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Title: Evil and Spiritual Science
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Basically, what we have to deal with today is an ancient issue
view that, fundamentally, this question cannot be defined any
prominent thinkers a halt was called to all philosophy, to all
usually thrown up, when one is at the start of striving for
path, through which one can gradually approach a solution to
of all, permit me to raise one point in advance, that should
of the Stoics, and how this all is connected with the general
itself; and this deadening happens if a human being allows
were to allow the clarity of the I to be submerged, to be
steps on the path that leads into spiritual vision, all that
called divine providence. How did a Stoic find himself then,
with this it must be allowed, that one can also remain behind
really a kingdom below their true humanity. And to want to
otherwise an exceptionally significant spirit, who lived in the
so-called “New Theology” and whose works in certain
to take part in the spiritual: this entity he called Ri.
it constructed from matter: and that entity he called
all beings arose, according to him. For this thinker from the
shall see later that it is important to refer to this in this
us try to call up others before our souls, from amongst our
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Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 1: Popular Occultism, Introtroduction
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connections. We shall have to deal with problems such as the cause of
setting out from man, from the nucleus of his being, we shall study
the great truths come to expression, especially in Christianity and
there are about three or four hundred people and all who have this clairvoyant
first of all, they must deviate their attention completely away from
harm the person on which it is practiced, all this has nothing to do
are all as real as the former. This is the astral body seen from within.
Seen from the outside, the astral body does not exist at all as far
moments his whole past life rises up before his soul. What has really
body. Something similar takes place when a part of the body “falls
its own movements and memory is more free than ever. Normally, the etheric
period we shall be able to influence the astral body by developing the
body with everything mineral, his of etheric body with all plants, his
astral body with all the animals. But man rises above all these things
from the physical body. The etheric body and astral body gradually dissolve,

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 2: Man's Ascent into the Supersensible World
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we call the three worlds and only when we have described the characteristics
world the number 365 would be 563. Especially in the beginning, this
to be borne in mind is however that in the astral world all the images
this is very confusing. He may see all kinds of animal-forms, even terrible
tell us of such experiences. They are really to be pitied, when through
a tiger that attacks them. This is how all these wild shape should be
for the soul. But think of all the things that people read to-day: sensational
a so-called true reality, appears in the astral world in the form of
therefore gradually learns to read on the astral plane and he learns
“Alles Vergängliche ist nur ein Gleichnis”. (Everything
that never clothed themselves in flesh. They continually hover to and
have a real lust to materialize themselves astrally.
then do all manner of horrible things, just because they incorporate
Our eyes and ears, all our sense-organs, are merely instruments used
all the vibrations of the air, etc. into sensations of sound. But in
produce new forces for the physical body and above all for the etheric
in person during sleep when he gradually becomes clairvoyant? The night
when they fall asleep and regain it when they wake up; but they are
unable to perceive what takes place astrally, because they do not have
An untrained person experiences the astral world chaotically, in the
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Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 3: The Different Conditions of Man's Life After Death
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astral world. To-day we shall deal with man's life after death in the
This new state of existence is called life in Kamaloca.
us, is now want. Hot passion calls up the feeling of horrible chilling
of the senses. In the case of suicides this will be most difficult of all,
to see, he at first simply perceives through his eyes. Gradually spiritual
grow more refined. — If we had never enjoyed colours sensually,
we could never attain spiritual enjoyment of colors. The sensually enjoyment
physical world. Similarly, sensual love gradually leads to the highest,
carry it up to the altar of spirituality. Nothing, really nothing, is
The Earth is not a valley of tears, it is a gathering place and the
We should strive, above all, to change our temperament to a certain

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 4: The Devachanic World
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In Devachan, all that constitutes
life here on earth, all that enables plants and animals to grow, may
find all the fruitful and valuable ideas ever thought out by man. Even
we find a wonderful starry writing. It can be read as these so-called
All the thoughts connected with human deeds are everlastingly
there is a thought, an idea. All this is engraved in Devachan.
man gradually overcomes the feeling of importance which he attributes
unity of all life. Little by little, with the development of a theosophical
gradually enter human life. When we incarnate again, we still have a
stage in our inner development, we shall be able to recall our past
finally reach this stage. The frequent repetition of Devachanic experiences

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 5: Life Between Death and a New Birth
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To-day we shall study man
soul was inwardly interested in them. Now however, all these experiences
behind. The etheric body gradually dissolves in the universal ether of the
all his incarnations. When man incarnated for the first time — at present,
experience every smallest action in all its details. He must halt before
the soul. In the continental region of Devachan all our experiences
once more all the feelings and moods which arose in us. The effects
into us and become capacities. In a subsequent earthly life all the
last a short time, generally a few hours. The bell-shaped is a general
are called Mahadevas. Also outside Devachan they have a certain significance
are connected with the physical body. All these processes generally last

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 6: Man's Return to a New Earthly Life
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earthly life. After death there arises first of all the picture-tableau
only through the activity of the so-called Mahadevas. The attraction
does not reach as far as the germ. Beings called the Lipikas lead the
physically in the next generation, we not only work our own benefit
by living morally, but for the health of the next generations.

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 7: Effects of the Law of Karma
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who was a pessimist. To view life pessimistically or optimistically, produces
A good preparatory condition for the next life is to meet all people
with the objection that there are our families in which all generations
is false. Man continually works upon his astral body with his Ego; A
by lower instincts and passions, and a part spiritually elaborated by
of the Ego's work upon the etheric body, is called Buddhi, and a person
who has reached this stage is called a Chela.
Last of all, upon a very
physical body. Such an initiative is called a "Master&".
is called Atma. In this lecture we cannot deal with the mystery of
from the etheric body and generally everything coming from the physical
only bears a small outward resemblance to his family, and in his whole
into his physical body. Heredity works most strongly of all in the incarnation
continually enters new incarnations is not devoid of meaning and purpose,
plane the human spirit gradually formed communities and states out of
small tents and huts, so he also transforms the fauna and the flora in

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 8: The Evolution of Man and of the Solar System; the Atlantic Evolution
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we shall deal with the evolution of man and of the earth itself, with
the spiritual world contains the documents and facts of which we shall
be viewed from four aspects. 1) By taking them naïvely and literally.
than the authors of these documents. 3) From the standpoint of an allegorical-symbolic
to read the Bible literally and at the same time we gain an occultist's
Atlantean were as follows: His etheric body protruded far, especially
gradually entered further into the head. The ancient Atlantean did not
clairvoyance. They did not see things materially, as we see them to-day,
but in supersensible images. For this reason all their spiritual products
religious. In man all these religious feelings converged in a fundamental
upon the astral plane. But we shall speak of this to-morrow.

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 9: Lemurian Development
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which were all of a volcanic kind. Typical for Lemuria is the manifold
were in the case of the Lemurians, still more strongly marked, especially
This installment did not
actually breathed in his soul, with the air he breathed. This process
thought. Think of a morally degenerate and of a highly ethical man. The
another at all, but they may have a common father and be brothers!
became the ape of to-day. All animals which live among us are consequently
Formally, moon and earth were one planet. Thus the evolution of the
the earth with all its forces, with its whole aura, or its astral part.
connection with everything which one calls fecundation and procreation.
This applies to all living beings. At that time, certain forces were
To-morrow we shall speak

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 10: Paths of Occult Training
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development are called Initiates. The path which they tread and teach is that
is called. "Saturn". Then comes the "Sun", followed by Moon"; "Mars" and
the middle of this epoch falls the deed of Christ; the Mystery of Golgotha.
imagination. In future all human beings will be able to perceive as
spiritual beings will be produced through the word, and finally the word
qualities which man must have; he must be able to bear what one calls great
this must be overcome. All people who achieved a great deal require this
calls for a complete submission of the pupil to his Guru. The Rosicrucian
Christian Initiation. All three kinds of Initiation are in reality the

Title: i Spirituality: Lecture 1: Historical Symptomology, the Year 790, Alcuin, Greeks, Platonism, Aristotelianism, East, West, Middle, Ego
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time, it is especially important to consider. With regard to the historical course of humanity's
really do anything because they are nothing of real substantiality, and only something of
spiritual science, if it looks at history, would actually have to pursue a symptomatology; a
wished in general that all
attention for what is usually called history — but which, nevertheless, for a deeper view
Greek, who was naturally at home in the particular soul-constitution of the Greek peoples which
through Christ Jesus, was the ransom actually paid? He, the Greek thinker, came to the solution
be paid to a being who really exists. But death has no reality, death is only the outer limit of
between Alcuin and the Greek purely positively and will ask what was really happening there. For
Catholic theologian shifts the standpoint entirely before he takes it up at all. He does not go
culture, had basically faded away between
where, indeed, in ancient times a primal wisdom had lived but which had then fallen more and more
if I can so call them, of this primal oriental wisdom. And then, like a rapidly developing
metamorphosis, Aristotelianism sets in which, fundamentally, presents a completely different
it, too, takes on different forms, different metamorphoses, but all of which have a recognizable
European soil between two — one cannot really say world-views — but two human
oriental actually gaze when he possessed his instinctive perception?
something very real when, instead of simply an empty wallet, he has twenty-five or fifty francs
where these things were originally conceived, the world does not arise out of nothing but out of
the reality I have just indicated. And an echo of what vibrates through all the oriental way of
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Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 2: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 1
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increasingly stronger and all the phenomena of life — of life in the broadest sense —
results from this. Above all it is essential that a social life take shape, but a social life
strong egoistical forces of the consciousness-soul and, on the other, the all-the-greater
Europe and the West. And we want now to turn to a phenomenon that can already show us externally
into being in our technological age, our intellectual age. I have presented all this, insofar as
life held in die West, especially in the Anglo-Saxon countries. In these countries, under the
its terrible aspect will show itself throughout all Asia, because it works with all the fervour
has no understanding at all of the foment of deeper forces in the whole of our present
All this, however, which can be described
externally in this way, has deeper causes — causes which lie ultimately in the spiritual
takes on a religious character but is actually the momentum of a decadent spirituality that still
economic nature; purely economic aspirations can have no success in the Centre because all
character. Behind this political character, which has produced all the dreadful things that have
developed in the European East and has set its characteristic stamp on all the aspirations of the
East since Peter the Great, there is, fundamentally, always the spiritual tendency of Byzantium,
reckoned as belonging to the European Centre, for what is characteristic of the West is actually
impulses that have arisen naturally within human development in the last three or four centuries.
all that was then forced upon the social life through the modern scientific way of thinking and
all its achievements. This way of thinking and its achievements, together with the inherent
One can actually point to a significant moment of
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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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the modern anthroposophically-oriented spiritual science, everything that exists in Western
civilization as spiritual life is basically an inheritance from the ancient Orient. But this
activities. It is directed towards entirely abstract spiritual regions, and basically does not
is to be traced to the fact that it is actually conceived by the people of the East, even by the
so much in the abstract concepts of Marxism, but essentially in the fact that its bearers are
most of all — the dialectical element, the element of political-legal-militaristic
culture when one considers at first that all three branches of human experience — the
mixed up and at cross-purposes in much the same way that is the case today over basically the
whole civilized world. Rome ended in complete decadence, brought about essentially by the fact
chaotically with one another. It can truly be said that the Roman Empire and particularly the
shall not go today into the historical details of what developed throughout the Middle Ages out
developed in this direction. But all this was interpenetrated by what entered into these Roman
essentially Germanic blood overlain by the Roman language-element. It can only really be
West of Europe as the Latin race has, fundamentally, nothing in it of Latin blood. But it, has
those whom we call the Latin peoples. Thus there is a far more malleable balance present here in
would be extremely constricted. Above all, however, one must be clear that what can then manifest
were the people of the West. Initially they left the spirit out of consideration, taking body and
would really be cultivated. We could then imagine that, in such a crude way, some individual
through this we get all the phenomena of which I have just spoken. The direction of thought, on
human constitution of those peoples who have gradually asserted themselves in the centre of
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Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 4: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 3
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is filled with underlinings and marginal comments knows how Goethe had really studied
— for Goethe this was all far too cut and dried, far too simplistic. He felt that one could
philosophical, intellectual form, but more pictorially. Goethe then treated this same problem in
(the Copper King) and in which the Mixed King falls to pieces. Goethe wanted to deal with this in
would correspond to that aspect of the social organism which we call the spiritual aspect: how
human being far too simplistically. You picture three forces. This is not how it is with the
soul and thereby only transforming into intellectual concepts what he actually feels.
today in which, basically, behind what is structured and developed intellectually, the human
being. In Schiller everything still has a totally personal
Let us show diagramatically what might be meant
like this — portrayed only schematically — but loops
takes this course, be continually new impulses
Otherwise he would have fallen into the usual intellect of the nineteenth century. Goethe
human element and the social life, did simply present itself in such pictures. But he was allowed
Expressing it schematically, Schiller had, as it
Schiller had managed to work himself clear of this even though he allowed himself to be taught by
yield to them but held back and did not fall into mere intellectuality. Goethe had to battle with
picture form. But the Greek myth, basically, Is image in the same way that Goethe's
so the Oracle arose. The gods were not pictured here merely imaginatively but were called upon
really to inspire people. And it was with the sayings of the Oracle that
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Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 5: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 4
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The subject about which I shall have to speak
amount of preparation, and today, to begin with, I shall try to characterize again from a certain
attention to the challenges that are placed before us with regard to the evolution of humanity
people to undertake the Crusades to Asia, to the Orient; especially when one bears in mind how
elaboration of the intellect. This, of course, did not happen all at once. The intellect was
gradually prepared for. The last traces of the old clairvoyance had long since become extremely
the fifteenth century. All human beings, or at least those who strove for knowledge, had some
at present only in the small circle of anthroposophically-striving human beings but which must
that it is impossible to grasp and know anything at all with the pure intellect. The intellect is
knowledge of their culture, perceived a spiritual element in all the manifestations of nature;
individual things and phenomena or in the whole of nature, as the all-encompassing
beginning of this age which we call the fifth post-Atlantean epoch, established their rule in
This is all connected with the fact that, in those
took its course there and was shone through with wisdom — everything, fundamentally,
depended on the blood. But, at the same time, what was in the blood was also spiritually
recognized. It was determined by the Mysteries as to who, through his line of blood, was called
called to the leadership of the people by the Mysteries was brought to this position because his
because, against the verdict of the gods, according to which people were allotted their place,
the beginning of the so-called Middle Ages, the Romans above all had no money. Economics based on
money was gradually lost and the dialectical-legal culture spread in Europe as a kind of economy
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Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 6: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 5
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If an understanding for what one can call the
has proceeded from a constitution of soul which we have often called a kind of instinctive
particular characteristic of the ancient oriental peoples and existed essentially in its last
remnants above all in these peoples. And Christ Jesus, too, did, after all, walk on the earth
of all through the remnants of ancient oriental wisdom. And when this Mystery of Golgotha moved
by those people who, out of the remains of the old clairvoyance, had understood what had really
old clairvoyance spoke about the Mystery of Golgotha is called Gnosis. And, if I can put it so,
course, have made no impression on humanity at all.
in the accounts of the old clairvoyants and, basically, as you know from my
was actually the secularized ecclesiastical 'Empire of the Church', permeated by Roman judicial
conflicts, and how these conflicts really form a great part of medieval history. But one must
was entirely permeated by the spirit, by the old instinctive clairvoyance, and all that this
all by the Popes of Rome. It was this authority that took the place of that which the priests of
all that the Christian could experience in the Church. In the Last Supper he had directly
authority also naturally became stronger and stronger. And the strongest exercise of power to
Jesus: a Jesuology. Even though Jesus was seen as one reaching beyond all human beings, that
allow the masses access to the Gospels. The Church fought furiously against the Gospels becoming
irreconcilable with a common knowledge of the Gospels. For the Gospel in its true form actually
something to be understood as one understands things of the physical plane. After all, with an
classes of the people. And for dialectics one could not simply give out a fourfold mutually
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Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 7: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 6
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European development, of modern civilisation generally, will inevitably be bound up with the
called the Christ-experience soon to come.
Christ there really is at the present time. The course of human evolution has brought it about
that ever since the Mystery of Golgotha, and particularly in recent centuries, all that can
properly be called experience of the Christ has fallen into complete decadence. We saw, too, that
came about in ways other than is expected among philistine circles; so, too, what one must call
remains at the surface of things. But especially during the period between the middle of the
habitually stick to what was once instilled into them. At most, one can notice a breaking out
their usual habits of thought they would soon see what an immense gulf there really is between
science. And this is connected with the fact that popular science has totally captivated the
general consciousness. People underestimate this today. Just think how rapidly, especially in the
with furious speed and we shall see how, out of the chaos of modern civilization, this
The human being, as such, is actually entirely excluded from the conception of the world based on
evolution. But actually it takes into consideration only that element of man that is animal. It
few people are aware of this today and these few can certainly be clear about it theoretically.
recent times to account for the human being, we have, on the other side, claims of all kinds
physical existence. To be aware theoretically that one has passed through a spiritual life of
another. It has given way, both in the individual and more especially in the social life, to
characteristics. Anyone who is able to view this impartially sees how the human being-today
actually feels that he is what he is through his parents, his grandparents and so on. Unlike the
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Title: Abbreviated Title: Lecture I:
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which are called, from the aspect of the physical world, destructive
reality is attributed generally only to what arises and forms itself, as it
so-called destruction, at processes of dissolution, at what finally arises,
Jacob Böhme “Thus death is the root of all life”
in a manner inimical to the world, and have done only what may be called,
and a new birth is usually relatively long.
really are.
If we then allow
naturally very numerous, but they all lie in the direction which I indicated
see the body fall away from our soul-spiritual, is intensified in this
understand that someone who takes no interest at all in what surrounds him
on Earth, who is really not interested in anyone or any being but only in
in order to make amends, in order now really to live with the conditions
period have the tendency above all, if nothing interferes with this, to
culture. Above all, it is a question of living with conditions which are in
changed to such an extent that spiritual-scientific conditions can really
have eminently what goes into decadence and downfall. Those who have a
order to see how it is ripe for downfall. Here on Earth you are made
bear that up into the spiritual world, you behold the downfall of the epoch
and you will return again when that calls forth a new epoch, which lies in
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Title: Talk To Young People:
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Rudolf Steiner raises the social challenge for youth of our time:
it necessary to be honest, what is needed above all? Courage! Something
one learns very fast or not at all. Real courage! The courage to say:
Rudolf Steiner raises the social challenge for youth of our time:
it necessary to be honest, what is needed above all? Courage! Something
one learns very fast or not at all. Real courage! The courage to say:
with all the questions and problems in your hearts that assail young
deeply into human evolution call the end of Kali Yuga and the
belong at all to the 20th century; sometimes we feel we must have
impulse is the growing freedom to be allotted to human beings, have
same as always. Youth continually rampages against everything their
[we call
all; they were attempts to escape from what older people call
usually just the opposite.)
grade, I should listen to him. “All of us High School students want
subconsciously in him was what older people call “the adolescent
their answer was usually, “Young people have always been rebels.” I
deeply indeed, the inner meaning of these youth movements. We all
helped them develop a really joyful enthusiasm for nature. Actually,
general stuck inside that young man,” and this he really did become
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Title: "Heaven and Earth will pass away but my words will not pass away"
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All problems of a
happen to man when arrived at the end of all evolution! We have often
You all know that human
become evolved in the human being that which we now call the earth man;
You will all be aware that in
this our fifth post-Atlantean age mankind has gradually replaced the
concepts of Spiritual Science. If we consider all we are able to think
and know of the world, — all, that constitutes man's
perceptions, conceptions and ideas today — we have all this as
awaking and falling asleep, — by these ‘contents’ we mean
all perceptions, emotions, will impulses, etc. — so is the
usually perceive these dreams within our subconsciousness, we fail to
Jupiter will obtain all his mineral foundation from the Saturn man we
equivalent to our vegetable kingdom shall come into existence,
what we can imbibe from spiritual Science. Hence, I propose to call
With all that we absorb
from Spiritual Science, the Sun man in us can really do something. He
ensure, that not only indefinite sphere harmony shall enclose Jupiter,
mineral Jupiter in the cosmos. Toward this end all materialistic world
laboratories, etc., we shall find that everything is working in the
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Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture I: Tree of Life - I
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must be added if the spiritual scientific-movement is really to
course of evolution of earth and humanity. Above all, a certain
riddles actually become more numerous for the human soul than they
gradually to have an enhanced feeling in what a lofty sense, in what
from various aspects. And so something shall here be added to what
beginning of the Bible, after the Fall had come about. The words
of earthly evolution. It would be-hypothetically possible, one might
to think about solving the riddle of what had actually occurred
gradually to reach an understanding of what had happened through the
What has actually come about with the Mystery of Golgotha, what has
know indeed that all these concepts, including those which live in
understanding and which then gradually dried up and withered into
day. It is all that developed as continuation of this Latin-Roman
Augustine first accepts all the elements of the old withered
world-conception, and how he tries through all that he so accepts to
utterance: Men shall not eat of the Tree of Life.
‘Ye shall not eat of
through all aeons of earthly evolution with regard to certain
and life will stream out from it. But this older knowledge shall not
upon the outer rim of a very deep-lying secret, and one can really
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Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture II: Tree of Life - II
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called the continuous stream of evolving knowledge and wisdom, and,
particularly in specially clear and aware moments of waking up, can
lifts himself out of a living and weaving in what one might call a
element in which they felt themselves to be actually cleverer than
cannot be grasped by this physical consciousness, and is generally
But all the same, and even without any
waking life. This fact too, of which everyone can really very easily
Knowledge of Good and Evil, they shall not eat of the Tree of
What does it really mean: Not eat of the
himself: If what we call the Luciferic temptation had not taken
Knowledge of Good and Evil. All our knowledge is the sort
everyday knowledge is really influenced by the fact of the Luciferic
not-being-allowed to eat of the Tree of Life. Had we been allowed to
methodical development to know something of what really goes on in
how we actually spend our life between going to sleep and waking. We
Life, Lucifer was condemned to eat of the Tree of Life perpetually.
And since Lucifer lays claim to what weaves and lives from falling
draw this somewhat diagrammatically (see p.5a) so that you may
Spiritual beings are not there because they actually ought not to be
of Spiritual Science. When in specially favourable moments one is
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Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture III: The Power of Thought
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My dear friends, it is really difficult in our time
what we call Spiritual Science.
practically never, is it brought to consciousness in the European
I called your attention here once to the
fact that every thought is essentially different from what people
usually believe it to be. People take it to be a reproduction of
inner life and shares (above all so long as we are growing) in our
It goes on working continually and again and again replaces what dies
externally, but we are always working upon our being through our
downwards, so that with every thought we actually insert in us
something is being destroyed, is actually crumbling away. And what
the thought inserts into our human form, preserves us, generally
practically no knowledge of this at all. People do not notice, they
have no inner feeling of how the thought grips them, how it really
scarcely feels any longer that the thought is actually striving all
inner feeling and life, of what spiritual science really desires. For
spiritual science is actually not active at all in what thought
Now you must be clear whence all that I
have just analysed actually comes. You will all remember the account
share in all that has taken place as Saturn, Sun and Moon evolutions,
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Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture IV: Harmonizing Thinking, Feeling and Willing
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yesterday we were able to show how the intellect, all that is
way — especially in the case of Western thinking
the human being drawn schematically, we should first be concerned
fact that here within, it is raying out and continually calling forth
not aware that they now also go out into the cosmos, that they really
link between these two centres in us does not actually come to our
‘Here, one does not come to anything at all. The
This Kant called the ‘categorical
imperative,’ from which he derived all truths related to
the inner nature — as he calls them: all higher
by the normally progressive divine-spiritual beings but we perceive
they wish to do during the Earth-evolution what they ought actually
following is what we should experience: If we call that (see diagram)
of the Earth-content, but we should say instead; All that we have in
the eternally new Moon-existence is our thought-content, which is
mighty memory of the Old Moon. We do not see continually in the
explanation of all that the senses conjure up before us. We ought to
to crack open a beautiful problem, which they call
world is not spatially infinite but is limited. For both there are
equally conclusive proofs. They must be there, because the one point
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Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture V: Tree of Knowledge - I
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these plants. Naturally, as this creature never comes out above the
which the plants are undergoing naturally also bring about changes in
bear blossoms, changes occur similarly in the roots. All the roots
sun-activities, shoots, leaves, fruits are called forth, and
for once suppose — hypothetically we can accept it
world-conception, there can naturally never play a role, the fact
something is happening, and he now expresses all he knows, this worm.
He expresses all of this, but in the picture of the world which he
that all sorts of processes go on in the roots, all that he
opinion so current today, that all depends on cause and effect,
scientifically philosophical-technical way. Then this worm will creep
about down below and will call one thing a cause and another an
picture will emerge, which classifies all the processes under the
except that it lacks what man considers the most important of all.
about what the worm actually observes down there below; it is clear,
off spatially from above — but in what is shut off
really an exact analogy.
the cause of all he has puzzled out down below is, as a matter of
worm-existence can give the assurance that nothing at all in this
worm-conception need rest on a logical error. Hence all logic can be
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Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture VI: Tree of Knowledge - II
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with what we can call physical operations. On Old Saturn the first
sense-organs are today essentially physical organs. You will easily
nevertheless that all has to do with the
we] can call his
seen in the fact that during sleep the ears are naturally influenced
our organism. And if I now include the etheric body, it naturally
ego I must do it schematically in the following way. This ego would
open itself naturally to the spaces of the whole cosmos.
Naturally, this is drawn schematically
really made a drawing of the human being, it would look far more
physical sense-zone. But if this were really to be the case in man
(as in the drawing), if he had really only developed in this way,
years of childhood the child really has this consciousness, even if
gradually comes to an end. Children are primarily interested in their
consciousness that they are enclosed as if in a sphere which really
really feels its skin as a kind of enclosing sheath and pays
entered and because it actually fills out that which has been formed
child's innocence only ceases because Lucifer gradually struggles
‘Ye shall be as gods, your sense shall be opened
be justified, but all the same Lucifer stands at the side. There is
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Title: World Downfall and Resurrection
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World Downfall and Resurrection
really only a thicket of words — and
World Downfall andResurrection
reasoning faculty. Until that time, all knowledge and all
acknowledged by anyone who thought at all in the days before
Science. It is a question of forming true and really adequate
Eucharistic controversy, as it is called, had already appeared
many things were no longer understood at all, as, for example,
then: ‘All things were made by him [i.e.: by the Logos];
these words are taken literally, their purport is quite clear:
namely, that all things visible were made by the Logos, that
literally and maintain at the same time that the creator of
Christ. What did such a mystery really signify to these men?
thought: the bodies of all who constitute the tribal stock are
under this ancestral sway. These bodies are all related, they
veins of them all. The body and the blood are one. And in
metallic substances, his blood is influenced by the Earth.
blood are fundamentally influenced by the forces of the Earth.
Earth but of the many subordinate gods of paganism. All the
wonder that all striving for knowledge in those times was
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Title: Lecture: Philosophy and Anthroposophy
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spiritual science of this nature is usually held by accepted philosophy to
origin demands the pursuance of the path which eventually leads to
in time and by degrees, an inner insecurity eventually culminating in some
feelings are often wrongly explained, and their alleviation sought in the
that we should really feel the resistance of the two obstacles which human
cognitive value. We must not shrink from really experiencing their nature;
by Natural Science become increasingly foreign to all our inner experience
unbiased, we cannot avoid finally encountering the difficulty experienced
devote all suitable faculties to the pursuit of Natural Science is a sound
observe that they do not result from comprehension or feeling, and we shall
primordial fount of all Being, can be inwardly experienced. If, however, we
finally proves to be some effect of an unknown being; we remain incapable
cognitional method of this nature can be called anthroposophical, and the
calling attention, at the present day, to the fact that an inwardly real
the other it appears superfluous to the mystically inclined, who believe
(especially at the hands of philosophy) is justified. A short sketch of its
reality, through not perceiving the very two cognitional obstacles alluded
to above, and how an unconscious impulse is at the root of all
Anthroposophy. (I have dealt at greater length with this tendency of all
Philosophy is generally regarded by those concerned therewith as something
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Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture I: The Pedagogy of the West and of Central Europe: The Inner Attitude of the Teacher
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at Dornach in the Fall of 1919. It is from the lecture series entitled,
during this time, that I am hardly able to say whether we shall get further
the educator. Of course what I shall have to say about the nature of the
teacher should be taken quite aphoristically. It would indeed be best if it
were to take shape in you gradually, if it were to develop further through
especially teachers whose attention should be drawn to the fact
anthroposophically oriented spiritual science, and it is our intention to
— it is this crucial fact above all, to which attention
should be drawn: the teacher must really have a deep feeling for the nature
And it would be necessary for the teacher especially to guard much as
what is the real cause for mankind having fallen into the widespread misery
London, Paris, New York or Chicago. Fundamentally speaking, matters have
gradually worked out in such a way that our whole civilization has been
that come from the West. If you were to trace back all the educational
find it not merely totally different from what is generally considered
scientifically have the largest voice in education. That is to say, it has
sense to thinking scientifically — this he may do as a
they have become the caricatures they are today. People usually go so far
all the harm that is done to education when it has been planned by
pedagogy drawn directly from life, when we recall what lived in Herder,
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Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture II: The Three Fundamental Forces in EducatioN
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at Dornach in the Fall of 1919. It is from the lecture series entitled,
not possible, naturally, to educate or give instruction if in our education
organism is fundamentally the same as in the man's change of voice, but it
call to mind what the change of teeth signifies. The change of teeth is the
those that need to be used especially in drawing, painting and writing. We
put all of these up-welling forces to use when we develop writing out of
drawing, for what these forces really strive for is to pass over into
— these are really furnished me by heaven. It is the
divine-spiritual, when it permeates my teaching, is actually a
all the intellectual speculation as to what you should do. The feelings
unconsciously — something that is gradually emerging
processes, above all from observation of its rhythms and a-rhythms. A
All of this the child is taking in unconsciously, and for this reason are
children musical to such a high degree. All of this they are taking up into
element of music and language, developing gradually from within outward.
more in the region of his larynx, bringing about the change of voice. All
human being is basically up to the seventh year permeated more by the
purposes. All the abstract chatter you find today in books on psychology or
in psychological discussions based on contemporary science, all the
high-flown words about psychosomatic parallelism, are no more than a
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Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture III: Spiritual Knowledge of Man as the Fount of Educational Art
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at Dornach in the Fall of 1919. It is from the lecture series entitled,
what we ought to invent out of what we have learnt, when we are actually
taking a lesson. If you study education as a science, consisting of all
the art of education itself. This has actually to be invented by the
like to call one of them the musical element, the element of sound that we
hear, and the other one can be called the pictorial element, the element we
is essential that we really understand these processes right down to the
point where we understand what is actually going on in the body. You will
so-called sensory nerves, that apparently run from the senses to the brain
of initiation science we have to challenge this classification. There is
absolutely no such difference between the so-called sensory nerves and the
motor nerves. Both are one and the same, and the motor nerves do not really
actually giving the impulse of will. So we can say that we have nerves that
are basically the same nerve strands, .and the essential thing is only that
becoming any different, to the so-called motor nerve, which also does not
perception of something that is principally conveyed by the organ of sight,
perception as such. This perception as such actually takes place within the
that all understanding is conveyed by man's rhythmic system, not by his
Actually we have to see the truth of something we understand before we can
understand at a pinch, because he is breathing all the time and therefore
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Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture IV: The Art of Education Consists of Bringing Into Balance the Physical and Spiritual Nature of the Developing Human Being
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at Dornach in the Fall of 1919. It is from the lecture series entitled,
then that which we see is essentially the incorporation of the ego.
one side we can call the birth of the etheric body, seen from another side
times called harmonious listening (
whether we call it the ether body or intelligence does not matter
gradually organising it through and through; which means that there takes
is really the musical element and all that which is being absorbed as
which can be seen really and concretely as I have described it.
— all education and teaching should
their ego was allowed to be absorbed too strongly during their years of
criminal, it is all the more important that we see to it, that his ego will
can, on the other hand, fall a prey to making the opposite mistake. There
is a difficulty here. As we may place too small or too large a weight on
one side of the scales — if the weight is too small, the
in rigid concepts; and in trying to rectify one error we may always fall
factors of life which are all important so that we never bring out one side
right way. When one notices the well- known Theosophists mark, which all
— a small bump rising a little way behind the forehead
through. Equally, everything in language which is of a musical nature, for
the organism. Music will be specially beneficial for a somewhat fanciful
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Title: Social Understanding: Lecture II: Social Understanding Through Spiritual Scientific Knowledge
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at Dornach in the Fall of 1919. It is from the lecture series entitled,
truths in particular that I would like to develop for you. We shall then
connections are between these forces and man's being, they do not usually
supersensible worlds really fruitful in ordinary life. It can be said that
is whether these capacities need concern us at all except in their
you do not regard man purely superficially you will be struck by the fact
as you all know, there is something peculiar about the power of memory. We
foodstuffs in the human body. And you actually always have to oscillate a
absurd it is basically, from a higher point of view, for some people to be
and the speaker usually includes himself among these —
but the essential quality of a really spiritual world conception lies in
not despised. That is the fallacy of many religious denominations, that
crux of the matter is really to go into these things, and not, as is still
After having as it were shown you how these things can really be gone into,
speak of material existence and supersensible existence they usually speak
understand man. There is no way of really grasping man if you look at
and the world in which we work and live socially are spread out around us.
Let us represent diagrammatically by means of this line this world that is
complete picture of what is actually there in the world if you imagine that
line as well. If we actually want to include the whole of the imperceptible
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Title: Buddha and the Two Boys: Lecture I: Buddha and the Two Boys of Jesus
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event itself has already been discussed many times, especially in
was done in Basel, it was possible to touch especially on what can be
called the prehistory of Christ. Here one has to do with very complicated
outlines some things about the Jesus of Nazareth shall be told, in order to
is usually such that first facts of the Akashic Chronicle are made known,
that all these things can be found in certain documents, especially in the
precisely in that Christ event. One usually speaks of such spiritual
is called a Buddha. Before that, he was merely a bodhisattva, that is, a
great teacher of humanity. This latter gradually takes on other capacities
himself. He would not have understood such laws at all, if they had been
of the great Buddha, to lead an appropriate life that crystallizes the
called Nirmanakaya. In it, the entity passes on the mission that was given
this in natural life as well: for example, in the gall wasp, the front body
Buddha. The old man burst into tears because he was not allowed to
not been noticed at all in science. From the Akashic Chronicle, however,
showed himself well developed in all the qualities that can be outwardly
before Christ in Chaldea as Nazarathos or Zarathos and finally again as
whom Luke speaks, as the one of whom Matthew tells. By Herod's decree all
Nazareth, indeed, eventually merging into a single family. The father of

Title: Buddha and the Two Boys: Lecture II: The Gospels, Buddha and the Two Boys of Jesus
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The Gospel of Luke, on the other hand, allows
especially to the understanding of the outer, present physical world. Above
actual Jesus of Nazareth, above it we see shining what we called the
became Buddha. We could emphasize that what we call our occidental esoteric
lowest physical-bodily entity, what we call the etheric or life body.
us remember the so-called splitting of the personality, which occurs when
What is connected as a whole in the ordinary man, the powers which we call
This ethereal body, called the Nirmanakaya of the Buddha, hovered over the
Nazarene child Jesus. It is he who becomes the inspirer, who instills all
boy Jesus, whom we can call the Bethlehemite boy Jesus, and have said how
of Matthew the individuality is to be described, which was especially
understand Christianity in all its deep meaning, we have to realize that
especially in the first two periods of human life; the qualities which,
above all, go out, so to speak, to an understanding mastery of world
of all the abilities that came out in the physical and etheric body up to
and the physical body were especially developed, he would not have been
of transmitting from epoch to epoch what can be called the teaching of
same faculties were always there, which gradually developed from primitive
just not so. What we today call human thinking, feeling and willing was not
called the Bodhisattva, when that individuality called the Bodhisattva was
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Title: Lecture: Art As A Bridge Between The Sensible And The Supersensible
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are hard to ignore. In these circumstances, it is all the more
hat is called the social
historic challenge. However, at the same time, it has to be said: Our
leading classes and social ranks have allied themselves with certain
interest groups and have neglected to cultivate a generally human
the leading classes have essentially concocted for themselves. As regards
the large number of slaves who not only partially, with regard to their
participate. One need really only consider how little the cultural life
garb as compared to the worker's overalls, while
common spiritual life, aiming to represent all human beings as equal
life, they gave in the same way to all classes of people. Class division
times that essentially replaced the old pictorial element with what is
proletarian, universally-human feeling, an upper stratum emerged in
reality, of entering into each other. We have finally arrived in this
prerequisites of any kind, everyone actually has his standpoint. Today
what people claim for themselves today as religious content is after all
today. I ask you to consider, after all, that in order to answer the
understanding of the world actually sought (and hence a real
only gradually be acknowledged once again in reaching the point of
will only really be solved, however, in seeing spiritual experience as
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Title: Raphael's Mission in the Light of the Science of the Spirit
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All the world will want to know about the life-work of such a human
Raphael; about the beautiful young painter who surpassed all others; who was
fated to die early. Whose death all Rome mourned. When the works of Raphael
are finally lost, his name will remain engraved in human memory.”
that appear all at once, like a star, who are simply there, so
up like a star and disappear again, actually incorporate
organism. One has this feeling quite especially with
calling to mind a saying of Goethe's, one would like to transpose it,
other than by gathering together all his spiritual forces,
to think of yourself as the centre of this eternally existing
especially in such outstanding figures as Raphael. What we have
happens sequentially in an ongoing straight line of
development, but rather to assign an overall meaning to single
really speak of an education the human soul undergoes in
all that is cultivated and achieved by the common spirit of
all manner of viewpoints. These reflections are not the result
philosophically. What is said has arisen for me after
crystallizing quite naturally into what I wish to present.
in feeling to an overall impression. Having studied Raphael,
then one may ask: How does it stand with this overall
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Title: Leonardo's Spiritual Stature: Lecture
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known picture of all, the famous “Last Supper,”
Leonardo's name is continually brought to the attention of
speaker, who look up to Him so reverently — we see all
Supper, Leonardo introduced what can be called the dramatic
graphically conjures before us for the first time an expression
Santa Maria delle Grazie, one sees on the wall
This is all that remains of the original painting that has
this wall as something of an artistic miracle, not only in
the wall. — What has this picture not suffered in the
certifiably painted onto the wall, in so
technique previously employed in painting such walls. He found
wall. He therefore attempted to use oil-based colours,
series of hindrances came to light. The location of the wall as
moisture coming out of the wall itself. The whole room, a
contributed to the overall problem: the billeting of troops in
wartime and so forth. All these things took their toll on the
the dining hall of the cloister and one day had it made higher.
they have to be called such — who painted over the
colour it once had. Even so, standing in front of this wall
all barbarity, all overpainting, all soddenness, the magic that
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Title: Fairy Tales: in the light of Spiritual Investigation
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generally supposed, speaking to us magically out of every epoch
the individual human soul-disposition. It is really as though
slightly after all as not to harm it by such investigation. Far
original that one would like best of all to bring it to
(If I were to say all that I should like to say about the
integral to the soul, as to be “generally human.”
organism. What the food undergoes initially evades human
observation and knowledge. All the human being has is the
“veins,” just as the organism has a need to allow
that continually take place quite unconsciously in
only occasionally in faint dream experiences caught by
day-consciousness. Awakening from sleep under especially
survey, as compared to the generally-human soul conflicts
itself existentially, the soul has now to unite itself with the
despite knowing nothing of it — through all that the soul
falling asleep. Having withdrawn itself from the senses and
the human soul may be called a feeling of its own
as a hindrance, holding it back morally. Other moral
unconsciously after falling asleep, when the human soul
is alone with itself. And all sorts of further moods then
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Title: A Mongolian Legend
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all certainly know that with a child after birth the bones up
here on the head only gradually become closed. A different
called an eye, since this organ was not an eye. It was an organ
freely and unhindered into what we call the astral world. With
actually lived in the souls around them.
This organ has shrunk to become the so-called pineal gland, now
allay her longing, not finding it in all the external objects,
longer to be found in all the external objects granted humanity
being, through all their organs, as an aura of love. This power
wither away. Human beings are called upon, however, to permeate

Title: The Worldview of Herman Grimm in Relation to Spiritual Science
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underline its overall importance for Rudolf Steiner: Held January 16th 1913
said that for the purpose of gradually entering into the whole
become aware that parallels can be drawn to modern cultural
viewing life called spiritual science can be applied to other,
considerations can connect especially well onto this
Herman Grimm, he appears as a kind of mediator between all that
collection of folk poems called
close proximity to Goethe. In all that he took up in his
belonging to all those who had stood personally close to
life. He can be called a spirit who, in an individual manner,
recall being together with Herman Grimm in Weimar, which he
actually made a self-evident impression on me. And it accorded
sentences without feeling: all this affects one as though the
sincerely absorbed Goethe's spirit. Yet this is not all; it
We sense in Herman Grimm's style a liberation from all that can
binding him closely to tradition; Herman Grimm was, after all,
such as Goethe. We find nothing of a small-minded biographical
compulsion — to flush out all manner of more or less
same way he had done, individually, with regard to Goethe. The
called it. Thus, he becomes a unique kind of historian. For
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Title: Imperialism: Lecture 1
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historically, not so much referring to the present — that can
imperialism, historically, but in a spiritual-scientific sense.
Basically, what is most effective today and
and finally even in Germany,
peoples and so forth. All these things were not
of the Asiatic impulse are, for example, the historically known
Persian empire and, especially, the Assyrian empire. But it is not
historically known stage of the Assyrian empire, simply because the
the conditions which are known historically make it possible to see
of a region, let's say an empire, and what we today would call the
reality — not something called a physical reality, but it
— but rather what we today call ministers or court jesters,
those whom we would today call rulers, lived a divine soul, a God.
The concept of a really existing godly empire,
being God who really physically appeared on earth, the son of heaven
who physically appeared on earth, who was even the father of heaven.
recognized the conqueror, followed him, then all was in order, they
appeared before his people, it was in all his splendor, because as a
Basically these were the two forms: the churches and the empires.
During the first imperialism, when all was
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Title: Imperialism: Lecture 2
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historical origin of what today may be called imperialism, and you
it has finally become a platitude.
their pretensions, still gods. Nero, at least hypothetically, was a
themselves to be adrift when they can really feel the solidity of the
participants in the fall of the platitude stage and will have to be
be especially possible if all English-speaking peoples realize that
This knowledge must dawn especially on the peoples of the west. The
moment of realization must come when we can no longer defend all that
is necessary to admit. If we do realize all that, then human nature
greatest talent for this truth. All the prerequisites for the dawning
so radically, as they can be seen through by the English-speaking
already pointed out. That Holy Roman Empire was basically a network
of pure symbols — all signs and symbols, which pointed to some
in the social organism was perpetuated until finally in 1806 it
especially talented — that is negatively talented —
people of Central Europe were left with a striving in all directions,
German ex- emperor is defined by the so-called revolutionary rulers
You can really study history when you seek
surface; but what tsarism really cultivated appeared in its true
usually merely tools, the really powerful people stand behind them.
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Title: Imperialism: Lecture 3
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aggressive character. It is so with all empires, except the original
justification was no longer there in all the subsequent empires. Let
Gradually all that which was based on divine
governing or ruling persons, it was all symbols, signs. Whereas
symbol for what is not actually present in the physical world, but
discussion of public affairs was possible. What we today call rights
described really existed. But if one only saw an image of the
called the “City of God” — that is, the
state which exists here on earth, but which is really an image of
personal judging was not at all present in respect to public affairs.
During the second stage what we call today parliament for example was
are wrong, because basically within the world of platitudes
imperialism exists. People observe things very superficially. When
the first stage it was really the case that the ruler's will was
speech, and involves lawyers and courts, is essentially a
idealism, not to mention materialism — for they are practically
He would have to have lost all sense of reality to even conceive of
how the efforts to found it were finally successful in 1870/71. He
glory, praised from all sides, these remarks had been held up to
traditionally preserve the old forms, the slogan
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Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture I: Anthroposophy and Natural Science
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Welcome, all who are present here! It was the wish of the
scientifically orientated process. It will be conducted with
exponentially in the last century, particularly the
19th Century. It seems to me that among all the
usually calls further evolution from a theoretical point of
instance when you engage scientifically with lifeless,
thoughts is a foundation, in order to gradually arrive at a
gradually conceptualising the sphere of the living beings
organic nature. This is what is usually understood today, as
phenomena, and — I could call it “logically apply” —
same in all spheres which is what gives the scientific point of
way in which you can position yourself internally to what can
be called “scientific certainty” which forms the
entire scientific world view. This is usually misunderstood and
empirically explored facts of nature.
Goethe arrived at this point by establishing what he called the
— one could say nearly all — of the details of
What is it that lets us finally arrive at a true perception of
contents. Finally he declared: ‘When I consider a process and
its cause, there is actually nothing different between it and a
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Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture II: The Human and the Animal Organisation
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Welcome, all who are present here! In this second lecture I
anthroposophical ideas relate historically to the Goethean
theme in question today, specifically the very first of
keep all the relationships in view when considering how Goethe
animals. He noticed how people all around him were focused on
intermaxillary, which is clearly detached in all animals from
out to how lucky he was, that the human being actually has the
organ formation were transformed and then gradually through its
and of an animal, and gradually observe how the human being
experience of taste not happen parallel to the lymph and blood
development in all organ processes? Through this we can follow
partially a fact of outer science — not only in the usually
really different to when we, as it were, hear directly through
consider the words more anatomically-physiologically,
call it movement or rest. Likewise, we must speak about a sense
however, we proceed biologically, we discover real
the axis of their backbone is parallel to the earth's surface
naturally understand quite well, and said: ‘When we sleep, we
is outward; inwardly the human is so dynamically organized that
can say that by the human being purely functionally, out of the
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Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture III: Anthroposophy and Philosophy
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language. We usually employ “Word” to translate
“Logos” is basically in everything which is
are contained in all that we feel in
“Sophia”; one could call it a particular, if not
included with, I'd rather not call it science, but scientific
second decade of the twentieth century, where we basically have
lived through so much, not only externally in the physical but
also spiritually — one can quietly declare this —
is essentially as follows. Looking at the time of German
all kinds of thoughts and research in this area.
along with the purely scientifically based world view but could
nuances who agreed with the call “Back to Kant”,
basically remained within the epistemological and didn't get to
questions and overall, basically failed to acquire the courage
science. We find in Spencer a personality who totally agrees
‘This is the way in which all philosophic thought in the world
constructed a kind of community organism, totally based on
outer sensory reality into the smallest detail, without
what I could call, a kind of fear of rising up to one
these beliefs should develop free from all scientific
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Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture IV: Anthroposophy and Pedagogy
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understanding. One of these areas in which results can really
be practically proven, is in the pedagogical area.
life, where they felt themselves particularly ready to actually
only to a small degree — when Emil Molt founded the Waldorf
before that, as shown in the small publication “The
human being, on his empowerment, on his — if I might call it so
people, when they allow themselves to be directed by these
is what must be especially treasured in the pedagogic didactic
practice they are to some extent successful. We didn't have all
some or another theoretical sphere. In the end all education,
all teaching is based on the understanding of the human being,
aspects of the human being? They have developed all possible
work on the bodily-physical. Another, more materialistically
that of psycho-physical parallelism, which assumes that the
soul-spiritual and bodily-physical matter equally, and only
them. These are all psychological speculations. At the moment
accustomed to follow naturally according to science. In natural
as so-called latent warmth and how it had developed out of
being are usually only observed outwardly. However, the change of
the child in the fullest sense of the word, didn't really live
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Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture V: Anthroposophy and Social Science
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suggestions above all to life practitioners; this book was
sociologically, socially, and to this I would like to say a few
eastern European states were essentially different. Not from
Basically, something quite different has happened. On the one
hand theorists have all kinds of discussions regarding the
content of my book, discussions to which all manner of demands
that be? — ie: what one could actually expect. It turned out to
different way to how it is usually judged today.
“Call to the German Nation and the Cultural World”
‘Yes, such proposals’ — they called them proposals
realistically, regarding the indications in my
the “Key notes” at that time, had the call: people
are not at all in the position to resonate in the original
actually become the ruling principle: wait until something
happens but you can't tell what it will actually be. This is
what is deeply embedded in the human soul today, on all
the course of human development gradually enabled us to arrive
held in the Philharmonic — can't be called purely
first of all, out of this thinking the economic life could not
instinctively — not meaning automatically — as exchange in
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on Friday is now an unequivocal challenge of Steiner and his
a challenge to the theologians. I myself would not be involved
challenge of today's theologians.”
Thus, you will also allow, my dear friends, that not all sorts
if I'm forced by this challenge given to me by shortly
mentioning some personal details — it has never actually
been my intention to challenge theology and from their starting
so far, and really from me it has happened as little as
People were not always, one could call it, theoretically and
epistemologically clear in what sense the scientific methods or
less apparent or more or less really worked, but the
uncertainty is basically there as well. By contrast
working scientifically. This then holds true for all
I can't give you proof of this. This remains a truth: for all
possible, in words of today's language use. Naturally one is
from the simple basis that speech, as in all modern languages,
and Intuition in such a way that it can really be proven again
small circle — who have the need to hear about such
defamation of what is really striven for in the Anthroposophic
instance follow currents in parties and are influenced by all
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course to a smaller circle regarding the items I want to talk
about today and it became clear to me that one really needs a
speech scientifically, then one must be clear that it is not as
and what rises, connects to conscious elements which gradually,
what is present as we speak, that is only partially the actual
held in a smaller hall, I was notified to give the lectures
can be called human duty. It would be necessary for this
of central Europeans, I actually had to do these lectures which
should simply have been parallel, in quite a different way for
“Pflicht”-impulse, which they call
allow nuances of experience to flow into what happens when one
the law which you have grasped intellectually. This is roughly
experienced consciously, will actually be unable to obtain a
what the object essentially is which one wants to examine. So
nuances became gradually less recognisable — and in
note of all the complicated soul impulses streaming through it
as essentially the same and can condense them into one word,
“body”, the outer garments one could call it, the
anger, zeal and so on. Basically, with such a translation one
today, it was essentially something different. We must clearly
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Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 1
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had originally functioned in Germany from 1904 until 1914, when the
undermined — must be imbued, especially in this School.
times. This spiritual life can be deepened in all its aspects.
received with all earnestness. For this — I must say it
School. This must be gradually corrected. For it is only
possible for those to be in the School who take it in all
All this, my dear friends, must be kept in mind.
that this difference be felt in all its explicitness by the
members of the School, so that eventually only those persons
are members who really want to be representatives of
anthroposophy in all aspects of life. I say this now in order
First of all, I would like to present to your hearts and to
engraving. That we really identify with what emerges from the
understanding. We shall begin with the words:
and sublime and the endless glow of revelation in all that
the thousands upon thousands of crystalline and non-crystalline
existence — that all that is divine-spiritual revelation.
And it reminds us that we owe our own bodies to all those
shapes, to all that is greening and growing, color on color.
all that is beautiful and glorious and grand and divine to the
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Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 2
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present who were not here last time. We shall therefore start
being. We shall therefore develop this theme. And although the
His skin is all a dullish blue;
for acquiring knowledge is what dominates. Especially in our
superficial enthusiasm which trails all kinds of cheap external
When you have overcome all three
us as much as exterior life does. It is all too easily made a
Humor may be called for with respect to some aspects of life.
possibility of really concentrating on spiritual striving and
friends, it would be really good for spiritual striving if all
the friends who are sitting here - especially those who have
to think it is not the case with me? In respect to all
influence in life. Therefore it would be good if all those who
From all this you can judge how different spiritual realities
To continually remind ourselves of this belongs to the
thinking had gradually been preparing itself since the year 333
especially today they let this unconscious feeling dominate in
belonging to a certain group, all kinds of conflicts arise.
confusion between truth and error. All our prejudices based on
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Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 3
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had originally functioned in Germany from 1904 until 1914, when the
which one will actually take when seeking access to the
former does not actually participate in what is revealed to the
their thoughts. And that includes all of you, else you wouldn't
verification cannot be found, he calls it semblance. And only
between birth and death in a way that you could never really
all the knowledge of the senses and reason you may have gleaned
something which should be borne in mind especially by those who
provides; in these times it is especially difficult to acquire
will gradually be able to differentiate between truth and
When you sit down on a chair - at the moment you don't fall on
feeling and a willing human being. But they are all unified
really something which comes very close to the threshold of the
which happens immediately, dear friends, when you really come to
When a person begins to meditate, when he or she is really
that one is essentially a very good person.
It shows how one can be full of all kinds of vanity and
really meditates honestly will see what drives live in his soul
disposition really is, which is reflected in the words we have
His skin is all a dullish blue;
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Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 4
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well, to the extent that its earnestness can really occupy our
minds. For here we enter an area which is essentially different
from other areas of spiritual life, what is called
of the gods with all your thinking, all your feeling, all your
willing. You must receive these words with all your soul's
enthusiasm, all its inner warmth, all its inner fire. You must
usually call your memory, and what others call your memory, is
to all your enthusiasm, all your warmth, all your inner fire,
loved her, your love is recalled; if you hated her, your hate
is recalled. If you had wanted to undertake something together
with her, this is also recalled. You cannot separate what you
towards them. When artistically presented, however, I can
is gradually developed to hear beyond the words. And when this
respect to the esoteric - what has been called in esoteric
streams of all times with an attitude of holiness: silence
were descending from the mountain into the valley with the
have placed us down into the valleys, where we encompass and
in the valley, we wish to ascend with our feelings on a
through which we can say to ourselves in all honesty and
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Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 5
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Threshold's domain. Especially in the last lesson here, it
which usually prevail for earthly consciousness.
visualize the world pictorially, but which is nevertheless
powerless. Our thoughts are at first things we own which allow
Today we want to approach these things esoterically. So it may
the physically sighted and for the physically unsighted. Light
is objective. Not only the physically sighted receive it, the
physically unsighted also receive it ... when they think. Because
warmth circles: yellow.] Many individually differentiated
many as there are human beings on the earth. They all
for this visitor from space all human thoughts are in this
cloak of light. And all feelings are in the cloak of warmth,
and all willing is in the atmosphere, in the cloak of air.
two spots, a and b, are drawn]. The real human beings are all
the person who really stands before the Guardian of the
things theoretically. It is not particularly profound
mystically to say that you are one with the world by merely
go out of yourself - go out, so to speak, through all the pores
understood in all seriousness by anyone who strives toward
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Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 6
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advances spiritually when he becomes conscious of his true
friends, behind the kingdoms of nature we have what is called
it. We are too closely related to the earthly to specifically
differentiate it. We do not specifically differentiate what is
shall call that great chemicality of the cosmos
then we will call what is highest in the etheric: Life-Ether,
he lives on the earth, is not equally related to all of these
out of their own being. And then we say to ourselves: All that
don't merely understand this theoretically, as is mostly the
moment we may fall into animality. But it is just this fear
transformed into an awakening call to inner strength, to
can see how in reality all thinking - this is unknown to people
It's something we need to advance spiritually.
Essentially plant-like dull
if we really descend consciously, becomes a wakening in
Essentially plant-like dull
stone hard. One really feels thinking with angles and edges
when one finally gains admittance to the spiritual world. Such
thinking actually hurts when it appears in its particular
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Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 7
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First if all, this School represents the impulse of the
several esoteric circles. All these esoteric circles must be
gradually absorbed into this School, because with the Christmas
friends, and above all it must be grasped with deep
Esoteric School, which will gradually be expanded to include
entity. This is not generally understood. So something must be
that an Executive Committee has been esoterically formed.
Furthermore, all those who consider themselves to be legitimate
feel responsible even for the words we speak. Above all we
when derived from what is called good intentions, is
says is really objectively true. For only when we serve the
steer through all the difficulties which will assail
Generally speaking, it is not difficult for a person to leave
the physical body. He does so every time he falls asleep. He is
really is.
Threshold - that the person is called upon, now that he is on
being which expresses itself psychically in thinking, feeling
naively appears physically to be.) In looking up you must
recall that your round head is a true image of the heavenly
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Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 8
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It is to be remembered in all earnestness that with the
entered into the anthroposophical movement. Especially the
and life. And it had to be continually emphasized that
stamp made, first of all because, although very abstract, a
person who carries the membership card. Obviously, all the
Goetheanum must really come from the Goetheanum. Therefore, the
do here since the Christmas Conference. But it will all be
has been the case with the Mysteries in all times. Therefore,
be understood to be. It is obvious that all the previous
For this School is the esoteric foundation and source of all
anthroposophy exoterically (sic) as a member of the School
Therefore, in the future, especially for members of the School,
the Goetheanum to fulfill its mission all the members of the
then people will come to us - they generally don't - would be
School whose work is really about anthroposophy and not
who continually claim that you can't confront people with
it gradually, may choose to exercise their opinion outside the
challenge to humanity to strive for a true knowledge of self.
This challenge; “O man, know thyself!” rings forth
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Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 9
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enhanced inner strength. And especially for the strength to
we can also observe all that radiates down and streams through
we again create a picture in our hearts of all this, the
then when we are conscious of all that binds us to the earth,
itself, then we will gradually and harmoniously be more and
approaching them with all the characteristics of the sensory
With common sense we can understand all of anthroposophy, but
to undertake a really intimate exercise of these three
sensations - or experiences, it doesn't matter what we call
all sensory organs: eyes, ears. The child experiences
forces of the earth. And it is really wonderful how the growing
earth forces as long as this sensory-being is especially vital
continually touching in that you place your whole body from top
in these forces, we feel how all the fluids which course
be constituted as something continually crumbling away. The
realize how we are continually nurtured by the essence of
weren't continually nurtured by the forces of breathing flowing
the liver, the warmth of the heart, which are all God-spirit
doesn't speak about man personally, but about the entire
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Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 10
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gradually rise above our earthly existence to an experience of
concerning whether or not someone is really destined by their
then we ask the question in all honesty: Why? Why did I absorb
And finally,
according to the usual methods and called to this or that work
consideration of earthly relationships one stands spiritually
or if you really want to be affected by it, in reality. Behold
gazing up to the star-studded heaven, we really have the
really enter meditating into this vision of the star-filled sky
painted, but in which they have been recapitulated symbolically
that was not the case at all. In reality in ancient times the
see. But they actually perceived those pictures, those
awesome majesty of what radiates back to us. And gradually we
impact on the person emanating from the object, but really also
see virtually from behind, as Moses was told that he always had
deeds of the spiritual beings who brought it all
really immerse yourself in what the initiate relates with your
must rhythmically flow through the soul again and again, for it
stimulate in you the feelings which can come quite naturally by
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Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 11
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You have all probably been deeply affected this morning by the
are all gathered here, I will say what I have to say about
she not only participated in what is being esoterically
of freedom. Every individual is called to his life's task and
especially flowered is to be reenacted in the correct form
of all, the one most hidden to world history, took place: the
For the transition is made for meditation to really enter
individual gradually frees himself from the limits of his
You all know, my dear sisters and brothers, what has
respiratory and circulatory organs are concentrated. All
That which can be known theoretically can also be
And least of all does the limbs-metabolism-organization show
circumstances. This doesn't mean that the head is really the
What is actually going on? When do we see ourselves
through what holds him together: his I — through all
allowing ourselves to be impressed by the radiance of the
us. We treat it as a call, but a call that excites us,
because all heaven resounds in this call. This is how we
trumpet-call:
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Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 12
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wants something different than really standing within the
how it passes through. You will sense it as all kinds of
thinking. Then you will be able to touch, touch internally that
is, perceive internally, thus: [draws: white outline of a
really feel it, then you have grasped something spiritual,
Thus, coming from all sides of the distant universe:
of thinking through a spiritually cosmic experience.
spiritually – the Guardian speaks the next three
We call this image to mind and hold it there: the eye
Then we hear again, resounding from all sides of the
Recalls you to cosmic existence.
which does not only call us to observe our senses, our thinking
called into cosmic being itself. This resounds from the
calls you to cosmic existence:
earthly will. Finally the Guardian reminds us that a being from
calls you to cosmic existence:
calls you to cosmic existence:
And finally, in order to remember the image we have placed
before us after all this has taken place within us, and in
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Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 13
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First of all we shall speak the imperative words from
picture I drew on the blackboard the last time, we gradually
spiritually perceived. We should ignore the fact that we are
calls you to cosmic existence:
usually knows little of how the will acts.
arms. Normally we think that we move our legs and the legs
especially, the physical body, in order that the
All this we must translate into feeling. We must
they are called – the instinctual drives which are
and brothers, something you all know, for normal
consciousness is already aware of it. It is what we call the
voice of conscience calls out in an indeterminate way to
human consciousness. Usually we do not rightly know what it
and which we call the voice of conscience. With normal
of conscience is of high origin, high being. It actually
voice of conscience. The blood is physical in all the parts
of our bodies; but in that it is physical in all the parts of
This mantra is especially effective when it is felt
“Sitze” – after denuding it of all
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Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 14
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is, with all its amazing variety of colors and forms, what I
Nevertheless, from all sides the words resound as the
from the physical, when one — symbolically speaking —
But the Guardian of the Threshold calls forth to him how to
beware of the abyss, especially to be aware of the beasts
We breathe the air. The airy or gaseous element is all around
us. Warmth is all around us: the warmth ether, the fourth
— warmth — interpenetrates all. It is the only
one with the all-pervading watery element of the universe.
we are a Self within the warmth. It all ends. We must meet
The Guardian of the Threshold calls out to us, we should turn
The Guardian of the Threshold must call out to him: You may not
That applies to all four elements in the Guardian of the
Threshold's admonition. We shall now work on these
beckons. You look at his face. At first he calls out to you,
No one should recoil from meditatively calling to mind again and
again all three answers in order to freely choose the first
elements. All that we consume for nourishment must first
become liquid, from which the organs are formed. All our
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Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 15
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which rings out to human beings from all sides of cosmic
sparkling stars in the sky. We look all around at the
majesty of all this. And participation in any kind of
be found in all the kingdoms of nature; that it cannot be
the world from which we really originate, appears to us at
first as the blackest darkness. It stands like a wall before
humanity; we are really within it, that must be emphasized.
This is all given in mantric verses for those who
We contain in us, by what is called
all liquidity which forms us, which makes us grow, from which
all our organs are formed – the second, the
called in the innermost depths of soul, we will be liberated
can really make the spiritual element our own.
brothers, if we gradually acquire the ability to feel about
growth process, in all that forms our organism, also in all
fluid in us, especially our blood and tissue fluids; about
speaks about all that. And he calls out what resounds from
questions. His words call forth the answers from the Angeloi,
Angeloi really live in them. And when we feel with our senses
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Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 16
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what is generally expected of decent people in
Furthermore, in order that the School really be
reminding us of the admonitions which resound from all the
events and beings of the world to all those who have the
esoteric situation in which we feel ourselves: first of all,
recall it to our souls too often. We see before us everything
beauty of all that surrounds us, which we must acknowledge;
space, at the interweaving of time, that despite all the
as we look all around us we find our own self nowhere. Then
by a dark, night-bedecked wall. We see ourselves entering
once we have overflown the abyss and gradually sense —
first night-bedecked, gradually becomes lighter. At first we
everywhere. We must recognize it as the all-pervading
element. We must immerse ourselves in it as the all-pervading
by the hierarchies — come from all sides: first
Seraphim. All three hierarchies always speak: a rank from
From all three hierarchies we are reminded that
words, trumpet-like, powerful, majestic, from all sides of
self-knowledge from all the cosmic events and beings, and the

Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 17
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understanding of the universe, resounds to human hearts from all
that is and all that is becoming as a call to self-knowledge,
completely immersed in the cosmic context, above all in the
light. Gradually it becomes not only felt light, but a kind of
becomes magically illuminated by the cloud formations and the
spiritual world should recall the impression from the sensory
the easiest to remember and the one which most easily allows us
to recall the relationship between the spiritual world, where it
memory of the rainbow which has been called forth by the Guardian
exact words): Try, with the force you normally use to see with
[small arrow]
[a line is drawn to the small circle on which
Threshold's pupil finds himself when he is called to
the true nature of the rainbow. All the thoughts thought by
What so magically appears
colors flooding within — which we normally see toned down
despite all its greatness in comparison to the earth, it is a
small image — for it is only an image. And the sun
majestically fills the entire universe, infinitely larger than
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Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 18
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The call to self-knowledge, which the human soul can hear when it
objectively pays attention to all the beings and events in nature
Guardian's call:
the all-moving, all-pervading cosmic light in which we ourselves
recognize the greatness, the all-pervading, weaving truth in the
This stands before our souls as unshakable, all-pervading truth:
spirit, is nothing. And now we wonder: How did all this
we see Nothing, call it minerals, one kind of
Nothing; call it plants, a second kind of Nothing; call it
Something. And we call the Nothings the kingdoms of nature. That
and give names to what is fundamentally Nothing, that it is the
Nothingness. For in their reality all beings are only present in
earth we give names to nullities, we fall with our nullities into
experience down below. Now beyond the abyss of existence all that
the good forces of the deep must be drawn up high, so all the
answer with a mighty cosmic voice in the combined voices of all
reality, do we also know what really surrounds us between birth
to all the people. So they lived in the earthly world
all this, if what he experiences after death it is not to remain
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Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 19
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Again we shall let the verse flow
that is, was in the past and will be in the future, calls
of all real, true cosmic knowledge.
human being participates – usually unconsciously,
And finally we have been able to move on to the cosmic
our humanity. Finally we feel this cosmic Spirit-Word
ourselves spiritually immersed in the spiritual world
They are the thoughts that come from all the
This is what the human being who stands within it all says.
self-knowledge over to the spiritual realm, and allowed us
We should feel how we ourselves go through all
called from afar. We go back again with humility, past the
matters. It is hard to believe, but it is really the case
members really observe what is demanded in the name of the
With true occult matters it is really so. And

Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XX (recapitulation)
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for all those who are here for the first time it means
took place in this hall, from now on an esoteric breath is to
attempted as the so-called Free School for Spiritual Science,
was at the time when I did not yet personally have the
would form an esoteric nucleus for all the esoteric work in the
medicinally oriented alchemy deeply influenced spiritual
small territory streamed out to the whole civilized world of
bring to humanity in the present time. All the words which will
be spoken in this School are Michael words. Michael will is all
that is willed in this School. You are all students of Michael
anthroposophy before the world with all his thinking, feeling
necessary for the anthroposophical movement to spiritually
which I shall now speak:
our true humanity flows. To really understand these words means
soul, what our humanity actually is?
us. We must look around at all the little things we have been
given, at all the great things we have been given. We observe
the mute stone, the worm in the earth, we look at all that
down on us from the stars, for all that enters through the
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Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXI (recapitulation)
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resound from all the beings and events of the world to
from all the things of the world and from all the events of the
Guardian calls us to stand close to him. He looks at us with
the Gemüt [soul, heart or mind] of all people, which can
All its skin is a dull blue;
Only when you have overcome all three
All its skin is dullish blue;
Only when you have overcome all three
own being which at first confronts us as the answer to the call
dear sisters and brothers, one feels, even exoterically, that
must place what this thinking really is before our souls in
this way, do we feel it esoterically in the right way and
continually consumes and kills something in us, how in fact it
makes us spiritually hollow. Thinking is dead, and feeling is
half alive, it is basically only an image-form in us. And only
continually tempted and attacked by spiritual opposing powers,
thrust and force: being. This will climbs up from all the
creative power, which fills all space, all times, all spiritual
Which climbs up from all the seeming
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Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXII (recapitulation)
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ears to hear them — can hear from all the Beings of the
in the present and will hear in the future, which allow them to
Which rises out of all the seeming,
Rising out of all the seeming
must live in these words, which are mantrically united in this
we then “understand”, where we gradually come
In one mantric verse all is in the right place and all is
Rising out of all the sham
Which rises out of all the seeming
into the cosmos, into the world with all its forces if we want
all the beings by gravity, forces arise which also draw us
However, in all that streams through us we must be loving. The
blackboard, we will hear the Guardian further as he gradually
spoken to humankind in the past by all the Beings and events,
When all that streams through this Michael-School from the
in special cases, which must be judged individually, may the
— that is, by a means other than verbally — the

Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXIII (recapitulation)
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shall begin by again letting our souls hear the words which are
spoken by all the Beings and processes of the world to the
world. And we are exhorted from all sides, from all the Beings
of all the kingdoms of nature and all the kingdoms of spirit to
path to world-knowledge. Thus, all the Beings of nature and of
all sides, from the east and the west, from the south and the
world — how he is gradually lifted up by the Guardian of
the warmth of soul are working all the luciferic powers, the
region into which, with enormous all-embracing intellectuality,
only contain the force of gravity; spiritually, it also
constricted space in order to eternally interweave our will
is striven for in all the world.
Just as in all of nature a balance between light and darkness
is found, so must the human being strive psychically for it in
clear to us that our real being is not revealed by all of
self-knowledge. In front of us, like a black wall, is still the
O man, now feel in all your life's interweaving
ourselves united internally with warmth. We feel the earth
they are abnormal, when they don't work normally. But we feel
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Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXIV (recapitulation)
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enough, from all the kingdoms of nature and the hierarchies of
words sounded forth to man from all the stones and plants,
— all that offers nothing to clarify the being of our own
conscious of this externally.
gradually find the transition to living thinking, we should
ourselves unilaterally to it, how the darkness can be dangerous
if we devote ourselves unilaterally to it, how we must seek our
prepared above all to strictly adhere to the laws which are
really grasp our willing.
us which allows us to awaken, so that we are awake in spiritual
arrives at something like a memory-wall, then it returns again
see behind the memory-wall. But here the Guardian of the
we use these mantric verses in meditation, we must allow
ourselves a very long time, especially at this point, so they
can work in us with their force and really bring our I downward
all remembrance — then the Guardian tells us how we
hardships and problems — that will enable us to gradually
first, we only retain the wonderful, all-embracing forms of the
world. But if we begin to love all that is worthy in the world
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Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXV (recapitulation)
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had originally functioned in Germany from 1904 until 1914, when the
him from all the kingdoms of nature and from all the spiritual
from all that interweaves and lives in the earthly depths, in
own being in all that lives in the depths, flows in the air,
all that creeps and flies, in all that our senses perceive in
all that does not contain our being, the true source of our
and are urged forward to willing. But all that —
the truth is that we are only really awake in our thoughts.
between falling asleep and awakening.
thought, all our thinking, is there as the first brightness
sense psychically, spreads out below us. What we recognize
initiate gradually learns the following: What happens when
banality: that our head is the source of all our senses and
thinking: All our senses and thoughts are distributed over the
whole body, but what is especially expressed in our head is
shape of the universe. If we can say to ourselves in all
breathe it out again. The world in all its grandeur and majesty
many earth-lives, live in our willing. Let us think of all
brightly lit, universally living and acting thoughts; to what
spiritually wafts over us from below like warm wind — the
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Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXVI (recapitulation)
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had originally functioned in Germany from 1904 until 1914, when the
flows through all the work within the anthroposophical movement
This was a necessity which, above all, flows from the spiritual
arbitrariness called “human ideals”; rather must
cyclically intervenes in human affairs from the spiritual
that this same Michael-Will - which we can also call the
flow into all legitimate esoteric activities in a conscious
in our times as a spiritual institution. All those who want to
utmost earnestness. It is really necessary, my dear sisters and
for what really flows through the anthroposophical movement,
be in the forefront of what humanity can gradually develop as
leadership of the School retain for itself the right to allow
be called healthy, especially not one which is worthy of the
fall into unauthorized hands is the first requisite; but also,
to really be a worthy representative of the anthroposophical
All
profound worthiness must reign in all that is bound even in
All
their effectiveness if they fall into the wrong hands. And it
ineffective for all those who possessed it.
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Title: The Social Question: Lecture I: The True Form of the Social Question
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crystallized out of this so-called war has sprung out of fear
within the social movement, call for hope in themselves and
of all of this, a thinking person viewing life at present, who
how something appears in the social question which all members
the social demands are apparent in life itself. Despite all
direction. However, in what one could call social will is
position regarding the social question, because such a small
can hardly understand how it came about, one could call it,
wish to speak about the content of this philosophy at all. The
with universal human claims has never stood nearly as totally
basis. Nevertheless, if all of this is considered — I've
development of the modern nature of machines, actually created
scientific approach who considers all that is human, the
is clear that nothing which is technically or scientifically
being seen as mere cause and effect — one could call it the
take, if we may call it ‘successive’ development, what happens
This class consciousness, one could say, is only superficially
the totally impersonal mechanism of modern capitalism, it was
goods and capital, which they did not basically care for on a
hidden behind what we called proletarian class consciousness in
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Title: The Social Question: Lecture II: Comparisons at Solving the Social Question based on Life's Realities
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organism by calling on yet another class which in some way or
life, or it could be called the modern social organism, quite a
could call the nerve of a comprehensive, many-sided observation
works incorporating the nerves and senses. One could call the
consider what I would like to call the rhythmic system, in
recognise all the organs whose actions relate to metabolism. In
interact in a healthy way, of all that is contained in the
human organism. I have tried, in full agreement with all the
I am clear about all the
say yes, science can wait, they may gradually rush to their
especially the processes of the social organism, one can't
scientific laws are simply transferred on to, what they call, the
social organization. With all these analogy games, nothing relates
want to call your attention now to how this play of analogies
is subject to the same kind of laws which allow a comparison
what one calls the crude system of material business life.
are actually reversed in comparison with what comes out of mere
too all-encompassing, which can be described as the actual
civil life, allows itself to be between the two systems of the
Our economic life is connected to all that takes place in the
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Title: The Social Question: Lecture III: Fanaticism Versus a Real Conception of Life in Social Thinking and Willing
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what we call the social question today.
people, one could call it, among those who want to consciously
actually arise in consciousness. One can get various views
and social soul wisdom than you actually realize, on both
all sides into the thought habits of the bourgeois circle
driving forces related to the social question. All that has
the superficial observer might value as equally important, can
in a really, one could call it, in a scientific form which it
populace classes had been created and gradually had to
form of the social organism can actually be observed within
further interest to us. Of importance to us above all is to
he doesn't need to think, provisionally.
That was programmatic. This is not actually properly thought
as a reality. Actually, for those who have a sense for
does this modern proletarian point of view actually mean within
call it a teaching on scientific stilts, a teaching permeated
by an impulse as I've characterised it, which is actually an
ordinary sense call a social ideal. What lives in it doesn't
those who have come out of Marxism; that in all kinds of
discussions because they eventually lead towards social
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Title: The Social Question: Lecture IV: The Evolution of Social Thinking and Willing and Life's Circumstances for Current Humanity
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how its origins actually developed out of two different human
actually gives a social form to our current life.
usually does, by taking history as a straight line and
order to really understand the history of life. As much as
things will one not know how radically different everything is
socially, ordered their affairs socially within their
fore gradually and slowly but it distinguished itself by
shifting modern humanity radically away from the situation of
be called the foremost, leading social class of humanity. The
with all their interests as modern time came along, are linked
to all that was created as the newer state which had gradually
constitutional state, as actually politically constituted,
certain circles single economic sectors were gradually drawn
grasp community life superficially, will take on gigantic forms
leading circles want the economy to become gradually captured
humanity. Over and beyond all that, as is often the case in
— I would like to call it, to what has been pushed down
mentioned — to what is actually hidden. What wants to
personality, experiencing human nature within, actually makes
the achievement of the complete assertion of all individuals,
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Title: The Social Question: Lecture V: The Social Will as the Basis Towards a New, Scientific Procedure
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where Goethe allows his Wagner to create the Homunculus, the
me as a metamorphosis, one could say, in all the impulses and
social will and allow some superstitions to dominate. One can
they can create something called a social organism.
could call, the unconscious part of modern humanity. It is only
certain extent one must be allied in one's own will with the
learn. They must learn to think that they actually can't
beside the economic question to above all also a spiritual
going to allow myself to deal with the spiritual question
contribution to just those realistically orientated observers
stand first of all. To do so is to develop insight into the
impulses of what actually lives in the socialistic orientated
circles. Above all, the origins of these will impulses need to
so-called ruling class, away from the development in the most
at all see this belief as something unfounded — a belief
has formed that the socially disadvantaged class can expect
into an expression, actually knew nothing about the origins of
these thoughts and will impulses. What comes as challenges out
of life itself, living in the social movement actually stands
in a remarkable contrast with the challenges and social
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Title: The Social Question: Lecture VI: What Significance does Work have for the Modern Proletarian?
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rescue boat with conditions they usually insist upon. About
has actually happened and what is going on at present, for
What is called the ‘social question’ today has in no way only
is more than half a century old. However, what has actually led
through a certain education and taken part in what they called
don't need to mention all the praise declarations about this
soul sensitivities had to let the call be heard: ‘Does modern
they can basically have no share.
It developed in such a way that the carriers of the so-called
the all too necessary facts. This development brought about the
challenged by the question: ‘What significance is there
actually in my work in relation to what each person in the
for. Don't we hear it from all possible sides — from the
it more basically as ingratiating phrases which came out of
such that very little, really very little reaction was elicited
those who really understand the Proletariat, not merely think
taken up what could really be considered a fruitful development
offered by economic life, among them really live the basic,
that this circle, whose calling it was so to speak, to concern
the facts threatened and no longer allowed anything else to be
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Title: Lecture: Richard Wagner and Mysticism
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All rights reserved by the
permission of Frau Marie Steiner. All rights reserved by the
life. To-day we shall consider how an impulse akin to that of
people say: ‘You tell us all kinds of things about Richard Wagner, but
impulse of which we shall speak lived in Richard Wagner in the form of
somebody used the word among a small group of people, whereupon a
would-be learned gentleman remarked: “Goethe was really a Mystic,
associated ‘Mysticism’ with all ideas about which there is something
And now let us speak of what is really the fundamental conviction of
which is, however, more than an image. Those who really know what they
Goethe, albeit they are generally thought to be mere fantasy. Indeed
to live into their mood and atmosphere and then we shall begin to
Tragedy. We shall not, however, go into what Nietzsche says,
Among all the ancient peoples there were Mystery-centres. These
greater perfection in the animal and finally to self-consciousness in
an “all-comprehensive work of art.” He felt that all true
expressed dramatically, must be contained in the music. That which the
underlying all his work — an idea that had arisen from profound
insight into the mysteries of human nature. Herein he felt his call.
all. The deep laws which underlie the soul are spun from the
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Title: Lecture: Spiritual Wisdom in the Early Christian Centuries
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Steiner. All rights reserved by the
Steiner. All rights reserved by the
shall find that the characteristics of this knowledge through
Now a change took place in Western culture between all that lived in
all costs by true Christians. Moreover, efforts were made to
obliterate all that had previously been known of these individuals.
from medieval tradition a hatred of all that lived in personalities
Brentano had allowed himself to be influenced by this hatred and
vented it on Plotinus. He actually wrote a polemical thesis entitled
is usually not only scanty in the extreme but quite incapable of
giving any idea of their significance. Naturally it is difficult for
in the Idea of the Good is, after all, only a kind of family-likeness
which is present in all the Ideas. — Such is Deussen's argument.
cannot be said to rule or direct the other Ideas. All Ideas bear a
family-likeness but this family-likeness is actually expressed through
authoritative on the subject of Indian wisdom to-day we shall
the tradition which exists in regard to Plotinus — the so-called
of Aristotle and of Plato, by showing that there was really no
Naturally one could not have spoken to such men of outer Nature in the
of a spiritual world, and Nature — generally regarded nowadays as
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Title: Community Building
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part of the history of the Anthroposophical Movement. Steiner calls for a
in flames. The truth is that, for all those who loved the
according to all these various aspects of the great ideals of
most intimate harmony with these movements. One could really
mentioned, we have lost the home that sheltered us, we must all
take the place of that which we have lost. With all possible
artistic sensibilities. Yet in the background of all the work
remains this terrible flame, into which all the parts of the
especially if it takes root in the hearts of our
its sorrow, a power for everything to which we shall be
in all places where Anthroposophy has been alive. These
results. And there are, after all, a goodly number of persons
After all, the question whether one joined the Society in 1917
ought really to be carried out under the influence of this
justification — “After all that I have heard here,
worries we feel during these present days. This, after all, is
here were taking a far worse course than has actually been
especially in a spiritual movement which takes its rise out of
Naturally, my dear friends, I cannot touch upon everything
shall take pains to deal with as much as possible of that which
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Title: Community Building
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part of the history of the Anthroposophical Movement. Steiner calls for a
more exclusive sense, if not to all of you together at one
Society. I shall later indicate to some extent that which
such societies there are to be found all possible gradations,
who have withdrawn, and the like. In short, what may be called
myself pedantically, of Anthroposophy. Thus, I shall not
the dream world. We call such a person mentally unsound. But
that which should interest us especially just now is the fact
of this other condition of consciousness, which we may call a
lower condition, is taken over into what we will call a higher
let us call it a higher state — which can awake in a
the higher worlds, as you all know from my book Knowledge of
the other out of the consciousness which is really competent to
they will fall to disputing one another, because they have
all, but, when he has finished a quarter of his sentence, the
something has really only very little sense in the higher
knows that the most diametrically opposite views may be
single fact. If he is capable of receiving the diametrically
attitude of soul is especially necessary for the real spiritual
that which demands that one shall think in the manner of the
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 1: Evolution and Consciousness, Lucifer, Ahriman
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challenges presented by our age really have to be faced
the way individuals need to face those challenges we must
be aware of how human evolution progresses all over the
would call luciferic, others ahrimanic. I have spoken of
minds cannot really achieve this serious mood unless we
much thought. We are now generally dealing with the
has evolved. We shall have to go a long way back in human
preceded the present one. We have got used to calling it
profoundly on those external processes we actually feel
two objects. We call this a special case of a law of
This would normally cease the moment Earth evolution
see. A plant is really something entirely beyond sensory
plant. When we talk about plants today we are really
been based on what we call the third elemental kingdom.
Christian faith, have gradually come to look more like
that indeed is what really matters in human life. That is
thinking now bound to the mineral sphere. When we allow
anything that normally rules our dreams, the life of the
imagination, to enter into our thinking we fall prey in
justifiable to ask in all seriousness what powers are
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 2: East, West, and the Culture of Middle Europe, the Science of Initiation
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moment. We shall then have to act out of our realization
shall have to work for the further progress of humankind
post-Atlantean population of Asia accepted all that we
may call intellectual more into its soul elements. We can
specifically predestined for the early stages of
Quite specifically the situation was that physical
essentially a civilization based on soul qualities. The
specifically isolates itself from the rest of the cosmic
authority has reached an extreme degree and people really
present situation absolutely demands that there shall be
sufficiently stressed — was first of all taken in
word. Europe initially was given the explanation, its
Earth evolution, were still perceived gnostically. It
thinking, but then this body gradually began to die.
have a poor translation of it. It gradually came about
really all one had was the outer shell of the Word of old
generally interpret or translate the Gospels; they
then be seen in a new light. We shall have to say that
of our soul from all sides. It is necessary that we come
19th century particularly in Central Europe you really
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 3: Political Empires
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of ideas by which people allow themselves to be governed
today. We really need such concrete ideas, for they are
the world today we should really consider the most
world to be that the smaller communities of past times
fundamentally speaking it is only now, in quite recent
communities, though these should not be called
principle, as it came to be called during different
times the idea of a ruler of the realm, as we may call it
— whatever words we use do not really fit those
and we shall find that it was considered a matter of
that with this kind of preparation the person called to
faint notion of this, called the Son of Heaven. There was
an awareness that someone called to rule over some region
practically all our ideas today on development, education
all no one thinks that something objective should enter
really almost the only way in which we behave towards
a very alien notion. It was above all alien to people
called to hold important offices, to be leaders within
was that education — not all training but the
training of people called to high office — should
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 4: Western Secret Societies, Jesuitism, Leninism
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humankind is basically failing to pay attention to the
edge of the abyss if they are allowed to come into
attention to what is really going on.
conditions, however, — I shall refer to these later
confessions — confessions of all kinds — who
fountainhead of everything that usually comes under the
what is really going on.
them all over the globe. The ideas current among them
come to expression above all in a belief in authority
All these
outline. Basically the only opposition to these trends
comes from what should ideally be a truly honest, sincere
really took note of the intensity with which those other
spiritual-scientific movement is really approached in a
the world, people must first of all give recognition and
science as we call it? Initiation science today also
to all kinds of unimportant considerations.
I have often called the real big shots in the
of animals. All the ahrimanic powers that aim to exclude
specifically human, and all the aptitudes that exist
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 5: How the Material Can Be Understood Only through the Spirit
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heart, to discuss some of the things that really need to
discussed on a number of occasions from all kinds of
as it really is. I think I have already given you an
a pump comes up in all kinds of variations nowadays. The
the world outside. Basically the heart is a sense organ
would be cause for general alarm. After all, it does make
things are the opposite of what they really are. That is
sought above all else we are in fact going in the
intend to lead up gradually to what I really want to say.
difference at all if these are the directions in which
I stand with my two feet on the ground. I really perceive
actually touch anything. I can draw it like this (a). The
Everything my legs see with regard to gravity and all
kinds of other things that my arms hear — all these
say that we have a lower organism, as it is called, with
on. Those after all are dogmas and it makes no difference
Then at last we shall have what humankind is much in need
respected, of all the things that are generally
anthroposophy to come alive in oneself first of all, and
that is something that really comes hard, to let
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 6: Materialism and Mysticism, Knowledge as a Deed of the Soul
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want above all to refer to something that can help us to
centuries. Basically it has entered into all areas that
traditional religious faiths officially represented by
unaware of this. Characteristically, and it is something
popular literature, above all in popular books and
no reason at all to despise the things that materialism
age, and above all academics of the present age, do not
Matter is not behind any of them! All we perceive are
phenomenon. In the same way we should regard all the
called a phenomenon. We must not allow our fantasy to
view of nature that is generally taken today, a view that
goal of anthroposophical development is missed above all
we call the material world — the world we perceive
think that because others say it is 'matter' it really is
theories, to oppose theories, to correct them — all
that is theoretical talk. Spiritual science cannot in all
add something new to the physical world — all
so-called philosophies that spread their mists about. For
come upon physical matter when we allow things ignited in
conviction. He actually told how he had scrupulously
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 7: Materialism, Mysticism, Anthroposophy, Liberalism, Conservatism
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shall have to continue with some of the topics I
science calls for recognition to be given to two facts.
things right essentially means that we must no longer
sensory perceptions we shall never discover the nature of
understood that all that exists in the outside world is
shall never find anything material in that outside
found within ourselves. We shall find it particularly if
shall find its laws. The essential nature of gravity is
what it really means to experience gravity. Concrete
valleys and so on. Yet if someone were to observe the
formed since AD 140. Physicists are actually teaching
to force them, as it were, finally to give up the
All this
to human minds in a totally different way from the way we
usually look at things. It is necessary to abandon mere
theory and consider the reality: to progress at all
perceptiveness, to doing things, really doing something
think spiritual science is all theory. Spiritual science
threshold.) If we call this the threshold from the
the Threshold standing there, the quality we call
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 8: The Opposition of Knowledge and Faith, Its Overcoming
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subjective knowledge that really can only be a matter of
belief — perhaps one should not even call it
takes life seriously really ought to feel that the
Fundamentally speaking, however, only initiation science
logical demonstration. All they knew was that as human
primal knowledge existed all over the globe in the early
gradually faded and the divine heritage grew less and
all over the globe, the path to earthly and human
course of progress. We really have to use spiritual
totally involved in guiding the transition from the
physical knowledge. These people, who may be called the
totally under the influence of luciferic powers.
deny this. They therefore did not call themselves
'spiritualists' but actuallY ‘protagonists of the
conquerors of all that this earth holds for you; you will
it gradually. They said people should make certain divine
freedom, as it were. Essentially modern science still
or revelation. The reasoning is that no bridge shall ever
example, is really good, you will gain more from reading
all possible means to push humanity into the physical
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 9: East, West, and Middle
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shall base ourselves on facts relating to the nature of
all the sensory organism which faces the outside world.
all doubt — that the human brain, which in a way is
actually able to perceive what they experienced between
had perceived. We actually have outer evidence that
soul and spirit among all the other things they
culture as it essentially is today you will find that the
tremendous interest and significance though basically
originally was a sublime culture. The decline reveals an
full of life and luminosity. Gradually it darkened and
became obscured and all that was left was a shadow image.
today they are not really interested in human beings the
call the culture of the Middle. Historically this culture
finally becoming the culture of Middle — came to be
death and rebirth. It is as if all this had been erased
particularly by Hegel, but also by all other great
thinkers, especially in Germany. Yet they only took
all kinds of new beginnings were emerging for a different
into life in a different way. Let us recall — how
actually experience is at present coming to conscious
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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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understanding of current events. We must above all understand where the
their actions are not at all in accord with the needs of the present
they call it a ‘war’ behind us; a much greater war than any
given rise to opinions, all kinds of measures were taken, and people had
no idea that really and fundamentallY something quite different was going
What does this really mean?
a horse work for him all year long. The population figure was
years. The work done by machines, all kinds of machines, therefore had
gradually, and a to of 35 million available in Belguim, Russia and
basically, the contribution made by human beings only gave a preliminary
the relative size of something that had really been taken out of the
happen on a smaller scale in every day of the life we are given, for we
call the power of Ahriman. Ahrimanic powers are alive in these things.
by human beings, that is quite independent of what really lies in human
towards Anthroposophy is, moreover, called upon to consider the full
the two. First of all, however, we must get a definite idea as to what we
Materialistic scientists call this the ‘age of vitalism’,
saying that people introduced all kinds of water sprites, gnomes and so
the essential spirit of natural phenomena. This is called superstition,
intellectual approach that we call a scientific attitude came into being.
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 11: Modern Science and Christianity, Threefold Social Order, Goetheanism
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recall a number of things that are already quite familiar
and an ego. We also know that we can only really
four. Essentially the first four refer to aspects that
far as the ego, and that in time to come we shall have a
earliest embodiment of this earth, which we call Ancient
call our I or ego relates essentially to the earth as it
extent to which we have now developed it. We shall
has developed so far, and for this we shall be indebted
really touch us as human beings if we allow them to take
bring light and warmth into all the ideals we are capable
of holding. We must be able to ask ourselves in all
seriousness and very profoundly: ‘What shall we do,
these and really feel it; if they are aware of the
from beyond this earth. If we really experience the
life-spirit and spirit-man which we shall have to develop
as it were, for all eternity, with the potential of
power of Christ within us. And we really must come to
Basically
however, can never happen. We shall never be able to
public lecture I called it the ‘science-orientated
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Title: Life Between Two Incarnations
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mysteries if one wants to understand the human being at all.
physical body. We call it the etheric body or life body. It is in all
and muscles, than all kinds of chemical components, which we can see
carrier of these sensations, and we call it the astral body or
out through the name "I." All great religions also felt this, that in
God. Only the priest was allowed to pronounce the name of God on
priest was allowed to pronounce Yahweh, the holy name, on particularly
lying there. When we fall asleep tired in the evening, what is the
as fatigue. But all night long, during sleep, the astral body works on
really healthy sleep is for man. It restores in the right way what has
does a separation of the physical body from the etheric body normally
forces and falls prey to destruction; on the other hand we have a
question is obvious, how someone can know at all, how these relations
by everyone, then about their correctness only he can decide who really
no longer outside of all entities as in this physical world, not facing
all other things, but as it were inside of them, as if he were crawling
into all things. At the moment immediately after death you do not feel
into all things. Then a total recollection of your whole past life
occurs, which stands before you with all its details like a great
earth life, but this tableau of recollection stands there all at once
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Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture I
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first of all-gratitude to those friends who, in my unavoidable
appreciation of beauty, but it is essential, if a really social
I speak, as from you all, to thank our friends most heartily
will so develop that personality and all that has its origin in
what men call the “objective events.” That will not
small scale. So the highest festival we can hold is to consider
Looking at our own time critically, yet not captiously, we
decline prevalent in all spheres of life. If with due
that we should learn what phrases and catchwords really
what has really happened, or to ask by what method of
all subjective opinions and reach some sort of objectivity with
amiss in all sorts of ways.
could not grasp. All sorts of statements, elegantly set forth,
B.C. The “fable convenue” usually called
and we can really only understand what has entered its
animal, plant and. mineral. (We shall speak later of how this
of the kingdoms of nature was essentially different. In earlier
times people understood them as being spiritually controlled.
call to mind what appears when we look back into the Atlantean
Atlantean age. The Beings of these higher Hierarchies gradually
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Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture II
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not lose all connection with the spiritual worlds, we
with the question; but we shall see that they do provide the
new into their efforts. Fundamentally speaking, the
shall realize if we put before our souls one question of such
is generally handled by the creeds, that they appeal largely to
emphatically. Man simply cannot bear — apart from
all truth about the question — the thought of utter
mentioned. The treatment generally given to-day to the idea
not to die as souls at physical death. Naturally, the soul's
continued existence after death will be assumed in all
gradually to form the being of man as time goes by. In a sense
Many things will follow on this. For one thing we shall
being, gradually emerging. I have referred to ancient times of
call him “a young man” though he might equally well
be called an “old boy”!) who told us we needed
he finally broke down, and, having no more to say, gathered up
man can develop. Up to a particular age a person can absorb all
anything more. The point is that we should actually retain the
possibility, all through life, of rejoicing in the coming year,
want to emphasize this point. We should really and truly learn
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consciously; but something like it — naturally not to-day
feeling and willing, when they fall apart, just as they become
supersensible world. All this is bound up with significant
shall get the best understanding of my subject to-day by
calling to mind some of the facts of supersensible life which
fall asleep and return to them as we awake. That is a general
really important feature of our post-Atlantean age is
which we may call “the present,” much must be made
new — above all, the aims of education. I have already
materially. We see that the evolution of civilized mankind in
that the understanding of what really happened on Golgotha
less and less understood, more and more materialistically
understanding be complete, really satisfying the needs of
must all long for if we are serious and worthy in our wishes
for humanity, something which is actually being sought in other
Nowadays men talk of the so-called “League of
really happening.
into the soul. All else, which does not lead in this direction,
if man had taken no part in it. Thinking logically on the basis
various principles established by organic and, more especially,
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is beyond doubt that the War and all its terrible
their problem in all their thinking, feeling and willing, on
proletariat, to achieve an essentially different attitude to
form it took at the moment of the outbreak of the appalling
It was itself called upon, to a considerable extent, to set its
or could, be any guide for all that was forcing its way out in
had been evident for some time, especially in the economic
purpose than is customary. It is, after all, obvious that ideas
so called World War, in the presence of a small audience
later, the so-called practical men were giving out —
those men who were not practical at all, only revolutionists
far-reaching enough to master facts. We shall only see these
conditions what we need is not a small change in this or that
is too foul and decayed, to be allowed to mingle with what the
refute logically what the masses and their leaders think about
three to four hundred years — especially during the
each man was restricted to one small, limited piece of work.
This strictly limited piece of work was fundamentally all he
masses became a far-reaching socialist theory, really
fundamentally alien to economic and other social facts,
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