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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

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 5: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 4
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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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Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture II: Tree of Life - II
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My dear friends,
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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Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture III: The Power of Thought
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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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Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture IV: Harmonizing Thinking, Feeling and Willing
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My dear friends,
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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Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture V: Tree of Knowledge - I
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My dear friends, I
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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Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture VI: Tree of Knowledge - II
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My dear friends,
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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Title: World Downfall and Resurrection
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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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Title: Lecture: Philosophy and Anthroposophy
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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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Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture II: The Three Fundamental Forces in EducatioN
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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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Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture III: Spiritual Knowledge of Man as the Fount of Educational Art
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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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Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture IV: The Art of Education Consists of Bringing Into Balance the Physical and Spiritual Nature of the Developing Human Being
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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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Title: Social Understanding: Lecture II: Social Understanding Through Spiritual Scientific Knowledge
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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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Title: Buddha and the Two Boys: Lecture I: Buddha and the Two Boys of Jesus
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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 â€˜Iâ€™ 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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Title: Lecture: Art As A Bridge Between The Sensible And The Supersensible
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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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Title: Raphael's Mission in the Light of the Science of the Spirit
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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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Title: Leonardo's Spiritual Stature: Lecture
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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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Title: Fairy Tales: in the light of Spiritual Investigation
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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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Title: A Mongolian Legend
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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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Title: Imperialism: Lecture 1
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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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Title: Imperialism: Lecture 2
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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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Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture I: Anthroposophy and Natural Science
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anthroposophical research method is the opposition,
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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Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture II: The Human and the Animal Organisation
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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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Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture III: Anthroposophy and Philosophy
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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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Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture IV: Anthroposophy and Pedagogy
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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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Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture V: Anthroposophy and Social Science
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dear venerated guests! Besides the introductory words I want to
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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dear venerated guests! As an introduction I have been obliged
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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Title: Impulse of Renewal: Lecture VII: Anthroposophy and the Science of Speech
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words appear, please consider the alternative as well.
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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Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 1
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dear friends,
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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Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 2
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dear friends,
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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Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 3
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us begin, my dear friends, with the words the Guardian speaks -
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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Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 4
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dear friends,
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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Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 5
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dear friends,
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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Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 6
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dear friends,
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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Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 7
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dear friends,
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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Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 8
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dear friends,
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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Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 9
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dear friends,
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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Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 10
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My dear
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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Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 11
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My dear friends,
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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Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 12
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My dear friends,
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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Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 13
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My dear Friends,
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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Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 14
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My Dear Friends,
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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Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 15
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My dear friends,
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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Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 16
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My dear friends,
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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My dear Friends,
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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Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 18
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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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Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 19
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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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y dear friends,
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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Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXII (recapitulation)
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y dear sisters and brothers,
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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Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXIII (recapitulation)
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y dear sisters and brothers,
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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Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXIV (recapitulation)
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y Dear Sisters and Brothers,
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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Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXV (recapitulation)
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y dear sisters and brothers,
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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Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXVI (recapitulation)
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dear Sisters and Brothers,
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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Title: The Social Question: Lecture II: Comparisons at Solving the Social Question based on Life's Realities
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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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Spiritual Wisdom in the Early Christian Centuries
Spiritual Wisdom in the Early Christian Centuries
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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Title: Community Building
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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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Title: Community Building
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'searching of conscience' and without reservation makes an assessment of
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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The difference is that particularly during the earliest
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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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 4: Western Secret Societies, Jesuitism, Leninism
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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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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 5: How the Material Can Be Understood Only through the Spirit
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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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Title: Life Between Two Incarnations
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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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