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Title: Evil and Spiritual Science
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step after step in life, because their lives are embedded in
behave, so that their behaviour corresponds to their deepest
being, to their previously prescribed and recognisable purpose?
down into a kingdom that is not their own human kingdom, but
really a kingdom below their true humanity. And to want to
the preparation of their own soul life, one would like to say,
these characteristics are in their correct place. So we see, as
spiritual science shows, that evil and wickedness through their
only beings like humans are present, who through their life,
take its evil, now bear their wickedness and so create evil.
because these characteristics only become evil through their
hopelessly covered in filth by evil and wickedness in their
necessarily live with their time, in that he/she is inserted
into their own time. That is a property of our being, that our
took place in their surroundings, we deeply gripped by that
and their spirit offer, and who live selfishly in a religious
bring about their rapid transformation into frogs through long
that shows how a human being can lose their way away from the
Except, sadly! only their spiritual bond is missing.

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 1: Popular Occultism, Introtroduction
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first of all, they must deviate their attention completely away from
with theosophy as it is meant here. Those who develop their higher soul-forces
are able, by their will-power, to throw out of their field of vision
love for their fellow-men are surrounded by a greenish aura; religious

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 2: Man's Ascent into the Supersensible World
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are their own passions which go out from them and appear as a reflected
their evening-pint of beer or wine. What are their thoughts? They talk

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 3: The Different Conditions of Man's Life After Death
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body in order to renew their forces. This work suppresses consciousness
be seized by an unspeakable greed for their physical body, which would
though in a weaker form awaits those who lost their life suddenly through
friends and their friendship takes on more and more spiritual character.

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 4: The Devachanic World
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look upon them objectively, recognize their full significance. We come

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 5: Life Between Death and a New Birth
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their effects on ourselves. In the case of every action we now experience

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 6: Man's Return to a New Earthly Life
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different individualities. Their whole character is contained in these
and their effects appear to begin with, in the external favorable or unfavorable
a kind of putrefaction process in their astral bodies. The invading

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 7: Effects of the Law of Karma
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once said: It is not true that children resemble their parents, it is
in the seemingly paradoxical sentence: The parents resemble their children.
plane have their origin in the spiritual worlds. What produced the changes
do not accumulate of their own accord and become a house, so the animal

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 8: The Evolution of Man and of the Solar System; the Atlantic Evolution
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in the characteristic language of such documents again in their exact
not have high foreheads; their foreheads were flat
but in supersensible images. For this reason all their spiritual products
In general, their civilization
the life-forces, they could build their houses out of trees which they
bend at will. For their dwellings they only used living substances and

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 9: Lemurian Development
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amphibians, though their present-day descendants can in no way be compared
they say with their blossom they strove towards the center of the planet,
i.e. the sun, and that their roots stretched upwards. When the sun severed
turned their blossom to the sun. From that time onwards the blossom stretched

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 10: Paths of Occult Training
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training of the etheric body. People who precede others in their inner
science arose, with the study of the forces of Nature and of their laws.
their whole civilisation in accordance with the stars, the affairs of State,
Initiates do now, the soul-content of their fellows. To-day the word can
inner loneliness for their concentration. The second fundamental

Title: i Spirituality: Lecture 1: Historical Symptomology, the Year 790, Alcuin, Greeks, Platonism, Aristotelianism, East, West, Middle, Ego
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[of their own].
If Kant would only take things to their full conclusion, he would have to think
limited to the State what is given them as their natural endowment, and if they had not, at the
organism in such a way that it can exist in harmony before their eyes. This, however, can only
ancient times we see individual personalities, we see them expressing in their words what was the
find their trace in the pure research of the real in its reality."

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 2: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 1
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in earlier epochs, and very exceptional things are making their appearance within humanity's
develop, and which have developed in recent times, have taken their incentive from the impulses
of their evolution. Now these beings do not make use of the whole human organism but use chiefly
that set themselves the task within their sphere of action of suppressing consciousness of self,
desire not to call themselves to account concerning the real motives behind their actions. One
those which make it their task to cause the individual abilities in the human being to be
less into a stereotyped replica of their nation. This is what this third kind of being gives
stereotype, a copy of their nation, their race. This last class of beings incarnates in the West
matter of repeated incarnations, but the incarnation, in a way, of beings who in their
radiate like an epidemic their own exceptional qualities onto other human beings. These three
second type, who make superficiality, phrase-mongering and untruthfulness their task, seek to

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 3: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 2
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their own interests incarnate into human beings in order to work against the true impulse of the
we find in the East that certain beings, that had their real significance in the far distant
their beds! The others were either poisoned or maimed and died in prison, or left prison to join
that Germanic peoples force their way into the Roman element and that something then arises there
who are now lost but who have passed their language on. The Germanic people would not be able to
pass on their language. The Germanic people have their language as something living in them and
in their true nature we can say: When they were awake there was working in them something of the
attacks of the spirits of the West which influenced their desires, their instincts, lived in
their will, and crippled it. When these individuals slept, when the astral body and the 'I' were
follow these leaders — their characteristic stamp. The human beings of the Centre were
the people of the East are not bound up with their language in the same way that the Germanic
peoples are. The Germanic peoples really live in their language as long as they have it. Just

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 4: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 3
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instincts to such a degree that he can give himself up to them without their dragging him down,
without their enslaving him, and in which, on the other hand, logical necessity is taken up into
quite different from Schiller's. It was precisely because of the difference of their
other the senses with their sensual needs, as Schiller said, and the third, the middle condition
the shaping of the social organism. For this very reason the Greeks did not believe that their
where things go on in the usual way, the Greeks considered themselves dependant on their gods, on
the spirits of their myths. When, however, it was a matter of deciding something of great
be so completely severed from their homeland as the Germans who became Americans, and yet
(Metaphysics and Anthropasophy in their Position Regarding Knowledge of the Supersensible),

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 5: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 4
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knowledge of their culture, perceived a spiritual element in all the manifestations of nature;
beginning of this age which we call the fifth post-Atlantean epoch, established their rule in
because, against the verdict of the gods, according to which people were allotted their place,
money to pay the troops. The Romans paid their troops with money. In the Middle Ages feudalism
governmental positions with their practical experience where it then usually evaporates. The
machines do if their work on the earth were to be done by people.
he constructed and made them, they nevertheless gradually take on a life of their own
their industry
four post coaches a week and no one travels in them. If people really want to throw their money

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 6: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 5
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but received the accounts, the traditions, and clothed these in the forms of their own
the offices of the State and united in their person the political and ecclesiastical elements.
for the sages of the Mysteries sought as their pupils those who had
authority, who wished to comprehend Christ out of their inner being — for which, however,
Those men who still made their appearance as
utter such nonsense about Anthroposophy are really only concerned with keeping their office in
the most comfortable way, in the way they learnt in their youth — if people knew that in
their comfortable way of comprehending things — then we would get much further in rejecting
their eyes so as not to see what the external symptoms are saying. You won't believe how, even
towards the East — where remnants of the troops who carried the war on their shoulders
into their bellies. Such scenes actually take place at the command of people who, incidentally,
West, who conclude a peace of which they understand nothing, cover up their eyes. They do not see

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 7: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 6
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their eiders when they were in their youth. The difference between older people and the
encapsulate themselves in their habitual ideas so that nothing can penetrate which conflicts with
their usual habits of thought they would soon see what an immense gulf there really is between
to the point of having no content at all in their concepts. This had to happen because this
the cosmos comes to their aid. This will be the solution of the most significant disharmony that
be found to the degree in which human beings are able to feel the Christ-impulse in their souls.
of human souls and out of their need.
reckon with insights of this kind. The opponents are ready at their posts. They are developing
an attack on Anthroposophy like that of Goetz or Heinzelmann. One has only to look at their

Title: Abbreviated Title: Lecture I:
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birth is short only in the case of human beings who have applied their life
not given themselves up to egoism alone, but who have spent their life
their turn, have received a great deal from their ancestors, and from
their ancestors' friends and relations, and so on. Human beings must
Earth by conditions; these conditions had their effects. We were surrounded
by people; these people had children and passed on to the children their
feelings and ideas. The children in turn did the same with their own
has no interest in following their gradual erosion, but returns very soon
with which he must live in order to learn to understand their gradual
understand their destruction and disintegration. Those people, however, who
guide the world by devoting yourselves to what lies in their intentions.
the tendency to care for their further development and to develop over into
world continues need not be led astray in this striving of theirs to
they are eaten has nothing at all to do with their inner nature. Just as

Title: Talk To Young People:
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century feel this in their unconscious, feel it inwardly, like an
same as always. Youth continually rampages against everything their
their answer was usually, “Young people have always been rebels.” I
youth experience in their subconsciousness but are not able to
perfectly but as they look out at nature, their distinct feeling is,
Therefore their urge: Away! Get away — anywhere! Leave behind
were also full of enthusiasm and later kept their enthusiasm into
to ask themselves the reason for their suffering and what they were
between the anthroposophical movement and what was living in their
modern life style.” If they can actually find their way to the
descend more deeply into themselves, while giving up all their
members in their welcome called me “Papa”; in the youth group there

Title: "Heaven and Earth will pass away but my words will not pass away"
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the dreams of this dreamer are transposed by them into their own
a glimpse of the Spirits of Personality and their task during earth
should produce a vegetable kingdom; in the depths of their souls they
Good, and all those who, in their Soul, accept or practice anything
their inner nature, but must be content with the outer fact. Very

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture I: Tree of Life - I
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Spiritual Science their chief desire is to have an answer to their
questions, a solution of their problems. That is quite natural and
and Evil they must be banished from their present abode, so that they
as their task the first incorporation of the secrets of the Mystery
the final relics of the old clairvoyance that spoke to their
existed in many, many shades and nuances, and these sought in their
germinated in their inner soul nature, that filled it through and
by those who, through their whole nature and being, have not been
simply died out. Their blood no longer persists. Into the empty space

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture II: Tree of Life - II
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condition of these four members and their separation. We have already
quite false if people think they must be on their guard against
beings where they are in their element and knowing that they only
over to Ahriman at the moment of waking. Only while they strike their
bargain and settle their pact with one another, something comes to
Ahriman and Lucifer have their proper world mission, for all that has

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture III: The Power of Thought
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the moon from the sun there now took their course side by side the
again, but in their feeling, in their inner nature, they preserved a
actually Moon-beings. Their remaining behind consisted in this. The
host of Luciferic beings who then in their further development
descended upon our Earth naturally contained in their ranks this kind
keep it in the condition of separation. And their activity produces
with one another and exchange their views, so that in Plato we find
the spectacles of what they see directly in their own environment.

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture IV: Harmonizing Thinking, Feeling and Willing
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Sun-evolution. What entered their destiny through their not having
we receive the shining from behind, and we ought to prevent their
throughout the whole of their life — which is not
their eyes, and reduce it to a mechanism which is only an image of
processes. Such mediums are usually very proud of their Imaginations.
Imagination, whereas those in their turn can often very well see that
not bring it to the world by standing up and presenting their views,
their intellect. Hence such grey or black spiritual scientists often
in a suggestive way. To those, however, who wish to take their stand
world which men perceive with their senses lives around them, but
number of cases a colossal error lay at the root of their claims. For
responsibility for their teachings. This gives a sure and certain way
responsibility for their teachings and also show through their

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture V: Tree of Knowledge - I
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completely opposite: men makes researches into what their senses see;
and now let their activity shine in from outside upon the earth. That
our nose, for most people experience their arm or nose as so much

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture VI: Tree of Knowledge - II
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obscura, where the objects from outside create their images as in a
gradually comes to an end. Children are primarily interested in their
Sun. This means that Luciferic spirits thrust their influence from
higher beings, Angels, Archangels, let their thoughts flow into him

Title: World Downfall and Resurrection
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out their own thoughts for themselves. Now the kind of
discussion and debate. But as the centuries took their course,
these words are taken literally, their purport is quite clear:
found their way into the Roman Empire, became the founders of
currents, but on the other hand they knew something about their
electricity but of an earthly force living in their blood. We
of mechanics. But the men of old connected their picture
was their picture of the Father God. This picture of the Father
Fathers of the first centuries of Christendom. Their
such doctrines have been exterminated altogether by their later
works in their being before the forces of the Earth work upon
an indication to men that their conceptions of the Divine must
be drawn from the forces of their consciousness alone,
men did not look upon their existence as earthly, but as an
the Earth, as it had been when men drew their powers from its
will say that their belief concerning the end of the world was
in their hosts invisibly around the human being who must guard
world downfall, albeit in their lethargy and indifference men
powers who cast their minds into confusion; and they no longer
their sub-earthly forces but as having been created by the
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Title: Lecture: Philosophy and Anthroposophy
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feelings are often wrongly explained, and their alleviation sought in the
until we have experienced their true nature.
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;
in order to realize thereby that we endow them with their true value by
they can themselves take their stand upon true reality. Others, who aim at
Christianity, yet upon the other they were bound by all their traditions to
their faith from this invasion of independent thought. They were of the
invoked the book of Aristotle, their opponents confronted them with
a dullard who will not agree with their definition of conceptual thought
in the things, thanks to their having previously existed as universalia
before their incorporation in the single things. The conception of such
higher questions; they are not clear in their own minds as to the nature
and scope of their conceptions. This could not have happened in the days of
purely abstract concepts. This was never their intention. [
importance for the philosophers in question, namely as regards their
A mere reference to the abstract logical element in their philosophy falls
this path. They are mostly entangled in their self-made web of notions;

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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Social Questions and their Spiritual Background,
of Central Europe have taken their lead in such matters from the people of
ideas considered reasonable in Central Europe today, you would find their
capable of bringing their souls into the way of thinking and feeling that
than of this when they decide to take their stand on the esoteric

Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture II: The Three Fundamental Forces in EducatioN
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Social Questions and their Spiritual Background,
sculptural activity, drawing, etc. These are the forces that have their
forces had taken their course unconsciously within the body. If later on
head and into the body, forcing their way through the formative forces and
their bodily organism. Whatever they experience of formed movement, of the
fires of purgatory. Not, certainly, by removing their contemplation of it;
in the ancient mysteries spoke rather differently. Their expressions were
their best effect, if our study of drawing begins with man. If you study
develop their forms from these, then you have something that man's nature

Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture III: Spiritual Knowledge of Man as the Fount of Educational Art
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Social Questions and their Spiritual Background,
should be taken in from outside in a particular form, and acquire their
the brain receive their stimulus in man's rhythmic system, and it is these
remembered in the same realm where visual things have their sense-nerve
instance, actually still thought with their souls; their thinking was still
of eurythmists, the eurythmic movements make their physical organisms
world. In the case of the audience, the movements living in their astral
again today work on you, and look to their educational value. Say for

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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Social Questions and their Spiritual Background,
their ego was allowed to be absorbed too strongly during their years of
organism. Even those, who in their childhood showed a tendency to
protected from this by their teacher when he or she sees to it that the ego
between their seventh and their fourteenth year a distinct differentiation
their form content (
their dynamics. If someone has got enormously long legs and arms, then they
will be heavier than under normal circumstances. It is not their form which
or that the arms never know what they are meant to do because their weight

Title: Social Understanding: Lecture II: Social Understanding Through Spiritual Scientific Knowledge
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Social Questions and their Spiritual Background,
is whether these capacities need concern us at all except in their
are not merely confined, let us say, to our jaws or their neighbouring
suspended when their purpose has been achieved and the permanent teeth have
draw forth from their state of slumber and use for the acquisition of
were to come when human beings completely lost hold of their youth, and
were unable to draw on their youthful forces, if there were no means of
people learning more and others less, according to the way their blood
will come about as a matter of course if people steer their thoughts in the
people who do not want to know anything about their thoughts shows that
an eye to their becoming clerks or army officers or some other kind of
must change where their comfort is concerned.

Title: Buddha and the Two Boys: Lecture I: Buddha and the Two Boys of Jesus
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exactly in their inner composition.
nothing of compassion and love in himself. Through their initiation,
why their child suddenly spoke so wisely. These parents had no other child

Title: Buddha and the Two Boys: Lecture II: The Gospels, Buddha and the Two Boys of Jesus
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could find it within their own souls. Moses brought a law in a completely
ancestors in this way, the ancient Egyptians in their Book of the Dead had

Title: Lecture: Art As A Bridge Between The Sensible And The Supersensible
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themselves as excluded by virtue of their entire life situation from what
the large number of slaves who not only partially, with regard to their
capacity for work, but with respect to their entire humanity, were viewed
but their spatial alteration.
Indeed, in our age many people occupy their thoughts and feelings to a
great extent within the most immediate boundaries of their
“I.” Hence their life is so boring and

Title: Raphael's Mission in the Light of the Science of the Spirit
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disappearing again after deeply impressing their being upon
attained and what they experienced out of their inherent nature
use of their bodily organs, the spiritual secrets of existence
illuminated their souls simultaneously. A detached view of the
from the things themselves, from making use of their sense
spirituality as what presented itself to their senses. — Then
entered the city? First of all, by their conduct the inhabitants
were only human pictures; in memory, their beautiful forms palpable
and venerated by the Greeks in their intoxication with beauty.
recovered, had their effect on Raphael's soul as on no other.
the ancient Greeks had united their idea of the gods with what
attempting to form an overall picture of his works in their
into their statues their conception of the way in which the
me, but that appear to me so radiantly beautiful that, on their
Fundamentally, the works of Raphael first embarked on their
Their effect continues right into the reproductions. One can
expressions of the Greek language in their full beauty and

Title: Leonardo's Spiritual Stature: Lecture
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and gestures. With each of the twelve figures their gestures
wartime and so forth. All these things took their toll on the
their features in connection with the most diverse emotional
their original state no longer fully recognizable — we
they nonetheless felt united in the centre of their being with
Human beings directed their attention first of all to the sense
their content, the natural sciences have been an educational
human beings felt themselves the immediate creators of their
they soon lost their lustre. We also see how Leonardo could
to express than their age is capable of supporting. Bringing

Title: Fairy Tales: in the light of Spiritual Investigation
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to a good angel, granted human beings as a companion from birth on their life's
together, their composition, is commensurate with the
in place of their subtle and enchanting qualities. These well
fairy tales that explanations cannot ultimately destroy their
us in the tragedy with their particular sets of
not revealing themselves in their totality.
take their course in the soul when free of the body, in leading
soul located in unconscious regions take their course much as
unfamiliar in their normal consciousness with experiences
ancient times human beings perceived more fully their
spiritual experiences of the soul, and with their simpler
their origin — the profound inner life of soul is
to his country. And, by virtue of their influence on those in
every age, from their first to their last breath. It need not
over a stick and chopped off their heads at the same
Grimm have quite properly found their way again to all
granted human beings as a companion from birth on their life's

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to a good angel, granted human beings as a companion from birth on their life's
experience the spiritual worlds around them, as an heirloom
spiritual regions surrounding them, with their eyes they now
spiritual science do we come to understand their deep
material will then be spiritual for them. Their now hardened
their sense-perceptible side, not finding in them what she is
take hold of it and press it lovingly to their hearts. They
head of the ancients would not stream through their entire
being, through all their organs, as an aura of love. This power
everything on their planet with love, to take the planet with
Redemption can only occur if human beings pour their forces out

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writings, with their harmonious and so succinctly constructed
the product of his soul-imbued personality and have their
in the year 1837 submitted their proclamation protesting the
abolition of their country's constitution. They were
not only lost their positions, bur their daily bread as well,
impulse according to their own outlook. In Ernest Renan
creations had their place within the unbroken flow.
the figures and their gestures, while standing inwardly before
once were in their day; with Raphael one has to start from what
Emmy. A deluded relative considers himself the rightful heir to
over him and their eyes met in a certain expression. An
themselves aright, who differ from him in their ideas and in

Title: Imperialism: Lecture 1
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certain more liberal circles look up to their invisible angels and
subjects, then they had to worship the conqueror as their god. During
archdeacons, wear certain clothes, and they perform their rituals;
others and make them their subjects, just as it was in older times
go to the colonies, become rich, then spend their riches at home, but
It is necessary to call things by their real
their real names. On the contrary, its effect is that the names
the godly jewelry the rulers and their paladins in the ancient

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had their real meaning. To a certain extent they were realities.
their pretensions, still gods. Nero, at least hypothetically, was a
their meaning. They have passed through the stage of symbols and have
under their feet if such things have become platitudes. People love
kept as tradition without any attempt to reach back to their original
practices, it can happen that through their karma certain especially
to keep the secrets in their original form. And they posses a certain
their external social position. In our society people are divided
their historical context. It should be clear that outward appearances
say to do with reality that in their opinion Woodrow Wilson had

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involved must remain. They want to continue to exercise their
states towards their powerful neighbor in the northern end; they
than is thought. From their ranks the powerful, imperialistic Pope
their instrument. It would go too far in this lecture to describe in
around in their brains imitating thoughts. But one can only achieve
perhaps haunts those who find their way to this anthroposophical
the anti-Semites, have had their eye on you [Dr Steiner] for a long
friends, so that when they return to their own country, where it will
be so important, they will have something on which to base their

Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture I: Anthroposophy and Natural Science
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of their blossoming friendship, had led regarding the method of
to read within their inner meaning. This would lead to a
their observation of natural phenomena.

Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture II: The Human and the Animal Organisation
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man and animal were created according to their entire
relationship in their upper intermaxillary bone as in
looking at their sensory life.
animals, we have to admit that their essential aspect is that
the axis of their backbone is parallel to the earth's surface
while by contrast, humans in the course of their life make
their horizontal spinal axis vertical, which means an important
a kind of degenerative effect appears in their total
result of a change in their position of equilibrium, how it

Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture III: Anthroposophy and Philosophy
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spiritual worlds throw their shadow images on the plane of the
he also experienced natural events not in their elementary
even satisfied their soul-striving with it. It is generally

Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture IV: Anthroposophy and Pedagogy
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with their research results being presented in such a way that
on the sense world, have their peculiarity by being in the
anthroposophic research that their results work on the entire
means what comes to expression in their words, their attitude,
the direction of their thoughts, these are passed on to the
those parents who withdraw their children from religious
instruction, send their children now into religious instruction
Once parents came to me and said their young son, who up to
from where all details need their direction. However, to be

Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture V: Anthroposophy and Social Science
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the same facts and indications acquire their form only
those who stand within it, formed out of their personal actions
their business which wasn't practiced in their business — that
involved in their discussions because nothing concrete is
individual personalities immediately appeared who in their way are
traffic with their thoughts. These thoughts only came from
practitioners with their old practices which had become a
yet words need to be taken up according to their
practitioners do a lot for the benefit of their practice and
foundation today's needs also find their expression in economic
people only had thoughts in their heads about such things. That

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been my intention to challenge theology and from their starting
other than through their own free will. What is said about
came their way simply through their work in a certain
within the Anthroposophical Movement to satisfy their soul
they have their soul and spirit life in their physical being,
that they are bound to their physical body in relation to what
they observe and process whatever is presented to them in their
their life of will and finally in the way in which they place
people when they try to turn their gaze away from the outer
world, in order to gradually observe their own past actions and
religions, then we see how the images they made of their gods,
the supernatural when they turn to their gods in their souls.
bring to the children what is suitable to the stage of their
have within them a Being who through their destiny will let

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their activity and actions they are steered to something which
nationalities, the latter with their frame of mind being that
11 what I had to say about their experience of the
of things with their own inner, but restrained gestures, want
becoming visible but which through their content certainly
sympathies and antipathies within their most inner existence
colours, which have their inner boundaries and outer
In olden times people lived in their dream-like imaginations in
felt their physical human body in as far as it is liquid
their bodily nature, and how speech absorbs the musical
in his organism, while thoughts in their turn flow into the
that these Anthroposophists stick their noses into everything

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the beginning of their cycles, if we wander into the depths of
is in people's consciousness and what is in their hearts

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Delight in the warm glow of their existence;
people are separated by their feeling into nations, and

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their souls in the spiritual world as people stand in physical
existence with their senses. Rather should one say: When even
their thoughts. And that includes all of you, else you wouldn't

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For they do not separate on their own. At first when we think
Your will to their striving.
Your will to their striving.
Godly forces let their spirit-light
You as self in their circles
wisdom. The gods bring their wisdom to our hearts, into our
even while he is walks on the earth, raise him to their
us alone on earth, but want to bring us into their spheres.
Your will to their striving.
alongside each other, how different their styles are:
Godly forces let their spirit-light
You as self within their circles

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external objects take on something foreign to their nature.
their origination and passing away during the embryonic and
order for their deeds to absorb the deeds of men, on the other
of these words during their life on earth, they will not

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in the Mysteries reached a certain stage in their development
elements in their relationship with us, then we may not look
out of their own being. And then we say to ourselves: All that

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their hearts, their souls can make of it.
Roman Church will do everything in their power to make the
consider their membership in this School with heartfelt

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Goetheanum in their teaching or impulse. Whoever wants to do
it gradually, may choose to exercise their opinion outside the
in the zodiac, which through their composition in certain forms
When we look up at what the planets reveal by their movements,
gust away, but in their place, we perceive in the psychic

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us from the planets which circle the earth, and in their
by their movements - so that having felt ourselves to be at
spirit to the stars, which reach us in their groupings and

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concerning whether or not someone is really destined by their
visionaries. These people show by their behavior that they are
not able, according to their karma, to sufficiently separate
pictures in their constellations. And, you see, if we can
dream-consciousness or sleep-consciousness out there with their
flocks they turned their souls with closed eyes towards outer
bring us forth, engender us in the spiritual world by their own
that these verses or their interpretation be sent by post. They

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Mystery of Golgotha. After their flowering time, the
stars are there above; their rays of light approach us when
sending their rays down to us. Our heads receive these rays;
calculate their positions and angles to each
their coming into being: The objective resounding; our own

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not desecrate them inwardly, desecrate their force – that

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their substance from – when we observe the spiritual in
the clouds: their own being or essence.
formations. They show us their tools in the lightning bolts.
They do not show us their being in the lightning bolts, only
their tools.
Cherubim are hidden behind their tools, the lightning bolts.
reveal themselves by their being; the Cherubim reveal
themselves by their tools; the Seraphim reveal themselves by
their shining.

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world – and not feel their greatness, their majesty and
in our thinking; it is their feeling. They bring it to our
not act in it, if it did not have their feeling in it. We

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And may their harmonies
their respective illuminating forces. Thus do the cosmic
souls send their concise suggestions. Our soul hears and
their advice and harmonies resound in the human
And may their harmonies
And may their words of verdict
And may their words of verdict
And may their harmonies
And may their words of verdict

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And may their harmonies
And may their words of verdict
into their own angelic beings.
colors, taking them into their own being.
Then the Angeloi, Archangeloi and Archai begin to reflect their
First the Angeloi, Archangeloi, Archai made their voices heard;
letters must be regarded as containing their own rejection.

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Kyriotetes tell their serving spirits to fulfill the needs of
the non-embodied beings live, where the spirits live their lives,
where the spirits think their truths, where the spirits radiate
their beauty, where their spiritual acts take place. And we
Nothingness. For in their reality all beings are only present in
We hear the Angeloi intoning their words of concern
for the guidance of human souls. Their words resonate:
beings in their thinking.
That we may illuminate their thinking.
“Human being think!”: their
concern is expressed in their words.
They turn to the Dynamis with their concern:
That we may illuminate their thinking.
Archangeloi turn to the Exusiai and Kyriotetes.) Their concern is
Kyriotetes what they need in order to guide human beings in their
they create from the heights to the Archai for their concern for
gods of the second hierarchy pull together; for in their concern
That we may illuminate their thinking.
gods say in their creative concern for the world of
for the world the gods are forming with their divine speech, do
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mantric verses pass into our souls which, through their
Dynamis, Kyriotetes in chorus from their realm:
who speaks in the Cosmic-Word? Seraphim, who wend their way
that members have left their blue membership certificates
here on the chairs to reserve their places. It has also

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the advantages of their continued striving, in that again and
and can absorb their majesty and greatness and truth and beauty
feeling, thinking in their true form — the Guardian
the distance from their homes cannot attend. As members of the
and the Michael-gestures with their corresponding words, or

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the future of the earth under their power. If they were able to

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Thrust their forces on your being,
Powerlessly to their striving;
their spiritual light in these pulsing waves from the
Godly powers their spiritual light
You as Self within their circles,
Thrust their forces on your being,
Powerlessly to their striving;
Godly powers their spiritual light
You as Self within their circles,
permissible, they lose their effectiveness, for the act of

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from light and darkness what the plants represent in their
kingdom of the planets and their orbits. The Guardian of the
in an incorrect way, they lose all their spiritual force. That

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can work in us with their force and really bring our I downward
the mantric verses and what is being given here lose their

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the initiate sees the thoughts in their living state, which
sisters and brothers, the mantras lose their force. It is

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be rightful members of this School must accept this in their
who, in every aspect of their lives, want to be worthy
reserved their seats by placing on them the blue membership
their effectiveness if they fall into the wrong hands. And it
or hat on a chair to reserve their places.

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not lie in what they are talking about, but it lies in their
felt and acted, what they treasured for their honour, their joy
and their aesthetic needs. This work itself gave something to
their present day relationship to the world and life which gave
workers, torn from their characterised other relationships in
the rest of humanity more or less out of the context of their
when he or she turns their gaze to self-knowledge and
opposition to their souls, science which did not instil trust
I've just mentioned, how the Proletarians and their learned
people deviating their gaze from any spiritual or soul
that through their correct development and processes they are
nothing other than the limitation of their senses by the
maintain their proper positions in the public sphere and speak
not need to disbelieve their own knowledge. However, as
their suffering and their regret on the other side with only
their true form, how attempts at finding solutions could be

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were introduced into life, but their focus was on the more or
say yes, science can wait, they may gradually rush to their
are their own. However, regarding the examination and
position to bring their own independent laws in the right way
learning and education, in relation to their gifts in thinking.
bananas qualify in the community to be displaced from their
and their consumption of nature, the measure of the work
and relate to one another through their independent
talents for their expression, so also the chosen public and
political laws of life must be acknowledged for their need to
they should be living reality and through their lively activity
freedom. Now suddenly the three golden ideals gain their real
these wars to their causes and their unfolding in relation to
their necessary historical growth forces for the future.
humanity for their tasks in the present and future: whoever

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available; not much of their actual view on life and their
proletariat, through their observations, know what to say about
things introduced into the present where their solutions must
which should be brought about?’ — From their point of
representing their opinion; the modern proletariat must impress
what people have to say about their feelings, how they
experience their own lives, how they think about other classes
modern proletariat with their opportunities in life, with their
were active forces in their own life forces, that it could have
complicated phenomena in social life. To some extent their
virtues, how they should relate through love with their fellow
beings, a display of the best will to do their utter best
because they have acquired nothing socially in their life of
doing their duties in their field, could even be excellent
economic order and their world view.
together in a lively way, has been turned through their power
presented need to be entered into if one wants to get their
meaning, in order to orientate their configuration in a certain
people placed on their own — this is how the
natural science, like nearly everywhere, is the monopoly; their
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able to understand their position within the human community
socially, ordered their affairs socially within their
with all their interests as modern time came along, are linked
These bourgeois leading circles are through their interests
their interests more or less to what many people held as the
further through deeper examination — but in their
leading circles and their representation in the state's
structure of the economic life in the most radical way. Their
see: how prepared both the classes are in their struggle for
their interests are experienced in an isolated economic
to direct their focus on what matters. During the time when the
in their current situation to understand it in a lively way,
this way can those within the three members experience their
restrained in their vital processes. So it is necessary that
This can never happen if the economic processes follow their
political bodies manage themselves, whether along their own
others, the stately, the political, working directly in their
has the right to something they lay their eyes on? Still, when
their gaze hypnotized by the state, it has become something
over there, the bohemian residents could turn and choose their
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social impulses in their aims tend more and more to the one or
mutual harmony in their reciprocal relationships to unfold what
soul of those people touched in their real nature by the modern
nothing from the present ruling class if they build on their
goodwill, their ideas and so on. There has, if I may say so,
met with one final important trust and they, not out of their
moments in their historic development.
out of the context of their lives, out of a context in which
relationship with regards to human feelings for their sense of
thinking to their beliefs and to their concept of life; they
only needed to apply it to their theoretical principles. They
torn out of all they could not identify as their concept of
through their purely outward existence, predestined to take
what was new and allow it to enter their soul content. So this
scientifically orientated: yet in their feelings, in their
their experiences out of the old connections of life which have
she had developed, on the basis that as she had followed their
this: within the Proletarians their spiritual life became
time was through their situation in life connected to, what we
state was there to let the folk grow their souls towards it;
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confusion, and those in it notice that the water is up to their
there were increasingly more people who out of their deepest
foundation as their labour, towards a social order in which
the part in their employ, had to be educated. As a result of
consider their situation; they didn't arrive at an instinctive
While the ruling classes were amassing their luxuries, which
many Marxist or similar terms to be taken into their national
and according to their being this can never be sold.
Those who, out of the leading circles with their prejudices,
namely their anticipation and their presentiments, who
theoretically confess to their modern education regarding human
circles are doing, persisting in their prejudices about the
people and value of goods according to their mutual estimation
regions where they felt comfortable, where their interests
developed, in which the needs and their fulfilment are
principle of equality of all people and their relationship to
dependence of their spiritual life coming from the state right
discovered their interests were satisfied by the state; they
to their own comforts and needs. Is it basically right to say
originate as a result of someone, out of their individual
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mathematical concepts. Men must have patience to find their bearings
again we find Mystics describing the nature and mode of their
to live into their mood and atmosphere and then we shall begin to
that happens to be living in their soul. He wanted to realise his
with their eyes, they also heard with their ears. Wisdom was presented
later on broke off along their several paths. Music and dramatic
artist, Richard Wagner recognised and knew of their existence.
Atlantis from everything in their environment, for those ancient
their homes, a figure of a woman appears and puts a question to them.
their forefathers lived away yonder in the West and wandered towards
characteristics and qualities of Nifelheim while sending their
Initiates send down their influences into human life. We must always
new principles find their way into evolution. What enters thus into
their civic name and rank. This is of no significance in regard to one
questioned about their name and rank. This is one of the notes struck
feeling and let the ideas in their totality stand before our souls.

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men. And indeed there were many who applied their Initiation-wisdom
certain individuals, saying that their teachings were to be avoided at
giving any idea of their significance. Naturally it is difficult for
thinking are making their appearance. In Plato's time, thoughts
times gave their message in pictures and imaginations, Plato was one
experiences and their conceptions of the spiritual world were filled
sense in which we speak of Nature to-day. In their schools they spoke
will there find peoples who give names to their Gods. Turn to the
Egyptians and to other peoples — they too name their Gods.
Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans — all will name their Gods. The four
knowledge that the different Gods of the peoples constitute, in their
ancient times had reached their climax in Christianity and that the

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almost ten years have many friends, giving me their assistance,
the reason that — apart from their being so deeply graven
their social community.” And this must be quite
political agitation and also for their folk-nature through the
now permit their souls to lie touched in common by the memories
asleep, but the worlds within their souls have nothing whatever
what is read to them and transform it into their thoughts, but
other and that, out of their awaking, communities result. For a
enthusiastic in their way in behalf of Anthroposophy, who have
foster, each on its own basis, what they have on their hearts.
the prerequisites for their existence now that they are here.

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many societies in the world which base their existence upon an
themselves with their whole inner feeling to the supersensible
and in a dream. In other words, when people carry their
their understanding of the teaching drawn from the higher
their purpose is. For there are among them persons well
their books, but only to hurl these books at the head of the
which older members feel they must keep in their bookcases. But
create communities in accordance with their karma, but one
leading personalities among its members. It is their duty to
erected beside it, which would in turn, be so arranged in their

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Their thinking was very much more vivid and concrete,
yet have the mineral kingdom within them. Their
superficial in their thinking about such things. We look
their function. We will have to picture those spirits
people try and create an image in their minds of anything
Their proper sphere would be everything that has to do
thinking that has evolved out of their own sphere, human
They have retained their power and instead of limiting
listen to anything that does not arise from their own
inner prejudices, their feeling of how things should go,
their personal preferences. They are not in the habit of
independently of human beings, requiring merely their
to their emotions, with nationalists the worst in
understand. All the time they want to describe their
stream into their thoughts — by learning to base
human beings perfect, but only as far as their mineral
beings to a point where they finally cast off their
course of the stars, the planets, and their position
know of the earth? It was the ground under their feet.
vertical in gaining their experience. The ancient Greeks
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intelligence to enter into their souls. The most
their souls; the Europeans got into the habit of thinking
more with their bodies. That is in fact the major
say to yourselves: Asians are thinking more with their
souls, Europeans more with their bodies.
element into a higher aspect of their human nature, with
peoples of Asia largely left their bodies unused when it
came to thinking; they merely carried their bodies with
were basing their thinking more and more on the physical
thoroughly European in their way of thinking, people for
yet grasp in their hearts and minds. Things may come to
blending their own unique characteristic into this
tradition. They had to bring their particular
instrument of their kind of elementary intellectual
Gospels and people took their cue from life itself. As
achieve it by their own efforts. They will have to
human evolution in more recent times. They have their own
They do not realize that they are not communicating their
among Western initiates in their societies, and that
something of their initiation if they have at least one
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their inner soul life with the spiritual, the divine
their idea of a god. These things inevitably must seem
course that regents were prepared for their office by the
merely implanting intellectual knowledge into their
the people concerned had been properly prepared for their
things and to form ideas that have their basis in
through these individuals, using them as their
form an opinion about the identity of their ruler.
people at large their ruler was God. Basically they had
by their ruler should or should not happen; it was after
there in their midst; they were not something to which
and be their rulers.
continuing in an outer form and losing their inner
the flesh of Jesus. Things like this have their origin in
older times and have lost their meaning in the present
not so limited in their ideas they could take a wider
their heads with illusions, wanting to understand history
times when empires were at their second stage of
those societies, though they have lost their real
also lost their original substance, lost the context of a
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citizens simply cannot make up their minds to pay proper
spite of their narrow-minded views and in spite of a
that when it comes to their frame of mind, particularly
21 ] to impose their tyranny on millions of people
building their nests from the same materials as those
follow only their egotistical instincts, you can see that
of the Christ Mystery. It is not in their interest that
human beings procreated here on earth. What their egotism
something quite different. Preachers in their pulpits
all. The water they have to pour down from their
their wits that people might find out about this, that
People might find out that their priests were not
teaching Christian Ideas from their pulpits, but
of their souls because they do not want it to come to
preachers can talk about things that in fact have their
their origin of course in a desire for power that is
power by planting illusions in their unsuspecting minds.
course difficult to rouse modern souls from their general
in their articles have not properly understood what he
present age our enemies are letting their bullets come
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and indeed from their earliest childhood.
of their circulation, just as the eye perceives colour in
considering in their proper context.
their most radical expression in Leninism and Trotskyism,
succeeded in letting their thinking escape from the
particularly public opinion, they would free their
everyone has been promulgating the kind of truth their
continue on their way, cliques and closed groups, however
decline people have always wanted to shut their eyes to
unintentional untruths are destructive in their effects.
everybody to to their part.
they did not waste so much time, their work, which let us

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their souls. We will continue along these lines. Today I
be able to do their part. They would be of no account,
their views. That is just talking theory. To accept
they only need to have good instruction to change their
express their views out of a sick or a healthy mind. Then
correct their views. Instead we must say: ‘If you
so-called philosophies that spread their mists about. For
different philosophy, a different path in their search
their inner life they will find the spark of which
will note that their hair has turned grey; it also
If people remain childish all their lives, if they are
And then they kick their legs in the air and in doing so
produce their mysticism. That is the threshold truth, the
with things that make them lick their lips when they
the full range of wisdom is what they write in their

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materialistic terms. Their search along the path of
mysticism shows that in their view, too, Physical matter
matter in their bodies when the flame of awareness was
the root and origin of the phenomena. Their root and
science with their ordinary mental attitudes. They want
outside world; they want to continue in their habitual
one I unite with. Let others present their affairs in
their own way, I am uniting with that one, I take his
in the non-physical world! That is why their exercises
in fact they should be giving their allegiance to
is concerned: In their whole make-up human beings are
15th century, and in their case it does apply. People
have got used to thinking only with their brains; it is
Buechner and Vogt would have been unfair to their
their brains. This cannot be argued against, and it has
grasped.’ Well, they want to think with their
tear their soul and spirit away from the brain with the
that their souls may grow free of the body. It is
and want to think, use their will and feel out of matter.
to prevent the possibility of people losing their spirit

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arose in their hearts and minds that was not the power of
the Power by their initiates to look up to this union
make free decisions. As soon as their arms moved, they
was present inside their skin. That is also the origin of
activity out of their own resources. In a way the gods
abandoned them, but it was for their own good, if I may
considered it their mission to go against the proper
Their inclinations to develop human knowledge were
people in a way that appealed to their vanity.
spiritual, to stop them from achieving their mission on
ways of letting their souls and spirits enter more and
powers their own by having supersensible knowledge at the
[of the Jesuits] to use their description of the material
individuals in post-primeval times did in their way. In
mission on earth to prevent their further development,
They achieved their aims not by saying: ‘I want to
have to learn to develop their ideas on principles other
angles, sometimes more in their material aspect and at
other times more in their spiritual aspect, always
human beings have lost their moral fibre today.
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nerves and senses merely have their main concentration in
imageless thinking of their waking life, and are able to
use their will to connect one thought with another, this
images have their own order. Human beings are passive
in their brains, which had become sense organs. They were
found themselves in the outer world and their souls and
spirits experienced their relationship with the heavenly
bodies. When they woke up, their brains changed from
our own brains — except that their brains were
sleep. The things they remembered lit up in their minds
as instinctive Imaginations. As people went through their
deflect their inner attention from the sense-perceptible
pictures their souls perceived as a memory of their
perceived themselves as their own deal model. Please pay
into physical existence on earth. Their conviction of
have said. In daytime life, during their waking hours,
they had the memory of their night-time life. To gain a
in their pure original form we would have to go a long
Their greatness and significance has to do with
original tradition that had not welled up from their own
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view of the disastrous events and of their consequences that continue
their actions are not at all in accord with the needs of the present
some things from happening. But their directions, or else their failure
that objectively speaking were not under their control. Some of these
times human beings directed their destinies to such effect that when
within their own skins.
forces with their own objective activity that human beings have created
by day and determine their destinies? Looking at these forces and the way
which their minds perceived when they looked at the phenomena of nature.
say that however instinctive, dim and dreamlike their conscious awareness
Demons elemental powers — are active in them, but their effects on
in there.’ That had an effect on their conscious awareness; the
their activities extend into the sphere of the human will, but human
in human evolution. From a luciferic world that still influences their
conscious minds and there determines their destinies, human beings are
completely lose their bearings among the demonic powers that are present
their sphere into which people are sliding in Eastern Europe.
into the situation to give human beings their bearings. The nature of
rails' when working in this field; their approach is ahrimanic,
their books, where credits and liabilities are recorded. They fail,
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and spirit-man do not in fact have their basis in the
of their gravity we can be guided in the right way to
their abstract intellect is able to perceive by the
pleasing and that they could follow their instincts
only satisfied with their science once it has been
objective knowledge stored there, but their personal
certain point in their day and age, Schiller in
'thought-corpses', they would cast their spell upon us,
The ancient Egyptians walked among their tombs, even the
carry the things that are written in books in their
rights relate to life? Did people cast their votes in a
feeling for their relationship as one human being to
approaching in the ether, enter into their hearts and
however that when these people have been sitting in their
their inner gratification they will finally emerge and of
established to gratify their souls in those conventicles
reject the things that take their substance from the
be sufficiently serious, they do not want their hearts to
who had put their names down so that they would be able

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by everyone, then about their correctness only he can decide who really
to such a shock sometimes tell that for a few moments their whole life
their earliest life suddenly reappeared from oblivion with full
in such a way that man is unnecessarily reborn in their course. He can
disappear and other species take their place. Such changes are brought

Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture I
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development. So strong is their demand upon our will and
adornment for their personal life, should be
look, but we need only observe their transitory nature in the
right light to make no mistake as to their character. Yet these
These men — their destiny has overtaken them — but
raised to their dominant position to the detriment of mankind!
must learn to turn their eyes, their spiritual gaze, to the
within it and see, for instance, their effects in the
the three kingdoms as outside of themselves, because their view
their outer structure. The pattern of humanity has altered and
essentially finished their task in our age. This picture of
that they have finished their task and their interest from that
work on it. They have lost their interest in the bodily
of our time is that men are so proud of their external picture
same thing is being carried on now without their noticing it.
what has happened, for their souls are asleep. Mechanization of

Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture II
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Archai. Hitherto it has been out of their own interests and
worlds, out of free will and of their own accord. If we would
can only arouse their interest anew if out of our own souls we
with the spiritual worlds as to maintain their connection with
new into their efforts. Fundamentally speaking, the
touchstone for their views, the question of the immortality of
foundations for their speech, but these we are not discussing
their old age as only the young are nowadays. A child goes
consciousness of their association with higher beings through
feeling had permeated men that their doings in the day were in
harmony with the decisions made with their Angels in the
because they meet a response in their souls. Whatever the
the Angeloi, they may rise in their feelings to the
phenomena in their deepest, most fundamental form as riddles to
which, but for their timid dislike of facts, the middle classes
their pupils to carry their reasoning to its logical
altered their ideas somewhat, but not their feelings. You hear
so long ago in the very words, through their peculiar quality,
peoples. Their world mission consists in this: in
spiritual gains it. It is part of their task to let the spirit
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Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture III
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mentioned about the activity men must unfold in their
not penetrate into their drowsy minds. We simply must let these
their education. Certain forces can only be developed in
death are added to the earth and go their way according to the
ferment. By their means the Earth, which would otherwise long
nowadays it is essential that men should absorb them into their
which, the ego and astral body plunge their deepest into the
temptations, which have their origin in the fact that as human
People do not really know how, through their organization, they
in such a way that men can take their place in the development
their own immediate interests. We cannot fulfil our task to-day
their effect — a fact which is very hard for men of
the policy of ignoring the truth, shutting their eyes to it.
just beginning) have only disclosed their real countenances
themselves in their true colours. They had arrived at
different from their earlier ones. I have known people who look
who now hold a position so different from their former one. In
us, now that things are clear and we have their own
reality as it is but wish to mould it according to their own

Title: Problems of Our Time: Main Features of the Social Question and the Threefold Order of the Social Organism
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to turn their thoughts and direct their will to the social
understand their times by adopting a wholly new conception of
their problem in all their thinking, feeling and willing, on
their own course. Their thoughts and ideas had become so
facts, which had grown above their heads, out of reach. This
their movement, susceptible to control neither by thought nor
mankind. Everywhere men's words betray that their
refute logically what the masses and their leaders think about
matter is the historical fact that in their heart and soul lies
same defect. They often have their origin in deep truths yet,
what are they in reality as expression of their wishes and
seething in the soul-depths of their best members, even in the
phrases which run through all socialist theories - as their
into their hearts. It is this sinking-in that matters, not the
that in their souls kindred strings were sounding and that they
one can share their social feelings and attitude: not where
their brotherly love for all men, our duty to love all men, or
virtue, religion, while their real practical life was in no way
Academy regarded it as one of their highest distinctions to be
outside of their economic activities. In future this must
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