Searching Rudolf Steiner Lectures by Date: Matches

1.0c
[ [Table of Contents] | Search ]

Searching Rudolf Steiner Lectures by Date
Matches

You may select a new search term and repeat your search. Searches are not case sensitive, and you can use regular expressions in your queries.

Enter your search term:
by: title, keyword, or context
   Query type: 
    Query was: able
  
Here are the matching lines in their respective documents. Select one of the highlighted words in the matching lines below to jump to that point in the document.

Title: Evil and Spiritual Science
Matching lines:

Thanks to an anonymous donation, this Lecture has been made available.
may perhaps be able to feel about such a question, that it is
remarkable thinkers which, following the views of Socrates and
being, to their previously prescribed and recognisable purpose?
humanity is enabled to insert itself in full clarity in the
Stoicism, that the development of the world was able to take it
weakness is not always able to perform it, so that goodness is
preparing to be able to build goodness thereupon. So Lotze
all-goodness; or he must not have been able to do so —
command, so as to be able to astound us, and where in details
says, they are completely unsuitable.
are unable to find the answers to significant questions such as
and is able to perceive in a spiritual world, then it can see
live in the spirit world, then he/she would only be able to
physical world that enables us to overcome selfishness.
valuable for a person who wants to penetrate into the spiritual
are able to live not only with ourselves alone, but with the
beings who perhaps higher than mankind are able to realize
unsuitable world.
science, what our time was able to tell him from its
Maximum number of matches per file exceeded.

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 1: Popular Occultism, Introtroduction
Matching lines:

Consequently these lectures are a valuable guide from the
are able, by their will-power, to throw out of their field of vision
people around him. For a child is able to feel good and evil thoughts.
memory, the memory-tableau rises up before us after death. When the
the child should be given images in parables and we should work upon
period we shall be able to influence the astral body by developing the
was looked upon as the “unutterable name”. It is the voice

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 2: Man's Ascent into the Supersensible World
Matching lines:

Consequently these lectures are a valuable guide from the
person is unable to cope with them and thinks that they are illusions,
unable to perceive what takes place astrally, because they do not have
sounds after certain time, he is later on able to hear the “Inner
is called Imagination. Imagination therefore enables one to see, whereas
Inspiration enables one to hear. When

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 3: The Different Conditions of Man's Life After Death
Matching lines:

Consequently these lectures are a valuable guide from the
being enjoys, is enjoyed by his soul, but the organ which enables him
be seized by an unspeakable greed for their physical body, which would
This enables us to shape our next incarnation, as far as the body, and

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 4: The Devachanic World
Matching lines:

Consequently these lectures are a valuable guide from the
human being does not possess the organs which enable him to perceive
life here on earth, all that enables plants and animals to grow, may
through clairvoyance he was able to have perceptions in Devachan, a battle
find all the fruitful and valuable ideas ever thought out by man. Even
stage in our inner development, we shall be able to recall our past

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 5: Life Between Death and a New Birth
Matching lines:

Consequently these lectures are a valuable guide from the
soul simultaneously, like a long series of pictures. But this memory-tableau
an objective tableau, a panorama of pictures.
influence his etheric body and are able to give man the right kind of
When the suitable place
the human being towards a suitable family and only at the moment of

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 6: Man's Return to a New Earthly Life
Matching lines:

Consequently these lectures are a valuable guide from the
earthly life. After death there arises first of all the picture-tableau
and their effects appear to begin with, in the external favorable or unfavorable

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 7: Effects of the Law of Karma
Matching lines:

Consequently these lectures are a valuable guide from the
far more difficult to permeate it. This impermeable quality of the etheric
he had during a past incarnation, because he was already able to work
constitution and being can give him the most suitable physical body,
change in the vegetable kingdom is directed from the sphere of Devachan.
with the transformation of the vegetable and animal kingdoms of the

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 8: The Evolution of Man and of the Solar System; the Atlantic Evolution
Matching lines:

Consequently these lectures are a valuable guide from the
The animal and vegetable
The Atlantean and was able
which enabled them to rise from the ground and soar above it. But these

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 9: Lemurian Development
Matching lines:

Consequently these lectures are a valuable guide from the

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 10: Paths of Occult Training
Matching lines:

Consequently these lectures are a valuable guide from the
The human soul is capable of
Persias were already able to harmonize spirit and matter and. began to work
imagination. In future all human beings will be able to perceive as
qualities which man must have; he must be able to bear what one calls great

Title: i Spirituality: Lecture 1: Historical Symptomology, the Year 790, Alcuin, Greeks, Platonism, Aristotelianism, East, West, Middle, Ego
Matching lines:

might wish to find ideas as the driving forces of history would never be able to prove that ideas
it is indeed quite noticeable that it is not the concept of redemption itself that is discussed.
into decadence. In Plato, if we are able to understand him properly, we find the last offshoots,
it, too, takes on different forms, different metamorphoses, but all of which have a recognizable
remarkable writings which are ascribed to
unfathomable regions of the human soul. Here again the 'I' does not appear.
truly scientific must follow from this `I am'. One should be able, as it were, to deduce, to read
same as me. It is so inexplicable to Fichte that Kant thinks differently from him, that he says:
proof! Kant's writings are remarkable also in this respect. He wrote his
into it. But Kant had something else which makes it inexplicable how he could become Fichte's
One will only be able to come to an understanding
magnificent could have come out of it. For, with what Hegel was able to think, with what Fichte
was able to think, one would have been able — had one remained within the legal-political
soul which in a remarkable; quite natural way was in accord with what these individuals
absolutely call for the qualities that may arise in individuals who are able to penetrate the
Waldorf Schools the culture has proved to be capable of bringing light into primary education.
the pedagogical spirit which rules in the Waldorf School. We have to be able to extend this
school until we are able to move into higher education of the kind we are hoping for here. For
to it, and be constantly able to support that which is necessary in order to work here; to be
not be able to found a World Fellowship of Schools simply by creating a committee of twelve or
Maximum number of matches per file exceeded.

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 2: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 1
Matching lines:

to how, for outwardly inexplicable reasons, French merchant shipping suffered its greatest
of the new age, political affairs, even if they take an unfavourable course, do not
essential task to be able to take up a stand towards life from this point of view.
inclination towards, a feeling for the elemental forces of the earth and are thus able to sense
impulse that is of the greatest conceivable importance for humanity's evolution. And in order to

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 3: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 2
Matching lines:

that in the Roman Empire the untenable situation arose which always arises when these three human
has something in which the human element is submerged and which is capable of touching it.
favourable, then this situation
enabling them to incarnate into the human being. But particularly favourable for this incarnating
those whom we call the Latin peoples. Thus there is a far more malleable balance present here in
who are now lost but who have passed their language on. The Germanic people would not be able to
would never be able to leave it behind as a heritage. This language can only continue to live as
suitable for such beings to incarnate into, as was the case in the West. But they could
characteristic personality from the civilization of the Centre and one will be able to touch
the Westerner; he suffused it with what also came from the East. Hence the more malleable
unable to survive. And in the East we have nothing but — the dying spirit of ancient times

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 4: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 3
Matching lines:

to have been able to take works such as these purely as study material, so, of course, he could
it would no longer have been applicable to real life but would have risen above and beyond it. It
shape. But the images are too frail a structure to enable one to act strongly and effectively in
imaginative? Neither of them had spiritual science; otherwise Schiller would have been able to
reality from the spiritual world and would have been able to penetrate to the forms of the social
— was not yet able to go any further. For, in order to penetrate
lifeless and would found a spiritual life that is incapable of reaching into the immediate
really able to understand something like
between rational knowledge and revelation is attributable to the working of the spirits of the
should give way and to give way where resistance is called for. The remarkable forgetting of what
element completely submerged what little the Germans had been able to bring in.
no longer able to distinguish between what is speaking of realities and what writes whole books,
rouses himself, makes a stout effort and is able to be taken hold of by that which has substance.

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 5: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 4
Matching lines:

faculties in his soul which enabled him to achieve a relationship to nature — a
there as a longing for knowledge has become less and less comparable with what has been emerging
then be able to relate again to the phenomena of nature. Thus one can say: In ancient times the
in turn, be able to relate this to nature.
intellect would not be able to cope with all the economic demands that would surge up! Just as
the economic life, something will be able to arise which can replace the blood-line and the
he is fit and capable one has to take account of the following. One must realize that the first
will be able to do later in the social life -— he must only be made fit and capable in a
belong to an artistic pedagogy and didactics to be able to discern that one child is suited for
hand, is capable of perceiving the economic life in its inner spiritual vitality and, on the
man. One will then be able to relate this spiritual life back to nature. But once one has found
it, one will also be able to develop this spiritual life in such a way in the human being that it
becomes the content of his skills; that he will be able through this spiritual life to satisfy,
realms. But it would only be something incomplete and therefore unable to aid our declining
formidable slanders. Here one sees what one is up against, arising in the form of slanders and so
noticeable. One can say that it is particularly in this area that what sheds light in such a

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 6: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 5
Matching lines:

truth, of the genuine nature, of the Mystery of Golgotha. What St Paul was able to relate out of
Intellect itself, however, was not able to penetrate the Mystery of Golgotha.
inborn faculties of such a nature that they were able to come to this instinctive perception. Out
memories of experiences before birth or conception were the suitable pupils for the Mysteries.
They were able to comprehend and see, or, rather, were able through comprehending vision to
beings such as these who were the first ones able to speak about the Mystery of Golgotha. One can
that this Christ-force was able to stream into the physical world for the believers was subject
irreconcilable with a common knowledge of the Gospels. For the Gospel in its true form actually
the most comfortable way, in the way they learnt in their youth — if people knew that in
their comfortable way of comprehending things — then we would get much further in rejecting
only for a comfortable life. For those, however, who strive for truth the path today leads

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 7: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 6
Matching lines:

that, for many who would rather go through the coming times in a comfortable sleep, with a
sleeping soul, there is a very disagreeable awakening in store. I do not say — I mentioned
demand to be able to receive and read the Gospels — an experience of Christ has not been
able to develop. And we have already pointed out how the particular constitution of soul that is
And this experience will have a clearly definable connection with the modern outlook on life
one of its most distinguishing features is that it is incapable of comprehending the human being.
considers man only so far as to be able to say that any organ, any structure in man, derives from
world-views. But this science has not been capable of raising man's power of understanding to the
man be able to raise himself to an existence worthy of the human being: that he should be able to
outlook we must Say, from what we have been able to indicate of this, that the human being knew
characteristics. Anyone who is able to view this impartially sees how the human being-today
Point of becoming unbearable, for it is connected with another feeling, a certain feeling of the
of spirit-self, life-spirit and spirit-man will be able to evolve; for we shall have to wait for
shall be able to shape my outer form in the way which it is my task, even now, to
culture, people are still not able to solve the riddle of man. Man is missing from what can be
quite unworkable. Through all such things modern civilization is heading towards impossible
but is experienced by individual human beings whose karma enables them to grow beyond the trivial
thought out in connection with this spiritual-scientific endeavour that enables the human being
be found to the degree in which human beings are able to feel the Christ-impulse in their souls.
anthroposophical literature this man would be able to answer this. Those mental pictures which he
Maximum number of matches per file exceeded.

Title: Abbreviated Title: Lecture I:
Matching lines:

Thanks to a donation by Brane Žilavec, this Lecture has been made available.
further course of our considerations, in order to enable you to find your
the process of death, our soul-spiritual creates the power to be able to
our thoughts to continue, we may say that we are also able to pursue a
there comes a time in historical evolution when we are no longer able to

Title: Talk To Young People:
Matching lines:

Thanks to a donation from Brane Žilavec, this Lecture Series has been made available.
youth experience in their subconsciousness but are not able to
who were not able to grow into the traditional professions awaiting
shame. Young people were not able to reveal what they felt. What was
be able to accomplish very much with our Youth Section.
anthroposophical movement, we will be able to achieve everything I
this old world steering towards? If we're comfortable in it, we're
seems to be becoming more and more fashionable (and one has to get
movement must be able to find its way to unite with what I have
a clear gulf between them. We must be able to sleep in the right way
not to be able to live with the rest of the world, it is because we
it is important to be able to admit this about oneself. The flames
to become enthusiastic — for enthusiasm will be able to accomplish

Title: "Heaven and Earth will pass away but my words will not pass away"
Matching lines:

Thanks to an anonymous donation, this Lecture has been made available.
the earth-period and emit Cosmic impulses for Jupiter's vegetable
has head organs now scarcely discernable.
concepts of Spiritual Science. If we consider all we are able to think
body, so that in our waking life on earth we are able to perceive
also have in us the Moon man. This Moon man is incapable of serving us
the old dreamlike perceptions; but today he is unsuitable to form the
of everything we may develop in this direction, will be able to evolve
equivalent to our vegetable kingdom shall come into existence,
can transmute his dim, sleeping, vegetable-like sensations and
should produce a vegetable kingdom; in the depths of their souls they
would merely prove to be a dead slagheap, quite incapable of sustaining
production of the equivalent of our vegetable kingdom — is
already is found to be very uncomfortable. It will be something which
adding, upon the mineral and vegetable foundation, another kingdom, the
will then come to pass will produce the germ which will enable the
by man at the end of the Atlantean period to enable them to inaugurate
at a higher stage where he will no longer be able to contribute
absorb the fundamentals of Spiritual Science, however uncomfortable
has been able to make towards that end. Of course, it would be entirely
Maximum number of matches per file exceeded.

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture I: Tree of Life - I
Matching lines:

understandable, one might even say justifiable. But something else
say, it would be conceivable, for the Mystery of Golgotha, that is,
remained unknown to men, that no single person would have been able
able to attain to the fine crystallisation of the Latin knowledge.
this Latin knowledge would have been able to pour itself out over the
it has even done so. It is hypothetically conceivable, but it could
would not have been able to unite with the forces which kept mankind
conceivable, but it could not really have taken place. What really
remained Romans they would have faced the danger of never being able

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture II: Tree of Life - II
Matching lines:

conditions are favourable, that they do not awake from sleep as if
no longer appear to you so inconceivable if I now bring before you a
of Spiritual Science. When in specially favourable moments one is
lived through in the night. We should not be able to have the sort of
very considerable alteration in all that we experience during the
should have experienced him in the night, we should be able to
man's quite justifiable feeling that he will keep within normal life,

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture III: The Power of Thought
Matching lines:

immeasurable advance in the evolution of humanity when the Being who
extraordinarily remarkable figure of Augustus, if you assume that he
be able to evolve if they could only do so as the blood willed, that
What was received from them was of immeasurable significance, a
immeasurable significance was approaching; the Mystery of Golgotha,

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture IV: Harmonizing Thinking, Feeling and Willing
Matching lines:

yesterday we were able to show how the intellect, all that is
and the Moon-Picture. We ought to be able to hold them apart; the
genuine Spiritual Science recognises it as the greatest imaginable
honourable, but who could work precisely through Madame-Blavatsky.
These persons concocted things which were not always irreproachable;
and regulations of conduct are inseparable from it.
is answerable, as much as when teachings are circulated. He who

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture V: Tree of Knowledge - I
Matching lines:

arable land, meadow, or what you will (a drawing was made), and
it can be a world-conception completely tenable inwardly. You will
able or not able to prove something with the instruments of the world
of materialistic thought (I will suppose what is most favourable for
time the possession-concept, the possession-concept is not separable
already shows you that our present existence is inconceivable without
depths of his art. Something quite remarkable it has become: in every
this mystery — this being able to look out from
the ancient Sun existence — and were able to feel

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture VI: Tree of Knowledge - II
Matching lines:

processes which have acted on man from the cosmos have become capable
lecture was unfortunately only available in a much abbreviated
be able to recognize the eyes, the ears, etc., as physical organs. To
— none of this should we be able to do. If Lucifer
do not appear very agreeable (liebevoll). ... as regards these people

Title: World Downfall and Resurrection
Matching lines:

Thanks to am amonymous donation, this Lecture Series has been made available.
unmistakable indication of the fact that what was previously
human reason was in any way capable of explaining these
begin with, men would be capable of understanding them.

Title: Lecture: Philosophy and Anthroposophy
Matching lines:

normal conditions of life and development, is liable to encounter two
knowledge is liable to encounter when it would enter more deeply into the
able to say to ourselves: neither method can lead our soul whither we would
of Nature. With genuine Natural Science this ideal is justifiable. It may
devote all suitable faculties to the pursuit of Natural Science is a sound
finally proves to be some effect of an unknown being; we remain incapable
genuine knowledge, neither Natural Science nor mere Mysticism is capable of
original texts were not obtainable; but thinkers had become familiar with
we speak purely objectively, it is highly probable we shall be
it is only in so far attainable as thought is capable of elucidating the
Scholastic, therefore, pronounces the technique of thinking to be suitable
for instance, were applicable to the highest regions, and which could have
entirely beyond the compass of human thought and to be unattainable by
was such that it became inadvisable to make common cause with the
incapable of comprehending the Actual, the “thing-in-itself.”
definition (which, for him, was indisputable), to the effect that
real understanding of Aristotle enables us to find that an entirely
of thinking, was able to elaborate true concepts capable of transcending
single thing. This spiritual reality enables us to recognize difference
thought which have developed under the questionable influence of the
Maximum number of matches per file exceeded.

Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture I: The Pedagogy of the West and of Central Europe: The Inner Attitude of the Teacher
Matching lines:

intended during the time I am able to spend here to give a kind of
during this time, that I am hardly able to say whether we shall get further
to make it fully understandable, but it will become clearer if to begin
ideas considered reasonable in Central Europe today, you would find their
capable of bringing their souls into the way of thinking and feeling that
Central European this the peoples of the West will not be able to
must have the discretion to keep this in those circles capable of
which is indeed indispensable for some branches of modern civilization. We
argued are indispensable. We have here the example of an eminent and
nature of the growing child. If we as teachers were able to engage
learned the most? It is I, the teacher! If on the contrary we are able to
we entered it; we have learned to do what we were incapable of doing when
secret lies hidden. If we had really been capable, at the beginning of the
year, of everything we were able to do at the year's end, then our teaching
you known at the beginning what you have learned at the end. A remarkable
finishing a work: only now are you able to do this. I don't consider a man
have learned, now I shall be able to do it right, now I shall be an
out of this diffidence a new and imponderable power, which will make you
quality of what you are able to make out of the children will not be much
we are able to make individualities out of those we teach, individualities
Maximum number of matches per file exceeded.

Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture II: The Three Fundamental Forces in EducatioN
Matching lines:

and instruction we are not able to sense inwardly the whole human being.
it, then you will be able to say: with what you permit to resound in the
pictures that are capable of translation into feelings. For nothing will be
of greater importance than this, that we are able as teachers to develop in
child wants and also not what I want, but the product of both. If I am able

Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture III: Spiritual Knowledge of Man as the Fount of Educational Art
Matching lines:

digested by us in a suitable way; but we would not be feeding ourselves
teaching and education two elements interweave in a remarkable way. I would
able to
organism, that these things intertwine in such a remarkable way. Our
remarkable way, and to help you understand it fully perhaps I may remind
arrive at something remarkable. When we speak it is, as it were, the sound

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
Matching lines:

able to bring the child's ego back into his organism.
tightly linked that they could not be separated and we would never be able
movement we would never be able to enter into the physical world. We are
nearer to us. For there is a secret which is truly remarkable. You can, if
learn remarkable things, if we get to know children in this manner, if we
are able to free ourselves from such behaviour and to direct our
not be pleasurable for children but that they will have to experience them
but pleasure, the child would be unable to develop a feeling for duty,
when we are able to create the right relationship between teacher and
We will only be able to gather once more for a teachers'

Title: Social Understanding: Lecture II: Social Understanding Through Spiritual Scientific Knowledge
Matching lines:

This wanting to remember but not being able to remember entirely, arises
will not be able to draw enough forces away from it to remember certain
materialistic nor idealistic, but are capable of following up the ideal
conception is hot being able to say ‘Over there is base materialism, which
considerable difference in this respect in the first, second and third
were unable to draw on their youthful forces, if there were no means of
is able to release from the depths of his soul; he can understand the thing
able to release from his mature mind. You know, these are the most valuable
have studied aesthetics of colour very well, but he will not be able to
of it with children, a remarkable thing will happen: Let us suppose you are
manifests as his soul and organises his body. The same force which enables
us to take an interest, and I am not saying now that it enables us to have
supersensible occult powers, but the same force that enables us to take an
and do not see any real humanity in one another, they will never be able to
and such a way people would be able to lead a social existence.
of education that makes human beings of people also enables them to
And the realm in which supersensible knowledge is most indispensable is in
spiritual level. Not until we are capable of bringing down on to a material
level what we think of as being spiritual shall we be able to grasp the
be set up on its own basis. Then thought life will be able to give

Title: Buddha and the Two Boys: Lecture I: Buddha and the Two Boys of Jesus
Matching lines:

certain people have been able to recognize this and, following the example
Bodhisattva individuality, because it has become Buddha, is no longer able
deep inwardness and soulfulness soon became noticeable, a lively mental
hundred years, the sage saw what he had not been able to see
prominent. For example, this child was also able to talk right from birth,
some time in the environment suitable for him and to revive the impressions
the twelve-year-old Jesus in the temple. It was inexplicable to his parents

Title: Buddha and the Two Boys: Lecture II: The Gospels, Buddha and the Two Boys of Jesus
Matching lines:

reality, you have to be able to point to the concrete event where the
understandable for the writer of the gospel of Matthew, who added the
able to deepen his beingness so much. Therefore, in the twelfth year he
incapable of certain powers coming out later. I therefore want to wait

Title: Lecture: Art As A Bridge Between The Sensible And The Supersensible
Matching lines:

could be said to have been still more unfavorable. At that time there was
— in which the great proletarian masses are unable to
human beings became less and less capable of understanding each other in
in being able to pose the question once again: How can a true
gained from the spiritual world, on the other hand, is a valuable
if in this context we feel able to take up everything with the same love,
in the whole world is what one is able to think and feel about oneself
we are capable of seeing the world, as no other person can. Another
result of diligence. However, one has to be capable of gaining belief in
every thought that one would be unable to do whatever it is one ought to
that one would be incapable of doing something, merely because making the
say is available, my dear friends, at least in regard to certain
elementary matters. It is available for the human soul. One need only

Title: Raphael's Mission in the Light of the Science of the Spirit
Matching lines:

Thanks to a donation from Peter Stebbing, this Lecture has been made available.
whom I was able to speak here last time, attempted to trace
Raphael's own age, up to our own day. He was able to show that
his death, reaching to the present. If Herman Grimm was able to
looking back into pre-historic times, if we were not able to
often been able to emphasize from a spiritual scientific
to be able to experience something new each time. Thus, we can
veritable “spring-time birth,” undergoing an inner
is remarkable how Raphael advances in cycles of four years. And
to realize itself in figures such as Raphael alone was able to
tongue, lashing out against the deplorable state of affairs, the
from what Savonarola had been capable of. Taking account of the
us inwardly, this enables us to forget all legendary ideas from
large-heartedly as possible what we are able to feel in regard
were only human pictures; in memory, their beautiful forms palpable
it is remarkable, what is to be found in following up the
literature of those able to express something of a profound
remarkable impression.
in which Christianity is able to speak
lived in him. Is it not then reasonable to suppose: In the
Maximum number of matches per file exceeded.

Title: Leonardo's Spiritual Stature: Lecture
Matching lines:

Yet, for a considerable time this has no longer been evident on
painting, an indescribable magic emanates from it. In spite of
These studies proceeded from going into every conceivable
their original state no longer fully recognizable — we
richly endowed to be able to fully conclude what it undertook
Leonardo soul, too great in itself ever to be able to manifest
was able to promise the duke entirely new war-machines,
see Leonardo supporting the court in Milan in every conceivable
could not see why a painter should not be able to paint such a
the greatest imaginable contrasts. These could not be painted
already, whether he would be able to finish it at all. And then
lived in his soul and what he was able to bring onto the
was unable to reveal outwardly to humanity — for which
have been able, without further ado, to paint to his
satisfaction the greatest conceivable work he undoubtedly
the external light, but that we are able to believe: the soul
given the means available. Though in later centuries no human
explicable only if we assume wise guidance in the historical
able to blossom, had the old clairvoyance remained. This older
reason is able to comprehend by means of sense perception.
Maximum number of matches per file exceeded.

Title: Fairy Tales: in the light of Spiritual Investigation
Matching lines:

From the contents of this lecture: 'Fairy tales and sagas are comparable
and listened to those who were able to relate the
in fairy tales, one has to a considerable extent the feeling
up from seemingly unfathomable sources of the folk-spirit or of
productive mood. For, whoever is able to arrive at the
from how a particular food tastes, no one is capable of
favorable circumstances, one may have the feeling:
in which something has happened in the deep, unfathomable
capable of initial experiences in the world of spiritual beings
into the unfathomable spiritual connections within which the
states between waking and sleeping, human beings were able to
constitution people were able — in sensing the hunger
palpable connection between what expresses itself in
fairy tales and these unfathomable experiences of the
human soul does indeed feel how little it is capable of
limitless future. You will be capable of accomplishing
only gain a relation to it. You have really only to be able to
a planet in the cosmos, comparable to human lives that
factor I should like to add here. I am able to establish
able to investigate in this way in the spiritual
Maximum number of matches per file exceeded.

Title: A Mongolian Legend
Matching lines:

From the contents of this lecture: 'Fairy tales and sagas are comparable
101. Not currently available in English.
closer to the spiritual worlds and were themselves still able
primeval times. At that time, had one been able to see in the
primeval times, with which human beings were able to look out
bear this ancient organ, with which they were able to
because she no longer sees what she was once able to see when

Title: The Worldview of Herman Grimm in Relation to Spiritual Science
Matching lines:

had brought out Goethe's remarkable exchange of letters with a
Goethe she was able (like few others) to enter into Goethe's
to be said: Everything in this remarkable book,
passed after the meal, he said, in his inimitable, humorous and
able to contribute to it. At the beginning of the seventies of
the nineteenth century, he was able to hold his famous Goethe
getting hold of it as a young person, and able to find the
external documents, one is least of all capable of providing a
enable one to understand the Greek world. Yet what the Greeks
comparable to what is contained in the existing documents.
humanity, so as to be able to say: The epochs of western
this reason, he was unable to arrive at what recent spiritual
of speaking the spiritual constituents that become explicable
the work of art, there emerges for us something like a tableau
the kind of person he was. Herman Grimm was never able to reach
becomes understandable that such a spirit had to struggle in
a tableau before us in contrasting two spiritual entities,
of Raphael. It is as though Herman Grimm were never able to
Herman Grimm's Homer book may seem intolerable. All the many
expect remarkable things of him in considering the way viewed
Maximum number of matches per file exceeded.

Title: Imperialism: Lecture 1
Matching lines:

English friends, who will soon be going home, to be able to take as
unbelievable, but it is so. We can learn from Assyrian documents how
physical reality, something like this would have been unthinkable.
In fables and other lore where the events of
that doesn't make them respectable, they are still adventurers,
is it possible to realize what a fable convenue so called
It will roll on in the words. You can find innumerable expressions

Title: Imperialism: Lecture 2
Matching lines:

understand the contemporary world under such disagreeable conditions,
“reputable” in the third or fourth generation and
the economy is the only reality, we will not be able to admit what it
became noticeable — even the Habsburgs realized it by then
accepted in most lodges, only lords and others who are amenable to
became the group's official title. So the honorable Liberals acquired
many men together in the lodges under such laudable viewpoints? It
certainly remarkable that just in the age of platitudes which reign
express remarkable things. The Habsburgs, for instance, came from
Hungary. But in this journey from west to east, the remarkable thing
arrives at some remarkable things. When you look into the origin of
codex you find remarkable sentences. For example: What is justice?

Title: Imperialism: Lecture 3
Matching lines:

necessarily justified, but understandable — later continued on
were once justified or explicable, but no longer are.
indisputable power factor. In public life there was in reality
rights concept as such, because it is applicable to the symbolic
new spiritual life. And it is therefore understandable that it is
world always have only an individual meaning, are only applicable
Gregory VII emerged. Therefore Roman Catholic dogma enables the
threefold nature. It is just those whose favorable economic position
which case the fall of earthly civilization is the inevitable result
is to be able to spread the teachings about the spiritual life in a
that telling the truth nowadays is not a comfortable thing, for the

Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture I: Anthroposophy and Natural Science
Matching lines:

metamorphosis, and how they often become unrecognisable from
simplest, which possibly have the most manageable facts —
something inexplicable. If he was literate he would
mathematical thinking. It is quite understandable that Du
admits to all which is within justifiable boundaries. It
whether it is justifiable, out of the totality of phenomena, to
only workable way with regard the organic sphere.’ — In this way
qualitative. Then one is able to reach higher areas of nature's
existence through inner examination just as one is able to
side of Anthroposophy is always able, what Goethe calls being
accountable, to all, even the most diligent mathematician. This
able to give as a sketch, it will point out how Anthroposophy,

Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture II: The Human and the Animal Organisation
Matching lines:

senses. The one which is the most dependable is of course the
speech and the organism becomes capable of creating speech.

Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture III: Anthroposophy and Philosophy
Matching lines:

personality who is capable of penetrating thoughts with the
spirit and building a bridge between what is acceptable
the West, and which is also capable of lifting science into the
is able like no other philosopher, to become gradually more the
extraordinary uncomfortable feeling. He is reminded of an
is not able to soar up into self-owned terminological
concepts in the West simply were not available and simply got
sustain a skeleton. Soloviev was able to develop it in flesh,
Anthroposophy. If Anthroposophy becomes capable of inward

Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture IV: Anthroposophy and Pedagogy
Matching lines:

view understandable, it is always accused of having its ideas
able to accomplish more.
understanding which enables him to grasp the most varied of
gradually to not only being able to observe the transformation
position where you are able to recognise a real relationship
faithful continuator of the justifiable scientific thinking of
remain abstract, they can't obtain any kind of favourable
never really capable of differentiating between “nearly
way into education, even working through unfavourable
actually even later, becomes suitable to progress towards
tone is set towards grown adults, we are actually unable to
attributes to the pedagogical-didactic imponderables, when he
capable of doing the same. The child is an imitator. Each
only become applicable when the change of teeth has taken
them, can imitate them right into the imponderable thoughts
Therefore, we need to look into even the imponderables in
body is connected to the physical world. We become able to see
Here are a few indications which I was able to give; they could

Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture V: Anthroposophy and Social Science
Matching lines:

course of modern time mixed up, chaotic; only viable if it
lead to a significant, acceptable ascent which from then on and
the course of human development gradually enabled us to arrive
been dealt with — has shown itself as completely incapable of
negotiated in comfortable Vienna with a stroke or two of the
pencil and fantastic words across a white tablecloth. That is

Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture VI: Anthroposophy and Theology
Matching lines:

a factual sphere made scientific methods inapplicable in
example by one of those present here today, a very honourable
personality: ‘It is actually remarkable that you even get a
which is considered popular, which we call understandable. You
right, say: Anthroposophy is suitable for directing people in a
he becomes incapable of accessing the supersensible worlds. It
recognisable by the intellect, and what people could not attain
than simply to express what exists and is available through
and who are unable to fulfil them through current declarations,
bring to the children what is suitable to the stage of their
understandable why Catholicism has become Catholic, Protestants

Title: Impulse of Renewal: Lecture VII: Anthroposophy and the Science of Speech
Matching lines:

experienced consciously, will actually be unable to obtain a
thus able to research it. To consider speech it is necessary to
nuances became gradually less recognisable — and in
meaning of sound. In an unbelievable intense way one
inner inclusion of oneself in outer things is available when
indicate symbols, you would be totally unable to be impressed
This is still noticeable today. When for instance you compare
in reality not translatable into a western language, because
as you are unable to rise up to such inner observations of
will be unable to penetrate the actual living object of
longer acceptable. Further down his list is the “theory

Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 1
Matching lines:

you will be able to consider this School as an institution
humanity what it is able to receive.
Yet also a parable of you,
though he were a mere parable of man. He warns that without the
impertinence of modern man is able to suppress the fear. But
and comfortable to activate his thinking. Humanity's thinking
Yet also a parable of you,

Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 2
Matching lines:

senses, which however he is not able to identify with his own
Yet forming you into a deeper parable,
noticeable, but true nevertheless. In esoteric life there is no
we will only be able to recognize what must be cultivated in
Ahriman, has not yet been able to kill feeling in the same way
Therefore the ahrimanic spirit, unable to exert influence on
before our souls. We must be able to include feeling in the
being, we must be able to know what kind of persons we are as
first beast is surely capable of revealing in a mirror-image

Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 3
Matching lines:

in the physical world, you would never be able to know whether
attention to what is palpable, to what can only be seen by
will gradually be able to differentiate between truth and
the floor, but are able to sit safely on the chair, you know
said about the difficulty in being able to to differentiate
depths, everything you are capable of perpetrating. But the
and what he is therefore capable of. Man's lower nature appears
is and what they must become for us to be able to step across
we have two stressed syllables.
and spondee rhythms. At the moment, we are able to move on from

Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 4
Matching lines:

yourself: Am I able to exclusively think about certain
despicable characters in Shakespeare's works? If I were to meet
in order to be a true esotericist one must also be able to do
are capable of hearing beyond the words. And it is good for our
trochaic, beginning with a stressed syllable and descending to
syllable and rises to a stressed one. We should feel it:
two stressed syllables:
able to withstand the separation of thinking, feeling and
able to realize that what I call the outer world is much more
Then we will be able to not only look downward in our
feeling selfless in his selfhood, is soon able to also develop
But, my dear friends, you will only be able to correctly
verse is already able to lead us far away from the beast whose

Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 5
Matching lines:

is able to approach and come to an understanding of the
threshold itself. And our being able to perceive the threshold
magical being. What does it mean, that nature must be able to
Nature must be able to appear as divine. The way it appears to
us in spirit-land: Light's enticements will not be able to
darkness will not be able to bury you, as soul, in the earth;
you will be able to hold yourself above the effects of the
and he therewith is able to acquire the strength necessary for
creative spiritual powers and finally not being able to join
and our willing will be able to understand and to grasp the

Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 6
Matching lines:

vegetable kingdom and the mineral kingdom. These relations
a part of ourselves. We do differentiate a table or a chair
Then, when we have advanced to Imaginative life, we are able to
vegetable kingdom. There is something in you that is as sleepy
we should not be human, but vegetables. And our feelings, which
feelings have a continuous tendency to be vegetable-like. Just
consciousness, like a vegetable - sleeping, dreaming. But this
yourself to humanity. The feeling of vegetable lameness must be
are able to internalize this capture of carbon dioxide by
abstract forms. Whoever knows spiritual life is able to feel
kingdoms of nature if he wishes to be knowledgeable. How he
is quite different from the comfortable, bourgeois earthly

Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 7
Matching lines:

principle of openness, not be able to demand anything more from
School - in the sense of objective truth, will we be able to
thinking is only capable of understanding the earthly - we must
You're able to will it;

Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 8
Matching lines:

case. And only because the opposite is the case was I able to
not being exactly comfortable to sign twelve thousand
School's activities. We were able to make a beginning with a
able to participate in the work of the School. Things will
understand that [the leadership of] the School must be able to
the spiritual world nor imparted by those who are able to
head into the limbs in order for the will to be able to act in

Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 9
Matching lines:

itself to create it, then it will be able, through this
more able to make a beginning at entering into the spiritual
for example a table from the spiritual world were to approach
them. But there are no tables in the spiritual world, there are
in us more and more, be able to feel and experience our whole
by vague generalities, not by vague sensations are we able to
if we are able to grasp thinking in such a way that thoughts

Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 10
Matching lines:

not able, according to their karma, to sufficiently separate
common sense from physicality and the senses to be able to
to the mineral, vegetable and animal kingdoms around us. And
end physical life once my organism is no longer able to process
written — if we are able to read it.
deeds, become capable of hearing in a spiritual way the

Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 11
Matching lines:

objective way, then will he be able to follow that intimate,

Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 12
Matching lines:

that we must understand that the person who is able to transmit
enable you to feel how the human soul lives in the spiritual
easily be able to sense the thinking which is directly induced
thinking. Then you will be able to touch, touch internally that
as described in the mantras, then these things will be able to

Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 13
Matching lines:

clairvoyance? We are able to move, I said, in physical life
he is capable of perceiving what happens during sleep, he
and willing. And it is always necessary that we be able to
power of meditation. We should always be able to say to

Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 14
Matching lines:

be such a terrible shock that we would not be able to lead a
otherwise in the future you will be an unstable person in the
world, from beyond the threshold, one becomes an unstable,
able to return, because before he does so he will become
over to this side the state of mind applicable to beyond the
the state of mind applicable to this side. Rather must he
be able to intuitively hear it. Therefore, we meditate these

Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 15
Matching lines:

enable us to understand our situation once we have flown over
enables us to be human beings within the earthly realm.

Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 16
Matching lines:

we must go forward step by step in the world and be able to

Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 17
Matching lines:

world which the rainbow had made. For it is remarkable, my dear
Then we see how the remarkable secret of the cosmos works. We see
What is remarkable is this: first we were witnesses to a

Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 18
Matching lines:

This stands before our souls as unshakable, all-pervading truth:
we are witnesses of the events in the mineral and vegetable
passes through the gate of death will only be able to understand
incomprehensible sounds instead of the understandable words of
person who passes through the gate of death will only be able to
We have traveled the path. Three tablets stood
speech. On the first tablet, long before we arrived at the abyss
Then we approached the Guardian. The second tablet

Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 19
Matching lines:

And finally we have been able to move on to the cosmic
beings of the first hierarchy speak. And now we are able to
souls again what – if we are capable of absorbing it

Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XX (recapitulation)
Matching lines:

Furthermore, much new and valuable material is introduced,
Yet also a parable of you,
Yet also a parable of you,
soul to come near to the spiritual world, if they are able to

Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXI (recapitulation)
Matching lines:

the future of the earth under their power. If they were able to
ever further, into the immeasurable cosmic ether, in which one

Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXII (recapitulation)
Matching lines:

able to revere those guiding beings [1] who lead us from
is perishable and seeming in our being arises, but also the
spiritual world. Each line begins with a stressed syllable,
followed by an unstressed syllable. So, we have in the first
are placed above the first syllables of each line and then
to being. Here [the first syllable] we are below: here [the
second syllable] we strive upward to being: The unstressed
are placed over the first two syllables of each line, and it
will. We stand alongside being. Two high-toned syllables
first two syllables of each line on the blackboard and the
first not distinguishable according to its place, whereas in
vertical, feel it bound below and freed above, we must be able
able to have them here, it is necessary to ask either Dr.

Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXIII (recapitulation)
Matching lines:

want to be knowledgeable in the battle between light and

Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXIV (recapitulation)
Matching lines:

— through thinking, which, however, is capable of
hardships and problems — that will enable us to gradually

Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXVI (recapitulation)
Matching lines:

be able to recognize who belongs to the School and who does
unable to attend a lesson during which mantric verses are
was able to give mantric verses to a number of people; I also
claiming that he was unable to avoid it. Of course, if someone
But I've chosen this example because it is the least applicable
from all that lives in the mineral, vegetable and animal
the dark cell that enables you to think, my sisters and
thoughts. These creating cosmic thoughts enable us to have
one is able to keep inner calm, one sees the moon in the
Steiner was unable to continue because of illness. He died on

Title: The Social Question: Lecture I: The True Form of the Social Question
Matching lines:

comfortable but inaccurate claims that Nature makes no jumps,
souls and worked out of human souls. These instincts enabled a
research, so suitable at penetrating the phenomena of nature,
produces methods which are only suitable on the one side for
spiritual scientific research is available as a basis —
and catastrophes lately. If they are able to economise further
out of the spirit, strive out of reality towards viable

Title: The Social Question: Lecture II: Comparisons at Solving the Social Question based on Life's Realities
Matching lines:

manageable by doing a number of lectures.
general statement and in a way, make it desirable for the
One must be able to distinguish between the natural human
this side to be healed and thus enable people and communities
point of origin and be made into a consumable product at a
making bananas into consumables for the community with the work
of making wheat into a consumable product in the vicinity of
necessary to make the wheat consumable is, lightly calculated,
to process the wheat into a consumable item in different
production lines made consumable within the economic sphere of
of nature into consumables for the community, all these
foundations up to consumables, all these processes, and only
the social organism is only achievable through nationalization
various systems!’ Whoever speaks in this way, unable to
of life one is able to figure out the real gesture of the
single one of the three members can achieve its applicable
would mostly have an uncomfortable effect. For this reason, they
humanity, will enable this terrible course of events to take on
so I say to some — where reason is acceptable. After that
relations in a desirable way for the Proletariat.
Maximum number of matches per file exceeded.

Title: The Social Question: Lecture III: Fanaticism Versus a Real Conception of Life in Social Thinking and Willing
Matching lines:

available; not much of their actual view on life and their
bring a solution to the modern social order which enables it to
thought habits of today, are not able to grasp the reality of
criticism and does not enable real impulses created out of
able to lead into the future. Everywhere this thinking breaks
present. Whoever is, in full earnestness, able to understand
take on power and result in unspeakable evil by his fanatical
able to work back into the economic life, then it remains an
unable to experience a certain impetus, a certain momentum
unable to introduce any positive impulses into the modern
confronting people when they are too comfortable to turn
unreasonable way.
which has just been newly reprinted, perhaps in a favourable time,
It must be able to reveal itself in full freedom, as a result
of innumerable causes has led to our present catastrophe, the
national economic judgement is able to do for economic and
will be for a long time still, the comfortable thinking habits

Title: The Social Question: Lecture IV: The Evolution of Social Thinking and Willing and Life's Circumstances for Current Humanity
Matching lines:

Perhaps the lectures which I have been able to give here during
able to understand their position within the human community
before. It is necessary to take the comfortable but often
distinguishable from the former, which we today describe as the
explored as the social organism, describable as the actual
one will touch on some riddles of life and be able to find
order to make it understandable, say the following: in economic
take place. Approaches to this are available but a penetrating
science, observable in their admirable methods, but the real
organism capable of life, one which has vital forces of life
forces. Just like a really viable organism can be of help to
develop the soul, so in a comparative way can a viable social
foreseeable future. One could say that before this terrible
able to reach relative independence beside one another, the
within an inseparable member of the social organism the dormant
has been made available for this appeal. I mention this because
— that it is uncomfortable in the highest levels of
out of reformed thoughts will a healthy social organism be able

Title: The Social Question: Lecture V: The Social Will as the Basis Towards a New, Scientific Procedure
Matching lines:

intolerable, is to replace it with a feasible social
always been available in the subconscious. As a result, at the
in a remarkable contrast with the challenges and social
scientific way of thinking. The old-world view was capable of
Proletarian is, as paradoxical as it sounds, as unbelievable as
Proletarian found it unbearable that his labour was bought and
social organism three independently applicable systems need to
then you have something which is capable of life inserted into
thoughts, through their will, a viable social organism is
result in making the social organism capable of life. In this
which renders the bananas consumable is nothing in comparison
biggest variables within the economic area which exist in
in future, when the social organism should be viable, also have
which has not originated from some non-profitable spinning of
able to determine laws, then they will work in the right
organism viable which is destined to determine the economic
invite complications, make the people uncomfortable; but it is
the one and only way to make a healthy social organism viable
What is important is for the social organism to be workable,
multiplication tables; a person is considered uneducated if he
Maximum number of matches per file exceeded.

Title: The Social Question: Lecture VI: What Significance does Work have for the Modern Proletarian?
Matching lines:

mouths and they are no longer able to swim in this sea. They
search for a rescue boat; they would not be able to find such a
comfortable living in this capitalist economic order. One hears
foundation, it is inconceivable; it thrives from this
they feel comfortable or at least feel satisfied in modern
the foundation for this modern civilization, to be able to
insight any more but it enabled them to pose this question in
hand, hardly an understandable word can be heard in response.
remedy the dangers which one is believed to be able to see? Was
for them it will be noticeable that this modern Proletarian
what has become available to the Proletariat as a result of
regions where they felt comfortable, where their interests
economic power, which is able to compel human labour to become
life by the state. People were unable to see through the
able to satisfy these ruling circles. These ruling circles
— if I might use acceptable expressions — gradually
the misfortune of only manufacturing tables and chairs, you
would have to go around dragging your tables and chairs and
wait for someone who had vegetables. Instead you could swap
your tables and chairs for the money they are worth and then
Maximum number of matches per file exceeded.

Title: Lecture: Richard Wagner and Mysticism
Matching lines:

Thanks to an anonymous donation, this lecture has been made available.
He regarded symphonic music as a veritable revelation from another
knowledge is much more reliable than any intellectual judgment.
phraseology, for the physical sun does not ‘sing.’ It is unthinkable
can tell us more about Richard Wagner than Nietzsche was able to do.
after certain trials and tests had been undergone? They were able to
of the inevitable course taken by evolution. He believed that the
able to express with the same inner certainty experiences which arise
mythological figures, for he was thus able to express cosmic laws and
Therefore he uses themes in which he is able to show that laws far
of another. These mystic threads — unfathomable by the
is able to speak with greater clarity of what natural science is only
can see how through his intuition Wagner was able to draw upon amounts
that parting is inevitable.

Title: Lecture: Spiritual Wisdom in the Early Christian Centuries
Matching lines:

Thanks to an anonymous donation, this lecture has been made available.
unthinkable to him that if knowledge concerning super-sensible worlds
and were thus able, with super-sensible knowledge, to realise the
is usually not only scanty in the extreme but quite incapable of
difficult to imagine that anyone capable of writing such absurdities
in connection with Greek philosophy could have anything very valuable
intellectualism is incapable of it. Nor is it possible to understand
Plato was able to gaze into higher levels of the spiritual world than
altogether different world. He was able to assimilate some of this
where they were able to understand the essence and being of the
abstraction had crept into Roman culture, a spirit no longer capable
able to say: “There are indeed Initiates — of whom
demons Gods. Men were no longer capable of distinguishing between Gods
after all inevitable. Necessary as it was that for a season men should

Title: Community Building
Matching lines:

in these days — again, out of fully justifiable
Community-building! It is most remarkable that the idea of
understandable to anyone who knows that he can achieve that
time and applicable to it. Sharing together in the experience
Here is the means available for creating communities. But,
have in the dream consciousness, we are not likely to be able
able to experience something possessed of the power to awaken,
truth when we speak of the supersensible world and are not able
able, perhaps, to repeat it in the form of a theory —
theoretically even for ourselves — when we are able to
each other, and who have not thus far been able to take the
inevitable that those on one side must speak out of an

Title: Community Building
Matching lines:

of course, according to the possibilities available as
the most unqualified tolerance. There one must be able to
tolerates it inwardly and objectively as a justifiable
single fact. If he is capable of receiving the diametrically
in the physical world, for example, a table or a chair —
Thus, does it become understandable, precisely from a
therefore, consider it justifiable that I myself require much
becomes a member in order to become in an honorable way one who
Anthroposophical circles. In this regard innumerable mistakes
see that the Society is in such a state as to be able to take
October 1920, we were able to conduct for three weeks the first
tableau, when one spoke out of Anthroposophy in the strictest
the last address I was able to deliver in the small auditorium
have been available, the persons who have contributed to its
physical plane to be clever through being able to prove a
applicable, it is applied by us also. But the carrying of this
consideration of what lies before us out of innumerable cycles
like a dreamer but will be able to act as a person standing

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 1: Evolution and Consciousness, Lucifer, Ahriman
Matching lines:

enables us to follow its progress over extended periods
that we are best able to think about those external
than my little finger is able to think itself isolated
ancestor was unable to form ideas independently of the
able to think. The older form of thinking in images had
justifiable to ask in all seriousness what powers are
something is justifiable does not count. We need to let
not be able to attain to the higher worlds and the
highly unpalatable.
mineral body do the thinking. It is perfectly able to do
photographic print. It is able to think for itself,
is able to give us into the spheres that lie beyond
historical documents as are available. There are

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 2: East, West, and the Culture of Middle Europe, the Science of Initiation
Matching lines:

remarkable aspect of Asian civilization is that the soul
this was able to find concepts with which to grasp the
itself able to take in the ideas coming from Asia.
physical body is able to give we will be unable to do so.
that the people were able to rise to a world of ideas
characteristics that enable them in particular to take up
the elegant reply the ‘Latin mind’ was able
the West present initiation knowledge in books available
seriousness concerning the truth is unacceptable. It

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 3: Political Empires
Matching lines:

enable spirits from the higher hierarchies to speak
so that spirits of the higher hierarchies would be able
training given to physical bodies found suitable for
Something was able to evolve that was to govern human
it is true to say that no one nowadays is able to
things which it would have been unthinkable to dispute
able to use to express their relationship with the realm
spreads a veil over the radical metamorphosis we are able
that enable us to ascend in our vision to the thrones
must become able to face truths that are deeply
become able to see things as they are. Sometimes we fail
will be able to confirm the following. Herman Grimm [
unthinkable for a present-day protestant Christian to
Anyone incapable of being horrified at these things also
our outer reality. We shall only be able to do this if we

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 4: Western Secret Societies, Jesuitism, Leninism
Matching lines:

reasonable to say that at the present time little effort
that are understandable and indeed also justifiable. In
— enable them to hold a position of authority in
fact quite considerable. They are of course clever people
and able to be to the fore in public life nowadays
only suitable for the forming of ideas during the Middle
herd of animals, animals capable of very sophisticated
is Justifiable for people in some places to wish to
conception. Everything we human beings are able to think
they are able to bear the thought — for they have
have to choose words most liable to excite the egotism of
created with lies. That will be the inevitable
— and a respectable number of articles have already
kind of printing error merely showed what kind of stable
We shall only be able to progress in the world if in the
have been teaching, the inevitable conclusion simply has
continue our discussion of the subject when I am able to

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 5: How the Material Can Be Understood Only through the Spirit
Matching lines:

something that is altogether unsuitable for human beings.
able to refer to the teaching of anthropology in class 5.
able to give.
with the feeling I have that I was really able to achieve
comparable to the waking state for the earth and winter
counterbalanced by what the cultural organism is able to
objectionable, that go by personal and heaven knows what
Threefold Social Organism. This has not yet been able to
— I have not been able, however, to pursue such an
my heart that I am unable to respond to almost all the
and ethical basis which we have been able to establish is

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 6: Materialism and Mysticism, Knowledge as a Deed of the Soul
Matching lines:

be able to do their part. They would be of no account,
we cannot comprehend unless we are able to conceive of it
aspects that people find highly uncomfortable today
uncomfortable; yet unless we enter into them we will make
inevitable discomfort if we are to get from theory to
the situation gets uncomfortable.
uncomfortable threshold truth that it is mysticism which
mysticism. We should be able to develop the feeling that
unpalatable threshold truth. Everything that is abstract
uncomfortable. When you want to balance the scales you
be able to enter into reality. People Only grow
caused considerable annoyance to some people—that
wisdom human individuals are able to produce in later
this is an unpalatable truth — as we get older the
feel able to cope if we are open to the approach of

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 7: Materialism, Mysticism, Anthroposophy, Liberalism, Conservatism
Matching lines:

have the kind of organization that enables them to
highly improbable and paradoxical to modern minds but it
of the element radium. To someone able to perceive the
are able to retain into ripe old age a quality of soul
the customary way — a way that was inevitable in
spiritual science. The inevitable result is that things
parties. You know that the most miserable, sterile
this battle of minds and they will use all available
physical world it is pernicious and abominable, because
the hope that people who are still capable of handling
unpalatable to have to listen to such things, yet that is

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 8: The Opposition of Knowledge and Faith, Its Overcoming
Matching lines:

be accepted by anyone who finds it acceptable but cannot
honourable title ‘fighters for the material
bottom of our hearts, the only viable aim for spiritual
spirit that was no longer justifiable called themselves
abominable slander has been spread about all over Germany
been supplied with copies of some of the abominable
clearing the debts in reasonable time’
from what people generally find comfortable in the
way I have described today. It would be more comfortable

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 9: East, West, and Middle
Matching lines:

consider this dream life you will be able to say that it
imageless thinking of their waking life, and are able to
spiritual science will be able to establish this beyond
when human beings were able to use the brain as a sense
organ to a very considerable degree. In a way, however,
actually able to perceive what they experienced between
however unable to think whilst they were in that
were, before they were able to think the things that they
were able to remember what they had experienced during
daily lives in the ancient Orient they were able to
the ideal model of himself and was able to say to
be able to enter into the state of soul that people had
the ancient Orient you would be able to say: For him,
nature we experience immeasurably more than we are able
people have so far been able to achieve full insight.
century was unable to answer the question: ‘How do
— is capable of holding all three within him or

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 10: Transition from the Luciferic to the Ahrimanic Age and the Christ Event to Come
Matching lines:

Belgium together had 35 million horse power years available. Great
gradually, and a to of 35 million available in Belguim, Russia and
were able to overcome the others, as it were, on the basis of objective
countries were able to field the number of horse power years I have
beings are capable of producing. Indirectly they are of course connected
years were available in Germany; that is not very much per human being.
intellectualism of modern science does not enable people to gain
The other day I was able to
include the human being. It is unable to perceive the nature of the human
It is uncomfortable to face
age will be able to judge what is evolving from the depths of the souls
in a way that is quite unthinkable.
looked at nature and saw the spirit; this enabled us to develop an inner
come alive in us it must be able to provide us with insight into the
independent of anything human beings were able to do? It was entirely
beings themselves will no longer be able to influence these elements. We
grow able to behold the Christ power that can become part of us and
shall not be able to appreciate its true value when it comes upon
through and through. And this independent life of the spirit will be able

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 11: Modern Science and Christianity, Threefold Social Order, Goetheanism
Matching lines:

the anthroposophical literature that is already available
we would never be able to develop a spirit-man, a
give in that respect; it is only able to help us develop
bring light and warmth into all the ideals we are capable
of holding. We must be able to ask ourselves in all
serve as a guide?’ We must be able to experience,
should already be able to say to ourselves that the earth
Anthroposophy will be only be able to serve human beings
rightly if they are able to ask themselves questions like
Christ we are able to join our own essential nature to
essential human nature, when we are able to see the way
beyond anything the earth is able to give.
however, can never happen. We shall never be able to
to contain contradiction upon contradiction. Unable to
achievement they are capable of, the logical necessity
their abstract intellect is able to perceive by the
spirit, or in other words art enables us to feel that the
instinctive element is also spiritual. It enables us to
wanted to make this condition generally applicable to
soon be able to carry these things out into life. It was
Maximum number of matches per file exceeded.

Title: Life Between Two Incarnations
Matching lines:

Thanks to an anonymous donation, this Lecture has been made available.
we were able to discuss a few things about the ways leading into the
and a new birth, but in order to be able to understand what is
able to see this. Let us assume that a man stands before us. In this
For the clairvoyant consciousness it is recognizable as a
the I there is something sacred. This is also clearly recognizable in
is an indispensable remedy for recovery. This is the meaning of the
lecture, you will understand that those people who are able to see into
higher spheres are also able to report about the conditions after
If about any facts is reported, which are not immediately controllable
tableau. This recollection cannot be compared with a recollection of
earth life, but this tableau of recollection stands there all at once
stood before them like a tableau, so that the vanished experiences of
are facts. In that moment of flashing of the memory tableau something
this memory tableau occurs immediately with full strength, because the
whole physical body is left. The duration of this memory tableau after
satisfaction of the desires, the physical body, is no longer available.
no longer possesses the instrument with which alone he was able to
draws him down after that period of weaning, when he has become capable
condense into effects in the archetypes. These are then able to live
Maximum number of matches per file exceeded.

Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture I
Matching lines:

first of all-gratitude to those friends who, in my unavoidable
nineteenth have made it seem justifiable, in the general
turned our thoughts to this — how valuable it is,
that we may hold any view if it is agreeable to us, a belief
judge of it as is agreeable to them, not according to its
B.C. The “fable convenue” usually called
what has been handed down to us so that we are able to judge of
construct abstract thoughts, unable to govern social life, and
in the future will take on a separable character, and will
events. Three syllables — I can only hint at them —

Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture II
Matching lines:

People in those days were as capable of development right into
outwardly less noticeable. In olden times this was not so; what
the organism and new knowledge, unattainable before, is
within reach. At the inconsiderable age of thirty men are
ashamed to make themselves capable of development, or to learn
to experience our life as capable of development not only in
should be able to experience throughout his whole life the
Hierarchy of the Angels, who will once more be able to interest
There was a remarkable example of this once, when my hearers
decadent. The proletariat are not so yet; they are still able
directly traceable from Central Europe to Ancient Rome. This is
to the present; that means to make ourselves capable of

Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture III
Matching lines:

have only recently been able to plunge entirely into the
It signifies that by means of it we are able to develop
body, educate them to be able to take the complete plunge.
know that at the present time there are a remarkable number of
Nations” and hope for something from it. It is remarkable
same way the Earth would not be able to develop unless it
ago have turned to dust, is enabled to bring to completion what
remarkable polarity in man's evolution. If he passes through
however, a remarkable arrangement in the human
gradually so deepening our knowledge as to become able to
what is given from the spiritual world to enable man to unfold
they usually are; so that we may be able thereby to struggle
remarkable positions, remarkable because so very
comfortable ideas. In this sphere, also, reality must be seen
make. All the miserable endeavours to justify themselves before

Title: Problems of Our Time: Main Features of the Social Question and the Threefold Order of the Social Organism
Matching lines:

It was itself called upon, to a considerable extent, to set its
remarkable thing was that those who had power to act in the
market.” He who will is able to see that since the social
impetus of these ungovernable facts had spread over the
should consider such things to-day, should be able to keep
intellectual life only capable of living within the souls of
But to be able to teach and educate him means learning first to
destiny and able to direct his forces with determination to the
is becoming capable of deciding, in the sphere of the free
capable of judgment. There has been a good deal of talk on this
be able, through the mutually-fixed values, to get as much
and Fraternity,” three ideals which were capable of being
able to give an outline sketch of what I meant: I know I have

The Rudolf Steiner e.Lib is maintained by:
The e.Librarian: elibrarian@elib.com