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Title: Evil and Spiritual Science
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Lecture Series: Evil in the Light of Spiritual Know
Evil in the Light of Spiritual Knowledge
as, Geisteswissenschaft als Lebensgut. It is also known as, On Evil,
It is also known as,
IN THE LIGHT OF SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE
striving towards knowledge, precisely when faced with this
knowledge in a certain way. That leads to real striving for
knowledge, and often it only shows the initial steps on the
path to knowledge of the spiritual world, which also consists
thought, then either God did not know the best possible world
— and that conflicts with his all- knowingness; or else
boundaries of our knowledge. It must indeed be wisdom, which is
evil and wickedness into an unknown world of wisdom.
faculties of knowledge. Such a thinker was Jakob
knowledge; it cannot penetrate to that wisdom. — Are we
capacity for knowledge as it once was, and to hardly to reflect
the origin of evil, because with regard to knowledge that turns
knowledge towards another knowledge. Along the path a way must
within but outside of its body, as far as this knowledge is
“How does One Achieve Knowledge of the Higher
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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.
pass through training of the soul we learn to know also the astral body
know the four members of man's being: the physical body, the etheric

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 2: Man's Ascent into the Supersensible World
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new generation filled by the yearning to obtain spiritual knowledge.
The physical world need not be described, for it is clearly known to everybody.
we know what is taking place in the astral world. But when people obtain
contains beings that we can never learn to know on the physical plane.

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.

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 4: The Devachanic World
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new generation filled by the yearning to obtain spiritual knowledge.
is known on Earth as feeling and sensation. There, the currents of pain

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.
we can only now have a true knowledge of our own actions, for we experience

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 6: Man's Return to a New Earthly Life
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new generation filled by the yearning to obtain spiritual knowledge.

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.
An occultist must not only know

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.
science. How does the occultist know of these long-past things? He knows
and was always known to occult investigation. It is important to bear
the sentence: “With the growth of knowledge and understanding,

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 9: Lemurian Development
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new generation filled by the yearning to obtain spiritual knowledge.
of the development of man towards higher stages of knowledge.

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 10: Paths of Occult Training
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new generation filled by the yearning to obtain spiritual knowledge.
training come from a deeply-founded knowledge. There are two fundamental

Title: i Spirituality: Lecture 1: Historical Symptomology, the Year 790, Alcuin, Greeks, Platonism, Aristotelianism, East, West, Middle, Ego
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experiences knowledge has declined along with the old clairvoyance. The time
from real knowledge. This is one fact which, in a certain sense, I should like to mention as
which can only be found by someone who knows how to get a total view of the facts in what in a
of nature and cannot come to terms with it. Knowledge of
battles of which I spoke, in part, in my lectures on the limits to a knowledge of
just that people did not know that they were still living from this heritage of the ancient East.
listen carefully to what individuals know concerning one thing or another. Nor has there been a
greater need for people with knowledge of specific subject areas to be active in social life
seriousness of the present world situation, knows what a great battle is taking place between the
Thus Charlemagne once wanted to know from Alcuin what should be made of
(First and Second Introduction into the Doctrine of Knowledge and an Attempt at a New
Presentation of the doctrine of Knowledge). Return
(Limits to a Knowledge of Nature

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 2: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 1
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experiences knowledge has declined along with the old clairvoyance. The time
We know that, under the influence of our modern
it so, by getting to know a fairly large number of people who are scattered in secret societies,
only if we know what I have just related — if we know that what lives in public life cannot
things that are only laid open to a spiritual knowledge. What use is it when people of today
know how one must act with regard to these things one must be equipped with an armour of

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 3: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 2
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experiences knowledge has declined along with the old clairvoyance. The time
Hellenistic culture there developed, as we know, what took hold of the human beings of the Centre

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 4: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 3
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experiences knowledge has declined along with the old clairvoyance. The time
Now we know that Goethe's soul-configuration was
is filled with underlinings and marginal comments knows how Goethe had really studied
seriously what he became — it is well known that he was made a 'French citizen' by the
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds — How is it Achieved?
between rational knowledge and revelation is attributable to the working of the spirits of the
Grimm, who also did not know spiritual science, gave in a beautiful way, out of his sensitive
fully on Goethe. But he had a certain other quality. Anyone who knows Herman Grimm more closely
knows that in his style, in his whole way of expressing himself, in his way of thinking, he had
desolate barbarity. For Spengler knows nothing of what the world must receive as an impulse, as a
(Metaphysics and Anthropasophy in their Position Regarding Knowledge of the Supersensible),

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 5: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 4
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experiences knowledge has declined along with the old clairvoyance. The time
We know that a new age in the development of
It is the longing for knowledge. Now, when one looks back into former times, even into the
speak of a definite longing for knowledge in as much as the human being at that time had
relationship to the spirit world itself. Certainly, longing for knowledge has been spoken about a
development of humanity, to compare the longing for knowledge which holds sway today with the
intensity of the longing for knowledge that held sway before the middle of the fifteenth century.
Striving for knowledge was an intense affair of the human soul; for knowledge that had an inner
there as a longing for knowledge has become less and less comparable with what has been emerging
idea of what had previously existed as a longing for knowledge.
the striving for knowledge, even though pursued in isolation as was still the custom, enters more
the fifteenth century. All human beings, or at least those who strove for knowledge, had some
world-being — and did, in fact, penetrate to its spirituality. Thus was knowledge
attained. People experienced it as knowing when, from the phenomena of nature, from the being of
nature. People felt themselves to be in the realm of knowledge when gods spoke through the
what people understood as knowledge.
spiritual in the manifestations of nature, the concept of knowledge itself also fell more or less
into a deterioration. And it is this decline of real intensity in the pursuit of knowledge that
every plant. In the way people came to know the manifestations and beings of nature they also
came to know the spiritual. This is no longer the case. But the condition of intellectualism is
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Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 6: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 5
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experiences knowledge has declined along with the old clairvoyance. The time
in the accounts of the old clairvoyants and, basically, as you know from my
The old spiritual life based on spiritual vision — which, as you know, had abolished the
You know from history and from what I have related
Gospels were to become known among the broad mass of the faithful. For the Gospels originate out
known and regarded those who went against the prohibition of reading them as the most flagrant
irreconcilable with a common knowledge of the Gospels. For the Gospel in its true form actually
that something has been 'scientifically proven'. They know nothing more about this proof than
continued through authority, and were terrified of the Gospels becoming generally known among the
reads all sorts of things into them. These people know that the connection with the Mystery of
view about how Anthroposophy puts things into the Gospels although they know perfectly well that
We know that until the age of seven, until the
ground, is dashed to pieces, and does not know what to do. It lives in upheavals; talks of all
makes known about the predestination of Czechoslovakia, because they have no idea of the
conditions for life in the East and because they do not know that what is brought into being

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 7: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 6
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experiences knowledge has declined along with the old clairvoyance. The time
culture of Middle Europe, as we have come to know it in recent weeks, will be wedged.
still cling to a certain piety, a piety that wants to know nothing of what is laying hold of
made in which people who know absolutely nothing about the conditions of life in the modern
You know that spiritual science shows how our
Now we know from what is described in my
But you will know, if you reflect on how much of
know that I cannot yet bring spirit-self into my entire astral body, but I have to bring it into
known intellectually; he has no place in the social structure.
earth-being and leaves the true being of man as an unsolved riddle. I know that I am a cosmic, a
earthly being and his knowledge that he is a super-earthly being, a cosmic being. The fulfilment
how lacking in knowledge is this official 'erudition which has the education of contemporary
occur. The methods of knowledge in spiritual science are referred to here by a man whose
Christology. This man says, about the methods used to gain knowledge in anthroposophical science,
as the methods of knowledge for coming to Imagination? Is it possible to speak here about
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds — How is it Achieved?.
And he knows nothing of the methods of spiritual science other than what, in accordance with his
arises involuntarily but that in the spiritual-scientific act of knowing the voluntary mental
conscience and a twisting of everything that is portrayed in my books as the methods of knowledge
Gospels. Is this not a most fundamental falsehood? It is a lie, knowing what modern criticism of

Title: Abbreviated Title: Lecture I:
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acquainted with things which one can get to know only on Earth. But you
mind what one can know from the things, does exactly the same as the man

Title: Talk To Young People:
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of an answer for me. Yet I know that many of them know very well this

Title: "Heaven and Earth will pass away but my words will not pass away"
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It is also known as,
Translator is Unknown
It is also known as,
the ultimate aim of human evolution! He would like to know what will
evolution; for when we know the path evolution has taken, we certainly
You all know that human
and know of the world, — all, that constitutes man's
though you are perfectly unaware of this dreamer, other Beings know
know that our Spiritual Science really does give the Hierarchy of the
subject, we know why we cultivate Spiritual Science. We then know that
knowledge into a pure mental and soul content.
unnecessary for us to learn all there is to know in this earth

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture I: Tree of Life - I
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Tree of Life and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil
announced that now men had eaten of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good
tasted of the Tree of Knowledge.
of the eating of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil on the one
pronouncement: we will bring to mind what we have long known: i.e.,
We know indeed that the Mystery of
perhaps even known what had taken place there. It might quite well
remained unknown to men, that no single person would have been able
two aspects: that which man receives as knowledge, as inner working
— that is to say, of its knowledge. Now, men
means of the knowledge which men had before the Mystery of Golgotha.
We know that since the Mystery of Golgotha not only have its tidings
know indeed that all these concepts, including those which live in
the earth, are derived from a primeval knowledge, from a knowledge
is primeval revelation, which as we know was founded in an age when
Knowledge of Good and Evil. We can see in the primeval revelations
expulsion from Paradise. The knowledge which had entered humanity in
and life will stream out from it. But this older knowledge shall not
And so we see a dying knowledge
of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil which has even brought
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Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture II: Tree of Life - II
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Tree of Life and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil
called the continuous stream of evolving knowledge and wisdom, and,
on the one hand, of the lifeless knowledge-principle, the ageing
life-without-knowledge, which unites itself like a young shoot in
humanity's evolution with the knowledge-principle, brought down from
utterance which says: Because men have learnt to know or to
Knowledge of Good and Evil, they shall not eat of the Tree of
Knowledge of Good and Evil.’ Each can say to
attain to a certain kind of knowledge, a certain way of confronting
knowledge of the things of the world. Nevertheless it is quite clear
that we should have had a different knowledge of things if the
two-fold utterance implies. It means that the knowledge we obtain of
the world and its phenomena is a knowledge that has entered through
the Luciferic influence, a knowledge that represents the course of
Knowledge of Good and Evil. All our knowledge is the sort
Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Had man not partaken of this
Tree, then a different knowledge must needs have been there from that
everyday knowledge is really influenced by the fact of the Luciferic
temptation, that our everyday knowledge is the fulfilment of our
having eaten of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, it will
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Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture III: The Power of Thought
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Tree of Life and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil
practically no knowledge of this at all. People do not notice, they
become known to us during meditating. Therefore we find in the Orient
desire to be expressed by Socrates merely to impart knowledge of the
had formerly worked from the cosmos and who could only be known from
rightly known — it is not yet rightly experienced,
first a process of knowledge. It begins with an intellectual process,
will become more and more musical. And to know how man is rightly
means to know that we must strive towards a musical element, that we
in order to know how he should act. From the gods,
ceased in the time of Augustus to know anything of the spiritual
in his knowledge that men would become less and less fitted to take
sublime spiritual knowledge. But it was also felt that something of
which cannot be grasped with the old Mystery knowledge, with which
the old Mystery knowledge was not in keeping. What could, however, be
known to men through the Mystery of Golgotha itself was still very
initiate, yet as one having knowledge to a high degree. In his

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture IV: Harmonizing Thinking, Feeling and Willing
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Tree of Life and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil
and existence it remains unknown, does not enter the consciousness.
feeling. But since the connection remained unknown to him there were
thing in itself is nebulous, is unknown; but that which thrusts up as
should know that what we call existence is not something that
shall know that what, in general, is subject to death, is derived
unconsciously and without man's knowledge — it
true occultist as we know has no other desire than to make valid that
we know from experience how European missionaries are often repulsed
themselves: what it is will soon be evident. They wanted to know
of man he is, that he does not appeal to unreal or unknown Mahatmas
the teachings, and must not appeal to unknown Masters. And those who
here or there, from unknown masters or from the dead (through which
science the question is to know the path taken by the threads of
found certain society procedures on the utterances of unknown
appeals, not to some unknown powers or impulses found along
the world as unknown. One can, of course, speak of such unknown
extraordinarily important for people to have a thorough knowledge

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture V: Tree of Knowledge - I
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Tree of Life and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil
Tree of Knowledge - I
about inside and learns by its creeping about to know the roots of
surface of the earth, it only learns to know the roots of the plants,
it learns to know nothing else; it creeps about and learns to
for the caterpillar can know nothing of this; it creeps around, this
something is happening, and he now expresses all he knows, this worm.
know, this worm, whence this warmth comes ... That it becomes warmer,
any knowledge of the actual events and processes. And this is truly
learnt to know that the Earth separates from the Sun and again from
rightly know which facts are meant to be spiritual. Something that
I have ever come to know in the world. And one had then, or could
‘This man (I will not mention his name) knows the
they found him so wise and experienced in things one can know. Now
something or other, I know not what, of everyday human,

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture VI: Tree of Knowledge - II
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Tree of Life and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil
Tree of Knowledge - II
divine-spiritual beings had planned. But we know that
and said: ‘I dare not, as you know, speak of
I do not know, my dear friends, if the
not there, if we know nothing of them: they are always there. And in
where such things must be known.
few items of more exact knowledge regarding our sense-periphery.
We know that this conceptual life through Lucifer's influence seems

Title: World Downfall and Resurrection
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so are my other books. Only one who knows that in every
reasoning faculty. Until that time, all knowledge and all
but knows as an Angel. This idea — which springs
heritage from an earlier form of knowledge — was a fact
acknowledged by anyone who thought at all in the days before
Angel indwelt the body of a man; the Angel was the knower and
the human being shared in the knowledge.
Logos. The Logos is known as the Son, but the Father, not the
Christian centuries, thought was based upon the knowledge of the
merely an ancient belief but an actual truth for, as you know,
instinctive knowledge possessed by the men of old. They knew
‘circuited’, as we say. You know quite well how this
no longer know that Earth-electricity is living in the blood.
wonder that all striving for knowledge in those times was
and intricate body of knowledge grew up, a ‘science’
possessed the knowledge in its real form, for he lived in the
conception another sphere of knowledge which has been entirely
knowledge derived by the ancients from Nature, but in the
Only in the light of this knowledge can we begin to understand
which man drew his knowledge without conscious effort. To speak
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Title: Lecture: Philosophy and Anthroposophy
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Knowledge
in respect of the human self — that is, self-knowledge — is one
of life's development. The impulse to self-knowledge is found in every
should realize that no external measures, but only a thorough knowledge of
the human being, can prove helpful. But this thorough knowledge requires
knowledge is liable to encounter when it would enter more deeply into the
knowledge of the human being. They consist of two illusions, towering as
two cliffs, between which we cannot advance in our pursuit of knowledge
obstacles are: Natural Science and Mysticism. Both these forms of knowledge
acquire a knowledge of humanity depends upon our developing the strength to
knowledge; once we have found them, the way of escape from them becomes
sum of natural operations. It may become an ideal of knowledge to
be to our inner life, with its thirst for knowledge. True to its ideal,
“Boundaries of Natural Science,” that human knowledge would
human life, into which we must inquire. Knowledge of true reality does not
coincide with knowledge of Nature. This insight can prove a turning point
in the life of our soul. The knowledge is brought home to us through inner
knowledge of the human being. Not to have reached this standpoint and still
to cherish the hope that ideal natural scientific knowledge can enlighten
knowledge of the human being. Many a thinker has felt the thrust on this
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Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture I: The Pedagogy of the West and of Central Europe: The Inner Attitude of the Teacher
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Meditatively Acquired Knowledge of Man
understanding it. We must know how to guard it, with a certain confidence,
knowing that it is this guarding which gives effectiveness to our affairs.
We have to know what things to be silent about in the presence of certain
must know that we have nothing whatsoever to hope for from that quarter for
nature but rather develop his individuality, etc. You know that our art of
nature, that it should be built up in the widest sense on a knowledge of
teaching has been good if you did not know to start with what you have
you known at the beginning what you have learned at the end. A remarkable
many people it is important to know this, but it is most important of all
for teachers to know it. For this is a special instance of a general truth
and insight: knowledge as such, no matter what its content, knowledge that
as ideas — such knowledge can have no practical value.
Only what leads to this knowledge, what is on its way to this knowledge, is
of practical value. For the kind of knowledge we gain after a year's
teaching, achieves its value only after a man has died. This knowledge only
ready-made knowledge that has value in life, but the work that leads to
this finished knowledge. And in the art of teaching this work has especial
interest comes from the intrinsic nature of knowledge that is being gained
knowledge.
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Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture II: The Three Fundamental Forces in EducatioN
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Meditatively Acquired Knowledge of Man
considered far more than later on. We know this whole man embraces the ego,
furnished — as you know from the various hints I have
the man, but spread more over the entire organism. You know that between
testimonial to the ignorance of our philosophers, who know nothing of the
years. And because we know we are working into the future in this way, this
our own forces with these, knowing that we are fertilizing the
after death. We gain a certain enthusiasm for our teaching by this, knowing
bring the matter closer to your understanding, if you know that the music a
This is the positive side of kamaloca, and if we know this we are
knowing the full significance of these traditions; also that in much
mystery knowledge. Thus I have always been particularly moved by the words
Luciferic enthusiasm that alone is acknowledged today. In sum, we must come
to know: attack and defence.
This too we should know when we do eurythmy: there is always in the etheric
didactic-pedagogical way. But such things can only be understood if we know
body, only when your knowledge assumes an artistic form, do you become a

Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture III: Spiritual Knowledge of Man as the Fount of Educational Art
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Meditatively Acquired Knowledge of Man
KNOWLEDGE OF MAN AS THE FOUNT OF EDUCATIONAL ART.
education. Here, the essential thing is to know what we ought to learn and
of this knowledge of man there will arise in us, in a very individual form,
know that nowadays external science sees a difference between man's
place for our understanding of knowledge and the soul's element of
for as teachers we have particular reason to know about them. Notice what a
sufficiently exerted. The will, as you know, is connected with the
in the evening, then next morning you will know in a flash 'Of course, you
girl lacks such and such,' and so on. That is, you will know what to do in

Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture IV: The Art of Education Consists of Bringing Into Balance the Physical and Spiritual Nature of the Developing Human Being
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Meditatively Acquired Knowledge of Man
look at man's constitution and then apply the knowledge thus gained to the
known to you, which manifest fully only in later years, reveal themselves
right way. When one notices the well- known Theosophists mark, which all
so long that he does not know what to do with them, then one will have to
or that the arms never know what they are meant to do because their weight
science one can get to know the human being so intimately, if one proceeds
get to know man better. Of course these are not specially personal things,
However, in order to get to know Fichte's character, his whole manner of
learn remarkable things, if we get to know children in this manner, if we

Title: Social Understanding: Lecture II: Social Understanding Through Spiritual Scientific Knowledge
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Meditatively Acquired Knowledge of Man
UNDERSTANDING THROUGH SPIRITUAL SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE.
acquire knowledge of supersensible worlds. They try to answer this question
knowledge by means of certain forces in man. But what the actual
ask. That is why so little importance is attached to making knowledge of
supersensible knowledge is becoming more and more essential to man, just in
know, the first of the capacities that leads man into supersensible realms
connection with knowledge of supersensible worlds or whether these
“Knowledge of the Higher Worlds”
intuitive knowledge are the same forces that you grow with at the time of
forces you use in supersensible knowledge to reach Intuition.
are not just any old forces got from we do not know where, but are the same
knowledge and man's everyday existence. Something similar, though, can be
as you all know, there is something peculiar about the power of memory. We
past. As you will probably know, man has not learnt to release the
do it. But through spiritual science we can know with certainty that man's
able to release from his mature mind. You know, these are the most valuable
however, is to give people a real knowledge of man, especially if they are
teachers. You see, if you possess this real knowledge of man and work out
standardised education, the kind that follows the rules, then you will know
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Title: Buddha and the Two Boys: Lecture I: Buddha and the Two Boys of Jesus
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at Berlin in October of 1909. They deal with the occult knowledge of the two
circumstances. As is known, a high solar being moved into the body of Jesus
new presentation. One does not yet know this event sufficiently in the mere
is usually such that first facts of the Akashic Chronicle are made known,
known to the writer of Luke's gospel. He also knew that the Nirmanakaya
as is known, had his astral body to Hermes and his etheric body to Moses.

Title: Buddha and the Two Boys: Lecture II: The Gospels, Buddha and the Two Boys of Jesus
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at Berlin in October of 1909. They deal with the occult knowledge of the two
these gospels in this way, one gets to know them in a certain sense. I have
â€œHow to gain knowledge of the higher worlds.â€
connected with his ancestors. This was known in ancient times. This is also
known today within spiritual science. Because man is connected with his

Title: Lecture: Art As A Bridge Between The Sensible And The Supersensible
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only gradually be acknowledged once again in reaching the point of
known to you, as also various things on the social question contained in
depths. Most people today do not really know what to do with themselves.
anthroposophical spiritual science will know to sense it rightly as a

Title: Raphael's Mission in the Light of the Science of the Spirit
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All the world will want to know about the life-work of such a human
From this translation: “Human beings will always want to know about
one of his best-known paintings may be singled out, so as to
in nearby Dresden, which almost everyone knows from the numerous
what we know as the Golgotha experience. With Raphael's picture
Raphael we know from Renaissance Italy.
Raphael are not only an end-result. They lead us to acknowledge
know, humanity will progress ever further.
Human beings will always want to know about Raphael; about the
the world will want to know about the life-work of such a human

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known picture of all, the famous “Last Supper,”
countless human souls. Who does not know it, this
Leonardo da Vinci? And who, knowing it, has not
painted them. In thus getting to know Leonardo's creations,
enthusiasm, with an enormous urge for knowledge — fresh
of completing the picture, but rather to get to know specific
practical help. In addition, he is known to have trained
is known how Leonardo worked on the “Last
all that is known, it has to be said: both outwardly and
know, he said, having painted on the picture for many years
gradually with all that can be known about the picture. This
humanity a certain wealth of natural-scientific knowledge. In
we know that out of the ruins new life will always blossom

Title: Fairy Tales: in the light of Spiritual Investigation
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observation and knowledge. All the human being has is the
certain stage one acquires knowledge of spiritual processes
without ordinary consciousness knowing anything of it,
transpire unconsciously. The soul cannot know precisely what
despite knowing nothing of it — through all that the soul
occurrences of life. Who does not know, for instance, of
while yet knowing of the profound inner soul-experience
still find a bite to eat flavorful, so it is possible to know
only experienced, not “known,” and that come
In fact, unknowingly the solitary human soul — it is
“knowing” self. It is your loyal helper. You must
distinctive aura of which is not destroyed through knowing
question was quite unknown to me. That is the personal
with certainty that it was quite unknown to me, since I
the unconscious state, the soul knows of this and
gained as soul-spiritual knowledge. Let us regard it as
between day and night was still unknown. Quatl then learns that
is only a match for, if it has the consolation of knowing
the soul. These events are such that we can know a great deal
about them, as much as one can come to know by means of
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Title: A Mongolian Legend
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knowing the wisdom inherent in it, is there not something
all certainly know that with a child after birth the bones up

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acknowledgement of the aforementioned status. I still fondly
Grimm. Known for inaugurating modern linguistic research,
pass away, knowing what lived in his soul intended for
reveals him to be the finest knower of human souls. We may
novellas, it is an intensive attempt to get to know human
who knows there are secrets that reach beyond the grave. It is
millennia. We then know how close Herman Grimm was, in his
question differently from Herman Grimm, but I know that it is
Grimm wrote and had printed, as we know from the publisher of

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evolutionary epoch if we know where the phenomena which surround us,
Swiss friends know very well that while Woodrow Wilson was being
of the Asiatic impulse are, for example, the historically known
historically known stage of the Assyrian empire, simply because the
the conditions which are known historically make it possible to see
imperialism without knowing the conscious relationship between people

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This knowledge must dawn especially on the peoples of the west. The
unknown, which cannot be penetrated by knowledge.
nature of the times. You know that in the middle of the nineteenth
even justified, because he knows him better and can work better with
“How to Attain Knowledge of the Higher Worlds,”
up and says: “Yes, but how can one know that what he sees
knowledge dawns, that is, when the platitudes are recognized for what
For example I know of a very interesting
existing in public life today. And do you know the title of this
don't know.

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this. But it is necessary to know which paths lead to the light. I
You know that a great enmity existed between
for a knowledge of the spirit, one which speaks of an invisible kingdom,
and that can only come from knowledge of the spiritual world, of
must grow along with the knowledge that nobody has the right to call
known to you, so that you should never say to yourself: We have
order to say the truth. I have known theosophists who when they speak

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know this intimately, can then shift over to quite different
know very well how in the 19th Century several
world; one gets to know this through imagination, inspiration
I've learnt to know as the nature of the sun, the nature of the
inner organs answer me. I only get to know my inner human
organism when I get to know the outer things of the world. The
dissatisfaction. It acknowledges matter in its own organisation
acknowledge at the same time that the inner organisation is the

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to know that a person is standing in front of us, when we see
function in the life of humans are to stand upright. — I know
hearing processes, and so on. We know, that in addition to the

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such a world about which one can have knowledge. This means
there is no longer knowledge on the one hand and belief on the
and knowledge, between spirit and nature? To a certain extent
down on, is something against which the truth and knowledge he
knowingly experience what in the West — here quite
conceptual forms and means of expression which we know, from
known that Newton had tried in a one-sided mystical way to
“Knowledge of the Higher Worlds”
knowledge, between knowing and subjective certainty. Then out

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other need for theoretical knowledge. No, these conveyed ideas
strive for an abstract head knowledge — if I might use this
involves the whole human being, possibly leading to self-knowledge,
intimate knowledge of the growing person, the child. I only
soul knowledge, it finds driving forces into the pedagogic
concepts and ideas of human knowledge, then the accusations
Anthroposophy fully acknowledges the existence of great,
human knowledge is present. Such a kind of intimate human
knowledge makes it possible to deduce everything from the
knowledge which can be read from month to month in the
has improved even in some public tuition. But, you all know
a typewriter, we know that with such activities humanity has
environment, knows what works in the child in a soul-spiritual
way. The teacher gets to know the child and as a result obtains
gestures and so on, and you know that the riddle of life needs

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the economic life, who know about this or that branch of
appeared in ancient times — you know this from my lectures I
place of today's scientific thinking then you will know that
all know that
an unbiased manner, know very well that solutions which often
long way from knowledge of the subject and specialised
knowledge which have to be achieved by people linked to
the economic life knows they have essentially changed since the

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publication I don't know and obviously have not thought about.
the spiritual world and its knowledge. The human being is
because Anthroposophy is there, not to limit the knowledge
Someone who honestly says what he sees, knows how polemic comes
and with which he knows he is united in his deepest being, at
knowledge confessed about. The Christ who went through the
acknowledged in the first Christian centuries. We then see how

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through human research capabilities of an unknown origin.
for. When it became known that this course was going to take

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next lessons, whom we will want to know always better and
darkness for human knowledge, from which the light must be born
know that the first thing to come from the darkness that must
Behold, I am the only gate to knowledge.
O man, know thyself!
O man, know thyself!
real knowledge must be fathomed from what is revealed in the
through human self-knowledge. Everything man needs in sickness
way is not real knowledge, but only pseudo-knowledge, that what
warnings regarding spiritual knowledge, is all
pseudo-knowledge. It doesn't have to stay pseudo-knowledge
though. We do not scorn this pseudo-knowledge. But we must
pseudo-knowledge once it has been transformed by all man can
know about that purification and metamorphosis of his being,
warns at the yawning abyss of knowledge — what the
knowledge. For only by means of this awareness can true
knowledge be acquired. He doesn't have to become clairvoyant,
although knowledge from the spiritual world comes by true
to recognize the ground of existence in knowledge.
away in order to come to true spiritual knowledge.
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words “Know thyself!” have been enunciated
the influence of “Know thyself”, he only sees what
real knowledge and insight.
Behold, I am the only gate of knowledge.
through spirit-knowledge, from out of which he speaks who alone
O Man, know thyself!
constitutes the first stage of self-knowledge. Self-knowledge
which is preparatory for the true self-knowledge which reveals
spiritual cosmic knowledge of the being which is one with our
own humanity. And then the knowledge arises which one can
knowledge which reveals the contamination in our own thinking,
In you as enemies of knowledge.
Knowledge bravery alone will overcome it.
knowledge is not present at first in the soul, but cowardice
for acquiring knowledge is what dominates. Especially in our
Your burning thirst for knowledge must subdue him.
weak and cannot rise to enthusiasm. True knowledge must outgrow
thirst for knowledge; that is what overcomes the second
Your creative knowledge must make it yield.
due to knowledge-bravery, to a burning thirst for knowledge and
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words we already know - when pointing in the direction of the
O Man, know thyself!
know whether something that confronts you is truth or illusion.
possibility of knowing whether you were dreaming or confronting
all the knowledge of the senses and reason you may have gleaned
in the physical world, you would never be able to know whether
the floor, but are able to sit safely on the chair, you know
Attain Knowledge of the Higher Worlds- which causes
“O man, know thyself!”. For through this
self-knowledge streams forth the true knowledge of the world
we know how we should not enter the spiritual world.
the bliss of knowledge and they require it.
physical body. He knows that his legs carry him through the
world. He knows that blood circulation gives him life. He knows
knowledgeably enter into it.
don't know much about it. And what we do know is not
the path to true knowledge of the spirit and of God.

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truths we should not think: Oh, I know that already. For the
essence of the esoteric does not lie in knowledge, but in
normal consciousness. Let's say you know someone, anyone, with
correctly when, for example, the following happens. You know
earth, knowing that crystals are formed in it, knowing that it
attracts the stone that falls to earth, knowing that it

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However, we also know that in dreams our consciousness is
And that is the grand experience that initiate knowledge gives
and when we know that we can no longer be lost to the earth,
Knowledge means that we are aware of this.
heavenly bodies who know that in every century, in every age,
existence worthy of humanity. And he will know why such a
on his rope you know that he could fall at any moment to the
knowledge of the real world.
flows through him continuously. One must know all this. For
without knowing that this enticement exists within the desire
dear friends, we say: I would rather do without such knowledge!
If I ask that, it is about something I'd rather not know.
know nothing about these realities; that we can no longer do
we know the reality: if we do not find the middle way, but

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gets to know the world by observing the kingdoms of nature
a self-knowledge of belonging to this world. And when one
wishes to gain this self-knowledge, my dear friends, then one
of nature in the outside world. But as you know, my dear
What does man know about his relation to the earthly element?
He knows that salt is salty, that sugar is sweet. They belong
true self-knowledge. We realize that one is only human when he
foreign to us. But if, through Imaginative knowledge, one
esoteric knowledge.
can see how in reality all thinking - this is unknown to people
breath circulating there is known as thinking in the physical
know that oxygen is transformed into carbon dioxide in man.
knows nothing of this. At the moment when the downward climb
Whoever does not know “Imagination” does not
abstract forms. Whoever knows spiritual life is able to feel
not know this sentence: “Your own soul will threaten you
kingdoms of nature if he wishes to be knowledgeable. How he
Normally we do not know that the light unites with breathing
explained. If it is awakened through Imaginative knowledge, we
are being introduced to the practice of knowledge in these

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members of this School must know that they must adapt to those
the extent that we know it is true. For untruthfulness, even
and true supersensible knowledge. Today I would like to add
through the attainment of higher knowledge leaving the physical
That is the first powerful impression of true knowledge, my
know that when thinking is not considered as a function of the
real knowledge is to be obtained; these are the admonitions
to become a true human being through knowledge. And then you
of all who have striven for knowledge ever since there have

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of this new element. I have often indicated this, but I know
circulates in the world as anthroposophical knowledge and
challenge to humanity to strive for a true knowledge of self.
This challenge; “O man, know thyself!” rings forth
script the cosmic words will sound forth: “O man, know
know thyself!
knowledge which is not closely tied to the spiritual world.
Everything we call knowledge which is neither investigated in
investigate in the spiritual world, is not real knowledge. We
strives for real knowledge, then he must have a sense for the
Then we must know: at this threshold stands a spiritual figure
prepared with inner earnestness for spiritual knowledge -
conscious conclusion that it really is so. One comes to know
the human being in this way. One comes to know him and sees him
sleeping in us. For we don't know how thought descends to our
knows that the thought which is not seen in the will - because

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of knowledge:
know thyself!
does not know what it means to feel his whole being as a
for the first time you know what thought is. Before you didn't
know what thought is. You know now that thought, by descending
know thyself!

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development — the true path to knowledge — the
grasp sense-free truth, sense-free knowledge.
existence. Perhaps they do not know much more than that they
it becomes a plenitude of imaginations. You know the old
grasp something I know that I am connected to my hand until
imagine that another being is speaking to you from an unknown

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which real knowledge of spiritual things can be realized. Of
subtle path, which is the true path to human knowledge. But
You all know, my dear sisters and brothers, what has
That which can be known theoretically can also be
When, however, we start along this path of knowledge,
when we honestly approach such paths of knowledge, we learn

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itself as an invitation to knowledge:
O man, know thyself!
Self-knowledge, my dear sisters and brothers, is what, in a
spiritual sense, can lead to cosmic knowledge. And it has often
cosmic knowledge to stream out of the spiritual world itself;
such knowledge from the spiritual world must approach the
But it is just when one gets to know this Guardian –
makes known to us the admonishments if we wish to enter the
world – for knowledge is meant to flow to you directly
O man, know
hierarchies for our self-knowledge:
self-knowledge asserts itself in us, where the Guardian advises
self-knowledge. Self-knowledge, it was said, leads to
world-knowledge; but only if the Self can be in connection with
hierarchies. Therefore in entering the realm of self-knowledge
self-knowledge is not merely an inner brooding, but is an
self-knowledge.
to feel that human self-knowledge is something solemn, earnest
to self-knowledge with an earnest, solemn consecrated attitude.
O man, know thyself!
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Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 13
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for knowledge of our being:
O man, know thyself!
usually knows little of how the will acts.
have. We think that an unknown force – it is of course
an unknown force, for nobody with normal consciousness can
know anything about this force – streams into the legs.
is true is unknown – that almost everything normal
and brothers, something you all know, for normal
human consciousness. Usually we do not rightly know what it
O man, know thyself!
But we must always remember that knowledge
Know first the earnest Guardian,
And know myself in world's becoming.

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on the path of knowledge. Today we intend to enliven the
of it. But he also realizes that he can never know himself if
know thyself!
knowledge, he comes to an abyss, which at first seems bottomless.
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and its Attainment,
normal human understanding, first in knowledge and also through
initiation. But he must know how, in two ways, he
knowledge of the spirit will be revealed to him.
One gets to know this way of speaking in all its intensity, my

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O man, know thyself!
real knowledge we approach the abyss which opens between the
own self in order to seek the foundation of cosmic knowledge
in self-knowledge.
with the spiritual element – but also so that we know
We look at the world of plants. We know: we take into
We look at the animals and know that we bear the
we have learned to know the beings within the three kingdoms
Know! the spirit's cosmic creation in the human body's
Know! the spirit's cosmic creation in the human body's
Knowingly grasp the inner being in your divine cosmic
Knowingly grasp the inner being in your divine
self-knowledge, self-feeling, self-warming – and this
events, so that we can gain, from self-knowledge,
cosmic-knowledge, and from cosmic-knowledge, human-knowledge,
O man, know thyself!

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heart to understand them: the admonition to self-knowledge,
which is the true foundation of world knowledge.
O man, know thyself!
beauty of all that surrounds us, which we must acknowledge;
Knowingly grasp inner being in your divine
We already know this question; it is the
And we find ourselves in the situation where we know that we
“O man, know thyself!”
“O man, know thyself!” We will see how we, as
self-knowledge from all the cosmic events and beings, and the
O man, know thyself!

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that is and all that is becoming as a call to self-knowledge,
which one must first attain for true knowledge of the
O man, know thyself!
left together with our capacities for knowledge.
which we had left behind in order to acquire knowledge in the
And know myself in the evolving world.
answer to be affirmative. Those who have written in this way know
and those who intend to do so, to please know that every letter

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The call to self-knowledge, which the human soul can hear when it
O man, know thyself!
live, alone is. We now know that even here, in the
the greatest illusion. We must know that we are giving names to
deeply, deeply: We now know that we have gone from the kingdom of
Angeloi receive enlightens, without our knowing, human thinking.
reality, do we also know what really surrounds us between birth
take into our souls the inner drama of self-knowledge.
O man, know thyself!
And know myself in world-becoming

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out to us to seek self-knowledge, for it is the foundation
of all real, true cosmic knowledge.
O man, know thyself!
know this from previous lessons:
knows itself to be in the realm of Spirit-Word borne by the
knows itself to be in the realm of the Spirit-Word borne by
– The human-I knows itself to be in the
the Threshold, which led us to self-knowledge, and through
self-knowledge over to the spiritual realm, and allowed us
O man, know thyself!

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nineteenth century. And it was made known that this guidance
O man, know thyself!
that from the spoken words about human self-knowledge the
existence: O man, know thyself! Yes, this desire must awaken.
answer must come to the question: O man, know thyself!
Behold, I am the only gate to knowledge.
Behold, I am the only gate to knowledge.
O you man, know thyself!
“O man, know thyself!”, or if they now resound
O you man, know thyself!
self-knowledge, of our true Self, which is implanted in us by
In you as enemies of knowledge.
Knowledge bravery alone will overcome it.
Your flame for knowledge must subdue him.
Your creative knowledge must make it yield.
Which separates you from the knowledge fields
O man, know thyself!

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O man, know thyself!
Michael School. And he also spoke about human self-knowledge.
self-knowledge is dismaying, even shattering.
we must pass through knowledge of that self, which is the
time, in order to press forward to true self-knowledge.
This erroneous self-knowledge, the knowledge of the self which
created by the fear of knowledge, which can only be overcome by
having the courage for spiritual knowledge.
knowledge, which at the present time is in the subconscious of
only be overcome by the right enthusiasm for knowledge, for the
right heartfelt blaze of knowledge; whereas today nonchalance
and tepidity in respect of knowledge, yes, hate of knowledge
roots, and which can only be overcome if knowledge awakens in
In you as enemies of knowledge.
Your fearless knowledge alone overcomes it.
Your burning thirst for knowledge must subdue him.
To creative knowledge must it yield.
Which sunders you from the knowledge fields
In you as enemies of knowledge.
Your fearless knowledge alone overcomes it.
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envision the need for self-knowledge — that constantly
O man, know thyself!
knowledge has led us to the Guardian of the Threshold. Once the
self-knowledge, and which must be followed if the exhortation
“O man, know thyself” is to be realized.
to advance in spiritual knowledge. For what is within us is at
not achieve real knowledge if we do not rise up to the cosmic
and knowledge does the cosmic Word resound from above, full of
points out the ways we can go astray — which we must know
O man, know thyself!

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self-knowledge, a self-knowledge that leads to knowledge of the
this self-knowledge in the true sense of the word, which is the
path to world-knowledge. Thus, all the Beings of nature and of
O man, know thyself!
have seen how the seeker of knowledge approaches the Guardian
of the Threshold, how — after the seeker of knowledge has
the right way, by seeking knowledge, the origins of our
thinking is rooted above. We must know it to be so rooted if we
want to be knowledgeable in the battle between light and
find that we must remain erect. And we must know that we are
the right sense of feeling for knowledge.
knowledge. And it is also the case for equilibrium between
self-knowledge. In front of us, like a black wall, is still the
seekers after knowledge, we stand now before the Guardian of
by pondering the following: In order to achieve true knowledge
way to the spirit-soul organism of the world and must know that
some object with your finger. You know that the object is there
which is in the human being — something also known by
breathe in the air. We know that if we breathe in the air in
outside of us as support. We know little about how the water
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a member of this School must necessarily know.
O man, know thyself!
knowledge we have reached the place where we stand before the
gloomy for our true self-knowledge.
self-knowledge.
fainthearted and having fear of knowledge lives in us, as hate
for knowledge, as doubt about the knowledge that is
lead to true self-knowledge in our souls.
fear of ourselves and know that we are nullified if we only
O man, know thyself!

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O man, know thyself!
thought extracts itself from the black gloom. We know that
draws. And now we know that when we cross over from the sensory
striving for knowledge — to sense the wings which carry
we know, this first gesture means [beside the lower gesture is
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O man, know thyself!
we saw what lives in the wind and weather, and where, knowing
knows that he perceives the outer world through the senses,
O man, know thyself!

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of proletarian workers. I learnt to know what lives and strives
leading intellectuals — has learnt to know the modern worker's
movement, where it is carried by the workers, will know what a
that a still unknown mind with an elementary intelligence could
and effect. Whoever wishes to observe history knows that before
the most authority today, namely science, knows, anything
when he or she turns their gaze to self-knowledge and
that knowledge could be penetrated with a religious glow, with
moving to know that the modern Proletarian clearly believes
modern capitalistic economic order basically only knows about
its goods within its areas of circulation. It knows about
not need to disbelieve their own knowledge. However, as

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possible solving techniques distilled from actual knowledge of
the social question. Whoever wants to consider what we know as
evolution of knowledge. This means however that our thinking
knowledge of the necessities of this social organism. Healthy
from the mere game of analogy will know that in reality, things
instinctive knowledge of the necessity for a threefoldness in
for knowledge of the members of the social organism to know the
for complete autonomy, acknowledged and applied to all the
political laws of life must be acknowledged for their need to
Nevertheless, I know of extraordinary thinkers, deep astute
value when it is known that they may not reach success through
acknowledge what is offered here out of the developmental
somehow missed acknowledging the essence of these things, today

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the up-and-coming Proletarians, know how big the cleft is
proletariat, through their observations, know what to say about
this movement became known when it was examined more at that
thoughtful and scientific knowledge seeking inner life like
if humanity wants to advance in knowledge it may experience
personalities we know today and see as practical in life, could
experienced as knowledge coming out of the spiritual knowledge
acknowledge it not merely by thinking about it but living into
it, then out of this spiritual acknowledgement an inner impulse
paralysed that people didn't know any more that within them the
those who are implicated with it, already know. Now the young
know a dissertation where a young man was terribly plagued by
know — and I will present this again in the following
national economic knowledge, discuss what can be done in the
intelligence, the most profound national economic knowledge
to know how to lift the actual impulse of the real social
label themselves as practical might soon give way to knowledge
and only through knowledge and the evolutionary process modern

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as it similarly rises to puberty. Whoever has knowledge of the
things will one not know how radically different everything is
had not been known in earlier times. Assertion of the human
questions can be raised to those who should know these things,
an acknowledged, but need for acknowledgement of the principle
because it is known that the entire actual productive spiritual
relationships of the last decades know how to judge the
war. Whoever is initiated in this area knows how the disaster
it that — but you know from the foregoing: this is no

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procedure.” I don't know exactly what the motives are for
acknowledge the entire scope of this fact one should not only
herself enlightened, call themselves atheists, can acknowledge
at what had developed as knowledge about the people and the
of carriers of the social movement it wasn't known but was
branches — we got to know three — of the present
independently from the outer state organisation. I know that
know that still today many people think: ‘How can that be done?
know that what I've been saying will appear extraordinarily
are considered uneducated if they don't know their
does not know something he is supposed to know as education,
tables. Today every person should know what three times three
is. In the future, it would not appear more difficult to know
difficult in future than to know that three times three is
nine. However, this knowledge will become the foundation for a
experienced it as a destiny, knows, how often they have
who through the decades can look back, know about all that had
lecture, and I don't know which omissions our previous
workers' psyche. So I don't know — I had naturally no
attention to. A Russian author who I know personally has
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Isn't it typical that those who know about these things must
thorough knowledge of life into which the social organism plays
historic criticism. Just the knowledge that labour can never be
I have remarked that natural science can't properly acknowledge
Whoever knows the foundations of spiritual life — I have
then the manual worker knows that out of the spiritual
Whoever has come to know the true foundations of spiritual life
knows that such an unhealthy relationship between a person and
handled, a person can connect to his work, because he knows:
what we call money, in our purse. We also know however, what is
connected to this money. You know how this money intervenes
way — even though he has acknowledged many things, at
said. I am in the position to acknowledge much more, also in
life of today. I know what kind of receptivity the youth has
for the renewal of the spiritual life. I know also, however,
acknowledged that everywhere where such a longing exists, this
Today we stand here in Switzerland — I don't know if one

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a greed for knowledge but to be a spiritual impulse penetrating deeply
sphere of human knowledge.” He showed by this remark that he
thought to be akin to mathematics but because it was known that the
of knowledge.
knowledge in definite terms. They say: In the act of knowledge, man
natural and spiritual worlds. But there is a higher mode of knowledge.
knowledge is much more reliable than any intellectual judgment.
which is, however, more than an image. Those who really know what they
devotion. External history knows nothing of these things and indeed
revelation of an unknown world, that the instruments represent primal
the deeds of Beings belonging to an unknown world through the dramatic
help you to understand these things. We know that the world evolves
Water and air, is known to thee.
Thy mind is there wherever knowledge dwells:
All, it is said, is known to thee.”
All is known to Erda in this consciousness. And so step by step, we
Nor yearn to know,
parallelism of the progress of human evolution, as indeed it is known
Knowledge of this mighty impulse developed the power of the Ego in the
and then, afterwards, recognition and acknowledgment.) This, then, was
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Title: Lecture: Spiritual Wisdom in the Early Christian Centuries
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I have described as knowledge through revelation and knowledge
acquired by reason, as we find it in Scholasticism. Knowledge through
be the guardian of this kind of knowledge.
The second kind of knowledge was held to be within the scope of
stream of Scholasticism acknowledged that this knowledge acquired by
reason could not in any sense be regarded as knowledge emanating from
knowledge no longer accessible to mankind in that age must be
shall find that the characteristics of this knowledge through
knowledge acquired by reason and knowledge through revelation (in the
have been at a loss to know what was meant. It would have been
unthinkable to him that if knowledge concerning super-sensible worlds
knowledge was beyond the reach of man's ordinary cognition, but they
man could unfold higher faculties of knowledge and that by these means
Aristotle, and the kind of knowledge that made its appearance about
and were thus able, with super-sensible knowledge, to realise the
obliterate all that had previously been known of these individuals.
like Plotinus, for example, of whom very little was known but who was
acknowledge God as a Being because the Ideas are primary and
words when there was still knowledge of the principles of true
evolved independently were unknown. Whereas the Initiates of earlier
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Title: Community Building
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a movement in the field of knowledge, had also to determine in
Anthroposophical Movement in the aspect of knowledge and in
understandable to anyone who knows that he can achieve that
exercise a little self-knowledge in order to acquire what I
arranges things — with persons whom he has known as
anyone knows who has had any experience in this realm —
we receive from Anthroposophy, this knowledge of a spiritual
within the earthly world and learned to know and understand
problem, after all, is that those who do not already know the
for no one will ever deny that I know the meaning of bearing
deny that I myself know what it means to love Anthroposophy.

Title: Community Building
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I should like here to begin with something well known to those
well known to those familiar with the history of such societies
affords us the possibility through its own knowledge of
We know that this person is isolated among other persons living
of interchange. We know then that the person can pass out of
the higher worlds, as you all know from my book Knowledge of
designated by one who knows the spiritual world with
anyone knows who has had some experience of life — that,
knows that the most diametrically opposite views may be
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and Its
occupied with the search for knowledge out of the higher
opponents. He knows that he must have opponents, but he is not
become an opponent of Anthroposophy. He really does not know at
the actual leaders among the opponents know very well what
written is the act of opposition. Those who really know what
To know them is simply a duty of those who wish justifiably to
Now, what I have just stated is known to many persons. Only it
is customary in circles possessing this knowledge not to say
knows, — this kind of secreting is impossible for the
lectures, and who did not know who Dr. Steiner was, that he had
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 1: Evolution and Consciousness, Lucifer, Ahriman
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materialism and mysticism, knowledge and belief.
know, a new era in human evolution started during the
You know
waking hours come to resemble the mental activity we know
Earth evolution as we know it. We come to a time when the
soul activity we know as thinking. I would say that when
punishments of the kind we know earthly courts of law
Note 02 ] — As you know, it
knowledge to be gained there if we do no train ourselves
concerning the knowledge to be found in supersensible
You know
knowing that it is luciferic by nature.
by knowing that it is ahrimanic by nature. In future mere
knowledge of human institutions. This has a very much to
historians—well-known names—who say that the
know of the earth? It was the ground under their feet.
knowledge of the heavens came with the great increase in
knowledge of the earth that came when men sailed around

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 2: East, West, and the Culture of Middle Europe, the Science of Initiation
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materialism and mysticism, knowledge and belief.
already known to us.
We know
know that under the influence of that disaster — in
peoples of Atlantis. We also know that civilization then
thinking, thinking as we know it, in a different way.
of thinking as we know it today only developed in very
have nothing in them that permits them to acknowledge the
want to know how Schelling, for instance, to take just
course generally known that I was ‘Rasputin’
came to be widely known particularly in French-speaking
initiation knowledge and everything connected with this.
of representatives of initiation knowledge, Western
representatives of initiation knowledge will tell you
spread initiation knowledge they have gained for
the West present initiation knowledge in books available
spiritual world, who knows the secrets of the spiritual
that he has initiation knowledge from personal experience
humanity of whom nobody knows that they are initiates.
major secret. The usual initiation knowledge in Western
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 3: Political Empires
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materialism and mysticism, knowledge and belief.
merely implanting intellectual knowledge into their
we know them today, and take a wider view. We cannot
age. Some people representing certain confessions know
know that the ancient gods still walked on earth. In the
one knows that the people of that time had quite a
to an end. People no longer know what to think; yet for
centuries, indeed millennia, they had known exactly what
this — but we do not know, or pay no attention to

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 4: Western Secret Societies, Jesuitism, Leninism
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materialism and mysticism, knowledge and belief.
have no idea of human evolution, who know nothing of the
also know very well what they want. They are the
proper value to initiation knowledge, or initiation
Anglo-American movement have initiation knowledge, but
based on Jesuitism has initiation knowledge and in its
own peculiar way Leninism also has initiation knowledge.
Leninism knows how to put things cleverly, using rational
within genuine spiritual knowledge. A true goal and
We know
the true Mystery of Christ comes to be known; all they
know that our aim is to speak of the Christ Mystery out
you all know what life after death is like. I do not need
if the truth were to become known, instead of
world through all the ages that any kind of knowledge and
to become known there would be no room any more for such
told lies by people who know that those lies will be
the writer must have known that there were no Akashic
in his library and so he ought to have known; he must
that knowledge which today has to be sought within life

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 5: How the Material Can Be Understood Only through the Spirit
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materialism and mysticism, knowledge and belief.
some things that are important to know are a closed book
my eyes step on colours, my ears touch sounds; I know
the whole of my subconscious I have knowledge of the
cosmic sphere, knowledge of the way the earth relates to
other bodies in the universe, knowledge of the universal
differences. You know that the head we carry today is the
People anywhere to know about repeated earth lives and so
which are destroying the world. A view of history known
religious life and the search for knowledge are
other events as we know them.
objectionable, that go by personal and heaven knows what
further appeal that would make it known internationally
and you know how many personal interviews I managed.
you know the reasons—that is, when many people
know about it, know who is right and who is wrong. The
or seventh. What I know has nothing to do with it. As a
You know I

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 6: Materialism and Mysticism, Knowledge as a Deed of the Soul
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materialism and mysticism, knowledge and belief.
decline — you know about the book by Oswald
the other hand produces the very things we ought to know
know what materialistic anatomy, materialistic
knowledge gain the power to transform materialistic
knowledge, the materialistic way of thinking, into
spiritual knowledge. It is therefore of definite value in
because they come very close to the experience we know
search for knowledge based on strong will impulses, that
teaches us what matter is on earth. We cannot know
physics. You know it discusses gravitation, earthly
is impossible to know the true nature of gravity. People
known.
get to know the nature of the force that makes the chalk
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds. [
but no knowledge. Experiencing inwardly in a abstract
mystical way we have merely knowledge and no truth, for
balance between the two, with truth and knowledge
knowledge at the other and become aware that living
realities become polar opposites when knowledge is
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 7: Materialism, Mysticism, Anthroposophy, Liberalism, Conservatism
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materialism and mysticism, knowledge and belief.
other senses. We then think we know something about outer
outside world. People saying they do not want to know
Until we know that external observation reveals only the
aware of gravity, so that we know from inner experience
physicists know that the radium which existed on the
levels from abstract intellectual knowledge to active
parties. You know that the most miserable, sterile
They know very well that to follow a party programme
oppose it. They know full well that logical argument is
logic. They know that they are facing an adversary in
refuting the refutations of the Jesuits. They know
know them and consider them to be fair makes no
Physical brain in us is thinking. It is important to know
come to know about them, must now become reality, why we
humankind must know them. That is why I have said the
Jesuits know very well what many followers of

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 8: The Opposition of Knowledge and Faith, Its Overcoming
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The Opposition of Knowledge and Faith, Its Overcoming
materialism and mysticism, knowledge and belief.
cannot have anything to do with real knowledge, with
made between knowledge and belief, as is the general
subjective knowledge that really can only be a matter of
knowledge but merely the subjective belief that something
level of certain and exact knowledge, to the level of a
certain knowledge can solely and exclusively come from
into certain knowledge. Thus we have science on one side,
be known with certainty and must remain a matter of
knowledge and belief poses a riddle which must be solved.
to teach humankind the difference between knowledge of
know that everything that is presented here from the
to the physical world. It represents knowledge,
perception, of the supersensible. Initiation knowledge
knowledge and faith.
People had a primal knowledge — we have discussed
demonstrating the truth of something, were not known
then. Knowledge came to people at that time when a power
them. This certainly was ‘knowledge’ in the
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 9: East, West, and Middle
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materialism and mysticism, knowledge and belief.
We know
know of course that this is only an approximate way of
state? As you know, the sensory organism ceases to be
know very well when they are awake, that dream life
sleep and waking up. We know that, between going to sleep
wisdom. Political life as we know it did not yet exist.

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 10: Transition from the Luciferic to the Ahrimanic Age and the Christ Event to Come
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materialism and mysticism, knowledge and belief.
human evolution which we must know about if we want to arrive at a proper
we know of in historical times. We have seen that at the time when the
know, they looked at them in such a way that they perceived a certain
on into the phenomenal world. We know that spirits are indeed active in
nowadays. That is the view taken by the present age. We know, however,
experiences and will then know that the etheric Christ is walking on
people come to know this Christ power, if they let it enter into them,
‘States will know honour and dishonour, ambition, egotism and so
people got into a habit where their souls no longer wanted to know the
been mere theory in many respects, merely something we know, that human
different, but I do not know what it is that looks different. I do not
know what a human being is; I do not know what I am.’ Despondency
sphere of feelings and sensibilities. You do not know what life really is
you only know what life really is if you speak of human souls moving
that a state could not be Christian, that states might know honour and

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 11: Modern Science and Christianity, Threefold Social Order, Goetheanism
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materialism and mysticism, knowledge and belief.
We know
and an ego. We also know that we can only really
the spirit-man. We know, however, that these three
spirit-self, a life-spirit and a spirit-man. We know from
the earth, the forces of the earth that are known to us
— or perhaps not known to us — is the
find that human nature as we know it today relates
being entirely impersonal. The more impersonal knowledge
scientists still say: ‘We know this and we know
that about one thing or another. We know it in a way that
personal element in it.’ Knowledge excludes the
modern mind and spirit. Dead knowledge is stored in
objective knowledge stored there, but their personal
breath of an individual spirit in them. Knowledge was
libraries, storing lots of dead knowledge all around us.
this, knowledge has to become a personal matter.
souls. Spirit-self can only develop out of knowledge made
Knowledge is dying in our libraries. It is also dying in
our books, for they are the coffins of knowledge. We must
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Title: Life Between Two Incarnations
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with our eyes, touch with our hands. And each of us knows it also quite
sum of his suffering and his pleasure; this something everyone knows,
question is obvious, how someone can know at all, how these relations
know what the human being experiences when he passes the gate of death.
knows. If, however, on the part of the ignorant, the reproach would be
made to the knower that he could not know anything either, then the
reproach of arrogance would lie entirely on the side of those who know
nothing and thereby claim that one cannot know anything. So only the
knower can decide what one can know.
the past life, however good it may be, as you know the recollection in
death is also known. It is three to four days. It is not easy to give
did not yet descend to embodiments. He did not know birth and death.

Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture I
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to the objective knowledge of the world. It does matter whether
epoch, which we know bears an entirely different character from
which he looks at the three kingdoms, knowing that, as he is
knowledge, sensitiveness to it, and a will obedient to
destiny; but he has not always possessed a knowledge of it. How
institutions concretely and in the full light of knowledge, not
only to profess some formula but to carry this knowledge right
relationship to the Spirit. Certainly what we know of
From my description in Knowledge of Higher Worlds you know that
most intimate knowledge of human evolution, of what must come
anthroposophical attitude, from knowledge of what is
the movement we know as Anthroposophical Spiritual Science

Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture II
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and death. For as you know, this life is also a
human evolution, known from an anthroposophical
the organism and new knowledge, unattainable before, is
Other knowledge will be recognized as necessary. There is a
human evolution, which is not known to-day. In earlier times,
his before birth. It must be made known that man in future
to admit, has been frankly acknowledged by the socialists of
meaning, knows that the words “Maya” in the East
(known here as the “November” Revolution) has
Fatalism of the West, Fatalism of the East — we know them
when we develop such knowledge of our position within it at the
the cud of Greek knowledge, to allow the Roman political ideas

Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture III
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Men, as I said, can know, and must know what it means “to
for comfort in man to-day, the unwillingness to know what is
have long been known to us. Let us recollect how the human ego
know that at the present time there are a remarkable number of
a sign of progress that men no longer desire to know anything
is felt, how men avoid approaching the great knowledge or
knowledge necessary to-day. Suppose you asked a natural
of knowledge — much more than that. To take them
science. The ordinary superficial knowledge possessed by people
People do not really know how, through their organization, they
gradually so deepening our knowledge as to become able to
from spiritual knowledge.
different from their earlier ones. I have known people who look
a sense of reality in our knowledge of the present. It is
stream through mankind. I know many people still feel offended

Title: Problems of Our Time: Main Features of the Social Question and the Threefold Order of the Social Organism
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catastrophe we know as the World War. Then came the end of that
time from some knowledge of its underlying idea. What did these
of the new era, will know more about this question that I have,
feelings, speaking as man to man, will know what a spiritual
were receiving a knowledge which they could absorb. But a time
Then if men were honest they must have known (if not, they
real knowledge of the growing human being. Social class and
knowledge of the facts, with its catchwords of an
is to be based only on knowledge of facts and on practical
composed of men whose position is justified by their knowledge
which can signify nothing to a man with practical knowledge of
able to give an outline sketch of what I meant: I know I have

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