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Title: Memória e Amor
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before the first Goetheanum, the building to which he had given

Title: Evil and Spiritual Science
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First
far back into human development; but first we would like to
see what must often be raised here, as the first step on the
full experiences of the soul. What is here set out as the first
embed itself into the cosmic order) to unite firstly with that
East, who lived in the first half of the seventeenth century,
us, as was said, in the first half of the seventeenth century,
first of all, into which in truth not only evil but also
But that would contradict the omnipotence of God: first
him, as he said — we must first of all become accustomed
and imperfection with the very first steps that one takes
Tries first of all to drive out the spirit,

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 1: Popular Occultism, Introtroduction
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of his being, the physical body, constitutes the first member. As a
first of all, they must deviate their attention completely away from
of man is the astral body. At first, it should be studied more from
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

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 2: Man's Ascent into the Supersensible World
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The first world is the physical
The first thing which we
clairvoyant, we first live in the astral world and perceive what has
mass of phenomena. What they first perceive, is so different from what
they were used to seeing, that they must first grow accustomed to the
the last moment of life backwards. Here in the physical world first
world we first see the chicken and then the egg.
of a thought. For example, we first have in our soul the thought: “This
forms. At first these will be transient realities surging up and down,
world dumb? Indeed, at first it is dumb for the clairvoyant. The astral

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 3: The Different Conditions of Man's Life After Death
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to see, he at first simply perceives through his eyes. Gradually spiritual

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 4: The Devachanic World
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a vacuum, existing in the first region of Devachan. This constitutes,
he becomes a degree less selfish. The first region of Devachan is the

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 5: Life Between Death and a New Birth
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all his incarnations. When man incarnated for the first time — at present,
his astral body. First you must live through his whole past life backwards,
During the first months after conception,

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 6: Man's Return to a New Earthly Life
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earthly life. After death there arises first of all the picture-tableau
the first two regions, he reaches the third region, the atmospheric

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 7: Effects of the Law of Karma
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an acquisition of later incarnations. Everything in life must first

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 8: The Evolution of Man and of the Solar System; the Atlantic Evolution
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of the sinking Atlantis. It was at this moment that the rainbow first

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 9: Lemurian Development
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are the first representatives of real men with bodies permeated by souls.
Let us first consider the structure of the Lemurian continent and the
which plays a very great role to-day was then in its very first beginnings.
was when he first used his body for the purpose of perception. The human
the first original source, from which everything descends. And man is
the first-born of creation. He has thrown out animals, plants and minerals;

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 10: Paths of Occult Training
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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
regard to the first, the loneliness of a few minutes each day is meant,
soul. At first there will be an inner feeling of emptiness and sadness; but
development must first be below and feel that they are there below.

Title: i Spirituality: Lecture 1: Historical Symptomology, the Year 790, Alcuin, Greeks, Platonism, Aristotelianism, East, West, Middle, Ego
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civilization and was first grasped by Aristotle. In Aristotle, however, this only sounds a first
a particular culture, or the first hints of it, was being prepared alongside that which lived on
Eastern culture — the time in which the 'I' is first experienced, but dimly — and the
how this 'I' is experienced in the most manifold metamorphoses. First of all in that dim, dawning
1920, during the first course of the School of Anthroposophy at the
succeeds in this at the first attempt; and it is not so rare that the idea degenerates
"Just as philosophy strives for the first foundation of things, and art
close of the first course of the Anthroposophical School, in
(First Edition) Dornach, 1928, page 118. Return
(First and Second Introduction into the Doctrine of Knowledge and an Attempt at a New
(GA 322) — eight lectures given during the first course
18. In the third week of the first course (of the School of Spiritual
19. The first Goetheanum building, begun in 1913, was already put into use
21. The first anthroposophical course of the Free School for Spiritual

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 2: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 1
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it touches the social question, in the first part of my
first, the French colonization in the eighteenth century, was a political act and bore no fruit.
The first kind of beings are beings that have a
So, while the first kind of beings had an affinity
the first type prevent die emergence of an economic life that stands as an independent entity
The first type of these beings prevents the human

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 3: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 2
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culture when one considers at first that all three branches of human experience — the
world evolution. This is why the concept of one's will and testament first arose in Rome —
towards the East (see diagram). But we will first look at something that goes out from ancient
find logical dialectics as the first part of his philosophy. His philosophy of nature is merely a
more of God than the fairy tale of a generalized, completely abstract, cosmic first cause.
if it enters at first through such coquettish spirits as Rabindranath Tagore or others. The point
10. In the first

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 4: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 3
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way. I have shown this in my first Mystery Drama
further, there is something quite definite that must first be realized. People have to see what
the first part of which was published in 1918. Return

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 5: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 4
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is the special way in which, in the first half of the twentieth century,
the first half of the nineteenth century, we are presented with ingenious elaborations of the
he is fit and capable one has to take account of the following. One must realize that the first
etheric body is developed, the human being must first of all be recognized. What has to be
The first thing is to steer towards a real
It was first of all necessary to show how, on a
first place, our lecture course this autumn has been striving towards. And even if this is only

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 6: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 5
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occurrence of the Mystery of Golgotha. The Mystery of Golgotha is to be understood in the first
that, in its reality, in its essence, the Mystery of Golgotha was grasped at first only by those
Thus the Mystery of Golgotha was understood first
Thus the first understanding of the Mystery of Golgotha
civilization, nourished at first by Rome, took shape primarily in the sign of the intellectual,
States. But the first great Empire
beings such as these who were the first ones able to speak about the Mystery of Golgotha. One can
the original understanding of Christ. The first understanding occurred in Gnosis with the remains
times of the Middle Ages. The authority-principle prevailed and now, for the first time, a
the modern age arose. And we see this mutual interlocking particularly in the first half of the

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 7: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 6
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the Christ-experience of the first half of the twentieth century will come in an unexpected way.
inherited from parents, grandparents and so on. The first thing people ask about a child nowadays
essentially an inheritance from the first, second, third and fourth conditions. What he bears as
will have first to transform itself into other conditions.'
be developed which will direct mankind towards the new manifestation of the Christ in the first

Title: Talk To Young People:
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observed it in its first misty light, when the youth of the 1870s
we need from young persons is first and foremost the will to try to
warmly what is alive in the young today. We tried first of all
anthroposophy is not given first place but is rather something

Title: "Heaven and Earth will pass away but my words will not pass away"
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Trinity Sunday, which is the first Sunday after Pentacost.
the evolution of the earth, we say: The first, second, third and fourth
the post-Atlantean period. The three first earth periods were, in a
the first half again represents a repetition, and the second a
active development. Hence, we find that the first three cultural

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture I: Tree of Life - I
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problems, the existence of which we hardly guessed before, first
Golgotha lies approximately at the conclusion of the first third of
as their task the first incorporation of the secrets of the Mystery
regard to the Mystery of Golgotha. The first is what took place as
continued in a certain current throughout the whole of the first
Augustine first accepts all the elements of the old withered
— and already in the first chapters you will
and in the first place there flows into them what we have now
way. My dear friends, let us consider first the Italian peninsula,

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture II: Tree of Life - II
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first instance through the physical body, through the senses, the
consequences for our human life of these facts. Let us first examine

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture III: The Power of Thought
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in the first place a great difficulty which has sprung from the
planet from the sun took place; that it proceeded for the first time
first a process of knowledge. It begins with an intellectual process,
only the first most imperfect steps have been taken, you will not
consul. That was the first thing.
Augustus was the first stage. (see the

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture IV: Harmonizing Thinking, Feeling and Willing
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the human being drawn schematically, we should first be concerned
the entire reality of which man must first of all accept in himself,
of the earth. Only through first feeling ourselves to be identified
twofold nature lies concealed. In the first place, the connection of
For let us suppose that a second man meets the first man, a second
first man the world concept held by the second, and the first allows
two very important rules. The first is that we must possess the
leave out the first part, he would make a strong impression. It is

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture V: Tree of Knowledge - I
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unless you first come to understand where these proofs originate. For
first he would have to adapt himself to the new conditions. Thus it
Moon-existence) and Space (during the Earth-existence) first entered
in which the Old Moon separated from the Sun. Then for the first time
to Earth, we have for the first time, through this macrocosmic
Sun-existence. Although the first rudiments of our sense-organs had
sense-organs were first opened by the separation of the Sun and the
anything. With this development of the senses develops for the first
therefore spoke of the first world through which he lives as the
sun's must first come in from outside, must harness sense-perceptions
... how this is born out of the macrocosm, then for the first time
in the first line we are shown at once that we are concerned with
the possession-relation into what has first arisen in space and time.

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture VI: Tree of Knowledge - II
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stressed that the first rudiments of the sense-organs were present in
The first thing, however, which is
with what we can call physical operations. On Old Saturn the first
world that we first build up our soul process, insofar as the process
It is interesting that in the first
in the first place thoroughly work ourselves out of our dependence on
body and calls forth movements, inner movements there, at first only

Title: World Downfall and Resurrection
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which shines over from the first centuries of Christendom
thought and idea in those first centuries of Christendom was
mode of thinking of the first centuries of Christen' dom.
the first verses of the Gospel of St John in the form in which
they are commonly rendered. If we read the first verses of this
subsequent centuries. Think of the first verses of the Gospel
try to understand the attitude of men living in the first
first three sections of the great work of John Scotus Erigena,
and the return to the Godhead at rest. The first three
Christian only when we reach the fourth. The first three
Fathers of the first centuries of Christendom. Their
in the first centuries of Christendom there was added to this
namely the Nature Spirits. The minds of men during the first
was for the upholding of the teaching contained in the first
the ideas and mental outlook of those who lived in the first
difficult to realise that in the first centuries of Christendom
downfall of the world conceived by the first Christians has
that is described in the first three sections of the work has
life in the first centuries of Christendom — derived, of
during the first centuries of Christendom related to a world
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Title: Lecture: Philosophy and Anthroposophy
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A First Edition publication from 1929.
A First Edition publication from 1929. An article from the
world, first develops in the soul faculties not yet evident in ordinary
first advancing beyond them. We must seek access to both methods of
the first obstacle against which we strike in our effort to attain
first thinker to be considered in this sense is, in fact, Thales.
with that personality who appears as the very first philosopher in the
essential characteristic of the philosopher, manifested for the first time
And since this may be said for the first time of Aristotle, it is not
but he was regarded most especially in the first Christian period and
thirteenth century) to concern themselves with Aristotle. The first
as essence of the form, is conceived by the Scholastics, firstly as
we have first carefully prepared. It is necessary that we should have the
we are required in the first place to work our way through lengthy
been attained. In the first place, man would have achieved an inwardly
matter, however grotesque this may seem at first sight. For the sake of a
follows that they must first have become united with that
first find free access to the world? The reason is that it finds its way
the first place, expressly constructed by ourselves; it is of merely formal
reality is the goal of human effort, and the first step towards its
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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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Speaking to the teachers at the first Waldorf school in Stuttgart, Steiner
comprehend. On the contrary it will infuriate them. We can first speak to
first course, and then later in the teachers' conferences, concerning the
first class. Now our teaching will be bad every time, will never have
fulfilled its purpose, if after working for a year with this first class we
for the teaching of a first class, a second and third class, etc., so that
again, say from the eighth to the first class. Yes, now it might be
you have the good fortune to begin again with the first class, you will
better than it was the first time; the effect will simply be a different

Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture II: The Three Fundamental Forces in EducatioN
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Speaking to the teachers at the first Waldorf school in Stuttgart, Steiner
first as bodily forces shaping the head and then from the seventh year
collaborates in the shaping of the human being. At first it helps form the
I first described, whose outer expression is the change of teeth, and in
is rising up out of man, what must first be transformed to become human.
first in himself, finding visibility in the seventh year with the change of
first is missing; for the second a guiding, pointing hand; for the third

Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture III: Spiritual Knowledge of Man as the Fount of Educational Art
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Speaking to the teachers at the first Waldorf school in Stuttgart, Steiner
distinguish three very distinctly different inner activities. Firstly
organism first of all — and our ear nerves are organised
first talk. You can do this very well if you feel it. Through the fact that
of speech that comes to life first within man. Indeed, the element of sound
and butter, it is in the first place a conscious process; but what happens

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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Speaking to the teachers at the first Waldorf school in Stuttgart, Steiner
astrality, the ego being of man; and turning our attention to the first
first of all the ether body from the astral body — when
manner. First of all this fertilization works on the rest of the organism
will have to set this side by side with what was said in the first and the

Title: Social Understanding: Lecture II: Social Understanding Through Spiritual Scientific Knowledge
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Speaking to the teachers at the first Waldorf school in Stuttgart, Steiner
know, the first of the capacities that leads man into supersensible realms
of teeth to puberty, and from puberty till about the twenty-first year. If
organisation during the first seven years of his life, become, as it were,
the source of youthful ideals between the fourteenth and the twenty-first
considerable difference in this respect in the first, second and third
the twenty-first year. The will working in us up till the seventh year
have the earth's interior in the first period of life; encircling air in
twenty-first year. Not until the age of twenty-one does man tear himself

Title: Buddha and the Two Boys: Lecture I: Buddha and the Two Boys of Jesus
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These two lectures are a First Edition English translation of lectures given
possible for the first time to speak about a subject which had not been
is usually such that first facts of the Akashic Chronicle are made known,
developed slowly at first. Outwardly it showed no particularly outstanding
even if at first more or less incomprehensible to those around him. The
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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These two lectures are a First Edition English translation of lectures given
qualities, but at first not with those qualities which would have led man
especially in the first two periods of human life; the qualities which,
developed first. It is tangible to prove from external history that
preconditions. If we observe the plant in its growth, we see first the
From the first

Title: Lecture: Art As A Bridge Between The Sensible And The Supersensible
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aftermath of the First World War and the 'flu pandemic'
On the earth we first of
Of the plants the dead do not see in the first place the forms we see
one thinker is accorded the same weight as the other. On first reading

Title: Raphael's Mission in the Light of the Science of the Spirit
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individualities, of whom one had at first assumed, they light
with his first teacher,
entered the city? First of all, by their conduct the inhabitants
evolved first, ascending as far as the human being. However,
What precedes this time? We see, first of all, the centuries in
feelings must first have arisen in the soul. Even so, what has
that revealed the Greek spirit. The centuries of the first
Raphael, in the first few pages where, in casting a glance at
Fundamentally, the works of Raphael first embarked on their

Title: Leonardo's Spiritual Stature: Lecture
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graphically conjures before us for the first time an expression
first place. Since he showed talent in drawing early on, he was
Leonardo would first of all let the idea arise of whatever he
Among the more significant pictures in his first Florentine
Human beings directed their attention first of all to the sense
Humanity had first to become mature for this. The centuries
us now look at him as an artist in the first place. Art had
facial features express indeed in the first place something of

Title: Fairy Tales: in the light of Spiritual Investigation
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as a child in the first years of life, whether in our middle
little to do with each other in the first instance, and
she becomes queen one day, she is to grant him the first
every age, from their first to their last breath. It need not
encountering the giants, he first entered into a
human soul against the forces of Nature — first

Title: The Worldview of Herman Grimm in Relation to Spiritual Science
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materials, are first collected, and from these the attempt is
millennia. The first millennium for him is the Greek
life. And finally, at the end of the first thousand years
second millennium, the first Christian millennium. The Roman
Thus, with Herman Grimm, one is first conducted into the
scholarly enough. But Herman Grimm states on the very first
Grimm's first period.
the physical plane. The first of these novellas, “The

Title: Imperialism: Lecture 1
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in a way to be as effective as possible. Today I would like, at first
to judge. We have experienced how at first in various parts of Europe
sufficient to study this first phase of imperialism only in the last,
That was the first form in which
The first imperialism is
they are symbols. The first phase was characterized by realities, the
During the first imperialism, when all was
to the times of the first imperialism, many elements of which are
manner in which Islam spread, however, corresponded to the first
And something also remained of the first
first phase of imperialism. It was not so much a question of what was
The first imperialism had
during the first imperialism the kings, in the second imperialism the
Whereas in the first phase the
which has nothing of the old in it, can find room. The old must first

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beings amongst the visible people on earth. First must come the age
and beneath its surface something else appears [blue]. When the first
the first stage of imperialism when the god walked around in human
firstly according to religion, whereas in the lodges the religions
Tories were in opposition. What kind of names were they? In the first
first in the English- speaking world, then in the rest of the world,

Title: Imperialism: Lecture 3
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imperialism of the first human societies, of which I spoke yesterday,
during the first phase of imperialism here in the physical world the
was when it first occurred to people that a possibility for
can hardly be considered as existing during the first stage. And the
platitudes in a manner that only had meaning for the first stage. In
the first stage it was really the case that the ruler's will was
respects the Catholic Church harks back to the first stage. It
contains something like a sham or a shadow of the first stage of
very first imperialism.
strong that the Catholic Church is a relic of the first stage of
framework of the first imperialism.
development. Whereas during the oldest, the first stage the Church
that was attributed to the Church in the first stage. Thus the
boundaries which exist as the result of the war [First World War
tell you today, first of all to all of you, but especially to those

Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture I: Anthroposophy and Natural Science
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you to take up this first lecture.
of the plant was first developed by Goethe in his idea of

Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture II: The Human and the Animal Organisation
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Here is a First Edition English translation of a series of seven
theme in question today, specifically the very first of
total dynamic of his being in the course of his first year of
of sight, one could call it, in a dualistic way. First being
organism which is only achieved in the course of the first
arrived at firstly through imaginative observation. Therefore,

Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture III: Anthroposophy and Philosophy
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It doesn't matter that Hegel, who belonged to the first third
Nicaea. It places us completely back in the first three post

Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture IV: Anthroposophy and Pedagogy
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Here is a First Edition English translation of a series of seven
and results as based on research by people who first need to be
case this doesn't make it unnecessary that at least the first
— if one focuses on the first important transformation
organism, works also in the formation of the brain in the first
latently in the first seven years in the physical organism,
of the first developmental phase, where the soul-spiritual was
thinking, which first needs to be experienced through others,
you must first examine what the child has actually done because

Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture V: Anthroposophy and Social Science
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where it was first misunderstood in the worst possible way. I
misconceptions lies what we first have to strive for
was first published, it took place in the middle of the European
other thing you could come across would be that at first those,
With the first appearance of my
attractive, but it should first be asked how we can enhance the
first of all, out of this thinking the economic life could not
first become independent of human thinking, developed
through events and actions. Conditions first need to be
see, it first has to be explained what is meant by such things.

Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture VI: Anthroposophy and Theology
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start. Those people who first entered into the Anthroposophical
firstly finds perceptions possible through the senses of his
acknowledged in the first Christian centuries. We then see how
development; all of that must first be searched for and

Title: Impulse of Renewal: Lecture VII: Anthroposophy and the Science of Speech
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Here is a First Edition English translation of a series of seven
language here. I arrived at the first two steps, Gratitude and
the German language; I had spoken in the first hour from 10 to
first examine the process of consciousness in order to come to
linguistics, move towards having a deep need to first
undergo essential psychological processes first, to experience
must first make this experience lively if you want to
linguistics that one first lives into what actually has to
linguistics — firstly the sober, pure object is to be
scientific character which assumes that first of all one must

Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 1
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Lectures to the First Class, part 1
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first and foremost thing to be observed in this School must of
First of all, I would like to present to your hearts and to
and sternness: We must first make ourselves truly human, warm
greatness and the sublimity of nature is, at first, spiritual
know that the first thing to come from the darkness that must
as spirituality. This is veiled at first in darkness for human
the Spirit-Messenger, who appears at first to be similar to the
seriousness, we should be aware of how at first softly, most
the first beast, the crooked back,
the first beast, the crooked back,
course say that. We must first comprehend the nature and the
Guardian of the Threshold characterizes the first beast, which
friends, by means of this first introductory lesson, with which
the first beast, the crooked back,
the next lesson of the First Class.

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being. And we want to first develop this sensation before
first sensation should make us aware of how the human being, in
constitutes the first stage of self-knowledge. Self-knowledge
Behold the first beast, the crooked back
knowledge is not present at first in the soul, but cowardice
from real knowledge, firstly in our thinking. Normal human
thinking is reflected in the thought-phantom of the first
after the first third of the fourth century had passed. And now
first beast is the reflection of our will. The will does not
of will - but also deep in the unconscious. The first beast
first beast's bony spirit:
first beast is surely capable of revealing in a mirror-image
first beast's bony spirit:
first stanza of this mantram is written on the blackboard:]
first we feel what each stanza contains.
we feel first: “denies”, and then “hollows
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those who, at first, only experience the transformation in
threshold of the spiritual world. That is the very first
we have already seen, only darkness streams at first from this
That is the first experience of the spiritual world, that
semblance and reality is problematic at first. That is
illusion. Therefore the first thing one must learn in order to
is quite different in the spiritual world. You must first grow
the first beast, the crooked back
The first beast's bony spirit:
point the first lessons of this class also become practical in
first verse, beginning with the last words, is written on the
we have the first mantric verse which can give us the strength
Guardian of the Threshold's first demand.
Just as through the first mantric verse we enter thinking, we
First of all, selfhood had to “revere” by sinking
Here [first verse] is only semblance;
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with the Guardian of the Threshold is the first thing one
For they do not separate on their own. At first when we think
That is why when I gave the first lesson I said that it is the
must first live and weave wordlessly in the soul before it can
first verse had a trochaic rhythm, the second an iambic rhythm
souls. So we learned the first verse, which is related to
First, we developed the appropriate feelings in respect to the
first beast's bony spirit:
corresponding verses [about the third, second and first beasts]
first glance there seems to be little difference between
depths ...], next to the third beast. At first we can not free
when we approach the first beast, which wants to hinder us from
first beast's bony spirit:
comforter and grace-giving as opposed to what the first beast
Take for example the first verse: “Feel how the earth's
the third verse, which begins: “The first beast's bony
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through our senses, but which at first indicate no relationship
powerless. Our thoughts are at first things we own which allow
sun's first light of dawn you yourself should shine down on the
temptingly. And we first realize that there is something

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become conscious of his true relation to the world, he first
may not simply continue to see things as first glances provide;
Here we have the first descent, climbing downward to the
the person striding by: first the inner feeling of fear of
first part of the mantra is written:]
Luciferic temptation in the form of helplessness. First
without having first developed a god-given, spirit-given will
speak. Therefore, in the first lessons I mentioned how the

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First if all, this School represents the impulse of the
objective truth. Among the first duties of an esoteric student
which is the first experience towards the attainment of real
the human being is at first unconsciously asleep. Under normal
That is the first powerful impression of true knowledge, my
can take the first step beyond the threshold.
thinking to be concentrated in the head, here [in the first
yourselves for the first time: I want to take the Guardian of
Oh, I didn't take the words seriously enough the first time; I
first admonition, which you give to yourself, is earnest. The
will return to the first admonition - as we will also do now -

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that many anthroposophical friends are here for the first time
stamp made, first of all because, although very abstract, a
used, the agreement of the Vorstand at the Goetheanum is first
step after the fourth, not the seventh step after the first; we
listening at first - by speaking the mantric formula which
points to what has resounded throughout the ages, first from
first the sun and moon, but also the planets which belong to
first.
order to see in the light the origin of our own being. At first
had pressed them into each other. [Around the first drawing an
the physical world. When one looks at man, one sees at first
first in darkness - the true thinking which glows through
[The first verse is written on the blackboard:]
here [in the first verse] must be: “behind thinking's
harmonically interwoven with the first.
Here [in the first verse] “willing” arises from the
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First - without taking notes - let us be reminded of the
Firstly, we humans should in later life be more like we were to
remember back to this first stage of infancy, and therefore
When you begin to notice it, then you will first feel
Thus, we let the first stage of this inner experience work in
for the first time you know what thought is. Before you didn't
first mantra sentence “support” is underlined.]
we will note that once the first part of the exercise is
[Alongside the first eight lines of the mantra is written:]

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picture of the first stage of esoteric
the imaginations from the other side [arrows]. At first we live
[The first
spiritual depths is how you hear the lines of the first verse.
experience in the meditation: first listen, then bring feeling;
meditation in dialog in which you always objectify the first
part of the verse is arranged in connection with the first
If, firstly,
speech of the heart, we must correctly feel how, firstly,
as I have described, then when the first line resounds, our
life when the etheric body was first formed.
given here without first asking permission. Only with

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is sufficient to say that the First Class has lost a truly
At first man speaks the I through his thoughts into his
the beings of the higher hierarchies themselves, at first
[The first verse is written on the blackboard.]
That is the first dialog with the cosmos and with the
must be conscious of this. Just as we hear in the first verse
appears. The temple, which I only sensed at first, becomes
dome is sensed after the first verse; see the temple around
within the temple, accomplished by the first, second and
Steiner on the construction of the first Goetheanum, where she along with

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First let us recite the verse which reminds us of what comes from the cosmos
at first by means of healthy human understanding – then
which are spoken quietly from the soul. The first mantras in
it hears three sounds. The first sound comes from the distant
First we had “Behold your senses' shining radiance.” This
That is third. First we should see the radiance of the senses, then
first lines: “Listen to the field of thinking”.
[The first mantra is written on the blackboard.
The word “thinking” in the first line is underlined
the first from the hierarchy of the
from higher hierarchies. Whereas there [indicates the first
[Mantra II is written on the blackboard. In the first line
The first resounds from the ranks of the
thinking, which we would think if we did not first evoke the

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First of all we shall speak the imperative words from
first cosmic space speaks, the universe itself resounds to
Let us take first where the will is most evident in
understood at first. Because the profound sense in which it
consciousness offers us at first is maya, the great illusion.
of the First Hierarchy. However, with normal consciousness,
That is the first. The second leads us more into the
Cherubim it weaves itself into humanity and at first resounds
First speaks what originates in the universal distance:
first hierarchy:
that in the first part of the mantra.
expresses the first Hierarchy's revelation in a beautiful
man and the first Hierarchy in the field of will:
first arrive at the threshold where the Guardian stands, and
Know first the earnest Guardian,
you must first forcefully conquer

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knowledge, he comes to an abyss, which at first seems bottomless.
impure willing, feeling and thinking — that they first
to us, how the hierarchies speak to us, how at first everything
dangers await him, dangers which appear at first to be slight
normal human understanding, first in knowledge and also through
The moment we leave the physical body — also with the first
great [first] World War.
beckons. You look at his face. At first he calls out to you,
again all three answers in order to freely choose the first
[The first part of the mantra is
elements. All that we consume for nourishment must first
Here [in the first verse] is:
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“I” the human being says at first.
The person first says “I”:
heard in our souls. Thus we meditate first hearing the
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first as the blackest darkness. It stands like a wall before
The first being we encounter stands at this abyss.
that we may not enter immaturely. He is the first spiritual
speaks the first words to us if we wish to take
of the Threshold who first admonishes us to look back at our
the abyss into the realm which at first is dark to us.
our whole bodies when we are on it – the first, the
world. We first learn to feel in the spiritual world before
the elements – at first earth, water and air; fire will
be the subject of the next lesson – So first the
speak one after the other. The third hierarchy with the first
mantra: first the Angeloi, then Archangeloi, and thirdly the
first we believe that we are experiencing our thoughts alone.
[The first part of the mantra is written on
darkness. First we learn feeling. The Guardian speaks in
Threshold raises his questions. The beings of the first
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esoteric situation in which we feel ourselves: first of all,
in imaginative thoughts. At first these imaginative
The Guardian of the Threshold is the first
first night-bedecked, gradually becomes lighter. At first we
beyond it, first we feel — not yet see — how the
in us and gives us our inner configuration. And the first
by the hierarchies — come from all sides: first
in our ear. And what were at first admonishing, earnest
[The first part of the new mantra is written on

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which one must first attain for true knowledge of the
threshold at first feels himself to be within light, and
experiences the world in a new way in that he first hears what
first drawing],
first drawing],
This is the imagination which the Guardian first
[This first stanza of the mantra is written on the
beyond the rainbow, at first breathing in the cosmic bowl's
which at first was a dark, night-bedecked sphere, spreads out
listen. It is the first time in the course of situational
it taken over by the beings of the first hierarchy and made by
What is remarkable is this: first we were witnesses to a
beings of the first hierarchy begin to speak the cosmic words. At
first it seems as though we were only to be listeners to a
First the Angeloi, Archangeloi, Archai made their voices heard;

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gaze to the highest spirits, the first hierarchy, who now turn
now. He spoke from out of the darkness. He spoke when we first
[The first part of the mantra is written on the
connection, first to their students, and through their students
first heard within the earthly sphere:
speech. On the first tablet, long before we arrived at the abyss
Recognize first the earnest Guardian,
You must first forcefully seize

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force, contain the path into spirit-land, first passing the
Guardian of the Threshold into what is at first a dark,
beings of the first hierarchy speak. And now we are able to
the choir of the first hierarchy resounds – the
From the realm of the first hierarchy comes the answer:
enter the esoteric realm, we should first feel that the
first enter the realm of the Seraphim, Cherubim and
the realm of the first hierarchy:
[The first part of the mantra is written on
the first hierarchy:
Again from the realm of the first hierarchy
First it was the flames that speak the words;
the beings of the first hierarchy were giving us
From the realm of the first hierarchy:
question comes from the first hierarchy:
From the realm of the first hierarchy:
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given the first nineteen First Class Lessons (Volumes One and
for all those who are here for the first time it means
for the first time, the meaning of the School must be explained
the first time — if you receive the words spoken here as
the extent it lies in your karma. But the first step will be to
first step. Therefore, what Michael has to say to present-day
work for each individual. And the first thing is to understand
first, we must observe the surroundings that have been given
and radiance, then can you first say with complete intensity:
aware that the first being who confronts us stands where the
That is the Guardian of the Threshold's first admonishment, the
first admonition: to feel light as darkness, darkness as light,
is different if we first hear these words from sensory beings,
life in order to cross over the abyss. By at first beckoning us
must first recognize this before we can become aware, in real
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members of the First Class, from stenographic notes not revised
First, however, let our souls again hear the words which
of being, which at first confronts the human soul as black,
being, comes from what appears at first as black, night-cloaked
But then he used words which at first are dismaying for the
by the Guardian by letting the first of the beasts, which
first beast — the true spiritual form of our willing,
Behold the first beast, the crooked back,
Behold the first beast, the crooked back,
own being which at first confronts us as the answer to the call
our feeling; about the first beast, which is interwoven with
must have first transfigured it. The corpse lies in the coffin.
The first beast's bony spirit:
— first is “image”, the second “force” —
The first beast's bony spirit:
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After he first showed us how we should stand in respect to our
lesson in this Michael-School — how we are first to delve
followed by an unstressed syllable. So, we have in the first
are placed above the first syllables of each line and then
to being. Here [the first syllable] we are below: here [the
are placed over the first two syllables of each line, and it
That we have entered in reality is expressed in that we first
alongside the process; in that we first arrive at the
first two syllables of each line on the blackboard and the
[“trochaic” is written alongside the first verse];
first not distinguishable according to its place, whereas in

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the elements. At first the earth-element supports us in an
[first seal gesture]
must first be granted by either Dr. Wegman or by me. The

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Then the Guardian of the Threshold raised us, first showing us,
first representative of Michael, for the real leader of this
realize that our thinking is at first animal-like. We must
our willing — first in the earth-element with thinking,
first, we only retain the wonderful, all-embracing forms of the
alive. At first the forming of the world is apprehended in the
soul” will be rescued. Here [in the first verse]:
the mantras which are the first that we speak when we arrive in
first words, “I revere the Father”, are spoken
first gesture means:

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being at first as a gloomy, night-cloaked darkness. The path
in the near future, we consider it first, so what we carry out
will, however, as it emerges from our being, remains at first
thought, all our thinking, is there as the first brightness
[Alongside the first sign on the blackboard is written:]
spirit, in that it contains thoughts. At first, though, this
I will read the lines as the appear to us at first when the
seal makes us feel the first line in this gesture:
we know, this first gesture means [beside the lower gesture is

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esoteric school could not have been created without first
fall into unauthorized hands is the first requisite; but also,
become lighter, at first most gently. You feel now the first
stands there in the region, in which we first were with all our
what seems at first, to the senses, to be black, night-cloaked
way that at first draws our attention to what this person is.
Therefore, the first words the Guardian of the Threshold speaks
human beings, the first words he speaks are:
first words we hear on the other side, as we look back at the
[The first mantra is written on the blackboard, together with a
his body lives at first in his half-existence. The human being
the first part “thinking” and “sensory
the third line of the first part “Willing” is
enhanced: Here [in the first part] it involved letting flow
— here [in the first part] it was the willing that is
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proletarian movement. It is to some extent the first of its
between birth and the first change of teeth. An enormous

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We present a First Edition, never before translated into English,
must come into existence first — in as far as it must be
it is to work in a healthy way, three members. The first
capitalism — therefore, the first member of the social
individuals. Similar to the first system, the economic system
in the present and near future. The first member of the social
foundation of the first elementary origins chained by human
are to be created in this first social member. In the second

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world view, perhaps particularly during the first years when
will be the first consideration. What kind of experience is had
This is what lives as the first true form of the social
first point I want to touch on is from this view I'm
humanity in his entire statement: he, Karl Marx, first pointed

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We present a First Edition, never before translated into English,
a way by superficial observation as the first two. To observe
first case, when it is the same, then it is not necessary, the
July and the first days of August, the process of coagulation
This is what we can do first: promoting mutual social
we must first work on the way to a real social solution. This

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We present a First Edition, never before translated into English,
way: the first, being like a spiritual question, the second,
first, not from the basis as perhaps some of you may believe
stand first of all. To do so is to develop insight into the
one wants to talk about the practical aspects of the first
social organism. Its first member would be the spiritual life.
remember very clearly how a large group of the first social
may be made, firstly took scientifically orientated methods of

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We present a First Edition, never before translated into English,
they say, within the social conditions we have as the first
must be decisive, first in the natural foundations and then
originates in the first place out of the individuality's
most serious way, when in the first instance a healthy social
Rudolf Steiner: Yes, regarding the first honourable speaker I
refutation of what one had just said. The first speaker spoke
to me don't have so much against what the first speaker had
first speaker believes that according to my lecture I spoke to
What the first speaker brought, for the greatest part, doesn't
that they are useless. For this reason, I believe that it first
First of all, we need to begin with something you might regard

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the nature of Mysticism. In the first centuries of Christendom the
convey to us those archetypal moods arising from chaos in the first
wisdom it was created. But first we must consider certain things which
of barbarians — as Voltaire relates. First, unworthy treatment
first idea of Parsifal was born. Many things happened in the

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go back through the Middle Ages to the first Christian centuries we
us in modern times to have any true conception of the first three or
certain personalities in the first three or four centuries after the
century A.D.) only the first, elementary traces of this kind of
of the first to change these imaginations into abstract concepts and
wisdom because it was still cultivated in many places during the first
South of Europe during the first four centuries after the Mystery of
first centuries of Christendom there were a number of men who were
many hands in the Roman world during the first Christian centuries and
by Romanism over the first conceptions of the Mystery of Golgotha!

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These lectures, given after the burning of the first Goetheanum and
communities we can experience our first awakening to the spirit in our
sure, only a first attempt has been made. But the endeavor had
has not yet been born, the first community-building element is
we owe to language in the formation of the first primitive
however, to understand first how a community-building element
state of the soul. From the first we awake into the second
the other human being. But we must first become aware of this
world. We begin to develop the first understanding of the
Anthroposophy first begin. Indeed, we are compelled to take our
“There for the first time do we become human beings so
awake that we then understand Anthroposophy for the first time
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These lectures, given after the burning of the first Goetheanum and
communities we can experience our first awakening to the spirit in our
wish at first to point out that there have, of course, been
the two others: first, to the every-day consciousness to which
Against this there is a powerful antidote, but it must first be
however, that one shall first school oneself up to a certain
October 1920, we were able to conduct for three weeks the first

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this have for human nature? In the first place human
beings we need a mineral body first and foremost to be
beings must first do it right.

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— the peoples of that time migrated first in an
cultural contents that had first been achieved in Asia.
sufficiently stressed — was first of all taken in
life in the second half of the 18th and first half of the
perceptible to the senses but with the first among

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one first has to ascend by some kind of spiritual, inner
first stage in the evolution of human empires: when the
to say that the ruler was a symbol. At the first stage
existed at the first stage of empire development now held
true. During the first stage the god lived on earth, went
when Christ Jesus appeared among men people first had to
see in the first instance — we'll leave aside the
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a fact I also mentioned in my first public lecture here.
the world, people must first of all give recognition and
cleric who had first written those twenty-three lies, a
been saying. What I said, first of all in the medical
first place truth has inner power. This inner power can

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anthroposophy to come alive in oneself first of all, and
The first
again, for what has happened to the first appeal should
approached, told the same story as the first. When it
absolute opposite of what the first had told me. I do not
question is whether the first says the same as the sixth
first person says and then the seventh, only to find on
the grain with them. The first and most essential thing

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modern life, a life that in the first instance is a
into the physical world, a first taking hold of the body,

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Let us first of all consider the ordinary political
world again. The first stage consists of caricatures of
maintained as mere theory, because people first had to

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aspect is the head organization. Here, we have first of
of the Middle first appeared during the latter part of
the early signs to be seen today? The first signs are
culture is to come, and the first signs are there, but at
the South; its first beginnings go back as far as Egypt.
really is in the first instance the business of the West.
materialism afterwards. The first half of the 19th
in my first mystery play. For the moment let me just say
the first attempt because it had been largely developed
Keely with his engine as a first forerunner. Tolstoy

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belongs to the first half of the 20th century, as I have mentioned a
the two. First of all, however, we must get a definite idea as to what we
beings are not yet inclined to accept this. In the first place these
which we may expect during the first half of the 20th century, enters
entering into human evolution in the 20th century. In my first mystery
In the first place there are four Gospels. The divine spirit reveals
find this very obvious. The first signs of it are already to be seen
Christ event that is to come in the first half of the 20th century.
during the first half of the 20th century will not use the language of
during the first half of the 20th century?’ If we understand the
First of all we must have

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 11: Modern Science and Christianity, Threefold Social Order, Goetheanism
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four. Essentially the first four refer to aspects that
mission is in the first place to achieve full ego
century, during the first half of the 20th century, and
Jesus first appeared in a physical body at a time the
Christianity first entered into Earth evolution at a time
started with completely abstract ideas. The first was the
we create the first beginnings for an evolution of the
to life in its first beginnings through associations. The
must first of all show itself in associations formed in

Title: Life Between Two Incarnations
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happening in this interim, we must first consider the nature of man.
physical body has been described as the first, the life body as the
I-bearer, the fourth member in the human nature, makes man the first
four-foldness, the first member of which is the visible physical body,
consider first. And on the way they are connected with each other
take place for the first time. Now, in death, not only does the astral
has passed through death, he first has a feeling that he is growing
various desires are represented, which must now first be discarded or
that he must first attach a new astral body to himself. Then, so to

Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture I
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Speaking to you here for the first time in these rooms on an
first of all-gratitude to those friends who, in my unavoidable
thrust forwards into the first place in dealing with them.
freedom of soul. Men must first regain that quality: the last
giving it first the form it had in Lemurian times, then the
humanity, the Waldorf School, in the first instance connected
education. That is what first gives theory a living quality. It
word, of two necessities- — first, the discovery of our

Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture II
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first thing which we must examine is the effect of the various
standpoint as the first and second post-Atlantean epochs.
(I have discussed this at greater length in the first chapter
parties especially in those places where the first Revolution
first reflected from the Greeks and Romans, so the spiritual
believe in Christ and in what the State does.” First he
written on the first page, and specific instructions as to the

Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture III
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the first instance, to the instinctive conditions of the fourth
first Christian centuries could not last: it was bound to
perceived instinctively through the first centuries, was
again, and to do that we must first of all learn how thoroughly

Title: Problems of Our Time: Main Features of the Social Question and the Threefold Order of the Social Organism
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of our age, of which we hear the first faint tone from the
economic because it first meets us in the economic sphere,
First we have the phrase “surplus value,” of which
men who first showed me any friendliness when it came
the present age are those to whom we owe the first really free
with the Waldorf-Astoria Factory, we are establishing the first
But to be able to teach and educate him means learning first to
the State lies the first, central problem of the social
question. This is the first of the three self-dependent members
tasks of his life. This points us to the first member of the

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