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  • Title: Evil and Spiritual Science
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    • make clear how deeply this question has occupied the hearts and
    • was going towards an ever clearer and clearer self-aware human
    • described, conquering pain, conquering sentiment appeared as an
    • Augustine. Augustine too had to think over and research
    • If one were to hear the Church Father Augustine speak about
    • something very positive! This image should make it fully clear,
    • make the following clear: that a human being is put together
    • our situation more precisely clear. I will refer to a thinker
    • wickedness must be there in life; since only through learning
    • out of evil, and only through this, then learn to recognise
    • fearsome burden, come to meet us everywhere in the animal
    • which the appearances of the world can be thought through, it
    • its appearance up to the point where he felt something like a
    • God in his own inner being; and he now tried to make clear to
    • what depths a sensible thinker goes, if he researches the
    • path of spiritual research, the path that has often been
    • a spirit researcher begins on his/her path, in order to rise up
    • spiritual world as a spiritual researcher must be called a
    • very forcefully emphasised: that the path to spiritual research
    • and now knows: you bear these imperfections with you as a comet
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  • Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 1: Popular Occultism, Introtroduction
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    • given at Leipzig as early as 1906. But they are of historical
    • new generation filled by the yearning to obtain spiritual knowledge.
    • of the Earth and of the solar system. Moreover, of the way in which
    • things will present a very different aspect in a hundred years. In the
    • near future there'll be a gigantic progress, also in the technical field.
    • pass through training of the soul we learn to know also the astral body
    • as it appears to us as the soul-part of man. The astral body is designated
    • in the child. From the first to the seventh year the physical body unfolds;
    • From the first to the seventh year the child needs visible, perceptible
    • in the child during his seventh year, for a part of the etheric body
    • From the seventh year onward
    • to fourteenth year we should therefore work upon his memory and develop
    • itself wholly from the fourteenth to the 21st year. It begins to unfold
    • We have thus learned to
    • life on Earth.
  • Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 2: Man's Ascent into the Supersensible World
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    • given at Leipzig as early as 1906. But they are of historical
    • new generation filled by the yearning to obtain spiritual knowledge.
    • The physical world need not be described, for it is clearly known to everybody.
    • should bear in mind is that the outer worlds are not to be found in other
    • the physical world. For in the astral world everything appears as a
    • hatred and love, appear as if they were rushing towards us. A clairvoyant
    • are their own passions which go out from them and appear as a reflected
    • mirror-image in the astral world. Then everything appears to be rushing
    • they cannot read its phenomena. Everything appears in the form of pictures
    • and images. A bursting rage, for example, may appear in the form of
    • receives anything from outside, it nevertheless bears deep within it
    • the yearning for religious things; this feeling lies deeply buried within
    • which existed in the Middle Ages! The religious yearning may suddenly
    • break out in people who no longer hear anything of the higher worlds,
    • so that it appears as a religious passion in a mirrored picture, as
    • a so-called true reality, appears in the astral world in the form of
    • whereas joy appears as a kind shape in a light yellow color. Little
    • by little you will have learnt to understand these images. There is
    • of a certain kind always appears as pictures of certain time. The pupil
    • therefore gradually learns to read on the astral plane and he learns
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  • Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 3: The Different Conditions of Man's Life After Death
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    • given at Leipzig as early as 1906. But they are of historical
    • new generation filled by the yearning to obtain spiritual knowledge.
    • the whole earthly life unfolds itself in every detail before the soul
    • the astral world. Upon the Earth, this force was used for the reconstruction
    • continues to exist, whereas the organs no longer exist. The soul yearns
    • Afterwards man enters Devachan. This is clearly indicated in the Gospel
    • the Kamaloca-existence takes up about one third of the duration of earthly
    • compensated in Devachan. When the soul has laid aside its earthly desires,
    • meadows to seek honey and bring it back to the hive. Here on earth the
    • The Earth is not a valley of tears, it is a gathering place and the
    • through a process of transformation. Think of your childhood years!
    • year! Your temperament undergoes a far weaker change. A passionate child
    • bearing and walk from a sanguine, melancholic or phlegmatic person.
    • out of our earthly life becomes interwoven with the soul, with the spirit.
    • earthly life is the expression of what we worked out for ourselves.
    • Earth. In Devachan everything appears in a stronger light. We do not
    • is a far more real state of existence than earthly life.
  • Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 4: The Devachanic World
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    • given at Leipzig as early as 1906. But they are of historical
    • new generation filled by the yearning to obtain spiritual knowledge.
    • the facts pertaining to this world. We should moreover, bear in mind
    • applies to objects of Nature, whereas artificial forms made by man appear
    • life here on earth, all that enables plants and animals to grow, may
    • is known on Earth as feeling and sensation. There, the currents of pain
    • may be felt like the winds which blow on the Earth. Every calamity that
    • takes place in the physical plane can be heard in this region. For example,
    • appears as a terrific tempest, unchaining itself in lightning, thunder
    • as the starry sky surrounds us here on Earth, so in this fourth reason
    • to his own body. He learns to compare his physical existence in a selfless
    • back to a new earthly life enriched by this observation, this experience
    • earthly lives. This is only a question of development. Everyone will
  • Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 5: Life Between Death and a New Birth
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    • given at Leipzig as early as 1906. But they are of historical
    • new generation filled by the yearning to obtain spiritual knowledge.
    • his physical body and hands it over to the Earth as a corpse. If etheric
    • Earth. There, our experiences were linked up with feelings and soul-impressions, the
    • through this experience, we are warned for subsequent earthly life.
    • into us and become capacities. In a subsequent earthly life all the
    • experiences which we had during our proceeding earthly life appear
    • to tread the path that leads him back to the Earth. It is very interesting
    • to observe clairvoyantly these souls that return to the Earth. The clairvoyant
  • Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 6: Man's Return to a New Earthly Life
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    • MAN'S RETURN TO A NEW EARTHLY LIFE
    • given at Leipzig as early as 1906. But they are of historical
    • new generation filled by the yearning to obtain spiritual knowledge.
    • MAN'S RETURN TO A NEW EARTHLY LIFE
    • earthly life. After death there arises first of all the picture-tableau
    • and his Ego return to the earthly sphere. The human germs arise, described
    • and their effects appear to begin with, in the external favorable or unfavorable
    • which appear in the next life in the physical body as organ-forming
    • Huns and Mongols also brought such fear and terror to the European populations
    • because they had this decadent astral substance. But fear and terror
    • by the Huns and Mongols, cannot harm those who are fearless and courageous.
    • Since moral qualities appear
  • Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 7: Effects of the Law of Karma
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    • given at Leipzig as early as 1906. But they are of historical
    • new generation filled by the yearning to obtain spiritual knowledge.
    • be learned through experience. A true judgment only develops through
    • Chela grows conscious of his past earthly lives.
    • only bears a small outward resemblance to his family, and in his whole
    • appearance he bears a far greater resemblance to the appearance which
    • the earth only when he can learn something new. The events on the physical
    • in the fauna and flora of Central Europe since the past 1500 years? Spiritual
    • earth. Man also cooperates in this, when he lives in Kamaloca and Devanchan.
    • he has a foresight of his coming earthly life. (Karma) If this life
  • Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 8: The Evolution of Man and of the Solar System; the Atlantic Evolution
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    • given at Leipzig as early as 1906. But they are of historical
    • new generation filled by the yearning to obtain spiritual knowledge.
    • we shall deal with the evolution of man and of the earth itself, with
    • Occult research of man's
    • and was always known to occult investigation. It is important to bear
    • was adapted to the conditions of the earth which existed at that time,
    • We thus learn once more
    • was quite different from those which followed. Particularly in the earlier
    • mankind's evolution. The conditions of the earth then greatly differed
    • Atlantis the human soul already lived upon the earth. But before, there
  • Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 9: Lemurian Development
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    • given at Leipzig as early as 1906. But they are of historical
    • new generation filled by the yearning to obtain spiritual knowledge.
    • outside the body, it soared above it and drew it with it to an earth
    • in which a living image-world appears. He could only perceive in this
    • outward appearance of a very soft-bodied dragon (the designation of
    • could never have incarnated. This is the exit of the moon from the earth.
    • The moon severed itself from the earth and formed a secondary planet.
    • Formally, moon and earth were one planet. Thus the evolution of the
    • Earth and the evolution of man are closely connected. What the astronomer
    • the earth with all its forces, with its whole aura, or its astral part.
    • eliminated from the earth, which had given man the possibility to bring
    • eliminated through the exit of the moon. At that time earth plus moon
    • earth-moon planet, for it does not turn around its own axis as does
    • the earth. Even as the moon of to-day always turns the same side to
    • the earth, its “sun” and never the back side, so at that
    • time the earth-moon planet always turned the same side to the sun.
    • also inhabited by beings. In a still earlier time, sun, moon, and earth
    • itself from the earth, the plants turned completely around and again
    • when the moon left the earth.
  • Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 10: Paths of Occult Training
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    • given at Leipzig as early as 1906. But they are of historical
    • new generation filled by the yearning to obtain spiritual knowledge.
    • truths concerning our earth: The earth too is a being subjected to
    • reincarnation. It passed through earlier stages and in future it will pass
    • Planets", through which the earth passes in its development. The names of
    • past or future conditionof the earth. But these conditions are related to
    • the planets after which they are named. The first incarnation of our earth
    • Mercury" are the designations for the first and second half of the earth's
    • These seven incarnations of the earth are intimately connected with man's
    • who indicated the inundations of the Nile, when that star appeared in a
    • earth. This is the Germanic-English-American culture; its chief task is the
    • standard-bearer is Anthroposophy. The future task or civilisation as a whole
    • qualities which man must have; he must be able to bear what one calls great
  • Title: i Spirituality: Lecture 1: Historical Symptomology, the Year 790, Alcuin, Greeks, Platonism, Aristotelianism, East, West, Middle, Ego
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    • Historical Symptomology, the Year 790, Alcuin, Greeks, Platonism,
    • Historical Symptomology, the Year 790, Alcuin, Greeks, Platonism,
    • appeared with a definite declaration,
    • some year of world history, let us say around 800 AD What was significant for Europe, let us
    • So let us take this year 800 AD We can point here
    • of humanity's development, is indeed significant. Around this year there was a kind of learned
    • isn't real I won't wear a winter coat in winter because I'm not going to protect myself against
    • by what lives in the human being when he becomes clearly conscious of his 'I' and his own being. The
    • unfathomable regions of the human soul. Here again the 'I' does not appear.
    • too, would have to come to the 'I am'. And Fichte expresses this even more clearly by saying: I
    • crystal-clear
    • one bears the following properly in mind. (I am coming now to yet another significant point to
    • which a great deal can be traced). You see, Kant was still — this is clearly evident from
    • his earlier writings — a pupil of the rationalism of the eighteenth century, which lived
    • the Central region of the earth's culture still set itself against this with all force in Fichte,
    • had been distributed over the earth, but in an instinctive way that is no longer of any use
    • that appears in all areas as a three-foldness that has evolved of its own accord. This science
    • encompassing the whole earth. Spiritual science, however, cannot be extended through natural
    • separate areas. The unity of human beings all over the earth is due to the fact that they combine
    • Sympathy and antipathy are of no help here, nor is living in slogans. Only a clear observation of
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  • Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 2: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 1
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    • action of spiritual powers working into the physical life of humanity on earth. But precisely
    • in earlier epochs, and very exceptional things are making their appearance within humanity's
    • among the broad masses of humanity concerning the social question. We have, clearly
    • develop from these impulses, we can nevertheless dearly perceive how the views of life which do
    • through earlier religious impulses and will continue to do so. And it is precisely in this that
    • modern historical development, to the year 1651, when the ingenious Cromwell with his Navigation
    • political conception. But a political conception is something that projects from earlier times
    • economic instincts. Today it has been wiped off the face of the earth because it was planned and
    • regions for the time being — a peculiar and deeply significant phenomenon is appearing. And
    • in the completely usual way, an individuality that was there in an earlier life, and then again
    • in a subsequent earlier life, and which will be there in a later life and again in a still later
    • appears. The outer appearance can, in fact, be just appearance. It is possible for us to confront
    • human beings in human form who only appear to be human beings of the kind that are subject to
    • repeated lives on earth. In reality these are human bodies with a physical, etheric and astral
    • not simply reincarnated human beings but are the bearers of beings who have taken an extremely
    • premature path of development and who should only appear in the form of humanity at a later stage
    • have spoken on a number of occasions in past years of the roll of these secret societies
    • — are actually the bearers of premature existences of this kind which, through
    • everywhere and without exception human beings are subject to repeated lives on earth. This would
    • means even in cases like these, to seek truth; to seek reality where outer appearance is so
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  • Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 3: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 2
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    • through human beings themselves, but by appearing to them. We spoke of how these beings influence
    • a kind of earth-boundness has, in a certain sense, been prepared in such human beings as I
    • personalities who, under the influence of beings from the past who appear to them in
    • what happens here on earth. This shows itself most strongly in Anglo-Saxon Puritanism, in which a
    • the appearance of religious movements. And the momentum of Bolshevism in the East, for example,
    • so much in the abstract concepts of Marxism, but essentially in the fact that its bearers are
    • regarded as new Saviours, as the continuers so to speak, of earlier religious-spiritual striving
    • frequently referred to in the course of the past years). These are traditions stemming from the
    • would be extremely constricted. Above all, however, one must be clear that what can then manifest
    • prejudice at the results of Darwin's research will understand that something was present there
    • which we can clearly observe even into the present.
    • of a revelation from an earlier time carried over into a later one. And then we have Jesuitism,
    • also makes it possible for those people to be accessible to the phenomena which appear to the
    • so pale during the day that they appear only as concepts, as ideas. The same applies also to what
    • human beings of the Orient, appearing in imaginations. And one only needs to choose a highly
    • no longer bear the spirits of the West, how they torment him. And he tries to balance this by
    • that of Nature and that of Reason — points clearly to this duality. But one can point to
    • revelation on the other. Reason for everything on the earth which can be acquired through the
    • earlier epochs as it is today. It is actually appropriate to our times. In contrast, matters of
    • Eastern spirit. Salvation lies in clearly seeing that a new spirit must permeate humanity.
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  • Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 4: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 3
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    • As early as 1891 I drew attention
    • One cannot do it like this. You, dear friend, picture the
    • But he, too, stopped at the images. He could not bear these pictures
    • Schiller had managed to work himself clear of this even though he allowed himself to be taught by
    • science was not yet present on the earth he could not go further than to the web of imaginations
    • Orient was still preserved. He learnt how the spirits of the East still worked here as a late
    • was still something at work which can be perceived also in ancient times and most clearly, for
    • further along that path I would come into a condition that is not on the earth, that does not
    • decline. A great deal of the resignation which Goethe felt in his later years is based, without
    • Grimm becomes all the greater when one finally bears in mind the following. Herman Grimm makes
    • has from early readings of Emerson. Even his sentence structure, his train of thought, is copied
    • standpoint is that one hears something, makes a note of it, and then it is over and done with,
    • distinguished from what is based on genuine spiritual research — one finds no one who
    • that in recent years individual nations have only found to be true what comes from them and have
    • willing to engage themselves absolutely whole-heartedly for spiritual science, nothing beneficial
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    • — the education of humanity as a whole in the near future-by the facts of this human
    • people to undertake the Crusades to Asia, to the Orient; especially when one bears in mind how
    • another force, whether as a sense of longing or as a more or less clear facet of consciousness.
    • phenomena of nature; when gods spoke through the appearance and movements of the stars. This is
    • spiritual-scientific research; which, at the least, can be given by Imagination. People will only
    • spiritual appeared to the human being through nature. In our transitional condition we have the
    • divine-spiritual. Later on there developed in the central regions of the earth that which came
    • based on nature-produce. The early part of the Middle Ages was, basically, short of money; and
    • machines do if their work on the earth were to be done by people.
    • spirits are again working which in earlier times were perceived by the human being in nature. In
    • the intellect itself can no longer comprehend it. Perhaps people today can barely form a clear
    • become the bearers of demons.
    • dialectical-legal element in the Trotsky-Leninist system — everything is to be geared
    • demonic beings; so, too, must the human being of present times learn to see demonic beings in
    • world, that freedom can arise. But in order that the human being does not tear away from nature,
    • everything must be added to it which supersensible research is seeking to find.
    • was the decisive factor, it was now the piece of paper. Those times drew near for which many
    • paper — which in earlier times was signified in the blood — out of what is signified
    • spiritual itself and, on the other hand, to find in the economic element what people in earlier
    • element in economic life, so one will also have to begin to see that which the human being bears
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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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    • reappearance of Christ is to find its place in the soul in the right way it is necessary to
    • the earth, there were still strong remnants of the ancient clairvoyance existing in many people.
    • remnants above all in these peoples. And Christ Jesus, too, did, after all, walk on the earth
    • come to pass on the earth. And in order that there could be a perception through an 'eyewitness'
    • birth and had an instinctive memory of it in this life on earth. And they were sought out by the
    • bear witness to the will of the spiritual world with regard to the physical world. It was human
    • the kings and other princes — were ascribed with a certain authority on earth, and ascribed
    • Those men who still made their appearance as
    • end, really just a well-picked carcass. The most meagre that has appeared, the most plucked, are
    • the most comfortable way, in the way they learnt in their youth — if people knew that in
    • these theologians there is living not the slightest feeling for truth but only fear of losing
    • experiences. Then, from the seventh Year, from the change of teeth up to puberty, comes the
    • unconscious etheric body. Today, when the principle of independent judgment is appearing, there
    • years of life. This was not of such great importance in all earlier times for it is connected
    • upbringing and education up to the fourteenth, fifteenth years so that in those years he can then
    • still entirely restricted to the earthly economic, human reason that wishes to occupy itself only
    • appear here and there. They are now officers although there is no justification for this under
  • Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 7: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 6
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    • how European conditions are bound to develop in the near future, and we saw that the course of
    • disappearance of what, in many areas of our modern times, is still considered by people to be the
    • easiest way and of value. From the way in which I had to speak yesterday it will be clear to you
    • the near future as lying in such external things as the differences between Japan and America
    • We learnt yesterday how little experience of the
    • Golgotha. But one has to be clear that just as other crucial, incisive events in human evolution
    • And this experience will have a clearly definable connection with the modern outlook on life
    • in the near future as some deluded scientists seem to think. On the contrary, it will increase
    • scientific learning when we held our course for scientists and we saw that none of these has
    • animal-element in man appears in a modified form, the extent to which the animal-nature in man
    • few people are aware of this today and these few can certainly be clear about it theoretically.
    • learn of nature, the less we understand of ourselves, the less we understand of the human
    • we hear the demand that man should stand solely on the basis of his own being. This comes forward
    • earlier times of human world-view development.
    • disposition, as aspiration, and remained with him through the whole of his life on earth. In
    • this kind before one's life on earth has no very great value, but a lively feeling for
    • experiences before. his life on earth. On the contrary he feels in himself the characteristics
    • not merely as a theory but as a feeling, a feeling of dependence on purely earthly inherited
    • Point of becoming unbearable, for it is connected with another feeling, a certain feeling of the
    • of the spiritual world but merely a child of characteristics inherited in the course of earthly
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    • Intervals of the Life on Earth
    • Intervals of the Life on Earth
    • bearings. About a week ago I pointed out the significance of the processes
    • connected intimately with everything which can be learned with regard to
    • dwelt in the spiritual world. Many things happened on Earth during this
    • time when we were on the Earth in an earlier incarnation. When we speak of
    • before for types who come more quickly to earthly incarnation.
    • Earth by conditions; these conditions had their effects. We were surrounded
    • there in a particular time appears diminished in the children and yet more
    • character of the earlier period has been extinguished, when nothing more of
    • incarnations have been destroyed, the moment comes when we re-enter earthly
    • new birth, a wearing-away of earthly conditions, an annihilation, a
    • Earth. And what creates our consciousness at the moment of death, when we
    • process of annihilation must take place in earthly conditions between our
    • on Earth, who is really not interested in anyone or any being but only in
    • connected with the conditions and things on the Earth. He also
    • with which he must live in order to learn to understand their gradual
    • destruction. Someone who has not lived with earthly conditions does not
    • bring about the destruction of what they were born into and to appear again
    • of which we will that it should enter the spiritual development of earthly
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  • Title: Talk To Young People:
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    • one learns very fast or not at all. Real courage! The courage to say:
    • one learns very fast or not at all. Real courage! The courage to say:
    • Dear Friends!
    • with all the questions and problems in your hearts that assail young
    • seen them a hundred years ago or even earlier. Not only have they
    • divine forces concerned with the destiny of the earth. Then we will
    • earthquake shaking human evolution. But people merely say, “It's the
    • it's been clear to me from the very beginning that in the deep
    • solid realization: that an earth-shaking change
    • started.” We talked together and what he said showed clearly that
    • it is clearly present within them. What they feel clearly and very
    • than any in our own time. What was the result of that early 19th
    • some years later. On the other hand, I knew several in that period
    • them. I saw young people in those years die early when it seemed
    • underneath did not rise to the surface. Rather than appear in
    • Years went
    • hearts. Today, although it's been only a short time, many of them
    • that our hearts recognize what the others are feeling. In this way we
    • agree. What is so necessary is that we fully and heartily understand
    • clearly and honestly perceived in themselves “hunger for a truly
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  • Title: "Heaven and Earth will pass away but my words will not pass away"
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    • 'Heaven and Earth will pass away but my words will not pass away'
    • “Heaven and Earth will pass away but my words will not pass away”,
    • From Earth to the Jupiter Evolution.
    • “Heaven and Earth will pass away but my words will not pass away”,
    • From Earth to the Jupiter Evolution.
    • “Heaven and Earth will pass away but my words
    • From Earth to the Jupiter Evolution
    • Personality. (Original force.) At the end of the Earth period these
    • the earth-period and emit Cosmic impulses for Jupiter's vegetable
    • Jupiter's animal kingdom. The concepts of earth-man develop —
    • at the end of the earth-period — and through the Soul-contents of
    • and Earth will pass away but my words
    • From Earth to the Jupiter Evolution
    • evolution has arrived at the earth-stage only after passing through
    • various previous stages, and that this earth-state was preceded by the
    • therein; we can put it this way: that we are earth men, but that we in
    • can say: we carry with us the Earth man, but the Earth man surrounds
    • which in a specific sense, belongs to the earth, we would have to
    • the evolution of the earth, we say: The first, second, third and fourth
    • earth period (Atlantean) have passed. Now we live in the fifth —
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  • Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture I: Tree of Life - I
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    • My dear friends,
    • course of evolution of earth and humanity. Above all, a certain
    • appear as the riddles they are.
    • connected with the evolution of the earth and mankind is the
    • this great problem. And I beg you to be entirely clear that only
    • conception upon this greatest riddle of man's earthly existence, nor
    • the evolution of earthly history, fell in the Fourth Post-Atlantean
    • of earthly evolution. It would be-hypothetically possible, one might
    • the entry of the Impulse of Christ into earthly evolution, to have
    • been enacted without any of the men on earth having understood or
    • This was not to be. Earthly humanity was
    • the earth, are derived from a primeval knowledge, from a knowledge
    • through all aeons of earthly evolution with regard to certain
    • addition: ‘The Tree of Life will also draw near in
    • has been preserved longer in Europe than in other parts of the earth.
    • speech, the power of sight and of hearing.
    • as one moves about on earth, one bears something divine within; in
    • the Orient, on the contrary, one is conscious that one bears
    • for which they have earned divine punishment. In Europe man is aware
    • point life was grasped — the ego-culture appeared
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    • particularly in specially clear and aware moments of waking up, can
    • that I cannot bring clearly enough into the waking consciousness. And
    • — of this one must be clear
    • special occult training, a man can be clear that during sleep he was
    • utterance which says: Because men have learnt to know or to
    • place, man would obviously be in a different position in this earthly
    • mingled in his earthly life. This means: in our earthly life we
    • knowledge of the things of the world. Nevertheless it is quite clear
    • no longer appear to you so inconceivable if I now bring before you a
    • asleep to awakening which appears to us so endlessly clever when it
    • for earthly life that Lucifer lives and weaves, from our going to
    • intention of the Jahve Divinities guiding earthly evolution, I should
    • should have entered in the course of human earthly evolution or of
    • earthly human evolution if the original purposes of the Jahve-deities
    • and Ahriman which has appeared in consequence of the Luciferic and
    • Ahrimanic interweaving in earthly evolution —
    • knowledge that man experiences as earth-man. Man as earth-man, has
    • over from Saturn Sun and Moon, the ego has been added upon Earth. As
    • earthly man, in the ego, we experience the knowledge that is our
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    • My dear friends, it is really difficult in our time
    • and concepts they are, as it were, learning something of the world,
    • every thought appears like a head with a sort of continuation
    • Now you must be clear whence all that I
    • and he then further shares in what comes about as Earth evolution.
    • descended upon our Earth naturally contained in their ranks this kind
    • to give it form. Hence the Grecian works of art appear to us (to
    • Goethe they appeared so in the most eminent sense) as something which
    • the cosmos, and whom man could express in the earthly stage in the
    • the cosmos into the earth, became man, and lives on in human
    • in pre-Grecian times now came into the earth, and that which had been
    • the days until the end of the Earth period.’
    • into the Gospels what he wished to bring upon earth, but he is in
    • earthly evolution as a living Being. We can work through to him with
    • heard the Christ, but our descendants will also hear Him, and so we
    • of our heart and soul.
    • is who tells us how the earth has originated, the nature of the human
    • being, what conditions the earth passed through before it became
    • earth. All that we have as cosmology, and give back to the universe,
    • Earth. We really distribute man into the universe, and it can be said
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    • through, in as much as they take part in our earthly existence. They
    • bear something in them which is just as much derived from the cosmos
    • observations. In his researches he found nothing to which one could
    • the moral order. He only felt one thing to be clear.
    • into the Earth-evolution, and in this evolution experiences for his
    • own part what in that earlier time he did not share? What will be the
    • nature of that which he must undergo during the Earth-evolution? I
    • however, during Earth-existence, they wish to do what they did not do
    • they wish to do during the Earth-evolution what they ought actually
    • earnestly you will understand that something of immense significance
    • Moon-existence and attribute the whole earthly sense world to
    • e earthly-perceived-sense world, we should then have the in us, i.e.,
    • the earth- contents, and we should not, as we do now, form concepts
    • of the Earth-content, but we should say instead; All that we have in
    • this way as earth-content, we relate to the ancient Moon,
    • surroundings of earth appear to the senses there lights up in us the
    • realisation that everything that lives and weaves upon earth,
    • everything that exists and works and grows, appears upon the
    • earthly men.
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    • suppose that here were the surface of the earth —
    • earth and has its home under the earth and never comes above the
    • about inside and learns by its creeping about to know the roots of
    • surface of the earth, it only learns to know the roots of the plants,
    • it learns to know nothing else; it creeps about and learns to
    • bear blossoms, changes occur similarly in the roots. All the roots
    • only crawls about in the earth; it creeps from root to
    • world-conception. Thus it creeps about there down below the earth and
    • notices quite clearly that something is going on, that the roots
    • become different, and also that in the part of the earth lying round
    • which will give a proper picture of the condition under the earth,
    • effect and say: Now the earth becomes somewhat warmer from above
    • earth as cause and effect. But it would not include that fact that
    • see, it is quite clear to you, I think, that this worm-philosophy
    • about what the worm actually observes down there below; it is clear,
    • he does not come up above the surface of the earth.
    • completely opposite: men makes researches into what their senses see;
    • himself genuinely with his whole heart and soul into this
    • can raise a question, my dear friends, you can say:
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    • and the Earth as far as its development has progressed. We have
    • revealed with particular clearness, when we regard the whole course
    • be able to recognize the eyes, the ears, etc., as physical organs. To
    • seen in the fact that during sleep the ears are naturally influenced
    • and we must be clear that if we did not sketch it as a diagram, but
    • clearly and plainly on one spot seize the Ahrimanic and Luciferic
    • Earth-existence. Thus, there remains, as it were, outside this
    • processes to arise in his eye, his ear, etc.; and he would grasp
    • always have a pictured image: in my eye is a colour, in my ear is a
    • years of childhood the child really has this consciousness, even if
    • the ears, etc. Everywhere Lucifer presses his arms into the senses,
    • opens the eyes, opens the ears, so that we no longer perceive
    • established him in earthly existence, he has led him out of himself.
    • We shall be clear about all these
    • things, my dear friends, if we regard the true facts of the case, if
    • we are clear that Lucifer and Ahriman are necessary in our
    • earth-existence. One cannot escape them but can only come to the
    • One must be clear that with regard to
    • my dear friends, is necessary: to understand how the impulses of
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    • heritage from an earlier form of knowledge — was a fact
    • conceptions of the thought and outlook of men in those early
    • Eucharistic controversy, as it is called, had already appeared
    • these words are taken literally, their purport is quite clear:
    • a fundamental change came about in the 4th century. In the early
    • early centuries, even among men who were by no means learned
    • man are of the nature of the forces of the Earth. This is not
    • kingdom within it, the forces of the Earth are working
    • of the Earth as a whole. If a man lives in a region where the
    • metallic substances, his blood is influenced by the Earth.
    • the Earth. In warmer zones the human body is not the same as in
    • blood are fundamentally influenced by the forces of the Earth.
    • that the forces of the Earth pulsate in the blood. When we
    • is done — simply by sinking plates in the Earth. The Earth
    • We presuppose that the electric current works in the Earth. In
    • blood. Standing on the Earth they knew: there is something in
    • the Earth which also lives in the blood. They did not speak of
    • electricity but of an earthly force living in their blood. We
    • no longer know that Earth-electricity is living in the blood.
    • of the Godhead with the very body of the Earth. They felt the
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    • fear of these feelings obsesses us. If we could overcome this anxiety we
    • appear in a natural way upon the path of human life. But they must be
    • Natural Science in order to draw nearer to reality; we believe this to be
    • seeks and cannot draw near it again.
    • that brings the material outer world nearer to our inner life, and at the
    • research raises him into consciousness. Anthroposophy does not lead away
    • from reality to an unreal imaginary world; it embodies the search for a
    • the other it appears superfluous to the mystically inclined, who believe
    • in still earlier times, drawing upon the various teachings of ancient
    • with that personality who appears as the very first philosopher in the
    • faculty. Intuitive vision disappeared and the wisdom of the Mysteries was
    • succeeded by philosophical speculation. The philosophers of the earliest
    • of the Middle Ages, or the early Scholastic period, when Scholasticism was
    • in the thirteenth century. When mention is made of this early
    • Scholasticism, it should be clearly understood that no philosophical
    • and supernatural revelation. Early Scholasticism does not bear the
    • content of the highest revealed wisdom. The early Scholastic appealed to a
    • content of personal research and revelation becomes united in an objective,
    • necessity for the early Scholastics (whose period drew to its close in the
    • upon him by the Arabs, Aristotle is made to appear as the opponent and foe
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  • Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture I: The Pedagogy of the West and of Central Europe: The Inner Attitude of the Teacher
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    • Dear Friends,
    • supplement to many of the things which I brought before you last year in
    • according to what I have just learned there are so many things to be done
    • last year I should like to add something about the teacher himself, about
    • meaning of such a statement is not particularly clear to begin with;
    • nonetheless it will become clear to you. I should have to say a great deal
    • to make it fully understandable, but it will become clearer if to begin
    • people today, we must always bear in mind that we are working on the
    • clear that our present work is to prepare this next generation for definite
    • spirit of an educational philosophy such as appeared through a man like
    • into the experiments of the naturalist, into the research of the man of
    • presents itself, they can pursue further what they have learned from us in
    • scientific researchers or thinkers. It is true, this sort of idea is
    • or zoologist because of what he learns in elementary school. A man should
    • or research institutes? They try to be both, and precisely for this reason
    • they are at one and the same time teaching and research institutions. But
    • this is the very thing that introduces into the higher centres of learning
    • what we cannot sufficiently bear in mind: an art of education must proceed
    • have been looked upon with such pride over the last 40 years in Germany, on
    • people, if we want to be effective. Above all we must be clear that we
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    • accompanying sexual maturity in the male, appearing as clearly but in a
    • But the years that follow the change of voice (or what corresponds to it in
    • head until about the seventh year. These forces —
    • particularly active through the years in which imitation plays such a major
    • forces, working earlier within the organism, are from his seventh year
    • that appear after the seventh year as forces of intelligence, as
    • itself. In the seventh year forces begin to be active, arising in the body
    • later appear in the child as his powers of understanding and intellect, and
    • first as bodily forces shaping the head and then from the seventh year
    • onward as soul forces. Thus in the period after the seventh year we simply
    • year, which I make use of when he learns drawing or writing
    • takes place during the years of puberty, although it has been preparing
    • itself slowly throughout the cycle of years from seven to fourteen or
    • year onward — I cannot characterize these otherwise than
    • the earthly projection of the music of the spheres. In truth, a tone of
    • linear, of the sculptural, this comes from within, proceeding from the
    • somewhat later, around the 14th year — the spiritual
    • of this is caused by an element from within, bearing more the character of
    • human being is basically up to the seventh year permeated more by the
    • music and language glowing through his organism. From the seventh year on,
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    • education. Here, the essential thing is to know what we ought to learn and
    • what we ought to invent out of what we have learnt, when we are actually
    • But if you undertake a study of the being of man, and learn to understand
    • hear, and the other one can be called the pictorial element, the element we
    • see. Other sense qualities are intermingled with what we hear on the one
    • important as seeing and hearing.
    • to distinguish understanding. And here we have to be clear about the fact
    • because the rhythmical process regulated by the heart and the lungs
    • only serves as the clearest example, and applies par excellence, but I mean
    • everything to do with what we hear, living more in language and so on. I am
    • sense organisation in the ear is inwardly connected in a very delicate way
    • organism first of all — and our ear nerves are organised
    • experiences. And the musical element, that is, everything we hear, is
    • organs. These are at one and the same time the kind of organs that appear
    • remembering of everything audible, takes place. We remember what we hear in
    • the same realm as we perceive what we see. We perceive what we hear in the
    • not perceive the tone in the external colour either, but we hear something
    • we say E or U any more than we hear the tones when we see yellow or blue.
    • in the child before the seventh year, as I told you previously. From this
    • as actual speech, you will feel, when you hear it, all the vibrations of
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    • years of a child's life, observing how the child develops, how by degrees
    • way it was done in earlier days when the whole subject was brought to man's
    • at birth, the etheric body round about the seventh year. So what seen from
    • that is to hear the various explanations in harmony with one
    • fourteenth year, that is up to the time of puberty, we can say from a
    • seventh year on the ego fastens itself only to the etheric body, while
    • earthly, the ego will have been too strongly absorbed by the bodily
    • their ego was allowed to be absorbed too strongly during their years of
    • known to you, which manifest fully only in later years, reveal themselves
    • bodily organisation. And if there is such a man born with the earlobe of a
    • however, when we notice that a child is becoming too earthly, that the ego
    • becoming too earthly. But if through insight into the child's development,
    • over years. If one sees that a child becomes too fanciful, gets a bit out
    • with a child who is in danger of becoming too earthbound; we will lead such
    • altitudes on earth, or by introducing anything into our teaching of
    • man through his physical body here on earth? He is a being who lives in
    • the formative element during man's formative years (
    • you have all learnt some physics and you will remember how hard teachers
    • its whole state of life. No matter how paradoxical this may appear to
    • born here on earth we are in constant movement in the spirit world: yes,
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    • of teeth to puberty, and from puberty till about the twenty-first year. If
    • different seven-year stages. The pushing through of our permanent teeth, as
    • our physical body between birth and the seventh year, and this work comes
    • organisation during the first seven years of his life, become, as it were,
    • appeared. At the age of seven these forces go to sleep. They are hidden
    • forces that are active within the human body until the seventh year are the
    • the forces that are active from the seventh year to the fourteenth year and
    • year — it would be too much of an assertion to say that
    • said about the forces of man's normal nature, man's nature as it appears in
    • from our point of view, the forces of the earth. Yes indeed, the forces of
    • the earth are perpetually working into man. And it is our forces of will
    • earth. The forces of understanding come to us from the world's periphery,
    • forces of our own planet earth live within us. The moment we enter birth
    • the forces of planet earth are active within us.
    • stage of life, that is, up till the seventh year, the fourteenth year and
    • the twenty-first year. The will working in us up till the seventh year
    • till the age of seven it is the forces of the earth's depths that are
    • earth's interior, then make a study of everything going on in the child up
    • till the age of seven, for these are the forces from within the earth. To
    • delve down into the earth to find the forces of the earth's interior would
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    • of Nazareth and lived in it for three years, from the baptism of the Jordan
    • in the thirtieth year received the Christ entity into itself, is composed
    • have been impossible to find three thousand years ago, for example, the
    • the laws of compassion and love. At that time, man would have searched in
    • was for thousands of years to infuse compassion and love into people from
    • in his own being, but on the whole earth in general. At that time, the
    • to our world. By about three thousand years from now, enough people will
    • Bodhisattva has administered his office after about three thousand years of
    • Buddha. The old man burst into tears because he was not allowed to
    • hundred years, the sage saw what he had not been able to see
    • presented in the Gospel of Matthew, a certain difference appears which has
    • different abilities in his early youth than the Nazarene one. The former
    • His ‘I’ was reborn six hundred years
    • children up to two years of age were killed. John the Baptist would also
    • In the twelfth year of
    • passes over into the other Jesus boy. From the twelfth year on, the former
    • the twelve-year-old Jesus in the temple. It was inexplicable to his parents
    • there is at first more the speech of the Bethlehemite Jesus. There appeared
  • Title: Buddha and the Two Boys: Lecture II: The Gospels, Buddha and the Two Boys of Jesus
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    • other three gospels would not be in the sense of spiritual research. For
    • what we are looking for within the spiritual-scientific research should not
    • down, but as something that can be researched with the means of spiritual
    • research.
    • The spiritual researcher sets himself the task
    • research. Then, afterwards, he tries to show how the same truths and
    • Gospel of John. By applying the research of the spiritual researchers to
    • years old. In him we meet the high solar entity, the Christ entity. We are
    • dealing here with the last three years of the life of the Christ
    • and unite precisely in Jesus of Nazareth. He appeared to us for the last
    • the individuality before the embodiment of the Buddha, in which it appeared
    • earth. This is a great achievement, that an individuality does not need to
    • to go through any more earthly-fleshly embodiment. He then no longer
    • embodied himself in an earthly-fleshly body, but only in that, as the
    • physical body on earth. What we see as a physical body with an
    • Bodhisattva Buddha reappears embodied in the etheric body, he then appears,
    • when he speaks of the angels who appeared to the shepherds in the field.
    • had remained until his thirtieth year in the body where the etheric body
    • able to deepen his beingness so much. Therefore, in the twelfth year he
    • received from the twelfth year on. Thus these two currents flowed together
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    • This lecture was held just over one hundred years ago, in the
    • of earlier ages assumed this direction. In ancient times there were
    • point of disappearing altogether. Entering into the other person,
    • earth in human physical bodies. Let us remind ourselves as before, of
    • what the dead learn of our language — what they
    • perceive, in so far as they perceive anything of our earth.
    • On the earth we first of
    • as they are called. Basically, of the earth element the dead see only
    • crystal forms and those of the earth's formations that
    • earth's plant world is like a vast body, but they do
    • being. They see the earth as a great unified organism and the
    • of the earth — for the plants are spiritualized.
    • of the animals over the earth, not the individual forms of the animals,
    • as a human figure appears on the earth, this figure would be quite
    • But, my dear friends,
    • attempted to do in various fields, making clear to ourselves what the
    • dead hears of speech and sees in the way of forms that exist for the
    • earthly human being. If we make concretely clear to ourselves, in detail,
    • karma, the human being lives in repeated earth lives. It wants to teach
    • “What do the dead hear of what we say? What do the dead
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    • culture of the human spirit is founded. We would fain draw nearer to him,
    • fated to die early. Whose death all Rome mourned. When the works of Raphael
    • (Some Results of Spiritual Research). GA 62. Lecture IX,
    • that appear all at once, like a star, who are simply there, so
    • disappearing again after deeply impressing their being upon
    • up like a star and disappear again, actually incorporate
    • in such a grandiose manner almost a thousand years before the
    • to “the education of the human race,” appears in a
    • concerning the repeated earth-lives of the human being — takes
    • spirit appears again and again in repeated earth-lives
    • throughout the various epochs of humanity, bearing from one age
    • periods. In appearing again and again in earth-lives that
    • follow each other, the human soul comes onto this earth so as
    • passing through various earth-lives; an education by means of
    • one bears something of a total impression in one's soul. And
    • human beings of that earlier time it was rather that in making
    • creations of the Greeks appear as fully permeated with
    • comprehend the development of humanity, one has to become clear
    • above all how, in the year 1483, this soul appears as a
    • Herman Grimm how he enters upon certain four-year periods. It
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    • and bearing are so individualized that we have the impression:
    • earlier time. Going no further back than the period from Giotto
    • in his picture. Earlier, calmer representations seem to express
    • in heart and mind from the world-famous reproductions, arriving
    • heartbeat of the twelve figures must have come to expression.
    • the painting method made use of earlier [fresco] insufficiently
    • points out with reference to earlier biographies that one has
    • the impression, in Leonardo a personality appeared working with
    • in Vinci and a peasant woman who disappears from view, while
    • first place. Since he showed talent in drawing early on, he was
    • following his painting ability, one has the feeling: Year by
    • year he went about with the greatest artistic intentions, with
    • picture in which three or four figures were to appear, he went
    • to sixteen years. Yet much else transpired besides. To further
    • over a period of many years he completed the model for the
    • year 1499; soldiers shot at the model as though for target
    • in just one year, there being no model for either in the whole
    • know, he said, having painted on the picture for many years
    • reaching the point of casting it after sixteen years' work
    • arrive at such an impression, however, one has to bear in mind
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    • spiritual research often described by me must follow
    • sources from the standpoint of spiritual research finds that
    • as a child in the first years of life, whether in our middle
    • years, or whether in having grown old.
    • Applying the methods of spiritual research that have been
    • the spiritual researcher who has made some progress and is
    • morgana appearing to one's spiritual gaze,
    • forces. The human soul has something like a yearning to
    • the course of humanity's development on the earth, the
    • being in early periods of evolution had a certain original
    • them in pictures bearing only a distant similarity to what had
    • “sensible” person comes, hears the child has
    • overhears this; she comes and strikes the animal dead.
    • a manikin appears before her. He says to her: “What will
    • appears and says, “What will you give me, if I spin the
    • time in the room and the little man again appears, she has
    • learning every name, she wants to find out what the little
    • light-heartedly look past this gulf between the human
    • clear in adding a few observations.
    • our earth is spoken of as having gone through certain stages as
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    • to the boundaries of the human form and disappearing into the
    • bear this ancient organ, with which they were able to
    • today within the soul. It is the yearning for these worlds, the
    • yearning for this world has remained, though not the
    • mother of humanity, searches the world, seeking for what will
    • take hold of it and press it lovingly to their hearts. They
  • Title: The Worldview of Herman Grimm in Relation to Spiritual Science
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    • Geistesforschung (Results of Spiritual Research) GA 62. The series in which
    • outlook inherent in spiritual research, anyone immersing
    • t could easily appear as though what is set forth here as
    • the present. However, it can only appear so to one who
    • narrow-hearted sense, seeing in it nothing more than a sum of
    • the art historian and researcher Herman Grimm.
    • was born in 1828 and died in 1901. He appears indeed as a quite
    • Herman Grimm, he appears as a kind of mediator between all that
    • grew in a heartfelt manner
    • appeared to him as though it lived on. And in seeking out what
    • cultural life of Germany, while little was heard of Goethe. On
    • something innate, “Now, my dear Doctor, I wish graciously
    • Herman Grimm's whole lifework bears something of the same
    • Grimm. Known for inaugurating modern linguistic research,
    • have to stress something further by which he appears harmonious
    • in the year 1837 submitted their proclamation protesting the
    • nine-year old boy, and not merely via book-learning.
    • years as being of special significance. And, as set forth in
    • this book, Herman Grimm clearly shows himself as someone who
    • gain a clear sense of how Herman Grimm viewed a personality
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    • future will be its bearer — the Anglo-American people. As far
    • During the last four of five years, an enormous amount of pretty
    • without reaching back to even earlier oriental conditions. Even in
    • being God who really physically appeared on earth, the son of heaven
    • who physically appeared on earth, who was even the father of heaven.
    • unbelievable, but it is so. We can learn from Assyrian documents how
    • imperialism appeared. The second form was when the ruler, the one who
    • appeared before his people, it was in all his splendor, because as a
    • god he was entitled to wear such clothes. It was the clothing of a
    • mentioned, when the ruler and his paladins appeared as God's envoys,
    • clear in
    • earthly churchly hierarchy is mirrored what God is with his
    • archdeacons, wear certain clothes, and they perform their rituals;
    • year 1806, but more as a shadow, retained in kings and paladins as
    • of the German Nation, which finally disappeared in 1806. In
    • ancient times on earth; “Roman” indicates the provenance,
    • the physical earth was no longer reality. The people of the Middle
    • in the year 1000. The anointment, and therefore the power, was
    • — not a clear one, more like a feeling — that once in
    • ancient times in the Orient men lived on the physical earth who were
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    • visible god appeared in human form as happened in the last years of
    • beings amongst the visible people on earth. First must come the age
    • symbols; they recoiled in fear of a clear, sharp comprehension. On
    • historical happenings something appears [draws on blackboard in red];
    • and beneath its surface something else appears [blue]. When the first
    • thing disappears as an illusion, then the second thing, the reality,
    • appears as its continuation.
    • decades only became apparent when the present rulers appeared. The
    • reality? What Russian tsarism was then has appeared in its reality
    • surface; but what tsarism really cultivated appeared in its true
    • in public life a spiritual community appears with decidedly worthy
    • their historical context. It should be clear that outward appearances
    • Justice is a people's will — and so on. Yes, my dear friends,
    • This codex appeared in the 1890s. Now it was not Woodrow Wilson's intention
    • reality a codex of platitudes. A few years ago the platitude bug bit
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    • the earth as the ruler. That was, if I may say so, a secure
    • Such times, when the second stage appeared,
    • state which exists here on earth, but which is really an image of
    • disappeared from discussion and therefore everyone can be right, or
    • appear, one can argue and discuss what are rights and the legal
    • pernicious for the soul by seeing clearly what is happening.
    • present at the altar. This clearly shows that the institution of the
    • while it has become clear that the social constitution of the Church
    • people's hearts. But this degree of human development has not yet
    • brought up a child until he is eighteen years old and I say: I have
    • on earth includes death and that we are aware that the institutions
    • which the living physical earth is predominant. In this sector the
    • earth would be possible. But one can only organize the things
    • generation a new spiritual/cultural life appears on earth. It's
    • is not understood that everything which appears is subject to life
    • which case the fall of earthly civilization is the inevitable result
    • case what was intended for earthly evolution will be achieved. I
    • would like to say: Every morning we should bear this in mind very
    • our psychological and social life. We must be clear about the fact
    • here kindle a fire in the hearts of those who belong to the
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    • don't merely apply what you have learnt from lifeless natural
    • concepts, concepts which are metamorphosed from earlier
    • scientific researcher
    • worked on the one side earnestly from empiricism against the
    • and as he established it, he again appeared to reveal
    • appearances is theory enough, one doesn't even need to
    • rational way through mere thoughts behind the appearance by
    • overhauled today but it appears to me to be not sufficiently
    • — one could say nearly all — of the details of
    • science during the 19th century nearly always refers
    • by the researcher
    • they had heard was a very fragmentary method of observing
    • one below another and refrained, as befitted most researchers
    • science. One can very clearly see, when Goethe writes about
    • different sides may appear taking on this or that, adapting
    • have sharp or blunt corners.’ Goethe searched for an image
    • trying to find anything behind appearances as such, above all
    • the single element of the perceived facts, and then to search
    • elements of sense-perceptible appearances relating to it.
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    • hearing Dr Kolisko's lecture today, and not present it myself.
    • intermaxillary, which is clearly detached in all animals from
    • the search for the differentiation, in the anthroposophical
    • takes on form through his organs. In brief, one needs to search
    • appears in both man and animal, and this relates to the sense
    • it, and not let it appear as something completely unauthorised
    • sense life unfolds — as I have indicated years ago how it is
    • claimed five senses, but in a clear discernible number of
    • seeing, hearing smelling, tasting, feeling or touch — for those
    • sense of seeing. Let us be clear about this. When we speak
    • we merely hear something, the function of the human organism is
    • really different to when we, as it were, hear directly through
    • the ear, and then explore what becomes indirectly perceptible
    • we have a sense of hearing. In other words, we must, if we
    • (sensory) organization which corresponds to the hearing of what
    • had been spoken as well as hearing inarticulate sounds. We must
    • organisation of sight or of hearing.
    • hearing, of taste and so on, speak about the organisation of
    • the seeing, hearing or taste processes. It is important to see
    • research, even from Haeckel, regarding the morphological and
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    • dear venerated friends! It is always difficult when you have a
    • the place of the earlier philosophic observations. One admires
    • all kinds of thoughts and research in this area.
    • third kind of thinker appeared in this sphere, who couldn't go
    • appeared which, I might say, have risen out of quite different
    • the second half of the twentieth century comes clearly before
    • Today things appear in quite a different way which not long ago
    • characteristics of the philosophic situation only appear today
    • must be won by natural science.’ So we see how Spencer searched
    • into clear scientific forms with which to create his world
    • what I could call, a kind of fear of rising up to one
    • appeared the belief that the entire spiritual world should be
    • right into sociology, earnestly separated, on the one hand,
    • exactly had appeared in Hegel. Let's look at Hegel. Already in
    • by scientific researchers and philosophers as well. We see how
    • had a kind of antipathy against what appeared quite natural in
    • my eyes.” It appears naive, however, such naivety, when
    • How does one find during earthly life the bridge between belief
    • disappears, then thought experiences and the one who is
    • me it appears that when this seed sprouts, when one lovingly
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    • dear venerated guests! To render the Anthroposophical world
    • and results as based on research by people who first need to be
    • schooled for it, therefore results of Anthroposophical research
    • becoming a researcher in a supersensible area, but it deals
    • with their research results being presented in such a way that
    • steps towards supersensible research must be striven for, and
    • degree become an anthroposophical researcher — simply out of
    • results of anthroposophical research this is not necessary
    • Dear friends! The Anthroposophical world view for a long time
    • anthroposophic research that their results work on the entire
    • appears, without the usual kind of warmth coming forth as
    • latent conditions, and now appears as warmth. Such principles
    • around the seventh year of life. Such transformations in the human
    • deeply. Whoever trains his abilities of observation will learn
    • the child's soul life takes place. He learns to recognise how
    • in his environment. He learns to perceive the most essential of
    • teeth, which is imitation. Through imitation the child learns
    • follow how under healthy conditions speech is learnt under the
    • seventh year of life. With the change of teeth, the child
    • ever more clearly differentiated and one gains the ability
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    • search further, then one could — namely from central Europe —
    • With the first appearance of my
    • individual personalities immediately appeared who in their way are
    • appeared in ancient times — you know this from my lectures I
    • appear in the way employees and employers — if you want to
    • that, humanity learnt from this intellectualism. Everything has
    • world economy and world traffic appeared, this tendency
    • later appeared right up to Karl Marx — on the one side demanded
    • appeared in Versailles where he could actually have played an
    • utopianism already in its third potency, but one must be clear
    • people gathered nearly every afternoon after two o'clock. In
    • appear in thick books have much less worth than those
    • the social question but to search for conditions under which
    • quite clearly not immersed in intellectualism. Therefore, in my
    • features and childish qualities. Twenty years later I look at
    • is not necessary to wait twenty years; you only need to go from
    • different relationships today than in the year 1919. Time is
    • notes” one would find an attempt to search for this
  • Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture VI: Anthroposophy and Theology
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    • Now, my dear friends, this event may be anything; what it
    • Thus, you will also allow, my dear friends, that not all sorts
    • Dear friends, it has never been my purpose — forgive me
    • scientific research. Through this natural scientific research
    • scientific research stands in a somewhat puzzled manner towards
    • epistemologically clear in what sense the scientific methods or
    • account what can be achieved in modern thinking and research
    • researcher confronts natural science, he must say to himself,
    • is learnt from natural existence when you make an attempt to
    • When you make this attempt in earnest then the rest is a direct
    • also be a goal for Anthroposophical research.
    • small circle — who have the need to hear about such
    • research methods in the supersensible world, will be told and
    • mind, what is researched in Imagination, Inspiration and
    • research. I'm always delighted when things are said to me, for
    • I've heard for years and now a seated person here has also said
    • them, after they had heard a course of my lectures at that
    • foundation on which supersensible research can be done. This is
    • constitution. The audible confession, as it is handled, tears
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    • dear venerated guests! The organisers of this university course
    • about today and it became clear to me that one really needs a
    • speech scientifically, then one must be clear that it is not as
    • least a clear outline for the observation of the object.
    • through human research capabilities of an unknown origin.
    • — not out of political grounds; I stressed this clearly.
    • speakers; because when people want to hear something about
    • the child can be guided in these steps inwardly in its earthly
    • Rittelmeyer responded so clearly with a comparison between the
    • should be clear about one thing. With nature observation the
    • thus able to research it. To consider speech it is necessary to
    • word-soul streaming in thought. Today we feel, when we clearly
    • stream of words; it is however soon clearly differentiated from
    • existed when it was quite clearly and inwardly experienced, not
    • nearly. Within the epoch when Sanskrit lived at the height of
    • today, it was essentially something different. We must clearly
    • Whoever uses such scientific tools for researching how
    • us and this transformation appears as consonants.
    • within the human soul. Not a clearly delineated mental picture
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    • years. In this introductory lecture, I will not go further into
    • kind of preparatory introduction will be given today, my dear
    • must be clear from the very beginning that it is not animosity
    • of the spirit. We must also clearly recognize that the
    • received with all earnestness. For this — I must say it
    • earnestness.
    • All this, my dear friends, must be kept in mind.
    • First of all, I would like to present to your hearts and to
    • life of the spirit onto our soul's ear and our soul's
    • on earthly ground, color on color
    • Where from earthly matter, form on form,
    • derive from earth and air and light.
    • on earthly ground, color on color
    • Where from earthly matter, form on form,
    • derive from earth and air and light.
    • divine is manifested in what is lifeless in earthly matter, in
    • it makes clearer to us that the animal life that frolics in the
    • of the spirit, about whom we will hear more and more during the
    • when we have grasped, my dear friends, that the beauty, the
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    • on earth-foundations, color upon color,
    • Where from earthly substance, form on form,
    • Your bodily existence from earth and air and light:
    • world, we must also bear in mind that the person of normal
    • spiritual world that guardian stands who earnestly warns people
    • it is the case, my dear friends, that we must always keep in
    • beings. And we must therefore be quite clear about the
    • from the darkness there appears,
    • The solemn spirit-word your heart can hear.
    • From the depths of the feeling heart
    • illusion, and the real world, should appear before our souls as
    • Your fear of creative spiritual being
    • must be quite clear, my dear friends, that bravery in acquiring
    • Dirty-red its form appears to you;
    • To which your heart desires
    • game. And one is convinced that the game is in earnest. But one
    • striving, by not being completely earnest about it.
    • This earnestness should not be expressed as sentimentality.
    • But the humor must then be serious. When we compare earnestness
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    • From the depths of the feeling heart
    • experiences in thought - if he honestly and earnestly lives in
    • That is what I will speak to you about today, my dear friends,
    • been implanted in him as a physical being on earth between
    • Just imagine, my dear friends, that you were to go through life
    • the Threshold's words are heard, as we learned last time - with
    • illusion. Therefore the first thing one must learn in order to
    • area where the most earnestness is required.
    • spiritual world. Let's say you experienced something ten years
    • memory of physical earthly life can reach. He goes back beyond
    • you have become 50 years old, then you have gone back in time
    • farther than 50 years; you have gone back 70 years, 100 years,
    • 150 years. Feeling leads you completely out of the time in
    • in time, back to your previous earth lives. That is something
    • which happens immediately, dear friends, when you really come to
    • spiritual world between your last death and your present earth
    • earth life.
    • whom you pass your life between death and a new birth on earth.
    • earth-lives, takes over, the person meets a great difficulty in
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    • well, to the extent that its earnestness can really occupy our
    • and earnestly takes place. A relationship with the spiritual
    • an example of what we will receive today, my dear friends, I
    • be clear to you that I am thus appealing to everything in your
    • only meant for earthly things, and not for godly things. So,
    • when you appear before me again tomorrow, and when I again
    • remembrance, is for learning. What the esoteric has to say,
    • however, is not merely for learning, but for life, and every
    • original, this appears to be the end of the story. Trans.]
    • you reflect on this, my dear friends, it will be of great help
    • is quite difficult, my dear friends, to just think about your
    • despicable characters in Shakespeare's works? If I were to meet
    • footlights and throttle these Shakespearean villains. It is
    • we must be clear about the fact that when one speaks correctly
    • then we will understand something else. Yes, my dear friends,
    • hearts.
    • is gradually developed to hear beyond the words. And when this
    • Well, when we are exhorted to hear beyond the words, it is an
    • are capable of hearing beyond the words. And it is good for our
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    • became clear to us how in a certain respect thinking, feeling
    • which usually prevail for earthly consciousness.
    • earthly conditions. At the moment when the person approaches
    • much more related to the forces which attract man to the earth.
    • in the periphery of the earth through which the light
    • penetrates when it shines upon the earth in the morning, and
    • which disappears from sight on the opposite side in the
    • will the earth, through his feeling the periphery, through his
    • that, my dear friends, is exactly what must be made clear -
    • age: Nature must appear as divine, and the human must be a
    • appear as divine?
    • Nature must be able to appear as divine. The way it appears to
    • nature. It only appears to lack divinity. At most in dreams do
    • fearful and anxiety-filled ones. We can be aware of how the
    • in nature, my dear friends, we have a relationship of the human
    • of the earthly element. We have a relationship of the human
    • this relationship of the human physical body with the earthly,
    • difference so clearly. We can hold two cold knitting needles
    • brings him near to the Guardian of the Threshold, he becomes
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    • be learned from the Guardian of the Threshold. And the
    • wishes to gain this self-knowledge, my dear friends, then one
    • of nature in the outside world. But as you know, my dear
    • earth.
    • Earth
    • what the solid earth consists of is also present in the
    • earth has developed in such a way that he only senses this
    • earth” is written]
    • solid as such, in the earthly, we can only say that we live in
    • it. We are too closely related to the earthly to specifically
    • inside us as having clear boundaries. We do not see our lungs
    • or heart within us as having clear boundaries. Only when they
    • extent, related to the elements. We live in earth, we live in
    • have what we designate as Earth, what we designate as Water,
    • Well, my dear friends, you have already seen from the previous
    • he lives on the earth, is not equally related to all of these
    • Imagine, my dear friends, a very vivid nightmare and consider
    • Man's relation to the earthly elements lies even deeper in the
    • Earth”.]
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    • renewal which has taken place must be clearly grasped, my dear
    • earnestness. For a distinction exists between the
    • their hearts, their souls can make of it.
    • Society to a marked degree in recent years. That it ceases is
    • about this; it must be completely clear. It is not a question
    • founded. I wish today to speak from the heart to those who
    • consider their membership in this School with heartfelt
    • seriousness. Only by such earnestness as members of the School
    • Because when one can learn that the Holy Roman Empire, which
    • spirit and not, my dear friends, how many members it has, but
    • considerations of these Class lessons, my dear friends, have
    • dear friends, when the Guardian of the Threshold can say to the
    • human being: See, that is how you are over there, as you appear
    • When you in earthly life
    • When you in earthly life
    • the human imprint bear.
    • Feel the heart's cosmic pulse
    • In earthly being live.
    • When you in earthly life
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    • large number of anthroposophical friends have appeared at the
    • It is to be remembered in all earnestness that with the
    • who have never heard it, so I must emphasize it once again.
    • Society is therewith given. And it must be clear that from now
    • must also stress that it must be clear to the members - I
    • teaching which appears in the name of the General
    • Anthroposophical Society must be clearly understood by the
    • Society feels the inner heartfelt need to learn and live what
    • those which come to the heart and soul from anthroposophy
    • minimum is two years - he can apply for membership in the Free
    • earnest responsibilities for the Society, for anthroposophy,
    • This makes clear how serious membership in this School should
    • unrecognized by it, but must clearly understand that it cannot
    • with the School must be clearly understood. So the members must
    • resounds in the human soul, in the human heart, as the great
    • look up at the stars, which reveal an especially clear writing
    • planetary movements reveal the heart and feeling content.
    • on the earth and in which we partake through our skin, through
    • acts in our bodies - earth, water, fire, air - through them the
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    • You hear it strong in soul,
    • Who speaks so deeply heartfelt?
    • can, my dear friends, look up to the distant stars and let our
    • stars so often and have stored the vision in our hearts and
    • us from the planets which circle the earth, and in their
    • circling directly affect the earth's wind and weather. And when
    • we again create a picture in our hearts of all this, the
    • then when we are conscious of all that binds us to the earth,
    • words what lives in us as a feeling of being bound to the earth
    • then when we merge with the path of our earth in the universe,
    • feel ourselves bound to the earth by the force of the earth
    • to the earth and make us people of the earth. Therefore whoever
    • now, my dear sisters and brothers, what is flowing to you from
    • all sensory organs: eyes, ears. The child experiences
    • forces of the earth. And it is really wonderful how the growing
    • earth forces as long as this sensory-being is especially vital
    • about is when its movements become susceptible to the earth's
    • grasp something, my dear sisters and brothers. It presses on
    • to bottom on the earth and feel the earth under the soles of
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    • gradually rise above our earthly existence to an experience of
    • dear friends, as I have often stressed, human common sense can
    • two possibilities. One is that the person hears about
    • truly aware of how this earthly environment is related to us,
    • that due to our wearing a physical body we are directly related
    • the physical substances of the earth just by being born? Why do
    • physical earthly life we are blindly groping in the
    • my dear sisters and brothers, consider the people of today who
    • have been placed in earthly life after birth and educated
    • consideration of earthly relationships one stands spiritually
    • the earth to the star-studded heaven — either in thought,
    • inhabitants of the earth that just because the constellations
    • the more clearly can the experience be that the outer
    • sense-images of the stars disappear and the star-filled sky
    • feeling comes to us: When you are here on earth you are in the
    • blind people in the darkness of earthly existence, [white arc];
    • down and, because we have learned to read, we read it. By being
    • here on the earth [inner circle]. Then we draw ourselves up to
    • Yes, my dear
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    • year.
    • intensely during the years with us on the physical plane. She
    • My dear friends, in esoteric striving it is necessary to
    • previous earth lives.
    • My dear sisters and brothers, we should never give up
    • is to renew the Mysteries. And only, my dear sisters and
    • Lesson, then what I have just said can live in your hearts.
    • You all know, my dear sisters and brothers, what has
    • organizations. He must be clear about what takes place in his
    • impaired. We sense the head's association to this clearest
    • human earthly activity in both normal and abnormal
    • bearer of the clearest human earthly activity, but it seems
    • — in our heads — in the right way? Only, my dear
    • activity on earth: our thinking. And so we must imagine:
    • we will learn today the different ways he sends this I into
    • And this is not a teaching given to us on the earth; it
    • is a teaching, my dear sisters and brothers, given to us by
    • periphery. Thus we imagine that we hear it from cosmic
    • in the earth-body
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    • You hear it strong in soul,
    • Who speaks so deeply heartfelt?
    • Self-knowledge, my dear sisters and brothers, is what, in a
    • of the spiritual world. And many of you, my dear sisters and
    • You hear it strong in soul,
    • Well, if you have learned to sense speaking, then you will
    • sense than speaking, but it can be sensed. And you can learn to
    • And now you proceed, my dear sisters and brothers, to make
    • You have learned mantras, my dear sisters and brothers,
    • speaking, but where we inwardly meditate hearing. We imagine
    • ourselves as being transferred to where we hear what is being
    • it hears three sounds. The first sound comes from the distant
    • The paths from life on earth to life
    • On earth in spirit light does speak.
    • us the path from earthly life to earthly life
    • incarnation. It speaks of these goals. We hear them in inner
    • in earth-distant fields of creation
    • The paths from life on earth to life
    • On earth in spirit light does speak.
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    • You hear it strong in soul,
    • Who speaks from depth of heart?
    • Well, my dear sisters and brothers, in the
    • rear of the head, we can find the inner thinking through
    • so that we hear the universe from the distant cosmos
    • resounding to us, and hear the Guardian and the hierarchies
    • paths from life on earth to life
    • earth in spirit light does speak.
    • earth-distant fields of creation
    • And so, my dear sisters and brothers, we can say that
    • sense of spirit from earthly will.
    • Feel the earth's mighty resistance.
    • What remains for us to consider today, my dear
    • You must, my dear sisters and brothers, adopt these
    • Of course this does not mean, my dear sisters and
    • of the earth, which are of course invisible. [drawing: arc
    • with arrows]. These gravitational forces of the earth we
    • the invisible gravitational forces of the earth.
    • contact with the earth's gravitational forces. The legs'
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    • And it also becomes clear that in normal life we are
    • The Guardian of the Threshold also makes it clear to us that he
    • willing, feeling and thinking appear in three animals —
    • is beyond the abyss. We will realize ever more: Here on earth
    • When the difference between these states of mind appears, great
    • dangers await him, dangers which appear at first to be slight
    • in many shorter works which have appeared in anthroposophical
    • Here on this side of the threshold we are standing on the earth,
    • on the solid earthly elements. The ground is beneath our
    • is solid earth there is not water; where there is water there
    • push, my dear friends — this separation of the elements
    • we are in earth, water, fire, air. We can no longer distinguish
    • these four elements have ceased to exist. The earth is no
    • this ending of the differentiation between earth, water, air
    • have arrived on the other side, my dear sisters and brothers.
    • Imagine it vividly, my dear sisters and brothers. The
    • the four elements: in earth, water, air, fire.
    • dear sisters and brothers — the illusion of being in
    • love with release from the solid earth, from the formative
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    • inner heart and soul what certain cosmic beings and events
    • You hear it strong in soul,
    • Who speaks in depth of heart?
    • My dear sisters and brothers, my dear friends,
    • We have so far covered, my dear sisters and brothers,
    • how the pictures of life appear before the soul when with
    • hearts and souls the sublimity, the cosmic importance and the
    • hearts and souls into the phenomena and beings and events of
    • the world from which we really originate, appears to us at
    • being we meet if we have the earnest, real will to look into
    • not originate, we have the solidity of the earth under
    • us – which bears and supports us, which we touch with
    • earth-element.
    • that as long as we are earthly beings we must always return
    • over the abyss as earthly beings and that we do not want the
    • earthly beings, for only with the spirit should we wish to be
    • Where is the earth's solidity, which supported
    • I abandon its ground, as long as the spirit bears me.
    • My soul absorbs it, that I may learn divine creation.
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    • from the cosmos near and far, which can be heard by everyone
    • dear friends, for membership in the school rests on
    • dear friends, that the leadership of the School takes this
    • heart to understand them: the admonition to self-knowledge,
    • You hear it strong in soul,
    • Who speaks in depth of heart?
    • My dear friends, we have advanced, in respect to
    • appreciate what our eyes see, what our ears hear, what the
    • thoughts lead us to a wide field in which everything earthly
    • existence, the threshold to the spiritual world, appears
    • hearts are to react if we wish to cross over the abyss of
    • earth, water, air, fire — are different on the other
    • had previously made clear to us how we should comport
    • Threshold asks what becomes of the earth's solidity.
    • hearts, to the extent that we feel ourselves to be within the
    • What becomes of the earth's solidity, which supports you?
    • Learn the spirit cosmic creating in the human
    • These, my dear sisters and brothers, are the
    • essence of the elements: earth, water, air.
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  • Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 17
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    • understanding of the universe, resounds to human hearts from all
    • You hear it strong in soul,
    • Who speaks with depth of heart?
    • the Threshold stands, appeared before our souls. We heard the
    • heard how the person who arrives on the other side of the
    • experiences the world in a new way in that he first hears what
    • speak, light appears which is seen by the spirit's eye.
    • without hearing another deeply founded admonition from the
    • impression — if he has the heart for it. For, when he
    • universe, then disappears back into the universe, is placed
    • world which the rainbow had made. For it is remarkable, my dear
    • of the Threshold, the Guardian now indicates (we will hear the
    • — looking up from the earth
    • as it appears in memory, looking from behind, then the rainbow
    • These are the powerful words spoken by the Guardian, my dear
    • Angeloi, Archangeloi, Archai —   appear in the
    • penetrating it, then appears behind the rainbow as thoughts, how
    • it is absorbed, breathed in by the angelic beings. Now we learn
    • What so magically appears
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    • My dear Friends,
    • The call to self-knowledge, which the human soul can hear when it
    • You hear it strong in soul,
    • Who speaks with such depth of heart?
    • my dear sisters and brothers, we have followed the path leading
    • became light. And then, in the increasing light, we heard the
    • to humanity in blessing. From them we hear:
    • heart may resonate with it, we must feel ourselves to be within
    • now appears to us as the sum of names which we give to
    • If we are not clear about the fact that here on
    • earth we give names to nullities, we fall with our nullities into
    • the nullities. It is now clear to us, because over there
    • strength of our hearts has remained there, we can feel deeply,
    • illusions to the kingdom of truth. Earnestness, holy earnestness
    • moment: Below in earthly life we perceived the impression made on
    • we heard what the clouds say, what the mountains say, how the
    • hear what the spiritual-illuminating,  divine-willing beings
    • We hear the Angeloi intoning their words of concern
    • kingdoms here in earth.
    • And we hear, in that it becomes our experience:
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    • My dear friends,
    • You hear it strong in soul,
    • Who speaks with such depth of heart?
    • My dear sisters and brothers, we have let
    • – how we had already continued from hearing what the
    • hear them speaking in harmony as a chorus.
    • Angeloi, Archangeloi and Archai we hear resound:
    • the benefit of humanity: we hear again the Exusiai,
    • And once we have heard how the beings of the
    • streaming into our hearts; we feel our whole humanity
    • passed him by. He is now far in the distance. We now hear
    • spirit-ear from afar. The Guardian speaks:
    • They flame also in my heart.
    • The human heart finds
    • My dear sisters and brothers, if we wish to
    • am” does not come from us in the earthly realm, that
    • Here in the earthly realm it is illusion.
    • am” within us, we must hear the Cosmic-Word. So we
    • They flame also in my heart.
    • The human heart finds
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  • Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XX (recapitulation)
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    • members of this esoteric school who participated in the earlier
    • esoteric school, however, is not founded as an earthly entity.
    • An esoteric school can only be one if it is the earthly
    • evolution of humanity on earth.
    • substance of the planetary system, to which the sun, earth and
    • Archangelos Gabriel, who mostly bears the moon's forces in his
    • were the bearers of civilization — the reign of Samuel,
    • life under the rule of the Archangelos Raphael, who bears the
    • there the reign of Zachariel, who bears the Jupiter forces in
    • getting very close to the Mystery of Golgotha — who bears
    • against a profound spiritual darkness on earth — under
    • the reign of Oriphiel, who bears the Saturn forces in his
    • my dear friends, we should be aware that the Michael impulse
    • only then, my dear friends, can you correctly understand what
    • only of what enters the world as an earthly institution, but as
    • That this is taken seriously, my dear friends, can be seen by
    • they must be realized with utmost earnestness. In this way,
    • through this School the earnestness that is absolutely
    • at the thinking kingdom of humanity on earth; let us direct our
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  • Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXI (recapitulation)
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    • y dear sisters and brothers,
    • First, however, let our souls again hear the words which
    • unbiased hearts and minds [Gemüte]. Everything in the
    • You hear it strong in soul,
    • Who speaks with such depth of heart?
    • in earthly life must become dark in order for the light which
    • being, comes from what appears at first as black, night-cloaked
    • We heard him speaking: for everything spoken here resounds from
    • earnest countenance. And he shows us how our willing, our
    • feeling, our thinking appear before the countenance of the gods
    • created by the fear of knowledge, which can only be overcome by
    • the Gemüt [soul, heart or mind] of all people, which can
    • right heartfelt blaze of knowledge; whereas today nonchalance
    • due to nonchalance and tepidity is in the hearts.
    • Your fear of creative spiritual being
    • Your fearless knowledge alone overcomes it.
    • Dirty-red its form appears to you;
    • To which your heart desires to reach
    • Your fear of creative spiritual being
    • Your fearless knowledge alone overcomes it.
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    • dear sisters and brothers, we will again begin by letting our
    • souls hear the words that human beings — if they have
    • ears to hear them — can hear from all the Beings of the
    • surrounding world, which they could hear in the past, can hear
    • in the present and will hear in the future, which allow them to
    • You hear it strong in soul,
    • Who speaks with such depth of heart?
    • dear sisters and brothers, the description of the path to
    • willing, feeling, thinking — appear to the eyes of the
    • they are inwardly observed, but that these forces appear to the
    • nature [Scheineswesen] that cannot bear our true Self; but how
    • earth-life to earth-life.
    • that in its rhythm it appears as having moved downward from the
    • when he shows us how from the depths of the earth, which draws
    • down, which bind our will to the earth if we don't make
    • ourselves free by inner striving. Our gaze goes earthward if we
    • earth's gravity, feel drawn by the earth and make the effort to
    • free ourselves from the earth's gravity if we want to let our
    • Feel how the depths of earth
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    • shall begin by again letting our souls hear the words which are
    • words that urge the soul of man, if he wants to hear them, from
    • You hear it strong in soul,
    • Who speaks with such depth of heart?
    • thinking as they appear before the visage of the spiritual
    • we have already heard what the Guardian of the Threshold speaks
    • the realm of the earth and of gravity from which the force of
    • our will comes for our earthly life. For the earth does not
    • solid consistency — the nature of plants on earth —
    • clear to us that our real being is not revealed by all of
    • will find, my dear sisters and brothers, that if you devote
    • no other way can we do this, my dear sisters and brothers, than
    • human being must learn to feel in this way in respect to the
    • around us the elements earth, water, air, fire are spread, and
    • we must learn to feel that our bodily nature — for it is
    • and how. Just consider exactly what learning streams in those
    • dear sisters and brothers, think that you tentatively touch
    • standing on the earth, on the element earth. You are standing
    • here because the earth's main property is the element of
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    • You hear it strong in soul,
    • Who speaks with such depth of heart?
    • dear sisters and brothers, in the description of the path of
    • has made clear to us that what surrounds us in the exterior
    • of nature, what on and from the earth lives and moves, what
    • little, who appears to us in the figure of a spiritual cloud,
    • fainthearted and having fear of knowledge lives in us, as hate
    • body, in earthly existence, is a coffin for the deceased living
    • Once we grasp how dead this thinking is, we can learn from the
    • before we descended into physical-sensory earthly
    • depths, to the earthly depths.
    • which our earthly-physical thinking is rooted — between
    • when we seek willing in the earthly depths we find ourselves in
    • That, my dear sisters and brothers, is what the Middle Way is
    • Guardian of the Threshold, before whom we stand as the earnest
    • which we must fly over, because with earthly feet we cannot
    • not forget that as long as you are an earthly human being, even
    • you have returned you must adhere to the laws of the earth.
    • your thoughts in the earthly environment you may fly around
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    • from all that interweaves and lives in the earthly depths, in
    • You hear it strong in soul,
    • Who speaks with such depth of heart?
    • dear sisters and brothers, the description of the spiritual
    • live on earth appears on the other side of the yawning abyss of
    • must be clear to us that in the moment — and we have come
    • us look, my dear sisters and brothers, at our human existence
    • as it is between birth and death on earth: we grasp the world
    • our human earthly existence. If we want to carry out something
    • in the near future, we consider it first, so what we carry out
    • They are bright and clear, although the Guardian of the
    • clear, we are awake in them.
    • feeling is darker and less clear. We are closer to existence in
    • completely unclear to our normal consciousness. We have the
    • thought that we want this or that; the thought appears, grasps
    • initiate gradually learns the following: What happens when
    • our head for our earthly vision.
    • should then intensely feel how our heart, the physical
    • breathe in the air, which is the impetus of the heartbeat, we
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    • always cosmopolitanism. What differentiates people on earth is
    • manner - what can be clear to you, my sisters and brothers,
    • don't merely belong to an earthly community, but to a
    • utmost earnestness. It is really necessary, my dear sisters and
    • the utmost earnest manner the sacred earnestness with which the
    • anthroposophical circles there is much too little earnestness
    • the necessary earnestness. Therefore, it is necessary that the
    • earnestness. It has happened that members of the School have
    • amazing things happen as a result of this lack of earnestness.
    • these things must live in the members' hearts. And worthiness,
    • Therefore, my dear sisters and brothers, you must not take
    • existing esoteric school. And the earnestness from this
    • hearts and souls of all who are sitting here now could not
    • under and on the earth as worm-life, from what speaks in rocks
    • You hear it strong in soul,
    • Who speaks with such depth of heart?
    • previous lesson ended, my dear sisters and brothers, with the
    • souls and hearts have been exposed to the important, weighty,
    • not come walking with earthly feet, where one flies with the
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  • Title: The Social Question: Lecture I: The True Form of the Social Question
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    • years has thrown its dark light on the social question in
    • already at the war's starting point, it is clear how the social
    • question works itself into every emotion of fear, clearly seen
    • under the fear of the question: ‘What will happen if the social
    • crystallized out of this so-called war has sprung out of fear
    • fear and misunderstanding were not there. Then again, in the
    • the social demands appearing in the history of this time.
    • how something appears in the social question which all members
    • similar which for many decades have appeared within meetings
    • social question, it appears as an immense amount of human
    • social life which has come forward. Much has been heard in
    • clearer feeling than this: a more or less greater role is
    • to the fore through apparently clear concepts delivered in a
    • spiritual scientific research, I have also approached the
    • social question for decades. If you hear about people who
    • simple spiritual research. Only contradiction, which I have
    • to add a personal remark it would be this: For years I have
    • of proletarian workers. I learnt to know what lives and strives
    • leading intellectuals — has learnt to know the modern worker's
    • with universal human claims has never stood nearly as totally
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    • pronounced at present and valid for the near future of
    • Perhaps I may use a comparison to clearly communicate what I
    • research science has claimed, to characterise this threefold
    • I am clear about all the
    • appeared by Aleray,
    • human thinking, human feeling to learn through observation of
    • take the belief you learnt about natural organisms and apply
    • research it according to its own laws, just as you do with
    • you continue, like the researcher in nature, objectively
    • learn about its laws, in that moment the game of analogy
    • regarding the earnestness of your observation, will stop.
    • lies, the regulating system of the breathing and heart. Only by
    • Regarding this particular point the assumption must be clear in
    • Europe the word “socializing” is heard. This
    • process if the human heart, the soul does not have insight with
    • in the present and near future. The first member of the social
    • background. Just as each individual depends for his learning
    • learning and education, in relation to their gifts in thinking.
    • This can be made clear by taking extreme examples.
    • instance, you can imagine how in various parts on earth,
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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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    • appears far more important what happens within the awareness of
    • has an ear for such things, one could say that in both places
    • disappear to make place for something new to come into
    • world view, perhaps particularly during the first years when
    • much heart and such an open soul, that such a class where there
    • present. Whoever is, in full earnestness, able to understand
    • penetrate earnestly into this moment in time, the rising up
    • true earnest direction in life, when burning and urgent
    • questions appear, it becomes particularly disastrous: the
    • searching for an island — or actually an abundance of
    • situation of life, into life which appears even less
    • catastrophe, fanaticism, which appear behind the most varied
    • Utopia appears full of criticism, it neither comes down to the
    • reality, who appear to be coming out of apparent practical life
    • fanaticism — one must always speak freely from the heart
    • Some people appear to have characteristics of fanatics —
    • associated with fanaticism because these fanatics appear to
    • instance in the course of the last few years looked at some
    • some inner paradoxes. It will appear for example as a surprise,
    • the nineties of the nineteenth century fanatics appeared as if
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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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    • of an individual life, crises appear, like the crisis in the
    • sixth or seventh year of life with the change of teeth, how
    • appear later in life even if they are not taken in as decisive
    • the later times of man's evolution, something appears which can
    • human soul in earlier times; this social impulse led to the
    • structure of the social impulse. In earlier times, this social
    • into the conscious life, clearly two streams are created,
    • one stream is clear in those people who can still up to today
    • other stream appeared somewhat later but is clearly
    • thinking earned quite a particular form as a result, in these
    • there appears what I referred to in my lecture the day before
    • towards an affirmation of the human personality appears which
    • had not been known in earlier times. Assertion of the human
    • directed, or better said, that people up to now have not learnt
    • enters, but that this understanding brings no learned aspect
    • with state- and spiritual life, there appears also in this
    • as the so-called physiocratic national economic ideas. Earlier
    • people today what appears as practical life is none other than
    • breathing and heart system, both are limited and mutually
    • who should have done research about these things which are
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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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    • more clearly than what formerly had been discussed and
    • appear now again when you engage yourself deeply in the second
    • Ages don't rule our current thinking as such, but it appears to
    • they want to accomplish, or, as you can hear from various
    • necessary to make the following clear, in order to understand
    • new; it only appears to be different in more recent times. The
    • learn. They must learn to think that they actually can't
    • After long years of studying the social question it has come to
    • in search of a solution for the social question, it can make a
    • point of view today. Many, also earlier personalities who
    • clearly continued in the old crafts up to the 13th
    • think about what one has learnt about the Proletarian Movement
    • of the Proletarian Movement. One could clearly sense what
    • want to clarify this by an example. For many years I shared a
    • following which is often heard with corresponding colouring is
    • heard most often when the background of the Proletarian view of
    • clearly being experienced: ‘We have met the bourgeoisie with a
    • demands yearnings from these people. It demands soul-supporting
    • the Hegelian world appeared as an expression of the divine
    • four to five Centuries. The social organism of earlier times
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  • Title: The Social Question: Lecture VI: What Significance does Work have for the Modern Proletarian?
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    • approached?’ — From some or other research, it could be
    • addressed, an understanding so strongly yearned for which has
    • search for a rescue boat; they would not be able to find such a
    • appears to me that in the time in which we are living, quite
    • those who are searching for such an understanding, it is so
    • comfortable living in this capitalist economic order. One hears
    • progressed. One can hear how it has come about that humanity
    • soul sensitivities had to let the call be heard: ‘Does modern
    • hand, hardly an understandable word can be heard in response.
    • for. Don't we hear it from all possible sides — from the
    • This was something which the earlier ruling classes didn't want
    • For years I was a teacher in the worker's education school in
    • Berlin, where Wilhelm Liebknecht, the dear old
    • terrors to the modern proletarian movement but they clearly
    • movement and the Proletarian yearnings, which can be considered
    • side so that it doesn't appear in the full light but through
    • earns its pay.
    • perhaps in recent times not been clearly spoken about, but
    • has been driven into something which not he, but the earlier
    • economic process. Does this not make it clear that he would
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  • Title: Lecture: Richard Wagner and Mysticism
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    • either of clear or vague premonitions, in various domains of modern
    • to clear away the above-mentioned objection.
    • would-be learned gentleman remarked: “Goethe was really a Mystic,
    • to-day we hear it said in academic circles: ‘To such and such a point
    • clear cognition can attain; from that point onwards, however, we grope
    • the depths of existence with a light as radiant and clear as that of
    • ideas and conceptions of a Mystic can be as lucid and clear as
    • mathematical concepts. Men must have patience to find their bearings
    • which its melodies and tones can be heard. We are surrounded by worlds
    • surrounding spiritual world that lies near us, we give the name of the
    • never be defined in clear, hard-and-fast terms, for once again they
    • into his heart.”
    • The study of Mysticism carries us back to very early stages in the
    • centres were temples as well as institutes of learning and they
    • with their eyes, they also heard with their ears. Wisdom was presented
    • such a way that men's hearts and souls were attuned to piety and
    • artists: Shakespeare and Beethoven. He saw in Shakespeare the
    • in the depths of the heart but do not pass over into deed. And then he
    • passages in Shakespeare's plays which gave him the impression: There
    • human heart which acts as a mediator, something that cannot pass over
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  • Title: Lecture: Spiritual Wisdom in the Early Christian Centuries
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    • sharply defined, clear-cut concepts. But these concepts were
    • research and investigation, albeit those who stood wholly within the
    • Aristotle, and the kind of knowledge that made its appearance about
    • before the Mystery of Golgotha had not been united with earthly
    • evolution, had passed into an earthly body and linked Himself with the
    • His descent to the earth — such were the questions which even at
    • in regard to the outstanding figures of the early Christian centuries
    • cannot be said to rule or direct the other Ideas. All Ideas bear a
    • thinking are making their appearance. In Plato's time, thoughts
    • evolved independently were unknown. Whereas the Initiates of earlier
    • We learn, then, that by the time of Plato and Aristotle, wisdom was
    • of Ammonius Saccas. How did the world appear to the soul of
    • cycle, repeated visibly in the Sun, repeats itself every year. But the
    • year the cycle is repeated. If these Powers alone held sway, there
    • would be three hundred and sixty days in a year. But there are, in
    • hundred and sixty. The five remaining days in the cosmic year which
    • more hours in the year. And these hours are directed by forty-two
    • earthly Powers. — Iamblichus also said to his pupils: The three
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    • 'searching of conscience' and without reservation makes an assessment of
    • dear Friends:
    • which I was privileged to speak to you in earlier days; for,
    • the period of almost ten years in which we have been at work on
    • almost ten years have many friends, giving me their assistance,
    • the platform and spoke with one's whole heart out of the
    • very profound. But this must pass over, my dear friends, into
    • set it up, in a certain sense, as a memory in our hearts.
    • the more intensely seek for a spiritual home in our hearts to
    • means must we strive to set up for eternity in our hearts this
    • dear friends, I believe that what was then experienced,
    • especially if it takes root in the hearts of our
    • dear friends, I wish to connect these things with the theme
    • on our hearts — they direct our attention to one of the
    • facts upon which we should earnestly fix the eyes of our souls
    • impulses came from the hearts that were filled with enthusiasm
    • necessary to bear in mind, nevertheless, that the
    • fact. In that case, something would disappear, something very
    • my ear this statement — and I certainly felt its
    • justification — “After all that I have heard here,
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    • dear Friends:
    • meeting, as I do in other lectures before the dear members of
    • is not always consciously clear at once, on such a level of
    • of repeated earth lives, of karmic relationships in repeated
    • earth lives. Indeed, it is now possible to carry the whole
    • what is in the sense world. You must learn to transform your
    • desire to hear such things as that a human being possesses not
    • bear upon it and passes judgment on it from the point of view
    • Here, my dear friends, you have the conditions giving rise to
    • occupied with the search for knowledge out of the higher
    • during the spiritual research constantly to occupy oneself with
    • science, requires much time for his research. You will,
    • time to discover through research what is being presented by me
    • proper bearing toward one's opponents. So, it was with me and
    • him away from spiritual research, because both things cannot be
    • has to make time for his spiritual research. For this reason,
    • of spiritual research by means of actual investigation.
    • acquainted with the principles of spiritual research —
    • research, in order that he may be drawn away from his research.
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  • Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 1: Evolution and Consciousness, Lucifer, Ahriman
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    • quite clear on a number of occasions that to understand
    • clearly understood if we gain more profound insight into
    • the powers that intervene in the course of earth
    • of evolution, a course during which the earth repeatedly
    • serious view of these things today, but our hearts and
    • process of education in the course of Earth evolution.
    • them. We have no clear idea today of the extent to which
    • earlier times in human evolution we find that the further
    • later stages of evolution. During earlier stages along
    • Earth evolution as we know it. We come to a time when the
    • earth had taken a physical form in the cosmos that
    • evolution, i.e. the time when the earth materialized in a
    • nature. We say the earth attracts the bodies that are on
    • This would normally cease the moment Earth evolution
    • clearly understand this in the case of a plant, for it
    • earth have been made in such a way that they need the
    • way they did at the earlier stage. As evolution
    • pre-earthly form of thinking into our earthly way of
    • way of thinking evolve in the Western world, with earthly
    • misdeeds and crimes judged by earthly judges who impose
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  • Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 2: East, West, and the Culture of Middle Europe, the Science of Initiation
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    • specifically predestined for the early stages of
    • earlier stage it became the essential characteristic of
    • characterize the descendants of the Atlanteans' earliest
    • If you want to show up the clear difference which exists
    • earlier. This however was a civilization of the soul that
    • them through life on earth. The life of the mind was
    • in the early stages of decline. Do not let us deceive
    • the truth must be clearly stated.
    • in the Near East at the beginning of Christian era and
    • yet grasp in their hearts and minds. Things may come to
    • Earth evolution, were still perceived gnostically. It
    • following happened, particularly in Europe: In early
    • hearts and minds with the realization that new insight
    • this quite clear in one's mind. People today no longer
    • state that it is possible to learn that something we may
    • have heard from people whom we think we can believe need
    • appeared particularly in America — to have a
    • be told that anyone learning something directly from the
    • be found on earth since the Mystery of Golgotha. We are
  • Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 3: Political Empires
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    • go back to earlier stages of human development to see
    • stages of earth evolution.
    • earlier ideas — was quite different from what we
    • earthly realm came very close to what people knew to be
    • hundred years.
    • those early partly prehistoric times. We need only go
    • back as far as ancient Egypt, meaning the earlier, partly
    • or that. The person who speaks to me bears a name: he is
    • ego born in some place or another, bearing the imprint of
    • of human awareness in earliest Egyptian and Chaldean
    • among human beings. The earliest inhabitants of what was
    • on earth in human form. In this respect the earliest
    • earth. In this world, where human beings walked the
    • earth, not only ordinary human individuals were walking
    • was a god who wanted it. To the minds of earliest
    • Earliest
    • everything that happened on earth. Those hierarchies were
    • hold today, ideas only three or four hundred years old as
    • that was a feature of earliest imperialism still comes up
    • the sublime power of the earth-born ‘priest
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    • powers of decline that are clearly in evidence, to powers
    • it a number of times over the years — that has its
    • clearly understand — making it the centre of both
    • heart and mind — that if spiritual science is to
    • similar creatures made this invention very much earlier,
    • on earth, getting rid of everything that has evolved by
    • a natural death in the triumphant progress of a clear,
    • reflect on what would happen on this earth if these words
    • a natural death in the triumphant progress of a clear,
    • in the wider interest of humanity on this earth. It must
    • we hear the bullets whistling all around. If therefore
    • more bullets whistle around our ears from certain
    • present life on earth. When we are thinking here and now,
    • the present earth life. Just think that there you have
    • earth life, I am continuing the life I had before birth
    • individual on this earth, to come together and God
    • bear the thought of being extinguished when they die. Yet
    • they are able to bear the thought — for they have
    • human beings procreated here on earth. What their egotism
    • who cannot bear the thought of death being the end of it
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    • heart, to discuss some of the things that really need to
    • by a great many people, namely that the heart is a kind
    • through the organism. This idea of the human heart being
    • on. These clearly function at the level of soul and
    • primary causes, and the movement of the heart arises when
    • principle, and the heart is caught up in this rhythm. The
    • and indeed from their earliest childhood.
    • processes relating to the heart in the human organism.
    • whatsoever under the influence of materialism. The heart
    • the world outside. Basically the heart is a sense organ
    • appear to be an example of limited relevance. I can
    • the nature of the human heart. Of course, if doctors had
    • the wrong idea about the nature of the human heart that
    • right or the wrong idea about the heart.’ But this
    • indicate the directions of my ears. The same diagram
    • would serve to indicate perception by the eyes and ears.
    • terms, of course. I hear the blackboard chalk, I touch a
    • my eyes step on colours, my ears touch sounds; I know
    • kinds of other things that my arms hear — all these
    • cosmic sphere, knowledge of the way the earth relates to
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  • Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 6: Materialism and Mysticism, Knowledge as a Deed of the Soul
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    • do people regard the search for truth within this
    • eminently practical people, regard the search for the
    • come to the realization that the search for truth is a
    • evolution of the earth and of humankind.
    • number of occasions, the materialistic stream is clearly
    • everything our eyes see, our ears hear and so on, is not
    • example, though they may appear more solid than a
    • however solid they may appear. A rock crystal can of
    • reality. The search for truth must be based on facts.
    • must make the search for truth a deed. It must be a
    • search for knowledge based on strong will impulses, that
    • theory comes to an end, the intellectual mists clear and
    • different philosophy, a different path in their search
    • heart and there to become transformed into something that
    • in the heart.
    • we must clearly understand that the fruits of mysticism
    • no real materiality to it. We learn about real
    • stearin candle ignites to burn with a flame. That is
    • ground, the cloud formations, brown or grey earth and so
    • on that we see around us on this earth. The stars and
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  • Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 7: Materialism, Mysticism, Anthroposophy, Liberalism, Conservatism
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    • our human environment. This can be clearly understood on
    • the basis of many different things that can be learned
    • world, our ears hear the outside world, and we come to
    • combine the things we see, hear and Perceive with the
    • materialistic terms. Their search along the path of
    • very clear in our minds that however far we extend our
    • a clear, true picture of the nature of the world and the
    • try — in our thirty-second year, or perhaps at
    • thirtieth and fortieth year we grow heavier and heavier
    • cannot get a clear idea concerning these things. We see
    • earth from Mars, for instance, none of these would
    • earth through some instrument or other — we may
    • observe the earth — would perceive nothing of the
    • skin of the human beings living on earth. Everything else
    • material world of the earth. When we grow aware of a
    • matter of the earth. This form of self-perception takes
    • processes that carry the affairs of the earth from one
    • three thousand years before the Mystery of Golgotha. They
    • Egyptians, of Chaldeans and others three thousand years
    • vanished, disappeared. Human bodies hold the germ for a
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  • Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 8: The Opposition of Knowledge and Faith, Its Overcoming
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    • arose in their hearts and minds that was not the power of
    • earliest stages of human evolution, and it had to do with
    • descended to earth from the world where it had existed as
    • primal knowledge existed all over the globe in the early
    • feet.’ Those early human beings certainty. felt
    • the idea that the human body is a temple. In early times
    • a human being was indeed like the earthly home of a god
    • who who descended to earth to take up his abode among
    • all over the globe, the path to earthly and human
    • ancient divine knowledge and into earthlY and human
    • from the far reaches of the earth to look for a way in
    • documents to bear outer witness to that time. Such an
    • the divine knowledge of the ancients to human and earthly
    • knowledge. Thus there was a time in earthly history when
    • divine knowledge of the ancients to human and earthly
    • to reach human ears. At a time when they had grown beyond
    • purpose the aim was to strike at the root of earthly and
    • activity to descend as far as the earth, as it were.
    • earth. The individuals concerned were the spiritualists
    • conquerors of all that this earth holds for you; you will
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  • Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 9: East, West, and Middle
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    • occupied. We have to be clear in our minds that the
    • clearly that the essential soul and spirit of the human
    • back to those times we find exactly what those early
    • earthly human being. They were therefore less interested
    • in the earthly human being than they were in the heavenly
    • they had been before they became earthly. That is the
    • into physical existence on earth. Their conviction of
    • earth and had descended from a spiritual world into the
    • presented life on earth as a continuation of life in
    • word to express that the beginning of an earth life is
    • life on earth did not merit much attention, for it was
    • walking around on this earth was merely the image of a
    • way back to a much earlier period than that of the Veda.
    • earth was illumined by insight into the spiritual
    • of the Middle first appeared during the latter part of
    • to appear which I am now going to characterize as the
    • happened among human beings here on earth, always in so
    • very clearly that here, in the life between birth and
    • come. Today we have merely the early signs, the
    • of the previous life on earth. The other parts of the
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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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    • permitted to take the great disaster that has happened in recent years as
    • civilized humanity differs from earlier times. Let me point out
    • and still are, acting in accord with the demands of earlier times and
    • Like earlier wars, the last
    • other. Unlike earlier wars, however, this war involved energies and
    • in earlier wars — energies deriving from the particular nature of
    • This change determined the course of events in recent years. Yet there
    • war, 79 million 'horse power years' of that kind of energy were produced
    • units based on the work a horse does in a year. During the time
    • million horse power years of coal-derived energy per year.
    • a horse work for him all year long. The population figure was
    • years. The work done by machines, all kinds of machines, therefore had
    • Years was brought into action at the front.
    • figures. For a start I will just add the fact that in 1870, a year when
    • 79 million horse Power years were produced. Energy production was then
    • million in 1912. Clearly this means a complete change in the human
    • Belgium together had 35 million horse power years available. Great
    • position of Great Britain those 98 million horse power years could not
    • immediately be fully brought to bear in the war zone; it took some years
    • human beings opposing each other, but 79 million horse power years had
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  • Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 11: Modern Science and Christianity, Threefold Social Order, Goetheanism
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    • earliest embodiment of this earth, which we call Ancient
    • call our I or ego relates essentially to the earth as it
    • mean when we say that we relate to the ego we bear to the
    • present earth? It means that inherent in the elements of
    • the earth, the forces of the earth that are known to us
    • bound up with the forces of the earth.
    • relates to the present earth. This immediately suggests
    • earthly realm. As human beings we have the potential to
    • developed to go beyond this earthly realm; we will have
    • to develop it without taking the earthly realm as our
    • guide. As human beings we are part of this earth and our
    • The forces of the earth, the intrinsic nature of the
    • earth, served as our guide in developing the ego to the
    • continue with this development for the rest of Earth
    • to the earth and its forces. Yet we also have to say to
    • ourselves that if we were entirely dependent on the earth
    • life-spirit and a spirit-self. The earth has nothing to
    • earth must be seen as something that cannot in itself
    • make us into full human beings. We are on this earth and
    • depends on the earth being succeeded by Jupiter, Venus
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    • not merely that essence of a material kind which appears to the outer
    • human body the same physical processes appear, but there is a great
    • there is a fourth member in the human being, the crown of the earthly
    • the I there is something sacred. This is also clearly recognizable in
    • I-bearer, the fourth member in the human nature, makes man the first
    • among the beings that are visible in the earthly creation. Therefore,
    • not inactive. It appears to the clairvoyant's eye like a spiral cloud,
    • body during the waking hours of the day and thus wears it out, appears
    • between life and death. If it was shown earlier that as soon as sleep
    • sets in, the astral body with the I-bearer leaves the physical body
    • connection of etheric body, astral body and ego-bearer.
    • earth life, but this tableau of recollection stands there all at once
    • body was still in the physical body during its existence on earth, it
    • steps aside, which does not belong directly to the very nearest, which
    • explained earlier, the etheric body, the bearer of memory, becomes
    • the memories suddenly appear in an unbound way.
    • their earliest life suddenly reappeared from oblivion with full
    • feeling they have, have often been heard to say the expression: I feel
    • etheric body like a copy of the physical human body near it. Thus, for
    • make clear what kind of state this is, you must consider that man,
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    • In 1919, a year marked by strong social and political upheavals, Steiner
    • DEAR FRIENDS,
    • world-history, that we cannot as in earlier, more peaceful
    • judged it by what appear to-day as aims. The social movements
    • of the present do, of course, wear a “democratic”
    • which runs through our earthly civilization as artistic
    • I speak, as from you all, to thank our friends most heartily
    • in our hearts thoughts deeply concerned with human evolution,
    • earnestness we consider the present day, we cannot forget how
    • six years, to be convinced that the estrangement of the world
    • forbearing enough to make excuses for the
    • that we should learn what phrases and catchwords really
    • stage during the happenings of the last four or five years,
    • climax within the last four or five years. In these recent
    • years people managed to grasp a good deal which I honestly
    • four or five years have made that plain. In face of the
    • delusions men have grown accustomed to during these last years,
    • must learn to turn their eyes, their spiritual gaze, to the
    • great and revolutionary impulses occurring in the earthly path
    • epoch, which we know bears an entirely different character from
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  • Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture II
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    • In 1919, a year marked by strong social and political upheavals, Steiner
    • evolution is clearly perceptible to anyone who has the faculty
    • must occupy ourselves with them in the near future, for the
    • the higher Hierarchies as the Earth evolution proceeds. The
    • Hitherto they were necessary, to guide the heart and, mind to
    • emphatically. Man simply cannot bear — apart from
    • this also is important: that people of our day must hear a very
    • learn to hold — that the life here is a continuation of
    • day to day, from week to week, from year to year, we must
    • through a physical evolution about its seventh year with the
    • principles, like an ancient grey-beard, the last word in
    • about twenty years of age he feels shame at the idea of
    • hair and wrinkles welcoming with joy the dawn of each year
    • because each year brings new possibilities of development to
    • ashamed to make themselves capable of development, or to learn
    • possibility, all through life, of rejoicing in the coming year,
    • because each year charms forth the divine-spiritual content of
    • want to emphasize this point. We should really and truly learn
    • human evolution, which is not known to-day. In earlier times,
    • It is his “Angel” who has that clear consciousness.
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    • In 1919, a year marked by strong social and political upheavals, Steiner
    • does not so unite. Yes, and if we look back into earlier times
    • 28th year. Conditions will change again with time. This is a
    • achieved in earlier centuries, therefore there was no
    • of the Beings of the three higher Hierarchies standing nearest
    • completely into the physical body and therewith learn of the
    • whole Earth-development — the Christ-Impulse, the
    • live. The way in which the Event of Golgotha appeared as an
    • to unite Himself with that body for earthly activity. Through
    • the course of the last four or five hundred years so proceeded
    • Taken as earnest, that makes it impossible to take seriously
    • trivial speech. The Earth acquired its own meaning in relation
    • scientist of the day, what the evolution of the Earth would be
    • man were absent, the Earth would develop without him, bring
    • Earth would have developed without man, just as it has done
    • things to be found in our twenty years of lecturing, you will
    • body to the earth, it means to present-day science no more than
    • death are added to the earth and go their way according to the
    • give the corpse over to the earth in a form and condition which
    • birth (or conception) lived in the spiritual world. The Earth
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    • In 1919, a year marked by strong social and political upheavals, Steiner
    • more than fifty years the mass of the people have been
    • through the last ten years with our eyes shut we must have
    • fearful disaster. The proletariat found itself in a new
    • ideas to which for years the proletariat had devoted itself
    • with its heart's blood proved inadequate when realization
    • last three or four hundred years, developed no ideas which can,
    • not see it. Three or four hundred years of routine in business
    • public life of the civilized world, it appeared as infected by
    • how was one regarded who, in the early spring of 1914, spoke of
    • peaceful conditions - in Europe in the near future. He added
    • in the near future on such a basis as to produce the best
    • civilized world occupied itself for several years in killing,
    • arrangement, but a vast alteration in thinking and learning:
    • matter is the historical fact that in their heart and soul lies
    • three to four hundred years — especially during the
    • course of years, various things have eaten into the feelings of
    • of our age, of which we hear the first faint tone from the
    • company who hears the “surplus value” theory from
    • in the economic field; therefore the social question appears to
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