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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
- meaning of evil, already resided in ancient Stoic wisdom; and
- Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 1: Popular Occultism, Introtroduction
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- fact. In the ancient Hebrew religion, the occult word “I”
- Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 2: Man's Ascent into the Supersensible World
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- being. And when the men of ancient times designated the stars, the names
- Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 8: The Evolution of Man and of the Solar System; the Atlantic Evolution
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- receding of the mists. There could be no rainbow in the ancient Atlantean
- There is a deep meaning and ancient truths in legends and fairy-tales.
- gradually entered further into the head. The ancient Atlantean did not
- ancient Mysteries as the city with the golden portals. At that time,
- “TAO”. Its sign, the ancient cross-symbol of the Tao is
- of the Atlanteans; Lemuria sets forth a still more ancient stage of
- Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 9: Lemurian Development
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- The ancient Greek Mysteries still knew this. In the Lemurian age the
- significance of the Cross in the ancient Mysteries.
- Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 10: Paths of Occult Training
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- ancient civilisation arose: This ancient Indian civilisation arose long
- character. The soul-constitution of the ancient Hindoo was the very opposite
- further west. This second culture is the ancient Persian one, whose
- From the very outset, this ancient primeval science revealed the following
- closely connected with ordinary life. The ancient Egyptians still arranged
- Title: i Spirituality: Lecture 1: Historical Symptomology, the Year 790, Alcuin, Greeks, Platonism, Aristotelianism, East, West, Middle, Ego
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- alive of the ancient wisdom of humanity; that wisdom which takes us across to the ancient Orient
- where, indeed, in ancient times a primal wisdom had lived but which had then fallen more and more
- similarity. Thus we see how Platonism lives on like an ancient heritage in this Greek who has to
- constitutions of soul, one of which has its origin in ancient times in the Orient, and another,
- that which developed in ancient times as a world-view in the Orient, and which then, like a
- the full I-consciousness of human beings. In the spiritual life of the ancient Orient, of which
- thinking right down to Plato — the impulse of eternity of an ancient world-view —
- You see, the whole polarity between the ancient
- for the State. And the spiritual life was anyway only a heritage of the ancient Orient. It was
- just that people did not know that they were still living from this heritage of the ancient East.
- still within our materialistic sciences — are either the heritage of the ancient East, or a
- Thus the spiritual thinking of the ancient Orient
- ancient times we see individual personalities, we see them expressing in their words what was the
- Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 2: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 1
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- the East, but in a decadent form today, something which points back to ancient times of Eastern
- way; the individuality of the East in an antiquated way, in accordance with the ancient
- only in ancient times. And today the Eastern human being, even in Russia, finds himself in a
- strange disharmony because on the one hand he still lives in the ancient spiritual element of his
- human being, as far west as Russia, is the spiritual heritage of ancient times. And this has the
- Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 3: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 2
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- points of view, to how the life of the ancient Orient was, in the main, a spiritual life; how the
- human being of the ancient Orient had a highly developed spiritual life that flowed from a direct
- civilization as spiritual life is basically an inheritance from the ancient Orient. But this
- ancient traditions of the different secret societies, (the significance of which I have
- much as in the ancient Mystery truths — which have become abstract and which, in the
- towards the East (see diagram). But we will first look at something that goes out from ancient
- at the time when he came to his great ancient wisdom. And coming to the 1780s we see how he can
- from the ancient primal wisdom into decadence. There develops that which is the spiritual, in
- century as the German Empire took into itself just this fading element of ancient Rome and fell
- even more decadent is the spiritual life which originates in very ancient times in the Orient. It
- unable to survive. And in the East we have nothing but — the dying spirit of ancient times
- Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 4: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 3
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- was still something at work which can be perceived also in ancient times and most clearly, for
- modern people, in the culture of ancient Greece. Goethe also strove towards this Greek element.
- Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 5: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 4
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- become more and more general. Nature's manifestations spoke to ancient human beings in such a way
- know truly again when they say: In ancient times divine-spiritual beings spoke from the
- then be able to relate again to the phenomena of nature. Thus one can say: In ancient times the
- culture was retained as a heritage from the ancient Orient. And when people still had this last
- ancient times in which the oriental rose to the attainment of wisdom, what was of particular
- dialectical-legal aspect. The economy was a minor element in the ancient theocratic cultures
- Let us suppose the human being in ancient times had
- the human being in ancient times beheld nature and the manifestations of nature and saw in them
- economic life just as in ancient times elemental beings (elementarische Geistigkeit)
- how, for the ancient oriental, the relationships of the blood line were of very particular
- certificate — this became the important thing. Whereas in ancient theocratic times blood
- In the ancient times, in which people judged
- the spiritual world in a new form and not in the way in which, in ancient times, nature spoke to
- Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 6: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 5
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- the earth, there were still strong remnants of the ancient clairvoyance existing in many people.
- particular characteristic of the ancient oriental peoples and existed essentially in its last
- of all through the remnants of ancient oriental wisdom. And when this Mystery of Golgotha moved
- bring forward concerning the Mystery of Golgotha out of an ancient oriental wisdom, could be
- was attained through these remains of the old clairvoyance; through the ancient, instinctive
- oriental perception. One could say that this ancient oriental perception was preserved up to the
- which then dissolved into the modern states, and the social structure of the ancient Orient which
- From what source did this ancient oriental vision
- the ancient Mysteries had beheld and recognized as being sent from the spiritual worlds. In
- ancient times decisions were made as to what should happen in the social life according to what
- whole human nature during the ancient oriental culture. Those who worked out of the Mysteries
- child comes into the world as an imitator. In the ancient oriental social life it also came into
- authority-principle in the ancient Orient applied only to the immediate environment. The greater
- out of the clairvoyance of the ancient Orient but still had its echoes in Asiatic Russia, the
- Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 7: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 6
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- If we turn once more to the ancient oriental
- ancient times every oriental knew that what worked its way out of his soul during childhood, in
- human being in ancient times he no longer feels that what flames up in him from childhood
- Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture I: Tree of Life - I
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- men still had the remains of ancient clairvoyance; primeval
- revelation which in ancient times had been given to man for the most
- in ancient times, which could be given to men because they still had
- poetry till the decline of ancient Rome. Every possible shade of
- vividly alive concepts were in this ancient time, concepts which were
- the sense of the ancient revelation was not to serve as a means of
- understood: it looks as if in this ancient Europe a number of human
- speak of a science of the ancient European population would be
- of the Etruscan and ancient Roman peoples. We meet with these there,
- with the ancient Romans. Ostrogoths, Visigoths, Lombardi, marched in,
- developing an ego-consciousness. Hence the descendants of ancient
- Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture III: The Power of Thought
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- whole. One could not imagine in ancient Greece that someone
- perfection, because all that was left of the ancient revelation of
- The ancient kings, from Romulus to
- ], were to the ancient Romans actual beings, who
- spiritual world rulership. And the ancient Roman of the time of the
- ancient Rome they did not say to themselves: One man rules other men,
- was related to the Consular office. The Consular dignity in ancient
- times when the ancient Mysteries were in force people possessed in
- in what was taking place round the figure of Augustus. The ancient
- continually arose: Something is not right in these ancient Mysteries.
- they heard of them seemed to be like warmed-up ancient wisdom. It was
- deceptive, whereas the ancient wisdom which was handed down to them
- World-conception of the ancient, wisdom, he sought through this. to
- part with Aristotle, who sought to encompass the ancient wisdom
- through human intellect. Plato still received it from the ancient
- Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture IV: Harmonizing Thinking, Feeling and Willing
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- this way as earth-content, we relate to the ancient Moon,
- shone upon by the ancient Sun and Moon-existence. And this would
- ancient Saturn and Sun conditions, because one must leave out the
- regard to this ancient existence, is only an analogy, only an image,
- Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture V: Tree of Knowledge - I
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- facts veiled in the myth. Only reflect how already in ancient Greek
- for Lucifer. The ancient Moon-existence endures and so also do things
- the ancient Sun existence — and were able to feel
- Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture VI: Tree of Knowledge - II
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- the time of ancient Saturn, and that of course they were not then
- as the normal progress in the etheric body from the time of ancient
- Title: World Downfall and Resurrection
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- spiritual world that had survived from ancient paganism. We must
- study the religious beliefs of very ancient times —
- existence of an ancient ancestor who had founded the tribal
- the days of ancient paganism men had a real perception of the
- the blood. Whenever an adherent of that ancient view of the
- merely an ancient belief but an actual truth for, as you know,
- ancient times, and now, when the physical body has the mineral
- forces working upon body and blood were woven into this ancient
- essence, from ancient paganism. And so, it was among the Church
- conceptions were relics of the ancient era of paganism. Let me
- memorial that the Earth is not, as the ancients believed,
- knowledge derived by the ancients from Nature, but in the
- ancient conceptions of the Father God. In other words, the mind
- Science. Ancient documents tell us exactly the same, that is,
- Title: Lecture: Philosophy and Anthroposophy
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- in still earlier times, drawing upon the various teachings of ancient
- Mysteries” a wisdom is meant which flourished in ancient times, and
- the more ancient method was sustained by an instinctive logic. In the
- Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture II: The Three Fundamental Forces in EducatioN
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- ancient mysteries were at work, and that people in these times still wrote
- appearing in relatively later times we simply have recollections of ancient
- ancient mystery schools
- imparted to pupils in the ancient mystery schools: what acts as an attack
- in the ancient mysteries spoke rather differently. Their expressions were
- the ancient mysteries would always have used animal forms to describe what
- Title: Buddha and the Two Boys: Lecture I: Buddha and the Two Boys of Jesus
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- the other to Zarathustra, and the third was embodied in the ancient Hebrew
- in the course of time. We ourselves may have once lived in ancient Egypt,
- Title: Buddha and the Two Boys: Lecture II: The Gospels, Buddha and the Two Boys of Jesus
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- to understand the most original of the ancient Hebrew spiritual current.
- ancient times had to be given differently than today. Today one can
- connected with his ancestors. This was known in ancient times. This is also
- ancestors in this way, the ancient Egyptians in their Book of the Dead had
- Title: Lecture: Art As A Bridge Between The Sensible And The Supersensible
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- the division into classes, the situation in ancient Greece, for example,
- of earlier ages assumed this direction. In ancient times there were
- cultural life of the ancient Hebrews, there were of course the scribes
- Title: Raphael's Mission in the Light of the Science of the Spirit
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- the development of the ancient Greek culture. What the Greeks
- throughout the time of ancient Greece. For that reason, the
- seem with regard to the spirits of ancient Greece! There we see
- culture of ancient Greece in which humanity holds the balance
- ancient Greece in the development of humanity. We see this
- ancient Greek times is what has come down to us in Raphael's
- see the ancient Greek culture, buried under rubble,
- the ancient Greeks had united their idea of the gods with what
- ancient Greek paganism, capable of creating beautiful, splendid
- Raphael's emergence from ancient times, he only modestly
- Title: Leonardo's Spiritual Stature: Lecture
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- elevated themselves in the ancient manner to apprehending the
- Sforza. How alive are these ancient statues even
- these within himself, having come over from ancient times with
- Title: Fairy Tales: in the light of Spiritual Investigation
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- ancient spiritual secrets of the world, arose such that
- ancient times human beings perceived more fully their
- exceptional conditions, in ancient times it occurred
- past — an ancient Sun, with which the earth was still
- residual faith reaching back into ancient times, expressing
- Title: A Mongolian Legend
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- farthest to the east, which still knew of ancient Atlantis, of
- of feeling and perception of humanity in those very ancient,
- bear this ancient organ, with which they were able to
- compellingly in ancient sagas and fairy tales - as in the
- head of the ancients would not stream through their entire
- Title: The Worldview of Herman Grimm in Relation to Spiritual Science
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- ancient Greece, Herman Grimm said to himself: Some documents
- according to the belief of the ancient world flowed out of
- of the ancient world, flowed out of paradise.” And thus,
- Title: Imperialism: Lecture 1
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- people felt in those ancient times about the relation of the physical
- nature of ancient times is that no distinction was made between the
- This is so much the case that when ancient
- did not exist for the people of the ancient orient. Everything
- — wasn't touched in ancient times, nobody cared about it.
- characterized by realities. When an oriental ruler of ancient times
- ancient times on earth; “Roman” indicates the provenance,
- case in more ancient times, but they saw in them godly
- ancient times in the Orient men lived on the physical earth who were
- appearances; they only had meaning in those ancient times when they
- Let's consider such an ancient empire. In people's minds it was an
- the godly jewelry the rulers and their paladins in the ancient
- originating in ancient times is destined to become platitude. Yes, in
- Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture III: Anthroposophy and Philosophy
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- wisdom. We understand that in ancient times, philosophy could
- Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture V: Anthroposophy and Social Science
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- When we look back at ancient cultural development we find in
- appeared in ancient times — you know this from my lectures I
- one another during ancient Greece, old Egypt and right over to
- Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture VI: Anthroposophy and Theology
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- However, because his mind, intellect and ancient spirituality
- into the human soul — most strongly in ancient times, and
- Title: Impulse of Renewal: Lecture VII: Anthroposophy and the Science of Speech
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- in ancient times, in which Sanskrit had its original source,
- ancient times, the language had a considerably different
- word process and the speech process merge. In ancient times a
- experience in the ancient life of speech. This one can still
- Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 2
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- Rings forth the ancient power of his creator-word:
- Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 4
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- would like to tell you a story taken from ancient esoteric
- Ancient Moon - grown out of the whole earth organism. What was
- present in the Ancient Moon organism could not have existed had
- Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 5
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- great. Something which has been expressed since ancient times
- Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 9
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- admonition which directs human beings to the ancient holy words
- Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 10
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- think: Well, it was arbitrary on the part of those ancient
- that was not the case at all. In reality in ancient times the
- eye and encompasses him. People in ancient times sensed that
- Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 14
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- future, as it was in the ancient holy Mysteries. And this
- Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 16
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- for human beings of today and the future, what in the ancient
- Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 19
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- ancient holy “'eyeh 'asher 'eyeh!” –
- Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XX (recapitulation)
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- Resounds his anciently potent creative words:
- Resounds his anciently potent creative words:
- indicates the feelings and sensations which can come anciently
- Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXIV (recapitulation)
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- — as it has been described since ancient Mystery times
- Title: The Social Question: Lecture II: Comparisons at Solving the Social Question based on Life's Realities
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- belief that modern technology and ancient thinking habits in
- Title: The Social Question: Lecture III: Fanaticism Versus a Real Conception of Life in Social Thinking and Willing
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- ancient writer. Today one says: ‘This is scientifically
- determination of swear words of some ancient writer has such
- Title: The Social Question: Lecture IV: The Evolution of Social Thinking and Willing and Life's Circumstances for Current Humanity
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- medieval and ancient humanity. Here we see immediately how with
- relationships of one person to another. As with ancient
- Title: The Social Question: Lecture V: The Social Will as the Basis Towards a New, Scientific Procedure
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- ancient subdivisions which you find with Plato and which were
- Title: The Social Question: Lecture VI: What Significance does Work have for the Modern Proletarian?
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- can be offered by reverting back to the ancient idea of the
- derived from the most ancient idea of the social life and how
- souls. The ancient thoughts showed what kind of a social order
- only manageable through the connection to the ancient thinking
- Title: Lecture: Richard Wagner and Mysticism
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- Among all the ancient peoples there were Mystery-centres. These
- repudiates them. But that matters not. Just as in the ancient
- of our ancient forefathers whose form was very unlike our own. As I
- Atlantis from everything in their environment, for those ancient
- represent the last echo of the ancient clairvoyant experiences of men.
- are the last vestige of ancient clairvoyant consciousness. The
- beginning to develop. The ancient Germanic peoples looked back to the
- divest these ancient legends of the magic dew upon them.
- The ancient Germanic peoples looked back to the time when the mists of
- flowed out of the mists of old Atlantis. In those ancient times wisdom
- vestige of the ancient wisdom flowing through the mists; the
- forth from the ancient Gods.
- symbolised by the Ring, a figure personifying ancient, primordial
- This wisdom was mirrored in the ancient clairvoyant faculties of man,
- Title: Lecture: Spiritual Wisdom in the Early Christian Centuries
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- Initiation. But in more ancient times there was no such thing as
- eyes of men was brought down in more ancient times merely in the form
- ancient times it was still possible for individuals here and there to
- ancient times had reached their climax in Christianity and that the
- remnants of the ancient wisdom still existed in Roman civilisation.
- A.D. we find a School which began to oppose the ancient principle of
- everything originating from ancient Initiation-wisdom. The aim of this
- destroy the ancient temples and altars in short to obliterate
- every remnant of ancient Heathendom so, in the domain of
- possibility of individual insight smothered. The ancient path of
- savoured of the ancient wisdom, little more than the names of men like
- the ancient teachings exterminated, to such an extent indeed that we
- his way was the School in ancient Rome of which I have spoken
- Title: Community Building
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- Religion, which in its more ancient forms does not rest upon a
- Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 1: Evolution and Consciousness, Lucifer, Ahriman
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- ancient Egyptian times, and we shall find that at that
- modern astrologer delving into ancient astrological
- the ancient Egyptians and Chaldeans felt to exist between
- vertical in gaining their experience. The ancient Greeks
- the earth in the vertical fashion the ancient Greeks and
- Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 2: East, West, and the Culture of Middle Europe, the Science of Initiation
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- and Asia, descendants of the ancient Atlantean race that
- spirit of ancient Asia. It is necessary to point this out
- compared to those ancient bodies that were inwardly
- Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 3: Political Empires
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- back as far as ancient Egypt, meaning the earlier, partly
- prehistoric times of ancient Egypt, or as far as Chaldea,
- by merely going back as far as ancient Greece, are
- whole structure of ancient Egypt, for instance, if we
- know that the ancient gods still walked on earth. In the
- preserving such ancient symbols. They are traditional in
- no need for someone living in ancient Egypt during its
- Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 4: Western Secret Societies, Jesuitism, Leninism
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- from all kinds of ancient writings, from the Upanishads,
- ancient works — albeit arising from an intellectual
- that ancient wisdom has of course survived in the
- everything from that ancient wisdom'. If they went into
- that ancient tome called the Akashic Records! To prevent
- Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 8: The Opposition of Knowledge and Faith, Its Overcoming
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- ancient divine knowledge and into earthlY and human
- the divine knowledge of the ancients to human and earthly
- divine knowledge of the ancients to human and earthly
- murmur of ancient divine knowledge was no longer supposed
- spoken of earlier: the distinction made between ancient
- supersensible world. In ancient times Lucifer-dominated
- mastery of the world if they made use of ancient divine
- those ancient times the people offering a life in the
- Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 9: East, West, and Middle
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- wisdom that was revealed in the ancient Orient. Looking
- people of the ancient Orient experienced in the outside
- sensory perceptions. When the people of the ancient
- ancient oriental culture and you will find that the
- wisdom in those times. Most of that ancient wisdom was
- daily lives in the ancient Orient they were able to
- conceived or born as physical human beings. In ancient
- essential point of ancient oriental cultures. Human
- characteristic of the ancient oriental religions that
- in the ancient Orient.
- the ancient Orient you would be able to say: For him,
- did the people of the ancient Orient take themselves very
- to the ancient Orient.
- culture of the ancient Orient goes back to far distant
- echo. To see the contents of that ancient oriental wisdom
- In that ancient oriental culture the whole of life on
- Orient, therefore, we see an ancient, sublime,
- and death. In ancient times the people of the Orient were
- the ancient Greek period. Original Greek antiquity still
- echoed ancient oriental wisdom. Later the element began
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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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- fought in the ancient Orient, for instance. Only luciferic forces were
- Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 11: Modern Science and Christianity, Threefold Social Order, Goetheanism
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- earliest embodiment of this earth, which we call Ancient
- Saturn. The life body relates to the Ancient Sun, the
- astral body to the Ancient Moon, and the principle we
- distant past, to Ancient Saturn, the life body to the
- time of the Ancient Sun, and so forth, and that our ego
- when remnants of ancient clairvoyance were still
- ancient clairvoyance. Christianity then continued as a
- consisted of remnants of ancient clairvoyance, and
- ancient clairvoyance. The reason is that initially the
- The ancient Egyptians walked among their tombs, even the
- Title: Life Between Two Incarnations
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- everywhere in the ancient Mysteries they spoke of the sacred
- ancient times, there were highly learned people at the top of the state
- Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture II
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- being, gradually emerging. I have referred to ancient times of
- principles, like an ancient grey-beard, the last word in
- have, always been taught to look back to Ancient Greece. Young
- directly traceable from Central Europe to Ancient Rome. This is
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