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- Title: Evil and Spiritual Science
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- accessible to him/her. Maybe we should ask ourselves here: what
- the former its own task completely. If a human being could only
- Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 2: Man's Ascent into the Supersensible World
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- that of a friend. The dreamer wakes up and asks himself? What can this
- Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 8: The Evolution of Man and of the Solar System; the Atlantic Evolution
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- the leader (the Manu) whose task was that of guiding the peoples out
- Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 10: Paths of Occult Training
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- earth. This is the Germanic-English-American culture; its chief task is the
- conquest of the physical plane. The task of the subsequent sixth epoch
- standard-bearer is Anthroposophy. The future task or civilisation as a whole
- tasks. Modern science has rejected the Ptolemaic world-system as erroneous
- Title: i Spirituality: Lecture 1: Historical Symptomology, the Year 790, Alcuin, Greeks, Platonism, Aristotelianism, East, West, Middle, Ego
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- between Alcuin and the Greek purely positively and will ask what was really happening there. For
- direction. He asks: Is death something real or not? — and objects that, indeed, death is
- Now we can ask ourselves: So what was living in
- in which he is actually asking: `How must the world be so that things can be proved
- in it?' Not 'What are the realities in it?' But he actually asks: 'How must I imagine the world
- then, after a comparatively short time, we will ask: Should we give up? And we shall have to give
- People ask one how much money one needs for all
- (The Task of the Historian)
- Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 2: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 1
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- essential task to be able to take up a stand towards life from this point of view.
- that set themselves the task within their sphere of action of suppressing consciousness of self,
- those which make it their task to cause the individual abilities in the human being to be
- itself as its special task: to prevent the human being from coming to individual
- And what then, in total, is the task these beings have set themselves?
- They have set themselves the task of keeping life
- second type, who make superficiality, phrase-mongering and untruthfulness their task, seek to
- Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 4: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 3
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- truly free being? In the West they asked: How must the external social conditions be changed so
- that the human being can become free? Schiller asked: What must the human being become in himself
- have just this task of bringing the intellect into the economic life. What does this mean? We
- today still has an extremely difficult task getting through. And everywhere those who wish to
- Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 5: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 4
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- past will count. To ask 'why' was not possible when the gods still determined an individual's
- Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 7: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 6
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- inherited from parents, grandparents and so on. The first thing people ask about a child nowadays
- shall be able to shape my outer form in the way which it is my task, even now, to
- As though with outstretched arms he will ask for the solution to the riddle of his cosmic being.
- of course, symbolically — the human being will ask: 'Who can decipher for me my nature as a
- just ask this hobgoblin: Which Gospel? One should ask him: What have you done to the Gospels with
- abilities to ask: How was it that the pick of humanity was such that it brought these people to
- Title: Talk To Young People:
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- The Epistemological Task of Youth,
- asked many of these older people what they think about adolescence;
- have also asked many young people about the “adolescent crises” some
- to ask themselves the reason for their suffering and what they were
- described as the great task of the century, the spur to action of the
- Title: "Heaven and Earth will pass away but my words will not pass away"
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- his thoughts educated through Spiritual Science, may also ask: What is
- a glimpse of the Spirits of Personality and their task during earth
- ask nothing better than that Jupiter be constructed of minerals only.
- The task of the (present)
- And we might ask: Can not
- this Science of the Spirit — conscious of its task in the Cosmos
- The great task is to
- Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture I: Tree of Life - I
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- as their task the first incorporation of the secrets of the Mystery
- natural, has made use of already existing ideas in asking itself:
- ask this. In a certain respect they no longer exist as nations, but
- Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture III: The Power of Thought
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- the present time has an entirely different task. We now have the task
- actually epitomised and given form in it. Now we have the task
- but it lives in man, and men have the task of giving it back
- is indeed how this Building should be formed, according to the tasks
- of our age, really out of the tasks of our age.
- Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture IV: Harmonizing Thinking, Feeling and Willing
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- with the Mystery of Golgotha? Because it is asking too much of them
- Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture VI: Tree of Knowledge - II
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- We could now ask: why does that not
- of the spiritual world, it can be asked: how does one protect oneself
- Title: Lecture: Philosophy and Anthroposophy
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- the task of proving that Aristotle's logic could be applied and his
- conceived and understood. It was a task imposed by the trend of historical
- Christianity. This was the task Scholasticism set itself, to the
- most unpleasant task for the scientist of today; for this reason he looks
- for admitting the soul, as such. And it is to a masked materialism that
- 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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- tasks that will have to be accomplished sometime in the future of mankind.
- truthfully, if we were to ask ourselves whether we should be more on the
- cultivate this particular pedagogy, to have so to speak, an esoteric task
- 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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- and ask yourself what you as a teacher can possibly do to make everything
- Title: Social Understanding: Lecture II: Social Understanding Through Spiritual Scientific Knowledge
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- very often do not ask the question as to which of man's forces are used to
- ask. That is why so little importance is attached to making knowledge of
- who happens to be a tailor will ask you how his existence as a tailor is
- say, a railway clerk, asks you how his life as a railway clerk is going to
- Title: Buddha and the Two Boys: Lecture I: Buddha and the Two Boys of Jesus
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- Title: Buddha and the Two Boys: Lecture II: The Gospels, Buddha and the Two Boys of Jesus
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- the question that someone might ask: Yes, if so much has already been said
- The spiritual researcher sets himself the task
- the qualities inherited in the house of Solomon. For the task he had,
- We ask ourselves now, how did this flow into
- individuality, which was embodied in the Bodhisattva Buddha, had the task
- Title: Lecture: Art As A Bridge Between The Sensible And The Supersensible
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- today. I ask you to consider, after all, that in order to answer the
- hardly come to any other judgment than in asking themselves,
- return, that is, to more wide-ranging world-interests. We can ask, why
- Title: Raphael's Mission in the Light of the Science of the Spirit
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- drawn from many directions, asking himself: Is it permissible
- then one may ask: How does it stand with this overall
- in what we call the life of Raphael. How, we may ask, does this
- Title: Leonardo's Spiritual Stature: Lecture
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- Pursuing Leonardo further in Milan, we see two tasks entrusted
- court. One task is the “Last Supper” and the other
- and he took the artist to task. Leonardo replied that Christ
- a task the execution of which could not bring him satisfaction,
- to ask: what really is the underlying secret of this figure of
- Truly, the task of spiritual science is not to provide
- Title: Fairy Tales: in the light of Spiritual Investigation
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- tasks, its place within the divine order of the world.
- he asks for milk-soup [blancmange]. Flies enter the
- takes him into his service and assigns him a definite task. He
- task. He says to him: “Now the giants will soon
- Title: The Worldview of Herman Grimm in Relation to Spiritual Science
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- himself as one whose task it was, quietly yet actively to
- asks, in forgetting everything of a particular life
- ones. Each new cultural cycle has its task, that of introducing
- Title: Imperialism: Lecture 1
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- necessary because only thus can we understand what tasks and what
- Title: Imperialism: Lecture 2
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- concepts, but on realities! We could ask the question: What happened
- Title: Imperialism: Lecture 3
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- the second stage and into the third — that someone asks: What
- hindrance. We should ask ourselves why this is so. It is very
- Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture I: Anthroposophy and Natural Science
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- science and of life, and with these introductory words I ask
- plant. That realization was, as it were, the task of nature, and
- Chemistry has delivered for example. How — one could ask
- Still, one could ask: To go further, could one express the
- Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture III: Anthroposophy and Philosophy
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- Mill to Spencer, but this can't be my task today. In Herbert
- For Hegel his life task was the unification of the spiritual
- and ask oneself: Is that what, “before the beginning of
- science you can ask — what are the concepts? From organic
- science you can ask — what are the concepts? Likewise
- we have the task in Central Europe to look at what scientific
- bridge between West and East, and this task must stand before
- us in philosophy. This task also directs itself into
- This gives Anthroposophy the following task. How must we,
- Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture IV: Anthroposophy and Pedagogy
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- something. I asked: “How old is the child?” The
- Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture V: Anthroposophy and Social Science
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- say regarding today's task, I want to limit myself to essential
- it in a utopian sense by asking: How will this be, how will
- attractive, but it should first be asked how we can enhance the
- ask ourselves how this human evolution relates to the economic
- Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture VI: Anthroposophy and Theology
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- in any other way than having been asked to cooperate through
- instance, I have often been asked by Catholics who find
- ask themselves: What have you actually done? What justifies you
- judgement. I ask that this judgement, which is a fact, which I
- enthusiasm to have such an imagination. Still, ask yourselves
- This means finding your task in the evolution of time, and not
- to imagine you speak for everyone, but to ask: are there minds
- Thus, I've always regarded it to be my task when I speak to
- has been asked for from those who organised today's
- theologian's day. The only task of Anthroposophy is the
- Title: Impulse of Renewal: Lecture VII: Anthroposophy and the Science of Speech
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- have asked me to introduce the reflections of the day through
- is no easy task at present. Once in Stuttgart I gave a short
- English teachers coming to the lectures which they had asked
- for current humanity because today the question they ask is how
- Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 1
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- for Spiritual Science as an esoteric institution the task which
- You ask in the dark sweeping expanse
- You ask in the dark sweeping expanse
- senses, it is futile to ask it what we ourselves are as human
- You ask in the dark sweeping expanse
- Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 2
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- In vain you ask of the dumb expanse
- been in the Anthroposophical Society for a long time - to ask
- undertake some task related to anthroposophical life, and how
- is neither meaningless nor unimportant to ask yourselves such a
- one can ask - have I forgotten what I found to be quite
- important for that person to ask himself: Am I fooling myself
- the Anthroposophical Society has begun? To ask this question is
- wish to belong to the Class ask themselves: Isn't there
- Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 3
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- looks everywhere for the facts behind it. He asks: What
- wants to follow feeling one must ask: Where are you now? When
- important to say, but because one wishes to bask in the good
- ask in the dark sweeping expanse
- Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 4
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- practice this with a correct grasp of art. You could ask
- question the esotericist must ask himself is: I contemplate my
- belong to the earth. When we look down and ask what the earth
- Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 5
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- which has nothing to do with morality. We don't ask the
- us, nor do we ask the plants, or the animals - and in this
- materialistic age we have even ceased asking humans, because
- of how dangerous it is to bask in the pleasure of warmth. They
- is the outer mask for Lucifer, and nitrogen the outer mask for
- when the question: What should I do with such truths? is asked.
- If I ask that, it is about something I'd rather not know.
- But, my dear friends, the task of contemporary times is that
- asked me how they should act in respect to the dead who have
- Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 7
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- one of the tasks for the members of this School. We want to
- Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 8
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- be its principal task, but rather to make anthroposophy flow
- develop as much as possible, and I ask that you be patient in
- participate. So, I ask those who wish to attend in the future
- Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 10
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- then we ask the question in all honesty: Why? Why did I absorb
- when we encircle it from without. And it is a task of our
- given here without first asking permission. Only with
- may not be sent by post, and I ask that this be strictly
- Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 11
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- friends are here, it will be my task to say what is to be
- of freedom. Every individual is called to his life's task and
- appreciated in the world, because the task of this Goetheanum
- Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 12
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- And when you have sensed this, ask yourselves: When I think
- Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 13
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- the primary task of carrying us through the world. It is
- Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 14
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- most important task in the life of the human being: O man,
- It is again the task of the Guardian of the Threshold to strongly
- Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 15
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- asking. This answer, which the cosmic-powers themselves
- abyss, warning us with his right hand extended, asking us
- Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 16
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- is to receive the verses asks for permission, but the one who
- these four elements change for us. He then asks
- Threshold asks what becomes of the earth's solidity.
- — answers when the Guardian of the Threshold asks us
- when the Guardian asks us what becomes of our breathing, of
- asks questions of us concerning the warmth element, the
- answers from the cosmos are different. The Guardian asks the
- Ask help from the redemptive eternal force of spirit.
- Ask help from the redemptive eternal force of
- Secondly, the Guardian in confidence asks:
- answer when the Guardian asks: Has your soul apprehended?
- When the Guardian asks in confidence:
- Ask help from the redemptive eternal force of spirit.
- Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 17
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- hierarchies are saying. In the last dialog the Guardian asks a
- We saw how the Guardian then speaks to the I, asking three
- Ask help from the redemptive eternal force of spirit.
- Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 19
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- of the world. Therefore, the Guardian asks who thinks the
- of the Threshold asks from afar is indicated:
- Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XX (recapitulation)
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- You ask in the dark sweeping expanse
- You ask in the dark sweeping expanse
- Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXI (recapitulation)
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- wish to divert us in our will from our actual divine task and
- is to receive them, but the one who gives. One asks someone who
- can give them, and that one then asks.
- themselves, then I ask them to only keep it for eight days and
- Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXII (recapitulation)
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- can accomplish what is asked of us. Then wisdom will course
- able to have them here, it is necessary to ask either Dr.
- Wegman or me. But not the one who wants them is to ask, but the
- Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXIII (recapitulation)
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- introduction about the task and meaning of the School and about
- no purpose. He can go to someone and ask that he be given them;
- but the one who gives them must ask permission in every case.
- Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXIV (recapitulation)
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- duties and meaning of this Michael School. Therefore, I ask the
- would be useless for the recipient to ask.
- Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXV (recapitulation)
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- them should ask. So, if one wants to have the verses, he must
- ask for each individual to whom he wishes to give them.
- Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXVI (recapitulation)
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- asking the will of Michael, which since the last third of the
- who is to receive the mantras may ask, but only the one who is
- Title: The Social Question: Lecture II: Comparisons at Solving the Social Question based on Life's Realities
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- With reference to my presentations I would like to ask you to
- ask you to consider comprehensively, because it is important
- which we are considering, every single person has a social task
- wish to say I can understand every objection raised but ask you
- humanity for their tasks in the present and future: whoever
- Title: The Social Question: Lecture III: Fanaticism Versus a Real Conception of Life in Social Thinking and Willing
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- — often masked in a variety of forms, completely
- This fanaticism shows itself in the most varied masks in a
- surreptitiously — without one noticing it as it is masked
- masks today and play a role in the facts. Certainly, on the one
- real life. Far worse are the masked fanatics in today's
- who was asked to do this, pointed out that such things
- I said, I've asked you to excuse me with this grotesque
- The general interest of humanity may be asked whether the
- Title: The Social Question: Lecture IV: The Evolution of Social Thinking and Willing and Life's Circumstances for Current Humanity
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- Because this indicates something hidden and masked in the newer
- social impulse has entered consciousness, even if in masked
- These people asked: What kind of system of laws should actually
- is sometimes masked in the social question and much of it
- he is somehow connected to the social question, he has the task
- most imminent sense, enter into the new social task.
- formulation may be done in the appeal to humanity for a task
- Title: The Social Question: Lecture V: The Social Will as the Basis Towards a New, Scientific Procedure
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- — I ask you to please take note, I don't say natural
- could ask: ‘What am I worth as a human being? What am I really
- one can correctly ask: Where has it come from and how can it be
- one must ask oneself.
- can ask what will actually remain of the state? As we will soon
- near future. Today however we must ask: How can labour be
- is in this sense that I ask you to accept what I have allowed
- within his philosophy. However, one could ask what an
- has not been broken. May I ask you to say more about this?
- Now I ask you with reference to this theme, to consider the
- Title: The Social Question: Lecture VI: What Significance does Work have for the Modern Proletarian?
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- could have been asked: ‘From which angle is this going to be
- intense manner. It must be asked: Can human labour ever really
- will in fact ask: How can human labour legitimately be
- then be prejudicing himself. The following can also be asked:
- thing above all appears clearly. One need to ask oneself:
- history of the Hohenzollern, and ask yourself whether,
- spiritual life, when the lowest teacher no longer asks: what
- ask if money is goods, just a popular commodity, for which one
- with the Proletarians. I didn't ask the Postman how much he
- Just ask for once how many of those you blame for sticking one
- the modern student, and ask yourself on the other hand, how
- Proletariat still have the task of expelling thoughts of
- Title: Lecture: Richard Wagner and Mysticism
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- set himself the task of bringing about this re-union in what he termed
- asked himself: Is this not evidence of a severance that has taken
- and again one is asked: Why do these individualities not reveal
- that to ask about his birth, name, rank or calling, is meaningless. To
- Ne'er shalt thou ask
- Title: Lecture: Spiritual Wisdom in the Early Christian Centuries
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- to say about Indian wisdom. Nevertheless, if we ask for something
- Title: Community Building
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- foundations the task of dealing with his opponents, because he
- lectures in two cycles. I set myself the task of avoiding the
- persons — or, at least, I so considered myself. The task
- the task was there and must remain as a task for the future
- Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 1: Evolution and Consciousness, Lucifer, Ahriman
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- question we must ask ourselves is whether anything still
- ask ourselves what it was that made human beings grow
- ask why they do not submit to the will of the gods who
- justifiable to ask in all seriousness what powers are
- everybody. But now let me ask you about the facts. Does
- anthroposophy. This has accepted the task of working out
- 03 ] who had made it his task to destroy our
- Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 2: East, West, and the Culture of Middle Europe, the Science of Initiation
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- initiates. If you ask why it is done like this you will
- Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 3: Political Empires
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- civilization. What we should ask ourselves is what it is
- of the way they do take effect, literally ask for
- that People today have been given great tasks and yet
- would most of all like to sleep through those tasks. The
- particular task given to the anthroposophical movement
- Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 4: Western Secret Societies, Jesuitism, Leninism
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- age, we may well ask ourselves how many people reading
- pastorals. Now you may ask me if that is consistent with
- are so much asleep in their souls that they never ask
- Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 5: How the Material Can Be Understood Only through the Spirit
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- important and I must ask you to consider it carefully
- I would ask
- ‘dreadful’ and everybody I ask tells me
- and that is not why I ask people. The reasons are quite
- particular task would thus be to grow concise in our
- Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 6: Materialism and Mysticism, Knowledge as a Deed of the Soul
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- audience which he himself has prepared by asking them to
- cultural life. If we understand what the present age asks
- Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 7: Materialism, Mysticism, Anthroposophy, Liberalism, Conservatism
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- we must look for its reality. Let me ask you this. Would
- Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 8: The Opposition of Knowledge and Faith, Its Overcoming
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- anthroposophy is thoroughly scientific in spirit and asks
- centres. It was the task of initiates to regulate the way
- the mysteries had assumed the task of guiding human
- people come and ask for word definitions more or less the
- Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 9: East, West, and Middle
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- question we want to ask ourselves today is what kind of
- its task will be to deepen its perception of human
- go; that they shrink from the great tasks that have to be
- what we must say today when we want to define the tasks
- tasks given to the innermost soul. We will recognize these
- tasks if we consider the great needs of the present age.
- Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 10: Transition from the Luciferic to the Ahrimanic Age and the Christ Event to Come
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- A question we may ask even
- Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 11: Modern Science and Christianity, Threefold Social Order, Goetheanism
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- of holding. We must be able to ask ourselves in all
- rightly if they are able to ask themselves questions like
- have asked for anything better. But did those voting
- have got used to coming and asking my advice in earlier
- concentrated on the great task. I feel it really has to
- when it is necessary to do so. But let me ask you if it
- situation if they ask that we use polite untruthful terms
- Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture I
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- the world-machine. The task of the immediate future will be for
- the furtherance of an ideal, spiritual task, even if it be on a
- thoughts of worth and value in the tasks to which these rooms
- “tolerant” talkers always ask: “How did the
- what has really happened, or to ask by what method of
- it was the task of these three Hierarchies to work at it,
- essentially finished their task in our age. This picture of
- world, and this part of our task is now completed.
- that they have finished their task and their interest from that
- connection with the spiritual world. Our real task, thus made
- do realize the need of the times should be looked at askance.
- is that we should educate prophetically, foreseeing the task of
- Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture II
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- spiritual forces can flow. The question may and must be asked,
- years. Many have asked about the “causes” of, these
- the task of finding the way of escape from that aspect of these
- everything “physically,” whereas our task to-day is
- spiritual gains it. It is part of their task to let the spirit
- intellect and the Roman life of rights, and our task is to
- Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture III
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- tasks of our age to make these changes part of our
- knowledge necessary to-day. Suppose you asked a natural
- their own immediate interests. We cannot fulfil our task to-day
- During these few days it has been my task to show you, from
- responsibility and yet never ask whether millions in the world
- Title: Problems of Our Time: Main Features of the Social Question and the Threefold Order of the Social Organism
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- was a vast cultural lie, and nowadays no benevolent mask must
- tasks of his life. This points us to the first member of the
- will be the task of the economic organization — will
- must be a unity) into three parts. I could only ask in reply
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