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Title: Evil and Spiritual Science
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Basically, what we have to deal with today is an ancient issue
issue. So today, we wish to try and consider what arose from
Something had already surfaced within Stoics, which even today
centuries, into which not many nowadays even wish to penetrate,
since today he is seen more as a kind of curiosity. Jakob
the human soul triumphs over that which is our everyday and
how what we usually call evil in everyday life positions itself
on this path. We only need to look somewhat into everyday evil,
what people call evil in everyday life. There it emerges, when
everyday life depends on how a human being seeks out the way
should be stated today, that people are wrong if they believe
and evil something has been said today, which can only be
basis. Humanity may one day finish with the perfection of the
purposelessness. — I will not refer to Nietzsche today,
willingly called monistic today because people are ashamed of
Even present-day geologists have to admit today, that we, in
put together what today has been able to enter into our souls,
Therefore, spiritual researchers must today look into the soul

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 1: Popular Occultism, Introtroduction
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the elementary part of occultism. To-day it is not possible to teach

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 2: Man's Ascent into the Supersensible World
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Yesterday we endeavored
through such experiences to-day? The cause for this must be sought in
even to-day. In the present time it is quite different. In a modern
for the soul. But think of all the things that people read to-day: sensational
the astral body is very active. During the day, man consumes his physical
he do during the day? He perceives the physical world. When he is asleep,
resounding the new day ...”

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 3: The Different Conditions of Man's Life After Death
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Yesterday I described the
astral world. To-day we shall deal with man's life after death in the
three days, until the next separation, namely that of the etheric body
In the East there is a proverb which says: what you think to-day, you

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 4: The Devachanic World
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Today I should give you

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 5: Life Between Death and a New Birth
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To-day we shall study man

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 6: Man's Return to a New Earthly Life
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Yesterday I spoke of the

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 8: The Evolution of Man and of the Solar System; the Atlantic Evolution
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clairvoyance. They did not see things materially, as we see them to-day,

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 9: Lemurian Development
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which plays a very great role to-day was then in its very first beginnings.
this body which, according to present-day concepts was very misshapen?
too is described with literal accuracy in Genesis, in the Six Days'
amphibians, though their present-day descendants can in no way be compared
were no mammals. To-day no remains can be found either of these reptiles
and have become the apes of to-day. The apes are therefore the degenerated
and became the human being of to-day, whereas the other descended and
became the ape of to-day. All animals which live among us are consequently
the earth. Even as the moon of to-day always turns the same side to
course entirely different from the plants of to-day. Nevertheless when

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 10: Paths of Occult Training
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approximately in the region of present-day Ireland. The island Poseidonis
East. From there, they wandered into the region of present-day India. An
days of the week.
Saturday - Saturn
Sunday - Sun
Monday - Moon
Tuesday - Zeus-day, Mardi - Mars
Wednesday - Mercredi, Mercury
Thursday - Wotan-day, Jupiter
Friday - Freya-day, Vendredi, Venus
Initiates do now, the soul-content of their fellows. To-day the word can
regard to the first, the loneliness of a few minutes each day is meant,

Title: i Spirituality: Lecture 1: Historical Symptomology, the Year 790, Alcuin, Greeks, Platonism, Aristotelianism, East, West, Middle, Ego
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Ideas as such are abstractions, as I mentioned here yesterday
of humanity and we will do so today in such a way that, through our considerations, certain facts
today. Because today it is decadent, it is dialectical-political thinking which was rendered
who is initiated into it? And it is, indeed, just this that, particularly today and in the most
the facts can help. For today great questions are being decided — the questions as to
today to gather all our forces together so that this whole terrible Ahrimanic affair can be
incomplete though it is for the time being. Today we cannot get from the Central countries that
already. But — and one still finds understanding for this today — if one wants to
to what I expressed here a few days ago, in the words 'World Fellowship of Schools'
international life, in the right sense! I would like, in this request, to round off today what,
here, happen! In this there rings out what I wanted to say today.

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
Today I want only to indicate the diversity of views
economic instincts. Today it has been wiped off the face of the earth because it was planned and
the East, but in a decadent form today, something which points back to ancient times of Eastern
evolution and has a spiritual character; in the Centre something which today is also antiquated
that is so popular nowadays. For it is a problem pointing indeed to something that is a
completely different spirituality is working into present-day human beings and it will be an
the Oxford professors that has been published in the last few days
things that are only laid open to a spiritual knowledge. What use is it when people of today
only in ancient times. And today the Eastern human being, even in Russia, finds himself in a
effect that when today the consciousness of this Eastern human being is lowered, when he is in a
the inspirations of such beings; is inspired during the day by the after-effects of beings of
with the economic element, with the public conditions of the present-day in general. These are
so frequently today, particularly in the East. And again, these three types of spiritual beings,

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 3: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 2
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Yesterday I drew attention again, but from a
described yesterday, who are dispersed there, and who take leading positions, particularly in
mixed up and at cross-purposes in much the same way that is the case today over basically the
shall not go today into the historical details of what developed throughout the Middle Ages out
Spain, over present-day France, and also over a part of Britain. These were Roman people who
provides a foothold for beings of the kind I described yesterday,
— which makes it possible for such beings as I described yesterday to incarnate in these
of whom we have to speak here, is that through them those spiritual beings I described yesterday
described yesterday to assert themselves in the leaders of the people of Central Europe. But this
so pale during the day that they appear only as concepts, as ideas. The same applies also to what
— is only the Sunday coat of what is the body, what is accessible to reason. Hence the
earlier epochs as it is today. It is actually appropriate to our times. In contrast, matters of

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 4: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 3
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I would like today to point to a certain connection between what I gave yesterday as the
today in which, basically, behind what is structured and developed intellectually, the human
have come into wild, fantastic daydreams. The subject would no longer have had definite contours;
succumb to rapturous daydreams
One could put it like this: for everyday life,
clings today to the uniform State, the economic life will absorb this uniform State together with
destruction would break in. People of today invent all sorts of social economic systems but are
have indicated this fact — that the economic life today continually works towards its own
properly. They think that this book is written in the same way most books are written today
said yesterday that in Central European civilization the balance sought by later Scholasticism
West and the spirits of the East. We have seen today how this shows itself in Goethe and
When, today, one has to do with Central European
European element, between East and West. It is everywhere still so today that, with Herman Grimm,
Herman Grimm which I just read out continues as follows: 'You can see it today: no one seemed to
American life, into which our emigrants dissolved, stands today under the influence of the German
which today is actually no longer so very civilized — will have had to sink into the most
today still has an extremely difficult task getting through. And everywhere those who wish to
One only has to see how people of today are
But people today do not want to be taken up with having to go into something properly. This is
today; it has already become a habit of thought. In contrast, a genuine, unprejudiced devotion to
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Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 5: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 4
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today, tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, and which was already referred to some time
amount of preparation, and today, to begin with, I shall try to characterize again from a certain
civilized humanity began around the beginning of the fifteenth century. People today no longer
development of humanity, to compare the longing for knowledge which holds sway today with the
dreamlike way, they were nevertheless faculties different from those of everyday life and it was
today with regard to the prospects facing humanity. There are already many people today,
one has to put it in inverted commas — get the strangest ideas these days. Someone said to
generally today: that they have no will — to form ideas concerning true progress. They
people today love this nonsense so tremendously because they are too complacent to grasp the new
these the dead nature seen by the human being of today — he saw spiritual elemental beings,
the intellect itself can no longer comprehend it. Perhaps people today can barely form a clear
today and which will — continue if things go on as now. And they will continue! Descent by
the way that is accepted practice today among official philosophers and in other circles and
economic life. It is necessary that old usages, old habits, be truly dropped and that everyday
Every day one should keep an ever-watchful eye on
galvanized. For just as today no one should be proud of what he gains from ordinary science
abilities that correspond to this old form. Today no one can be proud of being a physicist, a
an industrialist in the old sense. But this 'old sense' is the only thing we have today. Nowhere
today do we see anything arising like a true association. What is really needed, as a kind of
This today is still the characteristic feature of
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Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 6: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 5
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Today we will remind ourselves that there were
where, as I related yesterday, there was still a nature-based economy. Central European
try sometime to hold in mind for yourself everything that people accept nowadays as being true,
Jesuitism was developed into a complete system — a hatred for Gnosis. And even today we
without a belief in Rome itself, is the mentality of our universities today. It is also the
Gospels were a unity. Even today it is strictly forbidden for Catholics to occupy themselves with
What is to be saved today is the Mystery of
only for a comfortable life. For those, however, who strive for truth the path today leads
is in the development of humanity as a whole. Today the human being is approaching the time when
unconscious etheric body. Today, when the principle of independent judgment is appearing, there
super-physical human being. I said yesterday that the Mid-European was cut off by Turkey and by
Revelation is still alive today in Asia although in
dialectical element, belongs to the West and is only developed today for the economic life. The
today is unwilling to grasp. Everything that is hemmed in between West and East is razed to the
— that, too, lies on the ground today. Impossible political structures spring up like that

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 7: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 6
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I tried yesterday to describe to you something of
easiest way and of value. From the way in which I had to speak yesterday it will be clear to you
this yesterday already — that the prophecies of those who see the most central matter of
We learnt yesterday how little experience of the
soul the outlook on life of today's younger generation, and compares this with the outlook of
youth of today has been depicted again and again, particularly by poets; and if people did not
those who are old today and those who are young.
conservative element in human evolution today. It is the belief in the authority of popular
general consciousness. People underestimate this today. Just think how rapidly, especially in the
scientific thought of today and thus he presents an ever-greater riddle to himself. Only a very
few people are aware of this today and these few can certainly be clear about it theoretically.
developing in recent centuries — and is so still today — this intellect creates a
Today, however, this feeling has given way to
characteristics. Anyone who is able to view this impartially sees how the human being-today
inherited from parents, grandparents and so on. The first thing people ask about a child nowadays
characteristics. Today what is emerging here is still, to a certain extent, mere theory, although
gathered strength during recent centuries and then came to a climax in our own day. The great
that is ringing through the whole civilized world today.
today is highly unpleasant. And this is why so many lies have to be harboured in the deeper
world is going today. Everything that is welling up out of the chaotic instincts of humanity
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Title: Abbreviated Title: Lecture I:
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Anthroposophy Today, Number 2,
If you put together what I told you yesterday
growth of the grains of cereal. And today's science,

Title: Talk To Young People:
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the world as it is today must get a new foundation underneath it.
the world as it is today must get a new foundation underneath it.
people today everywhere in the world — some more, some less — ever
what is living and working today in young people, more or less
them hippies today. Tr.] and other youth groups — we've seen them
subconscious of most of today's young people there is the peculiarly
way as the younger generation does today. Perhaps they go at it less
Its result was the loneliness that young people feel today within
Today
this “youth crisis” in its very dawning; now it is already noonday. I
daylight it turned sick inside. Above all, it could not be brought
hearts. Today, although it's been only a short time, many of them
warmly what is alive in the young today. We tried first of all
movement today, for this had to be created entirely free from
as it is today must get a new foundation underneath it. This is
excellence to develop courage, since for many people today
seminars held in the country, as though on a holiday trip. And why
others, today, it will sound like abstractions
Herder and Goethe's time it was a shining glimmer; today it is fiery.
after Rousseau. If today's youth can become enthusiastic about what
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Title: "Heaven and Earth will pass away but my words will not pass away"
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This lecture was given on Corpus Christi, which is the Thursday after
Trinity Sunday, which is the first Sunday after Pentacost.
perceptions, conceptions and ideas today — we have all this as
the old dreamlike perceptions; but today he is unsuitable to form the
And so it is to-day. But
If today we search through the entire materialistic science,
just as Spiritual Science of today stands to the materialist; so will,
something new, as spiritual Science of to-day is something new in
intensive manner than the Sun man to-day can experience the conceptions
Thus, all that to-day can
earth atom. To-day this resides no longer in the Saturn man, but in the
effort. Naturally this cannot be accomplished today or tomorrow, but
how one-sided words, and everything else, are used today. We talk,
our Souls. And so much has arrived at the culminating point today which
are today entered into with so much vehemence. It seems singular, of

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture I: Tree of Life - I
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concealed something which cuts deep into life. Today we will turn our
day. It is all that developed as continuation of this Latin-Roman
Lombard's where today the Elbe has its lower
course, the Suevi in the region where today Silesia and Moravia lie,
believe that anything still persists today of a blood relationship
physiognomy of Europe shows that up to our own day there is an
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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We saw yesterday how the peoples concerned in
Now today we will consider the world of
considered more closely and exactly, but for today's study what has
two-fold saying to which we referred yesterday, that two-fold
everyday knowledge is really influenced by the fact of the Luciferic
temptation, that our everyday knowledge is the fulfilment of our
development of life that should come today through the world-concept
day-consciousness — because Lucifer hands them
and Evil. What happens is that during the day we gain knowledge about
develop our ordinary everyday knowledge in the way to which we are
the day, in connection with Ahriman, we strive after what we call our
day. This then is handed over by Ahriman to Lucifer. And while our
whole day's experience ought really to be carried over to the whole
experience like this (a), the truth is that what was gained by day
day's knowledge, from what we have gained for ourselves from waking
enjoys during the day our night experiences; and Lucifer instead of
us, enjoys in our ego, during our sleep, our day's experiences. In
Ahriman during the day, Lucifer during the night.
knowledge we experience by day, what we contemplate in the world,
Jahve-deities we were to gain the knowledge during the day and live
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Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture III: The Power of Thought
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the days until the end of the Earth period.’
one day it becomes more perfect, will always stand there in such a
from the Mystery of Golgotha. It is very difficult today to make
make use of concepts to which people are little accustomed today, if
of a modern republic, because nowadays people see everything through
different from what the present-day man feels. It was however
which a state- government increasingly feels itself to be today, but
although that cannot be significant to us in the same way today. They
today only at the beginning of understanding what has flowed into
beginning of today's lecture. Had not the Grecian schools of

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture IV: Harmonizing Thinking, Feeling and Willing
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yesterday we were able to show how the intellect, all that is
happening takes place. And I also referred yesterday to the polar
as the centre from which, as shown yesterday, we can receive the
call something real, — and indeed nowadays,
things were once living and have died, that what we can find today as
present day, and that if He perhaps wished to speak in the future to
already in him. But that reverberates below; during the waking day
day when he himself dies. Truths may be contained in all this, but
wished to place these indications before you today, since it is
today made the subject of our studies something that closely concerns

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture V: Tree of Knowledge - I
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should like to put together various things today which will give us
opinion so current today, that all depends on cause and effect,
as a matter of fact, such worms are the people who philosophize today
what one finds with the majority of the philosophies of today and the
today.
today on earth in perceptions of space and time. I have already
play in everyday life.
existence when the Jupiter and Venus conditions are one day there.
for once ... nowadays men no longer grasp this thoroughly ... but
board.) It is difficult nowadays for a man to picture it because he
something or other, I know not what, of everyday human,

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture VI: Tree of Knowledge - II
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today. During the Saturn condition they were still lifeless germinal
sense-organs are today essentially physical organs. You will easily
this. For only when science will one day be real spiritual science
Yesterday we spoke of how desire enters into sense-perception; now we
existence. For the fact that man today can at any time bring thoughts

Title: World Downfall and Resurrection
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acknowledged by anyone who thought at all in the days before
days to attribute thoughts to the human being as such. Thoughts
that is why it is so difficult for us today to understand the
on the scene in the days of John Scotus Erigena, and discussion
the days of ancient paganism men had a real perception of the
tribe, the form, the image of the Godhead. People of today have
This truth — which can only be revealed today by
today connect the telegraphic apparatus in station A by means
does the rest. This has been discovered today by modern science.
Father God in the days of antiquity. Men said to themselves:
to the Gods. Hence the blood sacrifice in the days of
In the days of the old dispensation the Earth was so powerful
those days have passed away. The Earth can no longer give you
in the days to come — there is again the same mood of
the days of John Scotus Erigena in the 9th century of our era.
times that even our geologists today are saying that nothing
concepts today he is altogether lacking in any realisation that
higher spiritual being. Men seek for knowledge today with the
astray by the intellect can be a help to us. Today men are
which it exists today. It is going to pieces, falling into
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Title: Lecture: Philosophy and Anthroposophy
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everyday consciousness. This true and genuine Man makes his presence felt
calling attention, at the present day, to the fact that an inwardly real
present day; the fundamental teachings embodying a logical system of
thought will be found today almost unaltered, if compared with what
Aristotle set down. The additions made today are due to a somewhat mistaken
difficult nowadays to speak of these things purely objectively, than
movement of the present day often bases — its appeal upon totally
however, something else happened. When the day of Scholasticism had drawn
philosophical thought of the nineteenth century, until the present day,
which man today can but slowly and gradually ascend through the
even in our day personalities endowed with a true comprehension of
most unpleasant task for the scientist of today; for this reason he looks
what are the consequent results? Philosophic books of the present day leave
and scope of their conceptions. This could not have happened in the days of
today? They are held to be philosophers who sought to fashion a world from
day tend to a confusion of this spiritual exercise with all manner of
present day. More so, perhaps, than the physical system of Copernicus to

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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today cannot be addressed without a completely renewed and holistic education.
our introductory educational courses. However, the days are so few, and
than these scanty words of introduction today. It is hardly possible to
a valid sense for what is meant by the esoteric. We believe today that what
people today, we must always bear in mind that we are working on the
in which it is today? Mankind has come into such misery because it has for
someone in Central Europe today speaks of
Berlin or Vienna, than he is from what is being felt and thought today in
the West. It is taken for granted today among men who debate educational
ideas considered reasonable in Central Europe today, you would find their
sensible pedagogy today; it is fact that the men of our time are hardly
might be developed farther. Thus what we experience today in the field of
the peculiar thing is, that we should be striving today for precisely the
they have become the caricatures they are today. People usually go so far
different from another. Just as in everyday life it is not always what is
sorts of things in the time between the end of class on one day and the

Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture II: The Three Fundamental Forces in EducatioN
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today cannot be addressed without a completely renewed and holistic education.
purposes. All the abstract chatter you find today in books on psychology or
purblind psycho-physical eye of today's philosophers) and focusses on the
longer be spoken to in the manner of today, but only in ideas and inner
Luciferic enthusiasm that alone is acknowledged today. In sum, we must come

Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture III: Spiritual Knowledge of Man as the Fount of Educational Art
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today cannot be addressed without a completely renewed and holistic education.
introduction to today's talk.
know that nowadays external science sees a difference between man's
can see how frequently these things are misinterpreted by physiology today!
with all the nerves that present-day physiology calls motor nerves, but
we do this nowadays? We do it because it lies within us that nowadays we
again today work on you, and look to their educational value. Say for
ideas like these, if only for five minutes a day, our whole inner life of
things that will often keep you going for a whole day's teaching. Time

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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today cannot be addressed without a completely renewed and holistic education.
way it was done in earlier days when the whole subject was brought to man's
described yesterday, can transform it in meditative recollection into
present day embryologist, studying the evolution of the human

Title: Social Understanding: Lecture II: Social Understanding Through Spiritual Scientific Knowledge
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today cannot be addressed without a completely renewed and holistic education.
see what a great impact on a person's everyday life these particular truths
have, and that is what we will talk about tomorrow. Today I just want to
with ordinary everyday life.
this still happens today — the forces that create organs
knowledge and man's everyday existence. Something similar, though, can be
enough. Nowadays they have to be put into practice, for they are connected
in your younger days with inadequate understanding, and which you can now
Nowadays this is
important, for in those days the releasing was carried out by the blood,
people are so little aware nowadays of what is at stake. For standardised
our present day consciousness it would be like learning that man consists
education. The important thing, today, is not to give would-be teachers a
invented so many abstract educational systems. The essential thing today,
will teach according to these rules, today, just as you taught according to
these rules yesterday and will teach according to them to-morrow and the
day after to-morrow. But if you are the artist kind of teacher you are not
nearly so well off. For now you cannot teach yesterday, today, tomorrow and
the day after tomorrow according to the same rules, but have to learn from
have to be spoken about today. You cannot speak about these things today in
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Title: Buddha and the Two Boys: Lecture I: Buddha and the Two Boys of Jesus
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Today in short
but we were endowed with quite different abilities than we have today; old
world. Today, for example, man can recognize out of himself certain logical
taught to him in the words of today. An entirely different faculty had to
be appealed to. Thus, today there are certain truths for man which would
doctrine of compassion and love. Today, an inner voice instructs us about
body. That Buddha can be seen today only by the clairvoyant. Such a form,

Title: Buddha and the Two Boys: Lecture II: The Gospels, Buddha and the Two Boys of Jesus
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We must not be short-sighted like today's science, which believes that the
just not so. What we today call human thinking, feeling and willing was not
ancient times had to be given differently than today. Today one can
hears such principles, he can say today: Certainly, my own reason tells me
what the school teaches him today, then I have thereby made the soul
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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life did not take the form it does today — such that
lay in something quite different than it does today. The content of
here and elsewhere in our Society, that nowadays, on the basis of no
prerequisites of any kind, everyone actually has his standpoint. Today
what people claim for themselves today as religious content is after all
stressed yesterday and the day-before-yesterday, how abstract this life
today. I ask you to consider, after all, that in order to answer the
purely into what is external. If nowadays such considerations are deemed
wanting to enter lovingly into what is spiritual. Today, the intention is
narrow as to barely transcend the most everyday matters. Naturally, if
humanity. Nowadays people are glad if they can gain a rough idea of
the paper that is to appear in a few days' time, I
this an everyday rule, the more will he attain the mood of the
up from the depths of the human soul today, the social element has to be
depths. Most people today do not really know what to do with themselves.
soul question. That is what I wanted to say to you today.

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Raphael's own age, up to our own day. He was able to show that
as it does today for the times preceding the Greek period. For
sense world, such as we find in today's conventional science,
in today's presentation may sound like a kind of symbolic
close in proximity do these places lie for us today. Raphael's
bloody battles were the order of the day. The city was
as when, having climbed the heights of the Gotthard all day and
dreaming, and having once seen, appear to us day and night ever
will some day no longer exist. But, do the originals not still
have been ventured today can grow in us, if we conclude by

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the dining hall of the cloister and one day had it made higher.
Today it is only a shadow of what it once was, and yet a
can be experienced of Leonardo today barely relates otherwise
frequently followed a person for a whole day when a particular
period — though today these have all been overpainted,
nature to what is still to be seen today of the “Last
Milan. Today, people hardly have any notion of all that
from it dissatisfied! And today we have only a ruin of the
fourteen days ago, the attempt was made to show that, based on
that has evolved from the time of Leonardo up to our own day.
Today we stand once more at a new turning point, at the turning
medium. And today, in that natural scientific ideas are
found even today. Leonardo had the most wonderful ideas that
What I wanted to put forward today should not be presented in
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Hence, it will only be possible today to put forward a few
the depths of the human soul. In normal everyday life,
day-consciousness. Awakening from sleep under especially
daytime experiences, and intimately connected
every day on awakening, when the soul emerges from the
and yet a battle takes place every day in the soul's
think they do, but all day long. The soul is in truth always
since day consciousness is stronger as compared to dream
is drowned out by day consciousness. Though not generally
the experiences of day consciousness, those dreams of
experiences from those of the human soul today. We have
normal today in the waking state, we receive sense impressions
spoken of today.
state of humanity. Just as it is possible today to come to a
conscious life of day. Something is nonetheless there in
described here far more directly than is the case today
— to seek nourishment from the pictures we possess today
talks to the animal as though with a human being. One day she
she becomes queen one day, she is to grant him the first
and our sun of today, which is not the original Sun, but only a
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same way as today, one would have seen an organ, like a shining
today within the soul. It is the yearning for these worlds, the
to see today by means of the senses. In this way, the

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the subject of today's considerations — as
same time, so distinctive and unique as to stand apart. Today's
death. So much else of immediate everyday concern stood in the
only guest to a midday meal. We spoke about various matters
sensibility transforms everyday events in the physical
is interpreted materialistically nowadays. Rather, we attempt
they do not appear constituted like human beings of today,
Christian one, in which we still find ourselves today. It is
as mentioned at a midday meal, with his whole soul. he actually
One reads these lines today the more wistfully, as it did
present-day culture — having this sink with him into the
historical research does not lie in what is nowadays called
once were in their day; with Raphael one has to start from what
he is for us today. Concerning the two others, a slight veil
nowadays. But if does describe matters in such a way that we
today as having been surpassed. Seen against the background of
that is perhaps less read today than other modern products of
during the last few days, but as though a giant hand were
that, if one were to characterize what has been said today

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Today's lecture will be episodic, a kind of
in a way to be as effective as possible. Today I would like, at first
Basically, what is most effective today and
present-day phenomena in order to characterize the public's ability
in Switzerland, for what Woodrow Wilson is today, he was of course
public's capacity for judgment, as it zips around the world today, is
of a region, let's say an empire, and what we today would call the
Christian era because it is difficult nowadays to take account of how
world to the spiritual world. Today most people think, if they even
times are referred to by people of today they can hardly imagine much
it is today. Rulers, a ruling caste, slaves, ruled people, that was
— but rather what we today call ministers or court jesters,
those whom we would today call rulers, lived a divine soul, a God.
considered absurd today, but was a reality in oriental imperialism.
Protestant mentality, just as for today it is almost impossible to
played a role historically and are still present today.
revolution of the eighteenth century, but the French people today are
formulated by Chamberlain and others. But today we want to consider

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historical origin of what today may be called imperialism, and you
will have already noticed from what I said yesterday that it is
platitudes is the economy, as I explained yesterday.
otherwise with platitudes, as I also explained yesterday. At that
cherished, is the state of affairs which exists today in reality.
today: Lenin and Trotsky, Bolshevism. That is the concrete reality of
than the tsar; after the tsar has been skinned what remains today is
members. But if we look at the statistics today, we find 488 Masonic
meaningful even until today. The real content goes back to the far
in these lodges today made some sense. Then they became symbolic. The
sense is long gone. One can say that what goes on in the lodges today
the rituals. This is the real reason for present day social
platitudes? What good does it do to dwell on European conditions today
beneath the platitudes of today. That is why it is impossible to find
reality in public opinion today. Whoever has a sense for reality
the situation with many things nowadays. In public life we try to
the law is the will of a people! People — but today
existing in public life today. And do you know the title of this
compiled the sum of today's political wisdom — but which was in
far. One doesn't advance today with small thinking. It is necessary

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during the past two days you will see that what belongs to the
imperialism of the first human societies, of which I spoke yesterday,
discussion of public affairs was possible. What we today call rights
when the possibility of discussion originated. The person of today,
During the second stage what we call today parliament for example was
public discourse was a characteristic of the second stage. Today we
to you yesterday, is the one in which the inner substance has also
described yesterday using the example of
to you about yesterday — the codex of platitudes:
the German Empire. Much of present day public opinion derives from
reality. And yesterday we showed how this [present] age of platitudes
although those secret societies, about which I spoke yesterday, only
We say today — I beg you to pay
Today we are only at the beginning of all
opinion. People today always want to do that, but it isn't possible.
today are very much inclined to carry things over from the past into
Yesterday I indicated to you that in many
not think about the future. This is part of the present-day approach
ones. They think: Today we instituted something, it is good,
not possible . But if the feeling of shame of which I spoke yesterday
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anthroposophy." For each course day, Rudolf Steiner gave the introductory
each day regarding the course which will take place in a
organic nature. This is what is usually understood today, as
overhauled today but it appears to me to be not sufficiently
sentence today which I made in the eighties of the previous
science.’ I want to still support this sentence today because I
encountered in the day, but how it could be regarded inwardly
Today atomic theory has to a certain extent become
However even today it comes down to some spooks of the
the coming days.
the coming days; something which will show how this
initiate a war against today's science but on the contrary,
that the present day representatives of science haven't crossed

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anthroposophy." For each course day, Rudolf Steiner gave the introductory
hearing Dr Kolisko's lecture today, and not present it myself.
theme in question today, specifically the very first of
Today already there is talk from the non-anthroposophical

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anthroposophy." For each course day, Rudolf Steiner gave the introductory
from words. I would like to say: what we have today in the word
inner human relationships; so we have today an extraordinarily
different experience, in central Europe, as it is today in the
Today the situation in the entire world of philosophy is such
effort to determine reality. Today philosophic viewpoints have
it in quite a different way. Today, if we wish to characterise
Today things appear in quite a different way which not long ago
philosophic character of today. Inwardly this had to some
characteristics of the philosophic situation only appear today
Mill to Spencer, but this can't be my task today. In Herbert
we find ourselves today in the following situation. In the West
we are obliged today — because science as something
is still a human-personal matter. We see today in different
today at the start of our consideration, which I believe you

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anthroposophy." For each course day, Rudolf Steiner gave the introductory
bring them into present-day cultural conditions, into practical
lecture, but I think other lectures during these days would be
Today we have a psychology which has more or less been proven
justified by science — if it hasn't yet been seen today
referred to today as the principle of authority. If one applies
principles there is often a certain dissatisfaction today
only want to mention one thing. Today in various ways teaching
our epoch. Today one will hardly find any evidence in the outer
different to what they are today. Take for example the letters:
today don't even think about how intimately life was connected

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anthroposophy." For each course day, Rudolf Steiner gave the introductory
say regarding today's task, I want to limit myself to essential
Social science can't be talked about today from only a
theoretical standpoint. Today — I mean at this very present
am thus in an unusual position today by giving this
up to today had been a continual waste on the economy and
different way to how it is usually judged today.
according to today's relationships, still existed in pure
much deeper social economic conditions today if one wishes to
late!” has come to the fore to a large degree today. We
most damaging aspect in today's economic life.
When I picked up the newspaper yesterday, I came across — and
it could today be one of the most important symptoms we find
announced because the characteristic of today is
what is deeply embedded in the human soul today, on all
place of today's scientific thinking then you will know that
point of view object according to today's understanding of
evolution, which even today can be instructive, for instance
Asia. Today these things are taken in such a way that they
are actually still basically in this situation today. Just when
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anthroposophy." For each course day, Rudolf Steiner gave the introductory
day for theologians is Friday the 10th. This event
on Friday is now an unequivocal challenge of Steiner and his
involved in today's event (which is an insertion into this
dealing with today could be understood as an “unequivocal
challenge of today's theologians.”
in a few introductory words today. I want to limit myself to a
apart within the work, with today's theology. This has happened
say, it wants to work out of present day spiritual science.
I am today as much a student of Haeckel as I was in the 1890's;
possible, in words of today's language use. Naturally one is
material world outlook and today we have the experience, which
reasons, into which I don't want to enter today, it happened
drew closer to Anthroposophy. Today we have really made a
example by one of those present here today, a very honourable
to listen and this people don't want these days, so one must
What I've said yesterday about the development of opinions,
with you every day until the end of the world.” He lives
Catholicism as the only authority. Today something can be said
necessary within the needs of today, and that which others fail
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anthroposophy." For each course day, Rudolf Steiner gave the introductory
have asked me to introduce the reflections of the day through
some remarks and so I will introduce today's work in a certain
about today and it became clear to me that one really needs a
like to talk about today. So I'm only going to suggest a few
I would today again speak in front of individuals who listen in
the same way as some had listened yesterday, then one could
happened yesterday, when I spoke about the Trinity. However, Dr
applied to the other days but on this day, it was particularly
word-soul streaming in thought. Today we feel, when we clearly
its language, as we would do with a language today.
today, it was essentially something different. We must clearly
designate today as m, as a, as n and as s. The life of soul
examined through today's soul life if one enters into the
like we have today was part of man, but a life in pictures, in
talk about in Anthroposophy today, which are fully conscious
painting as in today's sense, but in such a way as to
today, we notice that with the experience of this sound, we
do today in our soul life, because people felt themselves to be
when we experience our “I” today it is quite
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kind of preparatory introduction will be given today, my dear
Therefore, I wish to begin the School today, with those members
undermining forces which are increasing day by day. The members
For your own being the day grows dimly
For your own being the day grows dimly
knowledge for contemporary humanity. The human being of today
nowadays — or what they say does — that can provide
the day, in most of the art galleries, in most sculpture and
basically, everyone today is vaccinated against the spirit's
nowadays can be compared to someone who wants to pick something
alongside the Guardian of the Threshold for today's humanity.
humanity of today that this beast is actually in you! It rises
heart that is honest with itself today desires to go.
For your own being the day grows dimly
darkness. About all that, my dear friends, next Friday during

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will relate what is said today to the previous lesson, partly
For your own being, this light of day grows dim
are - which under the surface of life work today as always -
from what everyday life shows, patched up as it is with so many
lies. Very little of what passes today between people is true.
Yes, my dear friends, nowadays - in accordance with
especially today they let this unconscious feeling dominate in

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That is what I will speak to you about today, my dear friends,
your own being the day grows dimly

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spiritual life by today's civilization, that is. The encounter
an example of what we will receive today, my dear friends, I
nowadays consider clairvoyant, but he entered into a
tomorrow you forget what I have said today. Because what you
and freshly vital the next day, and the day after, and every
day.
remember nothing of what is said to you today. But you should
is said to you today. For you see, memory, that capacity for
than our everyday consciousness is accustomed to.
everyday consciousness, thinking, feeling and willing are bound
feelings. One day someone reminds you of this person, says
thinking, feeling and willing together for everyday
stands before us today - its conception originally from the
exist, I would not be thinking today. My hand is only necessary
today we will consider three verses, mantric verses, through
everyday consciousness which mixes the depth, the distant and
happen in daylight, but it is clearer at night. We feel at one
world, so today we must recognize how the esoteric things which
School must be taken seriously, and what I said that Wednesday
this in mind as part of today's lesson.

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Today we want to approach these things esoterically. So it may
from the every-day, illusory consciousness. But one enters it
undertone to be present. One looks back the few days after

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cosmos. But nowadays we have no training in such things. In a
the days when the old instinctive consciousness prevailed,
case nowadays, but also feel it, we become fearful that at any
of the suffering which is caused by today's thinking if he does
right time. During the Jupiter evolution today's humanity will

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founded. I wish today to speak from the heart to those who
and true supersensible knowledge. Today I would like to add
heart, the human soul today if one activates this mantric verse

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Class today who have not been here before, so I am obliged to
wisdom and life impulses into human civilization today which
anthroposophy, flow today into human civilization in the
today. The leadership of the Free School for Spiritual Science
we may say today: This School must develop into a true Mystery
mention them today because so many anthroposophical friends are
lesson today to be a kind of preparation. I will hold a second
today will be admitted to the next lesson. It will be a
continuation of today's lesson.
wish to begin today's lesson - without you taking notes, only

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world. And today everyone can make this beginning.

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karma nowadays to participate in anthroposophy.
here today belongs to that group. For if someone who does not
Today I
my dear sisters and brothers, consider the people of today who
people today cannot even begin to glimpse this process due to
Today people
the eye and encompasses the thing looked at. Today people
souls today, my dear sisters and brothers.

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astronomers of today who observe the points of light and
we will learn today the different ways he sends this I into
is the sun. It is closest to us. Every day it circles around
outer temples stood in places on the earth which today are
all around me is the everyday world. Bourgeois walls and

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days, weeks or months ago and which you can activate just as
outer events of the day is necessary in order to sense this. It
Today's mantras will be given with this objective. The
That is how the mantra which is presented to your souls today
My dear sisters and brothers, at the beginning of today's
today if we can really evoke this inner attitude in the soul,
mantras given today.

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Not meant is our everyday thinking, but
the thinking which acts behind that everyday thinking, which
What remains for us to consider today, my dear
is streamed through not only with what today enlivens us in
routine of everyday life. He must do so because between birth

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on the path of knowledge. Today we intend to enliven the
may lose the everyday capacity for understanding, which holds
returns to everyday life.
Although today humanity is crudely hardened by materialism,
words correctly, which have come to you here today as mantric
Therefore, to end this esoteric lesson today, the way this

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Today we will also begin with the mantric verse
because various Class members have come today who have not
Today we must review this situation again. We must
breathing system, to the rhythm that allows day to change

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stream can enter the anthroposophical movement, which today
for human beings of today and the future, what in the ancient
soul, through which man is even today awakened from his dull,
And today we will compare the opening words
mantric verse, which has been contemplated in today's

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We also begin today with that verse which, by a correct
for today.

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Nowadays in earthly life the memory of pre-earthly
should be heard today in the esoteric schools. They should

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yesterday I had to criticize some rather unedifying
copied what I told you yesterday. Another notebook was left

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who today are experiencing a repetition, it also constitutes a
stage. We should therefore consider this lesson of today in
said yesterday — an esoteric breath that can already be
first step. Therefore, what Michael has to say to present-day
For your own being the day grows dimly
For your own being the day grows dimly
actually today we are everywhere surrounded by hate for the
thinks, is constituted today in our present evolutionary cycle

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School are present today who have not attended the previous
right heartfelt blaze of knowledge; whereas today nonchalance
doubt about the spiritual world that today gnaws at the souls'
next esoteric lesson of this First Class will be next Thursday
themselves, then I ask them to only keep it for eight days and

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Next Saturday, when this mantric verse will be written on the
needs today for its esoteric life, which here acts from the

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north, from above and below, may also today begin to describe
teachings will be rounded out, will take place on Monday at

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members have again come to this School today. It isn't possible
so, we will also begin directly today to inscribe in our souls
the next esoteric lesson, to be held on Wednesday, it will be
Today, though, after this has been shown to our souls, let us

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Today we will once again begin with the words which contain the

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Even with things that in everyday life are taken seriously, at
thought to the School. For only in this way what today is to be
it should not happen, because obviously, people today must be
feeling enfold in numerous dream-pictures during the day. We
Thus, today's Michael affirmation is confirmed by means of his Sign

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present-day humans. He expresses how the social will should be the
wants to become familiar with present day habits, can gather
question been approached with such liveliness as today. Today
question as it comes to the fore in its true form today when
day humanity. Something on which humanity has been preparing
actual foundation for the modern-day proletarian movement does
souls. It is this which makes it so difficult today to take a
struggles, what is obvious in social life today does not stand
created has an importance in today's social question but that
to today you have quite powerful evolutionary processes taking
days, lies specific social instincts which shone through human
their present day relationship to the world and life which gave
the most authority today, namely science, knows, anything
mention it then it is clearly shown as is the fashion today,
religious warmth. Today one is proud that science can remain
the spiritual evolutionary basis, something rose up and today
arising from life's necessities of present day humanity which
reform it, not understand the social organism correctly. Today
the same way, the social organism is threefold. Today the
horizon as even today in this burning time of appointed leaders
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present-day humans. He expresses how the social will should be the
today's lecture I would like to make a provisional outline for
This economic life, we will partly today and partly in the
today, include the following. Besides other foundations out of
which we live today, there is also a surfacing out of mankind's
Today I can only propose the structure of the social organism
of art and so on. While I only want to mention this today, in
day before yesterday. This progression is right for the
That sounds radical today. Such radicalism must be expressed as
Yesterday I only offered a sketch towards the direction
completion in my coming lectures. Particularly today I can
which we have been driven?’ — I told you the day before
yesterday I would speak about the particular relationships of
the social question in both my following lectures. Today I
should happen from one day to the next, but a direction in
content of my lecture the day before yesterday, I have brought
Today, I would say for example, we are in the most terrible
Today we stand, because during the last decade humanity has
somehow missed acknowledging the essence of these things, today
already in humanity today, towards the next ten, twenty or
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Title: The Social Question: Lecture III: Fanaticism Versus a Real Conception of Life in Social Thinking and Willing
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present-day humans. He expresses how the social will should be the
today something which lie relatively far into the future. The
what we call the social question today.
creation of criticism about social facts of the present day are
the present day. We can see this in Paris, in Bern. When one
actual reality, given by the actual living proletariat today,
thought habits of today, are not able to grasp the reality of
everyday life. We find in the present time certainly many
reality, everyday circulation of capital, the cost of labour,
aspects work from its basis into the everyday, profane
fanaticism, remote from daily reality, then true everyday
daily satisfaction coming from everyday experiences of life
everyday life as it happens. Everyday life then takes revenge.
Now everyday life takes on a form which has nothing to do with
while it distances itself from the everyday things, from direct
masks today and play a role in the facts. Certainly, on the one
themselves in practical life. Today it does not involve people
in those who think about the social organism today. Today the
— and these days they are not low in numbers — on
real life. Far worse are the masked fanatics in today's
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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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present-day humans. He expresses how the social will should be the
one stream is clear in those people who can still up to today
distinguishable from the former, which we today describe as the
they developed more and more in such a way that even these days
there appears what I referred to in my lecture the day before
yesterday, a gap, an abyss between the specific configuration
prepared, and that which can make sense, even still today only
people today what appears as practical life is none other than
This needs to be taken as essential today if human progress is
today for the entire system of associations and coalitions
not be said even today that in relation to the experience of
many things on this subject and even today, it falls to deaf
still today, for those who have participated in Austrian life,
paradoxical it might sound today, the relationship of people to
days ago I made you aware how it doesn't depend on an outer
members. It still appears like a paradox today when I say in
thoughts of today towards a healing of the Social organism,
state. Today it is still possible through some or other
everything which I indicated as fanatical the day before
yesterday.
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Title: The Social Question: Lecture V: The Social Will as the Basis Towards a New, Scientific Procedure
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present-day humans. He expresses how the social will should be the
me that the basic question, which is considered today as a
thinkers of today become unbiased toward the spiritual aspect,
of will and the non-proletarian life today lies a gap, no one
point of view today. Many, also earlier personalities who
the result is what has happened today: The stripping of the
entire present day social movement which can't be grasped by
day social movement. As soon as one perceives that this is so,
today call, the state. It has often been stressed by some
individuals — I can't enter into this today due to our
state, today, has always existed in this way. That is
Certainly there will still be many today who will see no
denationalised which probably appears today as a paradox, one
I also don't consider that from one day to the next, everything
know that still today many people think: ‘How can that be done?
near future. Today however we must ask: How can labour be
life today for instance regulates employment so that the price
These relationships can only be indicated today. You can see,
cooperative context. However today the trade union, cooperative
stand within the totality of the social organism. People today
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Title: The Social Question: Lecture VI: What Significance does Work have for the Modern Proletarian?
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present-day humans. He expresses how the social will should be the
When the theme for today's lecture was announced, the question
for a long time been imposed as today's capitalistic sea of
What is called the ‘social question’ today has in no way only
come about yesterday. In the way one speaks about it today, it
these directions, today the modern Proletariat is not less
say today: Among the ruling proletarian personalities, among
about today.
olden times. Here the entire person was goods. Today what has
exists: only we are not inclined today to examine this
point which the natural scientist has also reached today, as we
Look at how these things have developed today. Some people
another, where they should be equal; it is today already
social organism in an ever so lively a way, as we can see today
today, rightly experienced as an ideology by the modern
might sound, but it needs to be said — of what today can
directs them today, so he directs them out of the economic life
capitalist entrepreneurs today and reveal themselves in regard
can today's profit motives be replaced by purely factual
today. On the one hand, there is the entrepreneur who wants to
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life. To-day we shall consider how an impulse akin to that of
Another stumbling-block which may crop up now-a-days, is connected
to-day we hear it said in academic circles: ‘To such and such a point
days of creation, when as yet there was no human being to receive them
to-day. Cosmic laws were presented in a garb of beauty —
for art. Richard Wagner could not be a dramatist of everyday life, for
draw his characters from everyday life. And so he turned to the myths,
atmosphere around us to-day. There was no division of water and the
kind of consciousness he has to-day. He was shut off from outer Nature
But even nowadays it is quite easy to understand the real origin of
myths. — The legend of the ‘Noonday Woman’ is still familiar in
Earth-consciousness wherein all men were enveloped in the days of
consciousness transcends that of the everyday world, when they are
to-day by having permeated the pure plant-body with desires, with the
word is brought forth to-day by the waves of air working through the
of Richard Wagner. — In the year 1857, on Good Friday, he was
in connection with Good Friday and in the mood that fell upon him the
feeling which though mystical in essence is yet clear as daylight and

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This is what we find to-day in famous histories of philosophy and
authoritative on the subject of Indian wisdom to-day we shall
sense in which we speak of Nature to-day. In their schools they spoke
of a spiritual world, and Nature — generally regarded nowadays as
would be three hundred and sixty days in a year. But there are, in
fact, five additional days, ruled by seventy-two sub-heavenly Powers,
hundred and sixty. The five remaining days in the cosmic year which
above the three hundred and sixty-five days, there are still a few
universe, whereas nowadays we begin our physiological studies by
three hundred and sixty heavenly Powers. Just as to-day man is said to
learning in those days, and one can readily understand that Plotinus
although it no longer exists in that form to-day, indeed cannot do so
for it must be pursued now-a-days in a different way), the deepest
have no longer any inkling to-day of the wisdom that lived in the
those days there were still some who understood what was, for example,
wished to-day to speak of one chapter of history and from an

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frame of mind in which I speak to you today is not that in
which I was privileged to speak to you in earlier days; for,
which I had to choose for these two days, with the description
in these days. Much sacrificial spirit, much devoted labor has
today; for history, real history, experienced history, history
possible to begin today something which began two decades ago.
oneself today out of deepest inner experience of longer
in these days — again, out of fully justifiable
worries we feel during these present days. This, after all, is
today that must be taken into account. In these two lectures I
viewed elsewhere in the life of the present day.
day. The present ideal of community-building results from an
that no small number of present-day sermons are completely
isolation. And, if I shall endeavor today to render clear in a
the languages of the peoples today through the influence of
Rittelmeyer here from this platform during these days was of
day. The world of dreams may be beautiful, may be splendid,
every-day life — with the external aspect of the other
do not yet — and this is the mystery of the every-day
summons. Precisely as we awake rightly for the every-day life
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— everything that has occurred during these days —
yesterday in that manner in regard to the community-building
order to present the counterpart of what I spoke of yesterday,
we go back once more to what I referred to yesterday, we find
this state into the ordinary every-day consciousness, to which
he is awaked, as 1 explained yesterday, through what belongs to
his waking consciousness of day, when he is together with other
consciousness of day a world of concepts and feelings similar
the two others: first, to the every-day consciousness to which
certain sense, as I said yesterday, through the fact that a
temper of soul of the every-day consciousness over into this
he wishes to live in the every-day consciousness with other
every-day consciousness.”
this everyday consciousness, which is also the consciousness of
the one out of the every-day consciousness — or,
they derive from the everyday consciousness, and do not lift
every-day mood of soul to the language of the supersensible
through discipline. In the ordinary everyday
with listening to one another. Nowadays this bad habit has
understand from what I presented to you yesterday and today
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 1: Evolution and Consciousness, Lucifer, Ahriman
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by every individual human being today. I have made it
serious view of these things today, but our hearts and
them. We have no clear idea today of the extent to which
not think in the abstract terms in which we think today.
in our dreams today. Present-day thinking is the fruit of
to be in communion with nature spirits. Today we may say
present-day sense organs, for it did not yet include
plant. When we talk about plants today we are really
today's lecture we refer to them as luciferic spirits.
— today it is no longer in southern Germany —
hand there is the absolute necessity today to do
we now come to apply this to ordinary everyday life. We
than a horse-shoe. Yet it happens quite often nowadays
talk one hears today, empty talk that turns into lies, by
the cosmos in a very different way. People today have no
have become an empty abstraction nowadays. Do you think a
viewed from the earth? Everything is different today. It
the abrupt change of subject — which even today
how one does these things nowadays. He wrote to a
case among the many one gets today, with a new one coming

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said on a number of occasions, and also two days ago when
Today I
present-day tenor of the human mind and spirit and how we
occupied an area between present-day Europe, Africa and
America that is today covered by the Atlantic Ocean. We
the present day are in fact the descendants of the
of thinking as we know it today only developed in very
century and even to this day consisted in the physical
European bodies of today have grown bony, paralyzed,
this quite clear in one's mind. People today no longer
the vocation of humankind for the present day: namely, to
in Central Europe today walking over the graves of
emerging in the life of humankind today. Central
was given in those terrible days. This slanderous story
it highly dangerous to touch on them even today. I want
to talk to you today about a matter that in the opinion
possible to evolve social ideas nowadays unless we base
certain higher levels cannot be made known today because
important today. So you see that exactly when it comes to

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today. We really need such concrete ideas, for they are
the world today we should really consider the most
today states are taken so much for granted that no one
take it to mean today. The idea of the ruler of an
forerunners of our present-day priests. People had quite
the one and only idea we have today when we speak of
practically all our ideas today on development, education
present day. He tells me this and that, I tell him this
that people have today. The same applies to me. That is
each other nowadays, the way in which we look at each
office. The things we look for and find in present-day
incredibly strange to present-day people. It is however
hold today, ideas only three or four hundred years old as
we know them today, and take a wider view. We cannot
present-day history normally covers.
gets used to, things one does not want to see. Today we
years old. The ideas used by people nowadays to fill
it is true to say that no one nowadays is able to
nowadays would say this more or less as a joke. Yet
though it may be said today partly as a joke, in the
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 4: Western Secret Societies, Jesuitism, Leninism
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and able to be to the fore in public life nowadays
as regards the way they form ideas, present-day people
science as we call it? Initiation science today also
How else can we hope to give souls the power today that
nowadays with regard to souls fast asleep in the present
an illusion indeed that today merits punishment —
instance with certain Catholic or Protestant groups today
than that humankind should today gain true understanding
that go on today. The cultural movement I am speaking of
else today? The essential point is that our powers of
think of what we call the forces of nature today, of what
who are presenting the truth today are plagiarists
‘Traubism’ is the order of the day. They come
torpor to stand up against such people. The day before I
this world, doing so on the basis of present-day life,
present-day life, and then also finds them written in
that knowledge which today has to be sought within life
people who pursue anthroposophy today are borrowing
is getting closer and closer by the day is something
people will not accept any other view nowadays. People

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Today's meeting provides a further
say today is a repetition of things that have been
them once again today.
a pump comes up in all kinds of variations nowadays. The
professor of physiology is teaching today, with the
is taught nowadays.
for People today. When the human organism is investigated
in conventional institutes nowadays, in physiological and
have it today and everything it governs is entirely
differences. You know that the head we carry today is the
of today. Once the human mind has been organized so that
understanding of this today. It is a serious matter when
people say today: Something else will have to take the
potential is there today for all kinds of disciplines,
philosophy, Marxist views are widespread today. They have
today. Authoritarian thinking and belief in authority
present this to you again today in a slightly different
Stuttgart — I would spend three or four days here
these are serious matters we have to discuss today, and I
failure; we have to say today that they shall succeed.
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 6: Materialism and Mysticism, Knowledge as a Deed of the Soul
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their souls. We will continue along these lines. Today I
accomplished by the soul. It is essential for us today to
play a role today in the progress of human evolution. The
presented nowadays. They could however play a role in
view of nature that is generally taken today, a view that
aspects that people find highly uncomfortable today
nowadays. If anyone thinks it is enough just to say:
aspect of our cultural life today. The other aspect, the
happens nowadays that men grow bald. We find we have
when people concern themselves with mysticism nowadays,
days but do not remain a child.' That is how the balance
to overcome feeblemindedness day by day, hour by hour.
Goettingen the other day. Have a look at the supplement
serious times in which we live and on Friday I want to
continue in the vein in which I started today, when I
today to gather in sectarian groups, but to come alive

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Today I
today. I have explained that the road to spiritual
today, and the laws apparent in these phenomena, are not
of today, drawing a conclusion that may be bold but
longer is radium. The radium that is found today has only
materialists nowadays and others are spiritualists. A
like those I dared to put to you yesterday are
from the point of view of spiritual science today if we
which have formed in public life in our everyday world.
common sense nowadays—and not the human dwarf who
establishments we have today.
every world has its own laws, and today we face the
the common way of thinking nowadays. Everything to be
sophisticated people of today. It is however because this

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well aware, it is often said today that spiritual science
Considering this in present-day terms — because it
material world’ — to put it in present-day
Today we
present time. According to present-day initiation
turning point. Today it is ripe to enter into human
today.
today. Father Erich Wasmann's [
knowledge. Today those late followers want human beings
the old days the intention was to prevent humanity from
Today the intention is to keep people tied to that
have characterized. Today a large number of people who
The most powerful source of materialism today does not
things human beings need today, things that will serve
human beings have lost their moral fibre today.
chosen to meet the needs of this present-day life. Yet
way words are defined in most schoolbooks nowadays
called Christ. This happens a great deal nowadays and it
ago I had a conversation in Marburg one day with a
yesterday. [ Note 57 ] All
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Today we
different points of view. Today I want to take a point of
question we want to ask ourselves today is what kind of
we are constituted as human beings today we are not in a
world which has its soul and spirit aspect. Today the
being that is given in anatomy or physiology today, which
have said. In daytime life, during their waking hours,
culture as it essentially is today you will find that the
today they are not really interested in human beings the
daytime the things they had experienced at night, when
come. Today we have merely the early signs, the
psychology as it is practised today is a nonsense, but
Western world, today, can see that it is a preparatory
blood, muscle, skin and bone as we see them today, but in
the early signs to be seen today? The first signs are
understanding of the body, this materialism, will one day
well as a physical body. In the West today, human beings
life, and in the West today still materialism with the
their ordinary everyday physical lives.
to material things, to economics, will one day have to
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 10: Transition from the Luciferic to the Ahrimanic Age and the Christ Event to Come
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today. Only then can we find the right way of taking effective action
there in the minds of people today. We have seen that this spectre of
happen on a smaller scale in every day of the life we are given, for we
outside themselves in modern civilization; forces that work for them day
by day and determine their destinies? Looking at these forces and the way
the phenomena of nature. Today, people see only dry-as-dust, prosaic
nowadays. That is the view taken by the present age. We know, however,
conscious mind could relate to those phenomena. Today's enlightened'
awareness of demonic powers. Today demonic powers are restively stirring
present-day thinking has led to a desire to militarize the economy and
The other day I was able to
still more or less theoretical today — though perhaps we should not
sphere today. The things that are not written down in the books are today
nowadays that is is difficult to talk to them about these things. To show
as they are today already have a whole number of earth lives behind them.
that we had those spirits within us. Today we consider nature entirely
lived through — though we refuse to consider them nowadays —
ourselves to be human beings. Today we look into a nature empty of human
to the Christ event today unless there is a renewal of life in the
us. Today life is largely determined by what the ‘horse’
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 11: Modern Science and Christianity, Threefold Social Order, Goetheanism
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I discussed some days ago.
find that human nature as we know it today relates
Many people today, particularly those in the civilized
people did and indeed still do today revere the Gospels
ideal. 19th century scientists said, and present-day
spirit of today, i.e. in libraries, those tombs of the
more than obvious that in Goethe's day the time had not
today, where the centralized state is supposed to
certain point in their day and age, Schiller in
may come when Ahriman has won the day! — such a
reached somewhere today, but if Ahriman's ideal ever
legal system nowadays as they have with the sphere of
that we must be serious in our approach to present-day
Today we
present-day reality we cannot do anything with aesthetic
What is needed today is that we break through into life
us today you will see this phenomenon. In November 1918
these I want to talk about today, for the longer we have
Anthroposophical Movement today. But let me repeat once
socialist leaders today, or you may be wearing elegant
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Yesterday
higher worlds in front of a somewhat larger circle. Today it may be
daytime consciousness, in waking, do the four members of human nature
body during the waking hours of the day and thus wears it out, appears
develop at death. Well, if you have followed yesterday's public
death is also known. It is three to four days. It is not easy to give
What a difference compared with today! It was not so long ago that
great cities are today, what were they like a thousand years ago? For
beings intervene and are active, which today still, appropriate to the
drastic changes of his condition as they are present today as birth and

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judged it by what appear to-day as aims. The social movements
present day displays a thoroughly egoistic character. It is
earnestness we consider the present day, we cannot forget how
towards falsity. Nowadays we can find plenty of people
Nowadays many people feel, although not altogether consciously,
Nothing is so essential to-day as to work our own way through
received. To-day the essential things are not to be so
at to-day's events.
draw your attention to-day to this important fact in human
they brought forth the model which to-day underlies the
To-day they really have no further interest in it. They feel
whom this happened we call “geniuses.” To-day at
help, us to this attitude; to-day we must have the possibility
them. Man's full clear day-consciousness is established
ceremony took place last Sunday, 7th September 1919, preceded
generations; the public life of to-day is only the result of
children of to-day we have the tendencies which will grow in
occurrences of to-day.
day to day about leading personalities in the world, and the
humanity has its choice to-day — to go along the path

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it is for men of the present day to turn the eye of the soul
creeds of the present day are based on the egoism of man, as we
to-day: as a rule the creeds speak of the “continued
mentioned. The treatment generally given to-day to the idea
this also is important: that people of our day must hear a very
day to day, from week to week, from year to year, we must
People in those days were as capable of development right into
their old age as only the young are nowadays. A child goes
later stages of life. Nowadays old age sets in at seventeen or
Cultural Committee where present-day education was discussed
abstractions. Old age, nowadays, means the limit up to which a
developing farther. Seldom nowadays do we find people with grey
look back at our own schooldays evokes few pleasant thoughts.
We must manage to shape schooldays for the children of
to-day so that to remember them will provide an ever new and
extending beyond the everyday life which is stirred and
human evolution, which is not known to-day. In earlier times,
necessary to take much notice of it, but to-day it must be
he is to-day in body, soul and spirit, every night looks, to a
certain extent, at the events of the coming day, but without
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consciously; but something like it — naturally not to-day
for comfort in man to-day, the unwillingness to know what is
shall get the best understanding of my subject to-day by
prevalent since the days of Galileo and Copernicus. For these
is man's duty to-day to become aware of these things. At our
experience it brings. Anyone observing life to-day will
experience were more instinctive than they are to-day: this
a part of the soul more on the surface than that which to-day,
man's soul to-day, unless it can bridge the differences among
Nowadays men talk of the so-called “League of
present-day man in no way partakes with his soul in what is
develop what is needed to-day in the whole civilized world,
knowledge necessary to-day. Suppose you asked a natural
scientist of the day, what the evolution of the Earth would be
body to the earth, it means to present-day science no more than
dwellings of souls, though now deserted by them. In olden days
when bread was baked (nowadays the thing is more artificial) a
people who die before 28 — to consider this to-day would
nowadays it is essential that men should absorb them into their
seriousness which is necessary to-day. The external
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Title: Problems of Our Time: Main Features of the Social Question and the Threefold Order of the Social Organism
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men to-day. True, this change is not recognized by a sufficient
to-day and in the immediate future. While they will only
should consider such things to-day, should be able to keep
before his spiritual eye to-day's necessity of looking more
unpractical. I give you an illustration of this; for to-day,
Marxian thought for half a century. It is not enough to-day
pouring in the present-day development of humanity with such
proletarian theory to-day and try to refute it is
was a vast cultural lie, and nowadays no benevolent mask must
clear daylight. The lie consisted in setting up
are assumed to be agitating nowadays if we talk like this. Not
organization. It is to-day a source of pride. that education
nowadays has taken the place of the Church which formerly used
aim at to-day.
notice certain things which are nowadays taken as a matter of
sixties. I can remember how in days gone by the syllabus was
of education, who were creative spiritually. But to-day we have
kinship with that of the present-day unitary State. The whole
crushed, as so many men are to-day, but will be equal to his
commonplace nowadays to maintain that so long as the economic
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