public
- respect in the West. Even if it seems that the discrepancies which are there could be settled, it
- West, no genuine philosophies or concepts of life
- present there [in the West].
- theory of life has found little external expression in the West. Where it has come to
- has taken on fully the nature of a philosophy. What in the West are economic impulses leading to
- character of the East. But here again it expressed itself in another form. Economic in the West;
- of a religious impulse. The social impulse in the West is economic, in Central Europe is
- differentiation — a differentiation into the Western economic element, the Central European
- the West — and this is carried out thoroughly by it — to have everything of an
- everything that is still in Europe — also towards the West, even into France — can be
- reckoned as belonging to the European Centre, for what is characteristic of the West is actually
- It was thus precisely in the West that these impulses could best bring about the development of
- down in the instincts of die West.
- trade which was the foundation for everything in the West which later arose. One can also point
- decline just as Napoleon's star was in the ascendant. What takes place in the West takes place
- arose. On the other hand, in the West where thinking follows the lines of economics in the sense
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- Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 3: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 2
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- beings: how, on the one side, certain beings interfere through individuals of the West —
- against the normal progress of humanity in the East. Thus we can say: For a long time in the West
- between the West and the East one must look more closely into the underlying spiritual conditions
- dialectical thinking. So what came from oriental wisdom penetrated then into Western
- the modern anthroposophically-oriented spiritual science, everything that exists in Western
- Here, to begin with, we have the Western branch. I
- The characteristic phenomenon of Western development, of development in the more southerly
- Western regions to begin with, is that Roman culture spreads as a sum-total of people towards
- moved in the stream of the migrations from East to West. But it is a peculiarity of this Germanic
- West of Europe as the Latin race has, fundamentally, nothing in it of Latin blood. But it, has
- the language. Thus, in this stream here (see diagram), there was preserved for the West the
- Latin, culture. Thus, in a certain respect, in so far as Western humanity is submerged in the
- ceremonies and ritual of the Western societies, have become more or less empty forms — one
- moved across to the West and because the Germanic element has been strongly preserved in these
- leadership in those regions I have mentioned. What is primarily taken hold of in the West by
- were the people of the West. Initially they left the spirit out of consideration, taking body and
- The characteristic of the human beings of the West,
- trend of the soul-constitution, the trend of thought. The language goes more to the West and,
- in that language remain together. When the Goths, the Vandals and so on moved westwards they were
- suitable for such beings to incarnate into, as was the case in the West. But they could
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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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- characteristic of the civilization of the Central-European countries in contrast to the Western
- on the one hand, the seizure of the human corporality by the spirits of the West and, on the
- which, in the West, expressed itself tumultuously as a large political movement orientated
- truly free being? In the West they asked: How must the external social conditions be changed so
- con-fronted the spirits of the West. They wanted to lead him astray into the solely intellectual.
- and indicated how Kant had succumbed to the intellectuality of the West through
- between Schiller and Goethe. Schiller had to battle with the spirits of the West; he did not
- fifth post-Atlantean epoch without developing the intellect. And it is the Western peoples that
- side by side of the spirits of the West and the spirits of the East is particularly evident. I
- West and the spirits of the East. We have seen today how this shows itself in Goethe and
- in which East and West swirl and interpenetrate one another. From the East the sphere of the
- Golden King; from the West the sphere of the Copper King. From the East, Wisdom; from the West,
- the spirits of the West. This was the effect of preventing the will from coming into its own and
- European element, between East and West. It is everywhere still so today that, with Herman Grimm,
- movement of the spirits of the West and of the East, there is easily generated an atmosphere of
- Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 5: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 4
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- under the influence of the economic life arising from the West, and in the decadent continuation
- economic element, which from the West has conquered the world with the aid of technology, is
- technology from the West permeated this economic life that the new age arose. The life of this
- Western civilization. It arose in the West and spread to the Orient very late where it did not
- Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 6: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 5
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- towards the West — to the Greeks and the Romans — one could receive what was related
- not stand in a spiritual relation; they stood in the sign of dialectics right into the lowest
- the Gospels. Christianity moves westwards and it taken up by Rome in the dialectical spirit. It
- dialectical element, belongs to the West and is only developed today for the economic life. The
- Mid-European element was always hemmed in between these two — the Western intellectualism,
- Western element expands in the second half of the nineteenth century; how, to a certain degree,
- today is unwilling to grasp. Everything that is hemmed in between West and East is razed to the
- to revelation in the East, the nullity of the Centre and the rationality of the West, still
- the East and that which is as yet unborn in the West clash together through ignoring the Centre
- that arises through the crushing from East to West. Contemplation of the 'I' vanished with the
- West who have no idea what the conditions for life are in the Centre. In Zurich people listen to
- there is only the squeezing element, the crushing together of East and West. People still cover
- West, who conclude a peace of which they understand nothing, cover up their eyes. They do not see
- could say, things are driven into the very narrowest corner of the consciousness. That which once
- above this the clouds are rolling together from the East and the West.
- Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 7: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 6
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- in a few brush-strokes as the great spiritual battle between East and West, in which the true
- Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture I: Tree of Life - I
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- western world of idea, in this world of world-conception, the living
- With the Franks towards the West went
- journeying of the Franks to the West by saying: the Wile-element
- streams West, towards France. And so in respect of the British Isles
- it has been entirely replaced. In the West, in the region of modern
- knowledge raying out to south and west, and the Life still preserved
- towards Middle and Western Europe (over the whole stretch from the
- the West. For the Latinising only appeared there later on.
- European South and West is the Germanic element which is present in
- East to the West and South, whereas the knowledge-element moves from
- the West and South and along the West of Europe to the North, and
- Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture III: The Power of Thought
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- The western world-concept has
- the West as in the East. One is less understood in the West, since in
- consciousness arise, in our Western thinking, that thinking is
- It was in fact the karma of Western
- which entered Western evolution through the Emperor Augustus, as
- compared with what had already existed in Western civilisation till
- the West — had no longer understanding for the
- Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture IV: Harmonizing Thinking, Feeling and Willing
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- way — especially in the case of Western thinking
- Title: World Downfall and Resurrection
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- On Spengler's Decline of the West,
- Decline of the West [Oswald Spengler] has made a
- Title: Lecture: Philosophy and Anthroposophy
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- narrowest sense, the philosopher par excellence — Aristotle. All other
- teachings of Aristotle did not expand to Western countries only, but also
- 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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- PEDAGOGY OF THE WEST AND OF CENTRAL EUROPE: THE INNER ATTITUDE OF THE
- manner of thinking and feeling peculiar to western man. We can say that if
- flooded by impulses arising from the world view of the western peoples; our
- the West. It is taken for granted today among men who debate educational
- that come from the West. If you were to trace back all the educational
- this is the peculiar state of affairs: to begin with, out of the Western
- Central European this the peoples of the West will not be able to
- lost. All that points to the dominance hegemony of the Western peoples.
- basis of this understanding, the peoples of the West will take it
- — neither an Oriental, nor a man from the West. Yet we
- cannot hope to influence the mode of thought, proceeding from the West,
- Title: Buddha and the Two Boys: Lecture II: The Gospels, Buddha and the Two Boys of Jesus
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- lowest physical-bodily entity, what we call the etheric or life body.
- Title: The Worldview of Herman Grimm in Relation to Spiritual Science
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- of western cultural life so as to reveal everywhere how human
- creative folk-phantasy at work in western culture — a
- humanity, so as to be able to say: The epochs of western
- stream, the influence of folk phantasy within western
- to that grandiose phenomenon of western cultural life, Homer's
- entire second millennium of western cultural development taking
- to send its impulses into the rivulets and streams of western
- whole of western cultural development, seen as folk phantasy,
- western culture had appeared to him, A particular subject he
- Title: Imperialism: Lecture 1
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- Ideas for a New Europe: Crisis and Opportunity for the West.
- the west that the Anglo-American people lived, the king, who earlier
- this empty platitude system, which has spread from the west to the
- empire can enter. Especially in the west, in the Anglo-American world
- especially in the west which have lost all meaning, but are still
- not become empty platitude. But in the western world, everything
- the west, in the Anglo-American world, all human tradition will
- done, for under the surface, especially in the western countries, the
- Title: Imperialism: Lecture 2
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- Ideas for a New Europe: Crisis and Opportunity for the West.
- This knowledge must dawn especially on the peoples of the west. The
- The peoples of the west have the
- of such truth is present in the peoples of the west, whereas the
- Hungary. But in this journey from west to east, the remarkable thing
- is that the western realities faded away in the east.
- journey — only from Nuremberg to Berlin, but also from west to
- Title: Imperialism: Lecture 3
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- Ideas for a New Europe: Crisis and Opportunity for the West.
- western countries more or less spreads over the world. This is the
- in the west — a certain form of Freemasonry at least — as
- the west. This economic imperialism is connected to a background
- west still suffer under a great illusion. Woodrow Wilson would no
- established. A fundamental concept for the western areas which are so
- Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture III: Anthroposophy and Philosophy
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- viewpoints of the West, of central Europe and Eastern Europe.
- Let's look at the West: Herbert Spencer. If I want to be
- What lay ahead for the West with this? It meant that scientific
- being pushed directly into the senses here in the West, there
- the West, but of course had been prepared by predecessors, both
- the West, and which is also capable of lifting science into the
- area which for the West is limited to belief.
- way, wisdom from belief, which was quite natural in the West.
- world (which the West wanted to simply refer to as part of the
- in the West by Herbert Spencer, which Soloviev basically looked
- knowingly experience what in the West — here quite
- of the West.
- we find ourselves today in the following situation. In the West
- Christian Centuries of the West.
- formulations, formulations and concepts used by the West in
- humanity in the West, the centre and the East, we can see that
- ways in the West, central Europe and the East, how they love
- what one encounters all the time with Soloviev. In the West,
- followed the pattern of the Western scientific way of thinking.
- points of view are modelled on the Western pattern. How wild
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- Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture VI: Anthroposophy and Theology
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- is an extraordinary fact that in western countries where
- just in these religious movements of western countries the
- intervened even in our modern time. We see how in the west,
- west; in the east where this bridge for the human soul more or
- Title: Impulse of Renewal: Lecture VII: Anthroposophy and the Science of Speech
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- place, people from other countries in western and middle
- in reality not translatable into a western language, because
- When you go towards the west you notice throughout within the
- Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 2
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- recognize if someone is from the north, from the west or the
- Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 15
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- look down at the lowest creatures and up at the glowing,
- Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXII (recapitulation)
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- the world, where the forces swing from west to east, from east
- to west, permeating us. These are the same forces that grasp
- the earth's air when it moves from east to west.
- Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXIII (recapitulation)
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- all sides, from the east and the west, from the south and the
- Title: The Social Question: Lecture I: The True Form of the Social Question
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- narrowest boundaries, these have caused a multitude of bad luck
- Title: The Social Question: Lecture VI: What Significance does Work have for the Modern Proletarian?
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- narrowest sense, and the religious life, the economic life, the
- spiritual life, when the lowest teacher no longer asks: what
- ideal does not reach the lowest wage-labourer? Obviously here
- Title: Lecture: Richard Wagner and Mysticism
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- Our remote ancestors lived in a region lying to the West of Europe,
- their forefathers lived away yonder in the West and wandered towards
- cup passed to Joseph of Arimathea who brought it to the West. After
- Title: Lecture: Spiritual Wisdom in the Early Christian Centuries
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- Now a change took place in Western culture between all that lived in
- Divine Spirit. Plato said in effect: the Ideas are the lowest
- complete and all-embracing was merely the lowest expression of
- demon. But in the West the dictum went forth that Plotinus was
- Title: Community Building
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- West and East: Contrasting Worlds.
- Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 1: Evolution and Consciousness, Lucifer, Ahriman
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- questions around the theme of the polarities of West and East,
- way of thinking evolve in the Western world, with earthly
- ideas of the West have a great deal of human
- the globe and found that having sailed away to the west
- Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 2: East, West, and the Culture of Middle Europe, the Science of Initiation
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- questions around the theme of the polarities of West and East,
- moved from the west to the east. Civilization itself
- however moved from east to west. These two movements can
- from east to west, whilst the physical basis comes from
- migrations that proceeded from west to east.
- In that form it travelled westward through Greece and
- Europeans are far from understood by Western Europeans;
- Western Europeans are far from understood by Central
- Europeans fail to communicate, but Central and Western
- of representatives of initiation knowledge, Western
- Western
- the West present initiation knowledge in books available
- thing in many documents published particularly by Western
- certainly true for Western initiation science. You will
- attitude has its roots in the essential nature of Western
- among Western initiates in their societies, and that
- there are indeed initiates moving around among Western
- major secret. The usual initiation knowledge in Western
- It is a peculiar characteristic of this Western
- encounter your own ideas of the spirit as a Western
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- Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 3: Political Empires
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- questions around the theme of the polarities of West and East,
- thinking that has become customary in Western Europe and
- way. Western secret societies in particular have been
- Let me say just one thing. When you look to the West you
- In the West there was a point to saying ‘I am a
- Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 4: Western Secret Societies, Jesuitism, Leninism
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- Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 5: How the Material Can Be Understood Only through the Spirit
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- questions around the theme of the polarities of West and East,
- Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 6: Materialism and Mysticism, Knowledge as a Deed of the Soul
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- questions around the theme of the polarities of West and East,
- now been scientific evidence that Western culture is in a
- furthering the decline of Western culture.
- the decline of the West to full realization, the
- Western world, for we shall find the upward path again.
- the Western world at full tilt. It is not a question of
- Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 7: Materialism, Mysticism, Anthroposophy, Liberalism, Conservatism
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- questions around the theme of the polarities of West and East,
- the people of the Western world have arrived at exactly
- century onwards have become standard in Western
- beings of the Western world are in the process of
- and Buechner, merely stated what Western humankind was
- Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 8: The Opposition of Knowledge and Faith, Its Overcoming
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- questions around the theme of the polarities of West and East,
- Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 9: East, West, and Middle
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- questions around the theme of the polarities of West and East,
- In the West
- this, particularly in the West. Thus William James [
- rise up into awareness for the people of the Western
- Western world, today, can see that it is a preparatory
- faculties developed in the West.
- West. In future the inner soul and spirit will be
- that in these Western regions people are very much
- of this the Western world is tending to become extremely
- is predominantly a Western product and, coming from the
- West, has overrun the Middle and is spreading to the
- the West the spirit is a matter for the future; at
- well as a physical body. In the West today, human beings
- and West. The East originally had a very advanced culture
- but it has fallen into decadence. In the West a great
- life, and in the West today still materialism with the
- West, finally, in Puritanism, for instance, the spiritual
- West, ideas that have so far developed only in relation
- nothing that has originated in the West; all it does is
- really is in the first instance the business of the West.
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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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- West, which is totally lacking in cohesive vision, reaches its limits
- Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 11: Modern Science and Christianity, Threefold Social Order, Goetheanism
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- spirit of the West did not initially relate at all to the
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