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• Title: Memória e Amor
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  • no Organismo Humano [em inglês, Spiritual Relationships in the Human Organism], e
  • inglês, Complete Centenary Edition] dos trabalhos de Rudolf Steiner.
  • É para mim motivo de grande satisfação poder falar-lhes hoje, ao passar por Stuttgart, e gostaria de fazer desta uma oportunidade para discutir vários assuntos relacionados com as duas últimas palestras que aqui me foi permitido proferir. Falei então sobre a relação do homem com o mundo espiritual, na medida em que tal conhecimento pode ser avançado por trazer à tona os processos que acontecem durante o sono sem que tenhamos consciência deles, e pela luz que a ciência espiritual lança sobre as experiências sofridas pelo homem no mundo espiritual, entre a morte e um novo nascimento.
  • Hoje, gostaria de falar sobre como a vida do homem na Terra é, em certo sentido, uma imagem inversa dessas experiências. A vida humana terrestre é compreendida apenas quando suas manifestações particulares podem ser relacionadas aos seus complementos no mundo espiritual, onde o homem passa a maior parte de sua existência.
  • Gostaria, primeiramente, de falar sobre algumas das maneiras pelas quais a alma humana se expressa durante a vida terrena, na medida em que podem ser relacionadas a experiências no mundo espiritual. A partir das minhas duas últimas palestras aqui, vocês terão percebido que as experiências da alma humana entre a morte e o renascimento diferem essencialmente daquelas entre o nascimento e a morte. Aqui na Terra as experiências de um homem são todas mediadas por seu corpo, seja o corpo físico ou o corpo etérico. Nada do que ele experimenta na Terra pode se dar sem o apoio da natureza corpórea. Poderíamos facilmente imaginar, por exemplo, que o pensar é um ato puramente espiritual e que, da maneira como sucede na alma humana terrena, não se relaciona a existência em um corpo. Em certo sentido, é assim. Mas espiritualmente independente como o pensamento humano é, ele não poderia seguir seu curso aqui na existência terrena se fosse incapaz de receber o suporte do corpo e de seus processos. Posso me valer de uma comparação que usei muitas vezes aqui em ocasiões semelhantes. Quando um homem está caminhando, o solo em que caminha certamente não é a parte essencial de sua atividade – a parte essencial está dentro de sua pele –, mas sem o apoio do solo ele não poderia obter êxito.
  • Há, entretanto, um processo essencial – ou grupo de processos – relacionado a essa convivência interior com os seres das hierarquias superiores. Se, no mundo espiritual, percebêssemos interiormente apenas o mundo das hierarquias superiores, nunca nos encontraríamos. De fato saberíamos que vários seres estariam vivendo em nós, mas nunca nos tornaríamos plenamente conscientes de nós mesmos. Portanto, em nossa experiência entre a morte e um novo nascimento, há um ritmo. Consiste na alternância entre a contemplação interior em que vivenciamos o mundo dos seres espirituais descritos na literatura antroposófica, e a atenuação dessa consciência. Fazemos o mesmo com o espiritual em nós, quando, na vida física, fechamos os olhos e ouvidos e vamos dormir. Nossa atenção, digamos, se afasta do mundo dos seres espirituais dentro de nós, e começamos a perceber a nós mesmos. Certamente, é como se estivéssemos fora de nós mesmos, mas sabemos que este ser fora de nós é o que somos. Assim, no mundo espiritual, percebemos alternadamente a nós mesmos e o mundo dos seres espirituais.
  • Ora, meus queridos amigos, se entre a morte e um novo nascimento não tivéssemos a experiência de olhar para dentro de nós mesmos e de encontrar o mundo do espírito, aqui na Terra não haveria tal coisa como moral. O que retemos dessa experiência dos seres no mundo espiritual, quando entramos na vida terrena, é uma inclinação para a vida moral. A força dessa inclinação se dá proporcionalmente à clareza com que, entre a morte e o novo nascimento, o homem experimentou a convivência com os espíritos do mundo superior. E qualquer um que, em um sentido espiritualmente correto, examine essas coisas, sabe que os homens imorais, como resultado de sua vida anterior na Terra, tiveram uma experiência muito embotada dessa existência espiritual. Mas, se entre a morte e um novo nascimento, pudéssemos experimentar apenas o que nos torna um com os seres do mundo superior, e nunca pudéssemos experimentar a nós mesmos, então seria impossível alcançarmos, na Terra, a liberdade, consciência da liberdade, consciência da nossa personalidade, que é fundamentalmente idêntica à consciência da liberdade. Assim, quando, na Terra, desenvolvemos moralidade e liberdade, elas são memórias do ritmo que experimentamos no mundo espiritual entre a morte e um novo nascimento. Ao direcionarmos nosso olhar à alma, podemos falar mais precisamente sobre o que nela ecoa: por um lado, tornar-se um com os seres espirituais e, por outro, nossa experiência da consciência espiritual do eu. O que durante a vida terrena permanece em nossa alma como um eco de nos tornarmos um com os seres do mundo espiritual é a capacidade para o amor. Essa capacidade para o amor está mais intimamente relacionada à vida moral do que se pensa.Pois sem a capacidade para o amor, não haveria vida moral aqui na Terra; tudo isso surge da compreensão com que nos depar
  • Descrevi esse estado de sono sob um determinado aspecto, a última vez que estive aqui. Agora quero acrescentar algo sobre os processos então mencionados. Eu sei que essas coisas são facilmente mal compreendidas. Repetidamente, ouve-se dizerem: “Da última vez, ele descreveu a experiência do homem entre dormir e acordar, e agora ele está nos contando algo diferente sobre issoâ€�. Meus queridos amigos, se lhes digo o que um oficial vivencia em seu posto de trabalho, isso não contradiz o que mais tarde lhes direi sobre ele, quando no seio de sua família. As duas coisas caminham juntas. Portanto, vocês devem ter claro que, quando conto experiências entre o dormir e o acordar, não se trata de toda a história, assim como é possível um oficial ter uma vida em família, fora de seu posto.
  • Assim, entre ir dormir e acordar, o homem experiencia de fato uma espécie de repetição ao contrário do que realizou no decorrer do dia. Não é que simplesmente entre ir dormir e acordar – o sono pode ser bastante curto, e então as coisas são condensadas –... não é que simplesmente entre ir dormir e acordar o homemtenha uma visão retrospectiva de suas experiências durante o dia – uma visão inconsciente, pois naturalmente deve ser inconsciente. Não; quando a alma, durante o sono, se torna realmente clarividente, ou quando a alma clarividente relembra na memória as experiências entre ir dormir e acordar, vê-se que o homemrealmente experiencia no sentido reverso o que havia vivenciado desde a última vez que despertou. Se ele dorme a noite toda da forma usual, ele retrocede no que fez durante o dia. O último evento ocorre imediatamente após seu adormecer, e assim por diante. Todo o seu sono funciona de uma forma maravilhosamente reguladora. Só lhes posso falar sobre o que pode ser investigado pela ciência espiritual. Quando vocês adormecem por quinze minutos, o início do sono sabe quando acabará, e nesse quarto de hora vocês experimentam, na ordem inversa, o que trouxeram desde a última vez que acordaram. A tudo é dado a proporção correta – por mais maravilhoso que isso possa parecer. E pode-se dizer que essa experiência retrospectiva reside entre a realidade e a aparência.
  • Se alguém tem uma imagem na memória de algo experimentado na vida física vinte anos antes, uma pessoa saudável e reflexiva não a considerará uma experiência presente; é da natureza da própria imagem da memória que a relacionemos a uma experiência passada. Quem olha de forma clarividente para o que a alma vivencia durante o sono, em ordem inversa, não conecta isso ao presente; mas ao futuro após a morte. Assim como qualquer pessoa percebe que sua lembrança de algo vivido vinte anos antes se refere àquele tempo passado, também quem vê o estado de sono por meio da clarividência sabe que o que enxerga não tem significado para o presente, mas prenuncia o que deverá ser experimentado após a morte, quando tivermos que percorrer, ao reverso, tudo o que tivermos feito na Terra. É por isso que essa imagem do sono é meio-realidade, meio-aparência: está relacionada ao futuro. Logo, para a consciência comum, é uma experiência inconsciente daquilo por que o homem tem de passar, que chamei em meu livroTeosofia de mundo da alma. E a consciência intuitiva e inspirada, descrita em meu livroO conhecimento dos mundos superiores, reúne, a partir da observação do sono, o que o homem tem que passar durante o primeiro estágio após a morte. Essas coisas não são meras fabricações; são claramente observadas, uma vez que o dom da observação tenha sido adquirido. Portanto, desde ir dormir até despertar, o homem vivencia, sem o seu corpo, o que fez com ele quando acordado.
  • Assim, meus queridos amigos, comparei a experiência do homem em conexão com seres superiores no mundo espiritual, que alterna com sua experiência do eu, com a respiração: inspiração e expiração. Em nosso processo respiratório e nos processos relacionados com a fala e o canto, podemos reconhecer uma imagem da “respiraçãoâ€� no mundo espiritual. Conforme eu já disse, nossa vida no mundo espiritual entre a morte e um novo nascimento alterna entre a contemplação do eu interior e o tornar-se um com os seres das hierarquias superiores; olhar de dentro para fora, tornar-nos um com nós mesmos. Isso ocorre tal como inspirar e expirar. Inspiramo-nos e depois nos expiramos; e isto é, obviamente, uma respiração espiritual. Aqui na Terra, esse processo de respiração se torna memória e amor. E, de fato, a memória e o amor também atuam juntos aqui na vida física terrena como uma espécie de respiração. E se com os olhos da alma vocês forem capazes de ver corretamente esta vida física, serão capazes de observar em uma importante manifestação da respiração – no falar e no cantar – a atuação fisiológica conjunta da memória e do amor.
  • Hoje a ciência da fisiologia não atingiu o ponto em que pode descrever detalhadamente o processo que acabamos de desenhar. A ciência espiritual é capaz disso e a ciência fisiológica certamente alcançará tal entendimento, pois essas coisas podem ser descobertas a partir da observação atenta da natureza humana. Pode-se dizer que, quando emitimos um som ou uma nota, primeiramente, a cabeça é acionada. Mas da cabeça procede a mesma faculdade que, interiormente, na alma, confere a memória, que sustenta o som e o tom: isso vem de cima. É inconcebível alguém poder falar sem possuir a faculdade da memória. Se sempre nos esquecêssemos o que está contido no som ou no tom, nunca seríamos capazes de falar ou de cantar. É precisamente a memória incorporada que perdura no tom ou som; por outro lado, no que concerne ao amor, mesmo em seu sentido fisiológico – no processo respiratório que dá origem à fala e ao canto – tem-se um testemunho claro no pleno volume interior do tom que chega ao homem na puberdade, quando o amor encontra expressão fisiológica durante o segundo período importante da vida: isso vem de baixo. Aí estão os dois elementos juntos: de cima, o que está na base fisiológica da memória; de baixo, o que está na base fisiológica do amor. Juntos, eles formam o tom na fala e na canção. Aí está sua interação recíproca. De certa forma, é também um processo de respiração que percorre toda a vida. Assim como inspiramos oxigênio e expiramos dióxido de carbono, temos unidas em nós a força da memória e a força do amor, encontrando-se na fala, encontrando-se no tom. Pode-se dizer que falar e cantar, no homem, são um intercâmbio alternado de permeação pela força da memória e pela força do amor.
  • Prova abundante disso reside na maneira como a arte se desenvolveu. Originalmente era uma com a vida religiosa. Nas eras primitivas da humanidade, ela era imbuída nos cultos religiosos. As imagens que os homens formavam de seus deuses eram a fonte das artes plásticas. A título de exemplo, recordemos os Mistérios da Samotrácia a que alude Goethe na segunda parte de Fausto, onde fala dos Cabiros. [Vide ciclo de palestrasGoetheanism as an impulse for man's transformation,Dornach, janeiro de 1919.] Em meu estúdio em Dornach tentei fazer um desenho desses Cabiros. E o que resultou disso? Foi algo muito interessante. Simplesmente me propus a desvendar intuitivamente a maneira como os Cabiros teriam aparecido nos Mistérios da Samotrácia. E imagine só: cheguei a três jarros, mas jarros, é verdade, moldados plástica e artisticamente. A princípio fiquei pasmo, embora Goethe tenha realmente falado de jarros. O assunto ficou claro para mim apenas quando descobri que esses jarros ficavam sobre um altar: então, algo semelhante a incenso era colocado neles, as palavras sacrificiais eram cantadas, e pelo poder das palavras de sacrifício – que nos tempos mais antigos da humanidade carregavam uma força de estímulo vibratório bastante diferente de qualquer coisa possível hoje – a fumaça do incenso era formada na imagem desejada da divindade. Assim, no ritual, o cântico imediatamente se expressava plasticamente na fumaça do incenso.
  • A humanidade realmente adquiriu a arte da vida religiosa. E Schiller tem razão ao dizer: “Somente no alvorecer da beleza se avança para a terra do conhecimentoâ€�, que geralmente se encontra citado nos livros como “Somente através da porta da beleza se avança para a terra do conhecimento.â€� Se um artista comete um lapso, isso é passado para a posteridade. A leitura certa, é claro, é: “Somente no alvorecer da beleza se avança para a terra do conhecimentoâ€�. Em outras palavras: todo conhecimento vem por meio da arte. Fundamentalmente, não há conhecimento que não seja intimamente relacionado à arte. É apenas o conhecimento ligado ao exterior, à utilidade, que aparenta não ter ligação com a arte. Mas esse conhecimento só pode se estender ao que, no mundo, um mero lapidador saberia sobre pintura. Assim que na química ou na física se vai além – estou falando figurativamente, mas você sabe o que quero dizer – do que a mera retificação de cores implica, a ciência se torna arte. E quando o artístico é compreendido em sua natureza espiritual da maneira correta, ele gradualmente avança para o religioso. Arte, religião e ciência eram uma coisa só, e ainda é possível termos uma noção de sua origem comum. Isso alcançaremos apenas quando a civilização e o desenvolvimento humano retornarem ao espírito; quando levarmos a sério a relação existente entre o homem aqui, em sua existência física terrena, e o mundo espiritual. Devemos nos apropriar desse conhecimento sob os mais diversos pontos de vista.
• Title: Evil and Spiritual Science
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  • view that, fundamentally, this question cannot be defined any
  • and again. For this question is indeed not one that rises up to
  • far more of a question that human souls are confronted with
  • thinking and reflection unfolds, in order to fully persuade us
  • that our questions have always been issues for the deeper
  • that this significant question must be addressed in a wholly
  • may perhaps be able to feel about such a question, that it is
  • one that easily throws up the highest questions, as they are
  • path, through which one can gradually approach a solution to
  • make clear how deeply this question has occupied the hearts and
  • refer to thinkers in the last centuries before the foundation
  • Plato, tried to answer this question: how should human beings
  • This can be designated as the fundamental question for the
  • surfaced before the soul vision of the Stoics. — It would
  • of imagination and perception. To the Stoics, if a human being
  • befogged by the being of pain and emotion, this seemed a kind
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• Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 1: Popular Occultism, Introtroduction
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  • new generation filled by the yearning to obtain spiritual knowledge.
  • is to be an introduction to the theosophical world-conception and its
  • connections. We shall have to deal with problems such as the cause of
  • the great law of reincarnation and karma, and also the origin of man,
  • the great truths come to expression, especially in Christianity and
  • in the different religions.
  • form in the lower parts. A blind-born person considers the description
  • of a seeing person for fantasies; the descriptions of those who perceive
  • more. The faculty of spiritual vision develops through an inner schooling.
  • first of all, they must deviate their attention completely away from
  • away completely. Suggestion, hypnotism, abnormal soul-conditions, a
  • lowered state of consciousness, positive and negative suggestion which
  • are able, by their will-power, to throw out of their field of vision
  • a certain amount of instincts, pains, joys, ideals, and passions. They
  • as the power of vision of ordinary people is concerned. But when we
  • A wild unchecked passion
  • the external expression of inner instincts, passions, and so forth.
  • will be of immense value in education, in pedagogy. Much will be gained
  • when spiritual science will be included in our educational system. It
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• Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 2: Man's Ascent into the Supersensible World
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  • or habitation. Devachan therefore means the spirit of God. In so far
  • senses for the perception of the physical world are eliminated and we
  • some illness they attain such an abnormal vision of the astral world.
  • an abnormal, irregular vision of the astral world through some illness
  • are their own passions which go out from them and appear as a reflected
  • explained. Every lust, every passion, becomes a demon. And an untrained
  • person is unable to cope with them and thinks that they are illusions,
  • may attract our attention. Nothing sacred, nothing having a religious
  • for the soul. But think of all the things that people read to-day: sensational
  • so that it appears as a religious passion in a mirrored picture, as
  • side. Essential thing in the astral world is imaginative vision.
  • who undoubtedly had the astral power of vision very beautifully characterizes
  • power vision. But they are not inventions nor fairy-tale characters:
  • forms. There are Beings to whom man's thoughts offer a welcome occasion
  • intention of transmitting noble thoughts to others, affords certain
  • very evil Beings occasion to incorporate themselves, and these Beings
  • see and hear nothing — for we have perceptions through the astral body.
  • by the astral body when it has perceptions. The astral body transforms
  • all the vibrations of the air, etc. into sensations of sound. But in
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• Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 3: The Different Conditions of Man's Life After Death
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  • new generation filled by the yearning to obtain spiritual knowledge.
  • THE DIFFERENT CONDITIONS OF MAN'S LIFE AFTER DEATH
  • astral world. This will give us a basis for an understanding of reincarnation
  • three days, until the next separation, namely that of the etheric body
  • When the second separation
  • — and a new condition begins for the human being. What is this
  • new condition? Man now experiences himself in the world which he enters
  • every night during sleep. But this after-death condition greatly differs
  • from the sleeping condition. Theosophical books sometimes describe death
  • during sleep and prevents us from having perceptions of the astral world.
  • the astral world. Upon the Earth, this force was used for the reconstruction
  • does not last forever, little by little the longings cease. Many religions
  • life backwards, as far as his birth; when he had no passionate longings.
  • the condition in which he emancipates himself from everything which
  • the Kamaloca-existence takes up about one third of the duration of earthly
  • us, is now want. Hot passion calls up the feeling of horrible chilling
  • for they were the prey of an illusion: they do not consider that in
  • enjoyment. The savage with but a few incarnations enjoys the many colors
  • and the simplest sense-impressions. With each incarnation his senses
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• Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 4: The Devachanic World
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  • new generation filled by the yearning to obtain spiritual knowledge.
  • a description of Devachan, that is to say, of man's experiences in that
  • a vacuum, existing in the first region of Devachan. This constitutes,
  • as it were, the firm foundation of Devachan: the continent of Devachan.
  • regions of Devachan.
  • be compared with the ocean. This is the second region of Devachan. There
  • blood-circulation in the human body.
  • The third region consists
  • is known on Earth as feeling and sensation. There, the currents of pain
  • takes place in the physical plane can be heard in this region. For example,
  • through clairvoyance he was able to have perceptions in Devachan, a battle
  • In the fourth region we
  • in Devachan. At the foundation of each animal, each plant, each crystal,
  • In the fifth region man
  • the great central truth of the Vedanta philosophy resounds in this region.
  • In the continental region
  • way with every other form of physical existence. With every incarnation
  • he becomes a degree less selfish. The first region of Devachan is the
  • great school leading to this degree of perfection.
  • the second region, the oceanic region of Devachan, he experiences the
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• Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 5: Life Between Death and a New Birth
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  • new generation filled by the yearning to obtain spiritual knowledge.
  • Earth. There, our experiences were linked up with feelings and soul-impressions, the
  • confronts the soul in a collection of external, objective experiences. Every
  • condition, will observe that his etheric body needs a long time before
  • But there will be hardly any dissolution after death in the case of
  • After the dissolution of
  • all his incarnations. When man incarnated for the first time — at present,
  • we no longer live under the same conditions — he only consisted of four
  • only existed as a germ. He took it along until the next incarnation.
  • And with each incarnation the causal body grew. Each time the pictures
  • experience every smallest action in all its details. He must halt before
  • we can only now have a true knowledge of our own actions, for we experience
  • their effects on ourselves. In the case of every action we now experience
  • the soul-condition of the person against whom the action turned. We experience
  • to this retrogressive experience: vivisection. This is closely connected
  • with the materialistic direction of modern science. The position of
  • see through the physical body. But this power of vision was lost and
  • active. The intention that leads to vivisection comes less into consideration.
  • an animal. Later on the scientific intention which prompted him to vivisect
  • the soul. In the continental region of Devachan all our experiences
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• Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 6: Man's Return to a New Earthly Life
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  • of etheric body, then follows a short sleep-like condition in which the
  • mediums in spiritistic séances. Then after a long preparation
  • the first two regions, he reaches the third region, the atmospheric
  • region of Devachan. There he experiences everything which takes on the
  • form of pleasure and pain, passions and instincts, these constitute
  • as we have seen, not through the attraction of etheric substance, but
  • only through the activity of the so-called Mahadevas. The attraction
  • found a path leading to the embryo. A complete connection of the etheric
  • after conception. Until then the bodies are connected, but this connection
  • human being to the parents and into the family-conditions in which he
  • will show us that behind them always lies a definite character-disposition.
  • karma. Also the character, the inclinations and habits express themselves
  • upon the physical body of the next life, the healthy or unhealthy constitution
  • in one life depends on inclination and habits of a past one.
  • influence our next one by cultivating noble inclinations and feelings,
  • thus rendering the body of our next incarnation strong and healthy.
  • This transformation of the
  • a kind of putrefaction process in their astral bodies. The invading
  • Huns and Mongols also brought such fear and terror to the European populations
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• Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 7: Effects of the Law of Karma
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  • new generation filled by the yearning to obtain spiritual knowledge.
  • Let us continue our considerations on
  • The actions of past lives come to expression in the present life as
  • external life-destinies. The inclinations, the temperament, etc. of
  • the past life change into the physical constitution of health in this
  • Another connection presents
  • does nothing but criticize, this inclination will express itself in
  • a next life in a definite physical constitution, namely in the fact
  • A good preparatory condition for the next life is to meet all people
  • with the fact of reincarnation and Karma? Many will try to oppose reincarnation
  • with the objection that there are our families in which all generations
  • elaborated by his Ego. During the course of the incarnations the Ego
  • an acquisition of later incarnations. Everything in life must first
  • by lower instincts and passions, and a part spiritually elaborated by
  • expression of Manas.
  • karma of the generations. This is in the case of modern people a more
  • he had during a past incarnation, because he was already able to work
  • into his physical body. Heredity works most strongly of all in the incarnation
  • tends towards a new incarnation. In accordance with his capacities he
  • constitution and being can give him the most suitable physical body,
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• Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 8: The Evolution of Man and of the Solar System; the Atlantic Evolution
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  • new generation filled by the yearning to obtain spiritual knowledge.
  • THE EVOLUTION OF MAN AND OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM
  • THE ATLANTIC EVOLUTION
  • we shall deal with the evolution of man and of the earth itself, with
  • the evolution of the whole solar system. Also with the methods of an
  • oriental and the occidental initiation. Then with the Christian initiation,
  • St. John and of the Revelations.
  • evolution goes back far into the times dealt with by history and natural
  • speak. They completely harmonize with the investigations of natural
  • and was always known to occult investigation. It is important to bear
  • Atlanteans. Of course, the Atlantean human beings, whose organization
  • was adapted to the conditions of the earth which existed at that time,
  • climate, and consequently entirely different distribution of air and
  • sunshine alternated. This may be found in the description of the Old
  • interpretation (which may be very clever, but is in many cases quite
  • sense of devotion for facts which others criticize. Here we may apply
  • and receded. The connection between the etheric and physical body of
  • from the head. Human evolution consisted in fact that the etheric body
  • him to say “I” to himself with a certain conviction. He
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  • new generation filled by the yearning to obtain spiritual knowledge.
  • We have followed the evolution
  • underwent a rapid transformation. The Atlantean soul-characteristics
  • It was the same connection which now exists during sleep: the soul was
  • lived in a sleep-like condition which may be compared with our dream-consciousness
  • An important moment in evolution
  • was when he first used his body for the purpose of perception. The human
  • Creation, with the words: And God breathed his breath into man and he
  • outward appearance of a very soft-bodied dragon (the designation of
  • snake does not quite correspond to the reality); his companions were
  • How should the relation
  • assertion that man is descended from apes is like saying that the perfect
  • The one developed upwards, the other became decadent. Also the relation
  • form was still ape-like. During the Lemurian age the sole possession
  • human beings who were expelled and condemned to degeneration. The ascent
  • later on there will be a compensation for those who were expelled.
  • In this connection we must
  • Formally, moon and earth were one planet. Thus the evolution of the
  • Earth and the evolution of man are closely connected. What the astronomer
  • connection with everything which one calls fecundation and procreation.
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  • approximately in the region of present-day Ireland. The island Poseidonis
  • mentioned by
  • East. From there, they wandered into the region of present-day India. An
  • ancient civilisation arose: This ancient Indian civilisation arose long
  • character. The soul-constitution of the ancient Hindoo was the very opposite
  • of our modern one. To him everything external and visible was Maya, Illusion;
  • A second civilisation arose
  • A third civilisation arose
  • reincarnation. It passed through earlier stages and in future it will pass
  • through further incarnations. One speaks of seven planetary conditions or
  • past or future conditionof the earth. But these conditions are related to
  • the planets after which they are named. The first incarnation of our earth
  • Mercury" are the designations for the first and second half of the earth's
  • development. The conditions which will follow are "Jupiter" and "Venus",
  • These seven incarnations of the earth are intimately connected with man's
  • their whole civilisation in accordance with the stars, the affairs of State,
  • who indicated the inundations of the Nile, when that star appeared in a
  • special constellation. A fourth epoch of culture is the Graeco-Latin one. It
  • will be to lead external civilisation again to a more spiritual life. Its
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  • is now ripe for the awakening of new forces of spiritual perception with
  • several things were mentioned which, particularly at the present
  • development, the much-debated question mentioned to begin with was whether the outstanding and
  • 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
  • should like to mention for its importance is the following. At the beginning of the nineteenth
  • appeared with a definite declaration,
  • sense is a poetic way, but in fact produces a true picture. Attention was also drawn to how in
  • were pursued but only a sense that was developed for the external world of facts. Attention was
  • also drawn to the fact that, with regard to this last question, one can only come to clarity
  • the historical evolution of humanity.
  • Ideas as such are abstractions, as I mentioned here yesterday
  • of humanity and we will do so today in such a way that, through our considerations, certain facts
  • come to us which, precisely for a discerning judgement of the situation of modern humanity, will
  • I have often mentioned
  • ordinary observation, below the flow of these facts. And if the eye of the soul observes the flow
  • significant manifestation.
  • perception of the world should be directed to significant points and then, from what could be
  • attention for what is usually called history — but which, nevertheless, for a deeper view
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  • is now ripe for the awakening of new forces of spiritual perception with
  • course of human evolution developed some particular quality, just as now it is that of
  • individuality. These characteristics are impressed into human evolution through the particular
  • action of spiritual powers working into the physical life of humanity on earth. But precisely
  • in earlier epochs, and very exceptional things are making their appearance within humanity's
  • evolution. And the human being who, through the development of his individuality is being
  • which, from our point of view, must have deep inner foundations. This must take shape despite the
  • West, the European Centre, and of the East are placed in the whole course of human evolution. We
  • comes to expression particularly strongly in the broad masses of the proletariat which has come
  • it touches the social question, in the first part of my
  • among the broad masses of humanity concerning the social question. We have, clearly
  • other strata of the population. We have, distinct from that of other peoples, the conception of
  • socialist conception of life, however, developed in such a way that it stands entirely under the
  • life as a whole has hitherto been the economic life, it was from the economic conditions of the
  • The impulses coming to expression in the Great
  • there. He, however, transformed them into a theory, into a conception of life. And Marxism as a
  • theory of life has found little external expression in the West. Where it has come to
  • external expression, however, is in Central Europe. In the aims of the social democracy there, it
  • Marxist ideology and took hold of the broad masses of the population. It also found its way into
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  • is now ripe for the awakening of new forces of spiritual perception with
  • Yesterday I drew attention again, but from a
  • differentiation that exists among the peoples of the present civilized world. I indicated how the
  • individualization of the human being in the fifth post-Atlantean epoch is guided by spiritual
  • I also drew attention to how, in a different way,
  • soul-configuration of the people living in the Orient; by working as imaginations into the
  • described yesterday, who are dispersed there, and who take leading positions, particularly in
  • imaginations, put into practice in present cultural development what these beings introduce. If
  • between the West and the East one must look more closely into the underlying spiritual conditions
  • conditions.
  • I have drawn your attention, from the most varied
  • perception of the spiritual worlds; how this spiritual life then lived on as a heritage; how it
  • 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
  • activities. It is directed towards entirely abstract spiritual regions, and basically does not
  • In the Orient even completely worldly aspirations
  • — aspirations of the social life — take on such a spiritual character that they have
  • that in the Roman Empire the untenable situation arose which always arises when these three human
  • of the older development of humanity, but I should like to draw your attention to a few things.
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  • is now ripe for the awakening of new forces of spiritual perception with
  • As early as 1891 I drew attention
  • to the relation between Schiller's
  • I would like today to point to a certain connection between what I gave yesterday as the
  • characteristic of the civilization of the Central-European countries in contrast to the Western
  • other hand, the feeling of those spiritual beings who, as imaginations, as spirits of the East,
  • work inspiringly into Eastern civilization. And one can notice both these aspects in the leading
  • personalities of Goethe and Schiller. I will only point out in addition how in Schiller's
  • he seeks to characterize a human soul-constitution which shows a
  • sense perception
  • Schiller finds this middle state in the condition
  • of aesthetic enjoyment and aesthetic creation, in which the human being can come to true
  • whole treatise arose out of the same European mood as did the French Revolution. The same thing
  • he sought to answer the question: What must the human being do in himself in order to become a
  • truly free being? In the West they asked: How must the external social conditions be changed so
  • so that, in his constitution of soul, he can live in
  • conditions are created through
  • Schiller came to this composition of his
  • Kant and tried to answer such questions for himself in a Kantian way
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  • is now ripe for the awakening of new forces of spiritual perception with
  • a kind of renewed manifestation of the Christ-Event is to take place. This will need a certain
  • 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
  • attention to the challenges that are placed before us with regard to the evolution of humanity
  • — the education of humanity as a whole in the near future-by the facts of this human
  • evolution itself.
  • form an exact idea of what the constitution of soul was like in the people who lived before this
  • how different the soul-constitution in Europe must have been which, over large areas, inclined
  • faculties in his soul which enabled him to achieve a relationship to nature — a
  • relationship to what was revealed in nature as spirit — and thereby also to achieve a
  • relationship to the spirit world itself. Certainly, longing for knowledge has been spoken about a
  • the first half of the nineteenth century, we are presented with ingenious elaborations of the
  • human system of ideas; but only, if I can put it so, artistic elaborations of it. In neither
  • the striving for knowledge, even though pursued in isolation as was still the custom, enters more
  • thus also takes on the configuration of this technology. What then is the cause of this? It comes
  • elaboration of the intellect. This, of course, did not happen all at once. The intellect was
  • The moment humanity renounced perception of the
  • spiritual in the manifestations of nature, the concept of knowledge itself also fell more or less
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  • is now ripe for the awakening of new forces of spiritual perception with
  • has proceeded from a constitution of soul which we have often called a kind of instinctive
  • perception; a clairvoyance which was dim and dreamlike. And we have, on repeated occasions,
  • corresponding form of this constitution of soul into different times.
  • still strong remnants of this old clairvoyant condition of humanity existing at the time of the
  • civilization but which was already prepared for in Greek and Roman times. Thus one can say:
  • come to pass on the earth. And in order that there could be a perception through an 'eyewitness'
  • his conviction — what those who had preserved the remains of an old clairvoyance could
  • remnants of old clairvoyance — this was Christian Gnosis. And the presentation of the
  • oriental perception. One could say that this ancient oriental perception was preserved up to the
  • course, have made no impression on humanity at all.
  • turn, led to civic-political thinking. This spread from the South into those northern regions
  • civilization, nourished at first by Rome, took shape primarily in the sign of the intellectual,
  • but received the accounts, the traditions, and clothed these in the forms of their own
  • soul-constitution. People clothed it more and more in dialectics. Through Rome the Mystery of
  • vision, there took shape the pure dialectical theology which went hand in hand with the
  • [nation]
  • oriental direct perception clothed itself, spread out over Europe.
  • The old spiritual life based on spiritual vision — which, as you know, had abolished the
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  • is now ripe for the awakening of new forces of spiritual perception with
  • how European conditions are bound to develop in the near future, and we saw that the course of
  • European development, of modern civilisation generally, will inevitably be bound up with the
  • sleeping soul, there is a very disagreeable awakening in store. I do not say — I mentioned
  • world-conception, based on science, that the most intense need will have to arise for what I have
  • Christ there really is at the present time. The course of human evolution has brought it about
  • because of the impossibility of adhering to the old prohibition against reading the Gospels
  • able to develop. And we have already pointed out how the particular constitution of soul that is
  • becoming prevalent in modern civilization will again lead to experience of the Christ, just as
  • Golgotha. But one has to be clear that just as other crucial, incisive events in human evolution
  • And this experience will have a clearly definable connection with the modern outlook on life
  • fifteenth century the constitution of people's souls has become quite different from what it was
  • nineteenth century and our own time, the soul-constitution of humanity as a whole has undergone a
  • soul the outlook on life of today's younger generation, and compares this with the outlook of
  • On the other hand there is a terribly reactionary,
  • conservative element in human evolution today. It is the belief in the authority of popular
  • with furious speed and we shall see how, out of the chaos of modern civilization, this
  • materialistic mood will become stronger and stronger. And if sufficient preparation has been
  • The human being, as such, is actually entirely excluded from the conception of the world based on
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  • the lecturer, published by permission of the Rudolf Steiner Nachlassverwaltung.
  • English translation by David MacGregor.
  • Art and Practical Questions in the Light of Spiritual Science,
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  • further course of our considerations, in order to enable you to find your
  • so-called destruction, at processes of dissolution, at what finally arises,
  • that the most important process of destruction for the life of the human
  • experiences the complete dissolving and separation of the physical and
  • have processes of perception between death and a new birth. The saying of
  • takes on thereby a higher significance for the whole interrelation of world
  • phenomena. No doubt the following question has often arisen before your
  • But the following question should burn, as it were, in our souls:
  • incarnation regulated?’ The reply to this question is
  • the significance of the destructive processes which I have mentioned.
  • with our souls into quite specific conditions. We are born into a
  • quite specific conditions. You should consider deeply that our life between
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  • the world as it is today must get a new foundation underneath it.
  • the world as it is today must get a new foundation underneath it.
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  • with all the questions and problems in your hearts that assail young
  • deeply into human evolution call the end of Kali Yuga and the
  • motion or its lack of motion, inertia is also a property of human
  • earthquake shaking human evolution. But people merely say, “It's the
  • elders or traditions have brought about.â€� The clever ones put it like
  • there has never been such a discrepancy, such a total contradiction,
  • civilization, a flight to the powers which cannot yet be
  • solid realization: that an earth-shaking change
  • in human evolution. Sometimes you can observe this quite intensely,
  • to begin something our High School doesn't have, a publication for
  • way as the younger generation does today. Perhaps they go at it less
  • “We are helpless. Even to come to a primitive kind of appreciation
  • movement, one that burst out like an explosion, much more alarming
  • century rebellion? Imagine! It was followed by the greatest amount of
  • modern civilization. They feel that the world has grown old. The
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  • From Earth to the Jupiter Evolution.
  • From Earth to the Jupiter Evolution.
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  • during his evolution in the Universe? — The dream of the Moon-man
  • is the imagination of the Angelos. The Sleep-experiences of the Sun-man
  • are the inspirations of the Archangels.
  • Saturn-man in deep sleep produces intuition for the Spirits of
  • intuitions become dense Cosmic impulses, and later — Jupiter
  • kingdom through the Archangeloi. The dream-conception of the Moon-man
  • densified imaginations for Jupiter and give the foundations for
  • evolution on Jupiter.
  • From Earth to the Jupiter Evolution
  • conception of the Cosmos — whether that of Spiritual Science or
  • any other — contain this basic query: What is the evolutionary
  • the ultimate aim of human evolution! He would like to know what will
  • happen to man when arrived at the end of all evolution! We have often
  • indicated how a question such as this can only come from uneducated
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  • When people encounter the world conception of
  • questions, a solution of their problems. That is quite natural and
  • course of evolution of earth and humanity. Above all, a certain
  • feeling must be added, a certain perception that the more one strives
  • connected with the evolution of the earth and mankind is the
  • sanctity. That is to say, we can expect in our future incarnations
  • concerning the entry of the Christ-Being into humanity's evolution,
  • riddles into the question of the Mystery of Golgotha, or if one
  • There is no question here of ever
  • conception upon this greatest riddle of man's earthly existence, nor
  • attention to one of the many applications to life of this
  • the evolution of earthly history, fell in the Fourth Post-Atlantean
  • Golgotha lies approximately at the conclusion of the first third of
  • as their task the first incorporation of the secrets of the Mystery
  • of Golgotha into human evolution.
  • of earthly evolution. It would be-hypothetically possible, one might
  • the entry of the Impulse of Christ into earthly evolution, to have
  • world-conceptions which had been developed since antiquity, and which
  • reach a certain perfection at the time in which the Mystery of
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  • with this wisdom. It is an example of the cooperation
  • humanity's evolution with the knowledge-principle, brought down from
  • the same facts somewhat more subjectively, will give our attention to
  • it in direct connection with a consideration of the nature of man. We
  • rhythmic alternation that occurs in man's daily life; namely, that he
  • alternates in the course of his daily life between the union of his
  • separation of these four members into two and two
  • — the union of the physical man with the etheric
  • The alternation of sleeping and waking
  • rests indeed upon this rhythmic succession of the more or less united
  • condition of these four members and their separation. We have already
  • spoken on one occasion of how the fact now expressed can be
  • been said can serve for a broad foundation.
  • conditions are favourable, that they do not awake from sleep as if
  • himself: If what we call the Luciferic temptation had not taken
  • place, man would obviously be in a different position in this earthly
  • life; for as he is now, the effect of the Luciferic temptation is
  • Luciferic temptation had not come to pass. This is exactly what the
  • evolution which has entered through the partaking of the Tree of the
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  • cultural streams, the various world-conceptions and feelings which
  • mere sense perceptions to thinking about percepts
  • life, and that the concepts are inner presentations of what he
  • world-conception that the thought, the act of thinking, is an
  • I called your attention here once to the
  • usually believe it to be. People take it to be a reproduction of
  • whole human construction. It already takes part in our structure
  • thoughts, we work the whole time anew upon our forming and fashioning
  • every thought appears like a head with a sort of continuation
  • construction.
  • regeneration. This applies also to thoughts, but the European
  • world-conception this feeling about thought which I have just
  • experience of thought. Hence comes the inclination of the Oriental
  • for meditation; for meditation should be a familiarising oneself with
  • such expressions as: A becoming one, in meditation, with Brahma, with
  • the fashioning process of the world. What is sought in the Oriental
  • world-conception is the consciousness that when one rightly lives
  • thinks, but one becomes at home in the fashioning forces of the
  • world. But it is rigidified, because the Oriental world-conception
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  • cosmos. We believe that in our feelings we only bring to expression
  • separation of the Old Moon from the Sun-evolution, did not take the
  • step of separation, but remained, as it were, with the progressing
  • Sun-evolution. What entered their destiny through their not having
  • pronounced separation between something in us that wishes to be
  • take a direction towards the external.
  • outer world and wishes to receive it and pays no attention to the
  • however, in us human beings a connection between these two centres
  • perceptions, to the sense impressions. Thus, in ordinary life, the
  • notion that truth is imparted to him from two sides, that he attains
  • his senses, and then combining the observation with his intellect and
  • examined this process of observation of the outer world and of the
  • production of certain spheres of ideation on the basis of those
  • observations. In his researches he found nothing to which one could
  • feeling. But since the connection remained unknown to him there were
  • it were against man gives a certain inner compulsion.’
  • however, give our chief attention to this: that as a matter of fact,
  • not merely through his own disposition, but because of his whole
  • evolution during the Saturn, Sun, and Moon conditions, man thus
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  • speak of in connection with our present subject.
  • world-conception. Thus it creeps about there down below the earth and
  • makes itself a world-conception. In the picture that it devises as
  • world-conception, there can naturally never play a role, the fact
  • That is to say, a world-conception arisen in this worm-philosopher
  • which will give a proper picture of the condition under the earth,
  • opinion so current today, that all depends on cause and effect,
  • downwards; that causes alterations in the roots. With the further
  • represents a one-sided world-conception which is quite correct ...
  • through sense observation, and they simply do not perceive the
  • world-conception simply does not hold good. He would have to realize
  • that what he himself underneath has had as perceptions of
  • world-conception means nothing for its correctness. One who can set
  • worm-conception need rest on a logical error. Hence all logic can be
  • it can be a world-conception completely tenable inwardly. You will
  • realize from this, however, that it is in no way a question of being
  • World-conceptions can have ever such fine proofs in themselves, they
  • say: worm-world-conceptions. When we let this really work upon our
  • itself is a world-conception, it does not follow that it gives one
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  • a long, complicated evolution through the Saturn, Sun, Moon stages
  • adapted for making perceptions as the human being makes perceptions
  • today. During the Saturn condition they were still lifeless germinal
  • of perceptions. [This important
  • of human evolution, is that these sense-organs as such have to do
  • with what we can call physical operations. On Old Saturn the first
  • development of the human sense-organs advances by the incorporation
  • faculties of perception.
  • be understood as the incorporation of the entire sense apparatus in
  • something remains which is entirely physical. So the relationship
  • relation of the astral body in its activity to the other organs. I
  • this with physical cognition: the eye can be looked on as a camera
  • physical reciprocal action with the outer world which takes place in
  • our periphery. And it is on this reciprocal action with the outer
  • is perception of the outer world and working-over of the perception
  • it is feeble and dreamlike. It pays no attention to the outer world,
  • but observes the perceptions it has in its own inner being. This
  • attention to what takes place in it as paintings and
  • through, he takes possession of the physical part of our senses,
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  • This lecture was given on April 2, 1921. In the Collected Edition of
  • shorthand report unrevised by the lecturer. English translation by
  • This lecture was given on April 2, 1921. In the Collected Edition of
  • English translation by Harry Collison, revised by Karla Kiniger.
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  • permission of the Rudolf Steiner Nachlassverwaltung, Dornach.
  • English translation by H. Collison, revised by Karla
  • mental life sprang far more from a kind of inspiration than
  • that man forms judgments and draws conclusions as a human being
  • Science. It is a question of forming true and really adequate
  • conceptions of the thought and outlook of men in those early
  • on the scene in the days of John Scotus Erigena, and discussion
  • was rife on such subjects as predestination. This is an
  • unmistakable indication of the fact that what was previously
  • more of the nature of inspiration, removed altogether from the
  • discussion and debate. But as the centuries took their course,
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  • Anthroposophy I denote a scientific investigation of the spiritual world
  • which, while cognizant of the limitations of mere physical science and
  • be an amateurish procedure. In a short description of the evolution of
  • normal conditions of life and development, is liable to encounter two
  • of the soul, create an impression of dissatisfaction with life. Such
  • feelings are often wrongly explained, and their alleviation sought in the
  • knowledge of the human being. They consist of two illusions, towering as
  • reach, indeed, both obstacles, but not to remain stationary before them.
  • revealed, to an unprejudiced insight, to be an illusion. A normal feeling
  • comprehension of our own human self. Man as a natural product consists of a
  • sum of natural operations. It may become an ideal of knowledge to
  • organization. Efforts in this direction must be accepted as the rightful
  • of Natural Science should give us occasion to make this experience. We must
  • observe that they do not result from comprehension or feeling, and we shall
  • that we were disappointed in the expectations raised by our diligent
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  • asserts that the unfortunate presence of dishonesty and alienation in society
  • today cannot be addressed without a completely renewed and holistic education.
  • professor.' Of these, the formative effect of the rhetorician's cultivation
  • Social Questions and their Spiritual Background,
  • our introductory educational courses. However, the days are so few, and
  • than these scanty words of introduction today. It is hardly possible to
  • would like to speak of in this introduction is this: to what I gave you
  • especially teachers whose attention should be drawn to the fact
  • anthroposophically oriented spiritual science, and it is our intention to
  • shape out of this the education necessary for the present time
  • — it is this crucial fact above all, to which attention
  • unfold a certain kind of effectiveness in your actions only if the impulses
  • entire civilization of our time. If we think of the education of young
  • feelings, the ideas, the will impulses of the next generation. We must be
  • clear that our present work is to prepare this next generation for definite
  • When something of this sort has been said, the question at once arises:
  • gradually worked out in such a way that our whole civilization has been
  • nations.
  • have to admit that this is particularly true where the art of education is
  • the West. It is taken for granted today among men who debate educational
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  • asserts that the unfortunate presence of dishonesty and alienation in society
  • today cannot be addressed without a completely renewed and holistic education.
  • professor.' Of these, the formative effect of the rhetorician's cultivation
  • Social Questions and their Spiritual Background,
  • THREE FUNDAMENTAL FORCES IN EDUCATION.
  • not possible, naturally, to educate or give instruction if in our education
  • and instruction we are not able to sense inwardly the whole human being.
  • alteration in the human being which is announced by the change of voice
  • instruction with which we have to do preferably in elementary education.
  • the female organism) must also be given our close attention in education
  • outer expression for the fact that in the child's organism up to then
  • — that is, between birth and the second dentition
  • particularly active through the years in which imitation plays such a major
  • modification of the child's soul life demonstrates that certain psychic
  • anew as soul-forces, to work on and on into the next incarnation. Then it
  • from below. The change of teeth is the physical expression for this
  • termination at the change of teeth, having previously shaped the body of
  • dentition is completed, to introduce the child to drawing and painting,
  • world in which the child's soul lived before conception. They are active
  • had previously made unconscious use of in imitation, inasmuch as these
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  • today cannot be addressed without a completely renewed and holistic education.
  • professor.' Of these, the formative effect of the rhetorician's cultivation
  • Social Questions and their Spiritual Background,
  • KNOWLEDGE OF MAN AS THE FOUNT OF EDUCATIONAL ART.
  • essential, in life, that man's connections with his environment are
  • education. Here, the essential thing is to know what we ought to learn and
  • taking a lesson. If you study education as a science, consisting of all
  • terms of education, as choosing to eat food already partly digested by man.
  • the art of education itself. This has actually to be invented by the
  • introduction to today's talk.
  • teaching and education two elements interweave in a remarkable way. I would
  • or the central organ, conveying perception and mental imagery, and his
  • movement and set them in motion. You will realise that from the standpoint
  • of initiation science we have to challenge this classification. There is
  • perform any function other than perceiving the moving limb and the actual
  • there is an interruption between these uniform nerves; that is, the soul
  • current that jumps across a switch-board when transmission is interrupted.
  • begin by supposing we are living in the perception of a picture, in the
  • perception of something that is principally conveyed by the organ of sight,
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  • today cannot be addressed without a completely renewed and holistic education.
  • professor.' Of these, the formative effect of the rhetorician's cultivation
  • Social Questions and their Spiritual Background,
  • ART OF EDUCATION CONSISTS OF BRINGING INTO BALANCE THE PHYSICAL AND
  • look at man's constitution and then apply the knowledge thus gained to the
  • astrality, the ego being of man; and turning our attention to the first
  • then that which we see is essentially the incorporation of the ego.
  • Considering this incorporation of the ego we can characterise what is
  • is the emancipation of intelligence from the physical body. It is only a
  • two-sided description of one and the same fact. Indeed, we gain a true
  • single characterisation is just as impossible as it is to give a whole
  • that is to hear the various explanations in harmony with one
  • place a mutual permeation of the eternal I and that which is being formed:
  • the astral body is emancipated from the connection which it had up to this
  • takes place is a continuous penetration of the human organism by the ego,
  • element in education in the last copy of
  • — all education and teaching should
  • always be carried out in the light of this gradual incorporation of the ego
  • ego's incorporation in the human organism should be guided through an
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• Title: Social Understanding: Lecture II: Social Understanding Through Spiritual Scientific Knowledge
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  • today cannot be addressed without a completely renewed and holistic education.
  • professor.' Of these, the formative effect of the rhetorician's cultivation
  • Social Questions and their Spiritual Background,
  • draw you attention to some deeper aspects of the being of man.
  • very often do not ask the question as to which of man's forces are used to
  • acquire knowledge of supersensible worlds. They try to answer this question
  • connections are between these forces and man's being, they do not usually
  • our time. In that case it is vital to understand what its connection is
  • is the force of Imagination, the second capacity is the force of
  • Inspiration and the third capacity the force of Intuition. The question now
  • connection with knowledge of supersensible worlds or whether these
  • “Education of the Child in the Light of AnthroposophyÝ
  • I have often mentioned, is connected with the development of forces that
  • organisation during the first seven years of his life, become, as it were,
  • as leading to Intuition. For the forces that are applied in the acquisition of
  • forces you use in supersensible knowledge to reach Intuition.
  • the power of Inspiration. And the forces that in bygone times used to be
  • year — it would be too much of an assertion to say that
  • draw forth from their state of slumber and use for the acquisition of
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  • Jesus children in relation to the Buddha, and how they are expressed in the
  • discussed include the mission of the Buddha and Zarathustra, and the preparations
  • touched upon within the German Section until then. Of course, the Christ
  • connection with the Gospel of John. By connecting to the Gospel of Luke, as
  • exactly only in connection with a gospel, which covers the history of Jesus
  • prehistory we have very complicated relations before us. The greatest, one
  • new presentation. One does not yet know this event sufficiently in the mere
  • connection to the Gospel of John. But for the time being only sketchy can
  • has happened in the course of time. The course of spiritual communications
  • without connection to a particular document. Only afterwards it is shown
  • exactly in their inner composition.
  • doctrine of compassion and love. Today, an inner voice instructs us about
  • the laws of compassion and love. At that time, man would have searched in
  • vain for such a voice. There, to use an ugly word, compassion and love had
  • was for thousands of years to infuse compassion and love into people from
  • higher, spiritual regions was that Bodhisattva who then incarnated in India
  • nothing of compassion and love in himself. Through their initiation,
  • however, the bodhisattvas rose to the spiritual regions where they could
  • bring down such teachings as that of compassion and love. There comes a
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  • Jesus children in relation to the Buddha, and how they are expressed in the
  • discussed include the mission of the Buddha and Zarathustra, and the preparations
  • the question that someone might ask: Yes, if so much has already been said
  • If this were so, then an explanation of the
  • that form which the Buddha assumed after his last incarnation, in which he
  • there a closed unity. There is no interruption anywhere. But such an
  • conditions, to everything that brings man into harmony with world
  • conditions. This can only happen when the powers of the physical and the
  • developed these qualities to perfection in an inner way, he had to make use
  • which inherited from generations just these dispositions. If Zarathustra
  • compassion and love. If we want to understand this, we must tell ourselves
  • from within themselves the teaching of compassion and love, the teaching of
  • Anything that happens in human evolution must
  • find a contradiction between this and what was said earlier, because
  • earlier it was said that it was the mission of the Christ to spread love.
  • carefully. It was in the mission of the Buddha to bring the teaching of
  • compassion and love; but Christ is the power of love. He brought love
  • speak, on the condition that one reckoned that this people is on a younger
  • preconditions. If we observe the plant in its growth, we see first the
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  • question asserts itself in the most decisive manner in our time, as a
  • present age is little prepared to approach the social question in its
  • true form with active comprehension. On this point one has only to avoid
  • yielding to illusions. We have often had to indicate the profound chasm
  • themselves as excluded by virtue of their entire life situation from what
  • the division into classes, the situation in ancient Greece, for example,
  • modern times a sharp class distinction and class division has certainly
  • of earlier ages assumed this direction. In ancient times there were
  • the human being undergoes a bourgeois education, donning superior civic
  • relegating the worker to only a proletarian education. One need but think
  • and Pharisees, single communities that stood out, that were in possession
  • life, they gave in the same way to all classes of people. Class division
  • educational development by means of literature, by means of the written
  • education. This soul-duality in social life has manifested itself ever
  • In addition, it
  • maturation, by way of extended experience, this sense has reached the
  • religion. This “religion” signifies
  • extraordinarily little as compared with the connection the human being
  • beings continuously to what is materialistic. And the question that
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  • Lectures Section
  • From this translation: “Human beings will always want to know about
  • From the translator, Peter Stebbing: “No adequate translation has
  • translation will be of interest to the readers of the Rudolf Steiner
  • Results of Spiritual Investigation,
  • This lecture is presented here with the kind permission of
  • For another version of this lecture, see:
  • Thanks to a donation from Peter Stebbing, this Lecture has been made available.
  • Raphael's Missionin
  • this spiritual history. Closer observation reveals that such
  • Raphael's creations worked on after his death like a living,
  • preceding age leaves us with the impression that it already
  • evolution, just as a limb is an integral part of an
  • drawn from many directions, asking himself: Is it permissible
  • applying this saying to temporal evolution, one would like to
  • do they attain a certain completion in the powerful visual
  • expression of Raphael's creations. Thus, what Homer brought
  • biblical tradition and legends, had not been added to the
  • descriptions of the Bible. One would like to say, Raphael not
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  • s a result of the distribution of what is perhaps the most widely
  • Leonardo's name is continually brought to the attention of
  • marvelled at the tremendous idea that comes to expression in
  • and bearing are so individualized that we have the impression:
  • every possible human soul characteristic comes to expression in
  • this in the numerous reproductions of this work distributed
  • There are depictions of the Last Supper event deriving from an
  • in his picture. Earlier, calmer representations seem to express
  • graphically conjures before us for the first time an expression
  • of the most significant soul configuration. However, having
  • received this impression of the underlying idea of the picture
  • in heart and mind from the world-famous reproductions, arriving
  • become world famous through reproductions. Looking further
  • back, one has the impression that for quite some time already
  • heartbeat of the twelve figures must have come to expression.
  • restoration have made it possible to reveal what Leonardo
  • expressive. He wanted to conjure the subtlest emotions onto the
  • series of hindrances came to light. The location of the wall as
  • occasion as the result of flooding. Many other factors
  • of reproductions, or by means of the works attributed to him in
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  • to a good angel, granted human beings as a companion from birth on their life's
  • “Old fairy tales that are an expression of the
  • together, their composition, is commensurate with the
  • Fairy Tales in the Light ofSpiritual Investigation
  • tales in the light of spiritual investigation. One of them is
  • that the original, elementary impression, indeed the
  • intellectual observations and a conceptual
  • penetration of the fairy tale. If one has the justified
  • conviction in regard to explanations and commentaries
  • that they destroy the immediate living impression
  • then one would far rather not accept explanations
  • the individual human soul-disposition. It is really as though
  • compositions.
  • those regions of the soul-life from which fairy tale moods
  • reservation as well. Just because the origin of fairy
  • soul, one arrives as a matter of course at the conviction
  • explanation remains something that touches the source so
  • slightly after all as not to harm it by such investigation. Far
  • regions of the human soul remains so new, unique and
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  • to a good angel, granted human beings as a companion from birth on their life's
  • relation to the external world existed among human beings in
  • of feeling and perception of humanity in those very ancient,
  • the different religions, in what lives in human souls. If human
  • spiritual regions surrounding them, with their eyes they now
  • the eye at the top of the head still functioned? This is no
  • come to expression in a different form in a future humanity.
  • which they can clasp with affection.
  • Human evolution will evolve as a gradual ascent into the
  • them and to redeem it. The redemption of our inner self cannot
  • take place without the redemption of what is outside us. Human
  • Redemption can only occur if human beings pour their forces out
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  • in Relation to Spiritual Science
  • spiritual science stood in isolation to what is otherwise
  • in some degree related directions. A direction of this sort is
  • the subject of today's considerations — as
  • considerations can connect especially well onto this
  • From the Frankfurt circle of La Roche, in her relation to
  • — a combination of poetry and truth — it still has
  • collection of folk poems called
  • By virtue of the connection with this circle — as mentioned,
  • education, Herman Grimm absorbed something of an immediate,
  • With inner participation, Herman Grimm experienced the
  • account of his connection with Goethe, Herman Grimm regarded
  • Grimm stood somewhat apart in his relation to cultural matters.
  • acknowledgement of the aforementioned status. I still fondly
  • often liked to visit. On one occasion, he invited me as his
  • that he wanted to have this conversation with me — about
  • actually made a self-evident impression on me. And it accorded
  • soulful participation. This contributes to the wonderful
  • We sense in Herman Grimm's style a liberation from all that can
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  • Spiritual and Social Transformations in Human Evolution,
  • translation by Frank Thomas Smith
  • interspersion into our considerations, because I would like our
  • conscious of its relationship to the total phenomena of the present
  • historical evolutionary epoch and that we can only understand this
  • evolutionary epoch if we know where the phenomena which surround us,
  • said about them, a more profound observation of the historical course
  • I only need to mention one item of
  • things have been talked about: the self-determination of
  • was of course a question of power. And in order to understand what
  • considered — “Imperial Federation League” is the
  • official designation in England since the beginning of the twentieth
  • an evolution and they go back to a remote past, and can only be
  • explained by a true consideration of history.
  • into the past as we could when studying the spiritual evolution of
  • without reaching back to even earlier oriental conditions. Even in
  • China, whose whole organization reaches so far back, the organization
  • the conditions which are known historically make it possible to see
  • imperialism without knowing the conscious relationship between people
  • of a region, let's say an empire, and what we today would call the
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  • far as reality is concerned. In olden times institutions and customs
  • preparation for something which is yet to come in human evolution. If
  • that is, into something existing yet illusional, then the new reality
  • their pretensions, still gods. Nero, at least hypothetically, was a
  • understand the contemporary world under such disagreeable conditions,
  • one must direct one's attention toward the birth of a new spiritual
  • life, fully conscious of the illusionary nature of what was formerly
  • reality in human evolution.
  • to deceive themselves, and when they recognize the deception as
  • deception, they feel that they are adrift. They will no longer feel
  • the traditions they have preserved from olden times and of which they
  • “reputable” in the third or fourth generation and
  • moment of realization must come when we can no longer defend all that
  • and digestion. As long as we have not seen through the platitudes and
  • reality in addition to the physical reality of the economy.
  • Human evolution can not advance further without this moment of truth.
  • other European peoples have little disposition for such a truth to
  • dawn on them with the necessary intensity. For them other conditions
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  • translation by Frank Thomas Smith
  • something that was felt to be part of a mission — not
  • create certain professions for that purpose: police and military
  • professions. But when the danger against which defense was necessary
  • no longer exists, the professions continue to exist. The people
  • professions and therefore we have something which is no longer
  • justification was no longer there in all the subsequent empires. Let
  • in the historical evolution of mankind. We find that in the oldest
  • discussion was grounded in the fact that a god in human form walked
  • foundation for public affairs.
  • everything physical was thought of as a reflection, as an image, as a
  • discussion of public affairs was possible. What we today call rights
  • only political institution worth mentioning was the phenomenon of
  • fact it was not done during those times when the conditions I have
  • spiritual world in physical institutions, if one spoke of what Saint
  • heavenly facts and personalities, then one can hold the opinion that
  • when the possibility of discussion originated. The person of today,
  • predicate to a subject. In the oldest forms of human expression this
  • in preparation; for a parliament only makes sense when it is possible
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• Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture I: Anthroposophy and Natural Science
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  • This course was organized by the Federation of Anthroposophical University
  • impression of what suggestions in various fields can be given by
  • lecture. I these lectures, Steiner explains the relationships between
  • committees of this High School week that I give an introduction
  • What has surprised me the most at the reception of the
  • anthroposophical research method is the opposition,
  • position to those of natural science which has developed
  • that Anthroposophy in relation to natural science doesn't want
  • usually calls further evolution from a theoretical point of
  • thoughts is a foundation, in order to gradually arrive at a
  • with this causal orientation, which has proved itself so
  • the ‘expansion’ of thoughts and theories.
  • regards under such an idea as the expansion of thinking. A
  • way in which you can position yourself internally to what can
  • basis of scientific convictions.
  • expression — whoever gets to
  • way in which the human being is positioned within the
  • the separation of the philosophic world view from that of the
  • rationalism being established in science. This period which
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• Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture II: The Human and the Animal Organisation
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  • Here is a First Edition English translation of a series of seven
  • This course was organized by the Federation of Anthroposophical University
  • impression of what suggestions in various fields can be given by
  • lecture. I these lectures, Steiner explains the relationships between
  • “The Human and the Animal Organisation.”
  • When from the anthroposophical viewpoint the relationship of
  • world view — I have mentioned this twice here at least. The
  • theme in question today, specifically the very first of
  • keep all the relationships in view when considering how Goethe
  • and animal morphology, of the differentiation between people,
  • who should be, to some degree, the crown of creation, and the
  • and animals. Goethe didn't agree. He was of the opinion that
  • organisation in the same way, therefore such a detail could not
  • indicate a differentiation. In addition, the intermaxillary
  • relationship in their upper intermaxillary bone as in
  • found in a single detail. From the kind of limitation of man
  • accepted was this: By the animal organisation developing up
  • into the human organisation, details already in the animal
  • organ formation were transformed and then gradually through its
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• Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture III: Anthroposophy and Philosophy
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  • This course was organized by the Federation of Anthroposophical University
  • impression of what suggestions in various fields can be given by
  • lecture. I these lectures, Steiner explains the relationships between
  • serious scientific conscience to translate the traditional
  • expression of “Logos” into some or other younger
  • can, even though defined as experience in relation to the
  • Logos, sense how a reflection of these undetermined experiences
  • into question when philosophy was created, that only words were
  • the word philosophy points to a connection of the Logos to
  • rather an inner relationship to the wisdom filled scientific
  • inner human relationships; so we have today an extraordinarily
  • try to do it through mere dialectical or external definitions,
  • examination the present will produce something special.
  • and philistine expression — the philosophic zealot of the
  • the place of the earlier philosophic observations. One admires
  • the magnitude of the elevation of thoughts found in a
  • type. For them a big question came about: How can a person
  • himself, and place this in an objective relationship to the
  • the question: How could someone take the content of his
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• Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture IV: Anthroposophy and Pedagogy
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  • This course was organized by the Federation of Anthroposophical University
  • impression of what suggestions in various fields can be given by
  • lecture. I these lectures, Steiner explains the relationships between
  • these observations are presented to unprepared people.
  • this accusation, however justified it seems, belongs to the
  • therefore there are indications in various publications which
  • have been mentioned here already. Everyone can to a certain
  • the conditions of present civilisation — but as proof of
  • bring them into present-day cultural conditions, into practical
  • before that, as shown in the small publication “The
  • education of the child from the point of view of spiritual
  • educational principles from the basis of Anthroposophy. Only
  • for me to give more than a few indications in this introductory
  • merely theoretical observation, are no mere ideas of
  • abstraction which one can have in order to satisfy some or
  • through anthroposophical ideas, one can see how the actions of
  • opportunity to choose the outer conditions for the education
  • asserted that for a satisfactory education, satisfactory
  • school, for the educational institute or its equivalent, must
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• Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture V: Anthroposophy and Social Science
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  • impression of what suggestions in various fields can be given by
  • lecture. I these lectures, Steiner explains the relationships between
  • indications in the following lectures to details of the economic
  • life in its relationship to the area coming under discussion.
  • moment — one can only speak about such questions while the dire
  • situation of the economic life existing in the civilised world
  • is in the background. Into this desolate situation was also
  • “Key Notes of the Social Question”,
  • in relation to the present time of world development. It is
  • question. Yes, most people at present can hardly sense that the
  • social question can be separated from the economic question.
  • “Key Notes of the Social Question”
  • enters into establishing clarity in relation to the area in
  • question here, where it will be pointed out how the economic
  • independent position, such an independent position within which
  • the same facts and indications acquire their form only
  • according to economic principles, economic opinions and
  • contradiction. Only, this book is not to be regarded as a
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• Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture VI: Anthroposophy and Theology
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  • impression of what suggestions in various fields can be given by
  • lecture. I these lectures, Steiner explains the relationships between
  • dear venerated guests! As an introduction I have been obliged
  • publication I don't know and obviously have not thought about.
  • lectures and introductory observations in this university
  • involved in today's event (which is an insertion into this
  • theme: The relationship of Anthroposophy to Theology. I want no
  • my presentation because otherwise I would have to once again
  • find my intention misjudged.
  • mentioning some personal details — it has never actually
  • been my intention to challenge theology and from their starting
  • scientific direction, certain scientific methods, an attitude
  • and method, out of the foundation of which we have already
  • Anthroposophy worked out of the most varied foundations towards
  • scientific methods, and in relation to the treatment of the
  • scientific field — I have already mentioned this —
  • observations through which one is educated in scientific
  • precision, in a natural scientific sense which can result in
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• Title: Impulse of Renewal: Lecture VII: Anthroposophy and the Science of Speech
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  • impression of what suggestions in various fields can be given by
  • lecture. I these lectures, Steiner explains the relationships between
  • have asked me to introduce the reflections of the day through
  • aphoristic manner to open our discussion. I am aware that this
  • things about the spirit of our reflection which is required by
  • Anthroposophy in relation to observing human speech.
  • least a clear outline for the observation of the object.
  • Certainly one can discuss to what a degree observation lies at
  • its foundation, or if it is merely a process being grasped
  • However, this is then a discussion which happens purely within
  • observation is a closed object, a given.
  • which was already in the subconscious regions of the human soul
  • life. Something strikes upward from these subconscious regions
  • object essential for our observation. One can, if one remains
  • English speakers from those who belonged to other nationalities
  • education. I tried in the course of the lectures to show how
  • this lecture I want to indicate the ethical, moral education
  • action; and I would like to show how, through love imbuing
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  • had originally functioned in Germany from 1904 until 1914, when the
  • for Spiritual Science as an esoteric institution the task which
  • explaining that situation, but I wanted to stress the
  • This is no unnecessary observation, for such seriousness has
  • kind of preparatory introduction will be given today, my dear
  • you will be able to consider this School as an institution
  • in a School for Spiritual Science we attend to the revelations
  • sense-world has provided necessary, practical revelations to
  • contributions in any way.
  • it is nevertheless important that the spiritual revelations are
  • follow a difficult path in face of the opposition and
  • Life is manifest in creation;
  • Life is manifest in creation;
  • and sublime and the endless glow of revelation in all that
  • existence — that all that is divine-spiritual revelation.
  • and strength and warmth, can never give us information about
  • information about many divine aspects of the world. So we must
  • grandeur and greatness and power of nature. And the question
  • what we might feel to be a kind of privation, we must
  • revelation can rise in us. We must say to ourselves: If we
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  • had originally functioned in Germany from 1904 until 1914, when the
  • with a short recapitulation of the last lesson.
  • being. And we want to first develop this sensation before
  • first sensation should make us aware of how the human being, in
  • his normal condition, lives surrounded by the world of the
  • deeds, still he can find no answers, no satisfaction if, under
  • with this sensation, which one can have when one gazes out to
  • the depths of cosmic space with the question of his own being
  • sensation will be given through the words I provided to you the
  • on earth-foundations, color upon color,
  • The lifeless world is fashioned;
  • this sensation in his soul. Because by deeply experiencing the
  • sensation that by looking out into the external world we gain
  • no answer to the question of who we are, feeling this sensation
  • having this sensation we will be carried up into the spiritual
  • sensation which over and over again tells us how we must
  • that this looking back, the perception in looking back,
  • knowledge which reveals the contamination in our own thinking,
  • illusion, and the real world, should appear before our souls as
  • the fourth sensation.
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  • words we already know - when pointing in the direction of the
  • his thoughts - what the person in process of initiation
  • only a reflected ideation.
  • in thought one approaches the description of the path that
  • and not merely for those who already seek the transformation
  • those who, at first, only experience the transformation in
  • observations in the world of senses - life consists of such
  • observations - when man uses the things that he encounters in
  • observation to action, and when he lets the combination of such
  • observations and actions have an effect on his feelings, he
  • and illusion, truth and semblance, truth and dream. When
  • verification cannot be found, he calls it semblance. And only
  • know whether something that confronts you is truth or illusion.
  • have experienced impressions from the spiritual world not
  • illusion. Therefore the first thing one must learn in order to
  • truth and error, between reality and illusion - independent of
  • and illusion.
  • our times, when people no longer pay much attention to how the
  • attention to what is palpable, to what can only be seen by
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  • spiritual life by today's civilization, that is. The encounter
  • experiences when a relationship with the spiritual world truly
  • and earnestly takes place. A relationship with the spiritual
  • communications are received from the spiritual world, they
  • should be understood as merely in preparation for a
  • relationship with the spiritual world.
  • tradition.
  • relationship with the spiritual world, the relationship where,
  • communications from the spiritual world - the teacher said to
  • memory's concepts. [Although there is no indication in the
  • different relationship of thinking, feeling and willing in us
  • whom you had an intimate or a more distant relationship. The
  • with her these things lead you to certain actions in your
  • someone with whom you have a certain relationship. Certain
  • the School has not been born of some personal intention, but
  • souls to hear much. But we should not jump to the conclusion
  • psychic blood circulation in spiritual space. We don't just
  • I said last time, it is not a question of understanding the
  • able to withstand the separation of thinking, feeling and
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  • undergoes a substantial transformation in the Guardian of the
  • world, how they enter into different relationships than those
  • earthly conditions. At the moment when the person approaches
  • attention to how he belongs to the whole world: through his
  • through our senses, but which at first indicate no relationship
  • only human physicality is taken into consideration.
  • we see a relationship between nature and the inner life of man.
  • process in one direction or the other can cause happy dreams or
  • in nature, my dear friends, we have a relationship of the human
  • of the earthly element. We have a relationship of the human
  • this relationship of the human physical body with the earthly,
  • and the relationship of the human etheric body with the liquid
  • upwards where the region begins where man can feel himself-
  • When we go even higher we come to a region - which we will
  • general we pay little attention to normal life processes.
  • obvious to even superficial observation. If we dab our skin
  • relationship to the universe through our relation to the air.
  • their origination and passing away during the embryonic and
  • the moment we enter the spiritual region this is no longer the
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  • Guardian's continuous admonition is that man be aware that he
  • relation to the world.
  • become conscious of his true relation to the world, he first
  • vegetable kingdom and the mineral kingdom. These relations
  • deep relationship to that world exists within him.
  • However, one cannot feel this relationship by merely letting
  • Since the modern phase of human evolution began, we seldom see
  • watery element in fine solution in the air which surrounds him,
  • expression: chemical ether and its effects. Because the
  • ordering, the formation of the world is effected by it, we
  • “cosmic-formation”.
  • Cosmic-formation
  • [over “cosmic formation” is written]
  • lives in a completely intimate relationship with the element of
  • strongly. Even air circulation affects you less. Whether the
  • how your perspiration, that is, the secretion of the watery
  • element. And with this easy transition from our own watery
  • connection to the whole cosmos - contrary to the transition
  • Man's relation to the earthly elements lies even deeper in the
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  • earnestness. For a distinction exists between the
  • the anthroposophical movement. The relationship must be
  • it must be an inner obligation to consider the Executive
  • done to bring it to the members' attention. It is saying much
  • taking the School seriously must lead to the cancellation of
  • when derived from what is called good intentions, is
  • destructive in an occult movement. There must be no illusions
  • about this; it must be completely clear. It is not a question
  • of good intentions, which are often taken very lightly, but of
  • out of them - I am only reporting - with the exception of the
  • will spread its power over the neighboring regions. Then - they
  • can we construct the necessary foundation for navigating
  • seriously by the opposition than by many of the members.
  • considerations of these Class lessons, my dear friends, have
  • which is a reflection of a spiritual world, one which does not,
  • however, reveal to the senses what it is a reflection of.
  • That is the first powerful impression of true knowledge, my
  • physical body - how the Three look in relation to the physical
  • body. The vision is directed to the physical body, to the
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  • wisdom and life impulses into human civilization today which
  • anthroposophy, flow today into human civilization in the
  • organization and the Anthroposophical Society is the exoteric
  • must be an administration. But that is not what it considers to
  • position of the Vorstand at Dornach within the Anthroposophical
  • on every relationship within the Anthroposophical Society will
  • founded upon human relationships.
  • if it's an abstract thing, the personal relationship is at
  • relationship is at least established to each and every member
  • other relationships will be even more human, but by this means
  • Goetheanum. This means that nothing by way of formulations and
  • taken place. In the future, no abstract relationship will be
  • formulations and so forth which originate here and which an
  • Furthermore, the relation of this School to the
  • other conditions.
  • not say, my friends, that this is a limitation of freedom.
  • can be a member of the School and be free in this relationship,
  • the leadership for any reason is of the opinion that a member
  • not approve that person's application or, in the case where he
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  • admonition which directs human beings to the ancient holy words
  • vision rest upon what radiates down to us from the universe in
  • the forms the constellations possess. When we immerse ourselves
  • stars so often and have stored the vision in our hearts and
  • sensation of being integrated in the movement of the circling
  • This leads to the question: Why is it then that so few do so?
  • sensations - or experiences, it doesn't matter what we call
  • aware of the connection of humanity with the world than you are
  • Therefore, the admonition at the threshold to the spiritual
  • cannot merely say: I think through to the differentiations of
  • to the differentiations of my warmth.
  • formations and become like a celestial script to us. If we
  • The constellations' cosmological words.
  • by vague generalities, not by vague sensations are we able to
  • it really is an ascension from life through love to piety, to a
  • translation.]
  • man, without his intention or awareness. Now though, on the
  • strong inner determination, with our own forces, we must bring
  • must look up to the stars and with devotion say to ourselves:
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  • organization, in not a facilitator; that is, to live with the
  • meditative exercises, mental exertions meant to affect the
  • by means of the various considerations and the summarizing of
  • such considerations in individual verses, which may then be
  • certain time has passed the communications given in these class
  • communications from the spiritual world, will coalesce in such
  • of the various indications which are given here we can
  • our senses and reason only in connection with the
  • visionaries. These people show by their behavior that they are
  • then follows the indications given in the appropriate schools,
  • together with the indications as to how they relate to the
  • would like to again provide an indication of how you can leave
  • then we ask the question in all honesty: Why? Why did I absorb
  • its physical elements? We must deeply feel our relationship to
  • the relationship of this work to the totality of human
  • therefore in a certain sense undergo a cosmic evolution. Many
  • consideration of earthly relationships one stands spiritually
  • change the direction of your gaze from what surrounds you on
  • pictures in their constellations. And, you see, if we can
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  • made the complete transition to anthroposophy quickly. The
  • at least envision, to the extent possible, the path upon
  • on his karma, on what conditions he brings along from
  • environmental conditions the person's destiny places him.
  • stream of world evolution where freedom is
  • For the transition is made for meditation to really enter
  • In the triple-versed structure of the last meditation we
  • the meditation we confront not only what resounds from our
  • limbs-metabolism-organization, localized downward and
  • it becomes esoteric. Therefore in meditation we must
  • So we have the head-organization, a real replica of the
  • entire cosmos. We have the breast or rhythmic organization,
  • And least of all does the limbs-metabolism-organization show
  • organizations. He must be clear about what takes place in his
  • impaired. We sense the head's association to this clearest
  • calculate their positions and angles to each
  • human nature — this I — has a relation to the
  • angeloi in our descriptions of the
  • We correctly accomplish a meditation thus: We look up,
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  • itself as an invitation to knowledge:
  • therefor not lead to envisioning something similar to what is
  • envisioning is only an image. It must lead to a real experience
  • attention to how the spirit acts and weaves within psychic
  • Therefore more and more real indications should be given to
  • indication.
  • are familiar with. For your meditation select any mantra and
  • that makes an impression on me relative to the present: Can I
  • guide to intimate self-observation.
  • And you will have the sensation: I feel this under the region
  • of speech, I feel it here below, under the region of speech
  • experience it in the region of my speech organs; when I think,
  • experience it under the region of speech.
  • spiritual understanding. But a substantial seclusion from the
  • is not good to say: Yes, but in order to achieve such seclusion
  • can lead to the goal. This is a good foundation for meditating
  • spirit-beings. And it is just this transferring to a condition
  • in which other beings speak to us that creates the condition
  • It's a question of becoming enlightened concerning the true nature
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  • the spirit of the cosmos which urge us to self-observation
  • rise up to the region where the beings of the third hierarchy
  • above the region of speech; whereas the field of
  • memory-thought can be felt under the region of speech.
  • In respect to the region of speech itself: when we say
  • regions matter-free, speaks.
  • earth-distant fields of creation
  • So if we can always feel ourselves in this situation
  • though it were around us, then in relation to the schematic
  • saying it; we should transpose ourselves into the situation I
  • Kyriotetes, An inner connection is created between the
  • feeling sphere – breathing and blood circulation
  • felt as will – and through which a connection is
  • sisters and brothers, is the field of volition, of will. The
  • which is least experienced with real attention. For man
  • in motion.
  • consciousness offers us at first is maya, the great illusion.
  • The great illusion does not only include what we observe
  • I-organization [violet]. We don't walk with the physical
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  • We have been considering the human being's relation to the
  • to see what our relation is to the Guardian of the Threshold
  • situation of standing before the Guardian in order to advance
  • consideration.
  • regarding this situation. Man leaves the physical world in
  • he merely directs his attention and his feelings to this
  • should realize that these beasts are the outer reflections of
  • situation-meditations, in order to feel how the cosmos speaks
  • Seelenverfassung = soul-constitution].
  • deviations from the normal state of mind which are always
  • then aberration from the normal condition of the mind cannot
  • initiation. But he must know how, in two ways, he
  • which also participates in the formation of our own bodies.
  • It is contained in our growth, in our forces of nutrition.
  • push, my dear friends — this separation of the elements
  • this ending of the differentiation between earth, water, air
  • He encounters there — pardon the trivial expression, my
  • dear sisters and brothers — the illusion of being in
  • the Luciferic temptation is approachng him. Depending on his
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  • correctly, how this world demands our intense attention. We
  • majesty of all this. And participation in any kind of
  • perception by an abyss; and that what is beyond that abyss in
  • own self in order to seek the foundation of cosmic knowledge
  • Now we to situational meditation: how to see ourselves already
  • enable us to understand our situation once we have flown over
  • Christ's council will always be shaped in conjunction
  • we correctly feel the situation of the human being when he
  • questions which cut deeply into our souls. We sense that to
  • each question a threefold answer comes from us: Christ's
  • My soul absorbs it, that I may learn divine creation.
  • We are tested by the Guardian´s questions as to
  • Ahriman. In meditation we must imagine ourselves in this
  • situation. Then, my dear sisters and brothers, because we are
  • Today we must review this situation again. We must
  • directions: Lucifer and Ahriman; the voice of Christ in us,
  • which shows us the right direction, while Lucifer on one side
  • will hold to the orientation which makes it possible to make
  • repeatedly, again and again, in our souls in meditation. Then
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  • recognized as one which brings down its information from the
  • perceived as communications from the spiritual world itself.
  • because of the Constitution which the Anthroposophical
  • institution, but at the same time one through which an
  • that the member recognize the serious conditions for
  • membership — namely the basic condition that anyone who
  • connection to anthroposophy, be it ever so remotely
  • and revealed from here in the Goetheanum. Such a condition
  • should not be taken as a restriction on human freedom, my
  • means that the leadership may also place conditions on
  • always spoken at the beginning of our deliberations,
  • reminding us of the admonitions which resound from all the
  • heart to understand them: the admonition to self-knowledge,
  • which is the true foundation of world knowledge.
  • esoteric situation in which we feel ourselves: first of all,
  • in meditation we imagine the being standing at the abyss of
  • from the humblest worm to the sublimest revelations in the
  • is to receive the verses asks for permission, but the one who
  • meditation with which we were to imagine how the Guardian
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  • of the previous Class Lesson. It was also a meditation arising
  • question and the Angeloi, Exusiai, Thrones; Archangeloi, Dynamis,
  • questions which penetrate deeply into the human being, and the I
  • words as in a deeply intimate conversation with the Guardian.
  • What becomes of the fire's purification, which enkindled
  • without hearing another deeply founded admonition from the
  • Guardian. And this admonition refers to a powerful cosmic
  • imagination, something tremendously majestic which the person,
  • impression — if he has the heart for it. For, when he
  • becomes magically illuminated by the cloud formations and the
  • within the universe like a mighty imagination.
  • The Guardian reminds us of this rainbow's impression at the
  • moment when it becomes light enough for perception there in the
  • spiritual world should recall the impression from the sensory
  • to recall the relationship between the spiritual world, where it
  • here in the cloud formation
  • [red in the cloud formation].
  • our imagination more profound through meditation, if we wish
  • This is the imagination which the Guardian first
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  • objectively pays attention to all the beings and events in nature
  • beginning of our considerations.
  • On the path to the answer which the soul can find to this question,
  • From dead illusion made live:
  • world of sensory illusion, is only spirit. Only spirit is.
  • seem to us there in the world of sensory illusion, which we left
  • is the great deception, the great illusion. Over there only
  • variations of the Nothing are visible when we look out from the
  • body. And we feel deeply the impression, as we live over there
  • great illusion. And what is Nothing, and what we give names to
  • which we should belong — can take possession of the names
  • the greatest illusion. We must know that we are giving names to
  • illusions to the kingdom of truth. Earnestness, holy earnestness
  • moment: Below in earthly life we perceived the impression made on
  • world-creation, in world-dominion, in world-illumination, and we
  • From the realm of radiance, dominion, acting, the
  • And the flooding light, the force of illumination in
  • illumination of the Angeloi. But the light force for this
  • illumination they receive from the Dynamis.
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  • out to us to seek self-knowledge, for it is the foundation
  • perception. We have seen in this spiritual world how the
  • The Guardian brings it to our attention; we
  • From dead illusion made live:
  • Spirit-Word that underlies the creation of the world. We
  • a reflection of it.
  • Here in the earthly realm it is illusion.
  • must listen to the Guardian of the Threshold's question:
  • Threshold's question posed from the distance – we
  • cosmic-word. This lies in the Guardian's second question,
  • cosmic permission to experience the “I
  • Thereby the third question which the Guardian
  • question comes from the first hierarchy:
  • sense Leib indicates a kind of soul function which
  • stick closely to the literal translation, he/she may
  • question refers to:
  • it is a kind of conclusion to the path that began in the
  • realm of illusion, of maya, which led us to the Guardian of
  • it is a conclusion when we now stand at the place where we
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  • (recapitulation)
  • (verses) used are the same as in Volume One, the descriptions
  • the previous lessons. But it is also true that a repetition of
  • who today are experiencing a repetition, it also constitutes a
  • continuation.
  • laying of the foundation stone of the Anthroposophical Society
  • the future, this cannot continue. The intention of what was
  • Free School for Spiritual Science, with its various sections,
  • reflection of what has been founded in the super-sensible
  • that in the succession of the reigning hierarchy of Archangels,
  • evolution of humanity on earth.
  • is the case that in human evolution life is guided successively
  • revolution against spiritual activity and spiritual being in
  • were the bearers of civilization — the reign of Samuel,
  • coincides with the great international, cosmopolitan impulses
  • We can go back further — again through the succession of
  • disposition and attitude, feeling yourselves to be members not
  • only of what enters the world as an earthly institution, but as
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  • conditions for membership in the School. So now we must
  • as imaginations. There this willing, this feeling, this
  • Your hate of spiritual revelation
  • Your hate of spiritual revelation
  • a further clarification that can begin to support us again: a
  • clarification about the third beast, which is interwoven with
  • says. He draws our attention to how we should feel about our
  • means of conception and birth into a physical human earthly
  • reflection of the solar power that emits cosmic feeling
  • The Guardian tells us this as a clarification of the three
  • — the escalation: “image”, “force”, “power” —
  • feet, with heavy human feet, that is, with the outer illusions,
  • still weaving illusions if in this thinking that we have as
  • meditation verses from the Guardian of the Threshold on behalf
  • permission must be requested in each case from either Dr.
  • statement begins with the permission as a real fact, not as a
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  • is not possible to again give the introduction concerning the
  • obligations for the newly participating members of the Class. I
  • [mantric] verses also inform them of the conditions involved,
  • envision the need for self-knowledge — that constantly
  • dear sisters and brothers, the description of the path to
  • self-knowledge, and which must be followed if the exhortation
  • the spiritual world is with this intonation do we receive this
  • is spoken with the corresponding intonation:]
  • “revere”, which is an inner soul function; in that
  • an action. The “Creative cosmic force” instead of
  • horizontal directions if we wish to integrate our feeling into
  • Guardian of the Threshold's admonition.
  • Would act with spiritual creation.
  • — so now let us again consider the admonition which was
  • Guardian on Michael's behalf, when here the instruction in the
  • to request permission from Dr. [Ita] Wegman or from me. So,
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  • introduction about the task and meaning of the School and about
  • introduction, but will continue from where we left off last
  • must to do so under the conditions which I will mention at the
  • end of this lesson. They should also describe the conditions
  • unbiased sense that in them lies the exhortation to seek true
  • stood there shattered by the impression of the three beasts,
  • the right track and lead it along paths of aberration. Our
  • region into which, with enormous all-embracing intellectuality,
  • admonitions we will grow wings to cross the abyss in order to
  • This is one of the last of the Guardian's admonitions:
  • Would act with spiritual creation.
  • Would act with spiritual creation.
  • yourselves to these mantric worlds with the right conviction
  • devotion to the spirit, you will find that what instills
  • right direction between light and darkness, warmth and cold,
  • pulsation is my pulsation. If I am cut off, I cease being a
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  • to repeat every time the introduction which describes the
  • to give them the introduction, which everyone who wishes to be
  • dear sisters and brothers, in the description of the path of
  • world can never reveal our own being to us; how our observation
  • gradually find the transition to living thinking, we should
  • direction and goal in the middle between light and darkness if
  • situation, after having received the previous admonitions from
  • strong, earnest admonition, which cuts deeply into the heart.
  • we use these mantric verses in meditation, we must allow
  • draws our attention again up to the light, which however only
  • being will lead us to the illusion of self-hood rather than to
  • on thinking, we will wind up with the illusion of self-hood.
  • beings, after having gone through the delusion of self-hood
  • Illusion of self-hood to arise in you.
  • only retain the illusion of light if we don't consider the
  • world completely engulfs us, destructive spiritual exaltation
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  • Once again, I must say that the introduction about the
  • the introduction.
  • fundamental exhortation to the human being, which resound to
  • dear sisters and brothers, the description of the spiritual
  • humanity. The description has led us thus far to show that we
  • so far in the description — when we have crossed over the
  • illusion of thoughts as in ordinary thinking.
  • reflection of our cosmic will) — between this warm, dark
  • outwardly an imitation of the world's shape, we feel then, in
  • our head for our earthly vision.
  • expression of our soul, does not only beat because of what is
  • say to us in this situation:
  • The escalation is:
  • Threshold's admonition. In this situation, as we are preparing
  • The Guardian's last admonition:
  • dying away glow, it is the world's revelation in beauty, which
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  • world, from where the revelations come which should live in the
  • for the creation of such a School. For an esoteric school
  • school presents the outer expression of an activity which in
  • which I have often mentioned here in members' lectures.
  • world. And when we look back in the evolution of time, we find
  • humanity, in the great questions of civilization before the
  • anthroposophical movement's formation of this Esoteric School
  • in our times as a spiritual institution. All those who want to
  • representatives of anthroposophy; and the decision about
  • not consider this, my sisters and brothers, as a limitation of
  • only need to mention a few things to show how little the
  • These are things which must be considered in connection with
  • revelations from the spiritual world. At the end of each
  • lesson, your attention is expressly drawn to the fact that the
  • being of Michael is present while the revelations from the
  • person to whom the verses are to be given, that permission must
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  • “The True Form of the Social Question.”
  • concept contained in the words “social question” is
  • decades, occupied because this question has not only become
  • urgent for the evolution of humanity, but it has become a
  • burning question. In particular, one may say that the terrible
  • years has thrown its dark light on the social question in
  • particular and its correlation to humanity's mobility in the
  • introductory explorations, I only need to point out how,
  • question works itself into every emotion of fear, clearly seen
  • difficult decisions here or there, would no longer have stood
  • under the fear of the question: ‘What will happen if the social
  • leading personalities regarding the social question, on the
  • to take a stand towards the social question and to intervene in
  • how something appears in the social question which all members
  • Just at this moment when, as we said, solutions to the social
  • question are promoted in these conquered countries, something
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  • Social Question Based on Life's Realities and the Necessity
  • With reference to my presentations I would like to ask you to
  • today's lecture I would like to make a provisional outline for
  • the being of the social organism, of such solution
  • possibilities for the social question which do not come out of
  • properly observed evolutionary forces of humanity and in
  • particular those evolutionary forces which are the most
  • humanity. If one tries to find a solution for the social
  • question through the aspirations or the demands of a state, of
  • other restrict development or healthy living conditions.
  • indications of truths in the following lectures. In modern
  • particular form is experienced through expressions
  • technical operation of economic life and its relationships and
  • characteristic, particular form of the social question coming
  • could call the nerve of a comprehensive, many-sided observation
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  • social situation, particularly where restrictions and
  • what we call the social question today.
  • forces playing into communal human relationships, for them it
  • creation of criticism about social facts of the present day are
  • these observations. Behind that lies far more social psychology
  • driving forces related to the social question. All that has
  • proletariat, through their observations, know what to say about
  • things introduced into the present where their solutions must
  • felt more resigned, but the question still arose: ‘What form of
  • community, of human community-living and human actions, what
  • bring a solution to the modern social order which enables it to
  • representing their opinion; the modern proletariat must impress
  • positions of power and control. The overpowering of the
  • he doesn't need to think, provisionally.
  • through. It also invites agitation and is not thought through
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  • that it is justified to say that the situation of current
  • the life of single people — this penetration will happen
  • able to understand their position within the human community
  • which heaves and pulses with social impulses under examination,
  • thinking and social willing. As a result, the continuation of
  • have mentioned in my lectures that solutions are not to be
  • conclusion by what had gone just before. I have tried to draw
  • attention to this: the historical life of humanity in its
  • essence or foundations in relation to certain crises in the
  • misunderstood conception that nature makes no leaps in a
  • these crises arrive out of elementary organic foundations, just
  • a way by superficial observation as the first two. To observe
  • current humanity is averse to such observation and listening,
  • in the previous lectures — in the course of evolution of
  • demanding certain satisfaction; how that changes in relation to
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  • negotiated regarding the social question in the course of the
  • superstitions ruled in the Middle ages. These superstitions
  • depended on Middle Age superstitions to desire the creation of
  • taking abstractions drawn from outer life and forming something
  • social will and allow some superstitions to dominate. One can
  • developing out of certain principles, certain foundations which
  • opinions, they want it carried out themselves, which means,
  • thoughts towards its foundation would not be mere thoughts
  • derived out of abstractions but out of reality; they would be
  • only apply one's best aspirations by finding it out of people
  • mutual harmony in their reciprocal relationships to unfold what
  • After long years of studying the social question it has come to
  • me that the basic question, which is considered today as a
  • uniform abstract formulation, should be seen in a threefold
  • way: the first, being like a spiritual question, the second,
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  • When the theme for today's lecture was announced, the question
  • confusion, and those in it notice that the water is up to their
  • rescue boat with conditions they usually insist upon. About
  • such an interpretation I don't want to speak this evening. It
  • What is called the ‘social question’ today has in no way only
  • up to the social question is much, much older; it has come out
  • often enough from these people how far civilization has
  • through a certain education and taken part in what they called
  • don't need to mention all the praise declarations about this
  • direction in our modern civilization. However, modern
  • civilization has developed out of a foundation. Without this
  • foundation, it is inconceivable; it thrives from this
  • foundation. What was in this foundation? In this foundation
  • been condemned by modern civilisation?’ — So, modern
  • humanity is ever more split into two divisions: in one in which
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  • dawn upon us that this is indeed the mission of Spiritual Science when
  • either of clear or vague premonitions, in various domains of modern
  • we could prove to you that he never thought of them in connection with
  • himself.’ Such an objection is so patent that even those who think as
  • no need to reiterate the generalisation that ‘an artist creates
  • to clear away the above-mentioned objection.
  • clear cognition can attain; from that point onwards, however, we grope
  • the sun. And when people speak of obscure feelings and premonitions
  • ideas and conceptions of a Mystic can be as lucid and clear as
  • the word will be used here in connection with the name of Richard
  • And now let us speak of what is really the fundamental conviction of
  • Wagner himself ever express this conviction? Most certainly he did!
  • He regarded symphonic music as a veritable revelation from another
  • world, a revelation by which the threads of existence are elucidated
  • convictions which arise in a man when he listens to the speech of
  • uttered at random; they were indications of a deep and profound theory
  • light of the conviction that is characteristic of Mysticism. Again and
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  • I HAVE said on many occasions that at the time when medieval culture
  • through the ripest souls in European civilisation — streams which
  • I have described as knowledge through revelation and knowledge
  • revelation, in its more scholastic form, was by no means a body of
  • cognition and must in every case be accepted as traditions of the
  • research and investigation, albeit those who stood wholly within the
  • preserved as it were by tradition. But it was not always so, for if we
  • revelation was less sharply emphasised than they were in medieval
  • School, for instance, that a distinction could be made between
  • knowledge acquired by reason and knowledge through revelation (in the
  • knowledge was beyond the reach of man's ordinary cognition, but they
  • knew too that by dint of spiritual training and through Initiation, a
  • age when very much of the old Initiation-wisdom was still living in
  • men. And indeed there were many who applied their Initiation-wisdom
  • evolution, had passed into an earthly body and linked Himself with the
  • evolution of man. The nature of this Being, how He had worked before
  • His descent to the earth — such were the questions which even at
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  • the Movement 'free from illusions.' He explains that in anthroposophical
  • foundation for a new community life.
  • beyond the possibility of expression in words. The feeling
  • any other similar situation — the building of a home for
  • question here was not simply, as I have often said, that a
  • constructed in one or another traditional style. In our case
  • the situation was that Anthroposophy stands upon a spiritual
  • foundation which gives it, not the one-sided character of any
  • expression of the spiritual view belonging to Anthroposophy as
  • an artistic way the construction of this building, and for
  • direction of every line, in every external architectural and
  • the fountains of Anthroposophical conceptions, Anthroposophical
  • have received the impression that everything which responded to
  • felt that his own emotions, which he had embodied in this work,
  • Precisely the intimate association of Anthroposophical feeling
  • completely from direct vision and according to this vision, and
  • sort of interpretations — makes the pain from the loss so
  • mentioned, we have lost the home that sheltered us, we must all
  • common and effective action. And the forces which are to ensoul
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  • the Movement 'free from illusions.' He explains that in anthroposophical
  • foundation for a new community life.
  • induces me to deal with such questions as lie within the sphere
  • time, yet on repeated occasions to single groups among you. But
  • like in connection with this to say something about the manner
  • in which it is manifest that the Anthroposophical conception of
  • upon a foundation similar to that of the Anthroposophical
  • — marked by gradations, of course, in accordance with
  • such societies there are to be found all possible gradations,
  • and as a matter of necessity where certain conditions are
  • of wrangling, the greatest abundance of occasions for
  • dissension, for separating and founding independent groups
  • deliver a lecture in the form of a general discussion —
  • condition of life, so long as he separates — separates in
  • of this other condition of consciousness, which we may call a
  • lower condition, is taken over into what we will call a higher
  • the surrounding world but also in relation to the inner being
  • expressions relating to this world. There follows the
  • of repeated earth lives, of karmic relationships in repeated
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  • questions around the theme of the polarities of West and East,
  • He makes visible the forces of decline active in modern civilization
  • the active participation of human beings. He presents with profound
  • poignancy how Christ is pouring a new spirit into human evolution.
  • quite clear on a number of occasions that to understand
  • be aware of how human evolution progresses all over the
  • globe. The whole course of human evolution can only be
  • evolution as a whole and also in human lives.
  • beings we are part of an ongoing evolution that may be
  • of evolution, a course during which the earth repeatedly
  • comes to physical manifestation. Some of those powers we
  • pay proper attention to the way these luciferic and
  • know, a new era in human evolution started during the
  • process of education in the course of Earth evolution.
  • evolution to get a real understanding of the origins of
  • question we must ask ourselves is whether anything still
  • that older evolutionary forces persist into later ages
  • are normal to the age in question. This also applies to
  • earlier times in human evolution we find that the further
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  • He makes visible the forces of decline active in modern civilization
  • the active participation of human beings. He presents with profound
  • poignancy how Christ is pouring a new spirit into human evolution.
  • said on a number of occasions, and also two days ago when
  • evolution of the human race in the light of spiritual
  • moment. We shall then have to act out of our realization
  • of the gravity of the situation, irrespective of our
  • position in life.
  • that the human race in its present state of civilization
  • It has been said on a number of occasions that Atlantis
  • the course of its preparation and later as it proceeded
  • eastward direction, populating Europe and then Asia as
  • peoples of Atlantis. We also know that civilization then
  • Europe brought civilization with them, as it were:
  • modern civilization is provided by the peoples of Europe
  • moved from the west to the east. Civilization itself
  • spiritual-scientific investigation. The two are confused
  • in conventional anthropology and it is not realized that
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  • the active participation of human beings. He presents with profound
  • poignancy how Christ is pouring a new spirit into human evolution.
  • which we must base our actions more real. I am looking
  • only ideas to fire the human will and human actions.
  • not go far back in human evolution to find that social
  • have any illusions concerning the consequences,
  • of occasions — for that would cause tremendous
  • confusion. Instead, let us find some other, more neutral
  • stages of earth evolution.
  • consideration of things that existed during the past in
  • human evolution and do not fit in with the way of
  • office by the priesthood and its institutions. They felt
  • that with this kind of preparation the person called to
  • faint notion of this, called the Son of Heaven. There was
  • an awareness that someone called to rule over some region
  • practically all our ideas today on development, education
  • advance him in his training, his preparation for some
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  • the active participation of human beings. He presents with profound
  • poignancy how Christ is pouring a new spirit into human evolution.
  • humankind is basically failing to pay attention to the
  • that must inevitably take our present civilization to the
  • realization; or in other words that there is a great deal
  • attention to what is really going on.
  • and pay genuine attention to the forces that shape our
  • have no idea of human evolution, who know nothing of the
  • conditions, however, — I shall refer to these later
  • — enable them to hold a position of authority in
  • natural inclination for criminal activities that is in
  • confessions — confessions of all kinds — who
  • citizens are little inclined to pay proper attention to
  • a fact I also mentioned in my first public lecture here.
  • come to expression above all in a belief in authority
  • 21 ] to impose their tyranny on millions of people
  • things need to be considered in forming an opinion on
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  • say today is a repetition of things that have been
  • discussed on a number of occasions from all kinds of
  • consideration in public lectures. There are reasons,
  • certain impulses must be brought into modern civilization
  • a pump comes up in all kinds of variations nowadays. The
  • on. These clearly function at the level of soul and
  • spirit. Our blood system is set in motion by entirely
  • Material things in particular have found no explanation
  • give human individuals a kind of subconscious perception
  • of their circulation, just as the eye perceives colour in
  • opposite direction?
  • in conventional institutes nowadays, in physiological and
  • institutions, the brain for instance is examined by
  • human being: The whole of the head organization as We
  • perception, and the direction in which they perceive is
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  • made in connection with the anthroposophical movement
  • situation. In principle everything I have said so far has
  • come to the realization that the search for truth is a
  • evolution of the earth and of humankind.
  • the way recognition of the truth must be seen as a deed,
  • directions in the life of the human soul. One of these is
  • evolution of science over the last three or four
  • play a role today in the progress of human evolution. The
  • traditional religious creeds hardly play a role in the
  • real progress of human evolution the way they are
  • the decline of the West to full realization, the
  • traditional religious faiths officially represented by
  • however, for progressive evolution. As I have said on a
  • number of occasions, the materialistic stream is clearly
  • descriptions given of the human etheric and astral bodies
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  • poignancy how Christ is pouring a new spirit into human evolution.
  • important, indeed necessary, to stress the connection
  • science calls for recognition to be given to two facts.
  • sensory perceptions we shall never discover the nature of
  • Until we know that external observation reveals only the
  • world of phenomena, Maya, and that inward observation
  • matter that merely comes to expression in mystical
  • have the kind of organization that enables them to
  • cloud formations, rivers and mountains we see, nothing of
  • matter of the earth. This form of self-perception takes
  • an indication of the extent to which we have to change
  • of today, drawing a conclusion that may be bold but
  • in relation to the world. As I have said before —
  • not a question of logic, of theories. Yet people always
  • that anyone searching for truth In that direction is on
  • inspiration, or genius, on this side may justifiably be
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  • poignancy how Christ is pouring a new spirit into human evolution.
  • genuine perception, and that it can only be a matter of
  • This kind of attitude then leads to a distinction being
  • custom. A frequent objection raised against spiritual
  • distinction that is made between science and belief is
  • supposed distinction made by so many people between
  • Fundamentally speaking, however, only initiation science
  • perception, of the supersensible. Initiation knowledge
  • has to look far back into human evolution, however, if it
  • a long way in human evolution we come to a time when
  • substance, that felt itself to be in communion with
  • no need for proof, for there was perception of the
  • logical demonstration. All they knew was that as human
  • earliest stages of human evolution, and it had to do with
  • perception of the divine origin of human beings. Knowing
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  • human beings and then make the transition to certain
  • already considered the rhythmical alternation between
  • considering this alternation between sleeping and
  • aspect is the head organization. Here, we have first of
  • human being into sections according to the space
  • nerves and senses merely have their main concentration in
  • to the whole human being. We base our characterization on
  • the part where the main concentration lies, i.e. the
  • question is, what happens to the sensory organism and the
  • interrelations and connections that exist in our waking
  • state. In the waking state the situation is that our will
  • question we want to ask ourselves today is what kind of
  • impressions of the outside world and immediately
  • dreamless sleep. Dreams hold a middle position between
  • position to make use of this sense organ in normal life.
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  • human evolution which we must know about if we want to arrive at a proper
  • root causes lie that have led to the disastrous situation we are facing
  • today. Only then can we find the right way of taking effective action
  • too little attention is paid to the changes which those forces effective
  • in human evolution have undergone in very recent times, compared to times
  • belongs to the first half of the 20th century, as I have mentioned a
  • their actions are not at all in accord with the needs of the present
  • example, just by way of introduction as it were. We have a — well,
  • given rise to opinions, all kinds of measures were taken, and people had
  • whole situation, where the destiny fabric of human beings is concerned.
  • war, 79 million 'horse power years' of that kind of energy were produced
  • actions and processes. The energies expended in work are measured in
  • million horse power years of coal-derived energy per year.
  • A very superficial comparison with the population figure for Germany
  • a horse work for him all year long. The population figure was
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  • considerations. In a sense these will continue the theme
  • evolution. In a sense we relate the physical body to the
  • consider the whole evolution of the human being you will
  • mission is in the first place to achieve full ego
  • evolution, deepening and to some extent enhancing what
  • makes reference to this by showing that our evolution
  • to feel, the full gravity of this question. In a sense we
  • rightly if they are able to ask themselves questions like
  • gravity of such inner questions of destiny. Being aware
  • Christ is the principle that can take our evolution
  • configuration or other in this earthly life. That,
  • that direction but fail to realize that there is
  • a form that I also spoke of on the last occasion. It is
  • relationship to the Christ spirit. The best demonstration
  • Christianity first entered into Earth evolution at a time
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  • TWO INCARNATIONS
  • for some time, what will be explained in the introduction should not be
  • of the descriptions that follow.
  • has been mentioned so far? Oh, there is something more in it than bones
  • because it is everything that runs in sensations and in feelings, from
  • carrier of these sensations, and we call it the astral body or
  • sensation body of man. This astral body, which is not perceptible to
  • soul can this name, this designation "I" sound out. Never can another
  • out through the name "I." All great religions also felt this, that in
  • particularly solemn occasions, at particularly solemn services, and
  • the God-being reveals itself. The revelation of God in man is a fourth
  • solemn occasions. To make this God-being sound in the soul of man by
  • the fact that man can say: "I am", that is the crown of creation. This
  • among the beings that are visible in the earthly creation. Therefore,
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  • on a major campaign to publicize his 'threefold' ideas for society. In addition
  • social question. They complement Steiner's very practical efforts to realize
  • these rooms, which are to be used for our work and discussions.
  • certain connection between the recent great events throbbing
  • through the world and such a dedication. The vital claims of
  • more where separateness gives way to social co-operation. It
  • which runs through our earthly civilization as artistic
  • quality, may not find in the future the same comprehension as
  • time of transition may result in some dimming of the
  • appreciation of beauty, but it is essential, if a really social
  • space and time should tend to encourage appreciation of the
  • evolution of mankind, to regard man as a “cog” in
  • may say without hesitation that the great movement of the
  • men have become so anti-social in development and constitution
  • the moment comes when an immense impression is made by the
  • sight of a noble, selfless devotion to an ideal, through
  • in our hearts thoughts deeply concerned with human evolution,
  • expression in the spoken word stands far apart from truth and
  • connection of the word used with the inner fount of truth. We
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  • on a major campaign to publicize his 'threefold' ideas for society. In addition
  • social question. They complement Steiner's very practical efforts to realize
  • evolution is clearly perceptible to anyone who has the faculty
  • of sight in such regions.
  • complete change in the relation of civilized man's soul to the
  • impulses that they worked in human evolution. In our times,
  • this connection has come to an end. They have for the moment no
  • interest in continuing to work as before on the evolution
  • of man. They will only enter into a new relationship to us when
  • not lose all connection with the spiritual worlds, we
  • spiritual forces can flow. The question may and must be asked,
  • with the spiritual worlds as to maintain their connection with
  • the higher Hierarchies as the Earth evolution proceeds. The
  • with the question; but we shall see that they do provide the
  • foundation on which we can rebuild onwards into the future our,
  • connection with the spiritual world.
  • confessions, the creeds, existing among civilized people.
  • shall realize if we put before our souls one question of such
  • touchstone for their views, the question of the immortality of
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  • was deeply concerned with social questions. Having published a book on the
  • on a major campaign to publicize his 'threefold' ideas for society. In addition
  • social question. They complement Steiner's very practical efforts to realize
  • evolution men are confronted with great tests, though for the
  • they go: through some kind of initiation and enter it
  • separation of the hitherto-interwoven forces of thinking,
  • going on in humanity, the continued living in illusions and, in
  • description, a sort of sketch of the process. We can say
  • existed no complete immersion of the ego and astral body during
  • 28th year. Conditions will change again with time. This is a
  • significant mystery, in the evolution of mankind. What is the
  • meaning of this complete immersion in the physical body?
  • is the right instrument. The identification had not been
  • mentioned about the activity men must unfold in their
  • particular phase of evolution. In the extended span of time
  • new — above all, the aims of education. I have already
  • renewal of educational methods? In giving man, who is entering
  • a new stage of development, preparation for the
  • their education. Certain forces can only be developed in
  • education.
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  • was deeply concerned with social questions. Having published a book on the
  • on a major campaign to publicize his 'threefold' ideas for society. In addition
  • social question. They complement Steiner's very practical efforts to realize
  • MAIN FEATURES OF THE SOCIAL QUESTION
  • accompaniments have given the social question a new aspect for
  • in dealing with the social question, to abandon limited ideas
  • understand their times by adopting a wholly new conception of
  • proletariat with regard to the social question. We saw what
  • position, no longer confined by a social order dominated, at
  • hand to building a new form of social organization. And just in
  • with its heart's blood proved inadequate when realization
  • opposition, even a conflict. The facts of world-history taking
  • life, in which protection and similar ideas had been
  • superseded by competition for a free market as the only
  • motive for regulation; in which ideas were active, not moulding
  • the economic life solely with regard to production,
  • distribution and consumption of goods, but unfailingly leading
  • the “Social Question” with more intensity of
  • judge of things through longer vision, as Utopian or
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