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we are tired because all day long we have been destroying them.
separated during the day, because with our perceptions we are enclosed
there were some among divine Spiritual Beings who, because man could
express it, because they could no longer find the way to man.
into the material world; and because of this the Gods were less and
of environment in ancient Europe caused even uninitiated persons to
sense of freedom, or a feeling for personality, sprang from the causes

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itself because it is disturbed. It then sees itself projected
It will co-operate practically. Because spiritual forces lie at

Title: Evil and Spiritual Science
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step after step in life, because their lives are embedded in
one cannot enquire about evil and wickedness, because they show
comment that I will not suppress, because maybe it will make
mankind is partly made of Ri and of Ki. But, because the human
attention to that to which Lotze came to in the end, because
worlds. Because if it was not the best one possible, Leibnitz
will seem more or less pedantic, because they show us with what
the origin of evil, because with regard to knowledge that turns
develop inner faculties because of the law which must be valid:
physical life, because one no longer has the opportunity in the
spiritual world to become unselfish, because there one arrives
be evil? Because we should be spiritual beings! Because we must
into the origin of evil and wickedness? Because of what is
to the spiritual world —, because it cannot enlighten
evil starting from the physical world, because it is a misuse
matter, based upon material existence, because the soul is
placed in the position to swing out to the other side, because
because these characteristics only become evil through their
do so few people come to spiritual science? That is because,
perspectives, because the desire of souls has become so strong,
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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
death, the cause of suffering, the origin of evil, and so forth. By

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 2: Man's Ascent into the Supersensible World
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of the brain or some other cause, they perceive terrible shapes rushing
towards them, because in the astral world everything is reversed and
through such experiences to-day? The cause for this must be sought in
then do all manner of horrible things, just because they incorporate
unable to perceive what takes place astrally, because they do not have

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 5: Life Between Death and a New Birth
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the pains and joys which we caused to other people, we experience
because we can no longer look into the inner depths of the human organism,
into living life. After death Karma, the law of cause and effect, becomes

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 6: Man's Return to a New Earthly Life
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The causes of illness are indeed of a moral kind.
because they had this decadent astral substance. But fear and terror

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 7: Effects of the Law of Karma
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the work upon the astral body is the work upon the etheric body, because it is
he had during a past incarnation, because he was already able to work
the true causes for such transformations, a clairvoyant can see them.
conditions he may become an idiot, because his etheric body rebels against

Title: i Spirituality: Lecture 1: Historical Symptomology, the Year 790, Alcuin, Greeks, Platonism, Aristotelianism, East, West, Middle, Ego
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through spiritual science, because spiritual science alone can uncover the real driving forces of
really do anything because they are nothing of real substantiality, and only something of
something real, it is just a decrease in warmth, it is only a lesser warmth. Because the cold
isn't real I won't wear a winter coat in winter because I'm not going to protect myself against
The oriental felt — not because he somehow speculated about it but because his perception
`nothing' was the outer form. And thus, when the Greek spoke of death, whose causes lie in the
understand? There entered into Kant here — it fitted badly in his case because he was too
thoughts. In the West the 'I' is completely omitted because it is absorbed — soaked up by
does not exclude the 'I' as in the Orient, because it is developed dimly there, but which makes
actually brought forth the idea of the State, because it is to this that it can be applied. It is
— to attain something truly great. But, because there hovered
today. Because today it is decadent, it is dialectical-political thinking which was rendered
because the masses and the individual were in accord with one another; individuals were, in a
cannot progress properly because in the autumn we found ourselves in great money difficulties.
Schools' because it is vital that we found school upon school in all areas of the world out of
this. One cannot say how much, because there never is an uppermost limit. And, of course, we will
because it is unable to master in a pure way the matter counteracting it."
does so, like the poet, only through imagination. Because, however, he places imagination
in consciousness the ideas which are its laws, because, permeated only by, these, he can then

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 2: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 1
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because of the separateness that we see in the individual human being today when the
the socialist world of the Anglo-Saxon West. And because the actual character of modern public
This arises because the Bolshevism making itself felt there is in fact a foreign
its terrible aspect will show itself throughout all Asia, because it works with all the fervour
externally in this way, has deeper causes — causes which lie ultimately in the spiritual
economic nature; purely economic aspirations can have no success in the Centre because all
come about because, through the tradition of Peter the Great, what arises out of a
economic instincts. Today it has been wiped off the face of the earth because it was planned and
what preponderates here is economic thinking. Whereas Germany has gone to pieces because the
State has absorbed the economy, because industry and commerce have submerged and bowed down under
about such a problem as reincarnation, because one cannot speak about it in the abstract sense
those which make it their task to cause the individual abilities in the human being to be
allow themselves to be convinced a little of the existence of the causes!
towards the West. The West takes on this form because it lives completely in the most fundamental
strange disharmony because on the one hand he still lives in the ancient spiritual element of his

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 3: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 2
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process is the Anglo-Saxon element. This is because it was a thoroughly Germanic people that
moved across to the West and because the Germanic element has been strongly preserved in these
the Anglo-Saxon race, and because of this those beings which incarnate here have far greater
science. And because people were ashamed, as it were, to make a universal religion out of natural
one side, and from the spirits of the East on the other. This always caused a kind of schism in
scientific world-view of the West will never find a foothold in the Orient because it simply
more of God than the fairy tale of a generalized, completely abstract, cosmic first cause.
to pieces because of it. This was already so at the beginning in the way it was structured but

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 4: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 3
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quite different from Schiller's. It was precisely because of the difference of their
D or X deals with the subject because what is presented does not arise from the whole human
of the modern development of humanity which is of essential importance — because Schiller
to be in any way criticized because, for him, what he perceived and felt about the individual
the spirits of the East, who pulled him towards imaginations. Because at that time spiritual
because we have to shape it through the intellect
Because in economics we cannot but help to go further along the path
the intellect. We have to establish an economic life which, because it has to come from the
destruction because the intellect is directed solely to the economic life.
not aware, because they lack the sensitivity of feeling for it, that every economic system like
manage it, the economic life itself would cause it to circulate. Destruction would inevitably
the middle as the rhythmical oscillating to and fro of the political. Because the civic-political

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 5: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 4
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thus also takes on the configuration of this technology. What then is the cause of this? It comes
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,
that someone was in the in the right place because the gods had directed his bloodline in such a
this brought about all those forms of military service which were necessary because there was no
developed, and with it a particular type of professional soldiery. All this came about because,
million. This is because such a phenomenally large amount of work is done by machines. The
What has not yet arrived — because everything
people today love this nonsense so tremendously because they are too complacent to grasp the new
— a life certainly which he can still deny because they manifest themselves to begin with
bring forth everywhere destructive, demonic forces out of itself. It would not work because the
economic life he is also not free because the machines only overwhelm him. But when he develops
Thus, because we have been closed off from the
that they have no notion of them because they do not want to know about the spiritual world.
strange as it may seem. Not because he is good, but because the others are worse.
achieve a spiritualization. They already do this today quite consciously because they have no
interest in the progress of human development and because, for the time being, they only think to

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 6: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 5
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against authority became stronger and stronger and because of this the urge to fortify this
themselves about the Mystery of Golgotha through the Gospels. The Church opposed this because it
the four Gospels because, of course, the moment one goes into the four gospels with the modern
makes known about the predestination of Czechoslovakia, because they have no idea of the
conditions for life in the East and because they do not know that what is brought into being

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 7: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 6
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because of the impossibility of adhering to the old prohibition against reading the Gospels
before that time. History does not take this into account because external history ever and again
fundamental change. This also has been taken into account far too little because people
accordance with characteristics inherited through the blood because they have come more and more
to the point of having no content at all in their concepts. This had to happen because this
answer because He is not in some indefinite place but must be recognized as a Being from beyond
empty of content — that the causes lie for steering us into chaos.
can only discuss this from the newspaper article. It says then that because these Imaginations,
literary product, albeit one in which one can amuse oneself all the better because it is a

Title: Abbreviated Title: Lecture I:
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physical existence is dependent on preceding causes, on what took place
go further and further back in order to find the causes of what they

Title: Talk To Young People:
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about spiritual science but only because most science can be taken in
not to be able to live with the rest of the world, it is because we

Title: "Heaven and Earth will pass away but my words will not pass away"
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faculties, because our psychic-Spiritual is reflected on our physical
because the psycho-Spiritual in us evokes certain processes in the
on the Moon: he dreams. And because, during waking life, we do not
during the earth-age now become actual forms; and because they are
within us is transformed to this Jupiter, because this Saturn man in his
analogy causes them to make this assert. But it is no more logical than
to give, is useless; away with it!... wrong because earthly men carries

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture I: Tree of Life - I
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in ancient times, which could be given to men because they still had
because Latinism is nothing that belongs to race, but something that
analysis today because I shall have things to say which assume that

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture II: Tree of Life - II
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utterance which says: Because men have learnt to know or to
distinguish good and evil, because they have eaten of the Tree of the
come to our consciousness (because Lucifer claims it for himself) has
which Lucifer takes possession ... and because Lucifer takes
Spiritual beings are not there because they actually ought not to be
am not obliged to draw it like this (b) because it is kept back,
because it halts through finding a boundary at the physical body, but
because — through a secret pact between Lucifer
because Lucifer in the moment of our waking hands over to Ahriman
day-consciousness — because Lucifer hands them
attained to knowledge because to his other three principles, brought
because it is the permanent thing in human life between birth and
ordinary outer physical plane, because all death is allotted to him.
and weaving and life. This cannot be so for us because Lucifer seizes
it, because Lucifer takes it away from us. And so he takes from us
living life. This we cannot approach because Lucifer sucks it up and
hand the living faith that is devoid of knowledge, because its

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture III: The Power of Thought
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following cause. European life at the moment of passing over from
the feeling that because he sees the trees etc. concepts come to
it was spoken of, because this last characterised consciousness
world. But it is rigidified, because the Oriental world-conception
perfection, because all that was left of the ancient revelation of
of a modern republic, because nowadays people see everything through
a stage lying beneath the threshold of consciousness because men had

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture IV: Harmonizing Thinking, Feeling and Willing
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not merely through his own disposition, but because of his whole
the shining Moon-existence a curtain, a veil, because at that time he
equally conclusive proofs. They must be there, because the one point
with the Mystery of Golgotha? Because it is asking too much of them
the next sentence reads: because in all other cases, in the animal
ancient Saturn and Sun conditions, because one must leave out the
— and so simply accepts it as truth because it is
causes an impetus that arises as a mist into the intellect and
this sort of thing only causes injury to the spiritual-scientific
is that they not only cause injury through what is said, but also

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture V: Tree of Knowledge - I
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when this worm is creeping about underneath, up above, caused by
opinion so current today, that all depends on cause and effect,
about down below and will call one thing a cause and another an
downwards; that causes alterations in the roots. With the further
processes he will represent the one as cause and the further
earth as cause and effect. But it would not include that fact that
causality, there need be nothing lacking in the chain of cause and
on the chain of causality, of causes and effects. The image is
spiritual extended everywhere, that causes the causes. They do not
distinguish the spiritual which is behind cause and effect. It is
the cause of all he has puzzled out down below is, as a matter of
space, because it is thought of just as quality. (red was put on the
board.) It is difficult nowadays for a man to picture it because he
because the human being, under the impression of his senses, forms
nature it is because he seeks to put into words what can be felt
because this heart of ours received its rudiments when we ourselves

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remain so the whole life long? Because the Luciferic influence has
entered and because it actually fills out that which has been formed
child's innocence only ceases because Lucifer gradually struggles
the world inwardly. Lucifer has caused man in this respect to be torn
no other cause of anger, hatred or antipathy, than the Luciferic
possible, something else has become possible. It is only because
could proceed from the hated person. And the true causes of the
reason why one cannot penetrate into this hollow space is because one
penetrate into the actual hollow spaces, but only because there is
nothing there, because it is a hollow. Thus if one would draw the

Title: World Downfall and Resurrection
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because hitherto the human being had been a son of the Earth, had
superstition because it did not come to pass. In the form in
because men were seeking in the material world for what ought

Title: Lecture: Philosophy and Anthroposophy
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The reproach is only made because contemporary philosophy, having itself
misunderstood, because a positive and most intolerant ecclesiastical
was such that it became inadvisable to make common cause with the
— the forms of space, time, the categories of cause and effect, and so
association of cause and effect, thus enveloping the thing-in-itself with a
external to his soul, because no portion of its “matter” is

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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what is the real cause for mankind having fallen into the widespread misery
in which it is today? Mankind has come into such misery because it has for
or zoologist because of what he learns in elementary school. A man should
become a botanist or zoologist solely because of his special gifts, and
life unfolds within a true art of education. Because of his talent! Which
would have been bad. We have given good lessons because we have had to work

Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture II: The Three Fundamental Forces in EducatioN
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of this is caused by an element from within, bearing more the character of
years. And because we know we are working into the future in this way, this
movements it is making, and it is only inhibited when we cause these

Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture III: Spiritual Knowledge of Man as the Fount of Educational Art
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that becomes the property of our soul because we have eyes. We must now
because the rhythmical process regulated by the heart and the lungs
understand, because we breathe.
understand at a pinch, because he is breathing all the time and therefore
him well — because inner assimilation is connected with
and are interwoven in a common inner soul experience because they are both
we do this nowadays? We do it because it lies within us that nowadays we

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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cause of the criminality and brutality of some men lies in the fact that
not sink too deeply into the rest of his organisation. Because through a
education one has to create an artistic balance. Because if one does not
useless in life because he only lives in fantasies. This would be the other
mention it once more, because it can be very helpful here
connection with the surrounding air, because our ego and our astral body
a modern physiologist because his thinking works on a different plane
limb nature of man, only that which is not of 'head nature'; because the
fascinated by that which takes place in individual children, because even
second lesson, because in a certain way the one has to be balanced by the
feel that the child's legs, because they are too long, have the tendency of
or that the arms never know what they are meant to do because their weight
eventually, because he was driven to distraction, reached out for the
spring up in you, because many more people have the right disposition for
cause pain to a slight degree. We must say therefore: if the right kind of

Title: Social Understanding: Lecture II: Social Understanding Through Spiritual Scientific Knowledge
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is taught in such a way that he takes a particular thing in, not because it
is absolutely on his own mental level, but because his teacher's warmth of
enthusiasm gets passed on to him, and the child takes the thing in because
just because it lives in the warmth emanating from the teacher. If the
because of the infectious quality of his teacher's enthusiasm, he will not
practical use by spiritual science. Because if you understand them in the
paint because of that. The ability to paint comes from an entirely
has to be understood just because of this very change in man's set-up is
exactly how you have to teach, because you will have learnt the rules. You
spiritual science is needed in actual life today, because spiritual science

Title: Buddha and the Two Boys: Lecture I: Buddha and the Two Boys of Jesus
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Bodhisattva individuality, because it has become Buddha, is no longer able
Buddha. The old man burst into tears because he was not allowed to

Title: Buddha and the Two Boys: Lecture II: The Gospels, Buddha and the Two Boys of Jesus
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find a contradiction between this and what was said earlier, because
known today within spiritual science. Because man is connected with his

Title: Lecture: Art As A Bridge Between The Sensible And The Supersensible
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something like this? Because in our time the endeavor has to take hold
can take up something new. People do not reject spiritual science because
human being needs above all as a guideline. This is because the modern
that one would be incapable of doing something, merely because making the

Title: Raphael's Mission in the Light of the Science of the Spirit
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Because, not long after this Greek element had poured itself
which cause and effect follow upon each other is truly not in

Title: Leonardo's Spiritual Stature: Lecture
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precisely because he was already working out of the depths of the spirit,
or out of sync with his time, precisely because he
duke also retained Leonardo because he was one of the most
of the most significant mechanics of his time, and because he

Title: Fairy Tales: in the light of Spiritual Investigation
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reservation as well. Just because the origin of fairy
bound. Why not? Because what spiritual science points out is in
soul-life. And because the fairy tale relates in this way to
intimately related to the human being. And just because, in the

Title: A Mongolian Legend
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because she no longer sees what she was once able to see when

Title: The Worldview of Herman Grimm in Relation to Spiritual Science
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case of Raphael? It is because he could only present something

Title: Imperialism: Lecture 1
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interspersion into our considerations, because I would like our
historically known stage of the Assyrian empire, simply because the
ruler or the rulers of that empire. Because of course our words for
Christian era because it is difficult nowadays to take account of how
obvious that because of the mystery schooling they had gone through,
appeared before his people, it was in all his splendor, because as a
because the earth had become so bad. That's been lost, what made men
expression “Imperial Federation League,” but the causes
necessary because only thus can we understand what tasks and what
a spiritual empire. Precisely because everything old has now become

Title: Imperialism: Lecture 2
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platitudes; for to realize that they have become platitudes causes a
to exist because no sense could be found behind the symbols. And the
half-understood at least, because there was some substance left in
even justified, because he knows him better and can work better with
this the case? Because we are living in the age of platitudes and
in the economy do not work because you can't eat them, or at least
cusswords, and it was necessary to take them seriously because

Title: Imperialism: Lecture 3
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because he is accustomed to criticize everything, to discuss
are wrong, because basically within the world of platitudes
rights concept as such, because it is applicable to the symbolic
against French impertinence, caused the cool restraint of the central
It happens ever more frequently — because we are growing out of
priest to feel greater than Christ, because he can force him to be
we create must of necessity also cease to exist, because the death
platitudes. It is made difficult because those who live in platitudes
loopholes, as was the case with the Waldorf School because the
Because only what is considered good for the present will be
already refuted this or that. We have refuted nothing, because these

Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture I: Anthroposophy and Natural Science
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science.’ I want to still support this sentence today because I
back to the application of mathematical methods because even
its cause, there is actually nothing different between it and a
while X is the cause under the influence of the working called
than some mathematicians; because he had fine insight into
his eyes because he could pursue them everywhere in the
“idea”, because he found complete resonance in the
satisfied because research of the phenomena can be done with

Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture II: The Human and the Animal Organisation
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how this phenomenon relied only on later development because in
person is stuck in there, because we see that in us there is
self, because for one own Self it is dependent on something
movement, because it is something quite different, whether we
because we involve the inner organism — how we feel and
because one can have discussions, as scientific researchers,
or dog adapt to the vertical or horizontal spine. Because the
perceptibility, because we keep the imagination inside. We
talk about three dimensions because we are positioned in three
the finer areas of the human, animal and plant forms, because
organisation of mankind, which has simply come about because of

Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture III: Anthroposophy and Philosophy
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content. Because our feeling regarding philosophy is not as
encompassing amalgamation. Because they could do nothing else
third for central European philosophy because what was
anything new because Kepler's formulation already contained the
because Hegel's life went completely — if I might use the
cause. One can look at the all the concepts of Hegel's logic
important to us because we allow the particularities of his
we are obliged today — because science as something
deepening; because the priest became the teacher once again.
Central Europe; because in Central Europe science has simply
lost because people in Central Europe had adopted western
in Central Europe; it got lost because the central European
the impartial person, because it turns into the great world
questions because it's only a half-reality. So on the one side
it leads to a shadowed existence because it didn't manifest
as they are experienced in the West, because then it will not

Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture IV: Anthroposophy and Pedagogy
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Anthroposophical Movement, because it doesn't stipulate that
because this proof can simply come through a healthy human
people do in the child's surroundings, because that is
because for someone who has written
experience of the religious feeling can be accomplished because
expression in adults. As a result, because our entire cultural
children can't read or write yet!’ — because it isn't
you must first examine what the child has actually done because
in to any random thought because this works in on the child.

Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture V: Anthroposophy and Social Science
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frankly, because that is what matters most — contains an inner
decades. Because this book strives to be completely realistic,
introduction because in connection to what is based on
be a strange fact to me which took me by surprise because
involved in their discussions because nothing concrete is
because in the mean time chaos has broken into the economic
announced because the characteristic of today is
because it indicates the forces working among us which have in
such things in a somewhat radical manner because then one will
as illustration to what should happen; because just as I have
because I have to agree that the solution can't at any one
introductory words, because the world is so schooled in
Ernst Muller and say that this is not Ernst Muller because he
valid in another because a change has been brought about — like
institutions because Anthroposophy's nature involves flexible
should have said: social ideas or social thoughts, because the
I spoke about impulses angered them terribly because they
because this attempt has grown from the soil where realities
fanaticism or false mysticism — because this attempt is grown

Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture VI: Anthroposophy and Theology
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my presentation because otherwise I would have to once again
through the ordinary, healthy human mind, because this must
Anthroposophy must free people, because it claims that
large audience, because you avoid actually talking in the way
time. For popularity I have never striven because I have the
life and circles of commitment have come. Because Anthroposophy
because Anthroposophy is there, not to limit the knowledge
audible confession because that could be considered as a matter
Catholic church sacrament is difficult because those beliefs
world, not because of Anthroposophy but because of the Roman
avoid it because otherwise one can't participate in the
However, because his mind, intellect and ancient spirituality
of course radical to say because illness is ordinarily seen
through physical means because — if I might say so
because one can find Him in an inward experience. Then He
being in the spiritual world, because the person who fails to
Both of them couldn't say yes because naturally they knew that

Title: Impulse of Renewal: Lecture VII: Anthroposophy and the Science of Speech
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lectures. Because this course couldn't contain the 900 visitors
speakers; because when people want to hear something about
the English than for the Germans because I needed to make an
“duty,” because just as much as the word
because the experience within the words and the experience
do today in our soul life, because people felt themselves to be
the start of “manas” because this enclosed the
characteristics, it is because such an experience rises out of
language, out of these causes it has come about that Hegel is
in reality not translatable into a western language, because
experience in its inner concreteness, because only then will
for current humanity because today the question they ask is how
elements which have a partial authorisation because it is based

Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 1
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humanity and this fact should not cause us to undervalue those
spirit comes upon us at once, then, because we have not yet
This mockery is not always openly expressed, because people are
make the whole world a movie, because then no one is required
meant to indicate laughter, but lies, because to mock is to

Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 2
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to preserve the thread, and partly because there are members
this sensation in his soul. Because by deeply experiencing the
it would be terrible for them because they wouldn't be
spiritual world. It is inherent in feeling, because feeling is
banal things which cause us to realize that life is serious and
color something because of vanity, but what has been colored
the worst possible way. Because people feel themselves as only
world. Because we are not conscious of our ailing feeling

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human soul when entering the spiritual world, because it is
outward experience. He stands on firm ground because he says to
certain security in human life. And because of this security,
what terrible insecurity that would cause in your life.
world, because it could well be that whatever it is that seems
in the physical world? Because in the physical world your
Attain Knowledge of the Higher Worlds- which causes
difficulties upon entering the spiritual world, because your
Because when you dedicate yourself completely to meditation,
Also, one judges people not only because they have something
important to say, but because one wishes to bask in the good
Because the human being tends to succumb to illusion, he
heads during earth life and are now cosmic thoughts, because of

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meeting with the Guardian of the Threshold, because the
tomorrow you forget what I have said today. Because what you
regard them objectively, perhaps just because they are
meant to express come to us because they are contained in the
causes in us, we should remember: something exists in us,
and, because they pass through us humans, act differently than
souls. And now, because of this differentiation in feelings, we
Because we begin by describing the third beast, we must place
dear friends, it is necessary to add something, because the
caused a great misfortune. I mention this here because I wish

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materialistic age we have even ceased asking humans, because
process in one direction or the other can cause happy dreams or
process takes place while awake, we don't notice it, because in
cold because we are creatures of warmth, because warmth is our
notice it because with normal consciousness we have no idea of
physically unsighted also receive it ... when they think. Because
if we fall into extremes - which is quite possible because the
realize how enticing the sunlight is, caused by the
because there are certain spiritual beings on neighboring
because one does not see the abyss on the left or right.
this is enticing because what the initiate-science adept is
to be even human because what one needs as strength of will is

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expression: chemical ether and its effects. Because the
because we stand alone and the kingdoms of nature are beyond
are animals. And because the earth-element is always present,
of the suffering which is caused by today's thinking if he does
beautiful, something which causes enormous delight and
Life: and in that instant we are dead. Because to consciously
manifested itself on earth poorly because human beings have

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gradually absorbed into this School, because with the Christmas
Because when one can learn that the Holy Roman Empire, which
and the astral body. Because when the human being is enclosed
consciousness. Because when we move from one thought to another

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because people like it to exist but because the spiritual
case. And only because the opposite is the case was I able to
stamp made, first of all because, although very abstract, a
stress it because it has already been sinned against - that
nonsense which keeps being repeated must cease, because with
mention them today because so many anthroposophical friends are
to have patience, because if every time a lesson is held here
Because you lose the force of thought
recognition of this causes us to seek the state of
become cosmic thinking because what lives in the will as
Then, because we are seeing with the soul, we see how thinking
knows that the thought which is not seen in the will - because

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because everything continues to vibrate within him; and in the
Furthermore, because we feel love in our souls for the
because they already are so due to the physical body being a
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inhabitants of the earth that just because the constellations
down and, because we have learned to read, we read it. By being
because we
compared with any feeling we have on earth, because it is

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life path are uniquely predestined despite or perhaps because
Mysteries declined, a process in which, just because the
appreciated in the world, because the task of this Goetheanum
held together only because the physical body is a unity. But
because all heaven resounds in this call. This is how we

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spiritual world is mostly mistakenly imagined, because one
good to think like that, because you will never progress that
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understood at first. Because the profound sense in which it
the earth-organization – because it must be conscious
walking be perceived, because it can be accomplished only
way, because our legs are also heavy, so we not only come
consciousness of doing so, because the physical legs provide
because the movement becomes conscious through the physical
breathing, but because breathing has been formed by earlier
routine of everyday life. He must do so because between birth
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this state of spiritual beatitude. It overcomes him because
side of the threshold because of having the earth's support,
able to return, because before he does so he will become
will be paralyzed. Because his consciousness has been
Documents alone do not speak the truth, because of the thirty

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because various Class members have come today who have not
worm or the majestic stars because they belong to the visible
situation. Then, my dear sisters and brothers, because we are
we feel identified with this animality because we bear it in
a closed entity because we are enclosed within our skin and feel
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because again many new members of the esoteric school are
because of the Constitution which the Anthroposophical
it considers necessary because of certain events. And, my
personalities involved, because we will be entering ever more
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our I and our astral body, because we can only enter this
Too little causes fainting. Our soul is embraced by the air
because of us. As I have said, the Archangeloi, Dynamis and
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negative. In the future such letters will not be answered, because

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We see Nothing because we are too weak to see
the nullities. It is now clear to us, because over there
how they should guide human souls, because humans think. Then
powerful voices, because two choirs are answering, Kyriotetes and
and death. Because behind the appearances in life between birth
because humans have forgotten what they experienced in
because the cosmic memory no longer exists.
the gods, because we have been overcome by the soul's death
because souls are alive. There are esoteric schools so that souls
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the biological concept of Körper lacks. Because
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lessons, because the content of this esoteric school is such
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cannot attend a particular session of the School, or because of

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of our own soul, which we cannot ponder by thinking because
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which only becomes dark because we cannot find our actual being
because he wants to instruct us about thinking, feeling and
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when someone wants to receive the verses because he was not
where the verses are passed on this must be observed, because
because of these occult facts that the handling of the verses

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that is permeated by ahrimanic Beings who would cause us to
of being at one with this object, because at the moment you
here because the earth's main property is the element of
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certain, because this esoteric school has been founded by
which must be followed, because the handing over must begin
incorrect way by the members who have the right because they

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nevertheless in us, because the character of our times has
which we must fly over, because with earthly feet we cannot
— where soul-life otherwise vanishes because the
Will then an untrue spirit-being cause
causes spiritual exaltation to erupt, which kills us. But if we
Will then an untrue spirit-being cause
Over there, because we are coming to the World-formation, we
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is all based on occult laws. Because if anything falls into the

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love flowing to this or that being. Because we feel it, we form
to ourselves — because we sense that the kind of thoughts
expression of our soul, does not only beat because of what is
in our body, because of what is enclosed within the skin; we
ascribe the spirit to our head, because the spirit lives in the
because we are, after all, in the world, then our feeling would
— flow together in one, because it is so in the
because this Esoteric School has been founded and is sustained
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This is not an arbitrary administrative measure, but because if

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it is because of this that the anthroposophical movement will
cause.
things must be said, because if they are not observed, one
pretended that it is because of devotion to the
it should not happen, because obviously, people today must be
But I've chosen this example because it is the least applicable
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Because you lose the force of thought
Steiner was unable to continue because of illness. He died on

Title: The Social Question: Lecture I: The True Form of the Social Question
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decades, occupied because this question has not only become
lectures various things which are connected to the cause and
way into people's lives. Now, because these tragic events have
or that spiritual effort; they smile because for them it is an
position regarding the social question, because such a small
to earlier causes — it indicates that forces of change and
being seen as mere cause and effect — one could call it the
sober, arid connection of cause and effect expressed at certain
straight line connecting cause and effect. Then again, we can
development from cause to effect. Now again a revolutionary
validated by not merely following the straight line of cause
however scientific battles, economic causes; they represent
Because earlier ruling circles presented a science which no
that this economic life could be the only reality because for
This was an unbelievably critical element because this gave the
this disgust grows because his labour is dependent on supply
lost to them. Nationalization was striven for because it was
narrowest boundaries, these have caused a multitude of bad luck

Title: The Social Question: Lecture II: Comparisons at Solving the Social Question based on Life's Realities
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— because every human soul shares in the work of the
own production, because the economic life involves the
ask you to consider comprehensively, because it is important
impossible it is to instil equality into social life because
Because as soon as the true sense of these three ideals become
causes quiet shudders when things are truthfully defined. To
these wars to their causes and their unfolding in relation to
because they don't have the will forces to really involve
Today we stand, because during the last decade humanity has
which needs implementation through people, because in it lie

Title: The Social Question: Lecture III: Fanaticism Versus a Real Conception of Life in Social Thinking and Willing
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Because this is so the souls of these modern proletarians were
discussions because they eventually lead towards social
theoretical trend in true discussions because the facts are
because they have acquired nothing socially in their life of
return to spirituality because usually those who are addressed
can't imagine this spiritually, precisely because those who
finely thought-out social ideals are not the worst, because as
because we have not sharpened our gaze in this area.
associated with fanaticism because these fanatics appear to
cause unending evil as typical representatives of
imagined, because it is the healing medicine for the laming
ideology and because ideology was seen as nothing, the soul was
instance, because these things have a relative independence in
So the worker labours for free because he only earns as much as
originates from his labour, and as a result, because he is only
find no outcome to this question because the imminent sense of
Just because they work independently yet together, they have
snatching labour from the character of goods, because this
again be absorbed because the economic body has the tendency to
representation had laws. It only came from there because people
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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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regarding it as cause and effect in order to always reach a
circles, because of it wanting to conquer the state's
Because this indicates something hidden and masked in the newer
social organism to form itself instinctively. Because the
because modern humanity, even though they consider themselves
in the social organism, because it is being considered in its
rules, then human labour would be used up. Because the leading
themselves independently because they are working side by side
which must be based more on democracy because the state life
cause or something similar, or a collection of causes, with the
activity of something or its causes or collection of causes
fall back on him, also not in his actual yield, because it can
social organism. Because the bourgeois leading circles have had
because it is known that the entire actual productive spiritual
down to it — because between the platonic thoughts
calculated as the point of origin and the causes of these
has been made available for this appeal. I mention this because
again because in a certain sense humanity's evolution comes up
mankind by orientating our forces towards new thinking; because

Title: The Social Question: Lecture V: The Social Will as the Basis Towards a New, Scientific Procedure
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it extraordinarily lucky because it corresponds in tone to what
but because I am of the conviction that if the Proletarian
don't say, the scientist, because obviously the scientific
work back again, just because when it is freed, while it
relation of one person to another, because I'm thinking of
regulated through independent economic life, because economic
members of the social organism. Then they will, because they
organisations will come to an end because they must balance out
but I only mention this to you because there are within the
and educational states because people are not divided into
because in Austria the various language regions are mixed and

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because of this foundation, while the other one must create the
economic life, because the modern life of the Proletarian was
this because I could observe how this work was being executed.
take it that the leading classes are at cause for what has come
the cause and which can only be given from the modern economic
order to the social organism, because the leading cultural
economic process, because in reality something is added which
labour can be no goods because it can't have the character
enormous, an all-encompassing white lie, because labour is sold
has been said that because private capitalism has made modern
basically because — and you might find this grotesque, a
what the ruling classes had to give him because they didn't
come about precisely because the modern worker has been
order for these three systems not to cause chaos among one
have for the modern state because this they created according
free understanding that manual work was the precursor, because
handled, a person can connect to his work, because he knows:
because it can't be any other way, that a person must also do
process has caused damage which is linked to so much
workers because they are not seen from both sides in the
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Title: Lecture: Richard Wagner and Mysticism
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just because the plant itself is not conscious of these laws? There is
word Mathesis was not used because this kind of experience was
thought to be akin to mathematics but because it was known that the
because of the current opinion that so far as intelligence and reason
because we are here concerned with Mysticism as such, and Mysticism
in outer life. It was just because Richard Wagner's aim was to give
nevertheless true, because the necessary equilibrium has to be
is obviously a dream which comes to a man because he is sleeping out
influences down into a later age, that they were ‘Spirits’ because

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personal God because, if he had done so, he could not have taught that
acknowledge God as a Being because the Ideas are primary and
nothing down was because they held that wisdom must be something
figure, because one to five is the relation of seventy-two to three
wisdom because it was still cultivated in many places during the first
form it afterwards assumed, but adhered to all the more firmly because
because strenuous efforts were made to destroy any teaching that
the Persian spear which caused Julian's death. It was then that the

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Movement, ought not to have so great a cause for grieving over
assertion, laden with content because laden with life, with
underlying causes — by many of our friends. There reached
recently suffered together, because this suffering was the
manifested. Must we lightly forget the depths because of
merely because of individual facts that are called up out of
reason why the ritual unites is because in it there is brought
forces of those spiritual worlds, because the human being then
— not in the rationalistic words which cause
with power; because he has before him that which belonged to
which is there because we are engaged with Anthroposophy. Then
hair but shall cause Anthroposophical impulses to stream into

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organism should cause him to introduce into the waking
into discord with others because they cannot see into his
reasons. He may go to the most extreme excesses because he is
they will fall to disputing one another, because they have
other begins to speak, because he is not interested in what is
problem caused no serious trouble up to 1918, though there was
him away from spiritual research, because both things cannot be
foundations the task of dealing with his opponents, because he
this or that subject in one way or another. Because of the fact
because he is held unconsciously by the apron strings of that
was greatly pleased with this description because it showed
it leads us to objectivity, when it does not cause us to arrive
themselves established, have caused one difficulty after
Anthroposophy itself in any way whatever because of these
developments of the last three or four years have caused the
can present this to you in a quite definite example. Because
within reality on both feet, because one will have accustomed

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 1: Evolution and Consciousness, Lucifer, Ahriman
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and we are separate from the essential origins and causes

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 2: East, West, and the Culture of Middle Europe, the Science of Initiation
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certain spiritual streams in India caused a sensation in
very firmly because, as I have said before, belief in
believe one thing or another to be right because some
certain higher levels cannot be made known today because

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of occasions — for that would cause tremendous
because modern minds are little inclined to take serious
special grace. Everything he did would succeed because
what he was as a child, a development based on cause and
in our external life, exist because they once had
still have their effect in the present day, and because

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movement that has come together because people want to
because they impress people.
as though stung by a viper, because a truly dreadful
vow to destroy it.’ People do not fight us because
we are in error, they fight us because it is realized in
parrot him. Why do people do such things? Because the
of their souls because they do not want it to come to
this happening? It happens because the many followers of
God is more powerful than a priest would say so because

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true causes. The peculiar thing about materialism is that
primary causes, and the movement of the heart arises when
would be cause for general alarm. After all, it does make
with everything else in life, and because of this
cause real havoc in our thinking processes. It certainly
does. Our thinking is utterly ruined because it has been
because it has become the materialistic view of a few
that so far have come about because the wrong lead was
because it is constantly dying and the rest of the
understand that because our friends Molt, Kühn,
cannot remain as it is because everything that is done
movements, because they all aim to develop the human
because the situation is serious. We are looking at
to help my friends because time cannot be used twice, and
because they are easy to accept. We must look at life
because it requires genuine effort to bring it to
actually got here late because we had been going round
an hour, because things are thrown into the pool that
today. This killing of time causes thoughts to be drawn
movement where all untruth eliminates itself because we
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 6: Materialism and Mysticism, Knowledge as a Deed of the Soul
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because they come very close to the experience we know
think that because others say it is 'matter' it really is
kingdom is the highest on earth and because of this
to yourself that it will cause feeblemindedness. Quite
caused considerable annoyance to some people—that

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 7: Materialism, Mysticism, Anthroposophy, Liberalism, Conservatism
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Materialism was in error not because it was speaking of
physical matter but because materialists thought they
about the outside world because it is a material world,
idealists or spiritualists because they follow a
to be opposed because it is not true that the soul is the
cannot have a vote because we are stateless and have not
final word on the subject, because that would be too
physical world it is pernicious and abominable, because
because the situation is like this where the human being
of making it not right, because it is on the way to
theory. We do not have to overcome materialism because it
overcome it because it is right and we must fight against
sophisticated people of today. It is however because this
think we shall be redeemed because of a word, when we see
maintained as mere theory, because people first had to
Things have been said that had to be said now because
used, the sheer ingenuity, because there is a refusal to

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arising because a well organized association wanted to
Considering this in present-day terms — because it
because all they are left with is Jesus.' Those were not
called a swine in a public lecture — because

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because he had an inkling of this, but none of these
will be revealed out of physical human substance. Because
nature call it physical and spiritual, because
because in Germany, too, Woodrow Wilson was considered a
because there will always be something that went before
It causes
me great pain and my heart feels sore because souls are
necessities of which I have spoken. It causes me pain
the first attempt because it had been largely developed
understanding of them. Because of this, the heavenly
because of their role in the historical evolution of

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root causes lie that have led to the disastrous situation we are facing
to stop things from happening' caused forces to enter the field of battle
course, human actions had caused the forces of destiny to be surrendered
cannot merely say on a large scale, because it was gigantic —
find it easy to see this, because those powers are acting on the will
caused grand-scale confusion. Pierre Bayle [
difficult position that has arisen because of their inner untruthfulness.
This atmosphere will cause a particular mood to develop. Until now it has
were, of course, declared heretics because the church was only too well
blocked and brought to nought because modern theology no longer has

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This will take us beyond the earthly realm because it has
not itself originated in that realm; because the Christ
with longing to the spheres beyond this earth because we
because they tell the secrets of Golgotha. The
because they had purified them and made them spiritual,
involvement might also come in because one had human
that arose because of this franchise? Absolutely not. The
sharply because it has to be said, unfortunately, that
because of this you ought to uphold those sharp words and
dedicated to our cause. That is why we are making so
Anthroposophy, because she or he feels ashamed to speak
at present, because there simply is not the time.
place in this world that it must gain, because it has the

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important chapters from the field of higher life because it concerns
because it is everything that runs in sensations and in feelings, from
cause of this fatigue? The fact that the astral body uses the physical
laws. There it is not free; there it forgets, because there all memory
thereby released, because at such moments the etheric body is freed
in my hand like seltzer water. What is that? The actual cause is that
this memory tableau occurs immediately with full strength, because the
a period of abstinence for man, because he has to give up his desires
hatching an egg. Why does it do that? Because it feels a pleasure in
freer and freer after death, because he becomes a preparer for the
the hereafter. Well, this happens because the incarnations never occur
absolutely flesh of her flesh, because there is something about this

Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture I
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the basic cause, of social feeling is egoistic and anti-social,
the three kingdoms as outside of themselves, because their view
because the Beings of the three higher Hierarchies no longer
is because modern man is complete, with reference to the
the body; at the same time, because it was the work of divine
abstract “laws of nature,” because the Beings of
words, words, because fundamentally what is said and what is
intelligence” in particular elections, because women were

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because each year brings new possibilities of development to
because each year charms forth the divine-spiritual content of
because they meet a response in their souls. Whatever the
years. Many have asked about the “causes” of, these
talk about “causes” and “war-guilt” or
“innocence,” simply because we can see that what
because his community doubted his existence. Years before, the
sorts of dreadful experiences are possible because of this.

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to cope with life. Why are they not equal to it? Because, they
reduced, because the brain floats in the brain water and the
a sense we do “on our own” because we are part of
things because they throw light on our times. A number of
remarkable positions, remarkable because so very
perverse fantasy to cling to our own pet ideas because they
matters before you because I believe that through them the most

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sensation: it must be mentioned because we can see by this how
from the facts of life, because they have no contact with the
temperature and applying a flame to the tube because it
ourselves with the root-cause of the trouble. To take
economic because it first meets us in the economic sphere,
one-quarter of the truth: because the laws effective within the
us, because we do not value spiritual product as anything
objections were sound, but only because they were made at a

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