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Title: Memória e Amor
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over from the life before birth, and of the quality in the human soul

Title: Evil and Spiritual Science
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Dornach, Switzerland. From Bn 63; GA 63; CW 63.
our soul just from theoretical or scientific viewpoints; it is
issue. So today, we wish to try and consider what arose from
basis from which perhaps we can approach some way to finding an
striving for peace and equilibrium, led to freedom from the
back, so that the clarity of soul vision is extracted from the
with those features, from which one strives upwards; it must be
human being can plunge down, from which his wisdom is far
be from his/her own free choice, his/her wisdom.
from a spiritual and a material-bodily nature. By plunging down
matter, which from the outset creates obstacles and limitations
from an entirely different region: to the significant Japanese
it constructed from matter: and that entity he called
Ki. And from the particular juxtaposition of Ri and Ki
all beings arose, according to him. For this thinker from the
from Ki the will streams out against it — and with will
thinker from the East, who lived a reasonably short time before
is not far removed from what in Western lands, at the time of
us try to call up others before our souls, from amongst our
same animal kingdom issues? So Lotze turned away from the idea
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Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 1: Popular Occultism, Introtroduction
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Consequently these lectures are a valuable guide from the
setting out from man, from the nucleus of his being, we shall study
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
are all as real as the former. This is the astral body seen from within.
Seen from the outside, the astral body does not exist at all as far
The external form of the aura is quite different from that of the physical
in the child. From the first to the seventh year the physical body unfolds;
from within. Consequently, during this period, the only way of educating
refrain from influencing the etheric body and astral body prematurely.
From the first to the seventh year the child needs visible, perceptible
body and astral body separate themselves from it and ascend. It is not
astral body separates itself from them. But at the moment of death something
from a great height, and afterwards regained consciousness. At such
etheric body emancipates itself from the physical body, it can follow
From the seventh year onward
the forces of the child's etheric body are free and from the seventh
itself wholly from the fourteenth to the 21st year. It begins to unfold
us from outside. In the word “I” the eternal touches the
from the physical body. The etheric body and astral body gradually dissolve,

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 2: Man's Ascent into the Supersensible World
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Consequently these lectures are a valuable guide from the
differs from the physical world. Those who enter it, face a confusing
mass of phenomena. What they first perceive, is so different from what
connected with time, we reckon everything from the beginning to the
a human life, for example, is not traced from birth to death, but from
are their own passions which go out from them and appear as a reflected
receives anything from outside, it nevertheless bears deep within it
shape; each thought that goes out from us, takes on shape in the astral
which goes out from the thing itself; the forms collide and destroy each
to resound; voices from the spiritual world can be heard.

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 3: The Different Conditions of Man's Life After Death
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Consequently these lectures are a valuable guide from the
from the astral body and the Ego. In the occult meaning we therefore
from the sleeping condition. Theosophical books sometimes describe death
during sleep and prevents us from having perceptions of the astral world.
After death the astral body is dispensed from this work indeed no longer to
of God. — Little by little the human being must free himself from
the condition in which he emancipates himself from everything which
being freed himself from physical life before death and the easier
violently severing themselves from the life of the senses, they will
teach us to turn away from life. The spiritual scientist may use the
And how your thoughts and concepts changed from the 10th to the 20th
bearing and walk from a sanguine, melancholic or phlegmatic person.

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 4: The Devachanic World
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Consequently these lectures are a valuable guide from the

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 5: Life Between Death and a New Birth
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Consequently these lectures are a valuable guide from the
from death to a new birth and follow how that which comes from a past
after death, the whole past life from birth to death stands before the
faces the soul as if it were quite estranged from it. The feelings
the soul until the etheric body separates from the astral body. The
them from within. In Kamaloca there is nothing which we did to others
magnet. The human being returning from Devachan, gathers astral substance
from the astral plane from many different directions, and the substance

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 6: Man's Return to a New Earthly Life
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Consequently these lectures are a valuable guide from the

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 7: Effects of the Law of Karma
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Consequently these lectures are a valuable guide from the
more perfect. The capacity of distinguishing truth from error is only
Everything coming from
or less larger part coming from the astral body, the greatest part coming
from the etheric body and generally everything coming from the physical
the animal kingdom proceeds from the astral plane, at least as far as
change in the vegetable kingdom is directed from the sphere of Devachan.

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 8: The Evolution of Man and of the Solar System; the Atlantic Evolution
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Consequently these lectures are a valuable guide from the
forefathers, the peoples who lived on our continent descended from the
greatly differed in aspect from modern man. Atlantis had a quite different
be viewed from four aspects. 1) By taking them naïvely and literally.
2) From the standpoint of science which considers itself far cleverer
than the authors of these documents. 3) From the standpoint of an allegorical-symbolic
arbitrary). 4) From the occult standpoint, by taking the things described
world upon Atlantis differed from the present one as greatly as the
human being of that time differs from modern man. The Atlantean's did
from the head. Human evolution consisted in fact that the etheric body
was quite different from those which followed. Particularly in the earlier
which enabled them to rise from the ground and soar above it. But these
from the present ones, in view of the much higher temperature. The human

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 9: Lemurian Development
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Consequently these lectures are a valuable guide from the
between animal and man be tought of? The theory of man's ascent from apes
assertion that man is descended from apes is like saying that the perfect
man descends from the imperfect one. They need not descend from one
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.
eliminated from the earth, which had given man the possibility to bring
course entirely different from the plants of to-day. Nevertheless when
itself from the earth, the plants turned completely around and again
turned their blossom to the sun. From that time onwards the blossom stretched
From the world-historical
substance. But life comes from the spirit. The spirit is consequently
the first original source, from which everything descends. And man is
the lower always comes from higher.

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 10: Paths of Occult Training
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Consequently these lectures are a valuable guide from the
post-Atlantean epoch), the Aryan, descends from the most highly developed
East. From there, they wandered into the region of present-day India. An
From the very outset, this ancient primeval science revealed the following
astral plane the Ptolemaic system is correct; for there one sets out from
training come from a deeply-founded knowledge. There are two fundamental

Title: i Spirituality: Lecture 1: Historical Symptomology, the Year 790, Alcuin, Greeks, Platonism, Aristotelianism, East, West, Middle, Ego
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point of contention and the conclusions have been drawn, more from sympathy and antipathy than
from real knowledge. This is one fact which, in a certain sense, I should like to mention as
Another fact which, from a look at history, I
when, from a spiritual-scientific standpoint, we look more deeply into the historical development
symptomatology constituted from the fact that one is aware that behind what takes it course as
comes as a symptom to the surface and can be judged discerningly from the
phenomena only if one has the possibility to penetrate more deeply from one's awareness of these
perception of the world should be directed to significant points and then, from what could be
seen from such points, the remaining content of world events be recognized. Goethe says of
significant point from which the neighbouring areas can be viewed and from which much can be
to a fact in the history of Western European humanity which, from the point of view of the usual
theory that this Greek developed from his thoroughly Greek mode of thinking, which was now just
constitution of soul from the Platonic one. Aristotelianism represents a completely different
element in the development of humanity from Platonism. And, if we follow Aristotelianism further,
was a highly spiritual culture which arose from an inner perception living pre-eminently in
soul-constitution was completely different from that of later humanity when, for an understanding
but of the world, the opposite side of zero from the credit side is truly something very real.
truly scientific must follow from this `I am'. One should be able, as it were, to deduce, to read
from this 'I am' an entire picture of the world. Kant cannot reach the 'I am'. Fichte immediately
same as me. It is so inexplicable to Fichte that Kant thinks differently from him, that he says:
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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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what comes from the spiritual world and plays into our physical world will take such a course
the special characteristics of this epoch are not directed from the spiritual world as they were
results from this. Above all it is essential that a social life take shape, but a social life
which, from our point of view, must have deep inner foundations. This must take shape despite the
life, are emerging ever more strongly from the depths of existence. On the one side we have the
and from the most varied points of view, how differently the human beings of the
other strata of the population. We have, distinct from that of other peoples, the conception of
life as a whole has hitherto been the economic life, it was from the economic conditions of the
only seems so, for such settlements would not be real; very significant effects will issue from
develop from these impulses, we can nevertheless dearly perceive how the views of life which do
develop, and which have developed in recent times, have taken their incentive from the impulses
political, and works with a religious fervour eastwards from Russia over into Asia. Over and
everything which comes from Central Europe and is conceived not out of economic points of view,
tried to counteract from the European continent everything that had resulted from
political conception. But a political conception is something that projects from earlier times
political conception could be no match for the modern conception from which the Navigation Act
Consider the fact that from Europe France colonized
brutal — this arose nevertheless from an economic thinking. When, in modern times,
after all, basically brought to the visible surface only from the underlying depths of the
essential task to be able to take up a stand towards life from this point of view.
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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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Yesterday I drew attention again, but from a
personalities who, under the influence of beings from the past who appear to them in
I have drawn your attention, from the most varied
human being of the ancient Orient had a highly developed spiritual life that flowed from a direct
dialectical thinking. So what came from oriental wisdom penetrated then into Western
civilization, and, with the exception of what stems from natural science and what can stem from
civilization as spiritual life is basically an inheritance from the ancient Orient. But this
faith, completely estranged from the world, has secured itself a place alongside worldly
From the Roman culture, and even already from the
direction of perceiving, feeling and willing, is descended from what, as the Germanic element,
moved in the stream of the migrations from East to West. But it is a peculiarity of this Germanic
And other things, too, were preserved apart from
frequently referred to in the course of the past years). These are traditions stemming from the
fourth post-Atlantean epoch, from the Graeco-Roman times, which, to be sure, are borrowings from
the East — from manuscripts — but have passed thoroughly through the Roman, the
[of the human being being penetrated from without by everything that arises from language]
one-sided elaboration of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution come from?
It comes from the fact that, in
ignores the spirit and that which lives into the soul from the spirit. Anyone who looks without
which was unwilling to consider the human being from the aspect of his spirit. 'Spirit' was only
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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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quite different from Schiller's. It was precisely because of the difference of their
two presentations of the same thing. One by Schiller, from the intellect as it were, though not
in the usual way that people do things from the intellect, but such that the intellect is
D or X deals with the subject because what is presented does not arise from the whole human
to go no further than these images. For had he, from his standpoint, tried to go further he would
new and fruitful stimulus through his journey to the South where much of the legacy from the
blossoming of oriental culture; in Greek art as he construed this for himself from Italian works
from imagination to inspiration, but an inspiration which they attained by means of outer nature.
reality from the spiritual world and would have been able to penetrate to the forms of the social
life which wish to be put into effect from the spiritual world — to the spiritual element
the intellect. We have to establish an economic life which, because it has to come from the
at school, something is given to us; something is sent down from the spiritual world. We take
which can arise not merely from the intellect but from still deeper forces, and which would be
and in numerous other comments by Goethe — that if something like a new impulse from the
in which East and West swirl and interpenetrate one another. From the East the sphere of the
Golden King; from the West the sphere of the Copper King. From the East, Wisdom; from the West,
the spirits of the West. This was the effect of preventing the will from coming into its own and
This is what arises from the vacillating human
beings of the Centre; from what, between economics and the reconstructing spirit-life, stands in
be so completely severed from their homeland as the Germans who became Americans, and yet
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Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 5: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 4
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amount of preparation, and today, to begin with, I shall try to characterize again from a certain
point of view the spiritual complexion of the civilized world and, from this point of view, draw
which, since that time, have become particularly important. But if, from the many characteristics
from the fact that it is just in this time that we find the particular development and
concerned with daily life. Although in olden times these faculties arose from the soul in a
dreamlike way, they were nevertheless faculties different from those of everyday life and it was
attained. People experienced it as knowing when, from the phenomena of nature, from the being of
know truly again when they say: In ancient times divine-spiritual beings spoke from the
culture was retained as a heritage from the ancient Orient. And when people still had this last
longing to experience something from the Orient — people did experience something of this
Europe. European thought and culture was, as it were, closed off from access to the Orient. But
under the influence of the economic life arising from the West, and in the decadent continuation
of the spiritual life which had been received from the Orient, to which the doors were now closed
Orient. I have described this from different aspects. In the Orient it was a matter of fathoming
economic element, which from the West has conquered the world with the aid of technology, is
technology from the West permeated this economic life that the new age arose. The life of this
life back to the land.' As though one could just remove the machine-age from the world! The
gains a life of its own and that, despite the fact that he brought it forth from the intellect,
Let us look at it from another side. Out of the
ideology arising from the economic life. It can hardly be said that there is a very strong
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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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has proceeded from a constitution of soul which we have often called a kind of instinctive
in the accounts of the old clairvoyants and, basically, as you know from my
turn, led to civic-political thinking. This spread from the South into those northern regions
You know from history and from what I have related
here from the spiritual-scientific point of view how this continuous cross-flow of the Roman
ecclesiastical element, and that which tried more or less to free itself from it, produced
From what source did this ancient oriental vision
simply knew that in the human beings that were sent as children from the spiritual worlds into
one individual these came less; in another, more. With the blood, so to say, echoes from the
less, of what is brought into the physical world at birth from the spiritual worlds. Certainly
the ancient Mysteries had beheld and recognized as being sent from the spiritual worlds. In
was brought from the spiritual worlds. This could now only be decided in that certain people
to the authority which in turn proceeded from the ordinations of the Roman Church.
fortify this authority — to put, in a sense, everything that proceeds from the Mystery of
Golgotha only on a basis of authority and permanently so — came from Jesuitism. Jesuitism
from this or that view, since it must always be seen from different sides. I have often said that
life which then led to the modern theology of the nineteenth century which finally erased from
structure which was derived from the Orient.
look at history from the eleventh to the fourteenth centuries. They developed out of the Church.
of approval from Rome and only what had received this stamp was to be believed. The thought that
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Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 7: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 6
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easiest way and of value. From the way in which I had to speak yesterday it will be clear to you
fifteenth century the constitution of people's souls has become quite different from what it was
from this clinging by force of habit to what has been inculcated when one observes with a wakeful
The human being, as such, is actually entirely excluded from the conception of the world based on
or others. It demonstrates the evolution of the living creature from the simplest to
the most perfect and lays down the view that man also derives his origin from this line of
considers man only so far as to be able to say that any organ, any structure in man, derives from
differs from that of the animal world. The ability to keep man himself in view has been
But there is, as yet, no unified feeling for it. Such a feeling will arise with vigour from
coming not from any scientific impulse but from the depths of human instinct — demands that
outlook we must Say, from what we have been able to indicate of this, that the human being knew
then that he descended from spiritual heights; that he lived, before he entered into physical
from the spiritual world something that was still in him, something that came out in childhood as
youth, was a dowry from the spiritual worlds which he had experienced before entering into
growing and developing in one's soul since childhood comes from the spiritual world.
human being in ancient times he no longer feels that what flames up in him from childhood
onwards, comes from those depths in which is rooted that which he received from his spiritual
inherited from parents, grandparents and so on. The first thing people ask about a child nowadays
is from whom it has got this or that characteristic. And the reply, however, is seldom that the
look instead to see whether it comes from the grandmother or grandfather, and soon.
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A lecture given at Dornach, 30 May 1915. From a shorthand report unrevised by
From a shorthand report unrevised by the lecturer.
Dornach, Switzerland. From Bn 162; GA 162; CW 162.
given at Dornach, 30 May 1915. From a shorthand report unrevised by
which are called, from the aspect of the physical world, destructive
processes I pointed out that, from the aspect of the physical world,
of reality when they see the plant shoot up from the root and develop from
of consciousness must come from destructive processes. And I have shown
receive much from the people who surround me.’ But these, in
their turn, have received a great deal from their ancestors, and from
see the body fall away from our soul-spiritual, is intensified in this
goes from the grain into the mouths (â†’), for that is
thinks realistically would look only at these arrows, which go from the
grains let themselves be distracted from preparing those of the next year,
through propagation from one grain of cereal to that of the following year.
mind what one can know from the things, does exactly the same as the man
would say, must draw back in fear and trembling from the necessity to

Title: Talk To Young People:
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Dornach, Switzerland. From Bn 217a, GA 217a, CW 217a.
Thanks to a donation from Brane Å½ilavec, this Lecture Series has been made available.
discover that we have emerged from an epoch in time when we were
all; they were attempts to escape from what older people call
it's been clear to me from the very beginning that in the deep
we need from young persons is first and foremost the will to try to
everywhere in every sphere of life. We hear from childhood on how we
movement today, for this had to be created entirely free from
tradition. Even the smallest link to something from the past would
enemy of what we have tried to do from the very beginning.
perhaps prevent the youth movement of the 20th century from becoming
from the old hearts. If wetake
from discussions about being young or from talk about inner feelings;
from within, the flames from outside, the two flames must strike

Title: "Heaven and Earth will pass away but my words will not pass away"
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Rudolf Steiner at Dornach in June of 1915. It is from the lecture series entitled
From Earth to the Jupiter Evolution.
Rudolf Steiner at Dornach in June of 1915. It is from the lecture series entitled
From Earth to the Jupiter Evolution.
Dornach, Switzerland. From Bn 162; GA 162; CW 162.
From Earth to the Jupiter Evolution
From Earth to the Jupiter Evolution
indicated how a question such as this can only come from uneducated
consider — from a certain view-point, — the above query
a certain sense, carry the Moon man in us. We have developed from the
old clairvoyance inherited from the Moon with the real, outer,
forms, but as we progress from the 5th to the 6th and 7th earth-periods
Jupiter will obtain all his mineral foundation from the Saturn man we
what we can imbibe from spiritual Science. Hence, I propose to call
from Spiritual Science, the Sun man in us can really do something. He
Well, from the stones of
earth, from the plants and animals of earth — in short —
from the physical bodies of the earth — nothing new can evolve,
— they are there in order to be discarded — but from the
discarded — falls away from the physical earth. (I am now
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Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture I: Tree of Life - I
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Here are six lectures from the lecture series entitled,
claiming to do more than throw some light from one or other aspect of
single rays of light can ever be thrown from the circuit of human
from various aspects. And so something shall here be added to what
God Jahve, radiating from the far distance, which stands at the
and Evil they must be banished from their present abode, so that they
protected, as it were, from being partaken of by men who had already
Greek philosophy and which approached the Mystery of Golgotha from
the earth, are derived from a primeval knowledge, from a knowledge
Roman age like a last great light from the stream flowing from
opinions, and could only evolve a certain common ground from the
every possible way to draw ideas from the whole range of world
understanding what is flowing to him from the Christ Impulse. And so
evolved from the old Latin heritage to comprehend in full what had
expulsion from Paradise. The knowledge which had entered humanity in
and life will stream out from it. But this older knowledge shall not
concerning the origin of man which is quite different from the one
from two trees, the Ash and the Elm. Thus men were created by the
from the Gods. In Europe, therefore, man was conscious that inasmuch
men death, something that has turned all men away from the Gods and
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Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture II: Tree of Life - II
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Here are six lectures from the lecture series entitled,
humanity's evolution with the knowledge-principle, brought down from
conditions are favourable, that they do not awake from sleep as if
out of a nothingness, but as if they emerged from a full but much
from waking up to going to sleep. It will certainly have already
far more etheric element than the life of the physical world is from
Tree, then a different knowledge must needs have been there from that
fact to be known from many occult perceptions. This is the fact that
spend this life from going to sleep to awaking —
And since Lucifer lays claim to what weaves and lives from falling
Now the following was determined from
while we live in the fine etheric element from going to sleep to
for earthly life that Lucifer lives and weaves, from our going to
therefore be here (a) from the night's experience
from the hands of Lucifer into the hands of Ahriman. This too is one
things. From waking to sleeping we gain knowledge of things, a
over from Saturn Sun and Moon, the ego has been added upon Earth. As
knowledge from waking up to going to sleep, but the moment we go to
consciousness from waking to going to sleep, and inasmuch as we
(b) so that in the time from our sleeping to our waking up Lucifer
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Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture III: The Power of Thought
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Here are six lectures from the lecture series entitled,
in the first place a great difficulty which has sprung from the
following cause. European life at the moment of passing over from
fact that every thought is essentially different from what people
planet from the sun took place; that it proceeded for the first time
the moon from the sun there now took their course side by side the
great significance, as you can gather from
that certain beings from the Hierarchy of the Angeloi, who were human
inwardly alive. They want to keep it of a Moon-nature, cut off from
to the karma of the Oriental peoples to be preserved from this kind
find the way back from the one to the other, from the Oriental to the
Occidental. The Greeks were to find the transition from Oriental to
produce the human form from his own inner experiencing; this is so in
living element of man from the thought-element of the cosmos and then
form all that could be found as thoughts passing from within
(b)). The whole pre-Grecian evolution led to man's taking from the
had formerly worked from the cosmos and who could only be known from
all that would gradually in the course of human evolution result from
the Christ revelation means: to acquire light upon the world from
Him. And we must give back the truths to the cosmos from the centre
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Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture IV: Harmonizing Thinking, Feeling and Willing
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Here are six lectures from the lecture series entitled,
— set free from the inner upstreaming, the inner
pointed out that this originates from the fact that certain spiritual
separation of the Old Moon from the Sun-evolution, did not take the
willing from the outer cosmic existence. They confine this feeling
bear something in them which is just as much derived from the cosmos
notion that truth is imparted to him from two sides, that he attains
come if one extended what tries to go out in the cosmos from the one
cannot find it.’ On the other hand he felt how from the
imperative,’ from which he derived all truths related to
the former separation of the Moon from the progressing Sun. The way
lives in our intellect and shuts us off from looking into the inner
follows from it.
in us from the Old Moon-existence — that is from
what has happened we have been shut off from that wonderful and
cosmic, and do not work into us from the external earthly
we receive the shining from behind, and we ought to prevent their
a still older kind of deviation from the forward course of evolution
was that brought about by the spirits from the hierarchy of
we can say: Lucifer through his existence shuts us off from the
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Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture V: Tree of Knowledge - I
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Here are six lectures from the lecture series entitled,
only crawls about in the earth; it creeps from root to
effect and say: Now the earth becomes somewhat warmer from above
off spatially from above — but in what is shut off
from ordinary human sight to spiritual sight, for one notes how then
see from this how the much vaunted inner completeness of a
realize from this, however, that it is in no way a question of being
in which man is. I have often referred to this from other aspects.
dwells. You see from this that you cannot rely on so-called proofs,
soul from his bodily nature, to adapt himself to the new
the separation of the Old Moon from the Sun; that is the strict point
in which the Old Moon separated from the Sun. Then for the first time
Between birth and death time goes on, from falling asleep to
learnt to know that the Earth separates from the Sun and again from
planet, and Sun and Moon separated from us and work on the earth from
and now let their activity shine in from outside upon the earth. That
sun to shine from the midst of the earth, we should see nothing of
connected with this. In the Earth's evolution from Saturn, Sun, Moon
departure of the Moon from the earth. You see from this that two
from the development of the senses; these two things run parallel.
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Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture VI: Tree of Knowledge - II
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Here are six lectures from the lecture series entitled,
processes which have acted on man from the cosmos have become capable
Now you can conclude from this that the
obscura, where the objects from outside create their images as in a
developed from the time of the Sun-existence and through the Moon and
as the normal progress in the etheric body from the time of ancient
Sun. This means that Luciferic spirits thrust their influence from
Whereas man's etheric body works so from
even true that something like etheric tentacles from Lucifer project
thrusting them in from outside. And in our senses there is the
from outside one must so draw it that Lucifer thrusts forward and
activities. Thus the direction of the Luciferic working radiates from
You see from this that it lay in the
away from himself and to behold the world round about him and be
Lucifer thus projects his tentacles in from outside, for instance,
admit Ahriman from the other side, so that he takes hold from the
could proceed from the hated person. And the true causes of the
from such things? The answer could only be given by referring the
therefore, to undertake one's self-development from this standpoint,
only this helps one to escape from these things. One thing above all,
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Title: World Downfall and Resurrection
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text is entitled: Perspektiven der Menschheitsentwicklung. From a
From a shorthand report unrevised by the lecturer.
Dornach, Switzerland. From Bn 204, GA 204, CW 204.
a lecture given at Dornach on 2 July 1920 (from
From
of John Scotus Erigena emanate from a mode of thinking
which shines over from the first centuries of Christendom
different from what it came to be later on. A great and
fundamental change occurred in the 4th century of our era. From
mental life sprang far more from a kind of inspiration than
heritage from an earlier form of knowledge — was a fact
once again, was drawn forth as it were with effort from the
Indeed, this understanding can only come from Spiritual
more of the nature of inspiration, removed altogether from the
spiritual world that had survived from ancient paganism. We must
from the primal ancestor of a tribal stock. In his
world saw blood flowing from animals or from human beings, he
fragments that are a direct heritage from primeval wisdom,
essence, from ancient paganism. And so, it was among the Church
distinguish him from the Nature Spirits. What these men of old
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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
From Bn 35.04; GA 35; CW 35.
vent itself in quite indefinite feelings which, welling up from the depths
go. But this insight can only result from a true inner experience of their
cognitive value. We must not shrink from really experiencing their nature;
knowledge; once we have found them, the way of escape from them becomes
observe that they do not result from comprehension or feeling, and we shall
from reality to an unreal imaginary world; it embodies the search for a
that a new consciousness must be developed, issuing from ordinary
consciousness as, for instance, waking from the dull dream consciousness.
keeping “genuine” knowledge free from everything that extends
development will show how often philosophy has estranged itself from true
of philosophy traced from him onwards in continuity down to our times. Some
origin, from purely philosophical thought with its leaning towards the
differed essentially from later methods of knowledge. Its origin as an
seership being the source from which both of them draw. The chief interest
where the sources from which he draws are to be found. Pythagoras drew from
from which we depart. Aristotle remains the representative philosopher for
character attributed to it in a ready-made modern definition. Far from
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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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at Dornach in the Fall of 1919. It is from the lecture series entitled,
— he is much farther removed from the true spiritual
Berlin or Vienna, than he is from what is being felt and thought today in
flooded by impulses arising from the world view of the western peoples; our
concerned, for from the last third of the 19th century onwards the peoples
of Central Europe have taken their lead in such matters from the people of
that come from the West. If you were to trace back all the educational
find it not merely totally different from what is generally considered
presents itself, they can pursue further what they have learned from us in
through his predetermined karma, the laws of destiny. This must follow from
from life and cannot issue from abstract scientific thinking.
pedagogy drawn directly from life, when we recall what lived in Herder,
of education from the whole of the spiritual culture that is specifically
to give the world from Central Europe which nobody else can give
— neither an Oriental, nor a man from the West. Yet we
cannot hope to influence the mode of thought, proceeding from the West,
must know that we have nothing whatsoever to hope for from that quarter for
in teaching, one should never proceed from the abstract, but always from
from an individual case. So he writes his book on education, and there we
much, but a certain capacity grows in me by working with the children. From
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Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture II: The Three Fundamental Forces in EducatioN
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at Dornach in the Fall of 1919. It is from the lecture series entitled,
furnished — as you know from the various hints I have
strongly by the nerve-sense system, operating from above downward. The
physical body and the etheric body are influenced most powerfully from the
limbs, takes place through rays proceeding from the head downward to the
streams from the head into the whole of the physical and etheric bodies of
activity, notwithstanding the fact that it proceeds from the physical body.
forces, working earlier within the organism, are from his seventh year
emancipates itself from the body, is active no longer in the body but for
is that what streams upward from the body is thrust back, and conversely
the forces shooting downward from the head are held in check. Thus during
between forces striving downward from above and others springing upward
from below. The change of teeth is the physical expression for this
etc. In the main these are forces planted in the child from the spiritual
first as bodily forces shaping the head and then from the seventh year
draw forth from the child for our authoritarian purposes, what the child
consciousness: the forces I draw forth from the child around his seventh
directed down from the spiritual world. This reverence before the
forces that are unfolding down from the spiritual world, from the time
that is a direct transference of spiritual forces from the spiritual world
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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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at Dornach in the Fall of 1919. It is from the lecture series entitled,
should be taken in from outside in a particular form, and acquire their
food in its natural form. And then, when we are giving the lesson, from out
so-called sensory nerves, that apparently run from the senses to the brain
motor nerves, that apparently run from the central organ to the organs of
movement and set them in motion. You will realise that from the standpoint
run from our periphery more towards the centre, and we also have nerves
that run from the centre to the ends of the organs of movement. But they
perceptions stream into the organism; audible perceptions stream from the
thing — will find how entirely different it is from the
situated in an entirely different realm of the body from the memory of
about when the speech process unfolds from within. But it comes about in a
you of Goethe's theory of colour. Quite apart from the fact that
of the spectrum 'sounds' different from the blue-violet side, as it were,
scientific works that were published in the Weimar edition, from his
sounding forth from every colour, as it were. We do not see a colour when
from within us towards the surface, has a pronounced sound nature and a
in the child before the seventh year, as I told you previously. From this
you properly understand the marvellous organism that comes forth from man
impacts from the sun and the moon, and this brings about something like a
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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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at Dornach in the Fall of 1919. It is from the lecture series entitled,
he brings his physiognomy from the depth of his inner being to the surface
body, organised the body, emancipates itself from the body with the change
of teeth, frees itself from the body to work on as intelligence. Thus we
can describe this process from one aspect. However, one can also do it the
understanding from a different point of view and it was said: with the
at birth, the etheric body round about the seventh year. So what seen from
one side we can call the birth of the etheric body, seen from another side
is the emancipation of intelligence from the physical body. It is only a
from different sides and then combining the different aspects to one
melody in a single tone. You must characterise it from different sides.
then, looking at the ensuing age, the time from the seventh to the
fourteenth year, that is up to the time of puberty, we can say from a
absorbed; yes, this process is from one of its aspects indeed best
the astral body is emancipated from the connection which it had up to this
time with the whole organism. From another point of view we can therefore
itself with that which is being liberated, so that from birth to puberty,
progressive anchoring of the ego in the entire human organism. From the
organism, we can thus save him from becoming a criminal.
protected from this by their teacher when he or she sees to it that the ego
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Title: Social Understanding: Lecture II: Social Understanding Through Spiritual Scientific Knowledge
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at Dornach in the Fall of 1919. It is from the lecture series entitled,
course in three stages: from birth to the change of teeth, from the change
of teeth to puberty, and from puberty till about the twenty-first year. If
forth from your being when you do the sort of exercises I describe in
the forces that are active from the seventh year to the fourteenth year and
draw forth from their state of slumber and use for the acquisition of
From
are not just any old forces got from we do not know where, but are the same
forces as those we grow with from our birth to the age of twenty-one. So
will not be able to draw enough forces away from it to remember certain
absurd it is basically, from a higher point of view, for some people to be
things from the point of view of the perceptible world versus the
forces from one side and subsensible forces from the other side work into
come from? They are the same forces as the forces of the planets, that is,
from our point of view, the forces of the earth. Yes indeed, the forces of
earth. The forces of understanding come to us from the world's periphery,
and pour into us as it were from outside, from the outside of the planet.
The forces of will enter into us from the planet itself. This is how the
works entirely from out of the planet's interior. It is very interesting to
till the age of seven, for these are the forces from within the earth. To
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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
from his childhood. The development of Jesus from his birth to the baptism
in a very complicated way. Only from the Akashic Chronicle the right clues
was for thousands of years to infuse compassion and love into people from
of mankind. Thus, from higher spheres, mission after mission is transmitted
to our world. By about three thousand years from now, enough people will
new mission down from the spiritual to the physical world.
from the spiritual worlds and announced to the shepherds what had happened.
not been noticed at all in science. From the Akashic Chronicle, however,
Jesus. So, at that time there were two Jesus children from two sets of
Nazareth. The former Jesus came from the line of the Davidic house, which
passed through Solomon. The Nazarene Jesus, on the other hand, came from
prominent. For example, this child was also able to talk right from birth,
passes over into the other Jesus boy. From the twelfth year on, the former

Title: Buddha and the Two Boys: Lecture II: The Gospels, Buddha and the Two Boys of Jesus
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be taken from any document; it should not approach us as something handed
reports shine out to us from the documents.
that this boy descended from the Solomonic-royal line of the house of
David, while the Jesus of Luke's gospel descended from the Nathanian line
the most important currents from the world had to flow together. We see
which inherited from generations just these dispositions. If Zarathustra
received from the twelfth year on. Thus these two currents flowed together
of transmitting from epoch to epoch what can be called the teaching of
same faculties were always there, which gradually developed from primitive
developed first. It is tangible to prove from external history that
from within themselves the teaching of compassion and love, the teaching of
given to him from above, could only be given to him as a teaching when the
happen in a certain place and in a certain people, from whom a number of
as a divine law given from the heights. Buddha said: You will find in the
the following always emerges from the earlier. But this is not how
develops from the earlier, but fertilization occurs. Something else must
flow in, a speck of dust from another plant. Especially in spiritual life
not have had the youthful forces later. Therefore, it had to receive from
Buddha's appeal to develop from within themselves the teaching of
From the first
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Title: Lecture: Art As A Bridge Between The Sensible And The Supersensible
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A lecture given by Rudolf Steiner: from Vergangenheits- und
themselves as excluded by virtue of their entire life situation from what
united people from above and below.
of the last centuries human beings have turned away more and more from
rendering of a human being would result from copying every detail of the
removed as it possibly could be from a work of art!” For in
gained from the spiritual world, on the other hand, is a valuable
All this stems from
human beings turning away from spiritual life. A sound return to
reality. In this manner, human beings have torn themselves away from a
finally there came what leads most of all away from the spiritual world:
of what these people do from morning to evening! And if one does so with
Stirner, 1806-56], not separated by many years at all from Hegel. While
greater extremes arising from the same cultural life. If one then wants
that, just from this point of the “I,” only
person sees it from a different standpoint.
become receptive for what approaches us from outside, so that we really
It would really have been a question of these people learning from bitter
while ago, would reveal themselves in our time to human beings from the
up from the depths of the human soul today, the social element has to be
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Title: Raphael's Mission in the Light of the Science of the Spirit
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From this translation: “Human beings will always want to know about
From the translator, Peter Stebbing: “No adequate translation has
Dornach, Switzerland. From Bn 62.9; GA 62; CW 62.
Thanks to a donation from Peter Stebbing, this Lecture has been made available.
From Rudolf Steiner:
that one has the feeling, they arise quite suddenly from
as it were, from the realm of space to the realm of time.
drawn from many directions, asking himself: Is it permissible
[From:
us to an organic whole through what arose from Raphael's soul
in Raphael's Madonnas and similar pictures, arising from
whole — even if this becomes evident only from a later
often been able to emphasize from a spiritual scientific
throughout the various epochs of humanity, bearing from one age
What is put forward here from a spiritual scientific standpoint
natural outcome of considering Raphael's creative activity from
contemplating Raphael's creations from many points of view —
quite different aspect from what follows it. If we consider the
from the things themselves, from making use of their sense
organs. A withdrawal from sense impressions, in giving oneself
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Title: Leonardo's Spiritual Stature: Lecture
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There are depictions of the Last Supper event deriving from an
earlier time. Going no further back than the period from Giotto
in heart and mind from the world-famous reproductions, arriving
What must indeed at one time have spoken to human beings from
course of time! [It should be noted that from 1978 to 1999,
Leonardo felt compelled to turn aside from the kind of
painting, an indescribable magic emanates from it. In spite of
radiates from the picture could not be entirely destroyed.
magical quality still proceeds from it. One can say, it is only
what he wrote, as well as the course of his life from 1452 to
picture, in making the final brush-stroke, depart from it
in Vinci and a peasant woman who disappears from view, while
anecdote is told from this period, that Leonardo was to paint a
continual new plans. He had commissions from people who
recognized his great gifts and wanted something from him.
These studies proceeded from going into every conceivable
There are caricatures by Leonardo, incredible figures from
corresponding works. Even if some of these derive from his
students, there are still a great number from his own hand.
way he digressed from the actual purpose for which he had
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Title: Fairy Tales: in the light of Spiritual Investigation
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From the contents of this lecture: 'Fairy tales and sagas are comparable
to a good angel, granted human beings as a companion from birth on their life's
discovered. Genuine fairy tales originate from
up from seemingly unfathomable sources of the folk-spirit or of
from the human soul as do these fairy tale
those regions of the soul-life from which fairy tale moods
from being impoverished, one has the feeling that
aforementioned sources from the standpoint of
sources from the standpoint of spiritual research finds that
connection with powers the poet tells us derive from the
individual. The shock-waves of tragedy derive from this
find something altogether different from what a human being in
be as far removed for the soul from the corresponding inner
when we partake of food is removed from the
from how a particular food tastes, no one is capable of
is likewise far removed from what takes place deep down
day-consciousness. Awakening from sleep under especially
every day on awakening, when the soul emerges from the
falling asleep. Having withdrawn itself from the senses and
from the limbs, having in a sense left the external body
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Title: A Mongolian Legend
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From the contents of this lecture: 'Fairy tales and sagas are comparable
to a good angel, granted human beings as a companion from birth on their life's
From a matinee lecture of October 21, 1907. Contained in
hopes dashed, throws it from her. Thus, she hastens on
Only in contemplating them from the standpoint of true
themselves off in love-lessness from what is outside them and

Title: The Worldview of Herman Grimm in Relation to Spiritual Science
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From the Frankfurt circle of La Roche, in her relation to
from youth onwards, as it were, amid personalities who stood in
starts out from whatever stimulated him, that furthered the
derived from Goethe and what was compatible with him in
forefront, rather than what proceeded from Goethe. During that
quite natural manner, such that one accepted it from him as
We sense in Herman Grimm's style a liberation from all that can
consequently expelled from the University of Göttingen.
from Goethe's life experience. One feels oneself transported
different from what it is for other modern historians.
materials, are first collected, and from these the attempt is
say, they melted away from his world-picture. What remained in
development became something always handed on from one
from this point of view, he sought to gain a picture of the
from the earliest epochs up to the present, i.e., from the
Starting out from this urge, he turned his attention early on
in wanting, from a modern viewpoint, to immerse oneself in the
it shows us Herman' Grimm from another side. His gaze is
to be set forth once more from the point of view of spiritual
actually proceed from the figure of Christ — one of
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Title: Imperialism: Lecture 1
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From GA# 196.
in which we live, come from.
how in these times realities are completely different from what is
consistency, for the way of thinking was so different then from what
unbelievable, but it is so. We can learn from Assyrian documents how
describes the complete hierarchy, from the deacons, archdeacons,
where it came from; “German Nation” was what it covered,
from various viewpoints, not just one. We could say that in the
grew from clear reality. As long as the Holy Roman Empire had meaning
previous evolution was from realities to signs and symbols, now the
development is from symbols to platitudes.
psychological path is this: from reality to symbol and then to
anointed, now the empty platitudes. From majority decisions of course
realities, or symbolic crowns on princes and tsars, also from the
earthly reality; the priest-king came from the mysteries. The second
was no longer earthly reality, it was symbolic. It is a long way from
things evolved. It went from reality to nothing, not even a sign or
this empty platitude system, which has spread from the west to the
come from the past. It will continue to roll on like a bowling ball.
which play a very effective role, but which are kept secret from the

Title: Imperialism: Lecture 2
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From GA# 196.
will have already noticed from what I said yesterday that it is
factors in social life, are now merely leftovers from older times as
a certain soil from which to grow, and on the other hand they are a
life which is not derived from the sensible world, but from the
the traditions they have preserved from olden times and of which they
exist that prevent the illusions from being seen through so thoroughly,
lack of clarity was perpetuated from age to age. The lack of clarity
What people saw as happening from
[German Chancellors from 1890 through 1917], Moske and Scheidemann
[German politician in office from 1903 to 1918] and so on remain.
from the secret society. But care is taken that they can no longer be
based on inherited principles from the past which are no longer valid?
express remarkable things. The Habsburgs, for instance, came from
Hungary. But in this journey from west to east, the remarkable thing
journey — only from Nuremberg to Berlin, but also from west to

Title: Imperialism: Lecture 3
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From GA# 196.
us now consider once again from definite viewpoints what is apparent
disappeared from discussion and therefore everyone can be right, or
reality from the viewpoint of the second stage. Whoever has followed
the German Empire. Much of present day public opinion derives from
information, then things look quite different from what is propounded
glory, praised from all sides, these remarks had been held up to
one's subjective beliefs play no role. And consider it from this
from the most varied sides, and it is senseless to try and nail down
has only a limited meaning, for judgments given from the spiritual
today are very much inclined to carry things over from the past into
than is thought. From their ranks the powerful, imperialistic Pope
took what still remained from older times and poured it into the new.
Suddenly from the imperialism of platitudes comes the idea that it
of Jerusalem.” It came from the crusades. It would be
and that can only come from knowledge of the spiritual world, of
concerning the spiritual life from the spirit itself if the other two
sectors do not interfere, if everything is taken directly from the
but will continue downhill. Humanity does not live today from what it
necessary — humanity lives today from reserves, from old
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Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture I: Anthroposophy and Natural Science
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differences between humans and animals from an anthroposophical perspective.
particularly from the philosophic-natural scientific side
brought against Anthroposophy, and it stems from a basic belief
usually calls further evolution from a theoretical point of
Further development from a theoretical point of view for most
similarly into an effective system derived from inorganic
thought derived from lifeless nature, you simply apply to
go from one sphere of world phenomena into another, that you
don't merely apply what you have learnt from lifeless natural
metamorphosis, and how they often become unrecognisable from
from lifeless nature, concepts which are applied through habits,
concepts, concepts which are metamorphosed from earlier
the separation of the philosophic world view from that of the
worked on the one side earnestly from empiricism against the
comes from — at least for me it comes from this, if I
might make a personal remark — from the Goethean
As they departed from
at the time, from ordering them somehow which could lead to an
gained something from within which fits the totality of my
phenomenology was narrowed down to not going directly from some
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Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture II: The Human and the Animal Organisation
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differences between humans and animals from an anthroposophical perspective.
When from the anthroposophical viewpoint the relationship of
intermaxillary, which is clearly detached in all animals from
found in a single detail. From the kind of limitation of man
more from biological than from morphological regions.
Today already there is talk from the non-anthroposophical
about twelve senses in the same way as for five or six — from
are in equilibrium. This equilibrium we accept, although from a
the starting point is from a human angle of a complete
physiology of the senses then certain biological phenomena from
research, even from Haeckel, regarding the morphological and
oppose Haeckel, simply on the grounds that it rises from mere
the spiritual; it is believed that Anthroposophy must from this
we must try to clarify the problem from the other side, what
something then we don't separate the imagery from the vision.
Turning our eyes away from what we looked at, we then retain a
observed element is clearly separated from the image
of the sense of equilibrium, when we go over from crawling to
result from our human organisation having an individual
something which emerges from the organism itself as is found
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Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture III: Anthroposophy and Philosophy
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differences between humans and animals from an anthroposophical perspective.
from words. I would like to say: what we have today in the word
science which should present a general world view, right from
thoughts and imaginative nature from within himself and find a
of philosophic development, how it went from Bacon, Locke over
everything relating to it from the surrounding world, through
these beliefs should develop free from all scientific
from science, which would proceed scientifically, and on the
Let's go now from Herbert Spencer to what we meet with Hegel.
laws of gravitation. This he applied from the basis of a
From this basis Hegel, in tune with Goethe, strongly opposed
plane which is filled with thoughts. From up above the
way, wisdom from belief, which was quite natural in the West.
could not grasp anything living from the content of
and arrives at “nothing”, goes from
finds the impetus of loosening the thoughts from the
a person delves into the spiritual development of someone from
conceptual forms and means of expression which we know, from
the German philosophy emerged, for example, from religious
more than a summary of the individual sciences. From inorganic
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Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture IV: Anthroposophy and Pedagogy
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differences between humans and animals from an anthroposophical perspective.
can't be verified from the outset by anyone and that nevertheless
education of the child from the point of view of spiritual
educational principles from the basis of Anthroposophy. Only
sense world, by contrast it is characteristic of the ideas from
theories. The one tries to come from the soul-spiritual and
usual, then this warmth from other circumstances is considered
movements from the father and mother or others in the child's
fullest sense of the word, comes from his surroundings, with
set free from the surroundings, which is not so before his
in people from year to year, but also from month to month. What
those parents who withdraw their children from religious
frequently taught from a young age as having something like
knowledge makes it possible to deduce everything from the
syllabus and the objectives of learning from actual human
knowledge which can be read from month to month in the
When you go down from the general cultural point of view to the
are deduced from the essence of the child itself, teach us what
Working from an artistic basis results in the child handling
colours from very early on. Even though it is also sometimes
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Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture V: Anthroposophy and Social Science
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differences between humans and animals from an anthroposophical perspective.
Social science can't be talked about today from only a
social question can be separated from the economic question.
develops its individual branches from out of its own
free way from the organised legal and state life as well as
from the spiritual life, so that the economic life becomes, for
can bring about a contradictory turn; it could only come from
eastern European states were essentially different. Not from
written down, but thought through from the immediate world
search further, then one could — namely from central Europe —
lead to a significant, acceptable ascent which from then on and
which economic problems could take on. Going on from here, some
is the least understood from that side and that everything
templates or not. And so time passed by from when these
appeared in ancient times — you know this from my lectures I
happened more or less instinctively. Now, one can from some
from the other side, how the extraordinary symptoms of human
corresponding epochs resulted from the feelings of humanity at
that, humanity learnt from this intellectualism. Everything has
During this time intellectualism fell into the transition from
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Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture VI: Anthroposophy and Theology
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differences between humans and animals from an anthroposophical perspective.
In this notice it says: “From 5 to 12 March an
been my intention to challenge theology and from their starting
so far, and really from me it has happened as little as
against anthroposophy from the side of theology have taken
philosophy. Philosophy had to separate itself from those
further and not as if, from the side of science Heackel's
is learnt from natural existence when you make an attempt to
from the simple basis that speech, as in all modern languages,
kinds of suggestions. From this inner soul dependency
that from the scientifically orientated people on which
it is extraordinary that people from all kinds of circles of
came to it: to people, like I said, from all walks of life. For
which are gained from the supersensible world need to be
the Catholic away from freely following the supersensible
thinks enough about himself, if he only looks away from the
people when they try to turn their gaze away from the outer
development from this point at which one has arrived, having
from antiquity to the Mystery of Golgotha, then one finds that
my dear friends, when we follow human evolution from an
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Title: Impulse of Renewal: Lecture VII: Anthroposophy and the Science of Speech
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differences between humans and animals from an anthroposophical perspective.
life. Something strikes upward from these subconscious regions
place, people from other countries in western and middle
English speakers from those who belonged to other nationalities
lecture twice, once from 10 to 11 o'clock for the English
audience, and a second time from 11 to 12 for other
was this so? Yes, while I spoke about duty during the hour from
the German language; I had spoken in the first hour from 10 to
what is directed from within, like how thoughts are being
devotion, duty is fulfilled from the basis of a human being,
where speech comes from, which lies deeper than what is
stream of words; it is however soon clearly differentiated from
different from what it was when the word “ego” was
the musical elements in speech split away from the logical,
thus also away from the soul life, into mere conceptions.
differs from Old High German as the latter refers to
theories have resulted from this.
evolution human speech/language arrived as a gift from the
condemnation that it merely originates from superficial

Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 1
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had originally functioned in Germany from 1904 until 1914, when the
Translated from the German by Frank Thomas Smith
But a center must exist from out of which this deepening
must be clear from the very beginning that it is not animosity
engraving. That we really identify with what emerges from the
Where from earthly matter, form on form,
derive from earth and air and light.
Toward the light that from darkness streams.
Where from earthly matter, form on form,
derive from earth and air and light.
Toward the light that from darkness streams.
from the visible universe; it is meant to remind us how the
self is not woven from what we perceive as the beauty and
darkness for human knowledge, from which the light must be born
know that the first thing to come from the darkness that must
from out the darkness you appear,
as warning from the Spirit-Messenger before daring to fathom
and orientation from the spiritual world about the abyss which
yawns before us and from which the Messenger holds us back less
From
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Where from earthly substance, form on form,
Your bodily existence from earth and air and light:
from the darkness there appears,
through spirit-knowledge, from out of which he speaks who alone
From
From the tread of time's onward course
From the depths of the feeling heart
There shines from the spirit's thoughts
Which from divine healing forces
Whoever can feel deeply enough the words which resound from the
beasts arising from the yawning abyss between the sense-world
time that cowardice is what holds back most people from even
Will wings sprout from your soul
Which separates you from the knowledge fields
From all this you can judge how different spiritual realities
from what everyday life shows, patched up as it is with so many
what will be unfolded in our souls from lesson to lesson in
mirror, but as realities from the yawning abyss of being.
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From
From the tread of time's onward course
From the depths of the feeling heart
There shines from the spirit's thoughts,
Which from divine healing forces
the sense world to unfold his will, when he proceeds from
we have already seen, only darkness streams at first from this
of light emanate from the darkness - in which the Guardian of
have experienced impressions from the spiritual world not
to suddenly shine from out of the spiritual world is merely an
where does this come from? You see, when you confront the outer
And at the same time you have impressions from the physical
necessarily from the depths of your soul the question arises
receive the light from the spiritual world and who is in a
With light from the force of the sun
From the soul's inherent strength
Cosmic being from the gods.
feeling and a different way of willing from what prevails in
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from other areas of spiritual life, what is called
communications are received from the spiritual world, they
would like to tell you a story taken from ancient esoteric
communications from the spiritual world - the teacher said to
possible to separate thinking from feeling in the artistic
so in real life. At the moment when something derived from the
esoteric is said, it must be possible to separate thinking from
thoughts, and they are so distant from personal feelings, that
must develop feelings and will-impulses apart from those
of feeling, must come from somewhere else if it does not come
from thinking.
from out of the esoteric, he is speaking from the godly sphere
Therefore, in the esoteric we must go back from what words mean
were descending from the mountain into the valley with the
Selfhood as such hides from you;
thoughts. And we descend from the peaks upon which the gods
wave movement: from below to above. Therefore, the mantric
aspects. If, however, one does not shy away from overcoming
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Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 5
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which disappears from sight on the opposite side in the
feeling and willing are somewhat separated, apart from external
are separated through it from the world. Our will does
dependent upon the air. So it is from the breathing process
That man lives and moves in the element of air is obvious from
something that touches him from without, and he also feels that
light comes to him from outside himself.
to the earth from another planet, he would speak to people in
for this visitor from space all human thoughts are in this
thinking, make him one with the light, rend him from all the
existence wish to rend human beings from the earth and
light-beings who want to pull human beings away from the earth
who wants to unite us with its light and pull us away from the
longer have to be illuminated and made happy on the earth from
pull us away from the earth. For these beings are in continuous
light-beings, that is when we want to escape from them, if we
which the light is continually fighting. And by swinging from
separated from all other beings. But we human beings can only
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Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 6
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be learned from the Guardian of the Threshold. And the
bodies. And when we lift our gaze from the ground beneath our
from warmth, which is already etheric, we come to the
Well, my dear friends, you have already seen from the previous
man is relatively distant from the watery elements - among the
element. And with this easy transition from our own watery
from our watery element to dry outer air. Dry air lets us feel
most evident influence on man comes from the middle element,
whereas his consciousness has been withdrawn from his relation
is released from the world to which he is inwardly connected,
from the earthly world where he stands alone, as it were, where
movement in the animals which fill the world with movement from
which comes from the innermost being of the animals is revealed
becomes conscious, man transforms himself from a human to an
arise, however, with breathing coming from within, danger is
it is in this descent from thinking to perception where we
normal activities. We are used to moving a chair from one place
moving a thought from one place to another. We prefer to think
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Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 7
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principle of openness, not be able to demand anything more from
to what anthroposophy says; and that they receive from it what
instituted from the spiritual world and which intends to act
when derived from what is called good intentions, is
say - we will need to completely destroy from the roots up the
completely destroy from the roots up the most resisting, the
founded. I wish today to speak from the heart to those who
can see from this that anthroposophy - the movement for
What is important is whether a movement is founded from the
which force is instilled in it directly from the spiritual
illusory - dreams rise up from this unconsciousness. But
protected from approaching the spiritual world unprepared.
the mantric verses. And then from beyond the threshold he can
now meaningful words sound out again from the Guardian of the
from the lips of the Guardian of the Threshold in the following
from the occult language.
which separate from each other once the person leaves the
vastness, and of course that direction is always upward from
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Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 8
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can and should be obtained for our present time directly from
from the spiritual world. Only when our anthroposophical
Society is therewith given. And it must be clear that from now
obtained. In the same sense, when something comes from the
possible, only concrete ones. Anything said to come from the
Goetheanum must really come from the Goetheanum. Therefore, the
those which come to the heart and soul from anthroposophy
but from the spiritual world. A decision made from the
of the anthroposophy which comes given from the Goetheanum.
points to what has resounded throughout the ages, first from
the Mysteries, but previously for the Mysteries from the
from the whole cosmos.
through what we experience from the elements which surround us
in the warming sun, what springs up from the depths of the
obliged to absorb his strength from the forces of the earth,
darkness reigns. This light which we seek must radiate out from
the darkness. And it only radiates out from the darkness when
must learn to feel that the Three separate from each other. And
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Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 9
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vision rest upon what radiates down to us from the universe in
hold the soul separate from the body, we need to inwardly
picture arises from our own inner being, if the soul empowers
empowered force, to liberate itself from its corporeality.
us from the planets which circle the earth, and in their
from these three inner experiences: what we have gained in
luminous, radiant, living thought derived from the stars; and
merge with what the planets say to us meaningfully from space
for example a table from the spiritual world were to approach
now, my dear sisters and brothers, what is flowing to you from
from doing with its senses what we as adults do with them. The
child's sensory-being is protected from the effects of the
continually touching in that you place your whole body from top
water forces in us shape the form of the human body from the
physician comes with a thermometer; he measures warmth from
into the liver. Just as the light which goes out from your brow
morality. Then as we ascend from water to air we feel that the
gradually extract our souls from our physical bodies and pass
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Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 10
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a picture of what a human soul can pass through on the way from
communications from the spiritual world, will coalesce in such
those distant reaches of the universe from which the spiritual
common sense from physicality and the senses to be able to
I drag myself through life from birth till death in order to
our physical environment starting from such a personal enigma.
they eat cosmic forces from the distant boundaries of the
change the direction of your gaze from what surrounds you on
infinite transcendence of what shines back to you from the
just as much to what radiates down from the universe as we are
from life in the darkness by rising with our soul-spiritual
differently from what was later painted.
clairvoyance people knew that something etheric goes out from
impact on the person emanating from the object, but really also
live in what otherwise only shines down to you from the distant
the imaginations from the other side [arrows]. At first we live
meaningful language when we do not observe it from the earth
when we encircle it from without. And it is a task of our
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Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 11
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news that Miss Maryon* has departed from the physical plane
Miss Maryon's departure from the physical plane. For now it
has departed from the physical plane but certainly not from
on his karma, on what conditions he brings along from
himself from the narrow limits of his
the meditation we confront not only what resounds from our
individual gradually frees himself from the limits of his
stars' rays. From without it looks as though the stars were
so what has been received is within our heads. From here is
looks quite different than from without, but it is the same,
head from his innermost being. Truly, it is thus: [draws on
[yellow arc and rays from the stars]. It is also here within
[red dots]. Man speaks his I from out of his center of his
from those beings who are with us humans: the angeloi, and in
dwelling places of the gods in the radiant stars, from out of
periphery. Thus we imagine that we hear it from cosmic
say from the depths of our souls, from whence in the
from all sides:
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First let us recite the verse which reminds us of what comes from the cosmos
such knowledge from the spiritual world must approach the
consciousness from entering the spiritual world
from the spiritual world through these class lessons, my
spiritual understanding. But a substantial seclusion from the
to what life brings from morning to night and nevertheless
which are spoken quietly from the soul. The first mantras in
mantras which partly ring out to us from the soul and also
partly must be imagined as resounding to us from out of the
it hears three sounds. The first sound comes from the distant
universe; the second from the Guardian. And the third comes
from the beings who will be identified later in the mantra.
Thus, coming from all sides of the distant universe:
Then the Guardian speaks. After the resounding to us from the
The paths from life on earth to life
us the path from earthly life to earthly life
an angel-being, as angelos, guides us from incarnation to
spoken by the being who watches over us from the hierarchy of
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Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 13
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First of all we shall speak the imperative words from
Who speaks from depth of heart?
we can only achieve from our whole being by meditating deeply
from the ranks of the third hierarchy, the Angeloi, have to
related to us from the ranks of the Archangeloi.
us to listen attentively to the beings related to us from the
so that we hear the universe from the distant cosmos
paths from life on earth to life
from the sun-rays of the spirit
From the stars' living forces
sense of spirit from earthly will.
field of thinking and the field of feeling: from out of the
work on us, as it resounds again from the cosmos:
from the dull dark earth-foundations
– that comes from the mysterious depths of our souls
that from the world of the cherubim an impulse enters into
lives in the world of the Cherubim. From that world of the
from the depths of this humanity in an indeterminate way. But
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Nevertheless, from all sides the words resound as the
protected from entering unprepared into
Guardian of the Threshold is the one who protects us from
from the physical, when one — symbolically speaking —
which rise up as spiritual figures from this abyss, that one
And from what has entered our souls through the mantras, we will
deviations from the normal state of mind which are always
then aberration from the normal condition of the mind cannot
In ordinary life they are separate from each other. Where there
them from each other and the individual attributes of
were still separate from it. The blood is no longer a
love with release from the solid earth, from the formative
water force, from the creative force of air, from the
That is the luciferic danger, that upon return from the spiritual
world, from beyond the threshold, one becomes an unstable,
life on earth I breathed, inhaled that breath from which the
also do that if only I am freed from earthly
of this war can not be written from the physical plane alone.
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Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 15
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which rings out to human beings from all sides of cosmic
kingdoms of nature, much of what is derived from them being
nobility; that we must seek it in a world separated from our
the world from which we really originate, appears to us at
spirituality from which we originate. For it is the Guardian
all liquidity which forms us, which makes us grow, from which
activate in us, can come from Christ: then it will be the
right answer. It can come from Lucifer: then it will be the
wrong answer. It can come from Ahriman: then it will again be
each question a threefold answer comes from us: Christ's
My life dissolves it, so I am released from it.
mantric words, brought forth from the spiritual world through
speaks about all that. And he calls out what resounds from
from out of the darkness, as if they came from under the
The Angeloi from the third hierarchy:
The Archangeloi from the third hierarchy:
The Archai from the third hierarchy:
From the cosmos we are receiving an important
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Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 16
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from the cosmos near and far, which can be heard by everyone
recognized as one which brings down its information from the
perceived as communications from the spiritual world itself.
From this you will understand that membership in the School
So nothing more is expected from the members of
and revealed from here in the Goetheanum. Such a condition
reminding us of the admonitions which resound from all the
what has been sent to us from the spiritual world in the form
from the humblest worm to the sublimest revelations in the
life, from the humblest creature to the majestic, divinely
Threshold protects us from entering immaturely. But now as we
verses can obtain them from other members of the School. But
these questions. From one side the third hierarchy —
Angeloi, Archangeloi, Archai — from the other side the
second hierarchy, from a third side the third
the air's stimulating power, which awakens us from dull
admonishing words coming from the communion of the Guardian
soul, through which man is even today awakened from his dull,
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Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 17
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understanding of the universe, resounds to human hearts from all
from what the human being can experience when he feels himself
Ask help from the redemptive eternal force of spirit.
From feeling the light in waves, as in spiritual thoughts, so to
without hearing another deeply founded admonition from the
through its colors. It is there, builds itself up from the
spiritual world should recall the impression from the sensory
sisters and brothers, that when we cross over from the physical
— looking up from the earth
rainbow and from this vantage point
which is on the other side, to look back from that cosmic
When we look back from out there, if you imagine that you go
then look at the rainbow from behind
as it appears in memory, looking from behind, then the rainbow
Observe from the other side's vantage point
Observe from the other side's vantage point
Observe from the other side's vantage point
We observe how what flows from the cosmos to the rainbow,
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Observe from the other side's vantage point
From dead illusion made live:
And then — impelled from within — we must turn our
to humanity in blessing. From them we hear:
variations of the Nothing are visible when we look out from the
not those from the domains of the gods to which we belong and to
from now on.
deeply, deeply: We now know that we have gone from the kingdom of
now. He spoke from out of the darkness. He spoke when we first
We need the light from the heights
From the realm of radiance, dominion, acting, the
Receive the light from the heights,
thought, streams over from the Dynamis to the Angeloi. What the
illumination they receive from the Dynamis.
We need the light from the heights
Receive the light from the heights,
for human beings' feeling. And they request from the Exusiai and
they create from the heights to the Archai for their concern for
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– how we had already continued from hearing what the
know this from previous lessons:
Observe from the other side's vantage point
spiritual secret of the rainbow, from the chorus or the
Dynamis, Kyriotetes in chorus from their realm:
From dead illusion made live:
spirit-ear from afar. The Guardian speaks:
From the realm of the first hierarchy comes the answer:
which resounds from that other worldly reality. What our
am” does not come from us in the earthly realm, that
Threshold's question posed from the distance – we
have passed him long ago – and the answer comes from
The Guardian speaks from afar (The human-I
Again the answer comes to us from the realm of
which he now poses from afar.
The Guardian speaks from afar. The human-I
Which are formed from cosmic souls?
They are the thoughts that come from all the
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took place in this hall, from now on an esoteric breath is to
This Esoteric School, coming from the entire character of
that is, from the last third of the nineteenth century back
real messages from the spiritual world, as truly Michael-words,
us, then we feel the desire to go into the springs from which
to crave the path that leads to those waters from which the
that from the spoken words about human self-knowledge the
down on us from the stars, for all that enters through the
far distance. From here on, the esoteric path will be described
reflects its light from all that grows and moves and lives, but
are the sources of our own humanity. From out of there the
souls. We are still at a certain distance from him. We look at
him, and perceive his admonishing words still from a distance,
Where from earthly matter, form on form,
Is shaped from earth and air and light.
Toward the light that from darkness streams.
illuminated from out of the darkness, can approach us, so that
the riddle of humanity may be solved from out the darkness. The
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Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXI (recapitulation)
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the verses from other members in the manner I will describe
resound from all the beings and events of the world to
from all the things of the world and from all the events of the
being, comes from what appears at first as black, night-cloaked
luminously emerged as though from a spiritual cloud-like form.
We heard him speaking: for everything spoken here resounds from
we carry within us from the spirit of our times, is shown to us
represents willing, to arise from the yawning abyss of being.
then the second beast — born from the hate of spiritual
Will wings sprout from your soul
Which sunders you from the knowledge fields
Will wings sprout from your soul
Which sunders you from the knowledge fields
living before it descended from the divine-spiritual world by
when we turn from thinking and observe our feeling, then we
wish to divert us in our will from our actual divine task and
from the its very beginning.
Of will, which from your own body
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Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXII (recapitulation)
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ears to hear them — can hear from all the Beings of the
comes to them from the entire universe — which is the
able to revere those guiding beings [1] who lead us from
that in its rhythm it appears as having moved downward from the
line to indicate the complete reversal we make when rising from
when he shows us how from the depths of the earth, which draws
free ourselves from the earth's gravity if we want to let our
the world, where the forces swing from west to east, from east
their spiritual light in these pulsing waves from the
the earth's air when it moves from east to west.
Feel how from the cosmic distance
from above, if it wants to follow a higher striving. We stand
and knowledge does the cosmic Word resound from above, full of
That resounds with grace from above
Feel how from the cosmic distance
That resounds with grace from above
Your Self, taken from you by spirit;
When all that streams through this Michael-School from the
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Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXIII (recapitulation)
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introduction, but will continue from where we left off last
world. And we are exhorted from all sides, from all the Beings
words that urge the soul of man, if he wants to hear them, from
all sides, from the east and the west, from the south and the
north, from above and below, may also today begin to describe
dark powers in the realm from which the force of our thinking
look up to that realm from which our thinking comes, where
and the powers of darkness, who want to divert thinking from
the realm of the earth and of gravity from which the force of
and brothers! Blossoming plants: they are created from light;
but the powers of darkness must press up from the soil so that
from light and darkness what the plants represent in their
Your Self, taken from you by spirit;
Your Self, taken from you by spirit;
finger. The finger loses its meaning when separated from the
entire world, and only seem to be separated from the
physical science — is born from the fluid element. Solid
is isolated from fluid, as ice is from water. We must
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Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXIV (recapitulation)
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enough, from all the kingdoms of nature and the hierarchies of
words sounded forth to man from all the stones and plants,
clouds, stars, from the sun and the moon, from the springs and
of nature, what on and from the earth lives and moves, what
shines and speaks from the realm of the stars — to the
Once we grasp how dead this thinking is, we can learn from the
from this apparent thinking, from this dead thinking
situation, after having received the previous admonitions from
modest in the world, by abstaining from using the laws of the
elements from the Guardian of the Threshold.
from the cold the opposite happens, the spiritual fire awakens,
descend from thinking to feeling in memory when we let this
as a mirror is a boundary. What comes to us from without
From light's shining force
Generally, we try to hatch thoughts from earthly values. We
From light's shining force
again contemplate what speaks to us from all being, encouraging
from another member who has rightfully received them here in
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Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXV (recapitulation)
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him from all the kingdoms of nature and from all the spiritual
from all that interweaves and lives in the earthly depths, in
water and air, in warmth and light, from what lives in the
path which leads from the sunny, light-filled world in which we
will, however, as it emerges from our being, remains at first
they were in before the human being had descended from the
threshold — is the black, night-cloaked gloom; but from
thought extracts itself from the black gloom. We know that
from out of the darkness.
between this warmth, from which our willing streams toward us
out-streaming from below, which has at most a whiff of
draws. And now we know that when we cross over from the sensory
world, from the world of physical reality in which we are
that we want to view the head from within, how this perspective
spiritually wafts over us from below like warm wind — the
us over from the One to the Three. In the physical world, we
toward us from the multifaceted sensory appearance as cosmic
decisive words resound as though coming from Michael, as though
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Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXVI (recapitulation)
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This was a necessity which, above all, flows from the spiritual
world, from where the revelations come which should live in the
cannot be created by human arbitrariness, nor from that human
cyclically intervenes in human affairs from the spiritual
have been found on the trolley cars that run from Dornach to
revelations from the spiritual world. At the end of each
being of Michael is present while the revelations from the
be requested, either from Dr. Wegman or from me. Once
that begins with having to request permission from the School's
giving it to others as coming from himself. It was necessary to
involved, and how these things are being read from the
existing esoteric school. And the earnestness from this
which only springs from personal motives and then it is
from all that lives in the mineral, vegetable and animal
kingdoms, what sparkles down from the stars, what acts into our
souls from the domains of the hierarchies, from all that crawls
under and on the earth as worm-life, from what speaks in rocks
red arrows] from out of which streams the force of will into
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Title: The Social Question: Lecture I: The True Form of the Social Question
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those who weren't occupied with the social question from the
not from one sided party views in the last decades, those would
question from a specific point of view.
about the question of spiritual science. From the standpoint of
in the souls of the modern proletarian worker. From this I came
occupations and range of professions. Thus, not only from the
social movement originated from the evolution of humanity
as coming from mere scientific oppositions, mere scientific
results follow from what went before — processes always refer
development from cause to effect. Now again a revolutionary
workers, torn from their characterised other relationships in
life, were torn loose from a full human life and were urged to
always approached from one or other party. Whoever considers
different from how statements are made about this development.
away from human beings. It no longer carries a personal
(heliocentrism), remnants remained of a withdrawal from
free from all that is blameworthy in religion. During this time
when science freed itself more and more from religion, wanting
confronted, was set against. It lived into human beings. From
that everything, from thought, artistic creativity and
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possible solving techniques distilled from actual knowledge of
state, but coming from appropriate reality, coming from the
from the mere game of analogy will know that in reality, things
member, to begin with from the one side — one could
of this outer air, how this differs from the manner and way
a third member which must be placed independently from the
others, there has to be a distinction from everything in the
natural spiritual and physical talents coming from single
actually is so necessary for the wounds of humanity beaten from
out of independence and from a point of awareness carry out the
bananas qualify in the community to be displaced from their
processes which are involved as a whole from the natural
developments are now to be separated from one another by
produced from natural foundations, to balance it out. I have
from the right towards law breaking, or towards the private
Modern life has unfortunately turned away from considering
democracy has tried to separate religious life from the life of
separation of religious life from the other spheres, from the
formation of the economic life and from the formation of
spiritual life actually from the two other members. A really
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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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things here — whoever takes the trouble to penetrate from
which should be brought about?’ — From their point of
in humanity. Briefly, we are distracted from the proletarian
themselves have the answer and that it does not come from some
must have seen how even the most difficult, seen from other
the need of life at present, may direct his focus from the
what I called last week the thrust received from inner
aspects work from its basis into the everyday, profane
fanaticism, remote from daily reality, then true everyday
daily satisfaction coming from everyday experiences of life
which should arise from the national economy, these instincts
while it distances itself from the everyday things, from direct
question so blatantly, so tangibly insistent, approach from all
from quoting or making statements about personalities who in
fanaticism — one must always speak freely from the heart
in an epidemic; coming from America they flooded Europe in the
reality but that it addresses spirit as coming from a real
proletariat inherited as a depressing element from the
What I have been aiming at from a certain angle involves one
first point I want to touch on is from this view I'm
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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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this week and last week, proves from a certain point of view
shifting modern humanity radically away from the situation of
distinguishable from the former, which we today describe as the
consciously from the old instinctive social life to the modern
last time. The essential aspect from this view is that social
relationship, they stood quite removed from the interests of the
Proletarians want to conquer from the state the element where
have depicted from different viewpoints, now work together side
last time from another point of view.
From the following we see what it's really all about. Economic
lively into abstract forms, even if from a one-sided view in
of human labour from the character of goods.
terms which result from the regulation or the legal
on are formed by stripping off what had been inherited from the
prioritise the protection of the human being from the economic
from the most various sides about the law, it is obvious that
labour from being dressed up as goods.
little live from his own labour in the social organism as one
proletarian worker must live from the proceeds of his labour.
snatches from the economic life, the possibility to link human
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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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wrapping of something from quite another time when
taking abstractions drawn from outer life and forming something
they want to accomplish, or, as you can hear from various
from a social structure formed out of a life many experience as
developed from the basis of technology and this has hypnotised
first, not from the basis as perhaps some of you may believe
so-called ruling class, away from the development in the most
nothing from the present ruling class if they build on their
instilled in life traditional impulses inherited from origins
such people who from one or the other side became the carriers
follows, as it spread itself from olden times into the direct
not originated from a scientific orientation but which had
solely from angelic, divine origins but they had at one time
indecently climbed around trees from animalistic origins which
out of an old viewpoint of life, from within middle-class
spiritual life is ideological, this didn't originate from
dowry from the bourgeoisie. This last and big belief which the
Proletarians took in from the middle-class was a result of the
it — it acquired ideology from the bourgeoisie. It hadn't
social will from belief that somehow something spiritual could
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Title: The Social Question: Lecture VI: What Significance does Work have for the Modern Proletarian?
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could have been asked: ‘From which angle is this going to be
approached?’ — From some or other research, it could be
often enough from these people how far civilization has
foundation, it is inconceivable; it thrives from this
from the modern state through the influences of recent times.
for. Don't we hear it from all possible sides — from the
Christian-social side, from the bourgeois-socialist aspirants
various moral, religious deliverances, emerging from those, up
of humanity did. The one who feels it from quite another angle
than as from empty phrases, the one who experiences it out of
from the leading, up to then ruling classes.
facts as originating from the social chaos. Those who
the cause and which can only be given from the modern economic
From this angle, basically everything can be said about the
Proletarian's spiritual life, there is a possibility from this
cherish, for they do not yet see results coming from the
Worker.” Things need to be looked at from another point
of view than what is habitually done: one must look at it from
welled up from the results of modern science, for my sake one
social order which cuts them off from the modern Proletariat.
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Title: Lecture: Richard Wagner and Mysticism
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A lecture given in Nuremberg, December 2nd, 1907. Translated from a
A lecture given in Nuremberg, December 2nd, 1907. Translated from a
anyone deny him the right to speak about the plant from this aspect
clear cognition can attain; from that point onwards, however, we grope
And the significant thing is that he expressed it from the musician's
He regarded symphonic music as a veritable revelation from another
far better than by logic. And from his own experience he knew that the
convey to us those archetypal moods arising from chaos in the first
ceremonies were connected with the secrets of spiritual forces from
underlying all his work — an idea that had arisen from profound
draw his characters from everyday life. And so he turned to the myths,
all. The deep laws which underlie the soul are spun from the
In old Atlantis, the atmosphere was quite different from the
Atlantis from everything in their environment, for those ancient
kind of consciousness he has to-day. He was shut off from outer Nature
example given indicates that legends do indeed originate from dreams.
from these same mists was now contained in the rivers in the North of
came to men from the rippling of brooks and the gushing of springs. It
was a wisdom that was common to all, a wisdom from which the element
is common to all is gold. This gold was brought over from
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Title: Lecture: Spiritual Wisdom in the Early Christian Centuries
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A lecture given at Dornach, July 16th, 1922. From a shorthand report
A lecture given at Dornach, July 16th, 1922. From a shorthand report
reason could not in any sense be regarded as knowledge emanating from
But then we find that from the fifth century A.D. onwards, this old
from medieval tradition a hatred of all that lived in personalities
thought which had in a certain respect become estranged from the
derived? A family-likeness is derived from stock. The Idea of
living, that it could not be passed on by writing but only from man to
— but these concepts poured down as it were from the world of
known to represent a confluence of forces streaming from the spiritual
or maybe seventeen Gods from the four hundred and seventy-four,
everything originating from ancient Initiation-wisdom. The aim of this
absorbed a very great deal from pupils of men like Iamblichus and who
every phenomenon of Nature. Julian the Apostate had heard from pupils
and plant from the three hundred and sixty heavenly Powers, the
These were the things that dinned in the ears of Julian, now from one
side, now from another. A deep love for Hellenism grew up within him
away from the domain of spiritual life just as the heathen altars were
swept away from the physical world.
wished to-day to speak of one chapter of history and from an

Title: Community Building
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the Movement 'free from illusions.' He explains that in anthroposophical
plastic shape, in every colored surface, that which comes from
shared in the pain from the scorching flames on Sylvester Eve.
completely from direct vision and according to this vision, and
sort of interpretations — makes the pain from the loss so
building which has been removed from the reach of our external
strength and power may come in turn from another side for
us for Anthroposophical work are to come from experiences, not
from drab theories, not from abstract ideas.
the reason that — apart from their being so deeply graven
impulses came from the hearts that were filled with enthusiasm
important, indeed, from the feelings which have been expressed
illusions.” I say that something disappears from these
day. The present ideal of community-building results from an
withdraw from the world, even from the world of human beings,
from which we may learn a lesson even though in a primitive
of the same sound from the other person, a word in which we
the soul and which sound from one soul to the other — as
comes from the other soul as a sharing of memory, — this
Such is the case for the earthly life. And, from having traced
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Title: Community Building
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the Movement 'free from illusions.' He explains that in anthroposophical
certain fundamental principles from the Anthroposophical point
differentiates this Anthroposophical Society from others, but I
from the most serious and important down to those whose inner
experiences as an isolated human being in dreams from that
Now, let us proceed from these two states of consciousness to
the higher worlds, as you all know from my book Knowledge of
world, entirely differently from the way in which you look upon
they derive from the everyday consciousness, and do not lift
their understanding of the teaching drawn from the higher
Thus, does it become understandable, precisely from a
bear upon it and passes judgment on it from the point of view
among men from the higher worlds the greatest unity, the
understand from what I presented to you yesterday and today
him away from spiritual research, because both things cannot be
justification of what is added from day to day to the findings
opponents are driven in the proper way from the field.
though from a point of view different from that of
research, in order that he may be drawn away from his research.
obtain them. But these people shrink from difficulties in many
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 1: Evolution and Consciousness, Lucifer, Ahriman
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and how these forces are trying to wrest human destiny from
15th century, very different from anything that went
people differed from us before the middle of the 15th
the source from which this way of thinking, the
dreams, when a whole world of images emerges from our
outer world in a way that is quite different from the
processes if we keep ourselves well isolated from them,
mind. He saw himself no more isolated from the great
from the rest of me. If I were to cut it off it would
ancestor felt that he could not exist apart from the
feel isolated from everything that goes on outside us in
and we are separate from the essential origins and causes
entities that differed from human beings, entities that
beings would be released from the tutelage of those
system of forces that absorbs mineral principles from the
state, from the middle of the 15th century onwards,
rather differently from the way we are accustomed to
elements coming from this source, by the luciferic
influences arise from the sphere where we human beings
all else. They come from the sphere of our feelings and
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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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and how these forces are trying to wrest human destiny from
I presented the subject from a slightly different point
has by and large descended from the human race that
These then spread further from a number of centres in
moved from the west to the east. Civilization itself
however moved from east to west. These two movements can
from east to west, whilst the physical basis comes from
migrations that proceeded from west to east.
habitat. You can conclude from this — and spiritual
different way from those who had remained in Europe. In
it from this point of view.
specifically isolates itself from the rest of the cosmic
itself able to take in the ideas coming from Asia.
From the
Gospels and people took their cue from life itself. As
essence from the oriental culture of soul and spirit,
educational system where from the bottom rung upwards
of our soul from all sides. It is necessary that we come
Europeans are far from understood by Western Europeans;
Western Europeans are far from understood by Central
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 3: Political Empires
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and how these forces are trying to wrest human destiny from
earlier ideas — was quite different from what we
people's minds was however something quite different from
down from spiritual heights to take up its abode in a
enable spirits from the higher hierarchies to speak
descended from cosmic heights and walked on the earth in
transition from a ruler who was a god to one who ruled by
and orientation, was felt to come from that other realm.
realm were the reflection of something streaming in from
structure of the priestly hierarchy here on earth, from
that are radically different from our modern ideas. If we
denominational groups have arisen from these —
emerge from our anthroposophical movement that would
people who from one side or another come to join the

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 4: Western Secret Societies, Jesuitism, Leninism
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and how these forces are trying to wrest human destiny from
from the profound depths of human nature and coming to
movement is spreading from Eastern Europe into Asia at an
comes from what should ideally be a truly honest, sincere
from human instincts, human selfishness, comes to
things such as linen paper, paper made from wood or the
building their nests from the same materials as those
from which we make paper. There you have human cleverness
genuine sincerity will however only come from this
more bullets whistle around our ears from certain
experience. Within the two schools, quite apart from the
them say: ‘It would take the ground away from under
down to us from our life before birth or life before
born; we have brought it with us from the life we had
plants rise from the ground, in the way animals are
into being.’ This is of course very different from
all. The water they have to pour down from their
teaching Christian Ideas from their pulpits, but
from gnostic teachings. The Roman Catholic sacrifice of
the Mass has infinitely much in it that derives from the
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 5: How the Material Can Be Understood Only through the Spirit
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and how these forces are trying to wrest human destiny from
discussed on a number of occasions from all kinds of
the civilized world from continuing into utter ruin,
and indeed from their earliest childhood.
different from the rest of the human organism.
less physical form where they extend from the brain
so ethereal that they now extend from our ears and touch
rising from the modes and relations of
succeeded in letting their thinking escape from the
ideological elements arising from economic life. Quite
to attend meetings from morning till night, and indeed
practices — it was necessary to start from these,
things I have from other sources to external life; I have
meetings go on not only from morning till night, but even

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 6: Materialism and Mysticism, Knowledge as a Deed of the Soul
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and how these forces are trying to wrest human destiny from
using a fact from cultural history as an example. I have
from Catholic or Protestant sources. This materialism on
inevitable discomfort if we are to get from theory to
must progress from purely logical definition to a
since a departure from the right way means sickness, the
withdrawing from outer life and entering deeply into
we become mystics. You can find out about it from the
someone looking from outside would see what goes on
noting that living from the thirty-fifth to the fortieth
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drop from his hand. You do not observe the gravitational
experience things before and after. We must progress from
other path; I retain what is necessary from childhood
across from the material world “Sheer
seen from another point of view so things look different
depending on whether we look at them from the spiritual
point of view or out of materialism. From the spiritual
different way from that point of view. There we know that
human beings descend from the spiritual world, that they
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 7: Materialism, Mysticism, Anthroposophy, Liberalism, Conservatism
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and how these forces are trying to wrest human destiny from
aware of gravity, so that we know from inner experience
earth from Mars, for instance, none of these would
from being spiritualists when we say we contemplate the
processes that carry the affairs of the earth from one
to human minds in a totally different way from the way we
levels from abstract intellectual knowledge to active
well be given when one perceives this from beyond the
threshold.) If we call this the threshold from the
true form from beyond the threshold. If however that
Spengler speaks from a different point of view, one that
from the point of view of spiritual science today if we
want to withdraw completely from public life or perhaps
from conservatism on the right, and conservatism is
coloured with liberalism from the left, as in the case of
thinking the thoughts that from the middle of the 15th
beings who, from the middle of the 15th century onwards,
itself away from the brain. People must make efforts to
tear their soul and spirit away from the brain with the
soul and spirit away from the physical aspect of the
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 8: The Opposition of Knowledge and Faith, Its Overcoming
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and how these forces are trying to wrest human destiny from
certain knowledge can solely and exclusively come from
know that everything that is presented here from the
this a number of times — that was inherited from
descended to earth from the world where it had existed as
knowledge, had to be watched over from the mystery
way that the right transition could be made from primal
from the far reaches of the earth to look for a way in
since been concentrating on guiding the transition from
totally involved in guiding the transition from the
post-primeval times to prevent humankind from developing
of a language that arose from the depths of human nature.
spiritual, to stop them from achieving their mission on
science working towards anthroposophy, differs from
a careful look — at the scientific literature from
experimentation from anything that is a matter of belief
that, to find the way from a science of the physical,
Supersensible knowledge is to evolve from the same
example, is really good, you will gain more from reading
it than from the pedantic, uninspired writings of other
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 9: East, West, and Middle
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and how these forces are trying to wrest human destiny from
twenty-four hour period and have done so from many
brain organism when a human being changes from the waking
Perceive with the senses. It contains images from the
presents them with images that, in a way, derive from the
traced in dream life. It will be evident from everything
undergone a change from the way it was in the waking
universe perceptible to the senses from a spiritual point
the night sky, i.e. on things hidden from view between
bodies. When they woke up, their brains changed from
deflect their inner attention from the sense-perceptible
earth and had descended from a spiritual world into the
already said on another occasion, and from another point
of the Middle came up from a southerly direction and
up from the south, spreading through the late Greek world
powers from the world in which human beings live between
from that great culture, for its mission was to emphasize
original tradition that had not welled up from their own
things on different occasions and from different points
is predominantly a Western product and, coming from 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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and how these forces are trying to wrest human destiny from
civilized humanity differs from earlier times. Let me point out
war started, something like a spectre from prehistoric times lived in the
ideas which has continued into the present from prehistoric times has
forces coming from quite different sources than the form of energies used
in earlier wars — energies deriving from the particular nature of
from coal-mining. They did not arise from something that human beings let
spontaneously come forth from within them, but from completely external
some things from happening. But their directions, or else their failure
to stop things from happening' caused forces to enter the field of battle
This only concerns itself with forces that can be abstracted from nature
relatively short time — just take the time from 1870, when six and
human beings differ from those of the elemental powers that human beings
in human evolution. From a luciferic world that still influences their
machines, with human labour made into something quite separate from the
The road from the luciferic
that come from the ahrimanic powers which are now in the ascendant. The
commerce and so on, just as much as all kinds of goods result from
Christian. Something else emerged from this, however. Whether they stood
in the pulpit, or heard the words that were spoken from the people felt
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 11: Modern Science and Christianity, Threefold Social Order, Goetheanism
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and how these forces are trying to wrest human destiny from
spirit-self, a life-spirit and a spirit-man. We know from
from spheres beyond this earth — doing so at
something united with this earth that came from outside,
from beyond this earth. If we really experience the
this principle from beyond the earth, and in this way
has come to earth from spheres beyond the earth.
the earth. We must turn our eyes away from the earthly
earthly realm from beyond the earth. We must look to the
principle from beyond the earth.
from many different points of view. We are now living in
to it again and from a particular point of view.
grown particularly strong over recent centuries, from the
and arises from the human capacity to have sensual
human being from Schiller. He felt: ‘This man
construing the whole essence of human evolution from
earth. We have to take our human beingness back from the
our cues only from the ingredients of the earth, we could
Little rises from below in the human being; if one wanted
them would cease. The thesis made up from what one has
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Title: Life Between Two Incarnations
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Dornach, Switzerland. From Bn 108.11; GA 108; CW 108.
want to pick out one of the most important chapters from the field of
important chapters from the field of higher life because it concerns
anything new. But we have to consider these things very carefully from
death this life body separates from the physical body. Man has this
because it is everything that runs in sensations and in feelings, from
one thing in man that can never approach him from the outside. It is
this one name, the simple name "I". Only from the deepest depths of the
himself. It is a spark from the sea of the Godhead that flashes in man.
Just as a drop from the sea is not the sea itself, but only a drop from
it, so the I of man is not a god, but a drop from the divine substance:
and currents emanate from it which connect it with the physical body
night's sleep comes from, and from this it can be seen how important a
also of the etheric body. You will not only have observed it from your
the etheric body from the physical body almost never occurs, at most in
does a separation of the physical body from the etheric body normally
receives a great shock from the fright. People who have been subjected
their earliest life suddenly reappeared from oblivion with full
body which fills the region of the head emerges wholly or in part from
from physical matter, the obstacle to uninhibited memory.
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